18 Floors Above the Apocalypse

Chapter 166

For the sake of a pack of cigarettes, Rob had one last piece of advice for the couple. "Don't buy your supplies from the local bazaars. A lot of the sea salt they sell is mixed with sand, and the seafood isn't fresh." There were a few business people living in the villa district. Many of them had been taken for a ride when they first moved in, but they had since learned their lesson.

After a bit of chit-chat, and with no objections from Jasper, Stella decided to rent the villa. They chose the one on top of the hill, far away from the other residents. The isolation would make their activities less noticeable.

Upon learning that they planned to live on top of the hill, Rob was surprised, but he didn't comment. "Alright, just follow us down to handle the paperwork."

While Jasper was checking Rosie's forehead wound, Stella unloaded several bags of potatoes from her truck. When Rosie got into the car, she looked a little surprised at the sight of the potatoes, but she didn't ask any questions.

Back at the security booth, they not only had to register their IDs but also have their photos taken. This was so all the security personnel could recognize them, preventing any unwanted disturbances from strangers. They were also given badges, which was surprisingly professional.

Being accustomed to the wealthy residents, the security officers were not surprised by Stella's bags of normal potatoes. They weighed them out to be around 450 pounds.

Rob was very helpful, informing them where they could buy furniture, and offering to have the security officers assist if needed.

Once all the procedures were finished, Stella drove back up to the villa.

The first thing she did was not to clean the rooms, but to turn on the air conditioning. It was unbearably hot. To her dismay, the air conditioning was broken.

Damn!

She didn't want the furniture in the villa, so Stella closed the room door and began to unload things from Arcadia. She might not have much, but she had plenty of furniture and appliances.

Due to safety considerations and wanting a better view, they chose to live on the second floor and planned to clean up three rooms.

Finally, they could use the solar power generator openly.

Living near the wealthy was great. Everyone had everything, and there was no need to hide anything. They filled a

so Stella used some ice and a fan

idle either. After putting ice on her forehead, she started to

was having a blast. Cooper wanted to help too, but Stella thought he was in the way. "Cooper, your job is to guard the house. You can't let any bad people in. If bad people get in, that means you're not

Stella assisting. It took them two hours to

were all

and the new air conditioner blew out cool air, finally saving them from

work. It took another two hours to set up

they had gotten from Monkey

in an

the villa with the electric net and reminded Rosie and

order to teach Cooper and Rosie a lesson, Stella threw a cockroach she caught during cleaning onto the net. Soon, a burnt smell filled the

Rosie and Cooper were so

emerge. The beach was full of people, all of them tanned like charcoal. After being roasted in the heat all day, they jumped into the sea

the rooftop, Stella used a telescope to observe the people on the beach and in the fishing

go take a

here, they could not forget their main purpose. They

and drove off. Before they left, they turned up the electric current in the net and left a warning: High voltage, do

and in just over ten minutes they arrived at the seafood market in the

but now it was eerily quiet. Everywhere they looked, there were dried seafood products - shrimp, fish,

no choice. Fresh seafood, if not

the sea, the wholesale market's dried goods were not expensive. Two kilos of grains could be exchanged for one kilo of dried goods. Sea salt was

rice, pasta, or vegetables. But the weather was too hot, the seawater could not be purified, and rice could not be grown. As for vegetables, they were plucked as

deep. However,