After I Fully Prepared for the Apocalypse, the Ungrateful Cried with Regret novel Chapter 318

Chapter 318: Chapter 318: It All Adds Up

The shrill scream came to an abrupt end.

The remaining bats that had been furiously attacking the Diamond Sand Cover began to scatter in chaos.

Nina Jacobs retracted the Diamond Sand Cover and dug a Beast Core out from the pile of charred husks.

"Was that a Sound Wave Attack that evolved from a Mystic Ice Core?"

Adrian Shaw asked as he walked over.

Nina Jacobs shook her head. "I’m not sure, but it should have had some kind of Spiritual Control, like how Treasure uses Hypnosis."

As if the Beast Core in her hand held some magical power, the bats swarming around all dove toward it at once.

Seeing this, the group worked together to eliminate the bats.

Nina Jacobs noticed that even after killing these smaller bats, the kills weren’t being counted toward her system mission.

The only one that had been added to the mission count was the human-like bat from before.

"If one of the bats absorbs this Beast Core, I’m afraid it will trigger a new round of evolution,"

Chase Gallagher said.

"What about in there? Are we still going in?"

Marcus Miller asked, pointing at the pitch-black cave entrance not far away.

It was completely silent inside and looked empty.

"We’re going in. But we should leave a marker first,"

Nina Jacobs said.

It was already dark out, anyway.

Going into the cave wouldn’t be much different from staying outside.

They left a marker outside the cave using Trevor’s method, and Shirley Lucas took several high-powered flashlights out of her space, instantly illuminating the cave as if it were daytime.

After the group had entered the cave, Nina Jacobs used her Earth Element Superpower to seal the entrance behind them.

This was to prevent anything from sneaking in from behind while they were scouting ahead.

"I remember Naji saying both ends of this cave were sealed off. If it’s relatively clean inside, we can rest here for the night,"

Shirley Lucas said as they walked.

They discovered the inside of the cave was not jagged and craggy as they had imagined.

Instead, it was a man-made tunnel.

There were even some man-made markings on the tunnel walls.

"I think that’s a good idea. It has to be safer than staying outside."

Leo Hale had now seen firsthand just how many Mutated Animals were at the bottom of the cliff.

In a single day, they had already been attacked by mutated ostriches, wild boars, a zombified black bear, a pack of mutated wolves, and those strange bats.

"I wonder if Greg Unger and his companion are safe."

Adrian Shaw didn’t want any casualties; after all, those Bishop Clan Members had come to the bottom of this cliff because of them.

"They’re familiar with the terrain here. They should be fine,"

Nina Jacobs said.

The group continued forward and found nothing else out of the ordinary.

However, they soon came to a fork in the path that connected to what looked like a natural cavern.

Several human skeletons, gnawed clean of flesh, lay scattered there.

The number of bodies matched the number of people in Lynch’s group who had entered the cave.

Nina Jacobs immediately used fire to burn the skeletons to ash.

Further ahead, the ground was covered in a thick layer of bat droppings.

"Looks like this is the bats’ habitat,"

Adrian Shaw said.

The smell, however, was not pleasant.

Nina Jacobs shone her flashlight upward, her gaze finally settling on a suspended stone ledge along the wall.

"I think there’s something up there,"

Nina Jacobs said.

"You’re right, there is. It’s hard to spot if you’re not looking for it,"

Beckett Abbott said, having climbed to a higher spot to get a better look.

It was something piled up from twigs, resembling a bird’s nest.

Nina Jacobs directly manipulated her Earth Element Superpower to lower the stone ledge.

Everyone’s eyes widened as they saw what was on the ledge.

"Unbelievable,"

Holden Shaw exclaimed.

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