The Rebirth of the Last Days and Return to [Fang] Hao

Although the Samsara team isn’t too large, everyone has developed abilities now. Even if only one-third of them have long-range abilities, its enough for this group of zombies to suffer.

Especially after knowing it’s merely a scary “armor” outside and only the lower-middle is where the zombie’s real body is. Naturally, they will not be polite. They all activated their abilities and aimed at the zombie’s lower half.

Other people, when encountering this kind of zombie will subconsciously attack the zombie’s “head”, resulting in a waste of effort. Not only will they attract the offense of its limbs, attacks above the waist are in vain. Therefore, most people regard this type of zombie as an undead ghost that cannot be killed. But after meeting someone who knows the truth, though these zombies have thicker skin, they can still break the shell.

The zombie was cleaned up, and the sound of fighting attracted many zombies wandering nearby, causing everyone’s progress to slow down.

Fortunately, Guo Bing and them are harvesting nuclei and training the team at the same time, so it’s not too difficult.

This is the road He Zizhong and Fang Hao traveled twice on. But because there was a long interval between travel, many zombies congregated, swaying over and blocking the road, one after another. What made the two of them more gratified was that they luckily did not encounter a mutant plant, otherwise it would be another headache.

A group of ability users teamed up to fight zombies. At least half of the Samsara team are level 2, so their combat effectiveness is very impressive. In addition, there are two healers on the team, so everyone is relatively unconcerned in the fight. If it weren’t for fear that very serious injuries cannot be healed, these close-ranged powers would simply rush into the pile of zombies and kill.

The team’s actions are already very fast. They moved relatively slower as they neared the depths of the city, and did not arrive at the destination until the third day after entering the city.

— “God…what’s the situation here?!” Guo Bing stared at a distance not far ahead, dumbfounded.

He Zizhong pretended to frown deeply and rubbed his chin. “It was already like this when we came. I guess there was an explosion here before? During the start of the apocalypse.”

Guo Bing and them are not detectives, nor are they trained to identify traces on the scene, estimate the time of explosion, and other sophisticated knowledge. Also because they believe He Zizhong is reliable. The area of explosion here is too large, and the scope is also very wide, so it is obviously not someone’s abilities. Even if bombarded with weapons… ordinary people won’t have such strong firepower. If the troops passed through here when retreating from the city, and experienced a battle, it’s possible they destroyed these buildings.

“Where is the bank? See if it was bombed!” Guo Bing remembered the purpose of their trip and quickly asked Chen Ning to check the map.

It’s really not so easy to find the traces on the map in an unrecognizable real scene. Fortunately, He Zizhong and them saw a building that looks like a bank before. A few people worked together to find the roof that was bombed and found the ruins of a certain bank with the sign blown up.

The ground floor of the bank has been destroyed beyond recognition. Fortunately, while banknotes are worthless now, gold and silver bars are not placed in main floor – they are all hidden in the underground safe.

Having explored the underground safe of the jewelry exhibition, this time He Zizhong and Fang Hao found the stairs of the underground entrance easily.

A breeze fluttered, rushing down the stairs to explore. Some rubble fell into the stairs when it exploded, but in general it was still safe. This is the basement of the bank and the safety factor is naturally high. Even if an earthquake occurs for half an hour, people won’t suffocate for a while.

“Zombie animals!” He Zizhong gave a violent shout, raised his hand to signal everyone to move back, and suddenly raised his brows. “Coming out!”

Everyone was shocked and quickly prepared their abilities.

Although this stairwell is relatively spacious, the size of the passage is limited after all. The two earth abilities cooperated to raise an earth wall which merged with the left and right sides to the middle with a “peng” sound. Something hit the earth wall!

“Three. Might be mice, they are fast.” He Zizhong retracted his wind ability and stood with a knife. With the earth wall barrier, it was enough for everyone to react and prepare.

A few more booms echoed as something hit the wall. One earth ability gestured to a certain direction of the earth wall, and the electric and fire ability users stood in their positions, their hands readied with brilliant energy.

Suddenly, an earth wall collapsed! A gray and dusty shadow rushed over their heads, hitting the power grid behind the dirt wall, trembling and screaming, and then a few scarlet fireballs were thrown on it. The hairy zombie mouse was burnt black, visibly shrinking a circle.

The other earth ability also pointed out the location of the zombie mouse, dropping the wall when the team was ready. A zombie mouse was hit in the head by a ball of water, and then an electric ball numbed it to the ground. Liu Jiangfeng, who was waiting on the side, directly hacked it to death with his newly acquired special weapon, which emitted black smoke.

The other zombie mouse was directly frozen into an ice sculpture by the team’s only ice power ability. Ding Minggang threw a fireball, and the ice sculpture was blown apart. The effect of hot and cold interacting was always exceptional.

The cooperative attack of the Samsara team is very effective. Although there will be some difficulty when dealing with a large group of zombies, they will definitely not be stumped by small-scale battles.

Quickly cleaning up the three mutant mice and removing the crystal cores, Liu Jiangfeng waved the long dagger in his hand and shook his head regretfully.

“What’s the matter?” Shen Haiping asked in a puzzled manner, seeing his expression a little weird.

“It’s too light, and not that easy to use.” Liu Jiangfeng is a physique ability holder. For everyone’s safety, most special weapons were first allocated to physique abilities on the team. However, because he used a heavier knife for a long time, he didn’t feel comfortable with such a light and flamboyant weapon.

Not only him, as everyone’s powers upgraded, even non-physical powers will feel some physical changes. In addition, everyone has different habits and different attack methods. This uniformly customized long dagger is not good for everyone.

Just like He Zizhong and Fang Hao, the two of them still used their previous close-ranged weapons, and the customized weapons issued were left in the space as spares.

“Wait and see the situation after going back..” Guo Bing heard the conversation between the two and sighed inwardly. What will happen after going back this time… they don’t know yet.

He Zizhong confirmed that there seemed to be no danger in the basement for the time being. But everyone should remember the tragic experience of almost being turned into dumplings by mutated plants last time. This time their actions can be described as cautious and careful. There were a lot of people left outside, and there was someone sitting in the driving seat of each car, ready to start the car and escape the scene as soon as people returned if there was something wrong.

Guo Bing took the jade pendant and the remaining fast-runners from the team to enter the basement together. Everyone held emergency flashlights in their hands, bending over in a posture comparable to a thief entering a village, as they entered the underground hall.

The smooth floor reflected some dazzling luster from the flashlights. The focus of everyone’s attention was the cracks in the nearby walls, for fear that mutant plants may drill out where there are cracks.

During this operation, it seemed that the zombies, zombie animals, and mutant animals in the urban area showed face and did not swarm to join in the fun. Of course, this has something to do with He Zizhong and Fang Hao bombing the area not long ago and the mutant plants that were entrenched in the vicinity for a long time, driving other creatures farther away. The ones they encountered just now were some that ran over, and were not active in the area previously.

The underground floor is relatively clean. There wasn’t anything messy except a few corpses that have long been decayed. These people should have died here early in the apocalypse.

Everyone carefully bypassed these bones and went to the door of the vault, forcibly using their abilities to open the door.

Gold bars, silver bars, and no longer useful cash.

This bank is relatively large, and its reserves of gold and silver are relatively abundant. However, the density and weight of gold and silver are very high, and it would be difficult to take everything if they didn’t have a space.

These things are all printed with exquisite patterns. At first glance they are gold and silver gifts for collecting and gift-giving. There are also a lot of gold and silver shaped into zodiac signs, birthday ornaments, and ingots.

Regardless of the number of people, they collected these things into their respective spaces.

“Withdraw!” The risk of this operation was not too great and it was very rewarding. The members of the Samsara team saw their boss coming up safe and sound. Knowing that he succeeded, after a burst of cheers, they started the cars, and turned around and drove back.

 

Cooking smoke rose slowly from a corner in the urban area. Holding the dried vegetables Fang Hao had just taken out of the jade pendant space, Zhang Xiaoming almost rushed to bite him.

“You still have dried vegetables in your home?!” These days, families all hide any pickles or salted vegetables they have, and there is no trace of this kind of dried vegetables.

Fang Hao coughed with a guilty expression on his face. “This was what we threw on the villa terrace before, and when I remembered it, it was already dry…” This was actually what they had dried in the space before. The space was upgraded and the two of them couldn’t get in for several days, so…the dried vegetables that were almost dried into fossils.

Although these vegetables are over-dried, they are fine once soaked in water. Crops in the space are much stronger in taste and appearance than pre-apocalyptic vegetables, but once they are over-dried, it won’t be noticeable or suspicious.

 

Looting the bank vault~

 

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