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

In my past life at the base, everyone was numb and had no extra emotions to care about others.

Injuries and deaths can happen all the time.

The teammates who are arguing and bickering together today might be gone tomorrow, replaced by new teammates.

Instead of calling them teammates, it would be more appropriate to call them partners.

They were simply companions for survival, with no real feelings involved.

This is why Zuo You's teammates in her previous life all died.

When faced with danger, birds and beasts scatter; there is no such thing as entrusting one's back to another.

Zuo You was able to survive because she was a speed enhancer and could run fast.

In fact, even now, she hasn't fully opened up to Lin Ling.

Not to mention the others, they're all just tools.

Lin Ling gazed at Zuo You's slender and upright back, her eyes filled with inscrutable emotions. She then looked away and turned to look at He Heze.

"Call Qi Yu, Jiang Xinyu, and Sun Feiyu over too. Let's form another team to clear out the zombies and speed things up."

The early-stage crystal nucleus is very important.

She also didn't want those unfamiliar neighbors in the community to handle it.

In comparison, those who are loyal to Zuo You are a little more reassuring.

He Heze nodded, picked up the walkie-talkie, and walked out of the underground parking lot.

Lin Ling looked at Gouzi again and smiled helplessly, "Erdan, let's go deal with the zombies together."

"Wang-"

The dog echoed in agreement.

Lin Ling asked Zuo You for the key to the chain lock, gripped her sword, and entered battle mode according to the tactics Zuo You had devised.

The saying "many hands make light work" is not just a saying.

With everyone's help, the speed of clearing the zombies more than doubled.

......

Building No. 18 is the last building in Shanshui Residence that has not been cleaned.

Zuo You unlocked the iron chain lock, played music, and a uniquely male voice came from the Bluetooth speaker.

"I am looking up..."

After the song finished playing, not a single zombie came out.

Lin Ling whispered, "Sister Xiaoyou, there weren't many zombies in Building 17 just now, and there aren't any in this building either. It seems someone has cleared them out."

Zuo You turned off the music and said, "Okay, let's collect the crystal cores and head back."

Sun Feiyu then walked towards the stairwell, twitched his ears, and said, "I hear footsteps. Three people are coming downstairs."

Zuo You frowned slightly. "Xiao Yu, go collect the crystal cores first, and tell everyone to speed things up."

After saying that, she pulled Lin Ling back a few steps, "Let's recover our powers first."

The two picked up the crystal cores and began to absorb them; by this time, their supernatural abilities had been almost entirely depleted.

Before they had even finished absorbing a single crystal core, the three of them appeared in the underground parking garage, flashlights in hand.

"Holy crap, Brother Wang, what's going on here?"

Li Jishen couldn't help but cover his mouth and nose and exclaim in surprise.

The flashlight beam shone on the ground.

Except for the relatively clean area in front of their building, the rest of the place was filled with countless severed limbs and dismembered bodies, a level of gore that was enough to make one's scalp crawl.

There was a thin layer of blood on the ground, which stretched into strands when you walked on it.

The leader, Brother Wang, adjusted his glasses and, using the light of his flashlight, looked at the faint light in the distance.

There seem to be 4 or 5 people, but I can't see them clearly. Are they going through a corpse?

There seems to be a dog as well?

Brother Wang's eyes flickered, and he narrowed his eyes behind his glasses as he sized up the two people in front of him.

Both men were dressed in combat uniforms, one wielding a sword and the other a knife, their bodies and faces covered in sticky bloodstains, both red and white.

How many zombies did they kill!

It's hard to believe that these people were the ones who dealt with so many zombies, but the facts are right in front of us.

The woman with the knife had lost one of her sleeves, and there were four scratches on her arm, with the dark red blood already congealed.

His pupils contracted sharply, and he said coldly, "You were scratched by a zombie."

Zuo You said nonchalantly, "It's none of your business. I'm just here to do a good deed. I'll be leaving in a bit."

Brother Wang looked at Lin Ling and said seriously, "Your companion was scratched by a zombie and will be infected with the virus."

Lin Ling frowned and said, "It has nothing to do with you."

"Do you have a way to avoid getting infected?"

Brother Wang glanced at the two calm and composed people, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

"No." Zuo You leaned against a nearby pillar, looking at the three of them.

They're all quite young, probably under 30.

She recognized the leader, Brother Wang; his name was Wang Zhi.

He used to be from the same base. He was a fire-type ability user and had a hunting team. He was very prestigious and had a good reputation in the base.

No matter how much information I have, I don't understand it anymore, since we're not from the same social class.

Hunting teams and scavenging teams are different.

Hunting teams are usually composed of people with superpowers or highly enhanced abilities.

They mainly take on high-risk tasks such as clearing out zombies and mutated beasts in the base, and are considered highly skilled personnel.

He'll get along well no matter which base he's in.

The scavenging team survived by taking on tasks that involved finding supplies.

They are generally composed of ordinary people and mid- to low-level enhanced individuals.

In the base, they belonged to the group of people who could barely make ends meet.

Before his death, Wang Zhi was the property manager of Shanshuiju and lived in Building 18.

When the polar night arrived, we organized our neighbors to fight against the zombies. We worked for three days to clear all the zombies out of the building.

But it was too dark outside, so I didn't dare go out and could only collect supplies inside the building.

This morning, I noticed it was already daylight, and almost all the zombies that used to roam the park had disappeared.

He gathered his men and cleared out part of the zombies from Building 17.

However, everyone stayed at home for a week and didn't collect any useful information.

These people must have secrets he doesn't know, otherwise they wouldn't be so calm.

He had never seen anyone who had been scratched by a zombie but wasn't infected; he had to find a way to get information out of them.

Wang Zhi asked curiously, "Aren't you afraid of being infected by zombies?"

Zuo You glanced back at An Yingying and the others' progress and casually remarked, "Awakened ones are not afraid of being infected by zombies of the same level."

"The Awakened One, is this it?"

A small flame flickered in Wang Zhi's hand, and a barely perceptible hint of excitement flashed in his eyes.

"what?"

Lin Ling looked at the thumb-sized flame in Wang Zhi's hand, exclaimed in surprise and disdain.

This fire is way too small!

When she awakened, the fireball was the size of a fist.

Zuo You glanced at her, a hint of a smile appearing in her cool eyes.

Lin Ling is unaware of the effects of the strange light and assumes that all first-tier beings are like her.

The look of disdain in her eyes was palpable.

"Isn't this it?" Wang Zhi withdrew his supernatural power, his face showing undisguised disappointment.

"This is it."

Zuo You's cool voice rang out.

Wang Zhi couldn't help but smile. He had discovered that his hands could emit fire that morning, and his intuition told him that this might be unusual.

Unexpectedly, I heard good news that evening.

If you don't get infected with the virus, then you don't need to be afraid of zombies.

Thinking of this, he asked again, "Are those your companions? What are they looking for?"