Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 155: Chapter 155: Guo Yang’s Idea
 

Just a few days after Liang Wei and the others left, a lot of people in uniform came to the villa district. On the first day of their arrival, they made a special point of greeting Su Jin and the others.

It turned out that they were staff members from a safety shelter, here to register the information of this area, like affixing house numbers on each villa, recording the number of rooms in each house, and noting the sizes and locations, among other details.

It was apparent that Liang Wei had already communicated with these people; they directly skipped over Su Jin’s house and Yao Yi’s small villa when registering.

In fact, these people were also very grateful to Su Jin because they had heard that it was this household that had cleared out all the zombies in the villa district. This saved them a lot of trouble; otherwise, their first task upon arrival would have been exterminating zombies. And now, one could not even find a zombie corpse, as these had all been collectively incinerated.

They were really thankful to them.

Therefore, when these staff members met Su Jin and the others, they greeted them especially warmly to show their friendliness.

Although the sudden increase in people in the villa district was a bit uncomfortable for everyone, seeing that these people never bothered them by coming to their doors and were actually very polite, Su Jin and the others became more at ease. Indeed, it was good to lean on a strong backer.

After having breakfast taken from the Space, the group prepared to set out. What the shelter workers were doing in the villa district was none of their concern; under the influence of Su Jin, the only things they were concerned with now were the Crystal Core and the Special Ability Level.

Through days of training, Xue Wanyi’s Wind Element Special Ability had successfully advanced to Level 2, while Lin Xiuyuan, Lin Tianzhen, Nie Qing, and Liao Yifan were on the verge of leveling up their Special Abilities. Therefore, these people had been particularly eager in clearing zombies these past days.

The villa district’s staff members watched in surprise as so many people from this household came out. They drove three tidy armored vehicles, seemingly ready to head out.

“Hello, may I ask what you are doing?”

A young lad couldn’t help his curiosity and stepped forward to ask.

“Hello, we are about to go out,” Lu Hao replied expressionlessly.

The young lad probably thought that the cold-looking man in front of him was unhappy, so he shrank his neck, uttered an “oh,” and was about to turn around and leave—who couldn’t see that they were about to go out?

“We go out every day to clear the nearby zombies. Today is no exception,” said Su Jin with a smile, looking at the young lad.

Such a beautiful Miss!

The young lad was stunned for a moment, then realized that the beautiful Miss was answering him. He was pleasantly surprised and quickly responded, “Thank you, and good luck to you!”

After finishing his words, the young man hurriedly went to join the others in registering the next house. He let out a sigh of relief after seeing that those people had all driven away; why had he said “thank you” just now… but that Miss was so pretty and gentle…

“Xiao Dong, did you just ask them what they were doing?” A few other uniformed individuals also came over to ask.

“Hehe, they said they go out to clear zombies every day,” the lad nicknamed Xiao Dong replied.

No wonder! Since their arrival in the City West area, they had noticed so few zombies; they had thought it was because City West was too remote—it turns out it was all cleaned up by these people?

That was incredible; not only that, but they actually went out every day! Every day to clear zombies?

So, in the following days, whenever Su Jin and the others returned from outside, they would see the villa district’s staff looking at them with a gaze full of respect. In some people’s eyes, there seemed to be admiration, and some even bowed deeply to them before running off.

“…”

“What’s with them?” Lin Xiuyuan scratched the back of his head, not understanding what exactly had happened.

“Probably to express their gratitude to us?” Su Jin guessed.

The only person who found it really useful was Nie Qing, who even waved to those workers.

“Haha, now that’s more like it. Back in the sect on the mountain, we used to bow to the Sect Leader.”

In today’s society, people are gradually forgetting the traditional etiquette of the past.

“Cut it out, you’re not the Sect Leader nor a leader. Why should anyone bow to you?” Lu Guanhai continued to tease.

“It’s a matter of politeness…”

The sound of their chatting was cut off by the closing of the door, and just then, the food cart delivering work meals drove into the villa area. Seeing the arrival of food, everyone gradually dispersed and crowded around it.

Nothing is more important than eating, so they decided not to disturb the big shots during their rest.

After entering the house, Mao Zhihang and the others closed all the curtains and windows. With more people around outside, they dared not keep the windows open for ventilation as before. They were also concerned that the smell of hot food could drift out and arouse suspicion.

Su Jin even took out some blackout curtains and hung them behind the regular curtains, so now with the villa’s curtains drawn, nothing was visible from the outside, not even a sliver of light could penetrate.

After the meal, Guo Yang gathered everyone hesitantly and shared his ideas from the past few days.

“You want to do business?”

Su Jin’s eyes lit up, after all, Guo Yang was an investment manager before the Apocalypse, and she trusted his judgement.

Guo Yang planned to open a shop inside the base. The pre-Apocalypse method of displaying all goods for sale wouldn’t work now since resources were scarce and couldn’t simply be placed on shelves.

Instead, he intended to run it like an exchange. If someone needed something, they could come to the exchange. As long as they provided Crystal Cores or other goods of equivalent value, they could trade for the supplies they needed.

Mao Zhihang was the first to nod in agreement. Having run a shop before the Apocalypse, he was quite interested in Guo Yang’s idea.

Su Jin naturally wouldn’t object. After all, they had been worrying about how to use up the items in the Space. If they opened a shop in Guo Yang’s name to exchange goods for Crystal Cores on equal value terms, that would be perfect.

After Guo Yang expressed his plans and saw that no one opposed it, he was so touched that he didn’t know how to continue.

“Buddy Guo, just open it up, you’re sure to make a fortune,”

Nie Qing said with a smile. He could see clearly that the aura of fortune behind Guo Yang had never faded for a day.

“Have you thought about the location of the shop?” Su Xiangzhe asked. He was also supportive, having heard that the money his son-in-law had invested with Guo Yang before the Apocalypse had multiplied several times over.

“Not yet, I just had the idea and wanted to see what you all thought,” Guo Yang hadn’t expected such an enthusiastic response from everyone.

“It’s better to choose a place as close as possible to here, preferably within Qiqi’s monitoring range,”

Su Jin suggested, thinking that although the villas were clustered together, if they chose a location too far away, it would take a long detour to get there in case something happened.

“Mm, I’ll talk to Liang Jiuhui and the others about it later,” Lu Hao said. Last time, before Liang Jiuhui left, he had told Lu Hao they could make any requests and they would be fulfilled if possible. It seemed it was time to cash in on that promise.

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