All Chapters of The Apocalypse Survival Manual: Chapter 231 - Chapter 240

For a six-year-old to understand this much already was honestly impressive. Zeph had raised her well.Still, this probably wasn't the kind of conversation that should happen with outsiders present.Nicole rubbed her stomach and stood up. "I ate too much, and now I'm sleepy. I'm heading back to lie down. See you tonight."Then she grabbed the dog and made a quick escape.The moment she left, Poppy wrapped both arms tightly around Zeph's arm."I'm sorry."Zeph gently comforted her."You didn't do anything wrong, but things are different now. There are a lot of hungry people outside, and if they find out we have good things, they'll come with knives to take them. And when that happens, they won't just steal our supplies. Nicole or I could die. What would happen to you then?"Poppy immediately turned pale with fear and buried herself against his chest, trembling. "You can't die! I miss Mom and Dad.""Don't be scared. Even though they're not here anymore, I will still protect you."

The 30 planting troughs were all plastic. Low temperatures could make them brittle, but the material itself was fairly thick, so as long as they handled them carefully, they should hold up fine.There were also four bags of compound fertilizer, each weighing about fifty pounds.After checking everything over and confirming there were no issues, Nicole reached into her backpack and handed over the buckhorn herbal tonic.Weasel had been sulking earlier about barely making any profit, but the second he saw the bottle, his eyes lit up.Nicole had brought out the premium version. The packaging alone looked expensive.The moment the trade was complete, Weasel disappeared without wasting another second.To make it easier for Nicole to store everything away, Zeph stayed out of the transaction entirely and waited outside with Poppy.Once Nicole confirmed nobody was nearby, she quickly stored everything in her storage space.Just as she reached the doorway afterward, she spotted Zeph spe

Nicole, who had poured her whole heart into that meal, only to suffer critical emotional damage in return, fell silent.Poppy looked panicked. "Nicole, m-my stomach hurts. I-I can't eat anymore!"Even the normally composed Zeph failed to keep a straight face. "I'll go find Poppy some medicine."Just like that, the siblings escaped.Nicole could tolerate outsiders rejecting her food, but when her gaze slowly landed on Cola, and the dog immediately started backing away while shaking his head furiously, Nicole got offended."You're eating it whether you want to or not. Since when did you start thinking you're human?"People always said dogs would eat anything, yet look at that expression on his face. Not only did he have to eat his portion, but he was also finishing Zeph and Poppy's bowls, too.Since that bottomless pit was always dragging the washbasin around anyway, he could have the whole pot. "Eat. Don't waste food."Fortunately, only Nicole's bowl had the pickled herring mi

Nicole had already suspected something like this, but she still chose to play dumb, widening her eyes in surprise."What are you talking about?""I already died once," Zeph said quietly. "I just didn't expect to wake up alive again."No. Nope. This was absolutely not information she was supposed to hear. Alarm bells started going off in her head."This apartment belonged to my grandmother. She passed away a few years ago, and my mom inherited it. But then my parents died in a car accident and left Poppy behind while she was still little..."Because of the nature of his job, Zeph rarely had the freedom to return home, so he had no choice but to leave Poppy with his uncle's family.When he finally got approved for leave, he bought a train ticket home to see her.Then the super typhoon hit, and the high-speed rail got stranded in Westbridge during the emergency shutdown.Nobody could've imagined that storm would become the opening act for the apocalypse.Once it became clear he

Gabrielle was the careful, long-term planning type.Every so often, she would ask how the potatoes on the 18th floor were growing, then quietly remind Derek and Victor to start gathering antifreeze ahead of time.Little by little, the family managed to accumulate an entire barrel over the course of three months.The moment Nicole asked for some, Gabrielle agreed immediately and scooped out five pounds of antifreeze solution without hesitation, refusing to accept potatoes in return no matter what.The potatoes were meant as repayment for the seed potatoes they had originally received. Nicole hated owing favors, so while the Goodmans weren't paying attention, she secretly stuffed a slab of frozen pork belly into the bag.It wasn't much, maybe around a pound. But meat was a luxury item now, more than enough to cover the value of the antifreeze.The two sides kept trying to push things back onto each other so stubbornly that they nearly argued themselves into enemies. Nicole, who had