18 Floors Above the Apocalypse

Chapter 39

Don't let her youthful appearance fool you! The girl got a dark side.

She was the classmate with the folks in apartments on the 8th and 12th floor. However, she ended up breaking the girl's ribs and cutting her hair. And the boy, well, he was even worse off. He was bitten by a dog and then stabbed. They had to carry him to the hospital in

the morning.

No one should provoke her! That was for sure.

Drew's team had just returned, looking weary and only bringing back firewood. Every foraging spot in the vicinity seemed to have been picked clean. Even moldy bread was taken.

As they watched the residents of the 18th floor, they could only sigh in envy. How could there be such disparity in the same building?

The moment Stella reached the 18th floor, a dog named Cooper came rushing out of room 1803, furiously leaping at her, whining non-stop.

Cooper thought, "You promised not to abandon me, didn't you? What a lie!"

Rosie too came rushing over, hugging Stella's waist. "Cooper and I were so well behaved today."

Stella laughed and was just about to say Rosie loved her more, when Rosie suddenly dashed towards room 1801. "Jasper, Rosie missed you so much."

As per usual, everyone gathered in room 1803 to divide the loot. Upon hearing that they'd found a pig, Angela's concern overcame her excitement. "The fridge isn't working. How are we going to store the pork?"

It was half a pig, so there was no way they could finish it in a few days. It would be such a waste if it was spoiled.

Jasper had a surprising solution. "I have a car refrigerator at home. It's USB powered. The meat should just fit in, but the light is poor and it charges slowly. Anyway, it can be used for some days."

A car refrigerator? Stella had seen a couple of those back in Arcadia. She quickly said, "The landlord has one as well. I'll go look for it in his room later."

had been solved, but the pork in room 1803 couldn't be spoiled either. Cody

to finish it in a few days. "Cut off the fat and render it into lard. We can make a pork stew tonight. Whatever we can't finish, we can preserve in salt." With the cool rainy weather, it should last

can eat, but I need to go out again to see if I can get some dog food

"Do you want us to

need, just handle the

cut the pork skin.

how to render lard, so he was quietly learning on

pork in garlic sauce, filled her stomach, treated Cooper's wounds,

leg. Was he going to be abandoned

head. "You guard the house. I'll go

come from the farm, there was likely more than one. There were several mountains in the upstream river, so the pigs were very likely to swim across

she had Cooper to

to be left behind. She had no choice but to bring him along.

a plastic bag, cut a few holes in it, and slipped it over his head. Well, the

phone to snap a picture of her dog donned in a

set out, operating a rubber raft towards Griffith

wasn't very high. At the foot of the mountain was Griffith Park. It had vast lakes and attractions, all of

sure no one was

to conserve energy and kept an eye on the sides of the road. In the roadside bushes, she spotted some

it seemed she had guessed

Cooper suddenly jumped forward, disappearing into the bushes in

mouth, "Let's

automatically switched to stealth mode. Its tail fell back, with

gazebo. Pigs are omnivorous animals that can survive on grass, but they seem to have been washed away for some time, starving away their fat. When they saw a person and a dog approach, the pigs seemed about to leave, but after several

wasn't able to contain live animals, so Stella took out her highest power electric shock rod,