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After I Fully Prepared for the Apocalypse, the Ungrateful Cried with Regret

Chapter 220: The Target Wasn’t Them · Oct 29, 2026

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201 Chapter 201: That Would Be Very Wise 2026-10-29
202 Chapter 202: City D Base 2026-10-29
203 Chapter 203: An Open Secret 2026-10-29
204 Chapter 204: It Came True 2026-10-29
205 Chapter 205: As Long as the Favorability Isn’t Negative 2026-10-29
206 Chapter 206: He Has a Job Too 2026-10-29
207 Chapter 207: Investigation Report 2026-10-29
208 Chapter 208: Justin Lawson’s Investigation 2026-10-29
209 Chapter 209: Reason to Suspect 2026-10-29
210 Chapter 210: If I Say No, I Mean No 2026-10-29
211 Chapter 211: Trap 2026-10-29
212 Chapter 212: Harvest 2026-10-29
213 Chapter 213: New Life 2026-10-29
214 Chapter 214: The Third Card 2026-10-29
215 Chapter 215: Treasure’s Discovery 2026-10-29
216 Chapter 216: Bad First Impressions 2026-10-29
217 Chapter 217: Caught in the Act 2026-10-29
218 Chapter 218: Mysterious Infection 2026-10-29
219 Chapter 219: A Mistake 2026-10-29
220 Chapter 220: The Target Wasn’t Them 2026-10-29
221 Chapter 221: The Only Warmth 2026-10-29
222 Chapter 222: Things I Can’t Figure Out 2026-10-29
223 Chapter 223: Moving into the Base 2026-10-29
224 Chapter 224: The Day to Lead 2026-10-29
225 Chapter 225: The Cannery 2026-10-29
226 Chapter 226: Cleaner Than a Face 2026-10-29
227 Chapter 227: Two Rescue Teams 2026-10-29
228 Chapter 228: Is That It? 2026-10-29
229 Chapter 229: Wayne Abbott 2026-10-29
230 Chapter 230: Making Trouble 2026-10-29
231 Chapter 231: Joining the Team 2026-10-29
232 Chapter 232: Can You Give Me a Discount? 2026-10-29
233 Chapter 233: Selling 2026-10-29
234 Chapter 234: The Feeling of Going from Something to Nothing 2026-10-29
235 Chapter 235: Cannot Be Spared 2026-10-29
236 Chapter 236: Never Suspected Her 2026-10-29
237 Chapter 237: Unexpected Harvest 2026-10-29
238 Chapter 238: Internal Injury from Frustration 2026-10-29
239 Chapter 239: The Possibility of Reconciliation 2026-10-29
240 Chapter 240: Fern Spencer’s Plan 2026-10-29
241 Chapter 241: No Morality, But Humanity 2026-10-29
242 Chapter 242: She’s Like a Player 2026-10-29
243 Chapter 243: Overestimated Them 2026-10-29
244 Chapter 244: Stella 2026-10-29
245 Chapter 245: Sight 2026-10-29
246 Chapter 246: Training 2026-10-29
247 Chapter 247: Exploiting Loopholes 2026-10-29
248 Chapter 248: Difference in Strength 2026-10-29
249 Chapter 249: The Last Straw 2026-10-29
250 Chapter 250: Driving It Back As Is 2026-10-29

Chapter 220: Chapter 220: The Target Wasn’t Them

As if sensing Nina Jacobs’s urgency, Wayne Warner followed close behind.

”It was my mistake. She might not be the real Sheila Rhodes,” Nina Jacobs said as she drove.

It seemed that saying it aloud was the only way to ease her growing anxiety.

Back then, Zoe Morgan had introduced them all as students from J High School, so they’d jumped to the conclusion that the Sheila Rhodes with them was a student, too.

Plus, with Chase Gallagher’s attention on her due to her connection to Warren Rhodes, and her own confirmation of her identity, they had become completely convinced.

’Now that I think about it, maybe ’Sheila Rhodes’ has been lying to us from the start.’

’But then what did that note mean?’

After setting the destination on her system’s map, Nina Jacobs floored it.

It was a small landing pad in the suburbs.

It wasn’t too far from the base.

When Nina Jacobs arrived, her heart sank.

Several vehicles had been destroyed. The scene was littered with bloodstains and clear signs of a struggle.

The helicopter’s tail had been blown off.

But there wasn’t a single person in sight on the entire landing pad.

”No people, no bodies. They should still be alive.”

Nina Jacobs activated her Five Senses Enhancement, closing her eyes to scan her surroundings.

At the same time, the pungent stench of blood filled her nostrils.

When Nina Jacobs took off in one direction, Wayne Warner was right behind her.

Inside a bungalow surrounded by zombies.

Chase Gallagher and the others were about to fight their way out when they heard the crackling of flames and felt waves of intense heat from outside.

Chase Gallagher peered through a crack in the window, a jolt of joyful surprise running through him when he saw the two figures outside.

”Another powerful Mutated Zombie?”

Samson Thorne had only sustained minor injuries.

If Chase Gallagher hadn’t used his Speed Element Superpower to carry him out, he would have been eaten by a powerful Mutated Zombie.

But he also knew there were too many zombies outside. The door wouldn’t hold for much longer.

Charging out might give them a sliver of a chance, but casualties would be inevitable.

If another Mutated Zombie showed up, their chances of survival would be slim.

”Don’t worry, everyone. It’s reinforcements,”

Chase Gallagher said.

”Reinforcements already?”

A few members of the rescue team were in disbelief.

It had been less than twenty minutes since they were first ambushed and forced to hide in here.

’Reinforcements from the base are this fast?’

However, when they looked out the window, they saw only two people.

One was a Fire Element Superpower User.

A young woman, and a tall man.

They stood back-to-back, not looking the least bit nervous.

The horde of zombies outside the bungalow had completely swamped them, their numbers so dense that the two figures vanished from sight.

But just two seconds later, an incredibly powerful wave of heat blasted all the surrounding zombies away!

BOOM!

The shockwave even made the dilapidated bungalow tremble.

The horde of zombies was now writhing in a sea of flames.

A zombie, completely engulfed in flames, tried to lunge at the pair, but the tall man smashed its head in with a single punch.

Chase Gallagher threw open the door, ready to charge out with the others who could still fight and clear out the remaining zombies.

But Nina Jacobs had already summoned a Fire Serpent. The massive, dragon-like serpent roared as it lunged at the remaining zombies!

The shrieking instantly ceased.

Chase Gallagher could tell Nina Jacobs was in a hurry.

”They weren’t targeting us. No one’s dead,

Mr. Thorne and a few others are lightly injured, but...

Holden went after them alone,”

Chase Gallagher said.

Their target was Sheila Rhodes. He had wanted to go after them, but protecting Samson Thorne was also part of the mission Nina Jacobs had given him.

Plus, Holden Shaw had insisted on protecting Sheila Rhodes, so the two of them had no choice but to split up.

Nina Jacobs’s heart sank.

”Which way did they go?”

”Northwest. But what in the world is going on?

Why were we ambushed?”

Chase Gallagher was completely bewildered.

They were ambushed the moment they arrived at the landing pad.

There were fewer than ten of them, but every single one was a powerful Superpower User. They had also planted explosives in advance, which was why their side had been caught at a disadvantage.

”I’m still not sure why, but that might not have been the real Sheila Rhodes,”

Nina Jacobs replied, frowning.

’Why would someone impersonate Sheila Rhodes?’

’What’s their endgame?’

”A fake?”

Samson Thorne said, stepping out of the bungalow.

Chase Gallagher’s face was a mask of disbelief.

It was true; they hadn’t used a photo to verify her identity when they confirmed the details with ’Sheila Rhodes’.

”If she’s a fake, then there would be no reason for them to go to all this trouble to kidnap her.”

Samson Thorne had assumed their goal was to kidnap Sheila Rhodes to gain leverage over Commander Rhodes at headquarters.

But Nina Jacobs believed she was an impostor.

’What is Nina’s reasoning?’

”They might want to interrogate her for information,”

Nina Jacobs reasoned.

’A fake Sheila Rhodes is useless. Once they get the information they want, they’ll most likely kill her.’

”Then Holden Shaw is in danger, too.”

Nina Jacobs made her decision on the spot: she would find Holden Shaw.

She told Chase Gallagher to take Samson Thorne back to the base first.

”Young lady, it’s too dangerous for the two of you to go alone,”

Samson Thorne said.

Although he’d had little contact with Nina Jacobs, he knew everything she had done for the City D Base.

Justin Lawson held her in very high regard.

He didn’t want anything to happen to her, either.

”I know what I’m doing.”

Nina Jacobs just wanted to get Holden Shaw back.

She had no intention of getting tangled up with some unknown faction.

”Understood. We’ll get Mr. Thorne back to the base safely.”

Chase Gallagher hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

He knew this was just how Nina Jacobs was. No matter how unclear the situation, she would never stand by and watch one of her own in peril.

Following the direction Chase Gallagher had indicated, Nina Jacobs drove with Wayne Warner until they stopped beside a desolate-looking forest.

A forest of dead trees blocked their path.

Nina Jacobs got out of the car.

They had stopped because a commercial van was parked there.

Its doors were open, and there were signs of a struggle.

The zombie corpses on the ground looked like they had been killed very recently.

The cuts suggested a sharp weapon, one that looked like Holden Shaw’s Ring-Headed Knife.

The two headed into the dead forest.

As the signs of a battle grew more distinct, Nina Jacobs’s heart began to pound with tension.

There were bloodstains on the ground and on the trunks of the dead trees.

A little farther in, they found two bodies on the ground.

Nina Jacobs breathed a sigh of relief when she got a clear look at them.

It wasn’t Holden Shaw or Sheila Rhodes.

”This Sword Technique... it’s Holden Shaw’s.”

Nina Jacobs searched the bodies and found a walkie-talkie on one of their waists.

The walkie-talkie was off. Nina Jacobs turned it on. There was only a crackle of static, no voices.

After following the blood trail a little farther, they came upon a large, scorched-black crater.

Just then, the walkie-talkie in Nina Jacobs’s hand crackled to life with a broken transmission:

”...Mission... complete. Proceeding to... rendezvous point.”

’Mission complete?’

A bad feeling washed over Nina Jacobs.

”What about the Speed Element Superpower User?” a man’s voice crackled over the walkie-talkie.

”He got away, but he’s been poisoned. No way he’s surviving this,”

another voice replied.

”As long as he’s dead, that’s all that matters. Son of a bitch... he killed three of our guys...”

’Poison?’

Nina Jacobs knew she had to find Holden Shaw, and fast.

’As long as it isn’t the zombie virus, the system’s Healing Potion can cure any poison.’

One by one, she released her Little Zombie Rats.

’If the walkie-talkie is picking up a signal, it means those people are still nearby.’

’And that includes Holden Shaw.’

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