Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 287

Chapter 287 -287 The Sound of Mutated Plants

Su Xiangzhe thought about it and still did as Nie Qing had suggested; mutated zombies indeed tended to attack the heads of special ability users.

Upon hearing the “interaction” from the other side, Liang Jiuhui hadn’t had time to intervene when he saw Su Jin’s dad’s hair stand on end instantly, just like it had been through an ion perm…

Su Xiangzhe’s original hair was neither long nor short, but once it stood up, it appeared particularly long and straight, just vertically up…

By the time he realized the hair issue, it was already too late; although he had promptly withdrawn the thunder and lightning ability from his head, those hairs that had been electrified still proudly stood erect on top of his head.

“…”

Su Jin couldn’t help but laugh and cry as she cleared the zombies around her dad.

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With the laughter of everyone continuing nonstop, the culprit Nie Qing had already flown a few meters away from Su Xiangzhe.

He admitted he really knew nothing about thunder and lightning…

“Hahahaha”

Lu Guanhai, while releasing his special ability, couldn’t help but laugh, and even Liang Jiuhui and several others couldn’t hold back their laughter.

“It’s okay, Dad, when we get back let Mom help you… trim it”

Su Jin couldn’t help but look again at Su Xiangzhe’s hair; it was thoroughly fried, it probably could only be trimmed now…

“Sorry, Old Su”

Nie Qing hesitated but still flew over while killing zombies; he really didn’t do it on purpose.

“No worries, just keep the same hairstyle as me when we get back.”

Su Xiangzhe gritted his teeth and said, having just seen his “grand” hairstyle through the glass window of a nearby service desk; Lu Hao even kindly pressed it down hard for him, and although it had some effect, it still looked very odd.

Nie Qing hugged his own hair in terror; he definitely didn’t want that hairstyle!

“When we get back today, my sister will definitely scold my brother-in-law,” Lin Tianzhen whispered to Mao Zhihang beside him.

Mao Zhihang also held back his laughter and focused on killing zombies, although the zombies here were almost entirely wiped out amid the laughter.

Worried about embarrassing Su Xiangzhe, everyone tried their best not to mention his hair, and by this time the zombies in the lobby downstairs had all been killed. Lu Guanhai dug out the crystal nuclei while chuckling under his breath; he couldn’t help it. Su Xiangzhe was his friend for decades, and this was the first time he had seen him in this state; every time he tried to talk to Su Xiangzhe, he started laughing first.

“Dad, don’t laugh”

The expressionless face of Lu Hao instantly made Lu Guanhai feel unable to laugh; this joyless son of his, he should just go find his friends…

“Do you always have this much fun when you come out to kill zombies?”

Xiao Liu asked Yin Chengtian and Shi Jin, while crouched on the ground digging out crystal nuclei.

Yin Chengtian and Shi Jin thought about it; indeed, it had been like that since they first left H City, although there were tense moments and times they were lost, the people in their team had never been pessimistic.

Seeing the two nod incessantly, Xiao Liu, who had just asked casually, felt surprised; can the apocalypse really be like this? It was his first encounter with it.

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With the numbers on their side and with Su Jin’s vine-based ability, the twenty or so people quickly stripped the area of each and every zombie crystal nucleus.

The hospital’s signs and arrows were clear, and everyone followed them to the pharmacy, where at the small window, a nurse who had turned into a zombie was reaching out trying to grab the people outside.

The blooming rhododendrons swayed in the wind. Heeding Su Jin’s reminder, everyone cooperatively walked up on the right side. Just as they reached the top, their attention was drawn to the dark mass of zombies behind the second-floor glass door. Suddenly, a loud “boom” from behind made them all look back at the same time.

They saw that the plants in the flower bed had, unknownst to them, crawled over the entire staircase. The area that had been turned to charcoal by Lu Hao’s Special Ability was quickly covered by the brown vines crawling up from behind!

“Everyone, be careful not to get entangled by it!”

Su Jin shouted loudly. Those brown vines had many thorns, and if the mutated plant had become poisonous, getting entangled might result in those poisonous thorns piercing into one’s body.

Xu Shi and Lu Guanhai each threw a few fireballs above, but the regeneration speed of the plants was simply too fast. Guan Hong and Mao Zhihang, standing in front, kept cutting through the branches and leaves with their Metal Element Ability, but it was not very effective.

The rustling sound came, and everyone looked down following the noise,, only to see the lowest brown vines retracting from the direction where they had just killed the zombies. Tied at the end of the vines were several zombie bodies, which the vines dragged into the flower bed and quickly dissolved at the roots of the rhododendrons!

“Goodness, this is even more powerful than corpse dissolving liquid,”

Nie Qing had been reading “The Tripods of the Deer” recently, and was particularly impressed with the corpse dissolving liquid described therein.

The few who had never seen mutated plants before were also feeling their scalps tingle. If they were dragged away by the vines, they’d dissolve into nutrients for the plant in less than a minute!

“You guys, step back,” Lu Hao said.

Although Xu Shi and others did not understand, they still moved behind Lu Hao.

Lu Hao, while still some distance from the plants, placed his hand on the ground. A long fire dragon rapidly spread along the ground towards the plants covering the entire staircase.

In an instant, the wide and long staircase was turned into a sea of fire!

Mao Qiqi again heard that thin, sharp sound, but she tried her best to endure it. She looked toward Sheng Jing and noticed she seemed not to react unusually—could it be she hadn’t heard it?

“Sister Sheng, didn’t you hear that sound?” Mao Qiqi asked.