18 Floors Above the Apocalypse

Chapter 379

Chapter 379

Stella was behind the wheel of her eighteen-wheeler, and Jasper was tearing up the road in his rugged SUV. They hadn't even left the base when they realized someone was tailing them. But they played it cool. Grabbing their walkie-talkies, they coordinated a plan and split in different directions.

Duke, the ringleader, was flabbergasted. "Split up! Chase 'em down! They can't get away," he barked.

Don't let the mud and grime fool you; those vehicles were beasts under the hood.

Stella, now decked out in a bulletproof vest and a steel helmet, floored it. She handled the big rig like a pro, quickly leaving their pursuers in the dust.

Taking a hidden detour through a ravine, she slipped her truck into the safety of Arcadia.

The ragtag pursuers, pushing their beat-up jalopies to the limit, arrived only to be left scratching their heads.

Where'd the trucks go?

Before they knew it, a loud bang echoed, sending them diving for cover.

Turned out, one of their tires had blown out.

"Damnation!" they cursed, scared out of their wits.

With no trace of their quarry, they had to slink back to base, tails between their legs.

Stella arrived at the base of Mount Murray to find Jasper and their canine companions already waiting. "Everything good?" he asked.

"Just a bunch of riff-raff," she replied.

Those who made it into the Kindle Society were usually tough, but this lot? They were smooth-talking slackers. Any edge they had was dulled by life's grind, reduced to conning newcomers into doing their dirty work. If real trouble came knocking, they'd probably run faster than anyone.

"And you?" Stella shot back at Jasper. "Any close calls?"

"None. Lost 'em easy," Jasper replied. His SUV was a beast and had left the pursuers in the dust.

They might set ambushes

nodded, "We'll cross that bridge

up trouble, but if trouble

their four-legged friend didn't wander aimlessly. They broke out the RV, taking

in her room, but in reality, she was loading rare metals

two big rigs, but Stella left

she covered

couldn't afford any mishaps. If they ran into highway robbers, the tarp would give them a chance to

camping out at Mount Murray for two days, they judged the timing right

but couldn't afford to let their guard down either. They'd take a roundabout route just

drove their clunkers back towards base, only to spot something

apart at any moment, they slipped by the ambushers unnoticed. The ambushers even thought the dilapidated vehicles were an

ambushers, about a dozen strong, were spread out on both sides of the road, hunkered down in a no man's land just

confrontation, so

out of sight in a dip by the

attached a silencer to his

but Stella wanted to make it clean, and having

and Cooper taking a detour to bring the previously hidden

back to flank the

time came, Rosie drove one of the trucks into view from the opposite end

on high

with cargo that promised a

and they'd have enough supplies to

morale low, the thought of imminent spoils had them chomping

eyes glued to the approaching vehicle, completely oblivious to

both Jasper and Stella made

"Thwip! Thwip!"

the sound

decided to act, she didn't hold back. One by one, the backs of heads

driver's a young woman with a mask, and there's a dog too. Something's not

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