Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

That night, Lu Hao had a dream, a dream so real it furrowed his brows in his sleep.

In the dream, Su Jin’s lifeless body lay in his arms. He stared blankly at the small wife he had searched for two years. Her hands were bound by iron chains, her face swollen, with tracks of tears having made their way down her cheeks…

Who? Who did this to her?!

He scanned the people around, his target clear, and charged at one of them.

“Brother Lu, I… I didn’t know who she was. She suddenly barged in like a madwoman, and I thought she was about to turn into a zombie… Ah, Brother Lu, let go, I’m telling the truth, the truth!”

Chen Xiarong’s neck was being squeezed by Lu Hao, who lifted her off the ground.

“Was it you?” Tears had begun to well up in Lu Hao’s eyes.

How dare she?

How dare she?!

“Cough cough, it wasn’t me, really, she must have had the Zombie Virus in her, you can check if you don’t believe me”

Chen Xiarong’s face had turned a deep red, feeling as if she was on the brink of death.

“You think I’m blind?! Where did those needle marks on her arm come from?” The veins on Lu Hao’s arms stood out angrily.

Apart from Chen Xiarong, no one else present had the authority to open the lab door!

Along with her desperate attempts at defending herself just now, Lu Hao had concluded that the killer of Su Jin was this woman!

“Ah ha, ha, Brother Lu, I like you, she’s not worthy”

Chen Xiarong managed to utter these words, knowing her poor cover-up could never escape Lu Hao’s scrutiny, she simply admitted it, hoping Lu Hao could let her off for the feelings she had harbored for so long, maybe even forgive her.

Upon hearing this, Lu Hao’s arm trembled with rage.

It was her, why, why!

By that point, Chen Xiarong had been choked to death by him. He didn’t spare her another glance, but instead collapsed beside Su Jin’s body, his soul seemingly lost.

The people inside the room were so frightened they dared not take another breath, trying their best to seem non-existent.

When Lu Hao looked up again, his eyes had turned blood red. He looked at the people present and said, “Why didn’t you stop her? Or did you even help her?!”

“Captain Lu, it was Chen Xiarong she…” A man’s words were cut short halfway when a knife in Lu Hao’s hand slashed his throat.

Blood splattered everywhere.

With an expressionless face, Lu Hao turned to the other people present. Ignoring their pleas, he slowly walked over to them.

“You all deserve to die.”

He didn’t use his Special Ability but with the knife in his hand, killed the dozen or so people present.

He picked up Su Jin’s body from the ground, behind him a river of blood flowed.

…

Before the Apocalypse, he hadn’t spent much time with Su Jin. He thought that after so long, he had gradually forgotten many things, but now, holding Su Jin, his mind was flooded with images of her from before.

“Son, I’ve found another match for you to meet,” Lu Guanhai’s voice held a plea.

“Not going, busy.”

“You always say no, but this time you have to go. She is the daughter of my comrade-in-arms Su Xiangzhe!” Seeing that gentle persuasion failed, Lu Guanhai switched tactics.

“Su Xiangzhe? Su Jin?”

Lu Hao remembered the small girl in bright red New Year’s clothes during the dead of winter, bright red and bright red. Her crisp voice wished uncle a happy new year, brother a happy new year…

“You still remember her, huh? You were only seven or eight years old then?”

“Mm, send me the time and place of the blind date.”

“Alrighty!”

Although Su Jin had grown up and was no longer the bright red little dumpling, the smile in her eyes and that crisp voice still made his heart feel joy.

He thought the two of them would be together for life, but then came the Apocalypse, and he lost her…

In his sleep, Lu Hao felt his heart being torn apart; he saw himself hunched over, kneeling at Su Jin’s grave, like a soulless husk. He knew at that moment he was already dead.

How could he have been just that one step too late?

How could he have kept such a person by his side?

In his heart, amidst the tempestuous pain, there was an endless ocean of regret. Gradually, he felt himself sinking into that deep sea, as if he would never float back up…

At that moment, a soft little hand reached out, touching his forehead, accompanied by a familiar voice, “Lu Hao, Lu Hao? What’s wrong with you?”

Lu Hao forced himself to wake up.

At this moment, there was no sweat drenching his body, just the bone-chilling cold as if he had plunged into the deep sea…

He saw the worried look in Su Jin’s eyes and then held her tightly in his arms.

It turned out that it had all been just a dream.

Thank goodness, thank goodness.

He hadn’t lost her; she was still by his side.

“Did you have a nightmare?” Su Jin asked, looking at the oddly behaving Lu Hao.

“Yeah, today, I saw Chen Xiarong,” he said.

Lu Hao’s arms were still wrapped around Su Jin, and he could feel her stiffen slightly at the mention of that name.

“Where did you see her?”

In fact, Su Jin was more surprised than anything. Had Chen Xiarong come here too?

“The refuge.”

“…” So, that’s why he had nightmares?

“Promise me one thing,” Lu Hao said.

“?”

“This person, let me be the one to kill her.”

He regretted how easily she died in his dream; he realized that perhaps more than Su Jin, the one who truly hated Chen Xiarong was himself.

“Okay.”

This time Su Jin didn’t say anything else. Chen Xiarong, huh? If he wanted to kill, let him.

Lu Hao finally let go of Su Jin, but his eyes still didn’t leave her face.

“…”

Looking at the dawn that was nearly bright outside, Su Jin asked, “Do you want to rest for a while in the Space? We still have a mission today.”

“No need, I just want to hold you.”

Lu Hao pulled Su Jin into his embrace once again, and the two of them lay back down on the soft pillows.

So… what exactly did he dream about that made him seem so tense?

As she lay in that familiar embrace, Su Jin’s thoughts gradually lulled her back to sleep.

Not until the person in her arms let out even breaths did Lu Hao feel slightly relieved. The warmth from Su Jin’s body penetrated through their clothes, dissipating the icy feeling that had encompassed him.

It must have been more than just a dream.

Thank you, thank you for coming back to my side…

…

In the refuge, a scream pierced the darkness.

Although daylight was starting to break outside, the gym remained dark because the light had yet to enter.

The soldiers on watch instantly woke up, turning on the floodlights and aiming them in the direction of the sound, only to see grey rats squeezing in through the gaps underneath the door!

Screams erupted one after another, and the silent refuge descended into chaos, with many people screaming and running in the opposite direction of the door.

Those survivors closest to the door were already covered with dozens of grey rats; their agonized shrieks rang out as skin and flesh that had been scurried over by the rats turned into a bloody mess.

“Save me, save me…”

A man covered in rats was rolling on the ground in agony, his constant thrashing revealing his abdomen, gory and torn, with the tail of a rat protruding from his right side where most of the creature’s body was burrowed into his flesh!

“Daddy, daddy!”

A little girl in the crowd was crying continuously, someone covered her eyes to prevent her from seeing further, until the man’s screams came to a halt…

Just when everyone thought that the rats would continue to gnaw at the corpse, the body began to move unexpectedly!

“A zombie!”

Someone with quick reflexes shouted.

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