Chapter 146: Brain Kicked by a Donkey

Xavier Coleman hadn’t expected Claire Warner to want these too.

However, this was a good thing for him.

He traded weapons for a large quantity of drinking water.

The two of them traded until evening.

"I’m heading out. Good luck."

Claire Warner got out of her car and waved at Xavier Coleman.

She meant it sincerely.

After all, Xavier Coleman’s supplies had earned her over ten thousand System Experience Points.

Plus more than thirty system storage slots.

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.

It was already dark by the time Nina Jacobs returned to the abandoned construction site.

Wayne Warner was still upstairs, waiting for her.

"Nina, we’re planning to travel to City D together. Do you want to come with us?"

The female stall owner from before, Eve Lewis, called out to Nina Jacobs, who was about to head upstairs.

"You’ve really decided to go?"

Nina Jacobs asked.

"Yeah, us too. We also want to give our son a safer environment."

Stephen Rhodes and his wife walked over as well.

They had listened to Nina Jacobs’s advice and made their decision after a full day of careful consideration.

"I’ll be going back to City D, but not right now."

Nina Jacobs thought their decision was a wise one.

In her past life, City J had no future.

Eve Lewis was a little surprised. "I actually thought you were lost."

"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."

Timothy Renner laughed heartily.

At the mention of the people who had come the previous night, everyone around them couldn’t help but start gossiping.

"I heard they’re from City A. The leader’s a clean freak. It’s the apocalypse, what’s he putting on airs for?"

"Yeah, I’ve never seen anyone so pretentious."

"But all the people he brought with him are Superpower Users. I wonder what they’re doing here in our City J."

"I heard they’re looking for a really powerful team. That team took their supplies..."

"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."

Listening to their chatter, Nina Jacobs learned that the group was also from City A.

"If you’re going to City D, I can give you a route,"

Nina Jacobs said.

These people hadn’t helped her in any major way.

But they were still people of flesh and blood.

She hoped they would make it to the City D shelter safely.

"That’s great! We were just about to ask you about that."

Stephen Rhodes’s wife, Autumn Lewis, replied happily.

The route map Nina Jacobs gave them was planned according to the system’s map.

"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?"

a man asked.

"I think it’s better to start by participating in the base construction to save up Points,"

Nina Jacobs said.

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.

But she didn’t plan on saying this out loud. It was up to them.

The next morning, Nina Jacobs left the abandoned construction site with the others.

But they each headed in different directions.

"I heard you’re looking for something. Here, take this. I hope it helps."

Before she got in her car, Timothy Renner handed Nina Jacobs a book titled "An Overview of City J".

It contained all the information about City J’s terrain and more.

He remembered that the night before, Nina Jacobs had been asking where the highest point in City J was.

[Host has triggered the "Heart of Gratitude" title. Awarding bonus: Space Element Skill Book!]

After accepting Timothy Renner’s gift, the system sent a notification.

’A Space Element Skill Book?’

Nina Jacobs immediately thought of Ian Chandler.

"Thanks."

Nina Jacobs was in dire need of information about City J.

"I wonder what that young lady is looking for. With zombies everywhere, how can it be safe!"

Watching the SUV drive off in the opposite direction, someone in the car couldn’t help but comment.

"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,"

Timothy Renner said.

"Meat on a chopping block?"

"Ready to be carved up by anyone!"

the person in the car agreed.

"Nina Jacobs is different from the others,"

Eve Lewis said.

"Yeah, she’s different,"

Timothy Renner smiled as well.

They all knew that City J was full of unclaimed supplies, available on a first-come, first-served basis.

But they didn’t have the ability to get them.

Nor did they want to gamble with their lives.

Anyone who came here at a time like this was definitely not an ordinary person.

But only Nina Jacobs had treated them like normal people.

She didn’t treat them like ants.

Nor did she look at them as if they were already dead.

That’s why when that group came looking for someone last night, they didn’t give up Nina Jacobs’s name...

[Detected that Host’s action will save 158 humans in 13 days. Triggering "Selfless Savior" title. Reward: 158 bottles of Healing Potion.]

Nina Jacobs was parked at a gas station on the side of the road, waiting for Wayne Warner to use the restroom.

She suddenly received this notification from the system.

’Could it be Stephen Rhodes and the others?’

’It could only be them...’

’It seems the abandoned construction site will be overrun by zombies in thirteen days.’

’Even this area isn’t safe anymore.’

Nina Jacobs got out of the car. On the ground lay the corpses of several zombies that Wayne Warner had taken care of.

After digging out their Crystal Cores, she took out a permanent marker and wrote two large words on a nearby sign:

NO GAS.

[Detected that Host’s action will save 34 humans in a few days. Triggering "Selfless Savior" title. Reward: 34 bottles of Healing Potion.]

Nina Jacobs capped the marker with a satisfied smile. This had become a habit of hers on the road.

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.

It didn’t matter how many people believed them.

What mattered was that the system gave rewards.

Over the next two days,

Nina Jacobs completed four 4-star "zero-dollar purchase" missions in a row.

During this process, she also discovered that some of the surrounding shops and small supermarkets had already been picked clean.

The places she went were mostly zombie gathering spots that no one else dared to enter.

With the buff from her safe house, she felt she could venture even deeper into the city.

After all, the city was where the most supplies were.

Setting her destination toward Rexton Mountain in City J, Nina Jacobs drove for another two blocks before spotting a chain pharmacy.

"Looks like our luck is good. They should have your medicine here."

Nina Jacobs stopped the car.

Of the two medicines Doctor Lynch had previously prescribed for Wayne Warner, one was an imported nutritional supplement.

Unfortunately, she had only found one box in her system storage.

Currently, Wayne Warner could already run quickly, and his fingernails had grown back halfway.

If she could find some more, she planned to have Wayne Warner take it for another half a month.

But just as the two of them got out of the car and cleared out the surrounding zombies, they heard a series of gunshots.

Bullets struck the ground in front of them.

Nina Jacobs frowned and looked over.

’Is that them?’

The newcomers were the very same group that had shown up at the abandoned construction site two nights ago.

"Hey, you two! We’re claiming this pharmacy, so hand it over nicely."

A man leaned out from the roof of a vehicle, his expression cocky.

A dozen or so vehicles quickly surrounded the pair in front of the pharmacy.

"Did you get kicked in the head by a mule?"

The tip of her Fire Roaring Blade cut through the air, pointing forward. Nina Jacobs stood inside the encirclement, embers drifting around her.

But her cold eyes looked as if they were coated in a layer of frost.