After discovering that every car on the train was empty, a man in sunglasses stepped out and began to survey the area.
"Trevor, how are we going to explain this when we get back?"
Another man walked up to Thane Trevor and asked.
"I suspect the person who took the supplies left only a short while ago. And it was most likely just one person."
Thane Trevor’s words made Nina Jacobs, who was hiding in the distance, furrow her brow.
’Did he figure it out from the footprints I didn’t have time to erase?’
She had already used her Earth Element Superpower to erase the footprints leading to the power supply room.
But the traces from her earlier fight with the zombies were still there.
"One person could carry this many supplies?
The base needed seven Space Superpower Users to transport all this."
The man beside him sounded skeptical.
"Anyone who could make it all the way out here is no ordinary person."
Thane Trevor checked the area again carefully.
Unfortunately, the footprints and tracks further on had been intentionally erased.
Beyond that was an asphalt road, which wouldn’t hold any tracks.
"Whoever did this is meticulous,
I suspect it’s a woman."
Thane Trevor said, walking back toward the train.
Just then, a tall woman emerged from one of the cars.
"This isn’t the first time this train has broken down. Something like this was bound to happen eventually.
What worries me is that someone has discovered our supply route."
The tall woman didn’t seem too concerned about the missing supplies.
"It’s not like no one’s found it before. Didn’t we teach that last group of ex-soldiers a lesson and send them running with their tails between their legs?"
A short, stout man who had followed her out scoffed.
"You don’t think it was them again, do you?"
"Impossible. They were poisoned, and they fled into *that* place. There’s no way they made it out alive."
Thane Trevor’s tone was firm. "Split into four groups and search the area. Leonidas, if you sense anyone, we capture them immediately."
"Understood."
Leonidas Lynch was a Spiritual Element Superpower User. He nodded and quickly boarded the train.
"And what if they’re immune to Spiritual Element detection?"
The tall woman asked.
"You think someone out here would have absorbed *that* thing?"
Thane Trevor scoffed, then led his people onto their vehicles, and they split up and drove away.
’Good thing I hid.’
Nina Jacobs stepped out of the power supply room, recalling the few Little Zombie Rats she had hidden under the vehicles.
’That man is not to be underestimated.’
’If I’d just fled, I probably would have run right into them.’
Still, from their conversation, she’d learned something important: the supplies on this train had come from a base.
’If the supplies came from Lornwood Base, then who are these people?’
’And they seem to know about the Mystic Ice Core.’
From her observations of Lornwood over the past few days, no one there seemed to know about the existence of the Mystic Ice Core.
’It looks like these people have a different agenda.’
It was getting late. Remembering the trade she had arranged for the next day, Nina Jacobs decided to wait until they were long gone before heading back.
After waiting for another half an hour, she decided it was safe.
To avoid running into them, Nina Jacobs drove off in the opposite direction.
This route would take her past a small zombie hotspot.
According to the map, it was a vocational college.
Nina Jacobs had planned to just power through in her SUV, but she was surprised to see people fighting zombies there.
After confirming it wasn’t the group from before, Nina Jacobs parked her vehicle a safe distance away to observe.
The group seemed to be trying to break through an encirclement. There were quite a few of them, maybe fifty or more.
But because the fight had been going on for so long, zombies from all around were converging on their position.
They were trapped in a grueling battle.
The group seemed to notice her as well.
A young woman with a grimy face stood atop a derelict bus, waving her arms toward the SUV.

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