Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus-Chapter 792 - 597: Darkness Fades, Light Arrives_2

Chapter 792: Chapter 597: Darkness Fades, Light Arrives_2

For days, battling the zombies deepened the understanding between the Extra Staff and the other members of the base, making them more tacit and familiar with each other.

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Juzi Island.

Everyone looked like they might collapse the next second.

So many zombies, continuously depleting their numbers.

Now, the number of people in the entire base had fallen below seventy.

"The snow has stopped," Hai Chao stretched out his hand and held it in the air.

Baozi slowly lifted his head, looked at the sky, then lowered his gaze and noticed the zombies had slowed down a bit.

With mixed feelings, he shouted to everyone, "Brothers, we are about to see victory soon! Just hold on a little longer!"

There wasn’t a victory yet, but the cessation of snow gave a sense of hope.

Humans were never afraid of difficulties, but of losing hope.

The continuous darkness, acid rain, and snowstorms had already taken a heavy toll on their bodies and spirits.

Now, it was like the night before the dawn.

As they had hoped, after the snow stopped, the sky had been getting brighter over the days; even though the wind was strong, it was excellent news compared to the brightening sky.

The sky was getting brighter every day.

The volcanic ash floating in the air seemed to have decreased after continuously condensing with the vapor and falling as snowflakes.

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Western Alliance.

They suffered tremendous losses, with each faction losing more than two-thirds of their people, and their ammunition was almost entirely depleted.

The losses of the Gan Family were slightly less, but still severe.

The population of the entire Western Alliance had dropped from five digits to four digits.

The more populous the area, the stronger the impact of the zombies.

They faced not tens of thousands, but millions of zombies.

The Western Alliance, on this occasion, had zombies break in twice; the numbers were small, nearly as soon as they climbed over the wall, they were eliminated by Gan Xiong and his men.

The heavily devastated group finally saw the snow stop that day.

Once the snow stopped, the sky was no longer so dark.

Cheers echoed through the sky.

No longer worried about the sound attracting zombies, as there were already so many zombies outside the walls, could it get any worse?

Waiting, just waiting.

Everyone was full of hope, waiting to finally see the light.

Not just from the sun arriving and perhaps driving the zombies away.

But an inner and physical yearning for sunlight.

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Seven days later.

The wind was still strong.

But now, the sky had brightened considerably.

At noon.

Even in the bright noon of daytime, the sun couldn’t penetrate the thick layer of clouds, only managing to cast a weak glow.

Dim brightness.

A misty fog rose from the ground, forming a veil-like thin mist that enshrouded the land in a layer of blurry fog.

In this dim light, distant mountains were faintly visible, as if ensconced in soft light.

The temperature had risen a few degrees.

The rise in temperature was subtle enough that most people didn’t notice.

But the increasingly brighter sky encouraged them every day that victory was imminent.

...

Half a month later.

The sky became even more clear, resembling either dusk or dawn.

By noon, the light intensity was almost comparable to that of the setting sun at dusk.

It was at this time that the Zombie Tide began to recede.

The bustling zombies no longer climbed the walls.

Under the light, the zombies’ skin was pale beyond measure.

Especially at noon, the sunlight piercing the mist hit the zombies’ skin, and some zombies’ epidermis appeared to be scorched, smoking.

The Zombies are retreating!

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Big Camphor Tree Base.

Yutong watched the zombies slowly withdraw under the faint sunlight; the zombies receded like a tide.

She murmured, "The zombies, they’re finally leaving!"

Someone started with a cheer of "Victory!"

Then came a tsunami of cheers.

The volume of the voices made the departing zombies halt.

But the sunlight striking them from the sky sizzled.

Roar, roar, roar—

The zombies furiously roared at the people above the walls.

Li Yu didn’t stop everyone from shouting.

In this post-apocalyptic world, they were always cautious of the zombies around, afraid that loud noises might attract their attention.

They had been suppressed for too long.

These zombies, even now attracted by their voices.

But, what of it?

After so many days, are we still afraid that zombies will crawl over again?

Moreover, with each day becoming brighter, the weather is becoming increasingly unfavorable for zombies.

After roaring in place, the zombies did not continue to come back towards the wall, instead they scattered towards the national highway.

Still heading in the Southern direction.

"Ooooh!" Dapao shouted loudly towards the sky.

He hadn’t shouted so freely and loudly in a long time.

Those beside him also joined in shouting.

Li Yu quietly watched Yutong excitedly jumping around, walked over, and directly hugged her.

Yutong felt Li Yu’s embrace, resting her head against his chest.

"We won," Yutong murmured.

Li Yu heard her soft murmur and smiled, saying, "Yes, we won."

He then patted Yutong’s head and seeing her face covered in dirt, said, "You’re almost like a little patched cat now."

Yutong did not respond, just leaning against his chest, quietly listening to Li Yu’s heartbeat.

Li Tie casually placed his gun down, then leaned against the wall, closed his eyes, and basked in the gentle sunlight.

Recalling these past days.

It had not been easy; the long night was too torturous.

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Others had it even harder.

In Xing City.

Lu Kuan and others leaned against the window glass of a tall building.

The sunlight shone on his face, hazily waking him up.

He looked at the sun as if seeing hope.

"The sun is out! Zombies are gone!" he shouted to the others nearby.

Ai Shan reacted the fastest, rushing in from outside, looking through the glass at the rising sun.

Tears of joy.

"At last, at last there’s sunlight. Finally."

Following him, others also rushed to the window.

Greedy to soak in the sun.

Comfortably bask, from the inside out bask.

Their almost moldy souls and bodies.

Ai Shan stared at the sun, continuously for over ten minutes, as if he couldn’t get enough of it.

Continuously staring at the sun, causing tears.

But Ai Shan kept looking, his eyes full of tears, but still watching.

It wasn’t easy, being able to see this sun wasn’t easy.

How long had it been since they last saw this sun.

Ten days, twenty days, a month, looked like two or three months.

That feeling of being utterly sunk in darkness could really drive a person mad.

.......

At Juzi Island.

When Hai Chao saw the zombies gradually leaving beyond the wall, he collapsed on the ground, gasping heavily.

They had finally made it through.

Now, there were only 68 people left in the base.

The losses were extremely severe!

"Baozi, give me some water," Hai Chao said to Baozi lying on the ground next to him.

Baozi picked up a half-filled bottle of water from the ground and handed it to Hai Chao.

Hai Chao’s hair was tangled; he took the water and drank a big gulp.

Baozi felt his body wasn’t his own anymore, so relaxed that he couldn’t muster any energy.

"It feels really good. This sun," Baozi said.

Hai Chao grinned, responding to Baozi, "Yes, we finally fucking made it through."

The two laughed and cried at the same time.

It wasn’t easy.

Over three hundred people, now only sixty-eight remained.

After the zombies receded, hardly anyone stood up; everyone either sat or lay on the ground.

Breathing heavily, gazing at the hazy sun in the sky.

...

Time passed after the zombies left.

Day by day, the skies grew brighter.

...

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Finally, a month later.

October.

Clear blue skies, spotlessly clean. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

The sky clear like a mirror.

The temperature rose back to minus five degrees.

Humanity, like a wounded beast, licked its wounds under the sunlight.

The night had finally passed.

Humanity, had finally made it through.

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