[{"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-93":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},146307,236,"Chapter 93: An Increasingly Difficult Path","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-93",93,"\u003Cp>First the roots, then the stem, and finally two tender leaves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she continued to channel her Superpower into the seedling in her hand, it began to slowly grow and stretch...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is pretty interesting, but I don’t know how to make it work like in the books.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs muttered to herself as she continued her research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Counting from the day they left the shelter,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs and Wayne Warner had been living in the old house for nearly twelve days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had burned almost all the zombies on the nearby main roads to a crisp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her Fire Element Superpower and Earth Element Superpower had both improved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wayne Warner’s close combat skills and Strength Element Superpower had also become much stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Nina Jacobs decided it was time to head back to the shelter and check on things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she remembered correctly, the shelter should have received orders from their superiors and started discussing the construction of a base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know you like it here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’ll have other chances to come back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Nina Jacobs was leaving, Wayne Warner kept staring at the old house’s front door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked incredibly reluctant to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs knew Wayne Warner must have eaten his fill during their time in the old house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one would dislike a place with all sorts of delicious food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after they got in the car, Wayne Warner kept his head turned, looking back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Nina Jacobs not know whether to laugh or cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll take you somewhere else. There should be plenty of food there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs’s words finally got a reaction out of Wayne Warner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, she had to complete [Free Shopping Spree Mission 14].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs had discovered that the supply locations designated by the Free Shopping Spree missions were always in hard-to-find places.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shelter also sent teams to different supply points every day to collect resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they had never overlapped with her mission locations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Nina Jacobs concluded that the supply points designated by the Free Shopping Spree were all resources that would eventually be destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mission 14 was in an office building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The building was the headquarters of a famous snack food chain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because everything from development to product selection was done at the headquarters, few outsiders knew there was a large warehouse inside this office building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs only realized this after she arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The office building’s main entrance was shut tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were almost no zombies inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, there were plenty outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including a fair number of \"tails\" following their car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs didn’t get out of the car immediately. Instead, she slammed on the gas and started doing laps around the office building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With each lap, she mowed down dozens of zombies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few laps, many of the zombies were dead or injured. Many of those she had run over weren’t dead, but they could no longer get back up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only two mutated zombies remained completely unscathed, and were even looking for a chance to attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Nina Jacobs get out of the car with Wayne Warner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A long, burning whip appeared in Nina Jacobs’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every crack of the whip took off a zombie’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This immense Attack Power made the two mutated zombies hesitate to advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs seized the opportunity, conjuring several Fireballs and smashing them into the two mutated zombies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fireballs didn’t look very big, but the moment they touched the zombies’ bodies, they burst into a frenzy of flames as if doused in gasoline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two mutated zombies struggled to retreat, but Nina Jacobs teleported behind them and bound them together with her Fire Whip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ROAR!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flames on the Fire Whip instantly engulfed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This whip is really easy to use.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs retracted her Fire Whip. The two mutated zombies, long since dead, had been reduced to human-shaped charcoal and collapsed to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Wayne Warner finished off the remaining regular zombies, kicking their heads in one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good work. Wait for me here for a bit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs closed the office building’s main doors, then found a clean spot on the first floor for Wayne Warner to sit and wait for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, she didn’t forget to leave him some food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She quickly found the supply storage area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost the entire third floor was a warehouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s so much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Nina Jacobs collected the supplies, she grew a little curious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were no zombies in this office building, and the water and power were out, so why would all these supplies be destroyed within a month?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Is it because of a firefight between people?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs didn’t dwell on it, instead quickly collecting box after box of supplies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The supplies were mostly snacks and instant meals, with a good amount of dairy products and drinks as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were also canned ham, nuts, and dried fruit, among other things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many were things Nina Jacobs had eaten before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the large warehouse area, the section near the stairs was lined with rows of shelves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was probably a place for employees to conveniently select products for reviews and live streams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs left nothing behind, collecting everything, including some toys, into her storage space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mission \"Free Shopping Spree Mission 14\" complete. Rewards have been distributed to the host.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing the mission completion notice, Nina Jacobs went back downstairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you doing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Nina Jacobs got downstairs, she found Wayne Warner washing his hands with the two bottles of drinking water she had left for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wayne Warner didn’t answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just washed his hands clean and walked back to where he was sitting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she saw the foul-smelling mush hammered into a pulp on the table, Nina Jacobs’s breath caught in her throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the corpse of a Zombie Rat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More shocking than the fact that Wayne Warner had just smashed a Zombie Rat to death with his bare fists was the fact that a Zombie Rat had appeared here at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She instantly understood why the supplies here would be destroyed soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was most likely related to the Zombie Rats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there was one Zombie Rat, there were probably more nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Humans had been contaminated by the zombie virus, and the animal kingdom was no different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, the contamination in the animal kingdom was even more severe, with most species having gone extinct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After zombies came zombie animals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zombie animals also attacked humans, preying on them for food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It didn’t bite you, did it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs inspected Wayne Warner’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wayne Warner must have used Strength Enhancement; there were no wounds on his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"None of this food is edible anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s get out of here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nina Jacobs had no desire to encounter something as troublesome as a Zombie Rat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wayne Warner glanced at the remaining food that had been spattered with filth, but ultimately followed her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After they had driven for some distance, Nina Jacobs suddenly noticed a raging fire on the road ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"clear\" indicator on the system map was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the map had already plotted another route, it required a detour of more than twenty kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No choice. Looks like we have to take the detour.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The roads in the apocalypse would only get harder to travel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Nina Jacobs was about to turn the car around, she saw several people running out of the flames ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were waving their arms frantically at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought they were looking for help, but because she had been keeping her \"Five Senses Enhancement\" active out of fear of Zombie Rats, Nina Jacobs heard their shouts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Run! Don’t look back, there’s a monster!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"AHHH!! There’s another one up ahead, looking to get killed! Don’t come this way, AHHH!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey! You up ahead! The road is destroyed, you can’t get through here!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s over, it’s all over...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Monster?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing their words, Nina Jacobs decisively turned the car around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know what kind of monster they were talking about, but it definitely wasn’t anything good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system had already determined this road was impassable, so she certainly wasn’t going to charge ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did the person in that car hear us? They’re turning around!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No way. They’re probably just afraid we’ll latch onto them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Waaaah, who cares about them! Why don’t we split up? Maybe one or two of us will survive!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s too late! There’s more than one of those monsters!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The four of them had held no hope of being rescued in the first place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, the car was now reversing back toward them?!\u003C\u002Fp>",1438,"2026-05-29T03:44:18.304Z","2026-06-01T04:29:06.436Z",1,"novelbin.me","3949631294216fa3a759f05412ae46324467fefeec92751e9ebd6e08da54fd5e","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-94","after-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-chapter-92",312,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-i-fully-prepared-for-the-apocalypse-the-un-cover.jpg"]