Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 221

Chapter 221: Chapter 221: Settling Accounts

Evidence?

Lu Hao hooked his lips. There was no crime scene where evidence wasn’t left behind.

“Wait here for me,” Lu Hao whispered into Su Jin’s ear.

Su Jin nodded. She watched as Lu Hao walked over to the revolting corpse.

Chen Xiarong looked at Lu Hao, incredulous. She knew what his job had been before the apocalypse, and now this posture—could it be…

“Lu Hao, my father was still thinking of you before he died!”

Chen Xiarong couldn’t help but shout out, hoping Lu Hao would remember her father’s kindness and spare her this time.

After examining the body on the ground, Lu Hao stood up and, as if he hadn’t heard her, started walking around the scene again.

“Lu Hao, he…” Liang Wei couldn’t help but ask.

“Uncle Liang, don’t worry, maybe he will find something,”

Su Jin said with a comforting smile. She knew these people were all waiting for the truth, as if looking for a target to vent their anger and sadness, which was why they waited on the side.

After a while, Lu Hao came over, stood in front of Chen Xiarong, and said, “Before burying the body, it seems you forgot to clean up the scene.”

Suddenly, a silver earring appeared in Lu Hao’s hand. It was identical to the one hanging on Chen Xiarong’s right ear!

But her left ear was empty, devoid of an earring.

The evidence was conclusive.

Chen Xiarong collapsed to the ground.

The previous night, Chen Xiarong had learned that Zeng Ling was among the survivors scheduled for relocation the following day, so she had called Zeng Ling out to discuss possibly swapping places with her, as she was registered for the last batch of relocations.

But Zeng Ling said she had already made arrangements with someone else and therefore couldn’t swap, leading to Chen Xiarong pleading incessantly.

Eventually, as Zeng Ling remained unwilling, the two quarreled. Chen Xiarong pushed Zeng Ling, who, unsteady, crashed directly into the broken glass window of a convenience store; an iron frame protruding from the window pierced straight into Zeng Ling’s skull.

…

“It’s all your fault, all your fault for not agreeing to add my name, I didn’t mean to, wuuu…”

Chen Xiarong actually sat on the ground and started crying.

Su Jin didn’t know what to say. Why did she always push the blame onto others?

Li Haochu looked at Chen Xiarong angrily. Such a person deserved to die a hundred times over and still wouldn’t assuage his hatred.

“It was her! She killed someone and buried the body here, attracting the zombie rats!” a girl shouted loudly.

The scene immediately erupted; people started spitting at her, and as Liang Wei and the others didn’t stop them, the family members of those killed by the zombie rats could not hold back and started hitting her as well.

A little girl, about seven or eight years old, crying, ran out and kept punching Chen Xiarong, all the while shouting, “Give me back my dad, give me back my dad!”

At that moment, Li Haochu walked over, dispersed the crowd around Chen Xiarong, and pulled her to where two bodies covered with plastic bags lay. Towering over her, he said, “Kneel down and apologize to them.”

“What?”

Chen Xiarong raised her tangled head and looked at the two young bodies in front of her.

“It’s not my fault, really it isn’t. Yes, those zombie rats, even if they weren’t attracted by that body today, they would have been around here eventually. They would have come sooner or later… you can’t blame me for this, wuuu…”

Chen Xiarong dared not look at the two bodies; how could it be her fault?

“Brother Lu, Brother Lu, my father really cared about you back then, he even wanted to go to your house to find you,”

Chen Xiarong shouted while lying on the ground. Didn’t Lu Hao have any old affection left?

Lu Hao walked up to Chen Xiarong, knelt down, and said, “I won’t believe a word you say.”

Then, disregarding Chen Xiarong’s stunned gaze, he pulled Su Jin over to Liang Wei and asked, “Can the two of us handle this person?”

“You two?”