The Apocalypse Survival Manual (Three Days Before Doomsday, I Stockpiled Billions) novel Chapter 916

Chapter 916

Chapter 916

The world was still round, even with nearly all its land underwater. If they drifted long enough, they might circle the globe. They could even find themselves back where they started.

Nicole sipped her hot coffee. “If we keep going north, we might reach the polar region. Maybe we’ll see

some seals.”

Poppy only knew seals from television. The chance to see those funny, endearing animals up close gave her something to get excited about.

Then she hesitated. With everything that happened to the world, she wasn’t sure any seals were still

alive.

Nicole smiled, glad to give her something to look forward to. “There could still be some out there. Maybe even polar bears, if we’re lucky.” 1

Life on the submarine grew repetitive, but the four of them settled into a routine. Exercise kept them active, while books and movies helped them pass the time. 1

Poppy took up baking. After a few unsuccessful batches, she finally made bear-shaped cookies in chocolate and vanilla.

She also made one that looked like Cola. Then she bit its head off with a loud crunch, right in front of

him.

“Zeph, Nicole, these are really good!”

Cola ignored her for two days. 1

Poppy apologized repeatedly and baked him a batch of bone-shaped dog treats. That finally won him

over.

Nicole spent much of her time studying medicine, focusing on therapeutic massage and needle therapy. Zeph often ended up being her practice patient.

They drifted with the currents for more than a month.

One morning, Nicole was barely out of bed when Poppy called excitedly from outside the room.

“It’s snowing! Come look! It’s snowing over the ocean!”

The temperature at the surface was down to -4 degrees. Small white flakes fell from the sky and vanished into the dark blue water. (1

Nicole had never seen snow falling at sea. Curious, she brought the submarine to the surface. She put on her temperature-regulating clothes, added a mink coat, and stepped out for some fresh air.

The cold hit her lungs with every breath.

She quickly retrieved a face mask made from the same temperature-regulating fabric. With it covering

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her nose and mouth, she could breathe comfortably again.

All around her, snow drifted toward the water, disappearing the instant it touched the sea.

Zeph gently brushed the snowflakes from Nicole’s eyelashes. “Cold?”

“Not at all.”

The four of them spent more than two hours on the surface, taking pictures, roasting sweet potatoes over charcoal, and lingering outside over coffee.

As they traveled farther north, the temperature fell and the snow grew heavier. Eventually, a thin sheet of

ice formed on the water.

If they kept going and the ice grew too thick, they wouldn’t be able to surface.

Nicole, Zeph, and Poppy sat down to decide whether to turn back or keep exploring.

Nicole was open to either. They had no destination waiting for them in any direction.

Zeph felt the same. With his family beside him, he didn’t much care where they went.

Poppy liked the idea of trying something different.

“If the ice gets thick enough, could we live on it?”

She knew what it was like to live through extreme cold, especially the deep freeze after the floods.

She was little then, but she still remembered the ice stretching as far as she could see.

Nicole gave it some thought. “If the ice cap has formed again, we might be able to live up there. It’d be pretty rough, though.”