18 Floors Above the Apocalypse

Chapter 242

Before going to bed, Stella pulled out her blanket, "Rosie, if you feel cold at night, you can use this."

The radio had timely notifications, but there was no sound from Mark's loudspeaker. It might be because the radio was out of battery. Jasper relayed the message, "The Weather Bureau has issued a warning: the Polar Day is here, and there will be a significant temperature difference between day and night."

So, the loudspeaker echoed once more, reminding everyone to dress warmly and prevent the cold. It was not a matter to be taken lightly. Once you fell sick and couldn't recover, death was the next stop. Waking up the next morning, Stella found a blanket on her. She glanced at the thermometer on the wall, 20 degrees Celsius.

The spot next to her was empty. Jasper was nowhere to be seen.

Pulling the curtain aside, she saw him exercising on the terrace with the dog, even Rosie was there. Uh, seemed like she had been slacking off.

20 degrees in the morning, 37 at noon, and 18 at night, the temperature was like a rollercoaster.

The darkness was postponed again, till 9 pm.

Day by day, eating was the only routine. They had become tired of watching TV. They could only study for two hours a day, and reading had become daunting. Living such a life was not as easy as it seemed. Sensing her boredom, Jasper suggested, "How about we cook something?"

Now that they were living far away from everyone else, they could cook without the smell spreading around. In the future, when they moved to Newtown, the villas wouldn't have such a wide gap between the buildings. Stella liked this idea, "How about some cookies and bread?"

They were not in a hurry this time; they only cooked when they felt like it. They strived for perfection, every dish looking like a piece of art.

A month later, they had stored a lot of food.

Now, it only got dark at 1 am and the sun rose at 5 am. The daytime temperature was 30 degrees Celsius while the night was only 10 degrees.

Thanks to the Polar Day, the survivors had to change their clothes every two hours. If you had to go out, you didn't need to bring anything else other than clothes for all four seasons. A minor negligence could lead to a cold.

The erratic weather was troubling for Cooper as he didn't know whether to grow his fur or shed it.

Stella put on a thermal coat for him.

maintained their routine. If the sun was too bright, they would draw the curtains; they

to the Polar Day, it was that the longer sunlight accelerated the growth of crops, and the shortened night relatively reduced crime rate. However, it had nothing to do with Stella, who was leading a laid-back lifestyle. On the contrary, Rosie seemed happy, "Stella, the peanuts I planted have

girl had developed a love for

from the floor below, called out to him passionately, he didn't pay

terrace, she saw the carpenter from building no.3

the evening while fetching water, "Patrick, do you know

boat?" Patrick, a local, had been an apprentice in a boat factory

older generation of locals all had

"You

during the extreme cold. With this erratic weather, in case there's a flood, I'd have nowhere to hide.

and it needs to

an issue. With the limited tools he had, the wooden boat could be at most 1.8 meters wide and 3 meters long, and anything

ships, who would mind having

he also made bath

80 kg of sweet potatoes as compensation. Stella pretended to hesitate before agreeing the

truck back and unloaded the required wood at the entrance

end, many high-tech products couldn't be used, and they needed old

sweet potatoes made Patrick ecstatic; he even

batches. The first batch was delivered half a month later, and the second

denying that the wooden boat was sturdy and

to place another order for six with you. Ensure the quality, and there might be more business in the future." Getting new business made Patrick's family overjoyed, they were

people of Eastwood Eden had adapted. The patrol team worked in shifts; their main task was

well. Stella had propagated them several times, planted over several square meters. In a while, they would be ready for harvesting

already started branching and sprouting new buds in the

every now and then, recording its growth. She repeatedly compared the pictures with the ones

becoming more and more

certain, "It's the one,

so. After all, he was always steady

had figured out one herb, what about the