The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 811

Chapter 811

Chapter 811

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The morning sun rose above the horizon, casting a golden glow across the rippling water.

Nicole stayed to admire the view until Cola barked below, signalling that Poppy was awake.

She looked much better after a night’s sleep. Zeph urged her to go up for some fresh air and see how beautiful the ocean was now that the storm had passed.

Once they submerged, they wouldn’t be able to come up whenever they wanted.

Poppy climbed onto the deck and stared in wonder. She could hardly believe this was the same ocean she had seen yesterday.

The submarine descended steadily until it reached a suitable depth.

Neither Nicole nor Zeph wanted to explore just yet, so there was no reason to waste fuel moving around.

They had barely uncovered the largest observation window when a shark came straight at them. Its huge jaws opened wide, exposing rows of sharp teeth.

Poppy and Cola scrambled back several steps.

Nicole smiled. “It’s special glass. The sharks can’t see you through it.”

The submarine also had ordinary windows on the upper level, but those were kept small for safety.

Sure enough, the shark swam right up to the window, then turned away.

More than a dozen sharks circled nearby, probably drawn by the disturbance as the submarine descended.

Without blood in the water, they showed no interest in attacking. From behind the glass, they looked almost peaceful, even playful as they swam around one another.

They were ugly, but somehow almost cute.

Then Nicole remembered those jaws tearing into survivors, biting through flesh and bone.

Her stomach turned. There was nothing cute about them.

Suddenly, the sharks scattered, racing away. An enormous shadow loomed out of the water, and Cola scrambled back again.

Cola was having a hard time holding on to what little dignity he had left.

The submarine lurched, nearly knocking Nicole off her feet.

After all the trouble on the surface, she had hoped they would at least get some peace down here.

Zeph caught her and glanced through the observation window. A massive body brushed past, pushing the submarine sideways.

Fully loaded, the submarine weighed more than enough to hold its own. Any sea creature with an ounce of sense should’ve left it alone,

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Apparently, this one had all the sense of a honey badger.

One bump wasn’t enough. It came back for another, then another.

With the submarine sitting motionless in the water, something that huge could push it around just by throwing its weight against the hull.

The trouble was, it wouldn’t stop. Every shove sent the submarine rocking again.

Nicole’s irritation rose. What exactly was out there tossing them around?

The creature was too big for her to see in full. She could just make out an enormous tail in the dim light. Its skin looked black at first, then dark blue.

A blue whale!

Just her luck. They had barely uncovered the window, and a blue whale had decided to rub its backside against them.

The largest blue whales weighed over 200 tons. Their tongues alone supposedly weighed 2 tons, and their hearts were said to be bigger than cars.

On a male, even a certain other body part could measure over ten feet long.

Nicole had never seen anything like this one. At a conservative guess, it had to weigh at least 600 hundred tons.

The mutated yellow croakers and flying fish were several times their normal size. It stood to reason that the largest creature in the ocean could’ve grown even more.

With all that weight and the muscle to put it to use, no wonder it could shove the submarine around.

The rocking continued, though it wasn’t too violent.

All the important equipment outside the hull was retracted into protective compartments. As long as the whale didn’t get carried away, it probably wouldn’t do any damage.

Zeph watched for another moment, unsure whether to laugh. “I think it’s scratching an itch.”

Scratching an itch?

Nicole nearly choked.

Their submarine was a back scratcher now. Unbelievable.

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