Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

Having solved the weapon problem, Zhou Yang was overjoyed and generously took out a lot of snacks for everyone.

Lu Xingye was stunned and immediately tried to grab it. He had just grabbed a bag of potato chips and was about to grab another bag of snowflake crisps when Yan Fei pulled him back and stuffed a bag of preserved plums into his hand.

"No candy allowed, you can only have this bag of potato chips and this candied fruit."

Lu Xingye pouted, didn't struggle, and leaned against Yan Fei to start enjoying his snacks.

Around noon, Madam Yan came upstairs and called everyone to lunch, but unfortunately, everyone was already full and couldn't eat any more. Seeing this, Madam Yan couldn't force them, so she had them stay for dinner that evening.

Upon hearing this, the group immediately refused, but Yan's mother insisted, saying that if they didn't eat, it meant they didn't approve of Yan Fei. Seeing this, the group had no choice but to agree.

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The news that Yan's youngest son had successfully advanced to level 5 spread throughout the base in less than half a day.

Yan's army was overjoyed, but Shen Weifeng and General Chu from another faction were somewhat anxious.

However, the one who is most anxious is Shen Weifeng, an ordinary person.

These past few days, the entire base has been laughing at him.

Every time the military held a meeting, that bastard Chu Feng would always bring up the matter of being cuckolded to make sarcastic remarks to him.

But he was just an ordinary person. Since his most capable deputy was removed, he had no one else to rely on for the time being, so he could only swallow his anger.

Thinking about his deputy's betrayal, Shen Weifeng was so angry that his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys all ached. He felt that simply crippling him and driving him to the slums was far from enough to vent his anger, so he ordered people to be sent to drive the man out of the base.

This time, the person sent was the same one who had previously clashed with his deputy. After receiving the order, he led a few men straight to the slums, captured his deputy, and took him to the mass grave outside the base.

With this deputy around before, he could never get ahead. Last time, he seized the opportunity and thoroughly humiliated his deputy. He thought he could finally rise to the top, but Shen Weifeng still refused to relinquish power to him. He's been seething with anger these past few days.

So after receiving his orders today, he brought his deputy here and vented all his anger from the past few days on him. He even personally tortured the man to death, smashing his brain in two.

He had only intended to vent his anger, but unexpectedly, the moment he smashed his skull, he discovered a pleasant surprise.

There was actually a level 3 crystal core inside the deputy's brain!

He excitedly picked up the crystal core and examined it closely, then threw the corpse there and hurriedly left with his men.

However, he rushed back not to report the discovery of the crystal core to Shen Weifeng, but because he had other plans in mind.

Shen Weifeng's decline is already very obvious. The Shen family army will be finished sooner or later, so he needs to find a new home as soon as possible.

He figured he'd never get ahead if he went to the Yan family, but General Chu's side was short-handed. He wasn't really confident before, but now that he had this new discovery, he might as well give it a try.

On the other side, the deputy's brothers had just returned from a mission to eliminate zombies outside the base. After reporting back to the military headquarters, they planned to sneak into the slums to check on the deputy, as usual.

But when they arrived at the deputy's residence in the slums, the deputy had already disappeared, and almost all of his belongings had been stolen.

So the group questioned the survivors in the vicinity and learned that in the afternoon, the deputy had been arrested by several men in military uniforms. They knew without a doubt that it must have been Shen Weifeng who sent them.

Without delay, the group immediately set out to investigate. They learned that the deputy had been taken to the mass grave outside the city, and they immediately went there to find him.

When they arrived at the mass grave, they found the deputy's body, which was already cold, with his head smashed in two and his already severed limbs cut off.

Seeing their former best friend reduced to a cold corpse, and in such a gruesome way, filled the group with rage.

"It must have been Shen Weifeng who sent people to do it! Damn it, I'll rebel against him!"

"Yes! Let's rebel against him, he's no good person anyway!"

"But where would we go if we rebelled? There would probably be objections to setting up our own private base, and besides, we're used to being soldiers..."

"Then let's change our own leader?"

"Which one should I switch to? Chief Yan or General Chu? I don't really want to go to General Chu's place. He's no better than Shen Weifeng, so it's not very interesting."

"Then let's go to Chief Yan's! But... will Chief Yan accept us? Will he look down on us? After all, Shen Weifeng has always been at odds with Chief Yan."

“We just want to be soldiers and be down-to-earth. Commander Yan isn’t the narrow-minded Shen Weifeng, so there shouldn’t be any major problems. I’ll find an opportunity to talk to the brothers in Yan’s army later. You should also go back and talk to your men. Those who are willing can come with us.”

"Okay/It's going well!"

After discussing the matter, the group collected the remains of their deputy, cremated them, buried them, and then returned to the base together.

That evening, the leader of the group secretly went to find a fellow villager who was a squad leader in Yan Jiajun's army to inquire about the situation.

The squad leader didn't dare to make any guarantees, so he went to find his superiors for him, and eventually ended up asking around to the eldest brother of the Yan family.

Upon seeing this good opportunity, Yan Qian immediately discussed it with his father. After investigating and confirming that these men were all meritorious soldiers, he readily agreed.

The next day, after learning that the Yan family was willing to take them in, the group of men, along with their own bedding rolls, went to the Yan family that very night.

Shen Weifeng was woken up by his bodyguard in the middle of the night. When he heard about this, he was so angry that his blood pressure spiked.

Just as I was about to say that I would send someone to arrest him immediately, another guard came to report that the remaining half of the men had also packed up and left overnight, but they had all defected to General Chu's side.

At this point, Shen Weifeng couldn't hold back any longer, spitting out a mouthful of blood and collapsing straight down.

Upon realizing the gravity of the situation, the two guards abandoned Shen Weifeng, exchanged a glance, and fled in a flash.

They weren't originally pure soldiers; they were recruited by Shen Weifeng after the apocalypse. They usually did odd jobs like guarding the gate and relaying messages. Now that Shen Weifeng has fallen, they need to find another way out as soon as possible. It would definitely be difficult for them to get into the regular armies on both sides, but it shouldn't be a big problem for them to join ordinary private superpower teams.

The news that Shen's army had fallen apart overnight, with many defecting, and that Shen Weifeng had suffered a stroke from anger, spread throughout the base before the night was even over.

Shen Zechuan and Xu Zhiyi learned about this just after returning home from having dinner at the Yan family's house.

Upon entering the door, he heard the news from Xu Qingtang and He Shanshan, who had also just arrived home. He immediately wanted to laugh out loud three times and shout: Retribution is swift, let's see who Heaven will spare!