Chapter 399
Chapter 399 Bad News and Missed Opportunities
Chapter 399 Bad News and Missed Opportunities
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Inside the bag was an entire roast pig, a whole rotisserie chicken, braised pork belly, ribs, shrimp… Almost untouched.
Only a chicken leg and a slab of pork had bite marks on them–just a few teeth marks, nothing more: Content orıginally comes from.net
Everyone stared at the massive bag of food, stunned.
Was this real?
Perfectly good food, just thrown away like garbage?
It had barely been touched before being tossed out!
For a while, the group just stood there in disbelief. Then, one by one, they looked up into the pitch–black space above them and quickly divided up the food.
“Everyone take a little.”
“Let’s eat when we get back.”
“Yeah, good idea.”
At that very moment, on the top floor of Ark Camp Three, a crowd had gathered in an extravagantly furnished room.
Flat on the bed, a man was retching uncontrollably.
Barely a few bites into his meal, and now his body was spewing out stomach acid, clotted blood, and whatever else was left inside.
He threw up so violently it seemed like he was trying to cough up his organs.
Then, as blood surged past his nose, his eyes rolled back and his legs stiffened.
Finally, he stopped vomiting.
“Mr. Slade?”
“Mr. Slade?”
“Oh, my God–Mr. Slade’s dead!”
By the time Theresa heard the news, it was already midday.
The leader of Ark Camp Three–the same man who’d spent a fortune at Ark Camp Two’s auction to buy that inhibitor and used it on himself–had died.
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He’s dead?
She’d been trying to get updates on him for a while now.
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Just as she was starting to wonder why Ark Camp Three hadn’t had any major zombie outbreaks lately, the bad news dropped.
“He died just like that? Didn’t turn into a zombie?” she asked.
“Straight up dead,” Lucas said honestly. “Didn’t he use the inhibitor? I thought that was supposed to prevent zombification.”
Ever since Theresa came back, everyone had heard about what she went through.
None of them had expected her trip to the supposedly ultra–safe Ark Camp Two auction to turn into such a nightmare.
Looking back, everyone still felt shaken.
Thankfully, it had been Theresa who went–and with her pack of amazing dogs.
If it had been anyone else, it would’ve ended badly.
Even the leader of Ark Camp Three got caught in the mess. Morgan was the only survivor from their
group.
Theresa had made it through without a scratch.
Lucas knew she was tough, but he couldn’t help worrying. If something had happened to her, what would they–no, what would the entire alliance–have done?
Now, hearing Theresa’s question, he brought it up again.
He remembered that the Ark Camp Three leader had injected himself with that outrageously expensive inhibitor.
“That worthless inhibitor?” Theresa snapped, slapping Lucas on the shoulder. “You really think those idiots managed to come up with a cure for the zombie virus? Please. Give me a break.”
Lucas blinked. “Then who could?”
“Obviously, only brilliant, brave, peerless geniuses like us!” Theresa declared with full confidence.
Lucas was speechless.
As ridiculous as it sounded, her conviction was oddly convincing.
For a second, he almost believed she had developed a cure.
Theresa really was something else.
“That thing was just a half–baked formula that slows down mutation. Useless. And now that guy just died.” She started pacing in circles. “Would’ve been better if he turned into a zombie.”
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Lucas couldn’t help chuckling. “You wanted him to turn into a zombie that badly?”
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“Of course! If he’d turned, it would’ve proven that Ark Camp Two’s inhibitor is fake. That would’ve forced- the two camps into a fight. I’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to light that fire.”
Theresa kept pacing in circles.
After taking Xavier’s advice, she’d been patiently waiting for the right spark to set things off.
She’d already tried to fan the flames by questioning the effectiveness of Ark Camp Two’s inhibitor.
But after the zombie outbreak, Ark Camp Two had managed to slip through without much trouble.
If that idiot camp leader had gone home and turned into a zombie, no one would’ve been able to cover it up.
It would’ve been clear the inhibitor didn’t work.
That would’ve guaranteed a war.
Instead, he just died.
So clean. So anticlimactic.
Ark Camp Two had claimed a 20% death rate. How did he manage to be part of that unlucky 20%?
Theresa kept circling, clearly frustrated.
Seeing her like that, Lucas reached out to stop her.
“Not turning into a zombie might be a blessing,” he said calmly. “If a virus breaks out in one of those sealed–up camps, it’s always the people at the very bottom who suffer the most.”
Theresa stopped. She thought of the helpless masses in Ark Camp One, of Steelbloom struggling to survive in Ark Camp Two.
She let out a long sigh.
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