Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse - Chapter 934: 934: Vitality

Chapter 934: Chapter 934: Vitality

As they moved forward, the cave became increasingly deep, yet the virus detector consistently indicated normal conditions. Apart from their footsteps, no other sounds were heard within the cave.

Finally, they reached a corner.

From that spot, looking further ahead, they could see a beam of light shining through a transparent layer of ice above.

Following that beam downward, Su Jin noticed in a crevice of irregular rock a pure white flower blooming. The plant was peculiar, with no leaves, just a single stem breaking through the rock, topped with the flower at its apex.

“I thought there would be some treasure here. We’ve reached the end, and there’s just a single flower?”

Lin Xiuyuan was somewhat disappointed; the flower looked quite ordinary, with nothing distinctive about it, and he had expected to find an ancient artifact or something of that nature.

Nie Qing also approached to examine the flower closely: “This flower… I’ve never seen it before…”

Su Jin, having thought Nie Qing might know something: “…”

Whish~

Xiao Cui suddenly extended a branch, entwining the flower, and just as Su Jin was about to stop it, she was stunned by the vision that appeared in her mind.

What kind of world was that?

After chaos and conflict lay mountains of corpses, from amidst which a person stood up with their head lowered, followed by a second and a third…

Those people suddenly lifted their heads, opening wide maws to howl. Su Jin could clearly see—they had become zombies, the kind they encountered almost daily now.

The scenes flashed past Su Jin’s eyes like silhouettes; whether royalty or commoners of that era, they all became prey to these zombies.

In that era, zombies were called Man-Eater Demons. Although people gradually learned how to kill them, they still suffered devastating losses.

Then, a group of cultivators appeared before the people, helping them to hunt these Man-Eater Demons, but due to the small number of cultivators, they quickly fell into a disadvantage against the ever-growing demon army…

Not knowing how many more years passed, an era where everyone practiced cultivation arrived, yet Man-Eater Demons still couldn’t be completely eradicated, and humans continued to transform into demons; the peace they longed for never arrived.

The scene shifted to a woman in white, badly injured, clearly bitten by a demon. With tears in her eyes, she leapt off a cliff…

Soon after, the woman miraculously reappeared with a leafless flower, bringing hope as those bitten by demons could be healed by medicine made from this flower, preventing their transformation into demons.

It turned out that at the cliff’s base existed a vast field of such flowers. She later returned with others to harvest them on a grand scale, making herbal medicine which finally made people no longer fear Man-Eater Demons…

Upon seeing the vine in Su Jin’s hand touch the flower, Su Jin remained standing there, and Lin Xiuyuan was about to call out to her, but Lu Hao stopped him.

Moments later, Su Jin murmured two words: “Vitality…”

She understood now, this flower was the vitality that Lu Changfeng had pointed out to them before!

“Girl, are you sure?”

Nie Qing asked seriously, knowing this was no ordinary flower.

Su Jin recounted to them the visions she had seen, leaving Lin Xiuyuan speechless with surprise. Was the vitality they’d sought for so long really this flower?

Have they truly found it?!

“Xiao Jin, you just said there was a vast field of these flowers at that cliff’s base, but here there’s only one.”

Lu Hao’s words instantly left everyone in chill.

They collectively looked at the unassuming little flower, barely the size of a fist… emerging from a rock crevice.

“Such a small vitality…”

Lin Cheng felt the vitality was like a tiny flame, liable to be extinguished by a gust of wind.

“If it’s truly what the girl saw, then this must indeed be the vitality Lu Family’s Immortal mentioned. But why did the ancient language call it ‘a thread of vitality’? That generally means something extremely small, sometimes just a person, or even an idea.”

Nie Qing explained to Lin Cheng.

“And now it’s a flower…”

Lin Xiuyuan quipped, feeling it should have been a person; the flower had just five petals—how could it be used!

“Let’s search around for more.”

Lu Hao, not wanting everyone too discouraged, remarked—after all, even if they found this vitality, if it couldn’t be used as Su Jin described, it would be futile.

Su Jin nodded and with her family began searching throughout the cave, but alas, found nothing else.

“Uncle, help me use your special ability to open this rock. I want to take it with the root.”

After circling around, Su Jin had given up hope of finding more; she decided to place all hope in this single flower.

“Right idea; the girl has Wood Element ability, she can at least keep it from withering. With care, it might even produce seeds.”

Nie Qing agreed.

“Alright, brace yourselves, I’m worried about damaging it.”

Lin Cheng, fearful of misjudging his strength and breaking the fragile little flower, was extremely tense.

“I’ll use my ability to protect it.”

Su Jin wrapped a vine around the stem to prevent it from breaking or falling. Lu Hao and the others shielded this possibly more precious than diluted treasure flower.

Clatter~

The rock split under the control of the Earth Element ability, emitting a crisp sound.

Su Jin had used her Wood Element ability to secure its roots; seeing a tender green branch lift the fragile flower into her hands, the four could finally relax.

As they still needed to return through their entry point, Su Jin decided to place it back into the space to avoid any damage.

After situating the flower near a small stream in a patch of Spirit Field within the space, they re-emerged to find that their entry point had completely transformed.

The transparent ice layer on the ground and the ice edges above had entirely melted, revealing black, hard rock. Su Jin tested the virus detector again, and indeed, the detector lit up bright red once more.

“…So was it all because of that single flower?”

Lu Hao had to admit this was truly miraculous.

“Yes, I plan to collect some samples from here, though we need to seal them properly, as Zombie Virus could be here everywhere.”

Su Jin said, realizing they might not need to return to M Peak for testing after today.