Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus

This rain has been going on for a long time, filling the air with an indescribable scent.

It’s oppressive, desperate, mournful.

Li Tie and the others in the building finished off these zombies with mercy stabs, then they came upstairs, still a bit wet from the rain.

Drip-drop, drip-drop~

The rain outside the window was drizzling into the building.

”Alright, you guys go and rest first. Third Uncle, Haoran, and I will keep watch here; later, you can come and take over the duty,” Li Yu said.

Li Tie and the others nodded and then all left for the house at the back of the small hill.

The night deepened.

Yutong stayed by Li Yu’s side for a while then also left to rest in the house over there.

Li Yu gazed out into the rainy night, shifting his body slightly to the side, allowing the rain to sprinkle into the building.

Inside the building, the light was kept on to save power, with just one lamp turned on.

The lamplight shone down on the main entrance. Just earlier, Li Tie and the others had roughly blocked the doorway with an iron door, piling up some other discarded items.

They had wanted to drive a vehicle in to block the entrance, but it was not a good fit in terms of height and width, so they gave up.

They had simply set up a temporary barrier which could hold off the zombies for a bit if they came.

”Haoran, get some rest in the sleeping bag,” Li Yu suggested upon seeing Li Haoran standing beside, spear in hand, looking vigilant.

Li Haoran shook his head and said, ”Big brother, I’m not tired; let’s keep watch together. We need to be careful out here, isn’t that why you asked me to stay? To have more eyes on things?”

Li Yu smiled, not objecting: ”Okay.”

Third Uncle took out an apple from his bag and began to crunch away.

Third Uncle’s bag was like a treasure trove, always producing some fruit, but Li Yu was not surprised, knowing Third Uncle’s fondness for fruit.

Then Li Yu looked up at the night sky, pitch-black.

He would often feel suddenly emo, overwhelmed by a wave of sadness.

In front of a window, Li Yu lit a cigarette.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle~

The cigarette crackled as it burned in the flame.

The smoke was scattered by the rain, wafting, drifting away.

Suddenly, Li Yu felt an inexplicable sadness, his brows furrowing slightly.

In his value system, reshaped countless times, before his rebirth, he had honed himself to a beast-like nature in his solitary existence.

Cold-blooded, brutal, fierce.

Proud like a lone wolf, in darkness, in danger, he found a trembling excitement; facing danger, he felt thrilled. He once thought he had become a psychopath.

After his rebirth, the warmth of family and friends moistened his parched heart, and he began to retract his sharp edges, treating everyone in the base with a tenderness like a gentle breeze.

An inexplicable sense of loneliness, he remembered, before his rebirth, during a flight from danger, a person he thought, he believed to be his best friend, a person with whom he shared a bond of life and death.

Unexpectedly, during one Zombie Tide, to buy some time for him, pushed Li Yu towards the zombies.

Li Yu was lucky; he didn’t die in that instance.

However, it became difficult for him to trust anyone again, just as now, he always felt he couldn’t trust anyone around him, yet he forced himself to trust.

Because, even the thought that his parents might not be trustworthy had flashed through his mind.

This pained him, drove him to despair. If even parents couldn’t be trusted, what meaning was there left for him to live, to protect.

He was adjusting himself, forcing himself away from the idea of destroying the world.

Contradiction, conflict.

He is clearly a warm person, clearly someone who easily takes pity.

It’s his nature, it’s in his genes.

But in this situation, he is extremely cold-blooded, filled with hostility.

Both temperaments merged, eventually leading to calmness.

He took a deep drag of smoke.

”Life is beautiful, protect the family.” Li Yu muttered.

”Ice cold through eons, all things remain silent, intentions and breath serene, I stand alone as a divine being, mind and spirit becoming one, with breath following suit, intermingling as if excess, unfazed through myriad transformations...” He recited the Taoist Calming Incantation several times.

In less than a few minutes, Li Yu had returned to normal.

That state of doubting everything and wanting to destroy all, though it occurred occasionally, he quickly dispelled it.

....

Harmony Garden, everyone is having a tough time.

Because of the rain, because of the night.

Resisting the zombies is extremely troublesome, though they do have some flashlights and other lighting equipment; still, they are in short supply.

Especially now, with a few zombies having broken into the base, it makes it hard for people inside Harmony Garden to feel at ease.

At night, they continue to resist the zombies, with some having not had a morsel of food.

Starving beyond endurance, but they can only force themselves to keep going because retreating meant certain doom.

Everyone is fighting hard, precisely because of the scarcity of supplies, which is why they went to that place Xie Liuhai spoke of.

But unexpectedly, they never returned.

Mr. Wang and that skinny man went to search for hidden zombies together, which are like ticking time bombs waiting to explode.

They must be dealt with swiftly.

The lighting in the rain made distant objects hard to discern.

Suddenly, an angry curse was heard: ”Damn it, you dare to ambush me?!”

It came from the left, and people hurriedly moved in that direction.

The crowd saw a large and robust man lying next to a zombie, whose limbs had been chopped off and head split in two by the man.

Mr. Wang checked the man for wounds and said, ”Old Zheng, you weren’t bitten, were you?”

Old Zheng patted himself down, still shaken as he said, ”That was a close call, but I reacted quickly. Don’t worry, I wasn’t bitten. Damn it, there are still zombies inside the base. If it wasn’t for the alarm bell’s reminder, making me more cautious, I might have been bitten just now. How many more are there?”

Mr. Wang, hearing Old Zheng’s question, didn’t know how to respond for a moment because he also didn’t know how many zombies were still inside the base.

Thinking of this, Mr. Wang looked resentfully at the skinny man beside him.

Even though the zombies’ entry this time had no direct connection to him, it was still infuriating.

”Let’s go search the area. Let’s deal with all these zombies as soon as possible,” Mr. Wang said.

A few people continued to search around Harmony Garden, braving the rain, and after circling the grounds, found two more zombies.

This made a total of four zombies that had breached inside.

But the people still didn’t dare to stop there; the number of zombies outside the perimeter was gradually decreasing, giving those guarding the fence some respite.

Although it was a large place, there was one downside; because the area was vast and only a single layer of fencing blocked the zombies, defense was particularly strenuous.

They also wanted to build another wall, but the food issue was even more severe, even more crucial.

Therefore, the project kept getting postponed, and gathering materials to construct the wall around was especially troublesome, with human labor being a major concern.