"Brr... I don't remember that New York was... -5 Celsius (23 Farenheit)?" 

I shiver as I sit down at a Walmart Supermarket.

When I found myself back before Year 0, and the System wasn't working,
I knew that the 'Anything' had worked. I found out that it was going
to be another forty-eight hours before the System would begin to work,
so I booked a Lufthansa to New York. It cost me a pretty penny, but
money would soon become worthless anyway, so I didn't even wince.

Why New York, you might ask.

Well, the New York Area was going to be amongst the best Areas for
me to be in. I wanted to stay in a Megacity, because there would be 
much more resources and manpower for me to work with, but New Delhi
would be overrun with crime after the System began and the Law Enforcement
could no longer threaten the cartels, and Beijing had several people
who might be able to threaten me, even with my knowledge and experience.

Now, I had to wait two more hours, after I spent almost five times that amount
of time running all over New York to get my supplies. I had double-checked and triple-checked,
as well as confirmed with the Internet. There are Subreddits that can get
anybody ready for a possible Apocalypse really well. No, really.

It was 8.30 PM now. 

I had rested well, so I bought some pepperoni pizza from one of the 
thousands of pizza parlors in the city, and began to devour it as I made my way to 
a nearby subway station. It was going to be my last chance to savour such
a well-made meal.

Hmm...

It was 8:59 now, and I was sitting inside the train.

"It should be about now..." I murmur to myself as...

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