Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 261

Chapter 261: Chapter 261: Mutated Zombie Horde

The chaotic streets were littered with scrapped vehicles blocking the way, irritating the five men and three women sprinting to the point of breathlessness.

Those damned cars just had to be in the middle of the road. Just a moment ago, because of these obstacles, two of their companions were hit by a fire element mutated zombie following them; seeing their companions engulfed in flames, the remaining people didn’t dare to stop and ran even more desperately.

Although they were all special ability users, outrunning the mutated zombies chasing them while also keeping an eye on the zombies on both sides of the street was a tall order. Their group had dwindled from over thirty to just these eight!

“I can’t, can’t run anymore!”

A girl clutched her right side as she spoke. They had sprinted through many streets but still hadn’t shaken off the zombies behind them. The side stitch made her already exhausted body feel even worse.

“Who, who can anymore? My throat’s about to burst,” a man said, wondering when they would finally reach the base. Surely someone from the base would come to their rescue.

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“There seems to be someone up ahead!” another man shouted in surprise.

“What good is that? They’ll just be running with us, right?”

“Are you dumb? If there are people, they can hold them off for a while, let me get ahead!” a wheezing voice said.

“Right, they don’t know how many zombies are coming up behind us anyway,” a girl with her hair done up in a bun said as if she had just seen a glimmer of hope, wishing those unfortunate ones ahead could buy them some time to escape.

Xue Wanyi shouted loudly at the people charging toward them, “Run to the side! There’s a trap in the middle!”

This was also what Su Jin and her group had prepared to warn these people about— if they ran into the middle of the formation, they would undoubtedly perish there.

Xue Wanyi’s voice was loud, so as soon as they heard about the trap, the individuals quickly followed Xue Wanyi’s direction and ran along the edge of the road.

However, because the passage on the side was narrow, and they didn’t know where the trap was, there was a moment of jostling as each of them wanted to be the first through the tight corridor.

Su Jin, although still controlling the vines to kill zombies, noticed what was happening with this group.

It seemed this crowd needed to be watched closely.

It wasn’t until they passed through that narrow gap that they saw the scene before them— the ground was covered with corpses of zombies, many of which were the ash-gray mutated zombies. In the middle, several powerful special ability users were continuously killing the remaining scattered zombies.

Had they run into some experts?

But with the increasingly loud roars of the zombies close behind them, they didn’t dare to linger there and instead glanced at Su Jin and her group before continuing to run forward.

“These people seem really powerful,” a slightly older middle-aged woman said. She was a fire element ability user; otherwise, she would have been devoured by zombies during the escape due to lack of stamina.

“Even better, they can hold off the zombies for us a bit longer so we can catch a break up ahead,” a man drenched in sweat said, feeling like he was close to his limit.

The girl clutching her right side glanced at the three armored vehicles parked side by side as she ran past. If their vehicles had been like these three before, they wouldn’t have been destroyed so easily by those mutated zombies.

The rest of the group also noticed the vehicles. They exchanged looks and, gritting their teeth as the horde of zombies that was fast approaching from behind, continued to run forward…

The approaching horde had grown to more than two hundred zombies, with dozens of mutated ones at the front. Seeing the special ability users ahead, the horde roared even more excitedly, and a wind element mutated zombie even flew straight towards them!