The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 780

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Chapter 780

Nicole counted at least a dozen people waiting. From the rank insignia on their uniforms, they were all senior officers.

Trevor spotted her and hurried over.

“He’s in the hospital with stomach bleeding, and you’re still piling work on him?” Nicole gave him a tight smile. ” Are you trying to help him recover or work him to death?”

Trevor tried to keep the work away, but there was only so much he could do. Lives depended on many of those decisions, and Arthur was the only one authorized to make the final call.

Still, Arthur was in bad shape. Trevor went through the waiting requests and put off everything that could wait.

Half an hour later, Nicole went into the room.

Years of pushing himself past his limits finally caught up with Arthur. He was alarmingly pale. After dealing with several urgent matters, he closed his eyes to rest as his medication took effect, and exhaustion pulled him into sleep.

Trevor wanted Nicole’s visit to be a surprise, so Arthur didn’t know she was coming.

There was no chance for him to put on a brave face. Nicole saw just how old, exhausted, and ill he looked.

She stepped inside quietly, careful not to wake him.

Nicole stopped a few feet from the bed and glanced at the bedside table. One drawer was slightly open, with a medical chart and a list of prescriptions sticking out.

The drawer was crammed with medicine. He practically had enough pills to make a meal out of them.

Almost without thinking, she picked up the chart and lab results. Nothing suggested he was in immediate danger, but nearly every reading was off.

Years of overwork and constant stress wore down a man who should’ve been in excellent shape. If he kept this up, his body could give out without warning.

She read through the prescriptions, frowning.

The base had a pharmaceutical plant, but without enough raw materials, it could only produce basic drugs. Even those fell short of what the patients needed.

They didn’t even have the usual medications to treat his ulcer and stop the bleeding. Instead, they relied on herbal treatments, with several key ingredients missing.

As the commander, Arthur would receive the best care the hospital could offer.

However, his rank couldn’t make medicine appear. For some of his health problems, the doctors could do little more than hope his body recovered on its own.

His body was already exhausted, and his white blood cell count was alarmingly low. Nicole couldn’t see how he was supposed to recover without proper treatment. de

“Nicole?”

Arthur woke after only ten minutes of sleep.

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He looked completely drained. For a moment, he stared at her as though he wasn’t sure she was real. “What are you doing here?”

“Sophia asked me to come,” Nicole answered plainly.

Arthur’s brow furrowed at Sophia’s name, but he didn’t comment on it. “It’s nothing serious. The doctors are making a fuss. They want to keep me here for observation.”

He looked at her.

“How have you been?”

Nicole had wine, hot meals, and ice cream while other people survived on roots and tree bark. Aside from the threat of the tectonic plates colliding, she could hardly ask for a better life.

She didn’t answer.

The truth was, she didn’t feel much for the father who suddenly came into her life. She respected the sacrifices he made for other people, but respect didn’t make him family.

Without the storage space and the sense that she owed him for it, she wouldn’t have visited at all.

They had no shared history, no years of affection to draw on. Even now, standing beside his hospital bed, she couldn’t bring herself to offer a few comforting words.

“Would the world really end if you took a few days off?” she asked.

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