After I Fully Prepared for the Apocalypse, the Ungrateful Cried with Regret novel Chapter 173

Chapter 173: Chapter 173: Going with the Flow

It was already afternoon.

Everyone took advantage of the break to eat and replenish their energy.

Yvonne Willow took out the marinated mutant pheasant meat from before and handed it out to the others along with some bread.

They’d found a vacuum sealer and packaging at a restaurant at the foot of Rexton Mountain.

So, they had sealed the marinated and cooked chicken in vacuum packs.

Over the past few days, they had nearly finished the meat from those two giant pheasants.

Nina Jacobs was still trying to figure out how to investigate the other car without being too conspicuous.

Unexpectedly, the people who had gotten out of the car first opened the driver’s side door.

"If you can’t get any food, you can just wait here and starve to death."

"We know you haven’t eaten today,

but no matter what you get, you bring it back to us first,

understand?"

The threatening words from Fifi Stone and the others reached Nina Jacobs’s ears.

Immediately after, a girl as thin as a skeleton stepped out of the car.

She looked about seventeen or eighteen, her head hanging low as she shuffled forward one small step at a time.

"Hurry up."

A boy shoved her, nearly knocking her over.

The girl kept her head down without a word, her messy hair obscuring her face.

The blazing sun made her steps unsteady.

After a moment, she finally reached their vehicle.

Just as she was about to knock on the window, it rolled down.

She saw a beautiful face.

Bright eyes holding a reserved sharpness.

She was reminded of a line she had memorized from a textbook—

"A glance, and a dazzling light remains; a long cry, and breath like an orchid."

But she hadn’t forgotten her "mission."

"Hello, could you spare some food?"

Sheila Rhodes lowered her head.

"What’s your name?"

There was a hint of anger in Nina Jacobs’s voice.

But that anger wasn’t directed at Sheila Rhodes; it was for those people.

The group was standing not far away, watching her for their amusement.

"My name is Sheila Rhodes.

Could you... spare a little food?

I haven’t... haven’t eaten in almost two days."

Sheila Rhodes stammered, as if painfully reciting something from memory.

"You can."

Nina Jacobs got out of the car.

Looking at Sheila Rhodes’s raised face, she pulled an energy bar from her backpack and handed it to her.

"Eat it right here.

You can go after you finish."

Nina Jacobs said.

"Eat it... here?"

Sheila Rhodes didn’t understand what Nina Jacobs meant.

But following Nina Jacobs’s gaze, she finally understood.

She was afraid that if Sheila took it back with her, the others would just snatch it away.

Nina Jacobs unwrapped the energy bar and stuffed it directly into her hand.

Sheila Rhodes moved her cracked and peeling lips, finally turning her back on the group in the distance and devouring the food in large bites.

She quickly finished the energy bar, and Nina Jacobs opened another and handed it to her.

"Are they bullying you?"

Pascal Paige had also noticed something was wrong.

She got out of the car and asked.

The girl was too thin, as if she’d been starved for a long time.

"No."

Sheila Rhodes shook her head, but her voice trembled slightly.

"Where’s your home?" 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Nina Jacobs finally asked the question she’d been wanting to ask.

This Sheila Rhodes did bear some resemblance to the blurry photograph she remembered.

But she was too thin now.

So thin she was almost unrecognizable.

"My home is in City A. It’s still very far from here."

Sheila Rhodes adjusted her glasses and replied.

’It really is her.’

Nina Jacobs had already made up her mind.

The only problem now was how to get Sheila Rhodes to come with them.

Just then, Chase Gallagher also opened his door and got out.

He looked Sheila Rhodes up and down, his eyes filled with shock.

"Your name is Sheila Rhodes?

You’re from City A. Do you have a... relative named Warren Rhodes?"

Hearing Chase Gallagher’s words, Sheila Rhodes was stunned for a moment.

Nina Jacobs hadn’t expected Chase Gallagher to know even this.

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