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.

to shake. They might set ambushes

that bridge when we

trouble, but

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

napping in her room, but in reality, she was

big rigs,

covered

If they ran into highway robbers, the

they judged the timing right and prepared

ragtag crew seriously, but couldn't afford to let their guard down either. They'd take

clunkers back towards base, only to spot something suspicious. The ambush was

any moment, they slipped by the ambushers unnoticed. The

the road, hunkered down in a no man's land just

open confrontation, so

truck stopped out

quietly attached a silencer to his

but Stella wanted to make it clean,

taking a detour to bring the previously hidden trucks to the rendezvous point when the time

flank

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

on high alert. "Boss, that's the truck.

with cargo that promised

one successful heist and they'd have enough supplies

aching from hunger and morale low, the thought of imminent spoils

glued to the approaching vehicle,

and both

"Thwip! Thwip!"

the sound

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

realizing something was amiss, started to warn his boss, "Boss, the driver's a young woman with a mask, and there's a dog too. Something's

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