Rebirth in the Apocalypse: My Ex-Girlfriend's Guide to Winning Me Over

"What should we do? It's only a half-day journey. If we're delayed like this, I don't know when we'll be able to get back." Jian Hong was a little irritable, and the words "eager to go home" were clearly written on his face.

"Let's wait a bit. We're on higher ground here. If the ice melts a little more, we can use the assault boats. What do you say, Captain Tang?" Zuo You had ten assault boats in her space, so she was quite calm at this moment.

"Hmm." Tang Haoran looked out the window and frowned. "Su Ning, contact the base and report the situation."

Suning: "Yes, boss!"

Jian Hong leaned closer and whispered, "Zuo You, how many assault boats do you have? I only have three, which isn't enough."

Zuo You: "Adding mine is enough."

Jian Hong finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had been away from home for almost a year, and the feeling of not being able to go back home made him very anxious.

There is no snow or ice in the eastern base because the base has space-type and ice-type ability users.

The extreme blizzard lasted for only a month. After that, the base began clearing away the ice and snow. Some of the ice was melted into water by ice-type ability users and drained out of the city, while some of the ice was moved out of the city by space-type ability users.

This is the difference between large and small bases; talent has always been the core competitive advantage.

The N City base also has Ice-type monsters. Not counting Zuo You, the base only has two low-level Ice-type monsters, and it has been almost a year since we cleared them all.

The eastern base has three walls. The wall at the base entrance is a double wall design, with an inner and an outer wall. There is also a third wall that stands at the junction of Zones A and B. Zone A is inside the wall, and Zone B is outside the wall.

The outermost city wall of the base is as high as 30 meters. The extreme cold and warming have a negligible impact on the base.

After learning about Tang Haoran's situation, Tang Jingshan arranged for three fifth-level ability users to sail to pick him up.

Before the three superhumans even left the base, hail began to fall from the sky. The smallest hailstones were the size of pigeon eggs, and the largest were the size of pomelos. The operation to pick them up was over before they even left the base.

Zuo You was eating when huge hailstones began to fall from the sky without warning, crashing against the glass with loud bangs. In no time, their window was shattered.

"Holy crap, such huge hailstones? Boss, is a new natural disaster coming?" Jian Hong picked up a hailstone that had rolled to his feet; it was as big as his fist. His heart sank to the bottom.

Tang Haoran picked up his binoculars and observed the situation outside. After about half an hour, the hail stopped, and he urged everyone to leave in the speedboat.

The journey took half a day, and everyone walked very slowly because of the poor road conditions. They not only had to make way for each other along the way, but also had to deal with the hail that kept falling.

The scene was somewhat peculiar; the ordinary zombies, who lacked intelligence, were thrashing about in the water, wriggling on the ice, and persistently falling down, getting up, and falling down again.

As they passed by, they simply used long sticks to push the zombies away. They didn't have any extra abilities to kill zombies. Instead, each of the ability users erected a protective shield to prevent the hail from harming ordinary people. From a distance, the assault boats had canopies with various different elements on top.

What should have been a half-day journey took them two days to complete. After the city guards verified the group's identities, several enormous elevators slowly descended from the city wall.

Looking at the seemingly endless black and gold city walls, Lin Ling exclaimed, "Youyou, now I know why you came to the Eastern Base. This place looks much safer than the base in N City."

Zuo You smiled faintly. If nothing unexpected happened, they should settle down here.

"Zuo You, let's go inside first. Have Jian Hong put the assault boat away for now, we'll return it to you later. The base commander is waiting for us." Tang Haoran looked at the flooded city gate, estimating the water to be at least five meters deep.

"Yes, we need to claim the reward first."

Everyone climbed onto the city wall. Jian Hong stored all the assault boats into his spatial storage and then teleported to the city wall.

There was no standing water in the base; a wall separated the base from the outside world, creating two distinct realms.

The group entered the outer city gate. The awakened ones underwent a brief body check by security personnel, while the ordinary people were checked more slowly. Su Ning stayed behind to provide support, while the rest of the group continued towards the inner city gate.

At the inner city gate, a tall, thin, resolute-looking, and imposing middle-aged man dressed in a black suit stood with five or six men of varying heights behind him. Each of them had umbrellas with different designs floating above their heads, creating a somewhat comical scene.

They were all different in build, and Zuo You guessed that these people should be Tang Jingshan's newly formed leadership team, whose backgrounds were not entirely composed of generals.

"Welcome home." Tang Jingshan's deep voice rang out as he strode over from under the inner city gate.

"Uncle, I'm back." Tang Haoran, with lightning bolts on his head, couldn't hide his excitement and rushed forward to hug the man.

Zuo You had guessed that Tang Haoran had a powerful background, but she didn't expect it to be this powerful—the base commander was his uncle? Then Tang Haoran's favors must be very valuable.

She couldn't help but scrutinize the two of them; to her surprise, they did look quite alike.

Tang Jingshan was quite serious, with no random things sticking out of his head. A young man was holding a black and gold metal umbrella for him behind him.

The sound of the hailstones falling was a bit noisy. Tang Jingshan patted Tang Haoran on the back and shouted, "You did a great job. You completed the mission excellently."

Tang Haoran lowered his head somewhat dejectedly. "Not all the brothers I took out have come back." He had always felt very guilty about this.

Tang Jingshan patted Tang Haoran on the shoulder, "They didn't sacrifice themselves in vain, we will all remember them! Introduce your current partners to us."

Tang Haoran, abandoning his usual stern demeanor, scratched his head sheepishly. "I was a little excited just now. Let me introduce you, Uncle. This is Zuo You, the captain of the Left and Right Squads, a seventh-tier ice-type ability user. This is Lin Ling, a fire-type ability user. And this is Er Gou, Uncle, don't let his dog appearance fool you; his ability is incredibly powerful—a healing ability belonging to the light-type branch. This is An Yingying, who has a deep understanding of ability weapons..."

Although he had already reported this information, Tang Haoran still introduced it again in person, and even emphasized the words "seventh tier" so that these high-level people would know the value of Zuo You.

Next, Tang Haoran introduced the base's leaders to Zuo You and the others.

When he introduced Zuo You earlier, Tang Jingshan stared at her for a long time. He was somewhat dazed. Zuo You's face looked a lot like the person in his memory. That person... also had the surname Zuo.

At this moment, Lin Ling seemed to have discovered a shocking secret.

When she first saw Tang Haoran, she felt that his appearance was somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember why.

Until she saw Tang Jingshan! He was shaking hands with Zuo You, and Tang Haoran was standing next to them. Upon closer inspection, Lin Ling found that the three of them looked somewhat similar.