18 Floors Above the Apocalypse

Chapter 239

Plant mutation?

Exposed to all sorts of severe weather, mutating to adapt to new environments indeed accorded with the theory of evolution.

Whatever. She decided to plant it in the Arcadia for now.

Hoping to find a few more, the three of them conducted a thorough search, but unfortunately, they found no more.

They continued to chop wood, finding herbs when they grew tired.

Having spent five to six days in the thick woods, they'd cleared several hills of trees, enough to keep five to six truckloads of lumber for themselves and donate ten more.

They didn't rush to leave but instead, sought herbs in the dense forest. Over the next few days, they found about fifty to sixty different herbs, the most valuable among them were a young ginseng plant, several wild yam plants, and some goji berries. Stella's eyes were about to pop out looking for them. It was an extreme eye strain; she was exhausted and needed to rest.

And so, their wood-chopping trip ended. With their dog and rabbits in tow, they planned to return to the city.

"Ah...!"

A horrific scream suddenly echoed throughout the dense forest. The chilling sound caused goosebumps to rise. Cooper's fur stood on end, his face fierce.

Jasper perked up his ears, "It sounds like it's coming from another part of the forest."

This scream, even after three years, Stella was overly familiar with it - it was filled with despair. It wasn't a simple distress call.

Over the past three years, whether it was Lukas' group or Jasper, and even Cooper and Rosie, had slowly been healing her. But when the scream echoed again, Stella felt her blood rush to her head, and she instantly drew her gun and loaded it. Jasper noticed her emotional fluctuation, "Don't panic. Let's see what's going on first."

Stella nodded, taking a deep breath to calm herself down.

taking a shortcut

your step and keep

wasn't nervous. In fact, she was even more alert than the

alert, leading the humans and the rabbits on

in front of him

on the road,

quickly climbed another hill, only to see four men holding knives, and six

four were children around ten years old. One child was so hungry he couldn't stand, stumbling and falling onto the ground. Tied to the same rope, when one fell, they all fell. The men were irritated, rushing over to kick and punch the child, "Useless!

herself over, shielding one of the boys with

like rain, and

clear on its face.

finish, but Stella knew what he

of grass off her hair, "Stella,

rare in places where the official forces couldn't reach; in fact, they had even become the

blood boiling. This was a nightmare. Even if it happened

and started walking towards where they'd disappeared. If she turned

corners of his mouth lifted in

and she looked up at her brother. He patted her head, "Rosie, no matter whether we are around in the future, you have to

She understood, but not

hills, a bamboo house and a cave appeared at the

house. Stella counted, adding the four who had returned, there were ten men in total. These people... no, they could no

say, can't you find some more

find some more appealing ones, but there are starving people everywhere outside, and the rich have bodyguards,

satisfy us, it doesn't matter. Anyway, they're going to end up in

up, roughly grabbed the girls' hair, ignoring their pleas and cries, and dragged them towards the creek behind the bamboo forest, intending to clean them up

boy behind, while

all this