Chapter One- Rebirth
edited and proofread by aprilmayaugust
July 15, 2035.
Today was supposed to be a lively weekend holiday, but apart from the traffic on the streets of City N, few pedestrians were walking by. Even if there were, they were all swearing and complaining.
“What the fuck is with this weather!?!” Many of them swore as they walked while holding up their umbrellas.
It’s no wonder that this is the case- not only in N city but also in all parts of the country. The weather has changed abnormally. In mid-July, the temperature reached almost fifty degrees. On such a hot day, who wouldn’t be shouting abuses? It was a day when going out to stroll in the sun could kill people.
Sitting inside a noodle restaurant, Wu Qingyuan ate the noodles with rich broth while staring at the road that looked like it was going to melt while being exposed to the sun and the complaining passers-by, in a solemn mood.
He knew that this kind of hot weather would not last long and that it would cool down in a few months. The weather during autumn would cover the world with heavy snow, and this would incur lively discussions and reports on TV news and the internet.
The strange weather aroused everyone’s curiosity, but nobody was aware that all this was a harbinger of the end of the world.
Indeed, this world will enter a hell-like end of the world in a few months. The current hot climate ends and the temperature will begin to cool. Then continuous, heavy snowfall would bring an unknown virus, and then nearly half of Earth’s human beings would be infected. The infection caused them to become similar to the cannibalistic monsters seen in Resident Evil on TV.
Zombies.
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All of this knowledge is incredible, but also unbelievable- only he knew that this was true for this was something he had already experienced.
He can still clearly remember everything that happened in his previous life, as well as the abilities that still exist in his body, which proved that he was reborn in the time before the end of the world broke out.
“Boss, another bowl of beef noodles!”
Pushing the empty bowl in front of him aside, Wu Qingyuan beckoned the owner and continued to order another bowl of noodles. Although he is already full, he can’t help but still want to eat after ten years of knowing nothing but starvation in the last days.
In the last days of his life, his life was better than that of many people, because not only was he an awakened person with dual elements of wood and space- capable of storing items and, ripening plants- but he also had training as a mercenary before the end of the world. When he was in the base- he wasn’t a high-level person, but he was an awakened person with a bit of identity.
But noodles made of this kind of clean white dough, and beef cooked in fragrant soup- in the later apocalyptic times, let alone ordinary people, even those with supernatural powers like him would not dare to think about it, this kind of “high-end food” are ones only the leader of the base and the people of high status can enjoy it.
He almost forgot the taste of the most common food before the end of the world.
Wu Qingyuan ate the last bowl of beef noodles with vigor, not caring about his image. Wu Qingyuan put down his chopsticks, took out the payment and settled his account, then he took out his mobile phone and made a call.
“Hey, it’s you, Qingyuan. Are you back from your business trip? Auntie was worried about missing you again if you went to another one. Why did the company send you on a business trip on such a hot day? When you went abroad- I heard that there was an earthquake in country M a few days ago. Yes, I couldn’t get through when I called you, but I was worried to death. Since you just came back- come to auntie’s house. Auntie just made a pot of old duck soup today, your favorite…”
As soon as the number was dialed, the phone was connected quickly, and then a middle-aged woman’s chattering voice came from the other end of the phone, as she immediately spouted a lot of caring words.
“I know, I’ll be there in a while, auntie, please call uncle back, by the way, I wanted to talk to you about the house…”
No longer listening to the nagging on the other end of the phone, Wu Qingyuan interrupted the voice on the other side, said what he needed to say directly, and then hung up the phone.
If he had heard these words on the phone before he was reborn, he would’ve been very moved. After his parents died, only his aunt’s family cared about him,- but at this moment, his heart was not moved at all, because he knew that these words were all false.
His aunt’s family only cared about him because his parents left him a downtown house, and because he had a high-paying “job”- he would bring a lot of things to her house every time he came back from a trip, and he was generous with the red envelopes he handed out during holidays. If his aunt’s family really cared about him, why do they only care about receiving red envelopes and gifts instead of asking how he is doing? They never did ask if he was tired from working and why he makes so much money. And his life- it was one he spent alone with no friends around him.
It was not until after the apocalypse broke out that he realized their lies- he had worked so hard to protect his aunt’s family and risked his life to run out of the base to find food, yet these people ruthlessly left him behind when his fever was at its most critical time for him to awaken his abilities. Only then did he know that they had been acting and that the relatives he had cared for were just a group of white-eyed wolves.
After leaving the noodle shop, Wu Qingyuan took his rented car and went straight to his aunt’s house.
Although he was reborn after ten years of living in the last days, he still remembers many things from before the last days, including the address of his aunt’s house.
It’s no surprise that his uncle rushed back to his aunt’s house when he mentioned the “house”- he was home before his work even ended. The two couples sat on the sofa with excitement. There were several dishes on the dinner table, among them the old duck soup mentioned on the phone.
“Oh, Qingyuan finally came back. Didn’t you just get off the plane? I’m sure you’re hungry, go to the table and eat, look at the old duck soup your auntie made- it has been waiting for you for several hours. The ducks were bought from the farmers in the suburbs. It was something naturally reared so it cost more than 100 yuan a catty, the family’s weekly budget has been used for this meal, if it weren’t for you coming back, your aunt would not bear the thought of buying them…”
As soon as they saw Wu Qingyuan, Wu Sufen and her husband hurriedly got up from the sofa to greet him. With smiles on their faces, they pulled him to the dinner table and sat him down, actively serving him a bowl of old duck soup, just as if they were seeing their son coming back home and showing him their caring enthusiasm.
Wu Qingyuan was not in a hurry to join the conversation, so he calmly took the bowl and started drinking soup. Although he had only eaten a few bowls of noodles just now, he didn’t bother to restrain himself from eating a few more bowls of old duck soup and he turned a deaf ear to Wu Sufen’s “concern”.
This is the measure used by his aunt’s family to make themselves look poor.
In his previous life, he was very skilled and courageous. He made a lot of money as a mercenary, but he didn’t care much about money. He was an orphan, so the most important to him was his aunt’s family. He was always concerned about his aunt’s family, so he was very generous, and he treated them as his elders.
There was no need for the aunt’s family to speak up. As long as the other party expresses a few of their hardships and embarrassment, out of respect, he would offer a little bit of his help- but now, these people still have the same ideas about taking money from him, this was absolutely impossible.
Slowly savoring the delicious and fragrant old duck soup, Wu Qingyuan did not speak and let Wu Sufen and his uncle pretend to care about him while talking nonsense. He wasn’t annoyed because he knew that these people would soon end the nonsense and enter the topic they wanted to talk about- the house.
Sure enough, after he drank the bowl of soup, Wu Sufen brought it up.
“Hey, look at your unskilled cousin. If he could just marry properly then I and your uncle would stop worrying about him. Your cousin and his girlfriend are ready to marry, and the girl doesn’t dislike us. However, your cousin isn’t a local of City N, but the girl is and wants your cousin to have a house in City N.”
“This is not too demanding. Nowadays, you really can’t get married without a house. That girl is still a native of City N. But Qingyuan, you know the situation of your aunt’s house. The housing price in City N is so high, especially if it is close to the center. Buying one depends on the people you know…”
“That’s why your aunt mentioned your house last time. You are a capable person. You are making a lot of money abroad all year round, but your cousin is not as capable as you. Anyways, your house is vacant. You must be so capable since you live in a villa- why don’t you help your brother out and sell the house to your aunt? We are all your own family. Don’t worry, this house will raise the money for you, but it will take some time…”
Wu Sufen kept talking, and his uncle next to her also interjected from time to time as they spared no effort to persuade him.
As Wu Qingyuan expected, every sentence of the husband and wife was the same as their previous life, not a single word missing, and their expressions of calculating the cost of the house when they talked about the house and their grievances didn’t seem to be fake. Wu Qingyuan inwardly sneered at them.
He had to admit though that his aunt’s abacus is good, and he could see why the previous him’s short-term thinking and soft-hearted character would’ve been robbed to death without even knowing it. Knowing that he will not easily sell his parent’s house, they came up with such an affectionate method.
Why sell iron to raise money to buy a house when you can simply rob one in the name of being relatives?
Knowing that he is not short of money, knowing that he cares about his relatives and will not take the initiative to ask for money. Once the house is obtained, the time for raising money will be extended indefinitely. Just like in his previous life, once the ownership of the house was transferred, he will never mention matters regarding the house again.
If they wanted his house so much, then that’s okay, he would fulfill these white-eyed wolves wishes and pay them back for all their years of “concerns”.
“What my aunt says is right. It is a pity that my house is vacant. Jiahong is like my younger brother, and we are relatives. As his brother, I should help, but we need to discuss this matter carefully…”
After drinking the last sip of the old duck soup, Wu Qingyuan put down the bowl with a faint smile, stared at the excited aunt, and spoke slowly.
This chapter reminded me an apocalypse novel that I just completed, although most readers probably won’t like it very much after all it’s an “anti-hero protagonist”. Anyways, I’d still recommend it. It’s on knoxt. The title is something about “returning to the last days to accompany Fang Hao”
Oh shoot!!!!! I meant “my cherry will explode in the apocalypse” 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
I read too much I guess. Anyways, I still recommend both novels
Love rebirth/apocalypse novels. There are always relatives ready to pit you. 😆. Thank you
I am reading a mermaid story nowadays and your profile photo just reminds me of that golden haired little mermaid… 😄
This is baby Gale from Cub-Raising Association. He’s a side character.
Which mermaid story are you reading.
I’ll try the story later.. Thanks..
It’s “Transmigrated into the violent boss’s little mermaid “..
Oh I just started but I’m in love already!
hell is about to let loose