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."

pork in room 1803 couldn't be spoiled either. Cody suggested, "Why don't you two start with

off the fat and render it into lard. We can make a pork stew tonight. Whatever we

eat, but I need to go out again to

"Do you want

just handle the

lard, Stella reminded them, "Separately cut the pork skin. Don't fry it with the fat. Be careful of oil

also didn't know how to render lard, so he was quietly learning

had a portion of shredded pork in garlic sauce, filled her

clutched her trouser leg. Was he going to be

head. "You guard the house. I'll go get us some

large pig farm upstream. If the pig had indeed come from the farm, there was likely more than one. There were

pork stored, and now she had Cooper to feed as well, so Stella wanted

refused to be left behind. She had no choice but

have a raincoat, so she took a plastic bag, cut a few holes in it, and slipped it over his head. Well, the look

her laughter and took out her phone to snap a picture of her dog donned in a plastic rain

out, operating a rubber

mountain was Griffith Park. It had vast lakes and attractions, all of which

sure no one was here before storing the raft

climbing the mountain, Stella chose to take the cement path to conserve energy and kept an eye on the sides of the road. In the roadside bushes, she spotted some pig feces that hadn't

it seemed she had guessed

suddenly jumped forward, disappearing

mouth, "Let's sneak into the village

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

she saw twelve pigs sheltering from the rain in the 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

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