Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 170: Chapter 170: Planted a Flower

The rose flower was also a plant that she often hastened to grow in her previous life.

Of course, this wasn’t for aesthetics, but for defense; as a weapon, the stem of the rose flower proved very useful.

At night, Su Jin leaned over and whispered into Lu Hao’s ear, “Lu Hao, can you sleep?”

“…I can’t sleep.”

It wasn’t until Lu Hao’s hands became increasingly restless that Su Jin realized he had misunderstood something.

“If you can’t sleep, accompany me to the entrance outside,” Su Jin quickly said.

“…”

Local Tyrant Gold in the living room perked up when it heard noises from the stairs; it saw Su Jin and Lu Hao tiptoeing down the stairs, and Su Jin put her finger to her lips, signaling it to be quiet so as not to disturb others. Although everyone might be resting in their spaces, they planned to go out and kill zombies tomorrow, so keeping quiet was preferable.

Local Tyrant Gold ingeniously kept silent, then sprang onto Lu Hao’s shoulder.

“I just took a shower,” Lu Hao said with a hint of distaste as he brushed it off.

Local Tyrant Gold, who had fallen to the ground, hung its head in injury, silently following behind Su Jin.

Su Jin laughed, took out a peach from her space, and placed it beside Local Tyrant Gold’s nest to keep it obediently inside eating the peach.

Local Tyrant Gold particularly loved the fruits Su Jin brought out; upon seeing the peach, it immediately forgot its hurt feelings and focused on gnawing the peach in its nest.

Only then did Su Jin and Lu Hao proceed outside.

There was a ring of low flowerbeds by the villa walls, which had long become overgrown with weeds and dried out.

Lu Hao, following Su Jin’s instructions, pulled out all the weeds in the area, while Su Jin followed behind scattering seeds.

After they had sown seeds throughout the circular flowerbed, Su Jin began to use her special ability, which she hadn’t yet employed that day, to hasten the growth of the seeds. Despite the dim night, Lu Hao could see the shadowy figures of the plants rapidly growing branches, climbing towards the walls and windows at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If any Wood Element Ability User saw this scene, they would surely be astounded by Su Jin’s Wood Element ability; she was able to hasten the growth of so many seeds all at once, and at such a fast pace.

“Is this ivy?” Lu Hao asked.

“Rose Vine.”

As she spoke, Su Jin used her hands to direct the growth path of the Rose Vine.

Lu Hao began to understand what Su Jin was doing. It seemed she still didn’t feel secure. This cautious nature of hers had formed only after returning from her business trip. Clearly, her experiences in her previous life had deeply affected her.

Lu Hao felt a pang of heartache, but there was nothing he could do in this moment except stand silently by her side, watching over her.

A waft of the faint rose fragrance reached them with the wind, and although Lu Hao couldn’t see the wall clearly, he knew that the Rose Vine had matured enough under Su Jin’s influence.

Su Jin circled around to the front, directing the vine’s path towards several side windows. It wasn’t until the Rose Vine became dense enough that she stopped.

“I tried to control it so that it wouldn’t bloom, but a few flowers still opened,” Su Jin said with resignation, wiping the sweat from her forehead.

Her special ability allowed her to control the state of plants, such as converting the nutrients from the flowers of the Rose Vine into tougher stems, leaves, and thorns. But the scent reminded her that some flowers had still bloomed on the Rose Vine she had accelerated.

“It smells really nice,” Lu Hao said, grasping Su Jin’s hand.

The two stood by the wall for a while before returning to their upstairs room to rest, wondering if everyone would be surprised by the sight outside the next morning.

In fact, the next morning, it wasn’t just the household inside the villa who got a shock; the workers outside were startled too.

What, what, what?

There weren’t any rose vines in front of the boss’s window yesterday!

Did they travel through time? Could it already be several years later?

“Xiao Jin, did you do all this outside?” Su Xiangzhe ran in after making a round around the villa and asked.

“Yes, I planted some flowers last night,” Su Jin said with a smile as she drank a glass of milk.

Yin Chengtian had no idea what to say anymore; planting some flowers… If he were to take on this project, it might take him a year to complete.

Su Jin also stepped outside to look at the masterpiece she and Lu Hao had created last night. They saw dark green vines covered windows and walls, bristling with brownish-green thorns that were longer and thicker than any they had seen before. Just thinking about being pricked by them was painfully imaginable.

“These are for preventing intrusion, right?” Lin Tianhui asked.

“For deterring the petty-minded,” Su Jin replied with a smile.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

At least this way, it would be very difficult for anyone to peer inside through the windows, and the dense foliage probably made it hard even for the light inside the house to shine through.

Feeling extremely cheerful, Su Jin took various delicious breakfast foods from her space, including the new pies made by Lin Yunguo, fried eggs, and tremella porridge.

Lu Hao picked up a soup ladle, served a bowl of tremella porridge for Su Jin, and Lin Tianhui nodded in approval after seeing this. She couldn’t say enough good things about Lu Hao’s treatment of Su Jin. Although Su Xiangzhe had chosen this son-in-law himself, she was increasingly pleased with him. If only he would talk a bit more, finding a balance like that Guo Yang kid would have been perfect.

Guo Yang, following Lu Hao’s example, served a bowl of porridge to Liao Yifan, still chattering away about how important it is to eat a good breakfast.

Liao Yifan surprisingly didn’t tell him to shut up since she felt in a particularly good mood today, eagerly looking forward to going out to fight zombies with everyone.

However, Guo Yang, because of some paperwork needed for his shop, could only stay behind in the villa area. He wanted Liao Yifan to stay with him, but Liao Yifan, who had been cooped up for too long, would definitely not agree.

“Fanfan, won’t you stay and keep me company?” Guo Yang tried again, undeterred.

“Over my dead body,”

Liao Yifan replied without lifting her head or pausing from sipping her porridge.

In the end, Lu Hao had no choice but to leave Yin Chengtian and Shi Jin behind to accompany Guo Yang for the day, reasoning that three people should be able to handle any trouble if it arose.

Before leaving, Local Tyrant Gold expertly leaped onto Lu Hao’s shoulder. Today, they planned to drive three SUVs, as the armored car had already been stored by Su Jin in her space.

Since the garage door was always closed, nobody suspected anything, and the workers who had previously received Su Jin’s kindness naturally didn’t say a word, guessing that someone in Su Jin’s team must have the Space Element Ability.

Local Tyrant Gold still sat at the front windscreen. Once the car started moving, it settled down and watched the outside world seriously. Su Jin and the others were used to it and let it be.

Lately, they had only been clearing zombies in the City West territory. Although they had eliminated a considerable number of zombies over these days, it seemed that the zombie population had not decreased.

Streets that had previously been cleared were now shakily occupied by a few new zombies again. However, this was preferable, as it meant they didn’t need to venture further into the city interior.

“Sister Xiao Jin, there are two cars coming up ahead with a lot of people on them,” Mao Qiqi reported.

“Two cars?” Su Jin wondered.

“They should be survivors from the refuge participating in base construction,” said Lu Hao, who had observed that vehicles were transporting survivors every day, purportedly to participate in base construction.

“Then let’s not bother with them and find a safe place to park the car,” Su Jin said to Su Xiangzhe, who was driving, since they were planning to start clearing zombies from this street.