The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 820

Chapter 820

It took several minutes to kill the last of the attackers.

Meanwhile, a fight broke out aboard the fishing boat, with gunshots ringing out over the water.

Nicole couldn’t see past the obstructions on deck. The fighting went on for nearly 20 minutes before everything fell quiet.

Sawyer leaned over the bow, vomiting. Several minutes passed before he managed to wave at them. His face was pale.

“It’s over.”

Several of his crewmates were throwing up, too.

Something was wrong. Nicole searched the water for the bodies around the submarine. All the attackers had worn masks, but the current had already swept them away.

At Sawyer’s order, one of his men brought the fishing boat over and stopped between the two submarines.

Nicole and Zeph paddled across in their inflatable raft, fighting the wind and waves, then climbed aboard.

Blood and bodies covered the deck. One clear look at the dead sent Nicole to the railing, struggling not to throw up. Her stomach heaved, but nothing came up.

Zeph quickly put on a mask and frowned as he examined the bodies.

Their faces were barely recognizable as human.

Lumps and pus-filled sores covered their faces and bodies, ranging from the size of a thumb to a ping-pong ball. Many had burst and were bleeding.

They were packed so closely together that almost no healthy skin remained.

The dead looked more like monsters than people.

The man who had called out to them looked relatively normal. Several stab wounds to the chest had killed

him.

Nicole spotted foreign lettering stamped on the curved swords. She frowned.

Sawyer approached, his face tight with anger. “Those animals. How could they do this?”

“Die!” One of the bodies suddenly rolled over. The man struggled to get up, shouting at them in fury. “Die!”

Several crewmen grabbed a rope to restrain him for questioning.

“Careful,” Nicole warned. “He could be contagious.”

Ardelon had been underwater for years. She never expected to find any of its people alive, let alone still preying on other survivors. 2

The disfigured Ardelonian cursed and lunged at the men. Zeph raised his gun and shot him in the forehead.

Sawyer had hoped to question him, but he was the last one alive.

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Nicole’s face grew serious. “If you’re injured, disinfect your wounds right away.”

The Ardelonians had fought with blades and iron bars. Two crewmen were hurt. One had an internal injury,

and the other had a cut.

A curved sword had caught the second man, though the wound was small.

Sawyer’s expression changed. Their medical supplies were still aboard the submarine.

The fishing boat rode too low in the water for just seven people. He had known others were hiding aboard.

As soon as he realized it was a trap, he warned his crew with hand signals.

Medicine was too valuable to risk losing. The kit he brought aboard was empty.

Besides, the disinfectant from the base’s pharmaceutical factory was much weaker than the products available before the disasters. Fetching it would take time, and the wound needed attention now.

Nicole pulled some medical supplies from her bag. “Use mine.”

The containers were from the base, but she had refilled them with supplies she stockpiled before the disasters.

They cleaned the cut thoroughly, applied antibiotic ointment, and covered it with a sterile dressing.