Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 342

Chapter 342: Chapter 342: Follow Your Heart’s Path

The blind old man once almost fell, clearly reaching for the sapling planted beside him, yet he let go, probably fearing his weight might break it.

The armless old man squatted under a large tree, allowing the blind old man to step on his back to cut off the branches above and then plant them in the ground.

As the spring breeze blew and the mountains turned green, year after year passed. Although the blind old man could not see the beautiful scenery before him, he was smiling, listening to the armless old man narrating something to him…

Humans, I beg you, please don’t kill them.

Humans, please don’t kill, I beg, I beg you…

Humans…

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At this point, Su Jin had understood. She felt as though she too could hear the voices of those trees.

It must have been those two zombies on the tree, those two old men, one completely gray-haired and the other armless.

Su Jin opened her eyes, gave the trees a deep look, and then said to the people behind her, “Let’s go.”

“Go? Just leave it like this?”

Lin Xiuyuan asked in surprise—there were still two zombies over there!

“Yes, let it be,”

Su Jin smiled.

She was not the righteous hero from the TV dramas who slayed demons and dispelled evil. She saw no reason to wield her sword against zombies just because it was the righteous thing to do; now, she simply wanted to follow her heart.

“Sister Xiao Jin, are they saying thank you?”

Mao Qiqi asked, tilting her head in confusion. She confirmed several times the voices in her mind gradually fading away—they were indeed saying thank you.

What shocked the group even more was that as they descended the mountain, the plants in front of them automatically cleared a path!

They didn’t even need to clear the way themselves.

The disorderly thickets and vegetation, which were in a chaotic mess, moved aside the second they approached, leaving behind a path just wide enough for a few people to pass through.

Su Jin explained to the others about the “memory of the trees” she had just witnessed as they walked.

Everyone listened in silence, and they understood why Su Jin chose not to kill the two zombies.

It turned out that all the trees on this mountain had been planted by those two old men, and now the trees were thanking them in their own way.

“Xiao Jin did the right thing. Look, it’s like the deities are thanking us!”

Li Xiuying exclaimed excitedly, witnessing such a scene for the first time in her life. It felt like a dream.

Lu Hao also smiled as he held Su Jin’s hand, convinced that whatever Su Jin did was absolutely right.

“If we don’t kill them, will they mutate later?” Lin Xiuyuan asked as they reached the foot of the mountain.

“They will probably merge with those trees, I guess,”

Su Jin said with a smile.

The reason why Qiqi didn’t sense the presence of those two zombies earlier must also be because they had already been partially absorbed by those trees.

Return to the root, huh?

At least today it was useful, Qiqi thought contentedly.

The vehicle gradually made its way onto the main road. As Li Xiuying and Lin Yunguo nostalgically looked out at the streets on both sides, they noticed that the streets were already in ruins, not to mention devoid of people, but also littered everywhere with the horrifying sight of desiccated corpses and staggering zombies.

Bang!

Su Jin stepped on the accelerator and ran over a zombie.

Although the vehicle was well-sealed and they could not hear noises from outside, when the elderly couple saw those zombies running towards them with wide-open mouths and white eyes, they were still nervous and closed their eyes.

“Aren’t you scared at all, Qiqi?” Lin Yunguo couldn’t help but ask.

“Not scared at all, not one bit,” Mao Qiqi said with a smile.

Seeing Mao Qiqi’s innocent expression, Li Xiuying felt somewhat less fearful and began to seriously continue looking at the scenes outside the window.

The route today was clearly much more difficult than the previous day’s, with roads blocked everywhere, especially when they came to a crossroad where the entire intersection was blocked by vehicles.

And the number of corpses on both sides of the road was increasing, including not just zombie corpses but also human corpses.

“There are people coming towards us, not many,” Mao Qiqi said.

“It seems these roads were blocked by someone on purpose,” Lu Hao observed.

“What? Why would someone deliberately block the roads?!”

Lin Yunguo expressed confusion. In the Apocalypse, shouldn’t people be helping each other?

Su Jin looked at the road blocked tightly ahead; it was neither an option to move forward nor to retreat.

It seemed they could only face those approaching people. However… she looked at the human corpses nearby and felt that those coming might not be the righteous kind.