How to Escape with a Double-Decker Bus

Colin Derby was halfway through a Friday-night food delivery when every phone went dead, impossible text appeared in front of his eyes, and London became part of something called a planetary integration. Then the aliens arrived. Colin isn’t a soldier, a survivalist, or anyone’s idea of an apocalypse hero. He’s a former medical student turned delivery cyclist who knows London’s back streets, service entrances, shortcuts, and blocked roads better than most maps. Suddenly, that knowledge is keeping people alive. With the city collapsing around them, Colin joins forces with a stubborn tour-bus owner, a nightclub bouncer, a bartender who can organize almost anything, and a growing collection of stranded survivors. Their escape vehicle? A red double-decker bus called Red Rosie. Every rescue, repair, recovered resource, and narrow escape pushes Colin further along a new progression path. Skills unlock. Classes develop. Alien materials reveal unexpected uses. And Red Rosie begins attracting attention from the System itself, transforming from ordinary transport into the beginnings of something far more valuable. A mobile base. But the creatures invading London aren’t simply hunting people. They’re collecting them. And with survivors aboard Red Rosie, Colin and his new crew have become a very large target. How to Escape with a Double-Decker Bus is an apocalypse LitRPG progression adventure featuring System integration, class progression, alien invasion, survival logistics, resource gathering, found family, base progression, and one increasingly important London double-decker bus.