The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 791

Chapter 791

Nicole had always admired Zeph. He was handsome, a great cook, and in incredible shape. With all his other skills, there didn’t seem to be anything he couldn’t do.

She was his biggest fan, convinced he could do no wrong. Now her idol came tumbling off his pedestal, shattering her rose-colored glasses on the way down.

His biggest fan was now his harshest critic.

Nicole could only sit there and stew. So much for Mr. Perfect.

To be fair, it wasn’t really Zeph’s fault. There was no wind while he adjusted the drone. Nobody expected a sandstorm to hit the second he got it airborne.

Well, not exactly a sandstorm. A freak gust came out of nowhere and whipped up clouds of dust and sand.

Between the drone’s shaky flight and all that blowing sand, its first mission ended before it even began.

They only had one drone left, and Nicole refused to take it out, no matter what. 1

With natural disasters ravaging the world, all their fancy technology was useless. They would have to do things the old-fashioned way.

Poppy and Cola returned after patrolling a radius of a little over half a mile. They found no sign of people or wild animals, and the ground seemed relatively stable.

The wind howled every so often, but the RV was so well insulated that they could barely hear it with the

door closed.

An RV that cost millions certainly had its perks. Several night-vision cameras connected to its onboard network, letting the four of them lounge on the couch and watch TV with an occasional glance at the security monitor.

Even if something escaped their notice, the bulletproof body and windows gave them a decent measure of protection.

After a while, the four of them settled into a routine, each with their own daily responsibilities.

Nicole spent some time reorganizing her storage space. She moved the trucks out of the herb garden, loosened the soil they had compacted, and replanted the damaged sections.

Once Poppy and Cola were sound asleep, she brought Zeph into her storage space to see what they had picked up.

Twenty-one enormous trucks, and she still had no idea what was inside.

They struggled to get the first shipping container open. When Nicole finally saw what it held, her eyes nearly popped out of her head.

Well, there it was, the world’s most expensive sports car: an ancient bronze chariot with a whopping four horsepower. That had to be worth hundreds of millions,

And that was just the start. There were marble statues, medieval swords, religious relics, bronze sculptures

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Any one of those pieces would’ve been worth a fortune. They had three entire shipping containers full.

Nicole was glad her storage space stopped expanding when it did. Back then, it even pried the diamonds off a pair of slippers. It would’ve swallowed every last one of these treasures.

If the priceless artifacts shocked her, the next discovery nearly made her scream.

Five shipping containers in a row were packed with medical equipment.

Color Doppler ultrasound machines, ECG machines, endoscopes, X-ray machines, CT scanners, MRI machines… The list went on.

Everything was brand-new. Some machines came in larger quantities than others, and each came with a thick instruction manual.

There were also two boxes of handwritten radiology notes covering everything from operating the machines and reading the images to routine care and maintenance.

Clearly, doctors compiled these notes after the disasters began, hoping to preserve what they could of

civilization.

As Nicole leafed through them, her excitement faded, and she grew quiet.

Those two boxes of notes made up her mind. If the disasters ever ended and humanity began to rebuild, she would return the equipment to its rightful owners. 2

They kept opening containers and found more equipment, this time for manufacturing.

Nicole knew little about that field, but if the government considered it worth preserving, it had to be advanced technology that mattered. She left it all safely packed away.

She took out a color Doppler ultrasound machine and opened its manual, trying to figure out how to set it up and get it running.

She had medical training, but pharmacology and diagnostic imaging were entirely different fields. Before long, her eyes started drooping over the manual.

Maybe men had more of a knack for machinery. Zeph, who also spent the past few years learning from Nicole, patiently worked his way through the manual. To her surprise, he actually got the machine running.

They studied together, consulting books on color Doppler ultrasound and figuring things out as they went.

Then Nicole decided to practice on Zeph. “Take your shirt off.”

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