After I Fully Prepared for the Apocalypse, the Ungrateful Cried with Regret-Chapter 199: Adrian Shaw’s Curiosity

"Well..."

"I’ll tell you about it later."

In truth, Sherry Renner had no idea how to answer Adrian Shaw.

She had spoken with Adrian Shaw a few times before while helping to find supplies.

She clearly remembered him suspecting she was a charlatan.

’So why is he asking this sort of question today?’

’Is he possessed or something?’

Nina Jacobs kept her expression neutral, but Adrian Shaw’s words had forced her to pay attention.

’Foretelling the future?’

’Could it be that Adrian Shaw also knows about people being reborn?’

「Two hours later.」

Finally, only a few zombies were still trickling in.

Leo Hale and the others had completely exhausted their Superpowers.

However, Adrian Shaw noticed that Nina Jacobs seemed completely unfazed.

"What are you doing? That’s our stuff!"

Yvonne Willow stood in front of them, blocking their way in anger.

"We killed zombies just now, too."

"The shelter’s rules state that when two groups of Superpower Users kill zombies together,"

"the resulting Crystal Cores must be split fifty-fifty."

After speaking, the man in the tank top ordered his companions to continue digging out Crystal Cores.

He wasn’t worried in the slightest.

The rescue team was right there, after all.

"You have the nerve to say that? If our people hadn’t arrived in time,"

"you would’ve gotten us all killed!"

Leo Hale couldn’t believe this guy had the gall to say and do such a thing.

"We were just killing zombies from behind. Is that not allowed?"

One of the tank-topped man’s female teammates argued as she picked up Crystal Cores.

Just then, a Fireball slammed into the ground at their feet with a BANG.

The scattering sparks made them all cry out in pain.

"What are you doing?!"

The woman saw that a large hole had been burned through her sneaker.

"Drop the Crystal Cores. Get lost."

Nina Jacobs’s expression was grim.

"You’d better take a good look! The rescue team’s officers are here."

"If you try to hoard the Crystal Cores, they’ll arrest you!"

The man in the tank top cursed under his breath, then actually started playing the victim.

"If you don’t want to die, get lost now."

It wasn’t that Nina Jacobs cared about a few Crystal Cores.

She was just furious after hearing what Leo Hale had said.

"Officer, Officer, you be the judge!"

"We really were killing zombies just now, and we even lost one of our own."

The man in the tank top whined as if he had suffered a great injustice.

The person he was appealing to was Adrian Shaw. Besides him, his other teammates also chimed in.

Nina Jacobs frowned.

The shelter’s rule was ostensibly meant to de-escalate conflict, but it didn’t apply to every situation.

’These people barely killed any zombies.’

’Yet they want to take half the Crystal Cores.’

She remembered that in her past life, Adrian Shaw was always going on about the base’s regulations.

Now, however, she heard Adrian Shaw say to the group:

"These Crystal Cores have nothing to do with you."

"Besides, if it weren’t for them, would you even be alive right now?"

"Just go."

The man in the tank top and his group were stunned.

"Didn’t you hear me?"

"Or do I need to repeat myself?"

Seeing that they didn’t budge, Adrian Shaw’s face darkened.

"We heard you, we heard you!"

"We’re leaving right now..."

Seeing that they couldn’t gain any advantage and were being stared down by so many people, the group scrambled to their feet and fled.

"It’s a good thing we didn’t have to beat them up. The nerve of those people, so shameless."

Leo Hale scoffed.

"Thanks,"

Nina Jacobs said, then went with Wayne Warner to dig out the Crystal Cores.

She hadn’t expected Adrian Shaw to speak up for them just now.

’It’s probably because he wanted to ask Sherry Renner for help with something.’

"...Are you possessed or something? I remember you used to be so serious."

Sherry Renner had been invited into a vehicle by Adrian Shaw.

She was also curious about what had happened to him.

"So, this business of foretelling the future..."

"Is it considered plausible and credible in your field?"

Adrian Shaw didn’t look like he was joking.

Sherry Renner shook her head.

"Even with methods like fate calculation and hexagram divination, you can only deduce the likely good or bad outcomes of a specific event, and even then, there’s a degree of inaccuracy."

"As for what you mentioned—foreseeing everything around you, or even the course of the world—I don’t think that’s very likely."

"What about precognitive dreams? Do those exist?"

"Aren’t there those ancient methods of dream interpretation..."

Adrian Shaw asked tentatively.

"Precognitive dreams?"

Sherry Renner started to wonder if Adrian Shaw had injured more than just his leg.

’Did he hit his head, too?’

But seeing his earnest curiosity, she answered with a hint of resignation in her voice:

"First of all, the Duke of Zhou was one of the key authors of the I Ching."

"So even with I Ching dream interpretation, it’s not a simple ’dream equals reality’ equation. You can think of the I Ching as a process of translating symbols and deducing meaning from hexagrams."

"It converts things from a dream into the basic symbols of the eight trigrams, and then uses the combination of those symbols and their causal relationships to infer good or bad fortune..."

Sherry Renner’s explanation was well-reasoned.

After listening, Adrian Shaw nodded.

"It seems I was misled after all."

"You’re right. How could something so mystical possibly exist?"

"As long as you know. Just remember not to be fooled."

"I’m going to go help."

Sherry Renner opened the car door and walked toward the others.

Adrian Shaw, meanwhile, looked out the car window.

With the help of the rescue team, the Crystal Cores had almost all been collected.

Nina Jacobs was holding a bag of Crystal Cores, having a Water Element Superpower User help her rinse them off.

Her gaze was very focused.

’You can tell she really loves Crystal Cores.’

At that moment, Nina Jacobs was thinking about what might be happening around Adrian Shaw.

She had overheard their conversation.

’If he was talking about "precognitive dreams"...’

She thought of Hannah Grant, who had been seen with Adrian Shaw.

Nina Jacobs felt that it all made sense now.

It was highly likely that Hannah Grant had told Adrian Shaw about Liam Grant’s precognitive dreams...

That day, after returning to the shelter, Nina Jacobs didn’t go out again.

The first thing she did upon returning to her room was upgrade her system.

[System Experience Points detected at maximum. System successfully upgraded to Level Three. Please check your upgrade package:

Fourth Superpower Card x1

Third Superpower Card x2

Superpower Recovery Potion x200

Healing Potion x100

Automatic Pick-up Skill.]

"It’s finally here."

A smile touched Nina Jacobs’s lips when she saw the newly added skill.

In her past life, not every system upgrade had added a new skill.

It wasn’t until the third year of the apocalypse that she had managed to get her system to Level Three.

That was the first time the system had ever gifted her a skill.

The Automatic Pick-up Skill.

In simple terms, the skill would automatically collect any Crystal Cores she obtained, saving her the trouble of digging them out one by one.

Its range was a 100-meter radius.

It was an incredibly convenient skill.

Unfortunately, she had rarely used it in her past life, as she was always killing zombies alongside Liam Grant and his group.

Plus, since she couldn’t explain where the skill came from, they ended up digging out the cores themselves most of the time.

She only ever used the skill when she was alone.

As for the Fourth Superpower Card...

She didn’t use it right away, just to be safe.

She could feel that her Wood Element Superpower was still in the process of fusing with the Xuan Crystal Core.

To avoid any interference, she decided to put the Fourth Superpower Card aside for the time being.

With the system upgrade, the duration of her other skills had also increased by an hour each.

The area of her storage slots doubled once again.

Each slot was now 40 square meters.

Just as Nina Jacobs was still observing the changes from the system upgrade...

the walkie-talkie on her desk crackled to life.

"They’re back."

Chase Gallagher’s voice came through the device.

"I know."

Nina Jacobs turned off the walkie-talkie.

Liam Grant and the others were finally back.