18 Floors Above the Apocalypse novel Chapter 95

Stella ignored them. Her eyes were falling on a round stainless steel trinket on the ground that had likely fallen off a body. It seemed to be the pass for Unity Village. Lukas and Cody thought it was useless, so they didn’t bother to pick it up.

Stella bent down to pick it up, observing the trinket which looked like a backpack charm. It was probably something they found in a factory and distributed to the gangsters.

Back upstairs, Angela immediately opened the door as she heard them. She was surprised at seeing them together. “Why are you back so late? Did you get any information?”

Jasper remained silent, so Stella nodded, “I just left the neighborhood when I spotted a gang gathering food in the name of the protection, so I followed them quietly and found out they entered Unity Village.”

Upon hearing her recount, Angela was stunned. “You mean, their hideout is in the neighborhood?”

Unity Village was large, which had over twenty residential buildings. How many people could be hiding there?

Was this gang developed from the residents? Or had it been invaded by outside forces? If it was the latter, were the original residents still alive?

Not only did they collect protection food, but they also used the pretext of gathering supplies to rob survivors’ homes directly. This was also why the 18th floor was targeted.

Cody and Lukas felt a buzzing in his head. They had thought it was a gang of just a few dozen people. There were only 5 combat-capable people on the 18th floor; they couldn’t fight against them face to face. So, he instinctively looked at Stella and Jasper. “What should we do next?”

What should they do? The worst-case scenario would be to get chopped up.

Stella played dumb and followed his gaze to Jasper. Under everyone’s concerned gaze, Jasper paused to think. “Let’s not be impulsive, I’ll go scout the place tomorrow.”

While the 18th floor struggled to sleep, the 17th floor was in a state of fear. Amber was terrified. “Mom, I almost stepped on a corpse on the 16th floor when I came back, and the door downstairs is broken. What happened?”

She thought something had happened to her home, but thankfully her mother-in-law was unharmed. It was a close call today, but Katie was still shaken, sighing and saying, “Something serious has happened.”

After hearing her mother-in-law’s words, Amber was in shock for a while. “Has Korey gone mad? We agreed to face difficulties together. However, not only did he hide, but he also stabbed us in the back?”

And there was the Palmer family from the 1702, they felt they shouldn’t believe those people in the beginning.

“What should we do now?”

Amber was anxious. Her husband and son were at work, so only she and her mother-in-law were left at home. If the 18th floor really didn’t care about them, what would they do?

These two troublemakers had ruined everything.

“You’ve been busy all day. Wash up and sleep early. We will think about what to do tomorrow.”

Katie couldn’t sleep. After making sure her daughter-in-law was asleep, she quietly went to the kitchen to boil a pot of hot water. She opened the door and poured it into the gap of the door of room 1702.

The weather was extremely cold, so the water quickly turned into ice once it hit the ground.

Katie stood in the hallway, sighing deeply in the darkness. She didn’t care if she died. She just couldn’t leave any risks to her children.

She had lived long enough. Even the people younger than her had died. But her children were still very young, especially Mikey who had just graduated and found a job, and hadn’t even gotten married and had children.

When would this disaster end?

After calming down, Katie closed the door and returned to her room, wrapping herself in the blanket and staying awake all night.

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Stella was drowsy and was awakened by the banging noise from downstairs. Both people and dogs were used to it. As long as it wasn’t someone prying open the door to the 18th floor, it was fine. She pulled the blanket over her head and continued to sleep.

When she woke up, Stella heard a noise in the hallway and opened the door to find Lukas straining his ears to listen to the noise from downstairs. “What’s going on?”