Felix Finch nodded emphatically. "Captain Lucas and his people helped Xingxing and me a lot."
’What a coincidence.’
Nina Jacobs was also a little surprised.
"They’ve taken the Antidote, but they’ll still need to rest for a few days."
"I’ll leave arranging for them and the others to you,"
she said, gesturing toward the still-dazed Minerva Whitman and the others.
Surprisingly, Raphael Chase even recognized Marcellus. Apparently, Marcellus had been the one to advise them against going to Lornwood Base back then.
"Don’t worry. I’ll report to you as soon as they’re settled."
Felix Finch guessed Nina Jacobs was tired too.
But Nina Jacobs didn’t go back to rest. Instead, she went to The Aquifer.
The Aquifer was lined with a long row of water storage tanks, and every single one was full.
Mirelle Keller was sitting on a two-meter-high platform, releasing water into the tanks below. She waved to Nina Jacobs.
"I was starting to think you weren’t coming back today."
Mirelle Keller was in charge of renovating the base’s interior, so she had barely used her Water Element Superpower all day. Coming here to release water was a way to avoid letting it go to waste.
"I just got back. Your renovations are looking good."
When Nina Jacobs returned to the base, she noticed it had changed, starting right from the entrance.
First, the black metal gate was gone, replaced by two massive, deep-red city gates.
The gates were made from a combination of various Superpowers, with the outermost layer coated in the special material Achilles Renner had used before.
The large, silver words "Tomorrow Base" above the gates were incredibly imposing.
Coupled with the slightly upturned, stone-carved eaves added to the rooftops just inside the entrance, the originally cold Gralem Prison now had a completely different feel.
Mirelle Keller smiled. "I have to say, having Superpower Users around is so convenient. You just give them a blueprint, and they can create the real thing in an instant. It might only be an eighty-percent match, but it’s more than enough."
"What about you? Did you go to Lornwood Base today?"
"No, I just ran into some people on the road."
Nina Jacobs told her about meeting Genevieve and her group of ordinary people.
"Just as I thought. The fish rots from the head down at Lornwood Base."
"Even back at Pyralia, Wren never treated ordinary people like that. They scavenge for supplies and kill zombies, doing just as much work as any Superpower User."
After hearing this, Mirelle Keller felt even more strongly that Tomorrow Base needed to speed up its expansion.
"I heard from Felix Finch earlier that the base’s water supply system could be activated tomorrow. I can’t believe it’s true."
She had been gone for a day, and The Aquifer had already accumulated so much water.
Mirelle Keller smiled. "This is a time for everyone to work together. Even the Water Element Superpower Users who weren’t very optimistic at first have been giving it their all these past two days."
"Oh, right, and that Water Element cat of yours is no less capable than any Water Element Superpower User."
"Lexy?"
Nina Jacobs said goodbye to Mirelle Keller and returned to her quarters.
The moment she pushed the door open, she saw a person and a cat waiting for her right at the entrance.
MEOW.
Lexy eagerly padded over to Nina Jacobs’s feet.
"Are you hungry again?"
Nina Jacobs seriously suspected the person and the cat had been starving themselves.
However, after she took out some ready-made hot food and a few cans of cat food, Lexy only ate one can.
Wayne Warner ate even less. The two of them, person and cat, just sat to the side and watched her eat.
"Looks like you two were just bored,"
Nina Jacobs said. "I’ll take you out the day after tomorrow. I have to go out by myself for half a day tomorrow."
She planned to officially enter Lornwood Base the day after tomorrow.
Wayne Warner sighed, then got up and began mopping the floor in coordination with Lexy.
They continued until the floors in every room were mopped to a brilliant shine by the duo.
They had even drawn her a bath.
"Alright, Lexy. When you have extra, you can fill these up."
Nina Jacobs took out several water cooler jugs from her storage and placed them against the wall.
She also took out two new, large water storage tanks.
By the time Nina Jacobs woke up the next morning, she found all the containers had been filled with water.
"You’re amazing."

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