Chapter 364: Following the Trail
Chapter 364: Chapter 364: Following the Trail
"It’s fine. I’m just glad you weren’t scared."
As soon as Nina Jacobs spoke, Wayne Warner ripped open the trunk of one of the cars.
"If it weren’t for you, we’d probably be the ones dead on the ground."
Cordelia replied.
They had seen far bloodier scenes. The only reason they were shocked was because she had never seen anyone in Keldorn as formidable as Nina Jacobs and her companion.
"Let’s gather all this."
Nina Jacobs said, pointing to the scattered backpacks and supplies in the trunk.
It looked like all of it had been stolen from other survivors.
After killing those men, she had triggered the system’s "The Best Defender" title several times.
She had also received a few bags of "Diamond Sand" and several "Alloy Blocks."
Of course, she also got "Healing Potions" from the Savior title.
"Understood. Corin and Rhonda were apparently together, which is why Rhonda is taking it so hard."
Cordelia explained while gathering the items.
Silas Crowley walked over, holding a fuel nozzle, and opened the car’s gas cap.
Nina Jacobs glanced into the distance. Reginald Sutton and Tobin were trying to pull Rhonda Rowan up, but she remained hunched over Corin’s body, crying.
Corin wasn’t quite dead yet. "I’m sorry, Wendy... I did something wrong. Can you forgive me?"
"I forgive you! Just don’t talk. I’ll take you back to the base and find the best Healer to fix you up. Just don’t die yet."
Rhonda Rowan said through her tears.
"Don’t... don’t believe what Ethan Cole says. Just tell them... tell them I died out here with everyone else, understand?"
With those words, Corin took his last breath.
No one could withstand a full-force blow from Wayne Warner, not even a Superpower User.
Nina Jacobs deactivated her "Five Senses Enhancement." Rhonda Rowan’s crying was just too loud.
Just then, Cordelia gasped.
She stared in disbelief at the back of the other car whose trunk Wayne Warner had pried open.
"These are our people’s things... This is Leo’s backpack, and these canteens..."
Cordelia’s tears fell uncontrollably as she listed the items.
"That bastard Corin... what the hell did he do?"
Silas Crowley couldn’t help but mutter when he saw the items.
If they had really run into a zombie horde on the way, their things wouldn’t be this clean and intact.
Among the supplies were sun-protective clothing and hats. While not particularly valuable in Keldorn, they were still essential.
And those clothes and hats were familiar; they belonged to the teammates who had been separated from them earlier.
Seeing this, Nina Jacobs opened the car window and discreetly removed the memory cards from several of the vehicles...
Besides supplies, they also found some drinking water in the cars.
MEOW—
Lexy seemed to be the first to notice something was wrong. The scent of blood was thick in the air, and it had already spotted the figures of zombies in the distance.
"Get back in the vehicle, quick! Zombies are coming."
Silas Crowley said.
The road ahead of the vehicle had already been cleared.
The heavy-duty RV set off once again, but a heavy silence had fallen inside.
Rhonda Rowan kept her head down, her gaze vacant.
Silas Crowley was the first to break the silence. "I suspect they have accomplices, or a base of operations."
"What makes you say that?" Tobin asked.
Nina Jacobs also looked at Silas Crowley, a little surprised.
She thought the same thing, because she had found a Badge from The Aegis Conclave in one of the cars.
It was only a Badge for an external member, though.
But it was enough to prove that people from The Aegis Conclave had already arrived here.
So she was also curious about what Silas Crowley was basing his theory on.
"Among all those items, Aeliana’s and Annie Stone’s things weren’t there.
They probably don’t kill women. As for why..."
Silas Crowley’s tone was heavy, but if his suspicion was true, he hoped it meant Aeliana and the others were still alive.
"Are you saying you just found our people’s belongings?"
Tobin’s expression was full of disbelief after hearing what Silas Crowley and Cordelia said.
"It’s just a shame Corin is already dead. I think he’s the one who sold everyone out."
Silas Crowley concluded.
"Impossible! He would never do something like that!"
Rhonda Rowan, who had been silent all this time, lifted her head to argue.
"If not him, then who? Didn’t you hear what those men said earlier?
Besides, Cordelia found physical evidence. What are you so afraid of?"
Silas Crowley frowned. He had always thought Corin had a flair for the dramatic.
He was in showbiz himself, and he thought it was a real shame Corin hadn’t gone into acting.
"I’m not scared! Corin must have found a safe place for them. He would never do something like this.
Didn’t you also say you thought Aeliana and Annie weren’t dead? Corin must have protected them in his own way."
Rhonda Rowan was convinced that Corin must have had his reasons.
"Rhonda, none of us wanted things to turn out this way. But he did just point a knife at Nina Jacobs. I would have definitely been next."
Cordelia thought Rhonda Rowan was just in shock, but the facts were plain to see.
If it hadn’t been for Nina Jacobs, she would have been Corin’s first target.
Even though she had known Corin longer, she couldn’t possibly defend a traitor.
At this, Rhonda Rowan fell silent.
"If we can find anyone else who’s still alive, we can find out what really happened."
Tobin said.
Nina Jacobs, who hadn’t spoken, now produced several USB drives.
"The dashcams in these cars usually start automatically. If we can see what’s on them, we might be able to find out."
’She had originally planned to follow the trail and investigate herself.’
’But since they all want to know the truth, we might as well get to the bottom of it.’
"I’ll do it!"
Cordelia pulled a laptop out of her storage space. It had been her only source of entertainment during the difficult times at the base.
"It should still have some battery."
Cordelia said as she started checking the route videos on each drive.
"This place is..."
Tobin watched the road in the video, the buildings on either side looked very familiar to him.
After just a few driving videos, he had already figured out the general direction.
"I know! That’s Pyralia! They’re inside Pyralia!"
Tobin said with certainty.
"Pyralia?" Nina Jacobs had looked at a map of Keldorn before; she seemed to recall a place with that name.
"Pyralia is also near Aurelion, in a small town. It used to be a popular spot for social media check-ins."
Cordelia explained to Nina Jacobs.
"I know the place. I filmed a show there once. The tower is pretty tall, a good place to hide out, for sure."
Silas Crowley added.
Nina Jacobs was also watching the videos. She had Cordelia pause on a specific frame.
"Does this look like two groups in a shootout?"
Cordelia stared intently at the video.
They must have been ready to flee at a moment’s notice, because the car engine hadn’t been turned off. The dashcam had captured the entire firefight.
"Looks like neither side came out on top. And this video was filmed just a few days ago."
Silas Crowley also spotted Corin among the crowd.
Tobin noticed something. He watched the video again to be sure, then said:
"This isn’t Pyralia. This is Griston. The two places are more than ten kilometers apart."
Griston?
’Isn’t that the exact place I was heading to?’
"Are you sure?" Nina Jacobs asked.
’Could the people fighting Ethan Cole’s group be from The Aegis Conclave? Is that why I found their Badge in Ethan Cole’s car?’
"I’m sure."
Tobin said.
"Should we go?" Cordelia asked.
"If this happened a few days ago, it’s the perfect time for you to go mount a rescue."
Nina Jacobs said.
"That’s right. They should be severely weakened right now."
Silas Crowley said, his eyes fixed on the screen.