Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 136: Chapter 136 Sacrifice
 

“Anyway, be careful,” Lu Hao said.

The road leading to Antique City was inaccessible by car, so they had to get out and walk. Su Jin placed Local Tyrant Gold on Lu Hao’s shoulder; although both were somewhat reluctant, they obediently did not resist.

Zombies in the corner had already spotted them, all excitedly running toward them. Lu Hao didn’t wait for them to get close, taking them down from a distance.

The two of them walked slowly forward, even Su Jin feeling there was something odd about this place, until Lu Hao who was leading in front stopped.

“What’s wrong?” Su Jin asked, puzzled.

“There’s something wrong with that pile of sand,” Lu Hao said in a low voice.

Su Jin hadn’t noticed the pile of sand, as it was common to see areas needing repair on the road, and a pile of sand by the wall didn’t seem out of the ordinary.

But the part of the sandpile beneath had a blood-red color, clearly covered by fresh sand on top, and while the top sand appeared wet and dark, the bottom was dry and light.

Could it be…

The two exchanged looks, and Lu Hao nodded, his right hand igniting a flame and hurling it toward the sand!

“Roar~”

A pale, greenish Zombie burst out from the sand, hit by the flame!

It was a Mutated Zombie!

This Zombie had actually learned to hide and ambush, definitely not one that had just mutated.

When the Mutated Zombie realized it was discovered, it started controlling the sand and rocks on the ground, hurling them at the two!

It was Earth Element!

Lu Hao wrapped an arm around Su Jin’s waist and jumped to the side, avoiding the sand and rock attacks. But the Zombie was not willing to give up, continuing to control the bricks beside the construction site to attack them.

Continuously dodging was no solution, so Su Jin and Lu Hao decided to attack from both sides!

They ran to the left front and right front respectively. Su Jin urged vines forward, knocking away the rocks thrown by the Earth Element Zombie, then stabbing the vines toward the Earth Element Zombie! Meanwhile, Lu Hao on the right also conjured up a cluster of flame, hurling it at the same Zombie!

The Earth Element Zombie used rocks on the ground to block Su Jin’s vines. The vines shattered the rocks, while its arm did not manage to evade Lu Hao’s attack, a huge fireball hitting its left arm!

Didn’t hit the head?

Lu Hao continued pelting it with one fireball after another. The Earth Element Zombie parried while retreating, but the fireballs did not extinguish upon being blocked; instead, they began burning across various parts of its body!

The Earth Element Zombie was thoroughly enraged and charged directly at Lu Hao!

“Phut”

The sizzling sounds abruptly stopped as the Earth Element Zombie slowly fell. Su Jin withdrew the vine that had pierced the back of the Zombie’s head, a yellow Crystal Core also hooked out.

“Quite large,” Lu Hao commented as he came over.

“Yeah, it’s a Level Two Crystal Core. I wonder if uncle will be able to advance successfully after absorbing it,” Su Jin said. She rinsed the Crystal Core clean with water from a bottle in her Space, then tucked it into her storage bag and into her Space.

Coming out and finding loot, the feeling wasn’t bad.

Only then did the two of them walk toward the entrance of Antique City.

Meanwhile, at the long-distance bus station near Antique City, several people dressed as military personnel, drenched in blood, were desperately running towards the exit. Not far from the wall outside, zombies were dropping from the low wall one after another and getting up again to chase after them.

“Hurry up, take off your clothes, they’re catching up!” a dark-skinned woman at the exit shouted anxiously, holding onto the iron gate. She was ready to close it as soon as those team members ran out.

And this dark-skinned woman was Liang Jiuqing. Recently, more and more zombies had been gathering near the refuge. Every day, their team members were making different levels of sacrifice. Today, they had been forced to split into several groups to divert the zombies, and the way to attract the zombies was to cover the team members with fresh blood, which would make any nearby zombies follow the scent.

A team member was taking off his outer clothes while running. The zombies outside the wall were piling up like stacks of arhats, climbing over one another. More and more zombies fell inside the wall, running toward them.

A team member nearly fell, but was steadied by a comrade-in-arms beside him, and they continued to run desperately towards the exit.

Their mission was to lure these zombies into the long-distance bus station and then drop bombs from a helicopter into the station to execute a mass culling, but today, the number of zombies they attracted was too great. Seeing the dark mass of the zombie horde behind them, several team members couldn’t help but groan inwardly; if caught, they would be turned to pieces in an instant.

No one dared to fall behind, all sprinting forward with all their might.

By now, the helicopter was already hovering above, waiting. The two pilots inside the helicopter, looking down at the dark mass of zombies below, couldn’t help but sweat.

Just then, a pale-looking zombie suddenly jumped onto the roof of a bus. It waved its arms in the air, its purpose unclear, but Jiuqing, who had been keeping an eye on the zombie horde, noticed this odd behavior and suddenly realized a possibility.

Disaster!

“Helicopter, get out of the way!!”

Liang Jiuqing screamed this at the helicopter in the sky.

This was a Mutated Wind Element Zombie, and its target was the helicopter in the sky!

No matter how loud Jiuqing’s voice was, the people in the helicopter couldn’t hear her at all. Even without the distance issue, the noise of the helicopter overwhelmed all other sounds.

And that Wind Element Zombie, seemingly out of nowhere, had already conjured a tornado-like gust of wind and hurled it towards the sky!

Jiuqing watched helplessly as the helicopter was hit! Fortunately, the helicopter swayed a few times in the air but then stabilized itself.

Just when Jiuqing had barely taken a breath of relief, she saw the Wind Element Zombie leap again from the roof of the bus and launch another attack on the helicopter!

Although the helicopter kept dodging, it was hit several times in the end. The Wind Blades formed by the Wind Element Zombie struck and brought down the tail of the aircraft!

“Bang!”

With the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground, the helicopter eventually crashed!

“No!!”

The team members had reached the outside of the gate by this time and saw the plane thoroughly covered by zombies, teeth clenched in fury.

Those were the comrades who had fought side by side with them!

Now they could only watch as their comrades were torn apart. The doors and windows of the helicopter were quickly shattered by the zombies, and the two young pilots inside, still stunned from the crash, were pulled out by countless grabbing zombie hands before they could react…

Liang Jiuqing covered her mouth, weeping.

Why, why did such a scene happen every day? Why did those young soldiers have to die like this?

“Team leader, we need to get out of here! We can’t hold out much longer!” a team member, his face dripping with sweat, said.

With the helicopter crash, the bombs hadn’t been successfully detonated. So many zombies trapped inside, with only a perforated iron gate for defense, it was clear that it couldn’t hold out for long.

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