Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse-Chapter 670: The Reserve Granary

On the cement road outside the wire mesh, puddles of blackened bloodstains spread to a nearby sewer cover. Besides some clothing on the ground that could no longer be identified by color, there was nothing else.

Lu Hao, holding Su Jin with one arm, stopped and looked down at the ground.

"What’s the matter?"

Seeing Lu Hao frown, Su Jin also looked towards where his gaze fell.

The hard cement surface was full of irregular potholes that looked like... Bullet marks?

Guan Shouzhong also squatted down to look at the ground and said, "They’re definitely bullets."

"Were these fired by people inside the warehouse?"

Su Xiangzhe also realized that there were no other buildings around, and looking up from this spot meant they were likely fired from a row of ventilation windows above the warehouse.

"Visible guns are easy to dodge, hidden arrows are hard to defend against. Luckily, there’s nobody here anymore."

Lin Xiuyuan also looked up at the upper part of the warehouse. If ordinary people had run here, they might indeed have had a hard time avoiding those hidden guns, right?

"Since there’s nobody inside, we’ll quickly collect the items and leave here after we enter. I’m worried it might attract some zombie animals,"

Lu Hao said as he surveyed the situation around them again.

Guan Shouzhong nodded, used his Metal Element Ability to open the wire mesh, and slowly walked forward with his family.

The group directly faced the main entrance of the reserve grain warehouse. The two silver-gray iron doors, more than two meters high, looked very clean without any bloodstains or dirt, presenting a stark contrast to the view outside the wire mesh.

"I’ll open the door. Everyone be careful of things inside,"

Guan Shouzhong said.

Lu Hao nodded, signaling everyone to cover up and be ready to attack at any moment.

The iron door opened slowly with the Metal Element Ability. Though no mutant animals rushed out immediately, the group did not dare to let down their guard in the slightest.

"There’s nothing in here, but I can’t be sure if there are zombie cockroaches or zombie mice,"

Mao Qiqi said.

"No worries, no worries. Our H Province didn’t have cockroaches before the apocalypse, and the chances are slim even now,"

Xiang Sanjin reassured, although there might still be zombie rats, he felt that zombie rats were much more amicable than the zombie cockroaches they had previously heard about.

"Xiao Jin, it looks like there are quite a bit of supplies here."

Huang Yunxiang slowly followed behind. They had originally thought that someone set such a big trap here, definitely having discovered the location and possibly taking all the supplies inside. But now, it seemed that the goods inside had barely been touched.

"We didn’t come here in vain; this is the entire year’s grain reserve for the population of H Province before! Huaxia is really good at being prepared,"

Guan Shouzhong remarked emotionally.

"Exactly. I used to hear the news say as of now, the national grain reserve is so and so much, back then I had no idea what that meant, now I finally understand,"

Lin Xiuyuan admired as he looked at the abundant supplies here.

But Lu Hao, carrying Su Jin, walked upstairs. The staircase inside the warehouse was made of metal, and Lu Hao dared not step too hard for fear that the echoing would resonate through the entire warehouse.

Walking further up, they reached one platform after another, all neatly stacked with bagged grain. Lu Hao and his companion stopped next to an empty platform.

"Someone has lived here,"

Su Jin said, looking at everything in front of them.

Several unfolded folding beds quietly sat on the platform, complete with blankets and quilts, while on the other side were several tables arranged with pots, bowls, and even a few gas cylinders—it looked like those people had intended to live there indefinitely.

The group below also followed up, and Guan Shouzhong immediately noticed several familiar backpacks on the ground.

They were indeed the standard-issue backpacks, no mistake.

"It really is them."

Guan Shouzhong breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that the trap, the vehicle, and the bullet marks had all been the handiwork of the first batch of team members.

"How do you even recruit your team members?"

Su Xiangzhe asked skeptically, noting that the traces of lived-in mess didn’t resemble those left by trained individuals, like himself who, despite years out of the service, still habitually folded his blanket every day and kept things in order, unlike the chaos here.

"It was all about having more hands for greater strength. I thought the more, the merrier, to better resist the zombies, so I recruited any Special Ability Users who signed up,"

Guan Shouzhong now regretted his actions, realizing he had greatly underestimated human nature.

"The people at your base need a reevaluation as not everyone is cut out for this, recruiting within a specific scope and assessment is really necessary,"

Lu Hao said.

Like the Guard squad members from Base S, they were all traditionally trained before the apocalypse and had stayed with Li Haochu; even the new recruits later on were professionally assessed, and those from the slums were only accepted because of their critical performance acknowledged by Liang Jiuhui.

"Absolutely, that was my mistake,"

Guan Shouzhong grieved for the Special Ability Teams that he had indirectly led to their deaths in the subsequent batches.

"Well, it’s not surprising, with so many goods here, anyone would be tempted," freēnovelkiss.com

Lin Tianhui, standing high, had a clear view of the situation below.

She could imagine how those people felt standing here, in a world lacking food—the allure of possessing the contents of this warehouse was too tempting, so once they found it, they simply decided to stay.

"Indeed, and this warehouse is an easily defended difficult-to-assault location; they probably considered it as their own base, especially with the extensive traps they set outside,"

Lu Hao added.

"There are only just over 30 of them, aren’t they worried about the goods expiring?"

Tian Yongyi muttered.

"Let’s pack up quickly. Captain Lu, didn’t you say you have a Space Element Ability User? But all these goods won’t fit in one go, right?"

Xiang Sanjin asked.

"They’ll fit,"

Su Jin had Lu Hao set her down and she walked to the next platform and waved her hand; suddenly, all the goods on that platform vanished.

"Little sister-in-law? Aren’t you a Wood Element Ability User?"

Tian Yongyi asked in surprise, never having considered that the Space Element Ability User in Lu Hao’s team was Su Jin.

"Dual-Element, haven’t you heard?"

Su Jin turned and smiled.

The three of them shook their heads simultaneously, so a Special Ability User could have two abilities?

"Sometimes I really feel like you guys are still living in the first few months of the apocalypse, if it weren’t for the high level of zombies here, I’d suspect we had time-traveled,"

Lin Xiuyuan cynically added another jab at the trio.