Chapter 429: Back to the Correction Pod
Chapter 429: Chapter 429: Back to the Correction Pod
Theseus York and the others were thrilled by Nina Jacobs’s return.
After all, the members of Team 1 hadn’t seen her since they’d learned of her acquittal.
They never imagined she would come to see them under such a special, new identity.
"If you could get out, what’s the first thing you’d do?"
Nina Jacobs was actually here to find Harlan.
But Harlan wasn’t around, and his door was locked tight, so she had come to the iron bars outside Team 1’s enclosure.
"Ah."
Theseus York seemed to have remembered something.
Seeing Nina Jacobs watching him with interest, he said, a little sheepishly,
"I want to go see if the girl I saved is still alive and well,
and then... then I want to leave this base."
He didn’t know what he would do after that; he just wanted to leave.
"Have you heard anything on the outside?
People are saying a new base was built in Keldorn. I don’t know if it’s true,
but if it is, for better or worse, I’d really like to go."
Zachary Sterling asked curiously.
"Tomorrow Base. It’s over by the old Gralem Prison."
After Nina spoke, everyone gathered around her was stunned.
"So it’s real! We thought it was just a rumor."
Sophia Spencer looked thrilled as well.
But then she remembered something, and her gaze dimmed.
Even if it existed, it had nothing to do with them.
Because entering the Correction Pods meant death.
"After you and Wayne Warner left, this place went back to how it was before,
and who knows, any day now it could be our turn."
Another person said.
A silence fell over them.
"Take it one day at a time. No one knows what tomorrow will bring.
Maybe one day, you’ll all suddenly be able to leave."
Nina Jacobs said.
"I hope you’re right, hahaha."
Zachary Sterling didn’t take her words to heart, assuming she was just trying to comfort them.
Harlan never expected Nina Jacobs would come back either.
"You’re really not afraid of arousing suspicion."
After ushering Nina Jacobs into his workshop, Harlan took off his bloodstained lab coat.
Nina first went to the storage room to check on Naomi Summers’s recovery, then came back out.
She looked much better.
"It doesn’t matter. I won’t be staying here for long,
and..."
Nina remembered that, according to the timeline from her past life, Lornwood Base only had a little over a month left.
"And what?" Harlan asked.
"Nothing. If anything happens in the base these next few days,
remember to keep Naomi Summers safe. If I’m here, I’ll help you too,"
Nina Jacobs said.
There was something she suspected, but she wasn’t certain.
The people she and General Hughes had encountered the other night seemed to have been routed, but she suspected they had another phase to their plan.
There were people from the Valley among them.
And there were people who wanted to rescue Base Chief Evander Langdon.
First, they used a zombie horde to wear them down, then they used a trap to detonate the bridge. Their goal must have been to kill General Hughes.
So, what came after killing General Hughes?
Nina Jacobs believed their plan was not yet over.
But Harlan was completely confused. "What exactly do you know?"
"General Hughes and I ran into some people when we went out.
I suspect they have a next move."
Seeing Harlan’s expression shift from shock to confusion, Nina guessed he wasn’t their mole.
Even though he also wanted to kill General Hughes.
"You suspect their next step is inside the base, and the target might be the Correction Pods?"
Harlan fell into deep thought after hearing this.
He thought what Nina said was entirely possible.
Nina Jacobs nodded. "I only started suspecting that later on, but maybe it won’t happen."
After all, those people were beaten back and had suffered casualties.
"No, it’s highly likely. General Hughes isn’t at the base right now. This could be a golden opportunity."
"I know the people from the Valley. They’ll do anything for revenge,"
Harlan said.
"Then you..."
Nina Jacobs also wanted to know Harlan’s stance.
"If that’s really the case, I would naturally support them,
but if they really take Evander Langdon away, they might end up hurting him instead."
"Why?" Nina asked.
"A few days ago, his condition got even worse.
He needs a tranquilizer every day just to get to sleep,"
Harlan answered truthfully.
"A few days ago? Which day specifically?"
A glint flashed in Nina Jacobs’s eyes when she heard that.
Harlan thought for a moment. "A day or two before Naomi Summers arrived? I remember it was the second day after you were brought in."
He had been in a bad mood that day, precisely because his patient, Evander Langdon, had been raving all night.
He remembered the next day was when Nina Jacobs participated in the fighting competition for the first time.
"Then it matches up," Nina Jacobs said.
"What matches up?" Harlan asked immediately.
"Mrs. White."
Nina Jacobs recalled a line from that book.
The counter to the White Family’s Suppression Technique is water, and Evander Langdon’s violent episode happened at the exact same time Mrs. White was pushed into the swimming pool.
"I read about it in a book, which is why I suspected it,"
Nina Jacobs said.
It was highly likely that Mrs. White falling into the water that day had also affected Evander Langdon.
"Water... water...
How could that be? Could it really be..."
Harlan recalled Evander Langdon’s various daily behaviors.
He was also afraid of water.
Even the tranquilizers couldn’t be in liquid form.
"We know too little about this."
Nina was also disappointed; the book hadn’t mentioned the specific details of the White Family’s Suppression Technique.
"No, maybe there is a way," Harlan said.
"What way?"
"Tonight,
Mrs. White has asked me to examine her daughter. Maybe I can find something out."
"She’ll never tell you. It involves her family’s secret technique."
Nina Jacobs shook her head.
"Of course she won’t tell me, but if I use other methods, I might be able to get it out of her."
Harlan took out a silver pocket watch and dangled it in front of Nina Jacobs.
"Hypnotism?"
Nina asked instinctively. ’Isn’t Harlan a surgeon? How does he know hypnotism?’
"Rest assured, I’m an expert in hypnosis,"
Harlan said.
That night, a few uninvited guests arrived at Nina Jacobs’s residence.
When Cordelia opened the door, she looked at the people outside with a strange expression on her face:
"Ms. Rowan? What are you doing here?"
Rhonda Rowan smiled and said, "Long time no see, Cordelia."
And behind Rhonda Rowan were several other people.
"Director Palmer?"
Cordelia looked at the kindly smiling Director Palmer, feeling even more bewildered.
Director Palmer was the head of the base’s aid society.
"Cordelia, aren’t you going to invite us in to sit?"
Director Palmer asked with a smile.
Cordelia glanced at Nina Jacobs, and only after Nina nodded did they step aside to let them in.
"Hello, you must be Miss Jacobs.
We’re from the aid society, and my name is Palmer,"
Director Palmer introduced herself.
She looked to be in her forties or fifties, and perhaps because she smiled so often, she had deep crow’s feet.
"Director Palmer, we’ve already officially withdrawn from the aid society.
What brings you here today?"
Silas Crowley didn’t have a good impression of Director Palmer.
This was because Director Palmer had once called him aside and even touched him inappropriately.
At the time, he thought he was just overthinking it, but after hearing other stories later, he realized it had been blatant harassment.
But Director Palmer just smiled after hearing this and said:
"That’s a good thing. It proves you’ve all grown more capable.
But I hope you will also find the strength to help others.
There are still many people in the base who need your help."