Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 237: Chapter 237 Witness

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“Hello, my special ability is Healing Element. I’ll start by healing you,”

Lin Tianhui said to the woman covered in blood, not knowing who would be so cruel as to slash a girl’s face like that.

The woman seemed reluctant, but upon seeing Lin Tianhui’s gentle gaze, like water, she couldn’t bring herself to refuse and obediently extended her arm.

The Healing Element Ability soothed the searing wounds like strands of cool water, gradually stabilizing Sheng Jing’s expression.

“Why are you saving us?”

Kang Ning kept her guard up despite the situation, as they had just fallen into a trap the day before.

“I need your help,”

Liang Jiuhui said to the four people.

“Us? What can we do to help you?” a man couldn’t help but ask.

“Help me by being my witnesses,” Liang Jiuhui replied.

Witnesses?

The group exchanged puzzled looks, wondering what they could possibly witness.

“Help me find the people who locked you up,”

Liang Jiuhui said, considering what he might do if these people didn’t agree…

“What’s your relationship with them?” Kang Ning asked.

“A hostile one,”

“I agree,”

Upon hearing Liang Jiuhui’s words, Sheng Jing, who had her eyes previously closed, suddenly opened them.

It was perfect—she was also looking for those people. Without taking revenge, she feared she would never be at peace in her life.

Just last night, she had merely rejected one of those men who had shown interest in her. That man had taken advantage of her unconsciousness to humiliate her and had even scarred her face, not sparing her arms and legs either!

Sheng Jing had lived for over two decades and never suffered such humiliation! Even in the Apocalypse, she couldn’t swallow this insult!

“My name is Sheng Jing, pleased to cooperate,”

After saying this, Sheng Jing continued to lean against the car. She would never forget the faces of those people for as long as she lived.

“I also agree,”

Kang Ning nodded. She felt more at ease after hearing Liang Jiuhui’s request; if he had had no demands, like those people from yesterday, that would have been far more suspicious.

“We agree too,” the two men said immediately upon seeing this.

Liang Jiuhui felt relieved and turned to Xu Shi and Guan Hong alongside him, “Let’s head back to the base.”

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The convoy led by Su Jin and Lu Hao encountered a small zombie horde attack as they were approaching the territory of City West, but they managed to get past it with more shock than hazard. Although a few more Guard Squad Members were injured, Liang Wei and the others felt that the number of casualties was already much lower than their initial estimates.

They knew that in the first two days of the Survivor relocation, the daily casualties had been far higher than these numbers.

Reaching the territory of City West, not only did the drivers breathe a sigh of relief, but even Liang Wei did as well. He said earnestly, “Su Jin, Lu Hao, thank you!”

“Uncle Liang is being too polite. We accept money to eliminate disasters for others—feel free to patronize us again,”

Su Jin replied teasingly.

It wasn’t so much that she didn’t want to take credit, as much as she didn’t want to take on unnecessary responsibility.

Right now, they were simply completing a task for which Liang Jiuhui had paid. She didn’t want their family’s abilities to make them vassals of the base, so in the future, if there was a task they could take on, they would accept, but if there was a task they didn’t want to do, she wouldn’t insist on taking it.

They were just there to get paid for a job, nothing more.

And that was just fine.

Liang Wei laughed. Su Jin was as cunning as a fox. He did have intentions of recruiting them, but it seemed that even his son wouldn’t be able to rope in these people.

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“The base is just ahead,”

Su Xiangzhe’s words successfully diverted the topic for Su Jin.

Liang Wei couldn’t help but look ahead; although he knew about Liang Jiuhui’s construction plans, the sight before him still left him utterly shocked.

“This kid is really something!”

Liang Wei spoke with pride, it seemed he really was getting old!

“Uncle Liang, when we get to the base, you’ll need to be even more careful,” Su Jin reminded him, it would be best if Liang Wei didn’t get out of the car and show his face later on.

Liang Wei nodded, then let out a sigh and leaned back in his seat. Although he didn’t know which deity he had offended, the inevitable still had to come…

The transfer of the last batch of survivors was a matter that touched the hearts of everyone in the base, and they had been discussing it since morning.

“I heard today has the most number of transfers yet, more than twice the first day’s!”

“In my opinion, there’s more danger than safety today.”

“Yes, yes, the more people, the bigger the difficulty.”

“That’s not necessarily true. That young lady and that man, either one could fight a hundred alone!”

“Do you know what the total population of S City is? Nearly twenty million! Even if they could each take on a hundred, they couldn’t withstand that many zombies.”

“I heard that their families went with them these two times, and there’s even a child without any special abilities fighting zombies with them.”

“Fake, right? How could a child fight zombies, hmph, the rumors are getting more outrageous as they spread!”

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As the vehicle entered everyone’s line of sight, Lin Cheng, Mao Zhihang, and Lin Tianzhen, who stood nearly 10 meters high on the city wall, also saw it.

“It’s them,” Mao Zhihang said with a smile.

The others also saw the lead buses and the two SUVs following beside them. One of the buses seemed to have its front side bashed in, but that didn’t hinder everyone’s excitement upon seeing them.

Cheers erupted from atop the city wall.

Both sides of the gate inside were also filled with people, many of whom wanted to see if there were any of their relatives or friends among the arriving survivors.

The safe arrival of the remaining survivors was an exhilarating event; humanity could not afford to lose any more people.

Liang Jiuqing watched the car driving beside her excitedly; she had been waiting here almost an entire day, and they were finally back!

But her brother had warned her before, for Liang Wei’s safety, it was better not to let their father appear in everyone’s field of vision at the base, so Liang Jiuqing had to restrain her pounding heart, pick up the thermometer, and prepare to take the temperature of Su Jin and the others first.

Liang Jiuhui also stood atop the nearly completed city wall, watching the approaching convoy with a calm expression and a barely discernible curve at the corners of his mouth.

“Old Liang and the others are finally back, huh,”

A voice came from behind him. Liang Jiuhui turned around and smiled, “Uncle Jia, what brings you up here today?”

“Haha, today’s the day Old Liang and Old Li are returning. I’ve been worried, so I came to have a look,”@@novelbin@@

Jia Kaiji said as he approached, followed not only by Jia Yue, who often accompanied him, but also several men, presenting an entourage that seemed larger than Liang Jiuhui’s.

However, Liang Jiuhui showed no displeasure, replying with a smile, “Yes, I’ve been worried too, but now it seems I was concerned over nothing.”

“Oh? Is that so?”

Jia Kaiji hurried to the edge of the city wall to look down, his pupils contracting slightly as if in disbelief.

Outside the city wall, there were dozens of buses lined up neatly next to each other.

What’s going on?

Why so many? Could it be they didn’t succeed?

He even saw children bounding and leaping down from the buses first.

“Uncle Jia, are you very surprised?”

Liang Jiuhui continued to smile as he watched Jia Kaiji.