Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 259: Chapter 259 Five Elements Conquer Each Other
 

After the rain, not only did Su Jin and her group prepare to leave the base to kill zombies, but many other teams also successively exited the city gate.

Lu Hao and Ban Xiaobo, along with a few others, hadn’t chatted much and were about to leave through the city gate when they heard a huge noise at the entrance like the sound of a car hitting something. Immediately afterward, a group of Guard Squad members ran toward the gate.

“Seems like something happened?” Lu Guanhai said from inside the car, puzzled.

“There are two people, one of them is about to die,” Mao Qiqi said confidently.

Su Xiangzhe and the others started the car and drove toward the gate.

The spot near the gate was crowded with people ready to leave the base. They saw a silver commercial van that had collided with a big tree near the city gate, twisted and deformed. The door was kicked open, and a man covered in blood crawled out from the passenger seat.

Just as the onlookers thought he was a zombie, they saw him crawl back into the van from the passenger side, seemingly trying to pull someone from the driver’s seat.

“It’s too late, that person is already dead.”

Mao Qiqi felt the light representing that person extinguish and said with regret.

The Guard Squad members had also surrounded the scene and quickly discovered that the person inside the car had no breath left.

The crowd of onlookers was abuzz with discussion:

“They must have ventured into a zombie nest within the city, otherwise the car wouldn’t be in such a state.”

“That’s possible, and it looks like only one person made it back alive.”

Not only had the silver commercial van collided and deformed, but it also bore many signs of attacks before hitting the tree, including scratch marks, several punctures, and signs of fire damage—it was no wonder people thought it had entered a zombie nest.

The man, his head covered in blood, started laughing maniacally: “A zombie nest in the city? Now the entire S city has turned into a paradise for zombies, hahaha, everyone is dead, humanity is doomed, hahaha.”

“Has this person gone mad? What ‘paradise for zombies’?”

After hearing this, the onlookers felt certain that the man had been driven insane by some kind of trauma.@@novelbin@@

“He probably saw all his teammates dead, so he’s too distressed,” someone sighed.

Generally, everyone felt sympathy seeing this, but only Su Jin knew his words were not madness. It seemed City West was no longer safe.

Just as Su Jin and the others were about to turn around and get into their car to leave, the crowd suddenly let out a cry of alarm.

“The person in the car has turned into a zombie!”

Walking beside Su Jin, Mao Qiqi said, and it was even a Mutated Zombie.

“There are Guard Squad members, it should be fine,” Lu Hao said.

Although Lu Hao was right, and the nearby Guard Squad members did indeed react quickly, and the man was still strapped by the seatbelt after his zombification, this zombie seemed extremely strong. It easily snapped the seatbelt and then punched out a neighboring car door and jumped out!

It was a Power Element Mutated Zombie!

The blood-covered man watched the Mutated Zombie mutter, “How is this possible, Xiao Wang was just an ordinary person before…”

But in the chaos, no one heard what he said, and everyone assumed this zombie had been a Power Element Ability User before its transformation.

Perhaps because there were many people around, this Power Element Mutated Zombie seemed particularly excited, and it wildly charged at the closest Guard Squad Member. The squad member immediately summoned an Earth Shield in front of himself, but it was shattered by the impact of the mutated zombie!

Fortunately, the other Guard Squad Members quickly reacted and subdued the mutated zombie together. The crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed, and Su Jin and her group had already left the area below the city wall base.

After leaving the city gate, Nie Qing remained silent in the vehicle, watching the outside, seemingly in contemplation of the long-lasting struggle facing all of humanity.

It was unclear where the key to resolving this catastrophe lay.

The vehicle continued onward, and City West was exactly as Su Jin had expected—streets that had been mostly cleared before were now swarming with zombies. The plastic barriers at the intersections meant to block the zombies had also been completely destroyed, and occasionally, Mutated Zombies would hurl their abilities at the three vehicles.

“So many, so many,”

Lin Xiuyuan exclaimed wide-eyed.

“Everyone, look for a place to park first,”

After driving a bit further, Su Jin communicated to the people in the two vehicles behind via walkie-talkie.

After replies were received, Su Xiangzhe parked the vehicle in front of a car wash. As the sounds of constant banging surrounded the car, about a dozen Mutated Zombies suddenly surrounded them!

Local Tyrant Gold, as always, was left inside the vehicle. Before the group disembarked, it barked twice at them as if to cheer them on.

Su Jin patted its head, then firmly shut the car door.

“This is too scary, all of them are Mutated Zombies?”

Although Huang Yunxiang was mentally prepared, seeing this scene still deeply shocked her. Luckily, they had many people with them today; if anyone had to face this many Mutated Zombies alone, it would be quite difficult to manage.

“Remember what I said earlier, everyone should choose the zombies that best suit their battle type!” Su Jin shouted to the group.

Lu Hao and the others nodded. As Su Jin had mentioned in her Wood Element lecture, when Special Ability Users fought against Mutated Zombies, they could choose zombies suitable for their combat style if the opportunity arose.

In the thousands of years of Huaxia civilization, the derived Five Elements cycle of generation and conquest was also applicable among the different Special Abilities—Wood conquers Earth, Earth conquers Water, Water conquers Fire, Fire conquers Metal, and Metal conquers Wood. Using this strategy in battles against Special Ability Zombies sometimes doubled the effectiveness.

For example, Wood Element against Earth Element is much easier than Wood against Metal Element, Fire Element against Metal Element is easier than Fire against Water Element…

And so on. This was, of course, only feasible if there were options available. If the Special Ability Level completely oppressed the opponent or if the team’s Special Ability types were too limited, it would be a different story.

Abilities outside the Five Elements could also choose adversaries they deem to be countering, such as Qiqi’s Mental Element against Speed Element Mutated Zombies, which could be likened to a cheating tool.

Liao Yifan and Shi Jin, both Power Element users, could use their higher levels to target similar-element Mutated Zombies or to clean up Ordinary Zombies. To the newly awakened Power Element Shi Jin, those Ordinary Zombies were now a piece of cake.

Although these Mutated Zombies weren’t High Level, Su Jin still wanted to train everyone’s teamwork.

Su Jin quickly identified three Earth Element Zombies. After her Special Ability advanced to Level Five, her vines became even thicker and more agile.

The Earth Spikes and Earth Shields used by the Earth Element Zombies became ineffective when they encountered her vines. Another Earth Element Zombie even controlled stones to hurl at her, but she deftly dodged them.