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

Jiang Xinyu knew his inner turmoil, so she hugged him and gently comforted him, "Da Yuzi, I believe you can awaken, and you must believe in yourself. We're not in a hurry. Let's accumulate strength and unleash our potential. Maybe you'll be the most powerful one."

Qi Yu nodded somewhat uncertainly, "I know, go ahead and get busy, be careful."

He knew that mental illness requires mental medicine, and if he couldn't adjust himself, he would only drift further and further away from the team.

......

Zuo You, Lin Ling, Er Dan, An Yingying, Sun Feiyu, Jiang Xinyu, and He Heze, a group of six people and a dog, drove four cars to a primary school in the suburbs.

This is a spot that Lin Ling scouted out in advance.

This primary school has no dormitory building, and when the apocalypse came, there were only a few security guards on duty.

The group drove into the playground, easily dealt with a few wandering zombies, took out the gasoline they had prepared beforehand, poured it on the playground, and set up a firebreak.

Lin Ling led Jiang Xinyu and Gouzi up to the experimental building next to the playground.

He Heze took Sun Feiyu into one car, while Zuo You took An Yingying into another car.

After driving three kilometers on either side, the two cars turned around and drove back, playing recorded audio on loudspeakers along the way to attract zombies to follow them.

"Wow...that's awesome." Sun Feiyu looked excitedly at the zombies chasing behind him through the rearview mirror.

Some of them were quite fast, consistently outpacing the other zombies.

He Heze smiled and said, "Don't be so smug. Those few should be second-tier."

Zuo You had told them about the evolution and mutation of zombies.

He Heze had encountered mutated zombies before. He felt that the zombies behind him were not as fast as the mutated zombies, but much faster than the first-tier zombies. They should be second-tier.

Sun Feiyu retorted, "I'm also at the second level, so I'm not afraid of second-level zombies."

Although he's not a combat-oriented person, he's been learning martial arts from Liang Jingyu lately.

The round trip took only half an hour, but each vehicle attracted thousands of zombies.

Zuo You was a little disappointed that she didn't see any second-tier mutated zombies.

They parked the car on the playground, and the four of them jumped out and ran towards the laboratory building.

The recording speaker was still playing the recording.

一辆车上播放着：“青菜9毛9一斤，白萝卜1块9毛9一斤，前腿肉12块8一斤......”

Another vehicle was playing a loudspeaker: "Huge clearance sale! Everything for only 29.9 yuan! Don't miss out!"

The four of them met up with Lin Ling. The zombies at the school gate stumbled and poured in, their limbs twisted and their bodies rotting, but they were moving quite fast.

In no time, the playground was filled with zombies, frantically pounding on and roaring around the two cars.

I won't rest until I tear the source of the sound to shreds.

Zuo You curled her lips into a smile. "Xiao Ling, set it on fire."

Lin Ling instantly launched four fireballs towards the playground, and flames shot into the sky and smoke filled the air.

"Let's go, let's wait in the car."

The laboratory building was too close to the playground, and everyone was suffocating from the heat.

I climbed over the school wall, where two cars were already waiting. I drove a kilometer away and gazed at the raging fire inside the school.

The crystal nucleus is not afraid of fire or lightning strikes; it will only turn into dust once all the energy inside has been absorbed.

Using fire to clear out low-level zombies is the fastest method, but it is also the most dangerous; one wrong move and you could be overwhelmed by the zombie horde.

Once ordinary zombies reach the mid-level, that is, level four or above, they will generally possess some intelligence, so this trick will be ineffective against them.

They instinctively seek advantage and avoid harm; if they can't win a fight, they can run away.

Mutant zombies generally gain some intelligence at the second level, and the zombie king is even smarter than ordinary people.

"Sister Xiaoyou, you're so unfair! If you had done this sooner, I wouldn't have had to run around every day," Lin Ling complained, pouting as she sat in the passenger seat.

Zuo You lazily propped her head up with her hand, "If you don't come out, how will you know if the zombies have evolved, or what the situation is like outside?"

Lin Ling thought about it and felt that what she said made a lot of sense. Staying at home to escape the summer heat was fine, but pretending to be blind was not an option.

The group waited in the car for nearly four hours before the flames gradually subsided.

Back at school, I closed the gate and parked the car next to the playground.

Wearing heat-resistant suits and gas masks, Zuo You and her group carried their backpacks in front of them, got out of the car, and dealt with the remaining dozens of zombies.

Collecting zombies slowly, the clothes are too bulky, and the work is very slow.

......

Two groups of people bumped into each other at the school gate. They were wearing long sleeves and trousers, headscarves, and sunglasses, and were all soaking wet.

One group consisted of two men, and the other of two men and one woman, both armed and on high alert.

The leader of the trio asked, "Did you set the fire inside?"

The two shook their heads, "You didn't put it there?"

The trio also shook their heads.

The three of them came out to collect some crystal cores.

The crystal cores were from the head of a zombie they killed a few days ago. They instinctively felt they were valuable, so they collected a few more.

After pondering for a long time, I still couldn't find any use for it.

The leader, in a fit of rage, shoved the crystal core into the mouth of one of his underlings. The underling was an ordinary person, and he died on the spot.

Undeterred, he stuffed another crystal core into the mouth of the woman among the three.

Unexpectedly, the energy inside could be absorbed, and the woman's abilities became a little stronger.

This discovery greatly surprised them; they felt it was a huge secret.

In the apocalypse, what's most important? Combat power! This crystal core can make them stronger.

These past few days I've been enduring the high temperatures, going out every day to look for crystal nuclei.

As they walked along, they saw several zombies and noticed a large fire in the distance, so they decided to come and take a look.

The two sides were locked in a stalemate for a minute, and were starting to feel the strain.

There isn't even a place to shade the sun near the school gate.

The two looked at each other's sunglasses, but couldn't see each other's eyes; they only saw themselves.

One of them spoke up: "Shall we go take a look together?"

The excitement is right in front of us, so we definitely have to go check it out. Rather than having three people following behind and causing trouble, it's better to go in together. In case anything happens inside, there will be more people around.

The three nodded; they didn't want to waste their energy talking, their throats were parched.

In this kind of weather, the heatwave is visible to the naked eye.

The two groups, about 5 or 6 meters apart, climbed over the wall and came to the playground.

Wisps of black smoke were still rising from the playground, and the ground was covered with charred corpses.

The smell was awful, a mixture of burnt, gasoline, and stench of corpses, combined with the sweltering air; every breath made my lungs tremble.

Six people wearing silver heat-resistant suits were digging for crystal cores, with a dog wearing a gas mask nearby.

The five people covered their mouths and noses, completely astonished. Could this really be how zombies were exterminated?

Why didn't they think of that before?

When Zuo You and her group saw the strangers arrive, they all stopped what they were doing.

"You guys keep digging, I'll go check on things," Zuo You said to the group, and walked towards the newcomer.