Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Arriving at G Province

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Her past life memories were slowly returning to her.

Su Jin was very familiar with this airport. When the zombie apocalypse first broke out back then, she had run here in a hurry, desperate to get onto a plane back home. However, the airport was already packed with people, and everyone wanted to get back to their families. As news of more plane crashes reached them, the airport soon began to stop functioning.

By then, zombies were appearing in the airport itself, and many people were getting infected. Su Jin and a few others had been trapped in a lounge at the airport for more than a week before they were eventually rescued.

Su Jin dragged her luggage behind her, standing silently outside the lounge that had been her prison for a while. She only woke from her reverie when her phone rang.

The caller was Assistant Zhang from the company’s local branch, informing her that he was already at the arrivals gate. Su Jin hung up and walked straight toward him, spotting him from a distance away. Since he had not noticed her, she walked behind him and patted him in greeting.

The bespectacled Assistant Zhang jumped in shock, but he soon recovered. “Are you Su Jin?”

“Yes, Assistant Zhang, I am. Nice to meet you.”

“Come into the car, then, this way. I parked in the basement,” Assistant Zhang said as he took the luggage from her. There was something he could not understand, though. Since they were attending an exhibition, he was not dressed for work, so how did the young woman recognize him at a glance? How very strange.

Su Jin saw that Assistant Zhang’s head was still tilted in confusion as he walked ahead of her with her luggage in tow. Giggling secretly to herself, she said, “Don’t be so surprised. I saw you in the pictures of the company’s annual party, so I immediately recognized you.”

Was that it? No wonder. Assistant Zhang said, “Seems like I must have a pretty appealing face, then. Haha.”

“…”

Assistant Zhang was over the moon, and Su Jin had no idea what to say to that.

Along the way, Assistant Zhang never stopped chatting with Su Jin. Her impression of him from her past life was quite decent, so Su Jin kindly gave him a word of advice too.

“Your family’s already hoarding supplies, you say?” Assistant Zhang asked.

“That’s right, because some viruses are going around, and some posts online say that things might get messy in the next month. Apparently we should stay home and hoard as much food as we can,” Su Jin said with a straight face.

“Do people really believe the stuff they see online? But you have a point, I’ll make sure to fill up my fridge when I get back. Seriously, Lil Su, you have no idea what a waste that giant fridge I bought is. I’m just a single man, and my cooking always sucks. It takes me two hours to cook and ten minutes to eat, and that’s not even accounting for the washing…”

Assistant Zhang began ranting again. A month from now, however, he would suddenly find that the huge fridge he was complaining about ended up becoming his life-saving treasure trove.

Su Jin warned Assistant Zhang as a way to repay him for his help in her past life. Back then, she was all alone in G Province, and Assistant Zhang was the only one who kept trying to call her when the zombie outbreak first happened. He had also been the one who led the rescue team to the airport to save her, all because she had sent him her location just minutes before her phone battery died. He had passed the word on to the rescue team and indirectly saved Su Jin as well as the people with her.

They soon arrived at their hotel, and Assistant Zhang left soon after he helped Su Jin check in. She closed her room down and fell face-first into the hotel bed.

It had been such a long time since she had enjoyed the luxuries of a soft bed and clean sheets. Was humanity truly heading for ruin? Su Jin wondered to herself, depressed.

Right, there was her special ability. Su Jin reached out her hand and tried to summon her vines. A small emerald sprout appeared in the middle of her palm. She was thankful that her wood-type special ability had returned with her, and it was at early Level 3, too. Although it was not as strong as it had been at the end of her previous life, when she was peak Level 6, she was still happy enough with this amount of power.

Wood-type ability users were some of the most pathetic in her past life. They could not be used to fight, and all they were good at was growing crops and other plants. Almost everyone who awakened to a wood-type ability would be relegated to the logistics department of their base, where they merely tended to the vegetable garden.