The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 907

Chapter 907

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Chapter 907

come on. I’ve heard this one before! You almost had me going.”

“Me too! I was actually buying it!”

Many of them already knew the story about the Larkspur transport ship. Most assumed the passengers were so traumatized that they imagined the whole thing.

They figured it was some kind of illusion, like a desert mirage.

The man’s face flushed. “It happened! I was there. I swear!”

He was a member of the crew, and he refused to let them dismiss him as a liar. He gave them the exact coordinates, along with the date and time.

“There’s something wrong with that part of the ocean. The weather turns on you in seconds, and the storms are brutal. We almost capsized more than once. Even with the settlement’s coordinates, we spent days just trying to get out of there.”

Sawyer frowned when he heard the location.

“We went through that area, too, though we never got within 200 nautical miles of where you were. It was quite a while before you came through.

“Those waters are strange, alright. My guess is the currents have something to do with it. We had a few close calls ourselves, but we made it out.”

They didn’t run into Ardelonian pirates, but an angular underwater craft attacked them. Their submarine held up, and they managed to defeat the attackers.

“See? I told you! We weren’t imagining it…ow!”

He got so worked up that he bit his tongue.

Blood filled his mouth. He bit it badly, and the bleeding wouldn’t stop.

The others began discussing whether he needed a doctor. Unfortunately, the next ferry wasn’t due for a while.

Sawyer got to his feet. “I’ve got something in my room that might stop the bleeding.”

He left and returned with a bag.

It held no commercial clotting powder or other modern wound treatments, only a few kinds of dried medicinal herbs,

Sawyer searched through them. “Here we go. I’ve still got some left.”

He crumbled a few dried leaves between his palms, then asked the man to open his mouth and applied the powder

to the cut.

“Hold pressure on it for a few minutes.”

The man held a hand to his cheek and went quiet.

Whatever tension the ghost story stirred up quickly faded. Soon, someone asked about the herbs.

“That stuff can stop bleeding?”

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Sawyer nodded. “It worked when I used it on a cut last time.”

The others eyed his bag enviously.

“You’ve been holding out on us, Sawyer. That stuff’s worth a fortune. You could get plenty in trade for it.

“No kidding. I bought a little medicine from a trader the other day. Cost me more than two pounds of potatoes

“A friend gave it to me.” Sawyer smiled, happy to explain. “We actually met out in the Devil’s Sea. They gave us food and herbs. Without them, I don’t know if we’d have made it.”

The injured man studied the bag, then picked up a few pieces for a closer look.

“These look just like what we found on those ghost ships.”

He brought them to his nose. The smell was unmistakable.