Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse Chapter 197

Chapter 197: Chapter 197: Her Name is Chen Xiarong

When the two returned to the space, the others were still watching TV. Su Jin moved the carcass of the mutant beast near the entrance next to the pile of bodies from yesterday.

“These porcupine quills look very long, can they be used for Guo Yang?” Su Jin now saw clearly what these porcupines looked like, their back quills were much longer than those of hedgehogs, and each was distinctly sharp and long, not any less than the iron needles Guo Yang used.

“They should be usable, and the porcupine quills contain toxins.”

Lu Hao said. Such poison in the medicine-lacking apocalypse was deadly, but he also hoped that Guo Yang would never have the need to use them.

The two began searching for beast cores with their knives. Whenever a beast core revealed itself from the heads of these mutated beasts, it would turn into tiny specks of light and directly get absorbed by the space.

Unfortunately, most of these grey wolves hadn't mutated, and they weren't attracted by the spirit gathering trapping formation, but by Su Jin and Lu Hao. However, there were many grey wolf carcasses, which could be exchanged for crystal cores later on.

After returning, Su Jin planned to try selling the carcasses of these mutated beasts and animals whole, because last time they processed those wild boar carcasses in the space, they found it not only troublesome but also very tiring; she couldn't bear to let her grandparents deal with them anymore.

The night hunt just now had expended most of their remaining special abilities for the day.

Today, finally, no special abilities were wasted, Su Jin thought happily.

And before they entered, Lu Hao hadn't withdrawn the two spirit gathering trapping formations. After they had enough rest, they could still make another trip outside.

Thinking about staying in the space for another three or four days, Su Jin was quite pleased; she hadn't slept in, in the true sense of the word, for a long time.

The two's residence was in a side courtyard next to the Lu Residence. Although it was just a side courtyard, it also had a private bathroom with modern showers installed. The shower water they used was the special ability water previously supplied by Huang Yunxiang and Lin Tianzhen. Although there was well water and stream water available, the well water was by default for drinking, and the stream water was too far, so it was more convenient to just have them put special ability water directly into the water tank.

Su Jin envied her aunt and her young aunt's water element abilities, because the consumption of the water element ability could be replenished by producing water, allowing them to nearly exhaust their water element ability every day.

Her wood element ability could also be expended by promoting the growth of seeds and plants, but that was too slow and wasted seeds.

“What are you thinking about?”

Lu Hao came over and picked Su Jin up from the couch into his arms, asking. Why did he and Su Jin use the same shampoo and shower gel, but he always felt that Su Jin's scent was a little better?

Seeing Lu Hao sniffing around her neck like a dog, Su Jin, tickled and giggling, said, “I wasn't thinking about anything, I was thinking about sleeping in tomorrow morning, and you better not wake me up.”

“Don't worry, I won't let anyone wake you up,” Lu Hao said, resting his chin in the hollow of Su Jin's shoulder. In the apocalypse, having a sweet-smelling little wife to hold every day was sheer bliss. Before the apocalypse, because of their jobs, they couldn't be together every day, but now he could be with Su Jin and his family every day, he thought the apocalypse wasn't hard to endure at all.

In the refuge of City S, Li Haochu stood on the second-floor balcony, sighed while looking down at the survivors. The base had reported that many troublemakers were among the last batch of survivors transferred over. Most of them were demanding continued provision of food and shelter, some even fought with the soldiers escorting them.

He was very angry when he heard this news. He and his men fought desperately every day to protect these survivors and scoured for supplies. How could these people take it all for granted? It wasn't just his men who felt disheartened; even he felt a chill in his heart.

However, when Liang Wei heard about it, he didn't get angry. It seemed as if he had expected this and even told them not to worry but to give the survivors a transition period.

Li Haochu naturally listened to Liang Wei's words, but looking at the survivors below, he still felt a twinge of heartache.

News had somehow spread that once they reached the base, there would no longer be free meals and lodging, and that everything would need to be exchanged for Crystal Cores, even water had to be obtained through exchange with Water Element Ability Users… Upon hearing this, many survivors began to grow uneasy and even more refused to be relocated to the base.

Liu Jiajin was among these people. He sneered, thinking how foolish they were. Wouldn't it be better to move to the base sooner? Although there was food in the refuge, it was becoming increasingly unsafe, with soldiers getting injured or killed every day. City West was much better—he had only followed Liang Jiuhui there once, but the image of the villa area was deeply etched in his mind.

For delivering the message in time last time, Liang Jiuqing and Zheng Miaomiao no longer sought to put him to death, and contrary to his expectations, Liang Jiuhui did not promote him but simply gave him some food as a token of thanks.

In truth, he was already content. After all, he had once conspired with Sun Yixue against Zheng Miaomiao, and the fact that Liang Jiuhui, knowing this, had not dealt with him was already a mercy. In any case, the damned Zhao Bin was dead, and his goal had been reached.

“Big Brother, are you going to the base with them tomorrow?” A delicate-looking girl lying next to him on the ground against the wall asked.

He wasn't actually familiar with this girl, who had recently arrived at the refuge. It was just that, because she was taken away by different men every night and returned with bruises and scars, she reminded him of the former Sun Yixue.

Really, just as disgusting.

Liu Jiajin thought to himself.

Nevertheless, he politely replied to her, telling her he was leaving tomorrow.

“But there will be no food there. For ordinary people like us, how are we going to survive?”

The girl sighed. She had been having all sorts of bizarre dreams these days, but upon waking up, she could not clearly remember the details from her dreams. All she could remember was that in those dreams, she was an Earth Element Ability User, not like now, without any abilities, relying on selling her body for food.

In the refuge, although they weren't dying of hunger, when she learned that she needed Crystal Cores to get food at the base, she began to trade her body daily to save up some food.

Her little bag had already accumulated some biscuits, instant noodles, and dry steamed buns. She should be able to get by for a while at the base.

“There always are ways for ordinary people to survive,” Liu Jiajin said absently, just going through the motions.

He too had applied to participate in the base construction, and had even filled out the application form, but for some reason, his name was not on the final list. He suspected it might be because of the issue with Zheng Miaomiao, but now he bore no grudge. After being treated that way by Zhao Bin's group, he felt that nobody could be more despicable than Zhao Bin. Moreover, what he had done to Zheng Miaomiao wasn't something a human should do.

“Thank you, Big Brother Liu. My name is Chen Xiarong. Don't forget me when you're there,” the girl said ingratiatingly.

She almost didn't know anyone here, and everyone looked at her as if they were staring at a fly, so when Liu Jiajin occasionally replied to her, she felt a bit of hope. Men always seemed stronger than women in the apocalypse; it would be great if Liu Jiajin could help her when she got there.

Liu Jiajin didn't respond after hearing her words.

Is this woman insane? She's a prostitute and she wants him not to forget her? Does she really think of herself as some innocent young girl?

Chapter end

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