Chapter 187

Chapter 187: The Door to Rebirth in the Apocalypse – Full Novel Website

Chapter 187

Gu Ning was awakened by the noise. Because the curtains were drawn, the room was still pitch black, but she could hear waves of screams outside.

Gu Ning grabbed her coat and was about to go out to see what was happening when the door was suddenly flung open. A few snowflakes drifted in, and Cheng Ming, panting heavily with excitement, appeared in front of her. He must have run all the way up from downstairs in one breath.

Gu Ning put on her coat and asked, “What’s happening outside?”

“Special abilities…” Cheng Ming took a deep breath, but before he could finish, Zhang Xiaobai pushed him aside and excitedly shouted at Gu Ning, “Gu Ning! Our special abilities are back!”

Gu Ning froze. “What?”

“Look!” Zhang Xiaobai raised his hand, and in his palm, a ball of lightning sparkled with beautiful, firework-like light, emitting a dull cracking sound.

Gu Ning stepped out onto the balcony, leaning on the railing to look down. The playground below was in complete chaos. Those with special abilities were freely unleashing them. Spiritual power covered the entire settlement, madly extending outward. Earth spikes shot up from the ground, wind blades howled, swirling up snowflakes, and a water column shot into the sky, instantly freezing into ice!

Whoosh— A gust of wind swept past Gu Ning from behind. She turned her head to see Fang Fa already standing to her left, grinning at her. “Morning, Gu Ning.” As soon as he finished speaking, he turned into a blur, stirring up countless snowflakes as he chased after something, disappearing around the corner of the building in the blink of an eye, darting through the snow and causing waves of exclamations.

“This is truly a auspicious snow!” Gu Ning’s father, wrapped in a cotton coat, walked up to her and said with a smile.

Gu Ning nodded in agreement, reaching out to catch a snowflake, watching it slowly melt in her palm, feeling as if the heavens were on her side.

Apart from the known ability users in the Three-Linked Team, there were actually twelve more ability users in the settlement, a very considerable proportion.

Due to the sudden restoration of abilities, last night’s arrangements had to be overturned, and a team composed entirely of ability users was formed. Third Brother Jia Daozhang would definitely stay to oversee the settlement.

Gu Ning, Fang Fa, Zhang Xiaobai, Cheng Ming, Zhong Xu, plus an excited Xiang Xu, and two second-tier speed ability users and two second-tier earth-type ability users selected from the twelve ability users, along with Huang Mengyao and Liu Xin, who carried the antidote. A total of twelve people.

With Xiang Xu’s presence, the reconnaissance mission would be much easier.

The number was nearly one-tenth less than originally planned.

Two cars drove out of the settlement gate one after another, under the worried yet hopeful gazes of everyone in the settlement.

Due to the slippery road from the snow, the cars moved very slowly.

Along the way, Zhang Xiaobai kept playing with the ball of lightning in his hand, extremely excited, as if afraid his ability would suddenly disappear again.

Since they were still within the safe zone of the yellow line, it wasn’t until more than two hours later that they encountered their first zombie.

Zhang Xiaobai finally put away the ball of lightning.

Zombies chased after the car.

Cheng Ming leaned halfway out of the sunroof, waving his hands, and instantly, dozens of wind blades materialized, cutting through the falling snow, slicing towards the zombies chasing the car!

The high-speed rotating wind blades effortlessly cut through the zombies’ necks. The zombies ran forward a few steps out of inertia before suddenly collapsing into the snow.

“Did you notice? These zombies seem to have become even slower,” Fang Fa said while driving, stuffing beef jerky into his mouth.

The snow seemed to have some effect on the zombies. Even speed-evolved zombies had slowed down significantly.

After driving out of the yellow line zone for about half an hour, they stopped at a fork in the road. Getting out of the car, the disturbed zombies had already pounced on the vehicle. Cheng Ming skillfully opened the sunroof and climbed onto the roof of the car. Instantly, countless wind blades materialized from the air, spinning rapidly and flying out in all directions.

Gu Ning forcefully pushed open the car door and kicked out, sending two pouncing zombies flying. She stepped down from the car, her knife already spinning in a circle, slicing off half of one zombie’s head, then thrusting into the mouth of another zombie that had broken through Cheng Ming’s wind blade attack. With a forceful pull, the zombie’s hand on her shoulder went limp. Gu Ning gently pushed the corpse aside, her feet stepping into the snow, making a crunching sound.

Fang Fa had already turned into a blur, holding a knife, and wherever he passed, zombies fell.

Water arrows shot out, exploding in mid-air. Zhang Xiaobai raised his hands, and two lightning dragons coiled around his arms, swiftly darting towards the zombies! The smell of burning and the sound of fat cracking filled the air.

Before the two earth-type ability users and speed ability users could react, the more than thirty zombies surrounding them had already been dealt with.

Xiang Xu, wearing thick wool gloves and wrapped in a heavy cotton coat, looked around, his spiritual power silently extending outward.

Huang Mengyao put on white rubber gloves, took out a scalpel, and squatted beside a charred zombie corpse. She skillfully found an incision, then cracked open the zombie’s skull, stirring through its brain matter. Liu Xin, who had obviously never experienced such a disgusting scene, turned her head away, feeling nauseous. By the third zombie, Huang Mengyao called out, “Liu Xin, bring the bag over.”

Liu Xin had to take a sealed bag from her backpack and hand it over, seeing the brain matter spilling all over the ground, she felt like vomiting.

On the other side, Gu Ning unfolded a detailed map of the area on the car hood, pointing to a line: “We are here now.” Her finger moved along a dotted line: “Then we need to follow this road. This road is lined with shops. Turning here is the gymnasium, and across from the gymnasium is the student dormitory. Further ahead is the campus. With Xiang Xu here, if everything goes smoothly, we can finish within two hours and start the cleanup work in the afternoon.”

Zhang Xiaobai said confidently, “Then let’s go!”

Over there, Huang Mengyao had already collected all the crystal cores.

Gu Ning instructed, “Stay close to us. Keep an eye on Liu Xin.”

Huang Mengyao nodded, then said to Liu Xin, “No matter what happens later, just stay behind me.” Liu Xin nodded, clearly still uneasy.

Gu Ning finally gave the order: “Let’s go.”

The snow reached their ankles, and the snowflakes continued to fall from the sky. The surroundings were quiet, with only the sound of their footsteps crunching in the snow.

Along the way, they kept encountering zombies. After more than three months, the evolution speed of the zombies had increased. It was obvious that the proportion of evolved zombies had risen, especially the speed-evolved zombies. When they ran at full speed, they were even faster than the two second-tier speed ability users. However, Fang Fa, already a fourth-tier speed ability user, was still much faster than them. His weapons were two small knives, produced by the Five-Star Brigade’s manufacturing bureau, made of the same material as Gu Ning’s knife, so their sharpness was evident. A gust of wind swept past, and a thin line appeared on the zombie’s neck, gradually splitting open, until the head rolled off the neck and fell into the snow.

Fang Fa, as the vanguard, moved forward, with Gu Ning and the others following behind, seeing headless corpses and heads either facing up or buried in the snow.

The scene was extremely bloody and eerie. Liu Xin, who was on her first mission with the team, was very uncomfortable seeing such brutal scenes. She pursed her lips, tightly gripping her backpack straps, feeling her stomach churn, afraid she might vomit. Huang Mengyao turned and handed her a piece of ginger: “Here, eat some ginger, it’ll help with the nausea.” Liu Xin was stunned for a moment, then stuffed the ginger into her mouth. As she chewed, the spicy ginger juice filled her mouth, and the feeling of nausea immediately lessened. She couldn’t help but feel extremely grateful to Huang Mengyao.

“It’s always like this at first. You’ll get used to it after a few times,” Huang Mengyao, as someone who had been through it, kindly reminded her.

Liu Xin nodded.

Compared to Fang Fa and the others’ ease, the two speed ability users and earth-type ability users clearly lacked combat experience. Their ranks were entirely built up by crystal cores. From the moment they got out of the car, they seemed very nervous, and their ability control was very clumsy.

A strength-type zombie blocked an earth-type ability user’s earth spike attack and rushed towards him. He suddenly felt panicked, his movements stiffened for a moment before he reacted, directly slashing at the strength-type zombie with his knife!

At least the usual training wasn’t in vain. Zhang Xiaobai thought silently.

Huang Mengyao followed behind, cracking open the skulls of the zombies they killed one by one.

Liu Xin seemed to have overcome her fear and started seriously learning how Huang Mengyao extracted the zombies.

Xiang Xu occasionally paused, using a red marker to continuously mark the map.

The wide road in the middle was filled with abandoned vehicles—buses, private cars, electric scooters—all covered in a thick layer of snow.

On both sides of the road were shops, most with their doors wide open or violently broken, the insides ransacked and in complete disarray. Naturally, there was no one inside, only ordinary zombies struggling to walk in the snow and plastic mannequins standing at the shop entrances.

“It’s so quiet,” Liu Xin couldn’t help but say. As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly let out a scream. Huang Mengyao quickly turned around and saw Liu Xin had fallen to the ground. A hand had emerged from the snow, grabbing Liu Xin’s ankle, and gradually revealed an extremely emaciated zombie’s face. It tightly gripped Liu Xin’s leg, moving forward, opening its mouth to bite a chunk of flesh from her leg.

Huang Mengyao hurried over, thrusting a knife down from the top of the zombie’s head, then pried open the fingers gripping Liu Xin one by one. Liu Xin, looking at the zombie half-buried in the snow, was terrified. Huang Mengyao patted her shoulder and said, “It’s okay, get up.”

“Are you okay?” Zhong Xu, hearing the commotion, rushed over and asked.

Liu Xin shook her head.

Huang Mengyao said, “It’s fine. Let’s keep going.” Then she pulled Liu Xin up from the ground and continued forward.

Liu Xin quickly followed, paying more attention to her footing.

There weren’t many zombies walking around, and they soon reached the vicinity of the gymnasium and student dormitory. The number of zombies on the road suddenly surged.

To avoid attracting more zombies, they stopped actively attacking and instead concealed their movements, trying to walk on dry areas to reduce noise.

“There are a lot of zombies in the gymnasium,” Xiang Xu circled several red areas on the map within the gymnasium region, his face tense: “These areas have particularly many zombies.”

Gu Ning leaned out from the back of the car and saw dozens of zombies wandering around the gymnasium entrance about thirty meters away. Without a target, they just spun in place, the snow crunching under their feet.

Xiang Xu’s spiritual power wasn’t strong enough to extend to the new campus from here. They needed to get closer to the new campus. However, passing through the main entrance would likely alert the zombies, and a big commotion would attract a large wave of zombies. With more zombies, there might even be mutated zombies among them. Thinking about her past encounters with mutated zombies, which hadn’t been pleasant, Gu Ning thought it best not to disturb them.

“Let’s go this way,” Gu Ning said in a low voice, pointing towards the student dormitory.

No one had any objections, so they carefully turned around and slipped into the student dormitory’s main entrance.