Nina Jacobs and Wayne Warner were led into the abandoned hotel.
"Thatcher, she...
Can I be the one to... take her?"
She heard Holden Shaw asking Jonathan Thatcher for permission in a low voice not far away.
"You?
You’ve finally come to your senses, kid?"
Jonathan Thatcher glanced at Nina Jacobs.
His eyes revealed a hint of regret.
This girl was indeed a looker; he had planned on keeping her for himself tonight as a reward.
"Seeing as you’ve been so diligent and responsible these past few days,
I’ll let you have her for tonight,
but I’m taking her back when you’re done playing."
Jonathan Thatcher chuckled sleazily.
"Thanks, Thatcher."
A flicker of barely perceptible disgust crossed Holden Shaw’s eyes as he turned and walked toward Nina Jacobs.
"I’ll take you to where you’ll be staying."
By now, Holden Shaw’s expression had returned to normal.
Nina Jacobs looked at him but ultimately said nothing, simply following along.
She had heard every word of their conversation just now.
’I just hadn’t expected this kid, Shaw, to be so devious.’
’Oh well. I had already planned to leave this place after finding out about the Ice Element Zombie anyway.’
Judging from the situation on the way here,
Nina Jacobs felt this place wasn’t safe.
Coupled with how hastily Finn Hart and his group had left, she felt more and more that something was wrong here.
Holden Shaw led Nina Jacobs to a room on the second floor of the hotel.
Seeing Holden Shaw about to close the door,
Wayne Warner immediately blocked it.
"Wait for me outside the door,"
Nina Jacobs said to Wayne Warner.
Wayne Warner nodded. The moment the door closed, Holden Shaw began to explain himself impatiently.
"Don’t worry, I won’t do anything to you.
This is my room.
With me looking after you, no one will dare lay a hand on you."
"Lay a hand on me?"
Nina Jacobs asked.
Holden Shaw nodded.
"You don’t know what kind of person Jonathan Thatcher is. As long as a woman comes here,
no matter how young, he will...
Even though you’re a Superpower User, you’re no exception.
That’s why I brought you here..."
"So you’re not like him?"
Nina Jacobs looked at the blushing Holden Shaw, wondering why his face was so red.
"Of course not!
If you stay here, I’ll protect you.
I’ll never let anyone make you do anything you don’t want to do!"
Holden Shaw seemed to have summoned a great deal of courage to say this.
"Then that makes things simple."
Nina Jacobs sat down.
’Looks like I won’t have to use force after all.’
"Simple?"
Holden Shaw didn’t understand why Nina Jacobs said that.
"I’m here looking for a mutated Ice Element Zombie.
Have you seen one?"
She asked him point-blank.
"An Ice Element... mutated zombie?"
Holden Shaw took a moment to process this.
Then he nodded frantically.
"I’ve seen one! The kind that can shoot out chunks of ice!"
"That’s the one. Can you tell me where you saw it?"
"Let me think..."
Holden Shaw recalled for a moment, then said with great certainty:
"Just at the foot of the mountain!
At the foot of Rexton Mountain."
He and a few other Speed Element Superpower Users in the team had the daily task of luring zombies.
Besides luring zombies away when the team was out scavenging for supplies,
they also had to lead away any zombies that appeared around the camp every day.
This was to prevent zombies from attacking the camp.
He had encountered that type of zombie on the road to Rexton Mountain that day.
As he spoke, he quickly grabbed his nearby backpack and pulled something out.
"I was curious, so I killed it,
but what I found in its head was a Water Element Crystal Core.
I thought it was strange."
Holden Shaw had mentioned this to others after he got back,


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