Chapter 15 - In The City At Night.

At 11:00 night in Jessy's room, Nanny was sleeping on the bed with Jessy. Jessy was sleeping soundly and there was faint moonlight passing into the room through the window glass. With the moonlight shining on her face Nanny's eyelids fluttered for a second and she slowly woke up. She was not feeling comfortable sleeping here as she was missing her room. She also had a sad expression on her face, everyone thought her to be small and thus will not understand what adults are doing or thinking. But she was a smart and sensible girl from a young age she just tried to act silly and innocent.

She was worried as she knew if not an emergency her mother will not leave her alone during such a time. And she had secretly heard Artyher's parents talk about her father's accident, though she didn't know what had happened, she heard that the accident inflicted huge losses to the warehouse and surrounding area.

As she thought about it she wasn't able to sleep, so she went out of bed and went to the window.

While at the same time in Arther's room, Arther waited for everyone to sleep and then slowly changed into a hooded black shirt and black jeans as he didn't want anyone to find him going out and also hide his identity in the black market.

He left his room the same way he did last time through his window, being an apocalypse survivor in his past life such skills were common in most of the survivors as they needed to many times use such ways to escape from the undead.

As he slowly descended using the rope, he stopped for a while as he felt someone watching him. He checked his surrounding after finding no one around Arther put on his hood and ran towards the city.

What Arther didn't know was there was certainly someone who had noticed him, Nanny was surprised and shocked to see Arhter leaving the house at this time in such clothes and such a way. She knew the way he went must be to the city, but this made her more confused as Arther's father has warned him not to leave the house and most importantly go to the city.

For how long Nanny knew Arther he was a shut-in otaku who didn't like to leave his room, then why did he left at this time and where.

After thinking about it she didn't find any reason she can come up with so she decided to ask him in the morning, she didn't tell anyone about this as she didn't want to make everyone more worried as she believed Arther won't be doing anything wrong.

So she went to the bed.

Arther was not aware of these things, currently, he was hiding in a small alley in the periphery of the city, what made him hide was a patrol police car patrolling the city. This made him even more sure that something had happened inside the city. After the car left he hurried towards the meeting point they had decided. The Bar Robert told him to wait at seemed to be closed and there was no one nearby, anyone might get confused by such a sight. But Arther knew this bar had an underground basement that is soundproof and many people with a bit of knowledge of the bar know about this, officials of course knew about it too but they kept one eye closed to such matters the same way as the black market as this places had strong backings and paid huge money to the officials. Arther came to know about this bar when he and his sister escaped from their home in his past life they joined a small group of survivors from the city, those people wanted to loot this bar after getting the information from a worker in the bar. They looted this bar which not only contained a single-floor basement it contained their underground floors of which the only one was legal, other two were illegally built and were used as a casino and storing all the money and weapons they had on the last floor. There was also a prostitution business in the bar.

But Arther didn't have any idea of going there now, he will try to loot the last floor for weapons if he had time after the apocalypse struck.

Arther went on the backside of the bar where there was a small wooden door which was a camouflage. He waited a bit far from the door from where the door was visible. At 11:45 Robert came to the bar in a long black robe with a hood covering his face, no one might be able to recognize him if not familiar but Arther was able to recognize him due to his stature and voice. Arther went to him and then they walked to the other side of the street, in a small alley.

"So where is this place we are going to?", Arther asked with a hint of curiosity as he had never been to a black market before the end.

"Don't talk and let's hurry a bit faster, the winds in the city are not as calm as they seem.", Robert's voice contained a bit of fear as he fastened his steps and said in a hushed voice.

Hearing what Robert said Arther thought Robert must have known about something he didn't know and might be related to Nanny's father's accident.

Both of them hurried towards the West of the city led by Robert, as they got near the western zone of the city they spotted many patrolling cars. This created a tense atmosphere among them and Arther was also a bit worried as he remembered that the warehouse Nanny's father worked at was also in the western part of the city which contained many small industries and warehouses. What made him worried wasn't his it was that place that was the result of the fall of this city.

They stopped near a huge building of a well-known firm in the city, they went inside the building from an opening in the fence, at the back of the building a man was sitting, he looked like the security guard but he had a bit odd feeling around him. He noticed both of them walking towards him, while they were near him Robert took something out from his pocket and gave it to the guy along with a letter. The person observed Robert and my face and took out a stamp to sign on the latter passing it to us.

The person contained a machete on his waist, he must be a security guard of the black market and also the one to check on the newcomers. He led us inside the building and towards the basement through the elevator.