The Door to Rebirth in Apocalypse

Gu Ning hadn’t noticed anything wrong when she walked out of the space, however, when she pushed the door open and walked out, she was completely frozen.
Looking at the broken vines and dried blood everywhere, Gu Ning almost felt a sense of dizziness at that moment.
She had no time to think about what had happened in her absence last night and directly rushed madly to the next room.
That was her parent’s room, yet it was empty except for the broken vines and blood splat all over the floor.
She just felt her legs go weak but steeled herself to check around the room and make sure there weren’t any remaining limbs from the human bodies that were left behind.
After a quick confirmation glance, she rushed out of the room to the first floor.

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All the doors were broken, severed vines and dried blood stains indicated how fierce the battle had taken place last night.
Gu Ning searched the whole house and hadn’t seen a single person yet.

At the same time, she was relieved that she hadn’t found any human limbs laying around.

Maybe they had all retreated safely last night.

Gu Ning had to take a deep breath and prep herself mentally before walking out of the front gate.
Soon, she saw the three trucks parked not far away and Zhang XiaoBai who was standing on the roof of the truck, looking in her direction.

The moment Gu Ning saw Zhang XiaoBai, he had also spotted her.
Zhang XiaoBai first frozen for a moment, rubbed his eyes a little incredulously, and then yelled: “Brother San! ! ! ! Gu Ning is back!” While screaming, he stomped vigorously on the roof of the truck.

Soon all the people in the truck came running out.

Gu Ning also ran over, the moment she saw Father Gu and Mother Gu, she almost kneeled while cold sweat broke out on her back.
At this time, she felt a cold chill down her back as the wind blew, and her heart had almost burst out in fear of losing them.

Gu Ning glanced around at everyone who had gathered around her with surprise and concern written on their faces.
She felt that a thousand words were stuck in her throat and she didn’t know how to express it to them.

Brother San seemed to notice the state of mind Gu Ning had at this moment and just patted her shoulder and instructed: “Gu Ning, let’s get into the truck first and then chat later.”

Gu Ning nodded and then everyone got into the truck together.

Brother San first updated her about the battle that had taken place last night.

Gu Ning listened and felt a pang of fear afterward while was somewhat thankful: “Fortunately, there were no casualties……” Halfway through the sentences, Gu Ning caught a slight change in Brother San’s expression, and her heart suddenly thumped.
Her gaze swept over the faces of the others, all of them involuntarily avoiding her eyes.
Gu Ning finally focused on Brother San and asked slowly: “…… who died?”

Brother San took a puff on his cigarette and replied in his low voice: “Four kids died and one of my soldiers.” After saying that he forced out a laugh: “What’s so unusual about a dead man now.
Although we are sitting here right now, who knows if we’ll be the next one.
There’s nothing to feel bad about.” Yet his smile looked way worse than crying.

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Gu Ning fell into a long silence and only spoke up after a long while: “If I had been there yesterday, perhaps they wouldn’t have died …… Even if they only had one breath left, I would have been able to bring them back to life ……” Her head was lowered while her blonde hair fell over her eyes so that no one could see her expression clearly.
Her voice remained unchanged but her shoulders which had always been upright was now slumped.

“Gu Ning.” Brother San pressed his hands on her shoulders, forcing her to look up at him as he said solemnly: “You’ve already done enough, more than enough.”

Gu Ning, however, just smiled bitterly, then leaned against the wall of the truck and explained suddenly: “I didn’t disappear just last night, I disappeared every night after you guys had fallen asleep.
For every day that passed, I have to return to the space the next night, and is a must for me to do so.”

Everyone in the truck glanced at each other upon hearing the explanation.
Zhang XiaoBai opened his mouth but in the end, he didn’t ask what was the reason for returning.

Since even Zhang XiaoBai didn’t ask, the others would be even less likely to ask too.

Gu Ning felt very grateful deep in her heart that they didn’t ask any further and then stated: “From today onward, no matter under what circumstances, we have to make sure to get someone to keep a lookout.”

Brother San nodded: “This is also negligence on my part.
Everyone, go have something to eat and rest.
Zhang XiaoBai and Zhong Xu, you two have worked hard and probably didn’t sleep well last night either, so go to the side and catch some winks if you need.” They were in a big truck and the floor was covered with cushions.
Just like Brother San had said, most of them were not able to sleep well last night, and only when they saw Gu Ning return, then did they feel at ease.
Within a few minutes of lying down on the cushions and covering themselves with blankets, they all fell asleep and their snoring was like thunder ringing out in the whole carriage.

The truck started driving.

They still had to make good use of the time to get to the Zhongnan base.

Perhaps because of this calamity, the journey afterward was much smoother than they had expected and it actually took them only half a day to enter the city of Zhongnan.

According to the information that Jia DaoZhang had gathered, the Zhongnan base was established on the south campus of Zhongnan University.
It was backed by the valley of the mountain and surrounded by a river in the east.

Not knowing the actual direction, they took a long detour and only managed to reach the Zhongnan base after four o’clock when it was already dark.

Compared to the small colony they had in Jinyong, this Zhongnan base was at least ten times bigger.
Although the sky was very dark, Gu Ning’s vision was not affected by it.

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The three trucks were illuminated by a very strong beam of light before they got within twenty metres of the base.

Then a horn sounded.

“Those who are in the truck listen up! No survivors will be accepted in the base at night! Come again tomorrow dawn to enter!”

Everyone in the truck looked at each other and was a little surprised, but there was nothing they could do, and had to find a place to park the trucks.

Brother San began to plan out the men for tonight’s watch: “Tonight, the first half of the night will be Luo Long and Shi Tou.
You two will guard the first half and the second half, Fang Fa and Zhang XiaoBai will take over.”

As soon as he finished planning, Jia DaoZhang became slightly displeased: “Hey Lao San, are you looking down on the poor old me? Don’t think that because I’m older than you, my body will be worse than yours.
Zhang XiaoBai was already on watch last night, so tonight I will take over instead.”

Brother San understood that he was just being considerate to his juniors, so he smiled and didn’t bicker with him.

The night was peaceful, with cars driving over intermittently in the middle of the night.
All were parked outside the base and waited obediently due to the rules of the base.

The next day at 8:30 am at dawn, everyone in the truck had to wake up and went out to wash up with their cups and basins.

More than a dozen other cars had been parked here since yesterday night.

By this time, those people in the other cars were all awake and got out of their vehicles to check around.
When they saw the young and old who were washing up at the truck, they were all frozen in their tracks.

Water was already a very rare resource at this time, and although there were water abilities users, the probability of developing special ability users was about 1 in 10,000 and for water ability users were potentially 1 in 100,000.
 Moreover, most of the water abilities users treasure their psychic energy a lot and were all very stingy with their energy consumption except for the necessary needs.
It was absolutely impossible to find people like Zhong Xu who was being forced by Brother San to conjure water whenever it was needed.
Yet this also made Zhong Xu discover that the more he conjured water, the more skilful he seemed to become at manipulating his water ability.

Furthermore, water was even more scarce for ordinary people.

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Therefore, imagine how devastated they were to see the long queue of people with cups and toothbrushes washing their faces and brushing their teeth with the water that was so precious to them.

Brother San and the rest hadn’t noticed anything wrong but when Gu Ning came out with a basin and as soon as she saw how the others were staring at them, she immediately turned around and head back in.

It was only then that Brother San and the rest felt something was wrong and they all had a quick wash up before dragging everyone back into the truck.

Gu Ning then commented: “Once we get into the base, let’s try to keep a low profile.”

Brother San and the rest who had just flaunted their “wealth” accidentally, nodded their heads repeatedly.

Then it was time to start queuing up to enter the base.

“Do you want to bring your trucks into the base?” The man at the gate with a book for registration asked as he glanced at the three trucks.

“Can we get it in?” Brother San asked.

The man replied: “Yes of course.
Parking fee is one pound of supplies per month for each car.”

Although now they were very well supplied, Brother San was still a little distressed about the requirement.
He gave Gu Ning a side glance and Gu Ning thought for a moment before asking: “Can we submit water instead?”

The man’s eyes lit up before agreeing: “Sure, the base now is short of water.
500ml will be equivalent to a pound of supplies.”

Brother San immediately smiled with joy: “Then we’ll pay with water.”

The man pointed to Brother San at the window next to him and instructed: “Just go and pay at the next window.”

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Brother San glanced at Zhong Xu, who then resigned and walked over with his empty hands.

The man obviously noticed that Zhong Xu had gone over empty-handed and was instantly surprised: “A water ability user?” Then he immediately recalled that this man had just glanced at that water ability user who had passed by obediently.
Back in the base, all the special abilities users were very proud so this man in front of him was definitely not that simple.
His eyes glanced at Brother San’s party of twenty to thirty people and his attitude had changed from casual to very respectful while pulling out a few forms from the drawer below and asked: “Please kindly cooperate with me and fill out this form.”

Before asking again: “Do you all belong to a team or individual?”

Brother San replied: “Team, I guess.”

“Well…… do you all have a team name?”

“Third…..” He blurted out and was about to say third company but then he stopped after spurting out the word.
He glanced back at Gu Ning and seek for her thoughts.
Gu Ning just nodded her head in agreement.

Brother San smiled then replied again: “The Third Company.”

The man asked: “Big brother used to be a soldier, right?”

Brother San nodded his head.

The man cleared his throat and then continued: “Here’s the thing, I need to brief you all first.
We have over 100,000 survivors in total at our Zhongnan base, and several hundred new people are joining our base daily.
Our base will provide a place of refuge, but at the same time, we will be expecting you all to abide by the rules of our base while fulfilling some of the obligations imposed on you by our base.
All the special abilities users are responsible for protecting the base.
Therefore, all the special abilities users entering the base are not required to pay for any supplies.
However, ordinary people have to pay three pounds of supplies.
Of course, many people who can’t pay the three pounds of supplies will have to join our base building team.
They will have to build our base for free until they had fully completed paying off the three pounds.”

Brother San nodded in agreement, then glanced at Zhong Xu who had just finished condensing water, and returned.
Zhong Xu rolled his eyes and then resigned himself again to go back to that window.

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(T/N: Hahahaha poor Zhong Xu.
XD well… bigger base, new start again for them.
Go Go Gu Ning! Thank you all for reading~)