[{"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-145":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},146509,236,"Chapter 145: Singing One’s Own Praises","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-145",145,"\u003Cp>\"Was it a zombie?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs didn’t know what had attacked her Little Zombie Rat either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearby, an entire crate of Crystal Cores had been almost completely drained by the three \"Superpower Energy Stones.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Source Stones had all recovered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing only a few scattered zombies left below, Nina Jacobs decided the time was right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t try to be a hero in a bit,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No matter what happens, protect yourself. Got it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs warned Wayne Warner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were definitely still dangers inside Aerodyne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that proved to be true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About twenty minutes later, after killing the last of the zombies and storming into the company’s lobby, they found themselves surrounded by hundreds of Zombie Rats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So it was Zombie Rats.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder there were so many new zombies outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her missing Little Zombie Rats had probably been destroyed by them, too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs’s internal alarms were blaring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single bite from a Zombie Rat, and you’d be meeting your maker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most effective Superpower against Zombie Rats was the Fire Element Superpower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Zombie Rats lunged at them, Nina Jacobs waved her hand, conjuring a wall of fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center of the lobby, the ceramic floor tiles trembled slightly before pulling away from the ground and merging into the fire wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her Fire Element Superpower enveloped her Earth Element Superpower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the most forceful Zombie Rats that tried to charge through were immediately thrown back to the ground and set ablaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Empowered by the \"Heart of Strange Fire,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Fire Element Superpower around Nina Jacobs surged like a rolling wave of fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The waves of fire billowed outward, filling the air with the putrid stench of scorching fur.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In another room, a swarm of rats gushed out from a drainpipe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The larger Zombie Rats were the size of house cats, their rotten, grayish-white eyes glowing with ferocity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the moment they neared the scorching heat source, they burst into flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs hadn’t expected there to be so many Zombie Rats here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, she looked up and saw that some had already crawled onto the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>HISS!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She focused her Superpower’s fire into her fingertips, and several Zombie Rats instantly dropped from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The roaring flames burned relentlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of CRACKLING filled the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After holding on like this for half an hour, Nina Jacobs, standing within the wall of fire, was drenched in sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren’t for the \"Superpower Energy Stones\" replenishing her Superpower, she probably wouldn’t have lasted this long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s fine,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There should be almost none left.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs said, sensing that Wayne Warner behind her was eager to help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gradually, fewer and fewer Zombie Rats emerged from the surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs brought down the wall of fire, concentrating the flames on the ground and directing them toward a single point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So this is where they were coming from.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After incinerating another hundred Zombie Rats, Nina Jacobs finally found their source.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a drain in one of the restrooms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No more Zombie Rats were crawling out of it now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, she used her Earth Element Superpower to seal the drain shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the floor littered with Zombie Rat corpses,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs collected the usable ones into her storage slots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She planned to turn them into Little Zombie Rats when she had time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s go. Stick with me and keep watch.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wayne Warner enveloped himself in his Strength Element Superpower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs quickly found the company’s warehouses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turned out Aerodyne was a live-streaming e-commerce company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They advertised shipping directly from source factories, so many factories had moved their warehouses here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made it convenient to ship products while live-streaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, besides the live-streaming studios, the entire building was essentially a collection of shipping warehouses for various products.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs only realized this as she was collecting supplies and reading the company profile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Wayne Warner behind her, she didn’t have to worry too much about any remaining Zombie Rats attacking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the thought of the zombies she had temporarily lured away...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She quickened her pace of collection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a waste of all this rice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a rice and flour warehouse, Nina Jacobs found many bags of rice that had been chewed through by rats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place must have had a rat problem even before the apocalypse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs abandoned the grain ruined by the rats, collecting only the undamaged bags.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for warehouses with decorations or other useless supplies, she skipped them entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, her system’s storage slots were limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The supplies she collected today had already filled up the few storage slots she had just painstakingly cleared out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Looks like I need to find more Gold,’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs thought to herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finally collecting all the useful supplies in the building, Nina Jacobs left the scene with Wayne Warner...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「As dusk approached.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By a Lakeview Pavilion on the outskirts of City J,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xavier Coleman had been waiting in a sealed car for nearly the entire day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was thinking the friend Nina Jacobs had mentioned wasn’t going to show up, he saw a minivan heading in his direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw an unfamiliar woman get out of the vehicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xavier Coleman excitedly opened his car door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Claire Warner gestured to Xavier Coleman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The minivan was spacious enough. She had already folded down the rear seats to make room for their trade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My name is Claire Warner,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nina Jacobs sent me. You must be Xavier Coleman?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Claire Warner asked, feigning ignorance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xavier Coleman nodded quickly. \"Hello, hello, yes, I’m Xavier Coleman. Can you really trade supplies with me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You don’t trust Nina Jacobs’s judgment?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anyway, anyone she recommends is always reliable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs thought that singing her own praises felt pretty good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, she waved her hand and produced more than ten sacks of flour and rice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to be outdone, Xavier Coleman immediately produced more than ten gleaming Gold Bars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I trust Nina Jacobs, too,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She seems like a good person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, no, she’s definitely a good person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xavier Coleman said as he took the supplies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, give me a price first. I hear you also have a lot of Crystal Cores?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I do, right here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xavier Coleman took out all his Crystal Cores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs was truly surprised he had so many.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several bulging burlap sacks were filled entirely with Crystal Cores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I haven’t counted them. You can just estimate their value in food,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As long as it’s edible, I’ll take it all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xavier Coleman looked at Claire Warner nervously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he soon discovered that the friend Nina Jacobs had recommended was truly reliable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Claire Warner began pulling out supplies from her space nonstop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each time the minivan’s interior was filled, he would hurry to collect everything into his own space one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he produced a few more cases of Gold Bars, Claire Warner started bringing out supplies even faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a Space Superpower User, he was already drenched in sweat from the strain of using his Superpower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Claire Warner seemed completely unaffected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was even keeping a running count out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xavier Coleman lost track of how many van-loads of supplies he had stored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was thinking he might not be able to finish all this food in his lifetime, Claire Warner finally stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What else do you have?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although each Gold Bar Xavier Coleman had produced came in a sizable box,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it shouldn’t have been enough to fill up his entire space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Weapons. They’re really useless to me,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Miss Warner, do you want them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xavier Coleman asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His space even contained several artillery mounts and cannons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes. This is good stuff, you don’t want it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The batch of weapons and supplies that City A had given to Dylan Quinn before consisted mostly of consumables like huge shells and bullets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since she didn’t have the weapons to use them, they were useless to her, so she had just given them all to the shelter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what Xavier Coleman had were actual, ready-to-use weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be a waste not to take them.\u003C\u002Fp>",1356,"2026-05-29T03:44:18.636Z","2026-06-01T04:29:06.436Z",1,"novelbin.me","2d2a781cd6c9971dba9899abb200dcbd4d4e3b4b478a737006718961a62610a8","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-146","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-144",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-cover.jpg"]