A long wait

8th March, 10:00 morning

After allocating everyone with their tasks Arther decided to rest for some time in his room, so he handed over the remaining task to his father and went to his room. His room had a dark brown wood flooring, with ceiling LED lights bordering the ceiling, the storage compartment wall had a wardrobe as a camouflage, inside the wardrobe on the left side is the door for the storage compartment, where Arther had previously kept most of the things like some tools and metal parts. As soon as he entered the storage compartment he was shocked as it was bright without any light source. Arther has installed a LED bulb inside but now it was not lit. All the tool and metal parts he had placed inside were half molten, only half of whatever metals and tools he had stored was left inside, and that too in the form of a solid metal lump of an unknown metal.

This was the place from where the MCV had been absorbing the metals for optimization and was storing the removed materials, after checking on the storage room he went out and closed the door, for now, no one can be allowed inside. After that, he sat on his chair and released a long breath with all the pent-up stress, after remaining silent for few seconds he checked on the timer of the system, it showed 12:30:40, half a day remaining to complete the optimization. Along with every second passed, Arther was receiving various information from the system, he knew that the reason for this delay was due to the absence of energy sources, and some advanced facilities. He can get these advanced facilities in the MCV when the upgrade conditions are met. Arther was also looking forward to that time, at that time he might be the person on earth with the most advanced technology.

While he had a great potential to grow for now he needed to sort out some things, he has decided to use his home as a loading point for the MCV, he can't directly ask anyone to load the goods in the MCV so he had decided to drop all the goods he is gonna purchase at home and from there they can load everything in the MCV. He also had to consult with his parents about this. They can also ask a few villagers for help if required.

He also took out the maps he had prepared previously marked with some important places in the city, most of the shops and supermarkets in the city are closed for these few days, and Arther can make use of this opportunity to loot these stores. As on few days after the apocalypse, many people will try to leave their hiding places and find some food, at that time these places will become the prime attraction of everyone.

From the information he has received from the system he can modify the MCV in any possible way he can think of, he can even directly ask the system to modify the MCV into a StarWars spaceship, but everything will require the same amount and quality of raw materials. So he also had to collect some basic raw materials like metals, rubber, glass, etc. he first wanted to increase the storage capacity of the MCV so that he can store all the looted goods. He was making a basic model of how he should upgrade the MCV in his mind.

While he was lost in his thoughts, there was a knock on his door, "brother Arther, we are back, aunty had called you.", it was Nanny, they seemed to have returned from the shopping.

He checked on the time, it was 12:00 noon already. Seeing this he was surprised for how long he was lost in his thoughts. But he didn't find anything odd and soon forgot about it. He went out to find everyone gathered in the living room.

His mother was sitting on the sofa waiting for him, seeing Arther coming everyone had their attention on him. He went to the chair and sat down,

His mom took out some bills from her purse and handed them to Arther, "I have bought everything you have asked for but I don't know why you are doing all this, even if according to what you say, the government is preparing for it we can still go and meet them, for how long do you think you can keep everyone here safe?", his mother looked towards him and asked with the most comforting tone, she didn't want her son to feel bad about them not trusting him, but she also can't depend on a small boy for the survival if required of the entire family.

Everyone present also looked at Arther with the same thoughts, seeing Arther sighed with a wry smile, "You guys don't know their true face yet, hence you believe so much in them. I can't do anything about it for now but I have away. Wait till 10:00 night, and you will know what to do.", after saying this he left them alone as giving any explanation now will of no use.

His parents exchanged looks with each other and also eft for their room. They have decided to wait and see what trump card Arther had.

Time went by slowly, everyone was waiting for Arther to come out of his room, while Arther was having his attention on the system timer for the whole time. He was not much worried about his family, what he was waiting for was the completed version of the system based on which he can start improving his plans, he had to be precise about every action he was going to take. He has already attached their future with the system if now anything goes wrong he will be done for it.

At 9:30 his mother called everyone for dinner. The atmosphere around the living room while dining was very silent. Everyone was having their attention to Arther to see if he will say anything. While Arther was paying his attention to the blinking spot in the corner of his eye.

After everyone finished their dinner, his mother and Nanny were busy washing the dishes and Jessy was cleaning the living room, while his father was polishing a hand pistol he has picked up from the weapons Arther bought.

Arther was resting on the sofa closing his eyes when the clock ticked at 10:00 he stood up hurriedly with a wide smile on his face.