After wandering around for a while longer, carefully avoiding anything that looked like it could eat me, bite me, or charge at me like my toxic boss, I finally reached the place I had been looking for.
In front of me stood the entrance to an underground parking lot. It was bathed in a faint green glow that looked welcoming… if you ignored the whole apocalypse setting.
This place was a safe zone. There would be no zombies and dinosaurs waiting for me inside. It would be just peace. Just... paid peace.
There were quite a few of these scattered across the city, acting like little pockets of sanity in an otherwise completely insane world.
Honestly, whoever designed this system had a twisted sense of humour. "Here, have safety… but only if you can afford it."
I stepped inside, the green light washing over me, and immediately felt some of the tension leave my body. My shoulders relaxed a little as I let out a quiet breath, then reached into my bag and pulled out my phone.
