Chapter 234: The Feeling of Going from Something to Nothing

"It’s you again."

Nina Jacobs remembered these men.

They had come to her little store to cause trouble before, and she had given them a sound thrashing.

Afterward, Fern Spencer had thrown them out.

According to Fern Spencer, these people were also from the Crawford Army.

"Looks like you didn’t get beaten enough last time,"

"and you’re back for more?"

Looking at the twenty to thirty people surrounding them, Nina Jacobs understood why this man, Vaughn, was so brazen.

These people had to be Superpower Users.

"I’ll ask you one more time. Are you coming with us or not?"

Lysander Vaughn produced a long saber, its tip pointed at Nina Jacobs.

"You’re with the Crawford Army, aren’t you?"

"Aren’t you afraid of getting kicked out of the base?"

Nina Jacobs asked.

Lysander Vaughn roared with laughter. "That’s why I said you were bold."

"If you had made it inside the base, we wouldn’t have been able to do anything to you,"

"but you just had to walk down this deserted road."

"Once we take you to our operation camp, who do you think is going to find out?"

’Operation camp?’

’The Crawford Army has a place like that?’

"Stop wasting time with her! Grab her now,"

"and make her hand over everything in her space!"

One of his companions had already conjured menacing vines that shot toward Claire Warner!

Just as Nina Jacobs was about to pull a weapon from her storage, the vines were struck by a bolt of lightning.

CRACKLE!

Accompanied by a bloodcurdling scream, everyone stared in astonishment at the eaves of a nearby house.

"So many of you ganging up on one young lady,"

"is the management at City D Base really this pathetic?"

A man leaped down from the eaves. Nina Jacobs felt he looked somewhat familiar.

But she couldn’t recall where she might have seen him.

"And who are you? Mind your own damn business,"

"or we’ll cut you down too!"

Lysander Vaughn glared at the Thunder Element Superpower User before him.

He had been somewhat wary at first, but then he noticed the man was alone.

"So impatient."

"It seems I’ll have to drag you back to the base to face justice today!"

The Thunder Ball in the man’s hand was like an Energy Field. The moment he launched it, it transformed into multiple Thunder Beams in midair.

Several men were struck by the Thunder Beams on the spot.

The rest were complete pushovers. In less than ten minutes, they were all on the ground, twitching and paralyzed by the electricity.

"Who the hell are you?"

Lysander Vaughn asked, clutching his spasming hand.

"Heath Chandler. What, you want to come find me for payback later?"

"Let me tell you, you’re in big trouble now!"

Heath Chandler didn’t notice the shocked expression on Claire Warner behind him.

Nina Jacobs was indeed shocked.

She finally understood why he looked so familiar.

Heath Chandler.

Ian Chandler’s biological father, and Myra Lawson’s ex-husband!

’Why is he here now?’

Nina Jacobs clearly remembered that in her past life, Heath Chandler hadn’t come to City D Base for the first time until the second year of the apocalypse.

By then, Ian Chandler’s mental illness had become so severe that he was on the verge of suicide at any moment.

After Ian Chandler passed away, Heath Chandler left City D Base as well.

Nina Jacobs had only met him once when she came to visit Ian Chandler.

Later, she heard he had established a private base in the western region of Drakonia—Tomorrow Base...

But in this life, Heath Chandler had arrived already.

And it seemed he hadn’t come alone.

"Mr. Chandler, looks like you’re playing the hero again."

A hearty voice called out from the car behind them.

Several men and women stepped out.

"Mr. Chandler, are you hurt?"

a woman in a crop top asked with concern as she walked to his side.

"Not a scratch. I’m not playing the hero, I’m saving someone."

"Are you all right, miss?"

Heath Chandler finally remembered Claire Warner.

"I’m fine, thank you."

Nina Jacobs said, putting on the air of someone who had just been rescued.

"You’re a Space Superpower User?"

Heath Chandler asked.

"Yes."

"No wonder. It’s best not to come out alone in the future."

"I’ll take these men back to the base."

"Your base will deal with them, right?"

Heath Chandler asked.

The Heath Chandler of this time seemed quite talkative, not at all like the taciturn man from her past life.

Nina Jacobs nodded. "The base has a security patrol and the Enforcement Bureau. We’ll have to trouble you, then."

There wasn’t much time left on her system’s "Face Adjustment" Skill.

Wearing Claire Warner’s face, Nina Jacobs quickly thanked Heath Chandler and his group, then got in her car and left the scene.

"Mr. Chandler, it looks like she’s not heading toward City D Base."

Rowan said, puzzled.

"She probably has other business to attend to."

"Let’s not forget our own mission. Don’t want to be late to go suck up to my ex-wife."

As soon as Heath Chandler finished speaking, the expression of the woman beside him soured.

"It’s ’ex-wife’ this, ’ex-wife’ that all day long. I don’t think you’ve forgotten her for a single second."

Rowan shook his head and swiftly tied up the captured men.

...

Nina Jacobs drove in several circles to be safe before finally returning to the base just before nightfall.

However, just as she entered the base, she saw Chase Gallagher waiting for her at the gate.

"Sherry sent for me?"

"Yes. She said Wyatt Jacobs wants to see you."

Chase Gallagher replied.

"See me?"

Nina Jacobs frowned.

She hadn’t shown her face at all during Wyatt Jacobs’s arrest.

’Why would Wyatt Jacobs want to see me?’

"I understand."

Still, Nina Jacobs decided to go.

「Inside the Enforcement Bureau.」

Wyatt Jacobs seemed to be in better shape than she had expected.

He didn’t seem worried about his situation at all.

This only made Nina Jacobs more suspicious.

"I heard I was arrested. Didn’t you even think of coming to help me?"

Now that they were the only two left in the room, Wyatt Jacobs stared at Nina Jacobs, trying to read her expression.

"After what you did, you still think you can escape punishment?"

"I never thought it would be you."

"Wyatt Jacobs, you’ve become a stranger to me."

Nina Jacobs was telling the truth.

In her past life, she had never truly seen Wyatt Jacobs for who he was.

"I thought for sure you’d come to laugh at me."

Wyatt Jacobs lowered his head, his thoughts unreadable.

"You don’t know what you’re talking about."

’She hadn’t thought of laughing at him.’

’But wanting to kill him was very real.’

"It’s all Liam Grant’s fault. I never should have let him manipulate me."

"If that incident hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have come back."

"I’d still be the strongest Gold Element Superpower User..."

Wyatt Jacobs muttered.

"I’ve noticed it lately. They all despise me."

"They think I’m a burden, they despise me for not having a Superpower."

"I’m in agony. I haven’t had a single good night’s sleep."

"Every second, I feel like the next second, I’ll have my Gold Element Superpower back..."

Wyatt Jacobs’s expression was a mixture of self-absorption and deep remorse.

Nina Jacobs said nothing, merely watching him in silence.

Of course, she knew it would be painful.

To have something you once possessed torn away, to experience the feeling of going from having to having not—the process was no different from having your bones scraped and your marrow extracted.

"But none of them can understand me... Not a single one..."

"I’ve thought about it a lot. You were the only one who ever truly cared for me."

Wyatt Jacobs finally looked up.

At least in their past life, Nina Jacobs had never given up on him.

"I think you need a psychiatrist."

"But given the circumstances, you won’t. I almost forgot,"

"you’ve been sentenced to death."

Nina Jacobs said.

However, fear only flickered in Wyatt Jacobs’s eyes for a moment before he started laughing again.

"The death penalty?"

"Nina Jacobs, you don’t really think I’m going to die just like that, do you?"

Wyatt Jacobs couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Seeing Nina Jacobs’s confused frown, he leaned close and whispered in her ear, "Nina Jacobs, the truth is... I was reincarnated."

"Liam Grant and that slut wanted to kill you."

"I pleaded for you, and they killed me too."

"So in this life, I killed his parents. You could say it was to avenge you."

"Oh? Is that so?"

Nina Jacobs’s tone was perfectly calm. "And you think I’d believe you?"