[{"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-146":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},146510,236,"Chapter 146: Brain Kicked by a Donkey","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-146",146,"\u003Cp>Xavier Coleman hadn’t expected Claire Warner to want these too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this was a good thing for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He traded weapons for a large quantity of drinking water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them traded until evening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m heading out. Good luck.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Claire Warner got out of her car and waved at Xavier Coleman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She meant it sincerely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Xavier Coleman’s supplies had earned her over ten thousand System Experience Points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus more than thirty system storage slots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upgrading to Level 2 storage slots required more gold, so despite having a good number of gold bars, she didn’t get as many new slots as she did for Level 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was already dark by the time Nina Jacobs returned to the abandoned construction site.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wayne Warner was still upstairs, waiting for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nina, we’re planning to travel to City D together. Do you want to come with us?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The female stall owner from before, Eve Lewis, called out to Nina Jacobs, who was about to head upstairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’ve really decided to go?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, us too. We also want to give our son a safer environment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stephen Rhodes and his wife walked over as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had listened to Nina Jacobs’s advice and made their decision after a full day of careful consideration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll be going back to City D, but not right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs thought their decision was a wise one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her past life, City J had no future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eve Lewis was a little surprised. \"I actually thought you were lost.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you stupid? Would someone who’s really lost find their way to us? That story would only fool those big idiots from last night.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Timothy Renner laughed heartily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the mention of the people who had come the previous night, everyone around them couldn’t help but start gossiping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard they’re from City A. The leader’s a clean freak. It’s the apocalypse, what’s he putting on airs for?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, I’ve never seen anyone so pretentious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But all the people he brought with him are Superpower Users. I wonder what they’re doing here in our City J.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard they’re looking for a really powerful team. That team took their supplies...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you mean ’their’ supplies? First come, first served. If they want to blame someone, they should blame that team for being so capable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to their chatter, Nina Jacobs learned that the group was also from City A.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you’re going to City D, I can give you a route,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These people hadn’t helped her in any major way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they were still people of flesh and blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hoped they would make it to the City D shelter safely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s great! We were just about to ask you about that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stephen Rhodes’s wife, Autumn Lewis, replied happily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The route map Nina Jacobs gave them was planned according to the system’s map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, when we get to the shelter, is it better to team up and go out to kill zombies, or to help build the base?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a man asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think it’s better to start by participating in the base construction to save up Points,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She remembered that later on, many of the talented people in the base were promoted from the ranks of those who had helped build it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she didn’t plan on saying this out loud. It was up to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next morning, Nina Jacobs left the abandoned construction site with the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they each headed in different directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard you’re looking for something. Here, take this. I hope it helps.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before she got in her car, Timothy Renner handed Nina Jacobs a book titled \"An Overview of City J\".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It contained all the information about City J’s terrain and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered that the night before, Nina Jacobs had been asking where the highest point in City J was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Host has triggered the \"Heart of Gratitude\" title. Awarding bonus: Space Element Skill Book!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After accepting Timothy Renner’s gift, the system sent a notification.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’A Space Element Skill Book?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs immediately thought of Ian Chandler.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs was in dire need of information about City J.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wonder what that young lady is looking for. With zombies everywhere, how can it be safe!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the SUV drive off in the opposite direction, someone in the car couldn’t help but comment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Some things have nothing to do with us ordinary people. Haven’t you seen how many people have been coming to our City J lately? If you ask me, City J is just a piece of meat on a chopping block right now,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Timothy Renner said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Meat on a chopping block?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ready to be carved up by anyone!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the person in the car agreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nina Jacobs is different from the others,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eve Lewis said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, she’s different,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Timothy Renner smiled as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They all knew that City J was full of unclaimed supplies, available on a first-come, first-served basis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they didn’t have the ability to get them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nor did they want to gamble with their lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone who came here at a time like this was definitely not an ordinary person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But only Nina Jacobs had treated them like normal people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t treat them like ants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nor did she look at them as if they were already dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why when that group came looking for someone last night, they didn’t give up Nina Jacobs’s name...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Detected that Host’s action will save 158 humans in 13 days. Triggering \"Selfless Savior\" title. Reward: 158 bottles of Healing Potion.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs was parked at a gas station on the side of the road, waiting for Wayne Warner to use the restroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She suddenly received this notification from the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Could it be Stephen Rhodes and the others?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It could only be them...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It seems the abandoned construction site will be overrun by zombies in thirteen days.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Even this area isn’t safe anymore.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs got out of the car. On the ground lay the corpses of several zombies that Wayne Warner had taken care of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After digging out their Crystal Cores, she took out a permanent marker and wrote two large words on a nearby sign:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>NO GAS.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Detected that Host’s action will save 34 humans in a few days. Triggering \"Selfless Savior\" title. Reward: 34 bottles of Healing Potion.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs capped the marker with a satisfied smile. This had become a habit of hers on the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since she had made a sign at an intersection once and received several hundred bottles of Healing Potion, she had started making these signs frequently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t matter how many people believed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What mattered was that the system gave rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the next two days,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs completed four 4-star \"zero-dollar purchase\" missions in a row.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this process, she also discovered that some of the surrounding shops and small supermarkets had already been picked clean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The places she went were mostly zombie gathering spots that no one else dared to enter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the buff from her safe house, she felt she could venture even deeper into the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the city was where the most supplies were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Setting her destination toward Rexton Mountain in City J, Nina Jacobs drove for another two blocks before spotting a chain pharmacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looks like our luck is good. They should have your medicine here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs stopped the car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the two medicines Doctor Lynch had previously prescribed for Wayne Warner, one was an imported nutritional supplement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, she had only found one box in her system storage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, Wayne Warner could already run quickly, and his fingernails had grown back halfway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she could find some more, she planned to have Wayne Warner take it for another half a month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just as the two of them got out of the car and cleared out the surrounding zombies, they heard a series of gunshots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bullets struck the ground in front of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs frowned and looked over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Is that them?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The newcomers were the very same group that had shown up at the abandoned construction site two nights ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, you two! We’re claiming this pharmacy, so hand it over nicely.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man leaned out from the roof of a vehicle, his expression cocky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dozen or so vehicles quickly surrounded the pair in front of the pharmacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you get kicked in the head by a mule?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tip of her Fire Roaring Blade cut through the air, pointing forward. Nina Jacobs stood inside the encirclement, embers drifting around her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But her cold eyes looked as if they were coated in a layer of frost.\u003C\u002Fp>",1448,"2026-05-29T03:44:18.636Z","2026-06-01T04:29:06.436Z",1,"novelbin.me","81feb28c361cec9448490a5fd2db8b5069b871cdc5e1e3b981373a2bab89e989","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-147","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-145",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-cover.jpg"]