Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus

Early on May 3rd, they set out for the Big Camphor Tree Base to the north.

Nobody hesitated about this departure; they had long wanted to leave this wretched place.

They opened the gates of Furong Mountain Base with a loud bang, as the gates directly collapsed onto the ground.

Everyone stared in shock at the gates.

It seemed that these gates had problems for a while. If not for the cars and shipping containers behind them, the gates would have collapsed much earlier.

The group was silent, quietly looking over the base they had stayed in for a year.

"Let's go," Captain Luo said to Xiaoding, who was driving the vehicle.

Just as Xiaoding was about to drive off, he saw several people appear ahead, seemingly those who had previously been hiding outside the base.

They were lucky to have survived the Zombie Tide.

"Captain, it looks like these people are waiting for us," Xiaoding said.

Old Luo thought of how they had grabbed the food from the base and then left right after receiving it.

His heart felt desolate.

He remembered the words of Elder Ye, who had once said not to mind how the common people treat us; we should do our own duty. Someday, the people would be touched, and unity requires dedication and perseverance.

Recalling Elder Ye's words in his head, but thinking of these people—who used to cling to the base, seizing food opportunistically and seeking help when the Zombies came—he felt a surge of anger at their entitled attitudes.

Standing beside Old Luo, Xiaoshi understood his inner struggle and said plainly to Xiaoding, "Don't mind them. Drive."

Xiaoding had already been eager to leave without them and, upon hearing Xiaoshi's words, immediately started the vehicle.

Rumbling~

The vehicle fired up and took to the road. Old Yi and Old Bi's expressions were complex, but they remained silent.

Though the vehicle didn't speed, after covering some distance, those several people directly blocked the road ahead.

One man stood in the middle of the road and shouted, "Where are you going? Are you really going to abandon us?"

It was silent inside the car.

Xiaoshi leaned out and said to them, "We've given you the food. You know that when we distributed it, we didn't have much left ourselves."

The man standing in the road hesitated, then asked, "I know, but what I'm asking is, where are you going? You can't just leave. If we run out of food later, who will we turn to?"

The others beside him began to chime in:

"Exactly, exactly, this is too irresponsible of you. Just running off like this."

"Where you're going, shouldn't you at least tell us? Leaving without a word?"

"Nobody's leaving today unless things are made clear."

.....

Inside the vehicle, hearing such words, any guilt they had felt about leaving without taking them along vanished without a trace.

Responsible?

When it was time to resist the Zombies, why were none of them to be seen? They just hide within the base, never fighting together when Zombies come.

When there's no food, they are first to flee, but when there is food available, they even come to seize it.

Are they treating us like easy targets?

They are not at all afraid of us, nor of the firearms we hold.

In the past few days, the people we killed during the food raid evidently hadn't been enough to wake them up.

These people have survived until now, don't they understand the situation?

Or have they been too coddled, sucking blood while lying on our backs?

Xiaoshi, who has experienced much hardship, knows well that in this world now, no one owes you anything. To gain something, you must give something in return.

Sometimes, even when you give, you get nothing in return.

People who struggle on the brink of death every day, why would they still harbor such shameless thoughts?

Seeing this scene, Xiao Shi was somewhat shocked. She was shocked that, after such a long time since the apocalypse began, these people still took everything for granted.

"No cure." Xiao Shi murmured.

Then she drew a gun, aimed it at the man in front, and fired a shot.

Bang~

The gunshot startled everyone.

The man jumped back twice, looked up, and saw Xiao Shi leaning out the car window.

A woman, looking somewhat green.

He thought to himself that this was certainly just to scare them, considering they hadn't stolen any food, merely asked to be taken along.

They wouldn't really kill.

Realizing this, the man, seeming to want to regain the face he had just lost, stepped forward a few paces.

"You shoot, go on, shoot. If you're leaving here, give us an explanation, what should we do later!"

Xiao Shi's eyes were somewhat indifferent, detached. This look was somewhat similar to the way Li Yu looked before he killed someone.

Xiao Shi slowly said: "What does it have to do with us? Move aside, or I really will kill you."

After hearing Xiao Shi's words, the man, as if he had heard something unbelievable, widened his eyes and pointed at Xiao Shi, saying: "You, how can you be so shameless, you have the responsibility! Right now, it's the time for you to play your part, and you're telling me it doesn't concern you, that's a huge joke!"

Xiao Shi said indifferently: "Have you paid taxes this past year?"

This single sentence left the man dumbfounded.

This sentence conveyed a message, suddenly making him realize that, in the post-apocalyptic world, they had no obligation to fulfill their former duties.

Paying taxes was just a trigger that made him terrifyingly aware that, in this era, amid the apocalypse, no one was obligated to protect him.

"Move aside, this is the last time I'll say it." Xiao Shi said coldly.

Despair instantly engulfed the people under the car; they found, in extreme terror, that those in the car had no duty nor the desire to bother with them anymore.

The man looked at the dark muzzle of the gun, wanting to argue a few more points.

But the vehicle had already started moving, and the man hastily dodged, the vehicle brushing past him.

It nearly hit him.

Watching the vehicle slowly moving away.

The man suddenly found the courage, pointed at the vehicle and cursed: "You people will get your retribution, fuck you!"

Bang!

Xiao Shi turned back and fired a shot, hitting the man's head.

The others beside the man scattered like birds and beasts, realizing they actually would kill, and they had killed!

In the vehicle, Old Luo looked at Xiao Shi, as if seeing her anew, with some admiration—decisive, cutting through without hesitation, unrestrained by meaningless internal constraints. Such a person might just lead them forward.

In the vehicles behind, Old Yi and Old Bi, among others, finally truly recognized Xiao Shi's leadership.

A team must have a strong leader; if indecisive, or foolishly playing the saint to save those unworthy, should problems arise, they too would end up buried with them.

Very good.

These two words echoed in the minds of Old Bi, Old Yi, and Old Luo simultaneously.

...…

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