Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 457 - Held This Place
Chapter 457: Chapter 457: Held This Place
Chapter 457: Chapter 457: Held This Place
Chen Daming’s name, coupled with Lu Hao’s tall stature and his honest face, never made anyone suspicious. Moreover, ever since everyone learned that Chen Daming was Zhang Xiaohong’s husband, they felt that not only did the couple look well-matched, but their names were also fitting.
Apart from Chen Daming, there were also several other Special Ability Users in Zhang Xiaohong’s team, and their abilities were not weak.
No wonder these people had so many supplies; it turns out they had the strength to wander far and wide.
Within the encircling walls at that moment, it was the Fire Element Ability Users’ turn to unleash their abilities. Among them, Chen Daming’s fire ability was the strongest, resulting in nothing growing in the areas he had scorched.
However, at this time, quite a few Mutated Zombies began attacking the industrial park’s iron gates. Seeing that the gates were about to be breached, the Special Ability Users inside were aware of the severity of the situation. Many had come down from the walls, waiting for the first zombie to come rushing through the gates.
Su Jin also came down. Though she couldn’t use her Wood Element Ability, she still had formidable combat skills for killing zombies. Two Ghost Hand Knives appeared in her hands. Qi Liangliang looked at her silhouette and suddenly felt that Zhang Xiaohong looked both cool and dashing. Could it be that she, a Space Element Ability User, would also kill zombies?
As proved, Zhang Xiaohong was indeed not just a simple Space Element Ability User. When the first wave of zombies rushed in, in addition to the dazzling abilities of the Special Ability Users, the fall of Zhang Xiaohong’s knives resulted in a slew of zombie heads rolling on the ground.
What impressive skills Zhang Xiaohong had!
Her family followed closely, descending from atop the walls. They seemed to be scattered, killing zombies, but were always vigilant in protecting Zhang Xiaohong in the center.
Cai Jianbin had intended for his men to protect Zhang Xiaohong and her group, but he soon realized that they didn’t need any protection. In fact, they were even able to fend off attacks for other exhausted Special Ability Users.
“Thank you, big brother,”
a man said to Lin Cheng as he looked at the earthen wall before him. If it weren’t for that wall, he would probably be charred to a crisp by now.
“Don’t mention it,”
Lin Cheng replied with a smile. The people here were all potential customers; they might do business with them in the future, so they couldn’t let them die carelessly.
The iron gate wasn’t completely opened, and many zombies were still howling at the Special Ability Users on the surrounding walls. As a result, the outside zombies didn’t surge in all at once, allowing those inside the gate to kill them with relative ease.
“Everyone be careful not to get bitten. Tonight, all the Crystal Cores can be exchanged for supplies with us!”
Although Su Jin’s voice wasn’t loud, everyone heard her.
Those who initially felt unlucky today suddenly thought that the zombie tide might not be a bad thing after all. If anything, it seemed like heaven was sending Crystal Cores their way.
At that moment, every person killing zombies had excitement written all over their face, even those without Special Abilities took up weapons and hacked away vigorously.
Squish!
Auntie Zhang’s kitchen knife plunged straight into a zombie’s face. Then, she forcefully pulled out the knife and continued to chop at other Ordinary Zombies nearby.
Wang Qiang and his group were also killing with a vengeance. They hadn’t killed zombies for two months, generally choosing to avoid them when possible. Although they had killed quite a few zombies in the past few days, they hadn’t seen this many in a long time.
“Xiaohong, are you tired? If you’re tired, go inside and rest.”
An unacquainted man asked while killing zombies.
Su Jin nodded and, instead of showing off, walked towards the top of the surrounding wall with the Ghost Hand Knife in hand.
The enclosure of the industrial park was very long, and Su Jin arrived at a deserted spot, pretending to sit down to rest.
While everyone was distracted by the zombies below, no one noticed a man-eating flower, as tall as a person, quietly blooming in a corner beneath the city wall.
Leaning against the wall inside, Su Jin smiled as she controlled the man-eating flower on the outside. Below was pitch black, and the flower was kept at a man’s height, making it invisible from above.
Feeling a comfortable surge of energy within her, Su Jin knew the man-eating flower had started feeding.
Seeing that no one had noticed, Su Jin continued to grow a second and third plant.
They hadn’t killed any zombies these past few days, and letting Xiao Cui out for a feed would probably make it very happy.
It wasn’t until the second morning, when the zombie tide had been completely eradicated, that people discovered numerous headless zombie corpses at the corner of the wall, with no zombie heads to be found nearby.
“Who the hell did this, stealing the heads of so many zombies?!”
A person who was digging for crystal cores shouted.
There were at least a few thousand headless zombie corpses here. After analysis, the people inside the industrial park concluded that this might not have been the work of someone stealing the zombie heads.
Since no one could leave the industrial park before the zombie tide was eliminated, if people from outside had done this, they would undoubtedly have been devoured by the zombie tide. Therefore, everyone agreed that this must have been the work of mutated plants or zombie animals.
“Ah, it’s a pity—the crystal cores of several thousand zombies,”
Cai Jianbin said, shaking his head.
Upon hearing this news, Su Jin also ran out to take a look. That place was precisely where she had fostered Xiao Cui. It seemed that the man-eating flower, because of its height, had only eaten the heads of the zombies and hadn’t swallowed them whole.
Fortunately, no one suspected, Su Jin thought with a sigh of relief.
A night of fierce fighting had exhausted all the special ability users in the industrial park. Many had drained their special abilities. Although there were casualties, everyone knew they were inevitable. Because of the cold weather and everyone wearing the thick clothes purchased from Su Jin, those who were scratched or bitten were few, and the number of casualties was kept within an acceptable range.
Looking at the bodies of the zombies both inside and outside the park, the exhausted survivors looked at one another and smiled for the first time in a while.
Last night, they had fought fiercely against the zombie tide, and they had held their ground!
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Su Jin and others, walking back from the outside, were greeted with salutes from everyone.
Zhang Xiaohong and the others had killed a considerable number of zombies, and if it weren’t for Chen Daming’s effective command and Zhang Xiaohong’s words, their few thousand people might well have been wiped out by the zombie tide.
They were the ones who had been saved!
The children and other civilians without the ability to fight also ran out, voluntarily helping to dig out the crystal cores. There were designated people collecting the crystal cores, with others monitoring. This was the result of discussions between Cai Jianbin and the team leaders within the park.
Although everyone was still fairly united, they were far from being able to completely forgo supervision. With the arrival of Zhang Xiaohong, the crystal cores, once considered worthless, had become handfuls of food in everyone’s eyes. If someone secretly hoarded them, it would be a loss for the entire park.
