After I Fully Prepared for the Apocalypse, the Ungrateful Cried with Regret novel Chapter 464

Chapter 464: Chapter 464: Repaying a Karmic Debt

He was thin, almost skeletal.

The hands holding the Wood Carving were just dry skin wrapped around bone, but you could still see the thick calluses on his fingertips.

"No one told me. I guessed,"

Nina Jacobs said.

"The Wooden Wheel Car... It’s true, those bastards tricked me into making it."

Ethan Chase pounded his numb legs and spoke with hatred.

"Quick, tell me, what happened outside?

Those stinking men who got locked in here were all like dead fish with bloodshot eyes.

I bet they didn’t do anything good when they got out."

"Chase..."

"Almost everyone outside is dead."

Irwing answered.

"What?!"

Startled, Ethan Chase began to cough violently.

"The Whites are all dead."

Nina Jacobs added.

Ethan Chase’s expression grew complex once more.

"You reap what you sow. You reap what you sow!"

He sighed deeply.

"Can you get me out of here?

I don’t want to die in Whittaker Town. Even if I have to die, I want to die outside!"

Ethan Chase asked, his voice trembling.

He knew it would be difficult. The outside world was not safe, and he was a cripple.

But leaving Whittaker Town was all he ever dreamed of.

"Back then, Lincoln White promised to let me leave. That was the only reason I built the Wooden Wheel Car and all the mechanisms and hidden weapons for them..."

Listening to Ethan Chase, the group finally understood that he had been born and raised in Whittaker Town.

The town hadn’t always belonged to just the White Family; it was once an ancient village with many different families.

The White Family used to make a living selling Wood Carvings. When he was very young, he became an apprentice to one of the Whites. The old master who taught him the art of woodworking was already in his seventies and often sighed that his surname wasn’t White.

It was because among the White Family’s descendants, not a single one was willing to devote themselves to mastering the craft of woodworking.

But Ethan Chase, though just an apprentice, had far more talent than any of the Whites.

"Old Master White taught me everything he knew. He hoped the White Family would walk a righteous path in the future,

but the things they did... they are not worthy of being his descendants!"

Ethan Chase said angrily.

The ancient town couldn’t escape the acid rain and the zombie apocalypse, but many survivors had managed to hang on.

But when the Whites from outside fled here, everything changed.

They found ways to kill everyone else, which was why he was so conflicted.

On one hand, he felt an unrepayable debt to his master. On the other, he was furious for the townspeople who had been murdered.

Later, he agreed to use the woodworking skills Old Master White had taught him to build a safe passage for the White Family, but only on the condition that they would let him leave Whittaker Town after everything was finished.

The Whites agreed verbally, but in the end, they sawed off both of his legs and locked him in this cellar.

"Does that include the Puppetry Technique?" Nina Jacobs asked.

"The Puppetry Technique?"

Ethan Chase looked up, his expression more serious than ever.

"I learned traditional woodworking techniques, craftsmanship, Mechanical Techniques, and various exotic device crafts, but never the Puppetry Technique."

"My master once said that if the White Family ever used the Puppetry Technique again, it would be the beginning of their destruction. The Puppetry Technique is a forbidden art. It was the one thing he never taught."

Recalling his master’s words now, a chill still ran down his spine.

Because he knew that the Whites had, indeed, used the Puppetry Technique.

After listening, Nina Jacobs thought for a moment and said, "I can get you out and guarantee your safety, but from now on, you will have to work for me."

’She wanted the Wooden Wheel Car and those ingenious Mechanical Techniques.’

’But only if Ethan Chase agreed willingly.’

’If he refused, she would just pretend she had never met him today.’

"Work for you?

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