Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 440

Chapter 440: Chapter 440: Not Worth It

Chapter 440: Chapter 440: Not Worth It

Xing Taining slowed his pace, and he looked around at the base, which was now seeing fewer and fewer people. He wondered whether those missing individuals had left to seek a new life or had died from starvation or the cold.

“Let’s get out of the base first.”

Xing Taining merely uttered this sentence to the brothers constantly complaining behind him, and immediately, the dozen or so men following him fell silent.

“Captain Xing, in this freezing weather, are you going out to find supplies again?”

At the entrance, a short man wearing a mink coat asked with a smile.

The man looked shifty-eyed, and his expensive mink coat seemed oddly out of place on him, yet it was precisely this man, being a distant relative of Deputy Zhang, who had secured the position of the chief gate guard. His daily task was to skim a part of the supplies from the survivors that entered the gate.

Zhang Wucai, feeling proud, looked up at the tall and handsome team of Xing Taining and his men. What did it matter if they were capable? They were still treated like dogs every day.

Xing Taining merely glanced at Zhang Wucai and walked straight out the gate.

“Pah,”

Zhang Wucai spit in the corner, hoping they would bring back some supplies today. Then, he could skim some for himself. Otherwise, he would make them freeze at the gate all night.

There were 15 men in Xing Taining’s team. They were driving the same military truck as before, but this time, the 15 of them didn’t head toward the city center. Instead, they stopped by the roadside.

Xing Taining looked at everyone and said:

“Brothers, I, Xing Taining, have always prided myself on being fair to both those above and below me. Since the Apocalypse began, I have saved countless people and killed countless zombies in D city. I always thought I was leading everyone to protect the remnants of humanity, but now I feel the nature of our task has completely changed! We’re no longer protecting ordinary people but those who live luxuriously within the base every day,”

Xing Taining grew more and more impassioned. The men in the truck had fought side by side with him for months. But now, every one of his brothers was skinny to the bone, even to the point of being horribly emaciated!

The other 14 men also silently watched Xing Taining. What Xing Taining expressed was exactly what they had complained about day and night. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to protect this place anymore, but… they felt it wasn’t worth it.

“I want to leave this base. Now, I’m asking for everyone’s opinion. Do you want to come with me?”

Xing Taining almost used all his strength to express these words. This was his hometown; if possible, he truly wished to protect this place for his entire life.

“Captain, I’m willing,”

“I’m willing,”

“Definitely willing,”

“Damn, I’ve wanted to leave this place for a long time,”

“Captain, where are we going when we leave here? Just say the word, and I’ll start the truck right now!”

The driver, Xiao Ge, asked as he wiped away his tears. Today, he too would become a “deserter.”

“We’re… going to S city,”

Xing Taining pulled out a crumpled tobacco pack with its writing mostly rubbed off and spoke.

In the Apocalypse, the only thing that sustained his belief was the group of people he had met in the gym. It was them who had once reignited his fighting spirit, and he remembered they had mentioned they were heading to S city.

He really wanted to see, if those people were still alive, what they had become now.

Were they like him, repeatedly struck down yet filled with hope again and again?

Or had they already amassed numerous followers, becoming a leader of a base?

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The Mercenary corps assessment at the S city base had completely concluded.