All Chapters of The Apocalypse Survival Manual: Chapter 261 - Chapter 270

The supervisors kept persuading Hughie's group to stay another two days.After everything they had already survived, two extra days didn't seem like a big deal. Then the extreme heat hit out of nowhere.The weather was brutally hot. Just climbing the stairs left them drenched in sweat.When they reached the 17th floor, Nicole and the rest happened to run into Lydia stepping out of her apartment and learned she had quit, too.The corpse disposal teams didn't just collect bodies. They handled daily garbage cleanup as well. Now that the floodwaters had returned, everything had shut down again.Everyone suddenly realized they would be living alongside rotting trash and foul smells from now on.Hearing the commotion, Cola wagged his tail and hurried downstairs to greet his humans, whining the whole way excitedly.After getting home, Nicole tossed the motorboat into the storage space, rinsed it thoroughly with clean water, and left it to dry before washing herself from head to toe.

One side refused to admit anything. The other refused to let it go.Tempers exploded, and kitchen knives started swinging wildly.The residents on the lower floors completely snapped. One man stormed upstairs, kicking doors and screaming, "Anybody dumps sewage downstairs again, I'll chop you up myself!"He charged all the way to the 16th floor before finally noticing the fortress-like doors leading up to the 17th. Only then did the rage drain out of him.The man collapsed onto the stairs and broke down crying like a helpless child.Nobody paid him any attention.The heat rose too quickly. Before noon even arrived, the temperature had already reached 109 degrees, while the indoor temperature on the top floor climbed to 102. Even the fans only blew hot air.Cola completely gave up and sprawled on the floor with his tongue hanging out.To survive the deep freeze, he had grown an extremely thick coat of fur.Now, the world had switched straight into extreme heat without warning.

Nicole finally understood. It wasn't that the authorities refused to act. The disasters were simply impossible to predict.Every department scrambled around like headless chickens, exhausting themselves just trying to keep up while constantly chasing one catastrophe after another.Still, the measures they were taking now would save countless lives.That evening, Lydia came up to the rooftop to collect water and handed Nicole half a bundle of wilted, yellowing sweet potato vines."These are heat-resistant sweet potatoes developed by the Grayport Agricultural Research Institute. There aren't enough actual sweet potatoes to distribute yet, so they're using seedlings for propagation first."A lot of cities are waiting for supplies. Westbridge only received a small batch, and most of it went to government-affiliated organizations for trial planting. It'll probably be a while before regular people can get them."Since Lydia had already quit her job, she no longer received benefits. The

When it came to love, Hughie considered himself an expert."Babe, I was hooked the second I saw you."Beatrice rolled her eyes. "Oh, please. Hooked? You were obviously just..."She wasn't stupid. Hughie hadn't fallen in love at first sight. He had simply been stunned by how fierce she was.And as for why she had ended up liking Hughie...Beatrice paused for a moment, finally understanding what Hughie meant earlier.What Nicole felt for Edward wasn't really love. He had something she lacked, something she had desperately wanted for a very long time.The more someone lacked something, the more desperately they clung to it, sometimes to the point of losing themselves completely.Beatrice sighed softly. "Zeph's a good guy. I just hope he treats Nicole right."That night during dinner, Poppy kept scratching her arm nonstop.Nicole looked over. "What's wrong?""It itches."Nicole rolled up her sleeve. A huge, swollen bite covered Poppy's arm, red and irritated from scratching.

Nicole forgot to close the door behind her on the way out, and the rabbits barreled straight into Zeph's apartment. They piled over one another in pursuit of the cockroaches, filling the place with loud crunching sounds as they tore into them.Even Zeph was stunned.After clearing out the apartment, the rabbits still had energy to spare. They bounced into the hallway and down the stairs, continuing their hunt for any cockroach they could find.Nicole didn't even try to stop them anymore.They had already spread cockroach poison across both floors, but it clearly had no effect.Then again, ordinary poison probably meant nothing to these mutated giant roaches."Ugh, that smells awful."Poppy held up a plate she had washed the night before. A single cockroach dropping sat in the middle of it.The second she leaned closer for a sniff, she nearly threw up.Cockroaches loved dark, hidden spaces, and they became even more active at night. They were unbelievably destructive.They che