Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 220

Chapter 220: Chapter 220: Searching for the Culprit

“How could there be so many zombie rats?” Liang Wei couldn’t help but ask.

“They must have been drawn here by something,” Su Jin said while paying attention to the surroundings, to prevent any missed ones from escaping and hurting people.

People in the refuge gradually started poking their heads out and walking outside, and some of the timid ones were peering down from the second-floor windows.

Chen Xiarong in the crowd was pleasantly surprised to discover that Lu Hao had returned today!

Could he have come back for her? Otherwise, why would he have come back after clearly leaving for the base yesterday?

And most importantly, Brother Lu looked so formidable, turning those zombie rats into ashes in his presence!

If she had known Brother Lu would come back for her, she wouldn’t have argued with that woman last night. She had only pushed her gently, and who would have thought she’d be so clumsy, bumping into that and dying. Anyway, nobody saw it. She just needed to pretend she knew nothing.

In the apocalypse, even the death of a person didn’t count for much.

With that thought, she hurriedly straightened her clothes, wanting to show her best self to Brother Lu.

If she had known, she would have brought her bag, which still had half a bottle of unused perfume…

While Chen Xiarong was lost in her wild thoughts, the Special Ability Users had already wiped out all the zombie rats, and after waiting a bit longer without seeing any new ones emerging from behind the convenience store, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Hao also turned and walked over.

Chen Xiarong watched him, aglow with joy. Had he seen her here?

Her heart beat fiercely, almost throwing off her breathing rhythm!

But Lu Hao didn’t look her way. Instead, with a gentle smile, he held the hand of a girl standing next to Liang Wei.

The girl’s back was very pretty, her hair tied into a loose bun, revealing a fair neck…

From her angle, Chen Xiarong could see Lu Hao talking seriously to the girl, and then they held hands and followed a group of people forward.

No, they couldn’t leave!

She hadn’t greeted Lu Hao, and she had not yet clearly seen who the girl standing next to him was.

Seeing some curious people following them, she also blended into the crowd and walked over.

Lu Hao was following Li Haochu to find the source of the zombie rats, which had just burst out from behind those abandoned convenience stores, so they were all carefully heading in that direction to investigate.

A bad premonition rose in Chen Xiarong’s heart.

That direction…

No, no, no. It should be impossible. She had already buried that person’s body and covered it with several layers of discarded cardboard.

The scene behind the convenience store made everyone who saw it gasp in shock.

There was a pile of discarded cardboard, and behind a stone fence was the forest at the back of the refuge. Under the tree closest to the refuge, the soil looked to have been dug up by something, exposing a gruesomely gnawed corpse.

Some people behind couldn’t help but vomit. The state of the corpse was too horrifying, identifiable as a woman’s from the clothes and hair.

“The corpse must have attracted the zombie rats,” Su Jin muttered with furrowed brows. How could there be a buried corpse here?

“Investigate! I want to know how she ended up dead here!”

Recalling the two soldiers who had died in vain just a moment ago, Liang Wei wished to find out the cause immediately.

She was still alive?!

For some reason, having been seen by so many people, she had felt nothing, but now, being coldly observed by these two individuals, a sense of shame slowly began to creep up on her.

“Brother Lu, you are here to help me, right? I really don’t know how Zeng Ling ended up dead here,” she said, adopting an aggrieved demeanor, hoping that Lu Hao, who seemed to know these influential people, might help her out of consideration for the past.

“Lu Hao, you know her?”

Liang Wei asked with a frown, concerned that if they knew each other, things could get complicated, especially since the woman was repeatedly calling him Brother Lu – could they possibly be relatives?

“No, I don’t.”

Lu Hao uttered three cold words.

Chen Xiarong’s eyes widened. Had Lu Hao just said he didn’t know her?

Why?

But he had clearly smiled at her yesterday!

Relieved by the response, Liang Wei almost convinced himself that Zeng Ling’s death was related to this woman, but without any evidence, it was impossible to convict someone in front of such a large crowd without proof.

“So, last night when the two of you went out together, what did you talk about, and why was it that you alone returned first?” a woman standing beside Li Haochu inquired.

Chen Xiarong remembered this woman; she was the female staff member from the administration department yesterday.

“We just went out together to use the restroom, and then I came back first. You have no evidence, stop pestering me with questions!” Chen Xiarong said, displaying an impatient attitude.

Such bad luck, she thought to herself, but she wouldn’t admit to anything. There were no surveillance cameras here to serve as evidence, so these people wouldn’t be able to unearth anything.