Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse - Chapter 790: Luo Yan’s Experience

Chapter 790: Chapter 790: Luo Yan’s Experience

Actually, Luo Yan only later found out that the place wasn’t far from E city, but because she awoke in an unknown village, she was initially surrounded by fear and anger and thought she had been sold to a distant location.

The one who bought her was an old bachelor named Zhang Shengcai. She had attempted to escape many times, but each time she was caught and brought back. Later, when the place was exposed, she thought she could finally see the light of day again. Zhang Shengcai, however, tied her up and hid her in a deserted earth cave nearby, just to prevent her from being discovered.

Zhang Shengcai used to bring her two meals a day on schedule. At that time, she had completely lost hope, but she still stayed strong because Han Wan would sometimes send someone to check on her living conditions.

It was from that person she learned that her son was still living well in Han Wan and Lian Zongren’s home as their second son.

That person told her that as long as she stayed there obediently for her entire life, Han Wan would treat her son as her own. However, if she ever tried to escape or managed to appear before Lian Zongren, they would definitely retaliate against her young child with the means of the Han Family.

So she dared not die. She would rather let Han Wan see her miserable state and gloat, than let Han Wan vent extra anger on her child…

Han Wan was very cruel. With her current state, even if she wanted to go back, she could no longer face her previous life and that person from before. Living for her son, whom she had only met once, was perhaps the only emotional pillar that had kept her alive all along.

Lately, the two meals a day from Zhang Shengcai turned into just one, and gradually Zhang Shengcai stopped visiting the earth cave. Just when she thought Zhang Shengcai had grown tired of her, the outside world suddenly changed.

There were no people around the earth cave she was in. Previously, only occasionally would someone who went up the mountain to gather wood pass by on the distant road, but even she, who had become delirious, slowly realized something was wrong—there was no one around, no one at all.

She finally managed to break the ropes on her feet with a stone and slowly walked towards the village. In the distance, what came into her view were severed limbs and several people with demon-like appearances who pounced towards her, Zhang Shengcai among them.

In panic, she ran towards the direction of the earth cave. Although those demons continued to chase her, she led them into a deep ditch where they fell in. She didn’t know what had happened, so she dared only hide inside the earth cave.

Luckily, for convenience, Zhang Shengcai had previously placed some pots and a small canister of gas in the cave. She survived in the earth cave on wild fruits and vegetables she gathered around.

While gathering wild fruits and vegetables, she sustained many injuries, but she was amazed to find that her wounds were slowly healing by themselves. This discovery delighted her for a long time, but her instinct still kept her from going back into the village.

Just when she had run out of food and the gas in the canister was also used up, many people who were not from her village seemed to have fled to that village for refuge. It was then someone found her in the earth cave and informed her that the outside world had been infected by the Zombie Virus, and the world of humans had turned into a world of zombies.

These demons were not ghosts, but zombies.

She remembered those who found her saying how lucky she was to have been sold there but unexpectedly had spared her life. They also told her that now all the cities outside were like hell, with almost no survivors.

Yet, she had been locked there for 19 years. She thought those 19 years had already exhausted all her misfortunes, but she didn’t expect even greater misfortune was waiting for her.

She, with the Healing Element Ability, was soon valued by those people. However, after a Red Rain, the plants in the village also mutated, and she then prepared to go with those people to find a base to survive.

Although people died every day, that period was still the happiest time she could recall, with companions, goals, the excitement of killing zombies, and the sense of achievement from healing others’ pain…

It wasn’t until she and her companions encountered a horde of zombies on the road and everyone died, except for her, who, being lucky, fled to the E City base with another passing group, that she learned there were still survivors in E City. Just when she started to harbor a glimmer of hope of seeing her child, she was captured immediately upon entering the base, and then she saw the woman who had haunted her nightmares for 19 years…

The basement was incredibly quiet in the middle of the night, only Luo Yan’s gentle voice slowly narrated, and for so many years, finally, someone heard her ordeal, and that someone was her own child.

“Yueer, I have not spent a day without thinking of you, but now I have dragged you into this too. It would be better if I were dead,”

Luo Yan shed two clear streams of tears; she had thought her tears had dried up long ago. Had she merely been numb before?

Tied to the wooden pillar, Lian Jiyue clenched his fists. He had imagined countless possibilities, but never this one. Luo Yan casually narrated her past, never mentioning her own suffering. Now, he wished Luo Yan were a heartless mother, as long as she was happy.

Yet, what he heard was the most painful answer possible. He didn’t even know that, while he was still the Base Leader in E City, his birth mother and he were in the same base, and he dared not think about the tortures Luo Yan had suffered…

Seeing that Lian Jiyue remained silent, Luo Yan felt another wave of pain. If only she had truly gone mad.

“Han Wan… she never treated me well,”

said Lian Jiyue suddenly from the shadows.

“What?”

Luo Yan was startled, but then she understood. That woman, still unforgiving even after knowing all the suffering she endured, how could Han Wan have ever treated well the child of her and Lian Zongren?

“I will find a way to take you out of here,”

Lian Jiyue looked up at Luo Yan. As their gazes met, Luo Yan saw clearly her child’s features for the first time. In his eyes, it seemed… there was not a hint of contempt or disdain.

In that moment, Luo Yan suddenly felt content and smiled. She even thought she was the happiest mother in the world, although that moment was extremely brief.

“Your father… he raised you very well,”

Luo Yan said with a smile.

Lian Jiyue didn’t know why she smiled, but then he smiled too. Because he thought, a mother’s smile is truly beautiful.

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