Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 352: Chapter 352: Returning Kindness with Enmity
 

Yan San and Song Lian and a few others suddenly felt a chill down their spines. Was this a ghost sighting?

Soon enough, they spotted a figure floating in mid-air. If that wasn’t a ghost, what was it?!

Just as Yan San, Song Lian, and the speed element ability users behind them thought about turning around to use their abilities to open the door and slip away, they discovered their feet were also immobilized on the ground.

“Ghost Master, spare our lives! We meant no offense; we’ll leave now, we’ll leave right away!”

Yan San was facing the doorway, yet he only dared to glance sideways using the corner of his eye.

“Yes, yes, we promise never to come back,”

cried out Song Lian and the others as well.

Whoosh!

The group felt as though something cold and tentacle-like was wrapping around them layer by layer, and several of the more faint-hearted fainted on the spot.

Squeak~

The slightly bolder Yan San, terrified, looked towards the door that opened automatically, then found himself thrown out with great force, hitting the wall and also fainting on the spot.

Meanwhile, as Song Lian, who was thrown outside, witnessed what seemed to be red and black ghostly flames, he too completely passed out…

Bang!

The door was firmly shut again, and behind it stood Lin Xiuyuan and others, laughing uncontrollably.

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After locking the door, they erected a thick ice wall behind it and then all entered the space together.

“Hahahaha, I’m dying of laughter,”

Lin Xiuyuan continued to laugh, holding his stomach.

“The first time pretending to be ghosts, it’s really quite amusing,” Nie Qing said with a chuckle.

“Yes, Su Jin, had I known, I wouldn’t have called you two in here. Uncle Nie and I could have completely handled it, haha,”

Lin Xiuyuan had entered the space right after setting up the ice wall, promptly calling over Su Jin and Lu Hao. Considering it was still dark outside the space, they did not let grandma, grandpa and Mao Qiqi come out but dealt directly with those who tried to break in and steal.

“I didn’t expect them to think we were ghosts,” laughed Su Jin.

“Usually, they must have a guilty conscience, so they’re naturally scared,” Lu Hao remarked, seeing that these men were habitual offenders.

The group then rested for a while in the space, and Su Jin and Lu Hao returned outside.

This Freedom Dawn Base was too chaotic. What if a second wave of thieves came? Although there was nothing in the house, if someone discovered that it was unoccupied, it might still arouse the suspicions of some.

“Next time, let’s just live in some wild and desolate place,” Su Jin suggested.

“Okay, it’s up to you,”

Lu Hao said and then left the space with Su Jin.

The two had already rested enough in the space, and Su Jin simply took out her tablet to continue watching the series “Daylight Pursuit of Murder” that she was following with Lu Hao.

“Is it any good?” Lu Hao asked.

“It’s great, it’s great. I can watch it again from the beginning with you; these two brothers are so interesting,”

Su Jin excitedly recommended the mystery drama to Lu Hao.

“Okay, let’s watch together,” Lu Hao said with a smile.

So, the two of them, with a fruit plate and snacks Su Jin brought out, earnestly watched the TV series on the tablet, sharing a pair of earphones.

…

Until dawn when the sky began to brighten slightly, Su Jin, who was watching the drama, vaguely thought she smelled a scent of meat.

Recalling what the siblings Wan Peng and Wan Li said during the day, that people in the base’s dormitories also cooked their meals with whatever ingredients they could find, Su Jin didn’t pay much attention, thinking maybe some survivor had caught a mutant animal to cook.

Gradually, as the sky brightened, the grandparents, Nie Qing, Lin Xiuyuan, and Mao Qiqi all emerged from the space on time, and Su Jin took the opportunity to carry out Local Tyrant Gold, who seemed to have just woken up.

“It smells so good, someone must be cooking,”

Lin Xiuyuan said, inhaling the aroma in the air.

“Probably, I smelled it too just now,” Su Jin replied.

“Xiao Jin, Xiao Hao, you two go have some breakfast first, then we can set off,” Lin Yunguo said.

Su Jin and Lu Hao nodded but they disappeared for only 2 minutes before coming back out.

Twenty minutes in the space had been enough for them to have breakfast.

However, Su Jin noticed that Local Tyrant Gold seemed a bit odd.

Like, uneasy?

“What’s wrong, Local Tyrant Gold?” Su Jin asked.

“Chirp chirp chirp!” Local Tyrant Gold cried anxiously.

“Maybe something happened outside?” Nie Qing guessed.

As a wave of noise and crying reached them, everyone exchanged surprised glances. Was that the voices of siblings Wan Peng and Wan Li?!

They quickly grabbed their backpacks and headed toward the sounds outside, only to find a crowd gathered in the hallway.

“Ah Wang!”

The crying voices of Wan Peng and Wan Li came through.

Ignoring Yan San and Song Lian, who were still tied up by vines on the hallway side, Su Jin and the others supported Li Xiuying and Lin Yunguo as they quickly walked forward.

“You two are too much wuwuwu, such a waste, I worked hard to make it this morning, and you just threw it on the ground,”

The familiar sounding voice made Su Jin and the others feel comfortable—was this the woman from yesterday who was yelling about catching a thief with her child?

Su Jin looked through the crowd and suddenly widened her eyes.

On the ground, besides a pile of meat with bones and broken ceramic bowls, the corner stained with blood and yellow-white fur further soured their eyes.

That was Ah Wang!

“Why did you kill Ah Wang, he was our family!!!”

Wan Peng roared heartbreakingly, while Wan Li silently shed tears beside him.

The siblings had been unable to find Ah Wang since the previous night. Although Ah Wang had run outside before, he had never failed to return home at night. Feeling an ominous premonition, Wan Peng began searching everywhere in the base as soon as daylight broke, only to spot that familiar fur by a small pile of garbage in the hallway on his way back.

“We’re in an apocalypse, even people’s survival is difficult, why keep a dog? It would be better to use it to nourish my son who still can’t talk!”

The woman said while picking up the meat bones from the ground, even stuffing some into her mouth.

Wan Peng’s eyes turned bloodshot, and in his anger, he shot a Wind Ball at the woman who was still eating the meat.

With a loud bang, the woman was suddenly struck into the iron bed inside the house!

She incredulously touched the back of her head and began to scream hysterically when she saw the blood on her hands.

“Murder! Someone is committing murder in the base!”

Next to her, a child who looked about five or six years old held a long piece of meat bone, eating and watching the screaming woman, seemingly oblivious to what was happening.

The siblings silently picked up the meat bones from the ground. When Wan Li lifted the yellow-white fur, she finally couldn’t hold back her tears anymore.

The onlookers also murmured, although the little dog was pitiful, it was inevitable in these times.

“Wan Peng, don’t be sad, find a place to bury Ah Wang,”

A tall, thin man squatted beside Wan Peng to comfort him, Su Jin remembered, this man was with Wan Peng yesterday, probably a teammate in his group.