Reborn Cave Queen of the End Times novel Chapter 188

Chapter 188 Bleeding the Shelter Dry

Chapter 188 Bleeding the Shelter Dry

Kevin said bitterly, “That makes sense. That bastard Gordon. I’ll kill him sooner or later!”

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Jude said, “We don’t have any better options right now. We’ll have to tighten security. If that stiff doesn’t work, we can gather everyone in one place and see whether the attackers still dare to make a move.”

Noah said, “No. Every family has a huge stockpile, so moving everything to one place isn’t practical. The acid rain is still falling, and anything exposed to it will corrode. What if the attackers never show up and the rain destroys the supplies instead?”

Kevin snapped, “Nothing we suggest will work. What are we supposed to do? We can’t just sit around waiting to die!”

Noah and Jude fell silent, and none of the three could come up with a workable solution.

Fear spread rapidly throughout the central shelter.

Everyone feared they would be next, while secretly hoping the attackers would choose someone else and leave them alone.

Meanwhile, the person they all feared was inside her storage space sorting through her loot. Autumn separated the gold from everything else and piled the useless items together. Once she returned to the base, she would have someone sort through the pile, keep anything useful, and burn the rest for fuel.

By the time she finished, she had amassed an enormous pile of gold.

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Everything from doorknobs, nails, and screws to sinks, mirror frames, and bathtubs contained gold!

How extravagant!

Altogether, the gold weighs more than 100 tons!

Tsk, tsk, tsk… A haul like this makes me want to work even harder!

Meanwhile, Leonel’s business was booming too.

The repeated attacks had terrified the tycoons, sending them scrambling for weapons and protective gear.

Leonel sold out of protective suits.

He had sold an incredible 500,000 suits.

One suit cost eleven pounds. Five hundred thousand suits meant an astronomical number.

The tycoons had burned through all their gold and were forced to pay with other supplies instead.

Their gold reserves had been drained almost overnight.

Autumn and Leonel’s plan had worked perfectly.

Some wealthy families had even started ripping off their gold doorknobs and melting them down to pay for protective suits.

Protective suits wore out with use, so no one dared keep only a small supply. If the acid rain continued and they expected to live for decades, they needed enough suits to last.

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Chapter 188 Bleeding the Shelter Dry

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Once one family started, the others quickly followed.

Soon, every wealthy family except Gordon’s, the Carters, the Blakes, and the Yorks was frantically melting down gold and trading it for protective suits.

Eventually, Gordon and the three ruling families began buying protective suits in huge quantities too. They were just as afraid as everyone else.

They were afraid that the killer would start attacking indiscriminately and eventually turned their sights on them.

Autumn killed the tycoons and took their valuables, while Leonel sold merchandise and protective suits. Together, they had practically bled the central shelter dry and made a fortune in the process.

While Autumn and Leonel were busy making money, Beckett had begun targeting the ruling families’ most important stockpiles.

That night, every tycoon remained on high alert, but no wealthy family was robbed or attacked.

While everyone else felt confused but relieved, Gordon and the three ruling families were furious.

Their warehouses had been leveled, and everything inside was gone.

Gordon had suffered the worst loss of all.

A few days earlier, Gordon had been delighted that the attacks were limited to the Carters, the Blakes, and the Yorks. Now he hated he thieves with every fiber of his being. How had they found his warehouse so easily and taken everything without leaving a single crap behind?

The Carters, the Blakes, and the Yorks weren’t doing much better. Representatives from all three families openly cursed the hieves.

Their losses had been enormous too.

n an apocalypse where every meal reduced their limited food supply, food was the most valuable resource of all.

The three families had lost their food reserves, so their fury was hardly surprising.

When the three representatives stormed over to confront Gordon, they found him standing in front of his ruined warehouse, looking ready to have a stroke. He was cursing the thieves at the top of his lungs. “When I find those bastards, they’re dead! All the gold I spent my entire life collecting is gone. Every last bit of it! My gold… all that gold… my entire life’s collection. I might as well be dead!”

The three representatives, who had arrived furious, immediately fell silent.

They knew Gordon treasured that gold more than his own life.

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