After I Fully Prepared for the Apocalypse, the Ungrateful Cried with Regret-Chapter 138: Loss of Supplies

"We still have a lot of food here,

so we decided to make some ready-to-eat food for the road."

Two young men followed the woman who had brought the food.

They were carrying several large bags of food, all for Nina Jacobs.

"We were locked in the cellar for days and couldn’t sleep at all,

so we all made some food that’s easy to carry."

"Yeah, please take it,"

the two young men added, their voices full of gratitude.

"Thank you. This is more than enough."

Nina Jacobs only took the items in the basket.

The "Heart of Gratitude" had been triggered, and the system awarded her 400 Experience Points.

"I heard you were looking for a doctor?

If there’s any way I can help, it would be my honor."

Easton Lynch walked over, carrying his medical kit.

Nina Jacobs had been planning to look for him anyway.

Wayne Warner was already waiting in the courtyard.

"This is my friend. He suffered a very serious injury before."

Easton Lynch nodded and began to examine Wayne Warner.

His expression shifted between surprise and anger.

After a long while, he removed his stethoscope and said,

"He must have suffered comminuted fractures before.

All over his body, including his fingers.

But even without any equipment to run tests, I can confirm he’s now on a positive path to recovery."

Easton Lynch was still in a state of shock.

He didn’t know how Wayne Warner had recovered, but he could tell that his body must have suffered immense trauma previously.

"I’m just worried he might have some lingering side effects,

or what the best way for him to recover would be."

Nina Jacobs felt much more relieved after hearing that.

The Healing Potion was very effective.

But bone recovery wasn’t that fast.

After all, bones needed to grow, and Wayne Warner’s fingernails still hadn’t grown back.

"I could prescribe some medicine to aid his recovery,

but..."

Easton Lynch sighed.

Finding medicine was too difficult these days.

"It’s okay. Just write the prescription."

Even if it was medicine she didn’t have in her system inventory, she could always look for it elsewhere.

Easton Lynch nodded and wrote the details down on a piece of paper.

"These two things are very helpful for bone recovery,

but if you can’t find them, don’t push yourself.

Given the injuries he sustained, his recovery so far is already a miracle."

These two items used to be available in any regular pharmacy.

But now, many pharmacies in the suburbs had been looted clean.

Even if she found a pharmacy, there was no guarantee it would have any medicine inside.

Easton Lynch was worried that Nina Jacobs would put herself in danger just to find the medicine.

That would be a loss that outweighed any gain.

"I know. Thank you, Doctor Lynch."

Understanding the concern in his words, Nina Jacobs put the prescription away.

They had only planned to stay for one night, and it was now time to leave.

"I’ll leave Wesley Hawthorne for you to deal with,"

Nina Jacobs said to Tina Rhodes and the others.

"Don’t worry. We won’t let him off the hook."

Whenever Tina Rhodes recalled how Wesley Hawthorne had tortured her and her teammates, she wanted nothing more than to give him a death by a thousand cuts.

"I heard you’re going to City J to find someone?

We marked some places on the map where you can rest.

I hope it’s some help to you."

Alan Langdon brought over a map with annotations.

They would be arriving in City D soon, so the map of City J was no longer useful to them.

"Thanks. I’ve already told Doctor Lynch the location of the shelter,

but if you run into an organization called the ’Superpower User Alliance,’

remember to be extra careful."

"We will. You take care, too."

Tina Rhodes and the others didn’t know where Nina Jacobs was going.

But she believed they would surely meet again one day.

When Nina Jacobs left, almost everyone came out to see her off.

On the long, winding village road,

the SUV kicked up a cloud of rust-colored dust.

She had switched back to the SUV after entering City J.

City J had many mountain roads, and the SUV had better shock absorption and safety performance.

After passing a grove of dead poplar trees, Nina Jacobs saw a plaque at the entrance to the village ahead.

It turned out the village she had arrived at yesterday was called "Hawthorne Village."

There seemed to be other villages further ahead.

However, she followed the route displayed on the system map and turned onto an asphalt road.

Just as she got onto this stretch of asphalt road in City J, Nina Jacobs received a notification that her system quest had refreshed.

[Apocalyptic Survival Quest Activated: Zero-Cost Acquisition Quest 17

Quest Details: The supplies at Verdant Supermarket will be lost in 0 days. Please clear out 80% of the supplies before then.

Quest Reward: 1 System Inventory Slot, +120 Experience Points.

Quest Difficulty: ★★★★]

It was a Four Stars task right from the start.

And this was only the very edge of City J.

From her past life’s experience,

Nina Jacobs knew that the phrase "supplies will be lost" usually meant one thing.

If the supplies were taken by another Space Superpower User, but that Superpower User unfortunately died,

that situation was called "supply loss." Once a Space Superpower User died, the supplies in their space would disappear along with them.

In 0 days...

That meant today.

It seemed a Space Superpower User was going to discover that supermarket today.

Nina Jacobs entered "Verdant Supermarket" into her system map and found it was only a two-hour drive away.

If she could get there early, she might be able to complete the quest before anyone else found it.

But even though she sped up, a crowd had already gathered outside Verdant Supermarket by the time she arrived.

Long before reaching Verdant Supermarket, she had already noticed something was wrong in the area.

There were only two roads leading to the supermarket.

The roadsides were piled with zombie corpses, and their Crystal Cores hadn’t even been dug out.

It was obvious that the zombies in the vicinity had been cleared out by someone.

Guessing there were others ahead, she had parked her car in a hidden spot well in advance.

Worried about getting into a fight, she had originally planned to leave Wayne Warner in the car.

But Wayne Warner was clearly against the idea.

In the end, Nina Jacobs let him follow her, but only after repeatedly warning him not to act rashly.

The two of them were now hiding behind a pile of abandoned vehicles.

A large group of people was gathered in front of the supermarket not far away.

"Looks like it’s just getting started,"

Nina Jacobs said with some excitement.

This was a classic dog-eat-dog scenario.

Wayne Warner glanced at her, then tilted his head to look into the distance, and finally began to watch intently alongside her.

"...Abbott, we discovered the supplies here first!

What do you think you’re doing?"

a bald man shouted at the group opposite him.

"So what if you discovered it?

First come, first served. We got here before you,

so these supplies should be ours."

The man on the other side, Ethan Abbott, was clearly more imposing.

He had forty to fifty people standing behind him alone.

In contrast, the bald man only had a little over twenty people with him.

The outcome was obvious.

However, no one could resist the temptation of supplies, and with neither side willing to back down, the two groups quickly began to fight.

Flames and gravel flew through the air.

It wasn’t just Superpower Users; the bald man’s side even brought out pistols and a rocket launcher.

"No wonder they’re so confident."

’So they have weapons as a fallback.’

The battle ahead was exceptionally fierce. Nina Jacobs led Wayne Warner to continue observing from the shadows.

Accompanied by waves of blood-curdling screams, not only did neither side show any intention of stopping, but they had all started to see red.

"Let’s split the supplies fifty-fifty! If we keep fighting like this, we’ll attract zombies sooner or later!"

Ethan Abbott shouted.

However, the bald man showed no signs of stopping when he heard this.

"I don’t buy your bullshit!

Since you’re asking for it, you can all just go to hell!"