Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 278: Chapter 278: The Return of the Baili Divine Team
 

Su Jin was somewhat relieved that they had returned early today.

Because at the base’s main gate, a new regulation had been implemented where people could only enter two hours after registering.

It was said that someone who was bitten by a zombie in the morning tried to sneak into the base by using Ice-Element Special Abilities to lower their body temperature. However, not long after entering the base, they transformed into a zombie and killed two normal people within the base.

Upon hearing the news, Liang Jiuhui immediately notified the city gate. All those preparing to enter the base had to register and have their body temperature taken at the entrance, then wait for two hours before being allowed inside, with a second body temperature check before entry.

“Really, what does someone who’s been bitten want in the base? Now we all have to wait here,” Lin Xiuyuan complained.

“This is very normal, and it was bound to happen sooner or later. Besides, waiting for two hours is actually quite short,” Su Jin said expressionlessly.

In her last life, she had been to some bases where people had to wait half a day and even a full day. Compared to those, the S City base’s regulation was already quite humane.

“The time can be easily killed, hey hey, come on, Lin kid, let’s play Fight the Landlord,”

Nie Qing somehow produced a folding small table, placing it next to the open car door. Two hours were not to be wasted idly outdoors.

Lin Xiuyuan tried to politely refuse, saying, “Uncle Nie, you should play with Uncle Lu and the others. I’m no good at it.”

He had experienced Nie Qing’s “card virtue.” Not only did he like to renege on plays, but even when holding bad cards, he would claim that his hand was top-notch, displaying an air of certain victory. He had even confessed to Lin Xiuyuan in secret that this was his psychological tactic to intimidate the opponent…

“Old Nie, you didn’t lose enough last time?”

Su Xiangzhe couldn’t help but tease, recalling how Nie Qing hadn’t won a single game against him and Lu Guanhai playing Fight the Landlord last time. Was he looking for more punishment today?

“I was just a newbie that time. You didn’t show me any mercy, and you still have the nerve to make fun of me?”

Nie Qing was slightly resentful.

Lu Guanhai, slightly upset, came over to defend, “We didn’t show mercy? Every game we let you renege several times, but you still lost. Now you’re blaming us?”

Su Jin watched the older generation bickering and felt a bit of an urge to laugh.

“I always thought your dad was reticent and didn’t talk much, but it turns out he can be quite talkative,” Su Jin said to Lu Hao, who was standing beside her.

At the moment, Su Jin was sitting on the seat with the car door open while Lu Hao, leaning against the car, also laughed and said, “Yes, I just realized he can be rather verbose.”

Lu Guanhai, who used to sigh a lot, appeared not to let out any sighs anymore.

“That’s a good thing, I enjoy the lively atmosphere of a big family,” Su Jin said, smiling. She herself wasn’t much of a talker since childhood, but she liked to watch her family bustling around her, even if it was just watching TV or eating dinner. Just sitting beside them and watching felt like an unparalleled happiness.

“Hmm, Xiao Jin likes it, and it just so happens I like it too,” Lu Hao said with a straight face.

Beneath a nearby tree, watching the two talking and laughing, Ban Xiaobo felt a pang of jealousy. He wanted a girlfriend too. His online girlfriend before the apocalypse, he wondered how she was doing. She might have already become a zombie by now.

“Under the lemon tree, you and I,”

Xu Chao and Ban Xiaobo exchanged a helpless glance and said.

“Brother Banzi, this isn’t even a lemon tree,”

Rong Yuan, looking up at the tree, asked in confusion; he couldn’t quite understand what the two of them were saying.

“…”

By then, more and more teams were returning from outside. They were all surprised by the base’s new rules, but after learning the reasons behind them, they cooperated and waited to the side.

“When we left this morning, there was no such rule. Why do we have to wait now when we come back?”

A disharmonious voice came through, a man trying to reason with the base entrance personnel.

“Please cooperate with our work; everything is for everyone’s safety,” the entrance personnel replied.

“Safety? Waiting outside the base is safe? What if zombies come along?!”

The man did not seem to want to give up.

“Yeah, now there are mutated zombies everywhere, and we barely made it back. You won’t let us in? What kind of lousy rule is this!”

A woman with her hair in a bun also complained loudly, as if they were the only ones in the right.@@novelbin@@

Su Jin looked at those few familiar faces and found it somewhat amusing; weren’t they the same people who wanted to rob them of their crystal cores and vehicle a couple of days ago? She didn’t expect to see them again so soon.

But, where did these people get off being so righteous?

The crowd waiting around had started to whisper and point. It was just a two-hour wait. What was the hurry with these few people? The base personnel were also increasing their workload, weren’t they?

Just then, a man in uniform emerged from the base entrance. He was about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, with short hair and an expressionless face that was distinctly fair. The gun at his waist was somewhat eye-catching, and he was holding a palm-sized leather notebook in his hand.

“Captain Ye, you…”

The personnel hadn’t expected Ye Rongxin, the head of the security team, to come to the city gate.

“I was passing by, heard some noise, and came to have a look,” Ye Rongxin said, indicating to the personnel that they need not stand up and should continue to register properly.

Those who had been making a fuss just now recognized the official uniform on him and instantly fell silent. The base management personnel all wore the same uniform, and the gun at his waist was impossible to ignore.

Only the woman with the bun seemed unconvinced and retorted, “Is the base management so amazing, wielding power to bully others?”

Her voice was not soft; everyone around could hear her.

Ye Rongxin did not say anything but opened the leather notebook in his hands and asked one of the nearby personnel, “What’s the name of this group of people’s team?”

The personnel was startled but quickly flipped through the recently registered information and answered, “Called Baili Divine Team.”

Ye Rongxin nodded, wrote a few notes in the book, and seeing that the troublemakers had already retreated to the side and stopped causing trouble, he was ready to turn around and leave.

However, just as he had taken a few steps back, he heard a commotion from behind.

Several people surrounded the Bai Divine Team, passionately pointing at them and arguing about something.

“It was you guys. You were the ones who led the zombie horde here. My brother and sister-in-law died because of it. Give us their lives back!”

A teenager pushed the man in front of him, but the man responded by hitting the teenager with a wind ball, knocking him to the ground.

The Wind-Element man laughed and said, “Who told you to be right there? Our team was just passing by. It’s not like that road belongs to your brother and sister-in-law, does it?”

“You brought the zombies here, didn’t deal with them yourselves, and then took advantage of us when our special abilities were drained to steal our crystal cores. You are truly despicable!”

The man beside the teenager helped him up and glared at the group angrily.