The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 862

Chapter 862

As submarine 2688 passed Platform C, they spotted a large sign with red lettering.

[Welcome home. Registration: Platform A, three miles to the right.]

A footbridge connected Platform A to a deepwater dock.

They pulled into berth 79 and climbed out. Several other submarines of the same model occupied nearby berths.

Years of food shortages left most survivors painfully thin. To avoid drawing attention, Nicole found some old clothes for them to wear and used makeup to give their faces a gaunt, exhausted look.

Hiding Cola took a little more work. Until they knew the rules here, he would have to ride in a hiking backpack on Zeph’s back.

Nicole worried he might squirm and give himself away. “You need to stay hidden, okay? Some people out there might try to eat you.”

Cola bristled, looking ready to charge out and take them on.

Nicole quickly changed tactics. “What I meant was, they’ve never seen a dog before. A big, strong boy like you could scare someone. Then I’d have to give them something to make up for it. Probably your favorite drumsticks. You’d be stuck eating oatmeal.” 21

Faced with losing his drumsticks, Cola reluctantly squeezed into the backpack.

The footbridge stretched nearly two miles, its supporting chains shifting as it swayed beneath their feet.

They took almost an hour to reach Platform A.

The enormous platform housed the settlement’s administrative offices and public services in specially

built shipping containers.

To keep a low profile against the wind and waves, the containers stood less than ten feet tall, with

ceilings about as high as those in a typical home.

Thick steel decking felt solid underfoot. Without the ocean surrounding them, they could almost believe

they were back on land.

The settlement was called Yorwick. Just over ten thousand survivors lived there, including roughly five thousand who arrived with the eastern military base to establish it.

The fleet must have set out with far more people when the tectonic upheaval began. Many never survived the long, dangerous search for somewhere to rebuild.

After ten years of disasters, barely ten thousand people from a nation of well over a billion made it this

far.

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It was a sobering thought.

At first, the staff had no way of knowing how many more survivors would reach them. Lately, though, there was more reason to hope.

As word spread about the settlement’s location, more people found their way there. A few days earlier, a cargo ship from the government base in Alder arrived with over 500 survivors.

Their account of the journey left the staff struggling to believe what they heard.

The survivors said they encountered mutated Ardelonians a few months earlier. According to them, a pair of strangers killed the attackers, then gave them two boatloads of supplies. 1