[{"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-290":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},146454,236,"Chapter 290: Delivering a Message","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-290",290,"\u003Cp>Adrian Shaw glanced at the group and said, \"Don’t even think about it. No alcohol during the mission.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beaumont Wallace and the others immediately stood up straight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once we get to the tribe, we have some aged pear blossom wine waiting. We’ll make sure you warriors get to drink your fill,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trevor said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As night fell, several figures slipped away, hugging the wall behind the bungalows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I don’t know if this risk is worth it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected, neither of them listens to a word of advice.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adrian Shaw shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To him, scouting Aethelgard at night was a complete shot in the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nina Jacobs doesn’t do things she isn’t sure of, but man, I wish I could’ve gone too...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leo Hale looked out the window with envy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shirley Lucas, Wayne Warner, and Joanne Page all got to go, but Nina specifically told him he couldn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tell me about it...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adrian Shaw really wanted to say he wished he could go too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he was also worried that Conrad Hawthorne and his people might show up unexpectedly with no one here to handle them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Nina Jacobs and the others, riding a small electric scooter that Shirley Lucas had pulled from his spatial storage, reached the fork in the road Holden Shaw had described.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If we go any further that way, we’ll be at the gates of Aethelgard,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but they’ve really sealed this place up tight,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shirley Lucas said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fork was completely blocked by an earthen wall and a wall of Gold Spikes. An ordinary person would never be able to get over it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If only we could contact the people inside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Nina Jacobs remain silent for so long, Joanne Page felt she had been far too naive before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They probably couldn’t even get through the main gate of Aethelgard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should we just go back?\" Shirley Lucas asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although there were no zombies on this road, it was his first time out at night. The absolute silence all around gave him the creeps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get out your drone,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs said suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A drone? If we fly it in now, won’t it attract zombies?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shirley Lucas knew Nina Jacobs wanted to send a message to the people inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they weren’t even sure if there were any survivors left inside. What if it stirred up the zombies and they broke through the gate?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s try. What if it works?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Nina Jacobs wasn’t just betting on a one-in-a-million shot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason she had been silent was that she had been sensing through her Little Zombie Rats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After they reached the fork, she had taken the opportunity to release seven or eight Little Zombie Rats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, the Little Zombie Rats had already sent back key information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were, indeed, living people inside Aethelgard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she used the drone in coordination with the positional data from the rats, she might be able to get the attention of the people inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shirley Lucas nervously took out the drone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs had Joanne Page write a short note, then placed the paper inside the drone. She then began to pilot it toward the Aethelgard city gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour passed. Just as they were all starting to lose hope, Nina Jacobs suddenly stopped piloting the drone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did we lose the signal?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shirley Lucas asked nervously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the drone lost its connection, it was very likely destroyed by zombies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs shook her head. \"Not sure. The signal’s still there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the darkness, a faint smile touched her lips. She knew. The people inside had found the drone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Inside Aethelgard.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a dim room on the third basement level, a group of people held their breath, their eyes glinting with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s Joanne! Joanne came looking for me!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distress message we managed to get out worked!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a woman with a grime-streaked face said in a hushed voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her hand was the very note written by Joanne Page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only two sentences, but she knew: someone outside was trying to save them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aiden, if that’s the case, you all need to find a way out. You have to escape this place,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>said a woman in her fifties who was standing nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There must be people waiting outside. We have to get a message back to them as soon as possible,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a tall man reminded them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aidan Keaton nodded. A moment later, she stuffed the message she had written into the drone. Accompanied by her companions, she carefully approached the basement entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It sounds like... there are no zombies outside?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their long time spent in the Zombie City had honed the survivors’ hearing to an incredible degree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On previous nights, they could always hear the sound of zombies dragging their feet across the floor above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, it was completely silent outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There really aren’t any zombies. Don’t you think it could be a trap set by a Sentient Zombie?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a woman’s voice warned in a whisper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t care. This is our only chance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The exit to the surface was sealed shut by a combination of three different Superpowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aidan Keaton and the others each used their different Superpowers to carefully open the exit just enough to release the drone through the gap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A foul stench wafted down from the manhole cover above. After sealing it again, the group decided to wait there in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had already briefly explained their current situation to Joanne Page in the note.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Getting into Aethelgard was nearly impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was, in fact, one opening—a breach they had created at the cost of many of their companions’ lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aidan Keaton guessed that the reason Joanne Page had brought people here in the middle of the night was also to avoid the guards stationed outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed she had already noticed that something was wrong with those people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was the most dangerous time—the dead of night. Aidan was worried for Joanne Page, but also overjoyed that she was still alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’d had a dream before that her good friend Joanne Page had died. It seemed dreams really were the opposite of reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s too dangerous in here. We should find a way to make them go back. We can’t drag anyone else into this,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frederick Langdon, who was beside Aidan Keaton, said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mhm, I already said that in the note.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Aidan Keaton spoke, they all fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some time had passed, the woman with the buzz cut who had been squatting by the wall stood up and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s go. We should head back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed the drone wasn’t coming back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You guys go back first. I want to wait a little longer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aidan Keaton gave a bitter smile, then her expression turned resentful as she said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if we can’t get out, we have to tell people about that bastard’s crimes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And what good would that do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the apocalypse, everyone only looks out for themselves.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the woman with the buzz cut said coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My friend isn’t like that,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aidan Keaton said insistently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Vivian Sloan was about to argue again, Frederick Langdon gestured for her to quiet down. \"That’s enough, Vivian. Be careful you don’t attract zombies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew that no one here was the type of person who would only look out for themselves and disregard the lives of others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that this endless underground life made people desperate and irritable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivian Sloan didn’t argue back. But just as she was about to turn and leave, Lena Driscoll, who had been silent the whole time, shot to her feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her expression was one of utter shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s wrong, Lena?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frederick Langdon asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lena Driscoll was a Spiritual Element Superpower User. Seeing her expression, could it be another zombie riot?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Someone... someone’s coming!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lena Driscoll grabbed Aidan Keaton’s arm, her voice filled with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What did you say?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aidan Keaton thought she must have misheard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could anyone be coming at a time like this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could it be Joanne? How many of them are there?\" Aidan Keaton asked immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"F-Four... four people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lena Driscoll held up four trembling fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There might be more people behind them,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frederick Langdon said after a moment of thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The range of Lena Driscoll’s Spiritual Element Superpower only covered the area immediately around their basement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four people infiltrating Aethelgard at night... how was that possible?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aidan Keaton, what are you doing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivian Sloan asked hurriedly when she saw Aidan Keaton moving to open the exit.\u003C\u002Fp>",1416,"2026-05-29T03:44:18.637Z","2026-06-01T04:29:06.436Z",1,"novelbin.me","5996c973890cc52bba6f0cea2bd384feaa693abf2e3fed9e3f073a6c655dfae0","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-291","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-289",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-cover.jpg"]