Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 252: Chapter 252: His Plan
 

Lu Hao looked at the dazzling Su Jin on stage and couldn’t help lowering his head in silence.

What should he do? He desperately wanted to hide her away, someplace where no one else could see her, only him.

Su Jin, with a serious expression, walked off the stage and, upon seeing Lu Hao backstage, finally couldn’t restrain herself and threw herself into his arms.

“What’s wrong?” Lu Hao was startled by Su Jin, who burrowed into his chest without lifting her head.

“So nervous, just now”

Su Jin’s muffled voice came out, causing Lu Hao to laugh involuntarily.

“You were great just now”

Lu Hao said while gently ruffling Su Jin’s hair.

At this moment, her family also walked in, and Su Jin stood up with a flushed face.

“Girl, you really had the demeanor of our Sect Leader back in the day”

Nie Qing gave Su Jin a thumbs up.

“Thank you, Uncle Nie,” Su Jin said with a smile.

“Sister, you were seriously cool and awesome today, a lot of Wood Element Ability Users are talking about you,”

Yin Chengtian said excitedly, having felt the atmosphere below the stage himself; he had also seen Captain Lu perform on stage, and he couldn’t deny, both were equally stellar!

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During the days Liang Jiuhui was busy with lectures, an individual arrived in the slum area who everyone praised highly.@@novelbin@@

Every day, he personally went to the slum to distribute porridge to the survivors; initially, it was he and his subordinates, but gradually, it changed to him and his daughter, who often pushed a large vat of porridge to the slum early in the morning to distribute free porridge to the starving survivors there.

Although it was just a bowl of watery porridge for each person, it indeed helped many.

Within a few days, survivors in the slum area knew him as Jia Kaiji.

He was said to be one of the security managers in the base, and even the Base Leader had to address him as “Uncle”; he had also been a colleague of the former mayor, Liang Wei.

He was known to be philanthropic and extremely concerned with the welfare of the survivors, feeling that allowing the survivors to starve like this was extremely inhumane. Thus, he dug into his own pockets to help these survivors.

In no time, the rumors in the base became rich and colorful again.

This is what a Base Leader should really look like – he even donated his own food ration to the starving survivors!

Only somewhat older administrators have the heart of a mighty tiger, able to discern even subtle details!

Shouldn’t the current Base Leader feel ashamed by comparison?

Jia Kaiji wiped the sweat off his forehead and cheerfully scooped a bowl of porridge for an old man who gave him a thumbs up.

“Take your time, the ground is uneven,” Jia Yue also cautioned the old man.

“Ah, you all are really something, much better than the current one,” the old man said after taking a sip of his porridge.

“Old man, that’s some way of talking, our base leader also cares about everyone,” Jia Kaiji said loudly with a smile.

The more he said this, the more the surrounding survivors felt that the current base leader wasn’t good, while they thought the man before them truly cared for the survivors.

Fang Jingfu also thought the uncle-like man before her was a good person. She had been coming to drink porridge for several days, yet he had never shown a look of disdain; instead, she always felt his gaze was full of care and perhaps pity?

Jia Kaiji saw this white-clad young girl coming over with a sea bowl and immediately showed a concerned expression.

“Girl, haven’t eaten yet? Hand over the bowl,” Jia Kaiji said, reaching out and taking the bowl Fang Jingfu handed to him.

“Thank you, you really are a good person.”

Fang Jingfu didn’t know why her face turned red, and her expression caught Jia Kaiji’s eyes, giving him more ideas—could it be that this young girl fancied him?

Jia Yue, who was still serving porridge to others, naturally did not notice the girl’s odd behavior and also missed seeing her own father’s seemingly accidental touch as he handed the bowl to the girl.

Fang Jingfu was surprised by Jia Kaiji, but his expression remained the same, making her think she might have overthought it.

“Drink up, a pretty girl like you wouldn’t look good all skin and bones,” Jia Kaiji told Fang Jingfu.

What seemed like an ordinary remark made Fang Jingfu blush and mumble thanks before walking away.

“Dad, we should make more porridge tomorrow, this doesn’t seem to be enough,” Jia Yue said, frowning.

Seeing that no one was around, Jia Kaiji said quietly to Jia Yue, “It is precisely because there isn’t enough porridge that we show we would rather pinch and scrape to help others. Do you really think we are here to serve porridge?”

He was merely trying to generate some rumors.

Liang Wei is now completely out of sight, with only Liang Jiuhui holding up the base, while Huo Qi’s preparations were also in place, and they had even recruited a large number of special ability users.

As the saying goes, ‘He who wins the people wins the world’; if the survivors at the base now supported him, his chances of winning would be even greater, enabling a smooth ascension to power once things were settled.

Jia Yue also knew what her father’s plan was, and she had been silently supporting him; those rumors were spread by someone she had found. This time, it seemed the effect was not bad.

Jia Kaiji’s actions looked rather insignificant in some people’s eyes.

“I want to see how much food he still has,” Li Haochu said with a sneer.

These days, they had people going out daily to look for supplies. Although they always returned with something, given the number of people at the base and the increasingly severe food crisis, everyone was cutting back. Meanwhile, Jia Kaiji was still distributing free thin porridge, which was just ridiculous!

“Let him continue, I want to see how long he can last,” Liang Jiuhui said, leaning back in his chair with a laugh. He was not worried about the rumors; if Jia Kaiji wanted to experience how fickle public opinion could be, then he would give him that chance.

Lin Xiuyuan and the others were disappointed after waiting for Su Jin’s seminar to end, hoping they could go out to kill some zombies and level up. “Why? Hasn’t it been quiet these past few days?” Yifan Liao looked at Su Jin with a look of misery.

Since the incident last time, Guo Yang’s store hadn’t faced any more looting attempts. It was said that the big man he had stuck with several needles was taken away by the security personnel, and due to the wounds getting infected, his whole body developed sores, leading to his death in the security team’s custody due to a lack of medical supplies.

So now everyone knew that the owner of the Heart Talk Convenience Store could use poisonous needles and hit human acupuncture points with each needle. Anyone who carelessly got pricked by him ended up with a body full of sores and died as a result, deterring those with malicious intent from provoking him further.

With Lin Cheng and the others having a more relaxed schedule these days, Xue Wanyi and his family really wanted to go out on a mission, especially since the number of zombies in City West had reportedly increased as well.

“Wait a bit longer, I am worried…”

Su Jin looked at the gray sky and said, those gray clouds seemed to carry an unusual dark red tint. Although she hadn’t paid attention to the weather before it rained in her last life, it must have also been around this time when the weather gradually got cooler.