18 Floors Above the Apocalypse

Chapter 12

Stella felt her breath hitch, quickly grabbing a pair of binoculars to look closer.

At the same place, at the same time, two similarly shaped tornadoes with opposite rotation directions, spun like enormous blenders. Where they passed, trees were uprooted, buildings collapsed, and cars were thrown into the air like play toys. Even the torrential rain was sucked up into the vortex. The two tornadoes swiftly approached each other, their high-speed rotation like countless sharp saw teeth, grinding everything in their path.

"Ah!" Angela cried out, instinctively covering her mouth.

When the two tornadoes collided, they fought while merging, tearing and shattering a skyscraper, before swallowing it whole. In less than a minute, the thirty-story building had completely disappeared.

The combined tornado raged on, like a temperamental child throwing a tantrum, not caring about the consequences.

Stella was witnessing twin tornadoes for the first time in her life. Their destructive power was more than double that of a regular tornado, but thankfully, their lifespan was only half as long.

But even in these brief minutes, they could reduce a city to ruins.

Stella's eyes never blinked, staring at the spot where the skyscraper had disappeared. She wasn't sure if twin tornadoes had ever occurred before, but she was certain the skyscraper hadn't been destroyed, as she had ventured inside for supplies during the last icy weather. Unfortunately, it had already been looted clean by survivors, leaving nothing but a mess. But now, it had been utterly destroyed.

Starting over, Stella's confidence came from the supplies stored in Arcadia, as well as her accurate prediction of natural disasters, but now things had changed.

The tornado disappeared from sight, leaving even the usually optimistic Angela gasping for breath. Her cold hand tightly gripping Stella's, "Stella, is this still a hurricane?"

This world seemed so strange, as if there was no chance to return to the prosperity before the hurricane. The twin tornadoes not only consumed and destroyed the skyscraper, but the surrounding area which was a mix of commercial and residential buildings, the most populated area in the city. Did those people stand a chance of survival?

Lukas looked solemn, murmuring, "The name of this hurricane is really fitting. It feels like it's going to chop up this city."

Saying this, he held his girlfriend close, resting his head on her shoulder, "Don't be scared. We were lucky to avoid it. If we can't avoid it one day, it's not as terrifying as it seems. Maybe we'll be taken without even knowing."

with Angela at first sight. Even when she was beaten black and blue in the ring, she would still

they had witnessed a tornado in the past few days. Angela hugged her boyfriend, "If we're unlucky enough to encounter one, are you really

willing or not doesn't matter.

she do to deserve this! The natural disaster was already terrifying enough, and now she was being tortured by their public display of

her waist was thicker than his, even her thighs were more muscular. The image was too discordant,

about to remind them to take their affection home, she heard heart-wrenching screams from the opposite

to see a woman standing on the rooftop, holding a four or five-year-old child in one hand and another

pouring rain shouting hysterically,

loudly, the rain hitting his face so hard he couldn't even open his

frightened by the scene, "Is she going to commit suicide? And with

hurricane will pass. You have two children, even if

across, and they all started shouting towards the rooftop, hoping

the rooftop to save them, but it was a

splash

in the

in front of them. Angela didn't understand. It was just a hurricane, and why couldn't they find the will to live? Even if the mother had enough of life, the children's lives had just begun. What right did she

hurricane roared once again. Lukas closed the escape window and led

life, and it only got more brutal towards the end. Not everyone could survive without

Lukas said. Despite his easy-going demeanor, he seemed more resilient than Angela, having seen the various facets of life in the orphanage, "Her husband had a mistress outside and had a child with her. He even took the family's savings to buy a house and car for

a group of women had been discussing it downstairs, and he had

from losing her husband and wealth, it was likely that the man

disaster, there was also the ugliness of human nature. She probably saw no way out and couldn't bear to leave her children to suffer in

looked blank, "Will

he was