[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un":3,"chapter-after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-115":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","After I Fully Prepared for the Apocalypse, the Ungrateful Cried with Regret",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},146479,236,"Chapter 115: Little Zombie Rat","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-115",115,"\u003Cp>Tyson Hughes noticed the woman had already spotted them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want to stop and delay their journey, but he still told the driver to head over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs had, in fact, already noticed the heavy armored vehicles in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, she thought they were rescue team vehicles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she quickly realized they weren’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were six vehicles in total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’We need to get out of here.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Nina Jacobs saw the vehicles heading their way, she immediately became vigilant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two of the vehicles pulled up and blocked Nina Jacobs’s car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dylan Quinn stepped out of his vehicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only two people in the other car, so he only had a few of his own men get out and follow him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you know about what happened at Quinn Manor?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dylan Quinn said as he approached, looking at the two people inside the car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Someone from Quinn Manor?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs quickly understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This man must have seen Wayne Warner before.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I just don’t know what his connection to Quinn Manor is.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Could there have been survivors among those I killed?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Quinn Manor? What’s that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’ve got the wrong people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs said, her expression unchanging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You don’t know?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then what about him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dylan Quinn noticed that Wayne Warner, inside the car, wouldn’t even spare him a glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I just picked him up off the road.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There wasn’t the slightest hint of guilt on Nina Jacobs’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Dylan Quinn just laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine. You want to make up stories?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sharp spike appeared in Dylan Quinn’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a Stone Spike; he was an Earth Element Superpower User.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most current Earth Element Superpower Users could only form Earth Spikes, but this man before her could already create Stone Spikes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His strength was not to be underestimated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the six Superpower Users behind him also revealed their Superpowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get out of the car.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the man said in a commanding tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, that’s a little rude, isn’t it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs said with a frown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’We’d have to be idiots to get out of the car now, right?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Trying to leave? Let’s see how far you get!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Dylan Quinn made a move, a wall of fire taller than a person suddenly erupted in front of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The curtain of fire directly blocked their path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Nina Jacobs had already thrown the car into reverse, cranking the steering wheel and speeding off down another road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looks like he’s met his match.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tyson Hughes watched in amusement as the car sped away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That woman sure reacts fast.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’And her Superpower is truly impressive.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You couldn’t even catch them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You don’t think those two are actually the ones who killed Seth Quinn, do you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman hadn’t paid the man and woman any mind at first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she never expected them to escape from right under Dylan Quinn’s nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Probably not. There are only two of them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tyson Hughes said, watching the furious-looking Dylan Quinn walk over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seth Quinn is dead, Faye Quinn is gravely ill...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...no wonder Dylan Quinn is so upset. Tsk tsk, it’s just heartbreaking.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Dylan Quinn got in the car, the woman immediately clung to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. Hughes, I...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know what you want to do,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and you can do it anytime, but not today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tyson Hughes’s reply silenced Dylan Quinn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stick to the original plan. Let’s move out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tyson Hughes said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs kept checking behind them for pursuers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it seemed the man wasn’t giving chase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She found this a bit surprising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man’s eyes had been clearly filled with anger and resentment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recalling Seth Quinn’s almost-perverted personality, Nina Jacobs figured this new guy must be just as difficult to deal with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I managed to shake them this time. I hope I don’t run into them again.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you recognize him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs asked Wayne Warner, who was in the back of the car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wayne Warner shook his head but didn’t say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So he wasn’t someone from the manor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems he only recognized you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’As long as I don’t admit it, no one will know I was the one who burned down Quinn Manor.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling relieved, Nina Jacobs continued driving forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Liam Grant and the others should have cleared out the first supply point by now.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Based on the pinhole locations on the map fragment, they should have three more places where supplies are stored.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’As for the garage, they probably still don’t know that I’ve already cleaned it out completely.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her first destination for the day was an abandoned factory marked on the map fragment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whoa, that’s a lot of zombies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs noticed that a long stretch leading to the destination on her map was colored red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, she thought it indicated a blockage from obstacles on the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when she stood on the roof of her car and looked through her binoculars, she realized it was an entire zombie congregation?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Someone must have lured those zombies there.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I guess I’ll have to try luring them away first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs took a drone from her storage compartment and attached a small, music-playing speaker to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「More than half an hour later.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The road ahead finally began to clear up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Nina Jacobs sacrificed six or seven drones one after another, the stretch of road was finally cleared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a waste.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She regretted not having stockpiled more drones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were always mutated zombies that would find a way to attack the drones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn’t over yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The abandoned factory was also swarming with zombies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The factory had three floors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a distance, she could see many zombies standing on the walkways of the second and third floors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs parked the car near the factory, then pulled Wayne Warner into a dilapidated house just outside the factory’s courtyard wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re safe for now, at least.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was her safe house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the rust-stained, mottled glass window, the zombies that had followed them were still milling about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having lost their target, the zombies slowly began to shuffle toward the sound of music in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason she hadn’t entered the abandoned factory yet was because Nina Jacobs wasn’t sure if there were actually any supplies inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had just taken the Little Zombie Rat out of her storage compartment...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...when Wayne Warner raised his fist to smash it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t smash it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs yelped, startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Wayne Warner listened and spared the Little Zombie Rat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This isn’t a normal Zombie Rat. It’s already dead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs held it up by its bark-textured tail for Wayne Warner to see clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Little Zombie Rat’s entire body was now covered in a thin layer of bark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked more like a common brown rat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except its eyes were hollow black voids, and two tender green leaves were sprouting from the wound on its back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wayne Warner stared at the motionless Little Zombie Rat in Nina Jacobs’s hand, and the wariness in his eyes slowly faded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After placing the Little Zombie Rat on the ground and attaching a miniature video recorder to it,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs began to channel her Wood Element Superpower to Control it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After several days of practice with her Control,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Little Zombie Rat had become quite agile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could even crawl along walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs opened a crack in the door. The Little Zombie Rat cautiously poked its head out, slipped through the gap, and crawled along the courtyard wall and into the factory grounds...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I just don’t know how far it can go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs could still sense the Little Zombie Rat’s position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with no signal, she would have to wait for the Little Zombie Rat to return before she could view what it had recorded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the Little Zombie Rat was itself a type of zombie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it passed right by a zombie’s feet, it wouldn’t attract any attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To conserve her own strength, Nina Jacobs used a \"Superpower Energy Stone\" while controlling the Little Zombie Rat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than half an hour later, the Superpower Energy in one of the Source Stones was almost completely depleted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And up on the wall outside the window, the Little Zombie Rat finally poked its head out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs opened the door to let it in and removed the miniature video recorder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Freed from her Control, the Little Zombie Rat fell still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come on back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs said with satisfaction as she returned it to her storage compartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It seems this Wood Element Superpower really does have powerful control abilities.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’With this Little Zombie Rat, I won’t have to worry about running out of drones anymore.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I’ll just have to grab a few more Zombie Rats when I get the chance...’\u003C\u002Fp>",1462,"2026-05-29T03:44:18.636Z","2026-06-01T04:29:06.436Z",1,"novelbin.me","52e52015304e0874b6a05bafe784ad5f076794697588a9a2258f61efa696afe6","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-116","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-114",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-cover.jpg"]