After I Fully Prepared for the Apocalypse, the Ungrateful Cried with Regret novel Chapter 221

Chapter 221: Chapter 221: The Only Warmth

With her Five Senses Enhancement, Nina Jacobs could sense the path of every single Little Zombie Rat.

Finally, she found Holden Shaw behind a collapsed earthen slope.

But Holden Shaw was in terrible shape.

His right shoulder and abdomen were a mangled, bloody mess.

His lips were a dark, bruised purple.

He was leaning there, completely still. Trembling, Nina Jacobs checked to see if he was breathing.

When she found he was still breathing, she immediately took out a "Healing Potion" and poured it down his throat.

Nina Jacobs also poured the "Healing Potion" over his wounds.

Perhaps because the poison was so severe, when the Healing Potion mixed with the blood on his wounds, wisps of yellow smoke began to rise.

It gave off an acrid stench.

"COUGH COUGH..."

Holden Shaw coughed up a mouthful of thick, dark blood.

He also saw Nina Jacobs beside him, her face etched with worry.

"...COUGH, COUGH. If that bastard... hadn’t played dirty,"

"I... I wouldn’t have lost."

"Didn’t I tell you that in a critical moment, your first priority is to run and save your own life?"

Nina Jacobs didn’t have the heart to scold him.

’Holden Shaw has always been a man with a strong sense of responsibility. He probably fought so desperately because of what I said.’

"I’m... feeling... a lot better now,"

"but Sheila Rhodes... she might not make it. I hid her... over there..."

Holden Shaw weakly raised his hand and pointed in a certain direction.

’Sheila Rhodes?’

Nina Jacobs hadn’t expected Holden Shaw to have been able to hide Sheila Rhodes.

Sheila Rhodes was covered by a pile of withered branches and rotting leaves.

She wasn’t poisoned, but her chest had been pierced by a Gold Spike.

Blood had soaked into the soil beneath her. It looked like she was already dead.

Unwilling to give up, Nina Jacobs fed her a bottle of "Healing Potion."

"Sheila Rhodes, can you hear me?"

Nina Jacobs had already prepared herself for the possibility that Sheila Rhodes was dead.

But to her surprise, the Healing Potion actually worked.

The girl opened her mouth, her voice so weak it was almost inaudible, but Nina Jacobs still understood.

She said she wasn’t Sheila Rhodes.

"I know. Who made you do this?"

She could feel "Sheila Rhodes’s" life rapidly slipping away.

She could die at any moment.

Just as it had with Shannon Renner, the "Healing Potion" could perhaps only delay death for a short while.

"I don’t know. They... they’re looking for someone."

"They’re looking for the person who would rescue Sheila Rhodes."

"Because Chase Gallagher is from... City A, they didn’t suspect you."

"You must... you must not... save Shei—"

"What’s your name?"

Nina Jacobs asked, wiping the tears from the corners of the girl’s eyes.

’I should have realized sooner,’ Nina thought. ’The real Sheila Rhodes would never be so meek and submissive.’

"Paige... Ziegler. My younger sister is Zinnia Ziegler."

"They... said that if I did this, they would help me find Zinnia."

"I didn’t... I didn’t mean to... deceive you."

"I understand," Nina Jacobs said. "I’ll help you find Zinnia Ziegler."

Nina could tell that Paige Ziegler didn’t know much.

If Chase Gallagher hadn’t known that Warren Rhodes was looking for his granddaughter, Sheila Rhodes, Nina herself would have become the first object of suspicion.

’No wonder "Sheila Rhodes" had asked her that night why she’d saved her...’

Hearing Nina Jacobs’s words, Paige Ziegler managed a faint smile. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

During these long, agonizing months, only Nina Jacobs had shown her any kindness.

"You have to hide... Don’t let those people find..."

With that, Paige Ziegler breathed her last.

Nina Jacobs looked down at her, her brow furrowed, not relaxing for a long time.

’What in the world is going on?’

’I never heard about any of this in my past life.’

’Could this be related to the system, too?’

"Wayne Warner, take Holden to the car and wait for me."

Nina Jacobs got up and checked on Holden Shaw again.

Holden Shaw’s injuries weren’t fatal. The poison had been neutralized, and his complexion had improved significantly, but he was still unconscious.

She had already parked the car in a spot that was hard to find.

"Okay."

Wayne Warner nodded.

He hoisted Holden Shaw onto his back and walked off in the direction they had come from.

Nina Jacobs could perceive the information being relayed by her Little Zombie Rats.

Within her range of perception, there were still five of them left.

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