[{"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-199":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},146363,236,"Chapter 199: Adrian Shaw’s Curiosity","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-199",199,"\u003Cp>\"Well...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll tell you about it later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, Sherry Renner had no idea how to answer Adrian Shaw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had spoken with Adrian Shaw a few times before while helping to find supplies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She clearly remembered him suspecting she was a charlatan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So why is he asking this sort of question today?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Is he possessed or something?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs kept her expression neutral, but Adrian Shaw’s words had forced her to pay attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Foretelling the future?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Could it be that Adrian Shaw also knows about people being reborn?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Two hours later.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, only a few zombies were still trickling in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leo Hale and the others had completely exhausted their Superpowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Adrian Shaw noticed that Nina Jacobs seemed completely unfazed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you doing? That’s our stuff!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yvonne Willow stood in front of them, blocking their way in anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We killed zombies just now, too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The shelter’s rules state that when two groups of Superpower Users kill zombies together,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"the resulting Crystal Cores must be split fifty-fifty.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, the man in the tank top ordered his companions to continue digging out Crystal Cores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t worried in the slightest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rescue team was right there, after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have the nerve to say that? If our people hadn’t arrived in time,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"you would’ve gotten us all killed!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leo Hale couldn’t believe this guy had the gall to say and do such a thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We were just killing zombies from behind. Is that not allowed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the tank-topped man’s female teammates argued as she picked up Crystal Cores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, a Fireball slammed into the ground at their feet with a BANG.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scattering sparks made them all cry out in pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you doing?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman saw that a large hole had been burned through her sneaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Drop the Crystal Cores. Get lost.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs’s expression was grim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’d better take a good look! The rescue team’s officers are here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you try to hoard the Crystal Cores, they’ll arrest you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man in the tank top cursed under his breath, then actually started playing the victim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you don’t want to die, get lost now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that Nina Jacobs cared about a few Crystal Cores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was just furious after hearing what Leo Hale had said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Officer, Officer, you be the judge!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We really were killing zombies just now, and we even lost one of our own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man in the tank top whined as if he had suffered a great injustice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person he was appealing to was Adrian Shaw. Besides him, his other teammates also chimed in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shelter’s rule was ostensibly meant to de-escalate conflict, but it didn’t apply to every situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’These people barely killed any zombies.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Yet they want to take half the Crystal Cores.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She remembered that in her past life, Adrian Shaw was always going on about the base’s regulations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, however, she heard Adrian Shaw say to the group:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These Crystal Cores have nothing to do with you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Besides, if it weren’t for them, would you even be alive right now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man in the tank top and his group were stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Didn’t you hear me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or do I need to repeat myself?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that they didn’t budge, Adrian Shaw’s face darkened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We heard you, we heard you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re leaving right now...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that they couldn’t gain any advantage and were being stared down by so many people, the group scrambled to their feet and fled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s a good thing we didn’t have to beat them up. The nerve of those people, so shameless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leo Hale scoffed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs said, then went with Wayne Warner to dig out the Crystal Cores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn’t expected Adrian Shaw to speak up for them just now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s probably because he wanted to ask Sherry Renner for help with something.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Are you possessed or something? I remember you used to be so serious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sherry Renner had been invited into a vehicle by Adrian Shaw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was also curious about what had happened to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, this business of foretelling the future...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is it considered plausible and credible in your field?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adrian Shaw didn’t look like he was joking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sherry Renner shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even with methods like fate calculation and hexagram divination, you can only deduce the likely good or bad outcomes of a specific event, and even then, there’s a degree of inaccuracy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for what you mentioned—foreseeing everything around you, or even the course of the world—I don’t think that’s very likely.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about precognitive dreams? Do those exist?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aren’t there those ancient methods of dream interpretation...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adrian Shaw asked tentatively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Precognitive dreams?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sherry Renner started to wonder if Adrian Shaw had injured more than just his leg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Did he hit his head, too?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But seeing his earnest curiosity, she answered with a hint of resignation in her voice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First of all, the Duke of Zhou was one of the key authors of the I Ching.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So even with I Ching dream interpretation, it’s not a simple ’dream equals reality’ equation. You can think of the I Ching as a process of translating symbols and deducing meaning from hexagrams.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It converts things from a dream into the basic symbols of the eight trigrams, and then uses the combination of those symbols and their causal relationships to infer good or bad fortune...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sherry Renner’s explanation was well-reasoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After listening, Adrian Shaw nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems I was misled after all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re right. How could something so mystical possibly exist?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As long as you know. Just remember not to be fooled.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m going to go help.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sherry Renner opened the car door and walked toward the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adrian Shaw, meanwhile, looked out the car window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the help of the rescue team, the Crystal Cores had almost all been collected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs was holding a bag of Crystal Cores, having a Water Element Superpower User help her rinse them off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze was very focused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’You can tell she really loves Crystal Cores.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Nina Jacobs was thinking about what might be happening around Adrian Shaw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had overheard their conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If he was talking about \"precognitive dreams\"...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought of Hannah Grant, who had been seen with Adrian Shaw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs felt that it all made sense now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was highly likely that Hannah Grant had told Adrian Shaw about Liam Grant’s precognitive dreams...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That day, after returning to the shelter, Nina Jacobs didn’t go out again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first thing she did upon returning to her room was upgrade her system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[System Experience Points detected at maximum. System successfully upgraded to Level Three. Please check your upgrade package:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fourth Superpower Card x1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third Superpower Card x2\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Superpower Recovery Potion x200\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Healing Potion x100\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Automatic Pick-up Skill.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s finally here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile touched Nina Jacobs’s lips when she saw the newly added skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her past life, not every system upgrade had added a new skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t until the third year of the apocalypse that she had managed to get her system to Level Three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the first time the system had ever gifted her a skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Automatic Pick-up Skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In simple terms, the skill would automatically collect any Crystal Cores she obtained, saving her the trouble of digging them out one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its range was a 100-meter radius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an incredibly convenient skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, she had rarely used it in her past life, as she was always killing zombies alongside Liam Grant and his group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, since she couldn’t explain where the skill came from, they ended up digging out the cores themselves most of the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She only ever used the skill when she was alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the Fourth Superpower Card...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t use it right away, just to be safe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could feel that her Wood Element Superpower was still in the process of fusing with the Xuan Crystal Core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To avoid any interference, she decided to put the Fourth Superpower Card aside for the time being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the system upgrade, the duration of her other skills had also increased by an hour each.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The area of her storage slots doubled once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each slot was now 40 square meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Nina Jacobs was still observing the changes from the system upgrade...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the walkie-talkie on her desk crackled to life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chase Gallagher’s voice came through the device.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs turned off the walkie-talkie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liam Grant and the others were finally back.\u003C\u002Fp>",1422,"2026-05-29T03:44:18.636Z","2026-06-01T04:29:06.436Z",1,"novelbin.me","d1152e2de5df0f168dcb0546d353f4257ba2a9dcc82b7dfb85a8e154820c7ca5","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-200","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-198",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-cover.jpg"]