All Chapters of The Apocalypse Survival Manual: Chapter 801 - Chapter 810

Outside the window, countless creatures burst from the sea and hurled themselves at the yacht.Another slammed into the glass. Its slender body and broad, papery fins stayed pressed against the window for several seconds before it dropped away.Nicole finally got a good look at it. Flying fish!They filled the ocean as far as she could see, leaping into the faint dawn light and spreading their winglike fins to glide through the air.Nicole saw footage of this on TV before. It was spectacular, the sort of sight that made people marvel at the wonders of the ocean.In person, it made her skin crawl.She and Zeph scrambled out of bed and rushed toward the deck.The door was still closed, and Cola clawed frantically at it.Poppy beat them there. She stood with a gun in her hands, tense and alert, unsure what was happening."They're flying fish," Zeph told her.Poppy never saw anything like this before. Her face lit up at the thought of fish that could fly.Cola wrestled the door

As the wind picked up, Poppy and Cola stretched and exercised on deck. Neither forgot how cramped the escape pod felt, and they made the most of the chance to move around."A bat!" Poppy cried as an enormous creature burst out of the water.Zeph looked over. A sea creature with a white belly and black back glided just above the distant waves. "That's a manta ray," he told her. "The big ones can weigh several thousand pounds. Their ancestors go back millions of years..."Poppy quickly pulled out her phone to take pictures.Nicole scanned the ocean through her binoculars and spotted a fleet of sailboats about three nautical miles away.Sailboat was a generous description. Each was a raft made from a dozen or so huge logs lashed together, with a wooden mast and a cloth sail. Makeshift shelters stood among piles of supplies.The men aboard had very dark skin, but they were too far away for Nicole to make out much else or guess where they came from.There were several dozen of them

Each of the five military bases had its own mission. The southern base was tasked with preserving the seeds of civilization, while the eastern base was responsible for building a new home.They spent years developing materials and equipment tough enough for offshore construction and assembling a vast naval fleet. When the tectonic plates collided, that fleet fought to stay afloat through the resulting tsunamis.Many of their best people died, but the core construction team survived.They crossed the vast ocean, working day and night through wind and waves to survey potential sites and run tests. At last, they found a stretch of solid bedrock suitable for building a settlement at sea.Once completed, the offshore base would house roughly 100 thousand people. Construction was already underway.The pilot's mission was to find their fellow citizens. Military personnel, government officials, ordinary survivors, anyone who shared their heritage was welcome to help build their new home.

More screams rang out. Someone lost an arm to a single bite, then vanished beneath the surface.The moon cast a faint light over the water. Screams pierced the darkness as creatures darted beneath the waves, tearing into flesh.Blood spread through the sea. One person suffered a bite to the hand, another had a leg torn apart, and others went under and never resurfaced.As one man thrashed for his life, his hand struck something solid. He ran his hand along the curved surface, and a passing flashlight beam revealed a large sphere.It was an escape capsule. Hope surged through him, and he pounded on the shell. "Help! Help!"Nicole felt the blows, but they barely rocked the capsule. The curtains covered the windows, blocking the view in both directions.The escape capsule was a considerable step down from the cruise ship. Still, the four of them were used to moving between vessels by now. While the people outside fought for their lives in the ocean, they enjoyed hot meals and sh

Luckily, Zeph hadn't taught Poppy much about natural disasters. Still, he cringed at his own explanation. "The currents around here are complicated. Another one probably pushed the storm away. We still need to be careful, though. It could come back, so we're staying in the escape capsule today."Nicole pulled some boxed meals from her bag. "Let's eat first. We need to keep our strength up."Poppy was smart, but she had led a sheltered life. Watching so many people go down with their ship, helpless against the storm, shook her so badly that she could barely eat.Natural disasters were merciless, and she had to learn to live with them.Zeph handed Poppy a cup of warm chamomile tea. "Try to get some rest."She drank it and closed her eyes, still holding tight to Zeph's hand.Late that night, she seemed to have a nightmare. She mumbled in her sleep, her body twitching as sweat beaded on her forehead.Nicole put the escape capsule away and moved everyone, including Poppy and Cola,