Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 184

Chapter 184 -184: The Snack Shop

Huang Yunxiang had originally planned to participate in the base construction, but Su Jin said that they intended to hunt mutated beasts in the North Mountain of City S soon, so she decided to go with the team. After all, it’s quite inconvenient for a team to be without someone with a water element ability, even cleaning zombie crystal nuclei would be troublesome.

Su Jin agreed with this, a water element ability combined with thunder and ice elements could create an area of effect attacks. If they encountered groups of mutant animals, other than the fire attack, thunder and ice elements would also be effective, and the water element could further enhance the attack effect.

However, at the moment, everyone was sitting on the steps in front of the shop, spacing out.

Why were there no customers coming in?

Not only that, but there were hardly any pedestrians outside either.

“The survivors haven’t moved over yet, it might get better by tomorrow,” Su Jin comforted Guo Yang.

Previously, they had heard from Liang Jiuqing that the refuge would start relocating a small number of survivors in the next few days. The situation there was quite bad, with small groups of zombies frequently causing trouble, and daily sacrifices. Due to its remote location, City West originally had a sparse population, and the zombies influenced by Liang Jiuqing and the daily cleaning by Su Jin’s team, it had become a relatively safe place.

Guo Yang didn’t actually show any impatience, the only one who couldn’t stay calm was Liao Yifan. She felt anxious that the shop had been open for two hours without a single customer, pacing back and forth in front of the door.

Seeing this, Guo Yang pulled her into the shop and took out a bottle of lemon-flavored soda from his space for her to drink.

“Cool your jets, it’s okay, things will pick up,” Guo Yang comforted.

Liao Yifan took the soda, nodded her head, and it seemed that she was the only one in a hurry; Mao Qiqi was just sitting inside the shop, amusing herself with Local Tyrant Gold.

The space inside the shop was quite large. Because there was no need to display goods, on the side against the wall, as per Su Jin’s suggestion, they placed some tables and benches. Although everyone was a bit puzzled — they weren’t running a restaurant, they didn’t understand why to arrange these — now everyone felt good having seats in the shop, watching the movie on the tablet that Su Jin brought out. Liao Yifan also stopped being anxious and joined everyone in watching the movie.

That’s when Su Jin realized she hadn’t seen Lin Xiuyuan.

“Him? He locked himself in his room, said he felt like he was about to level up today, so he went into seclusion,” Huang Yunxiang said with a smile. Her son’s special ability was due for an advancement, after all, he awakened it earlier than she did.

Su Jin nodded her head, guessing that Lin Xiuyuan must be waiting to advance in his space, because she had told everyone last time that Lu Hao advanced faster when he was in his space, though absorption of crystal cores was not possible there.

Just as Su Jin guessed, Lin Xiuyuan locked his room from the inside and entered his space, where he was now sitting cross-legged by the creek, while Lin Yunguo sat fishing nearby, not disturbing his grandson’s important moment.

Maybe because Lin Xiuyuan’s special ability had manifested in the creek, he felt a natural connection to it, so he simply chose to sit there and wait to advance.

Nie Qing and Lu Guanhai were also in the space, watching television with Li Xiuying. The Kangxi Dynasty series they discovered was quite long, and these past few days they were all engrossed in it. Moreover, Guo Yang’s shop didn’t need so many people, so they didn’t all go there.

It wasn’t until the afternoon that the shop welcomed its first customer, a little boy who looked to be only five or six years old.

The little boy looked eagerly at the crowd inside the shop and asked, “Is this a convenience store?”

“…”

“Hello, little friend, yes it is. What would you like to buy?” Guo Yang asked, squatting down.