Rebirth before Apocalypse: My Whole Family are Bigshots!

In the following time, no matter what Bai Anhai asked, the Base Commander did not speak.

When pressed hard, the Base Commander just closed his eyes, not sure if he fell asleep from exhaustion or was avoiding everyone’s questioning.

”Let’s return to the safety base first!”

Leng Yebai gently touched Bai Xiqin’s hair and turned away, no longer looking at the Base Commander lying in the bathtub.

”Alright!”

Bai Xiqin knew that Leng Yebai was angry with the Base Commander.

Angry, but couldn’t vent at someone gravely injured and almost dying.

It wasn’t until Leng Yebai and Bai Xiqin emerged from the space that the Base Commander let out a long sigh.

Not a word was spoken along the way.

The bus stopped and started intermittently along the road, occasionally needing to enter the space to heal the Base Commander.

It took three days to return to Yunhua Safety Base.

Today, Hong Yu was on duty for guard duty.

From afar, Hong Yu spotted the blue and white bus and a faint smile appeared on the young man’s face.

He had turned on the temperature detection instrument in his hand and even opened the gate.

Waiting for the bus to enter.

”Xiao Fan, Sister Bai, you’re back.”

Hong Yu quickly took the temperatures of Bai Xiqin and the others, speaking very gently.

”Mm, thank you for your hard work.”

Bai Xiqin nodded and said nothing more.

Hong Yu noticed the weariness in Bai Xiqin’s eyes.

”Xiao Fan, you all go and rest quickly! You’ve been out for so many days, you must be tired!”

Hong Yu promptly stepped aside to let the bus enter.

”Alright, I’ll come to play with you when I have time.”

Bai Yifan responded, flooring the gas pedal, brushing past Hong Yu and squeezing into the safety base.

Hong Yu blinked, realizing belatedly, took a step back, scratched his head and silently took out from his pocket the gaming console Bai Yifan had given him.

Play a game to calm his nerves.

In three days, the Base Commander’s injuries visibly recovered more than half.

Aside from the alarming sight of the severed arm, almost all other wounds have healed.

The Base Commander’s strength is still there, as long as he starts absorbing the Crystal Core on his own, he can swiftly recover from his injuries.

The bus returned to the place where the Bai Family had initially stopped.

The glass was specially made, making it impossible to see inside from the outside, but Bai Yifan still pulled the curtain up from inside.

Once the windows and doors were locked from the inside, the bus instantly fell silent.

Bai Xiqin moved everyone into the space.

A scene unfolded within the space.

The Base Commander, with a bandage on his left shoulder, sat neatly in a chair, surrounded by a circle of people.

It had the air of interrogating a criminal.

The Base Commander’s body was much better now, able to answer questions, and when he couldn’t answer, it was now possible to starve him to rile.

”What did you go to the sea for?”

Leng Yebai stared at the Base Commander’s face, his fingers slightly tense.

The Water Python and Qin Yuan found the Base Commander on the sea, they didn’t know what place the Base Commander had been to.

They only knew that at the time, the Base Commander was nearing death, surrounded by many mutated creatures.

Fortunately, Qin Yuan and the Water Python arrived in time, otherwise Leng Yebai would be waiting to inherit the Base Commander’s assets!

”No, I didn’t do anything!”

The Base Commander turned his head away from Leng Yebai, but there were people all around him, and any turn of his head showed him someone else.

Turning left, he saw Bai Anhai’s stern face; turning right, he saw the face of Bai Zhengxuan, the family elder.

The Base Commander twitched the corners of his mouth, silently twisting his neck in an awkward way.

Better to look at Bai Yifan!

This kid looks like he can be easily fooled!

”Uncle Leng, do you have something you’re hiding from us, wanting to sacrifice yourself to save the world or something, but realized you couldn’t save it and got beaten half to death, so you’re too embarrassed to say it?”

Bai Yifan blinked his eyes, looking innocently at the Base Commander.

Base Commander: ...

”Cough, cough, not really.” The Base Commander shook his head, forcing a smile, ”Uncle Leng just went swimming, not planning to save the world, besides, I don’t even know how to save the world!”

”Then what did you go to the sea for? Could it be like Brother Zhang said, to snatch some Flat Peach? Could something from legend be the same as the things mutating now?”

Bai Yifan expressed great curiosity.

The Flat Peach is famous in Journey to the West, where the Jade Emperor had the peach-loving monkey guard the Immortal Peach Orchard, leading to the renowned havoc in heaven scene.

It is said the Flat Peach can extend one’s lifespan, could the mutated plant truly have this effect?

Even if it could, it might not be significant, at most prolonging life.

Even so, it would be considered a rare treasure.

But for such a dangerous place, if even Brother Zhang couldn’t snatch it, why would the Base Commander go there?

”Yes, I went to snatch a Flat Peach. Here’s the Flat Peach pit, don’t waste it. Dig a hole and bury it, it might grow a new Flat Peach.”

The Base Commander rolled his eyes, dug around on himself, and finally pulled out a pile of miscellaneous items.

Among them was a peach pit that looked no different from an ordinary peach pit, obviously taken out by the Base Commander as a stopgap.

”What do you want this peach for!” Leng Yebai’s face was icy, as dark as it could get.

”I thought the Flat Peach could bring someone back to life and was of invaluable worth, so I went to grab it, but the competition was too fierce, so I had to hide on the side and finally only snatched out the peach pit someone else spat out, don’t waste it, plant it in the soil, maybe it’ll grow again.”

The Base Commander quietly dug a hole on the ground and buried the peach pit in the space, covering it casually.

This peach pit would not sprout or bear fruit.

Because its growth condition must be in that place on the sea, and in any other place it’s only good as fertilizer for the soil.

”What did Bai Yifan say about saving the world?” Leng Yebai’s fingers creaked as he spoke.

Leng Yebai tended to believe what Bai Yifan said casually, since Bai Yifan’s words often came true.

”What saving the world? There’s no way to save the world by going to the sea, you’re overthinking it, I’m not so selflessly devoted.” The Base Commander chuckled, seeing Leng Yebai’s angry demeanor, added another line, ”Even if I did go to save the world, isn’t the world still in this mess?”

He went to the wrong place, also overestimated himself.

Thinking he was strong enough to save the world only to find out that not all living things in this world are as cute as zombies.

When he was getting beaten up at sea, he truly missed the Zombie King he had worn down.

What an adorable Zombie King!

Why did he kill it!

Though it wasn’t very nice-looking, seemed lewd, but its strength was low!

Compared to the monsters in the sea, the lewd-looking Zombie King was at least adorably cute.

”Daughter-in-law, I haven’t been back for a long time, let me out! I’m afraid Song Hongfei will mess up the safety base.”

The Base Commander grinned widely, baring his teeth.

Helpless.

The Bai Family could only come out of the space, taking the Base Commander out as well.

The Base Commander curiously looked at the suddenly changing scene before him, silently extended his only remaining right hand, and gave Bai Xiqin a thumbs up.

This Space Ability is truly defying the heavens!

”Roar...”

Just after coming out of the space, before the bus windows were even opened, the people in the bus heard the zombies’ shrill howling.

”Is the base surrounded by zombies again?”

Bai Anhai froze for a moment, then opened the nearest bus window to him.

The shrill howling grew much louder.

The mournful and despairing howls echoed from all directions, incessantly.

It wasn’t the roar of attacking the safety base yearning for blood and flesh, but despair, sadness...

Zombies were always filled with aggressive, angry, and bloodthirsty emotions, except for some High Rank Zombies who had more emotions, common zombies rarely showed other emotions.

”This really sounds like ghostly wailing, like in Hell.”

Bai Yifan covered his ears, unsettled by the zombies’ mournful howling.

Thousands of zombies mourning together.