Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 314: Chapter Three Hundred and Fourteen: Utilizing
 

Until the end, when Sheng Jing and Kang Ning, among others, came out, they also confirmed that they had been deliberately locked in an iron cage to attract zombies and trigger a zombie horde during the survivors’ relocation.

Although they were rescued by Liang Jiuhui, they all knew that it wasn’t just them who had been caged to lure the zombies; many others had been placed alive on the survivors’ relocation path. They were just luckier, having been saved.

The people who had done these things confessed on the spot that their purpose was merely to cause trouble for Liang Jiuhui. As long as everyone in the base opposed Liang Jiuhui, Jia Kaiji would be able to take power legitimately by using some means.

Those who had just felt that Jia Kaiji was being wronged were now silent. They had not expected that the person who they once thought was a kindly good man turned out to be a demon in human skin!

Some also remembered the rumors that had been circulating in the base at that time; indeed many were complaining about the Base Leader’s inaction and even wanted someone to replace Liang Jiuhui. Thinking of this, those who had taken pleasure in the misfortune or even participated in spreading the rumors lowered their heads in shame.

Jia Kaiji, watching Liang Jiuhui standing triumphantly on the stage, collapsed to the ground in despair. If he had a son, perhaps he wouldn’t have lost so miserably.

Liang Jiuhui stood above looking at each person in the hall, which gradually quieted down as if everyone was waiting for him to say something.

But instead of expressing his deep hatred for Jia Kaiji and the others, he started to talk about the recent Zombie Tide.

For the Special Ability Users who participated in fighting the Zombie Tide, everyone could later go to the administration building’s hall with their points card to collect their rewards. Everyone who entered the battlefield would receive 300 Crystal Cores, or they could directly go to Supervisor Shao to load 300 points onto their points card.

He thanked everyone present, and bowed deeply to the crowd.

“I do not hope for incidents like Jia Kaiji’s to happen again. This may be an era of survival of the fittest or power struggles, but I hope that no matter what, the survivors in S City Base can unite against the Zombie Tide as we did this time. If anyone notices someone doing something that is detrimental to the development of the base, they can report it at any time. S City is our base, our home, and it needs our collective effort to protect it. I hope our common enemy is just the zombies!”

After Liang Jiuhui finished speaking, he stepped down. There was no applause, but his words were deeply engraved in the hearts of everyone present.

S City Base needed their collective effort to protect it.

They had only one common enemy: zombies!

Though it was said to be a public execution, Jia Kaiji and his people were not executed on the spot.

Although everyone present knew what fate he would face, and many were throwing various Special Abilities at the iron cage, Jia Kaiji, who didn’t want to lift his head, found himself involuntarily doing so, and he saw Jia Yue outside the cage.

Jia Yue looked at him, her smile blooming like flowers.

…

In the Security Team of S City Base, Ye Rongxin wiped the blood off his face, satisfied as he walked out with Li Haochu.

“I finally understand why you, lad, hold such grudges,” said Li Haochu with a laugh.

Because the feeling of personally exacting revenge was indeed too good.

Li Haochu looked up to the sky, finally having avenged his soldiers.

He wondered if Ah Feng and the others could see it.

“I didn’t expect Commander Li to be so emotional, to even share that with him,” Ye Rongxin thought of Jia Kaiji’s incredulous expression, probably the most devastating thing Li Haochu told him.

“Hmph, he thought he was brave and decisive, saying what bullshit about sacrifices in every generation’s revolution? He didn’t even know his own daughter despised him. I just wanted him to experience betrayal before he died,” Li Haochu said with bitterness.

Before they were about to execute Jia Kaiji, he actually laughed, saying he had lost only because he was outnumbered and overpowered, and that he regretted nothing he had done, nor would he feel remorse for those who had died.

His arrogant attitude angered Li Haochu, so Li Haochu ended up revealing to Jia Kaiji how they had received the message.

Jia Yue had initially only told them about the South Side Gate incident, but she said that if Liang Jiuhui could agree to one condition, she would also tell them about when to assassinate Liang Wei; her condition was that they ignore Jia Kaiji’s lover, Fang Jingfu, when taking Jia Kaiji away.

Liang Jiuhui agreed without hesitation.

So they took only Jia Kaiji and Jia Yue with them according to Jia Yue’s request, and when Jia Kaiji said he needed to go back to get something, Liang Jiuhui deliberately turned a blind eye.

Little did they expect that Jia Kaiji would truly fall into the trap set by Jia Yue, mistaking Fang Jingfu as the one who betrayed his plan.

One could only say that Jia Yue knew Jia Kaiji too well.

After hearing what Li Haochu had said, Jia Kaiji was indeed greatly shocked; he wondered why Jia Yue was standing there perfectly fine that day, smiling at him.

This treacherous daughter!

From that day on, no one at the base ever saw Jia Yue again.

“Jia Kaiji is really foolish, his daughter is actually the most valuable talent available,”

Ye Rongxin shook his head and said.

Those who think they are clever are the ones who can be most thoroughly exploited.

One wonders whether the person who used Jia Kaiji is still in the S city base; if not, that would be interesting.

After these two incidents, Liang Wei finally experienced the freedom of not being confined; Liang Jiuhui no longer restrained him, and he could finally take a good look at this base.

“This matter has finally come to an end,”

Liang Wei stood on the base’s city wall, smiling as he said to Liang Jiuhui.

Liang Jiuhui knew which matter his father was referring to, but he didn’t think the same.

“There’s still one person not caught,”

“Who?” Liang Wei was surprised. Could there be a fish that slipped through the net?

Liang Jiuhui looked into the distance and said, “A person named Huo Qi.”

He and several others like Ye Rongxin suspected that the few zombies that suddenly appeared in the crowd on the night they caught Xia Ying were the work of this person named Huo Qi. Those they captured all knew of Huo Qi, and some even had a higher loyalty to him than to Jia Kaiji.

Perhaps even Jia Kaiji himself didn’t know that he might have been used by the person named Huo Qi.

The sudden appearance of those zombies baffled everyone on the scene. Later, after Xu Mingzhi examined the bodies, they indeed found traces of Poisonous Needle injections. Xu Mingzhi speculated it was something like the Zombie Virus, but such thing had never appeared in the S city base before.

There was also no record of this person named Huo Qi in the base’s population registration list. Since there were no photos to compare, it was all too easy to forge an identity and enter the base.

So Liang Jiuhui didn’t think the matter was over; he felt that this person named Huo Qi might not be from the S city base, and his motives were even more unknown.