18 Floors Above the Apocalypse novel Chapter 28

Everyone was feasting on high-calorie instant food, casually discussing the loot they had managed to gather.

Besides the assortment of junk food and drinks, Stella had gathered the most grains, while Cody had swept through a local farm supply store, bringing back hundreds of pounds of beef jerky, ginseng, saffron, truffles, and cheese. Lukas found several bags of high-quality rice, while Jasper found a liquor store and brought back dozens of boxes of wine.

All in all, the most abundant item was bottled water.

This was a necessity that couldn’t be discarded. After all, you couldn’t always rely on drinking rainwater. After some discussion, they decided to first bring back the medicines, meat, wine, and grains, then the non-perishable foods like instant noodles and bread, leaving the bottled water and drinks for last.

Moreover, everyone took some things they needed.

The powerboat was Stella's, along with a samurai sword, a golf club, and some skincare products. Lukas grabbed some clothes and shoes. Cody, on the other hand, took electronic products, game consoles, watches, and the like. Jasper carried dolls, children's books, and pens and paper, obviously for Rosie.

Everyone was careful not to bring too much personal items as the space on the boat was limited.

While loading the rubber boat, Lukas casually mentioned, “I found a seed store, but unfortunately, the seeds are not edible because they've been sprayed with pesticides. Otherwise, we could have brought them back just in case.”

As soon as he finished speaking, three pairs of eyes were staring at him.

“What...what's wrong?”

Cody was at a loss for words. “The whole world is flooded. If we're really in an apocalypse, seeds will be more valuable than medicine.”

Only then did Lukas realize his foolish mistake. “Should we take them back?”

That was a no-brainer. Lukas and Jasper continued to load, while Stella and Cody ran upstairs to fetch the seeds.

It was quite a surprise to find out that it was a branch of a renowned agricultural company, whose founder was a great scientist who had ensured food security for the people.

The branch wasn't large. Most of the seeds were of new types of hybrid rice, there were several varieties adding up to about five or six hundred pounds, and there were also many types of hybrid vegetables, as well as hydroponic technology and nutrient solution.

It was too precious. Stella didn't even let go of the documents, and they had to make several trips to get everything.

On the last trip, she deliberately slowed down a few steps and took the computer in the lab into her Arcadia, which was full of precious literature and data. It could be of great help in restoring civilization in the future.

By the time they were done, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

With two rubber boats tied to Jasper’s and Stella's powerboats, they estimated the power and load and sailed into the night towards Sunrise Sanctuary.

Stella was driving the powerboat, with Lukas sitting next to her holding a pair of night vision binoculars to keep watch. The binoculars had night vision function, which enabled them to observe and avoid obstacles in time, and to guard against sudden robbers.

They were loaded with supplies; they had to drive slowly.

When they arrived at Sunrise Sanctuary, the two of them switched off the engine without a word, dimmed the lantern to the lowest level, and rowed back to the apartment building with the help of others.

At this point, almost everyone was asleep, but they still had to be careful. There were too many supplies that could attract envy, so they had to walk barefoot to avoid making noise.

Angela came down to help, and it took them almost an hour to finish moving everything.

Jasper was afraid that Angela couldn’t protect their loot alone, and asked Stella to stay with her, while the three of them went back to the office building to move the rest of the supplies overnight.

The supplies were piled up in the living room of 1803, making it messy but satisfying.

Without taking a break, they grabbed stools and started sorting out the supplies, dividing what they could into four parts, and putting what they couldn’t aside.

They didn’t finish loading everything on the second trip and left quite a few drinks and bottled water. Later on, Jasper and Cody had to make one more trip.