Chapter 461: There Won’t Be a Next Time
Chapter 461: Chapter 461: There Won’t Be a Next Time
Julia Hughes touched her nose.
She found her hand covered in blood.
Her expression twisted in fear.
On the way back to Whittaker Town with her father, Jasper Paxton had started bleeding from his nose right after drinking the zombie-virus-laced juice.
She had been hiding on the stairs at the time and had seen everything clearly.
"Julia, what happened to you... Did Brock scratch you?!"
Arcadia White covered her mouth, tears instantly welling up in her eyes.
"No, Mom, he didn’t."
Julia Hughes shook her head. "Brock just thought the juice was disgusting and coughed it in my face... COUGH, COUGH!"
As Julia Hughes spoke, she started coughing, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood that trickled down her chin and onto her pristine white dress.
’Juice... splashed on her face...’
Arcadia White understood everything in an instant.
’My daughter was the one who turned Brock White into a zombie!’
’The juice splashing on her face caused the infection because she already had an unhealed cut on it!’
"Why didn’t you just listen...
Didn’t I tell you not to do things like this anymore?"
Arcadia White cried. She wanted to go to her daughter and wash her face, but seeing her vomiting mouthfuls of blood, she was overcome with despair.
"Mom... Mom, save me! It... it hurts so much, WAAAH."
Julia Hughes never knew turning into a zombie would be this painful.
It was a thousand times more painful than when Brock White had scratched her face.
Gradually, a tearing pain spread throughout her body, causing her to writhe uncontrollably on the floor.
She tried to reach out for her mother, but Arcadia White just stared at her, her face filled with terror.
Then, Arcadia White bolted out the door.
By now, the sky had grown completely dark.
"Someone, help! Anyone... Husband, Julia... WAAAH..."
Arcadia White was filled with immense regret. She regretted not stopping her daughter more forcefully, regretted indulging her as she harmed others.
She had thought the situation in the manor was completely under control.
But Arcadia White found the courtyard littered with bodies.
People were running and screaming in a panic before being viciously pounced upon and devoured by zombies.
Among the zombies were Raymond White, Laura Quincy, and many of the White Family’s uncles and aunts...
"It’s over... The White Family is finished..."
Arcadia White mumbled.
Amid the chaos, she saw Nina Jacobs, with Wayne Warner still following behind her.
"Nina Jacobs, Nina Jacobs...
Julia’s turning into a zombie! Waaah, please, you have to save her."
As if clutching at a final straw, Arcadia White scrambled toward her.
Nina Jacobs’s expression, however, showed no surprise.
"You mean... Julia was playing another one of her pranks?"
Nina Jacobs asked with a smile.
’A prank...’
Arcadia White was about to retort but then remembered those were her own words from before.
"It was just a prank. Next time...
Oh, wait. It seems there won’t be a next time."
Nina Jacobs said with a laugh.
"Nina Jacobs! Are you trying to betray your masters with words like that?!"
Arcadia White finally realized something was wrong.
Nina Jacobs had clearly arrived, yet she had no intention of saving anyone.
"You’ve misunderstood. I came to Whittaker Town to find the remaining supplies."
Nina Jacobs said.
’The remaining supplies?’
’Could it be that the supplies that went missing from the base before were also related to her?’
"Impossible! You alone?
There’s no way you could find the White Family’s things so easily.
And don’t even think about walking out of here alive!"
Arcadia White didn’t believe a word Nina Jacobs said. In a little while, the elite forces raised by the White Family would arrive, and Flynn White too...
’Her plan hadn’t even started yet. Nina Jacobs was supposed to be a puppet dancing in the palm of their hands!’
At this thought, she pulled out a pistol hidden behind her back and aimed it at Nina Jacobs.
However, Arcadia White screamed in pain just moments later.
Her weapon was shot from her hand, and Nina Jacobs had put bullets through both of her legs.
"Looks like your daughter has come for you," Nina Jacobs said, pointing behind Arcadia White.
Arcadia White turned her head to see a small, rotting zombie girl slowly shuffling out.
One of its arms was broken and twisted outward.
But it still reached out and embraced Arcadia White...
Watching Arcadia White being devoured by the zombified Julia Hughes, a few minutes later, Nina Jacobs sent the mother-daughter pair on their way with her Fire Roaring Blade.
"Nina Jacobs, you have a venomous heart!"
Just then, Thane Trevor ran in through the courtyard gate with a group of people.
"You killed Mrs. White! What is your goal?"
A man behind Thane Trevor also asked.
Nina Jacobs smiled. ’These people sure have perfect timing.’
’They could have come earlier or later, but they just had to barge in right after Arcadia White died.’
"Not looking for Flynn White? Did you just follow the scent here?"
Nina Jacobs raised her Fire Roaring Blade. When she had arrived earlier, she had already noticed that the wooden puppets outside had been destroyed.
Someone had arrived at the White Manor before her, but they hadn’t saved anyone.
’These people have most likely already colluded, planning to seize the spoils for themselves.’
"Enough talk! Everyone, attack!"
Thane Trevor commanded.
Although Nina Jacobs wasn’t one of the Whites, she wasn’t one of them either. The White Family was now just the old and the weak.
They had to eliminate the outsider first!
Nina Jacobs’s expression remained unchanged, but Wayne Warner had already charged forward!
All sorts of Superpowers and weapons clashed within the White Manor.
The people Thane Trevor brought were all formidable Superpower Users.
He had thought victory was certain, but the strength of Nina Jacobs and Wayne Warner gave him a bad feeling.
In just a few minutes, the two of them had already killed seven or eight of his men!
"Everyone, be careful! She’s a Dual Element Superpower User!
Form up, now!"
Thane Trevor commanded.
They trained daily in Whittaker Town and had developed a set of tactics specifically for dealing with powerful enemies.
But just then, someone at the rear was struck by a sharp weapon.
Immediately after, several more people screamed and fell.
Thane Trevor looked in the direction of the attack and saw the last person he ever expected.
"Holly Morgan? Aren’t you supposed to be dead?!"
He clearly remembered the doctor in the treatment room declaring that Holly Morgan’s death was inevitable.
But now, Holly Morgan stood atop the lintel of the White Manor’s gate, her Wood Grain Blade still in hand.
"Kill... I’ve come to kill you!"
With that, Holly Morgan conjured several wood thorns and leaped down from above.
Nina Jacobs could tell Holly Morgan was probably there to help her.
Of course, it was also possible she was just there to kill.
As the system’s "Best Defender" title was triggered repeatedly, Nina Jacobs pulled her Fire Roaring Blade from a man’s body.
"Holly Morgan, you... how could you..."
Thane Trevor stared at Holly Morgan in disbelief as a sharp pain erupted in his abdomen. She was stabbing him, again and again.
"I have to kill everyone here."
Holly Morgan said.
"You... weren’t like this... before."
Before his eyes closed for the last time, Thane Trevor thought he saw the Holly Morgan from his old team.
The Holly Morgan of the past had been his teammate.
During the initial disaster, Holly Morgan had been the one who was rescued, so she trusted every one of them.
There was also Evander Langdon on the team, who always argued with her. The two of them were constantly bickering, but they were also growing stronger together.
Later, Evander Langdon was scouted by the base because he was a Dual Element Superpower User, but the two of them had always kept in touch.
It was because of this trust that he had brought Holly Morgan here.
He knew that if anything happened to Holly Morgan, Evander Langdon would definitely come to save her.
Everything had been going according to the plan he’d laid out with the Whites.
Tonight, he had thought the White Family was finished and that he could reap the rewards, but how had it all suddenly gone so wrong?