Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 469 - Four Hundred Sixty-Nine Wanting to Trap
Chapter 469: Chapter Four Hundred Sixty-Nine: Wanting to Trap Them
Chapter 469: Chapter Four Hundred Sixty-Nine: Wanting to Trap Them
Lu Hao expressed his thanks and, looking up, saw Su Jin, who was similarly composed and continuing to take items out from the Space, couldn’t help but smile involuntarily.
They would be careful, but they also weren’t afraid of those people causing trouble; no one should think of stopping his Xiao Jin from happily earning Crystal Cores, or else he wouldn’t mind setting the management ablaze.
After those people left, Li Xiuying continued to serve porridge to the others. Although the porridge had cooled down in the yard, everyone who ate it found it extremely delicious.
The porridge that cost 5 Crystal Cores a bowl even had soft, powdery yams in it, simply too good of a deal.
Li Xiuying even helped up a man who knelt before her on the spot.
“You are my saviors, you deserve it, you really do!”
The man’s cracked lips quivered as he spoke.
“Times are hard for everyone. We are collecting everyone’s hard-earned money, after all. Whether we can survive depends on ourselves. Please don’t do this again,”
Li Xiuying’s words struck a chord in everyone’s heart. Survival still depended on oneself.
If they hadn’t gone to harvest Crystal Cores before, they wouldn’t have been able to afford these supplies.
Still… they were grateful to Zhang Xiaohong and the others from the bottom of their hearts.
The family stayed busy until night fell, yet the line of people only grew longer.
Su Xiangzhe and Lu Guanhai tried to convince the people in line to go back first and return tomorrow morning, as it was already winter and the night was getting cold. They weren’t planning to sell throughout the night.
But no one wanted to leave, especially many of those who had already made it to the front of the line. With no other choice, Su Jin took out some specially made colored paper from the Space, cut it into small pieces, wrote numbers on them, and distributed them to the people in line.
“Tomorrow morning at seven o’clock, come and buy supplies in the order of your numbers,”
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Su Jin announced loudly. She distributed numbers only to the first 1,000 in line although the queue stretched beyond sight, believing selling to 1,000 people in a day would be an achievement.
No one complained; those who received numbers felt assured and went back home. They had been starving for many days, after all—hunger for one more night didn’t matter much.
Seeing people disperse, the family finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“This day was even more tiring than killing zombies,”
Lin Xiuyuan collapsed on the sofa on the first floor, speaking listlessly.
“Isn’t that the truth? Now all I can think about is 1234…”
Lu Guanhai felt a bit overwhelmed by counting Crystal Cores although it was all to earn for his family’s Space.
“This earns much more than killing zombies, and also, I really feel like we’re saving these people. Otherwise, come winter, everyone in this base would probably be dead,”
Huang Yunxiang murmured thoughtfully after taking a sip of hot tea.
After dinner in the Space, Su Jin and Lu Hao came out, a bit concerned that Deputy Zhang, who left today, might make a move, like sending an assassin or something.
However, the night passed without incident, which puzzled them both until they opened the door the next morning and discovered the situation outside.
The area around their courtyard was actually surrounded by four metal walls, two to three meters high?!
How childish.
Su Jin bent over laughing, her hands on her stomach. They had imagined many scenarios last night, like assassins or poison, but to result in this circling metal canopy?
Were they trying to trap them inside?
The rest of the family came out and chuckled at this “grand gesture,” taking it as targeting them because they didn’t have a Metal Element Ability User.
Nie Qing flew up to take a look outside; indeed, many Special Ability Users who wanted to buy supplies were already trying to destroy the metal walls, but there were more than a hundred armed people preventing these Ability Users from doing so.
Lu Hao shook his head, stepped forward, and a towering flame erupted from the ground, sending the base personnel who had been holding guns against the metal wall flying to a distant spot.
What kind of fire is this?!
Why is it so powerful?
“Everyone, look, the wall is melting!”
Someone exclaimed, shocked as they observed the pool of molten iron slowly flowing on the ground.
“Holy crap, this is the first time I’ve seen a Fire Element melting a Metal Element.”
“Zhang Xiaohong and their team are so impressive!”
The thick metal wall actually melted within a few minutes under that towering flame, and the pool of liquid metal quickly solidified into a patch of gray solid due to the cold weather.
The people queuing to buy resources simply stepped over it and continued to queue up in order, while in the middle, Metal Element Ability Users who had bought their resources tried to help dismantle the remaining three metal walls.
“No need to dismantle, it can still block the wind for everybody, keep us warm,”
Su Jin said with a smile. The north wind was still very cold in the big winter, and with the metal wall blocking it, it actually felt much warmer than the day before.
The people who heard laughed; they knew without guessing that the walls were the handiwork of a certain group—never would they have imagined that what was originally intended to trap Zhang Xiaohong would become everyone’s windbreak.
“Do they have a powerful Fire Element
Ability User among them?”
Zhang Anguo asked after hearing the report from the people below.
“Yes, it seems the level is no less than 5,”
said a team member who had been scorched by the flames.
“Anguo, just do as I say and send a team to tie them up and bring them here,”
the man puffing on a cigar in the center-most chair said, leaning back in the leather seat.
“Colonel, we will do as you say,”
Zhang Anguo said, bowing his head. It was just that there were too many Survivors queuing there during the day, which might cause some chaos—it would be better to wait until night.
The D City base underwent an earth-shaking transformation with the arrival of Zhang Xiaohong and her group; the previously desolate streets slowly came alive with people coming and going.
Many disbanded groups reassembled, and after exchanging all their Crystal Cores for resources at Zhang Xiaohong’s, they went out to kill Zombies with renewed vigor.
But these Special Ability Users found that when they returned to the base gate, they had to pay another batch of Crystal Cores.
“When did this rule come into effect? We’re not entering the base for the first time, so why do we have to pay 100 Crystal Cores per person?”
a man splattered with Dark Blood angrily asked.
“You don’t need to worry about when the rule started; if you want to enter today, it’s 100 Crystal Cores per person,”
Zhang Wu said, leaning against the wall by the city gate.
“We’ve been out all day killing Zombies to get these Crystal Cores, and now you’re basically making our effort worthless.”
“Exactly, we were planning to exchange for a few more pounds of food. Before, you guys didn’t even want Crystal Cores for food, and now suddenly you’re demanding them?”
“This is obviously deliberate!”
The returning Special Ability Users gradually increased in number, their eyes full of anger as they looked at Zhang Wu and the others standing guard at the gate. It was only because they had spent an entire day killing Zombies outside and had completely depleted their Special Abilities, otherwise, they would certainly be unable to restrain themselves from starting a fight right there and then.
