Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Farewells

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Why did you push me just now? Did you want to kill me?” Su Jin heard Assistant Zhang demanding angrily. When she turned around to look, she saw that he was facing Wei Xiaoyan, whose head was lowered as she sobbed quietly. Su Jin could not tell if she was pretending or actually scared by Assistant Zhang’s outburst.

However, no one tried to comfort her. Even Wang Linda just sighed. She could not understand how her cousin ended up this way. As far as she remembered, Wei Xiaoyan was a good girl.

Su Jin walked over to them and grabbed Assistant Zhang’s arm.

Assistant Zhang thought that she was trying to stop him, but contrary to his expectations, she simply gave Wei Xiaoyan a hard slap across her face. Wei Xiaoyan fell to the ground, but Su Jin did not stop. From above, she grabbed Wei Xiaoyan by the collar and slapped her other cheek too.

With those two slaps, Wei Xiaoyan’s entire face swelled up beyond recognition.

Assistant Zhang thought, ‘Well done, well slapped! You’re my hero, Big Sis Su!’

Wang He thought, ‘Uh-oh, my employees are fighting? What should I do? Any advice would be appreciated!’

Wang Linda thought, ‘My poor cousin… But why do I suddenly feel like Su Jin’s pretty darn cool?’

The other employees thought, ‘Phew, thank goodness we never got on Big Boss Su’s bad side before.’

Su Jin had no idea what the onlookers thought, of course, but no one tried to stop her when she was beating Wei Xiaoyan up. That was enough to leave her feeling pretty pleased. It seemed there were not that many brainless ‘pure-hearted angels’ in this world.

Wang Linda had to help Wei Xiaoyan walk away, and while Wei Xiaoyan deeply resented Su Jin, even she knew that no one would help her right now. All she could do was keep her grudge to herself.

“Cough cough.” Assistant Wang cleared his throat. “I’m sure we’re all hungry. Let’s go to that dinner, shall we?”

“Right, of course! I’m starving, let’s go!” everyone echoed.

Once they were in the seafood restaurant, Assistant Zhang and a few other colleagues kept stealing glances at Su Jin while they ordered their food.

Su Jin was speechless. “…”

Wang He chose a few main dishes and handed the order slip back to the waiter. He then took a sip of the freshly-brewed chrysanthemum tea before asking, “Were you trained before, Lil Su?”

Su Jin naturally knew what he meant by ‘training’, so she nodded and said, “My father was a military man, and he used to teach me Chinese kickboxing.”

It was true that Su Xiangzhe had forced Su Jin to learn some martial arts for self-defense when she was a child. That was how she managed to scrape by and survive at the beginning of the apocalypse. However, she probably would not have been able to save Assistant Zhang so easily if the Marrow Cleansing Pill had not strengthened her physique. The impressive mental fortitude she built up when facing zombies over two entire years in the apocalypse helped, too.

“You were too weak just now, Assistant Zhang. Couldn’t you at least dodge?” Su Jin wanted to change the topic and move the focus away from her.

“Oh, please, don’t call me Assistant Zhang anymore. That’s too formal! Just call me Zhang Chuyang or even Chuyang. After all, we went through life and death together, right?” There were no limits to what they could talk about at the branch company’s dinners, and Zhang Chunyang had always been an expert at managing the atmosphere. He made everyone laugh, and slowly the others began to relax.

“Sure, come to H City and be my underling,” Su Jin said, half jokingly and half seriously.

“Sounds good! Just wait for it, Mr. Wang might fire me someday, and then I’ll come running to you.”

Wang He looked at everyone, beaming. If only Su Jin was part of their branch company… Truly, what a shame.

Just then, the food they ordered began to reach their tables. What happened earlier left everyone feeling starved, so they rolled up their sleeves and dug in.

As they ate, Zhang Chunyang said, “But that guy just now was super disgusting! I could even smell the rot on him. Since he came at me with his teeth, do you think he has rabies or something?”

A female colleague said as she drank her fruit juice, “Could you not, Zhang Chunyang? I finally got myself to forget that.”

A few other women agreed. The man had just been injured, but he was still going around biting people. It was terrifying.

Su Jin felt the need to remind these people. After all, they had seen the truth with their own eyes.

“I think…” As soon as Su Jin spoke, she saw everyone turning around to look at her. They were clearly waiting for her to chime in.

“You should all be careful this month. Hoard more food and water if possible, and don’t go out if you can avoid it.”

Everyone else thought that made sense. What if there really was a rabies epidemic going around?

Wang He took off his single-use gloves, having finished eating the crab. “Did you notice? After that man bit the nurse, the cop immediately shot him dead. In the past, when it came to assault cases like this, the police would at least try to keep him alive. Unless…”

“Unless this wasn’t the first time that cop had seen something like this,” Su Jin continued.

“Okay, now you’re creeping me out. All my hair is standing on end.” Zhang Chunyang hugged his arms, pretending to tremble.

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