Using the safe house to conceal their presence while the Little Zombie Rats lured away the zombies was a truly effective strategy.
However, by the time the two of them reached the mission location, it was already evening.
"Looks like we’ll have to rest in Veridia tonight."
Nina Jacobs planned to gather the supplies here, find a safe place nearby, and spend the night in the safe house.
Wayne Warner nodded. Knowing Nina Jacobs intended to collect supplies, he cleared away the various debris piled in front of the supermarket entrance.
Nina Jacobs used her Gold Element Superpower to open the door lock.
The Gold Element Superpower was certainly convenient for picking locks, especially since she soon discovered the supermarket had five separate doors and locks.
The final metal door looked as if it had been reforged by a Gold Element Superpower into a thick, seamless sheet of iron.
"It looks like someone sealed this place on purpose."
Nina Jacobs surmised that someone had coveted the supplies here and didn’t want anyone else to get to them.
After she used her Gold Element Superpower to open the thick iron plate, a foul stench assaulted them.
Even though Nina Jacobs was prepared, the fermented stench, made worse by the heat, was overwhelming enough to make one’s head spin.
The two of them stood at the entrance for a few minutes until the smell had dissipated somewhat. Nina Jacobs then tossed two searchlights inside to get a clear look at the situation.
The ground was littered with human skeletons, some of them posed as if they had been reaching for the outside.
"They look like people who were trapped in here."
Nina Jacobs frowned.
’Trapped in here, and they couldn’t get out?’
’There are supplies and water here. What on earth happened to them?’
As Nina Jacobs ventured deeper inside, she saw human bones scattered haphazardly on the floor.
They looked as if they had been torn apart and devoured.
Just then, a black camcorder that Wayne Warner picked up caught her attention.
The camcorder still had power. Nina Jacobs pressed play and saw the back of a massive figure.
It was clearly a giant Mutated Zombie. In the video, its back was to the camera as it ravenously devoured something.
Just as it turned its head, the camcorder clattered to the ground.
Accompanied by screams and crashing sounds, it was clear the cameraperson had met a grim fate.
Nina Jacobs checked the date on the footage. It was from over a month ago, after the roads in Veridia had been destroyed.
"Could this be the other Intermediate Zombie?"
Nina Jacobs glanced around warily. She remembered Mordecai Quinn saying that all the survivors within Veridia had already been rescued.
But there looked to be thirty or forty skeletons in here.
That meant these thirty or forty people had likely come from the direction of Keldorn to look for supplies.
Most survivors searching for supplies these days were Superpower Users. That meant thirty or forty Superpower Users had failed to kill this one Mutated Zombie and had been eaten by it instead...
This zombie was very likely that Intermediate Mutant Zombie.
The thick metal door must have been its handiwork as well.
No one would lock themselves in with a zombie.
At this thought, Nina Jacobs immediately released four Little Zombie Rats and sealed the entrance they had just used with Diamond Sand.
If the Mutated Zombie was a Gold Element type, she couldn’t use her own Gold Element Superpower to seal the entrance.
"Be careful. There might be an Intermediate Zombie nearby."
Nina Jacobs warned Wayne Warner.
Mission 45 was a Four Stars task. Perhaps because a good portion of the supplies had spoiled, she only needed to collect 65% of them.
Nina Jacobs didn’t start collecting the supplies right away. Instead, she examined the skeletons.
A few dust-covered backpacks were scattered on the ground.
What puzzled Nina Jacobs was that every backpack was stuffed full of empty water bottles.
’They were looking for water?’
In one of the backpacks, she made an unexpected discovery: a palm-sized notebook.



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