Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse - Chapter 411 - 411 Four Hundred and Eleven The Return Journey
Chapter 411: Chapter Four Hundred and Eleven: The Return Journey Chapter 411: Chapter Four Hundred and Eleven: The Return Journey Su Jin stepped out of the space and took in a sharp breath of cold air when he looked outside.
Perhaps these zombies had started moving towards the hotel long ago; it was just that the soundproofing of this place was so effective, and since Qiqi had entered the space early, they had only just realized the situation now.
Su Jin pushed open the door and saw that the doors to Dr. Pei and Zhang Chuyang’s rooms were still tightly shut; the people inside were obviously still deep in sleep.
And at Mao Qiqi’s door, there was already a tall man squatting, who she knew without needing to shine a flashlight could only be Lian Jiyue.
Seemingly hearing noise from inside, Lian Jiyue stood up.
So when Mao Qiqi opened her door, she was met with a towering wall right at her doorstep.
“…”
“Qiqi, how many zombies are outside?” Su Jin asked.
“Over twenty thousand,” Mao Qiqi replied.
Looking at the dark night outside, Su Jin frowned; going out to kill zombies now would be both troublesome and dangerous. He wasn’t sure if the ground floor could hold until it got light around five o’clock.
When they entered the hotel in the afternoon, they had already used Lian Jiyue’s Metal Element Ability to block the entrance of the lobby; Lian Jiyue had directly formed a large metal plate, preventing the zombies from entering the hotel for the time being.
At this moment, Lu Hao and others also came out. Su Jin suggested using the Man-eating Flowers to hold out until dawn, as it was too dangerous to go out now.
“Okay, it will be light in about two more hours,”
Lu Hao said, even though he was eager to test his Level Six Fire Element Ability.
Seeing everyone agree, Su Jin nodded, went to the sixth-floor lobby, cracked open a window, and threw out a Man-eating Flower that he grew on the spot.
Since Mao Qiqi said that zombies surrounded the hotel, Su Jin and the others went to the windows of other rooms and grew several Man-eating Flowers separately.
Xiao Cui seemed very pleased; the Man-eating Flowers landed steadily amidst the zombies and quickly began to devour them.
Su Jin and the others then sat on the sofas in the sixth-floor lobby, enjoying the view of the Man-eating Flowers eating zombies outside while having a casual chat; and with company by his side, Lin Xiuyuan didn’t find the scene scary any longer.
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Zhang Chuyang woke up naturally after a good night’s sleep, stretched lazily and drew back the curtains in his room, letting in a stream of light. He squinted his eyes—wow, he had slept so well last night!
But when he saw the view outside, he thought he was seeing things. He rubbed his eyes again – why were there so many zombie corpses outside?!
Pei Yuan and Wang Zhu had gotten up early; they were fortunate enough to watch Su Jin and the others kill zombies for a while and were now preparing to help with extracting Crystal Cores.
“Su, Su Jin, what happened here?!”
Zhang Chuyang turned into a blur as he ran downstairs to ask.
“Hmm, some zombies came last night, they’re taken care of,”
Su Jin said with a shrug.
This is called ‘some’? Zhang Chuyang looked dumbfounded at the zombie corpses littering the ground.
There must be tens of thousands, right?!
What Su Jin hadn’t told them was that last night, those Man-eating Flowers were incredibly voracious. In just two hours, they had devoured tens of thousands of zombies.
Although she felt a bit sorry for the Crystal Cores, those ten thousand zombies had their benefits for her; she felt she had now reached the mid-stage of Level Six and might level up before long!
Zhang Chuyang was sent by everyone to wash up and have breakfast.
“Come dig for Crystal Cores after breakfast,” Su Jin also urged. They had already eaten.
Zhang Chuyang felt somewhat ashamed for having slept so late and not having been much help. With that thought, he quickly washed up, then stuffed several bites of the steamed hot flatbread from the rice cooker into his mouth, along with some milk and eggs.
Watching Zhang Chuyang dash down and dig up Zombie Crystal Nuclei as quick as lightning, they had dug up 10 when he had already unearthed over 30.
“So a Speed Element Ability User can even increase their speed of digging up Crystal Cores,”
Nie Qing was learning this for the first time.
“Yes, Uncle Nie, it’s because I can dig up Crystal Cores quickly, so most of the cores are kept with Brother Wang, hehe,”
Zhang Chuyang said, and at the same time, he noticed that many of the zombie corpses on the ground were either half-naked or wearing swimsuits. Could there be a swimming pool nearby?
“These must be zombies from the water park over there,”
Lu Hao pointed toward a barely visible Ferris wheel in the distance. It was unclear how these zombies had discovered them here.
Mao Qiqi glanced at the distant Ferris wheel; indeed, she wouldn’t have noticed it from so far away, but fortunately, they had discovered it early the night before.
After the group finished digging up and cleaning the Zombie Crystal Nuclei, they left the area. Su Jin decided that even if they did not reach the base today, they should at least get to S City.
Fang Zhengyang took over the driving. He had run over countless zombies these past few days, and he was also very eager to return to his hometown, so he drove particularly fast now.
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On a street in S City.
Jian Zongzheng’s team had been rather unlucky these past few days.
Ever since Xia Ying and Xia Mufei disappeared suddenly, they had not found any suitable teammates. Now, because their team didn’t meet the required number of members, they had not been able to take on any missions from the base and could only go out to hunt for Crystal Cores themselves.
“It wasn’t easy for me to pull in two people last time, only for you guys to chase them away,”
Han Xiao muttered while prying out a Crystal Core from a zombie’s head on the ground.
“The people you brought, were they even human? When not stealing, they were peeping. It was just disgusting,”
Zhang Xiaoai was extremely upset when mentioning the two people Han Xiao had brought last time.
Because Xia Ying and Xia Mufei had already renewed the lease on two rooms in the villa for two years before they left — a benefit given by the base for participating in its construction — Han Xiao, after bringing new people into the team, had promised them free villa accommodation.
The man and woman, however, were deceptively polite on the surface. The trouble started when Yin Qiu discovered their belongings kept mysteriously disappearing, and Anna caught one of the men sneakily crouching at the bathroom door attempting to peep on Xiaoai showering. Outraged, Jian Zongzheng and others beat the two up and chased them away.
“That’s right, Ah Xiao, don’t just bring in anyone. You should at least check their character,”
Ye Shuai echoed the sentiment, his hair half black, half yellow due to the lack of dyeing facilities.
“Next time, don’t look for people. We’ll find them ourselves,”
Jian Zongzheng really didn’t trust Han Xiao’s carefree nature, just like he had thought before that leveling up would handle any number of absorbed Crystal Cores. This time, thinking it didn’t matter what kind of people were pulled in to fill the team’s numbers, he had simply brought in two such undesirables.
“Yes, we still have to take the Mercenary Corps’ assessment. We can’t just casually bring people in,”
Anna strongly agreed with her boyfriend’s view.
