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.

bed, sofa, table, clothes, quilts... Living near the wealthy was great. Everyone had everything, and

needed to be reinstalled, so Stella used some ice and a fan to

wasn't idle either. After putting ice on her forehead,

house. You can't let any bad people in. If bad people get in, that means you're

the main worker, with Stella assisting. It took them two hours to

they were all thrown into another

the new air conditioner blew out cool air,

to work. It took another two hours to set up the three rooms, clean the living

they had gotten from Monkey and, with Jasper's help, surrounded

the security measures were already good, in an apocalyptic world, they could not

and Cooper not to touch it

Cooper and Rosie a lesson, Stella threw a cockroach she caught during cleaning onto the net. Soon, a

and Cooper were so

tanned like charcoal. After being roasted in

Stella used a telescope to observe the people on the beach and in the fishing village. There were people everywhere, densely packed. It was

suggested, "Let's go take

could not forget their main purpose. They needed to check out the market

turned up the electric current in the net and left a warning: High voltage, do not touch,.

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

the past, the market was bustling, but now it was eerily quiet. Everywhere they looked, there were dried seafood products -

was no fresh seafood. There was no choice. Fresh seafood, if not processed immediately after being caught, would start to smell bad after a few

were not expensive. Two kilos of grains could be exchanged for one kilo of dried goods. Sea salt

area. They wanted to eat rice, pasta, or vegetables. But the weather was too hot, the seawater could

area by the sea did not have a severe water shortage. They could get water by digging wells a few dozen meters deep. However, due to the depletion of surface water,