Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 131: Chapter 131: The Germaphobic Male Doctor
 

“Can’t you say anything nice? Are we ghosts if we are not human?” Nie Qing retorted.

“No, sorry, that’s not what I meant. It’s just that, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen any living people.”

The man apologized while trying to sit up, but as soon as his elbows propped him up, he collapsed back down, powerless.

“Here, have something to drink!”

Guo Yang felt sorry for the man and pretended to pull out a carton of milk from his pocket and handed it to him.

“Thank you.”

The man managed a weak smile, his hands trembling as he opened the milk and began to drink it in large gulps.

After drinking a carton of milk, Yao Yi finally felt a bit of strength returning, so he sat up on the couch.

“Are you guys a rescue team?” the man asked.

“No, we have a house here. We moved in,” Guo Yang replied.

“Living here?”

The man seemed to find it incredible, thinking that apart from zombies, there was nothing else in this villa area.

“What about you? Why have you been staying here? Didn’t you leave with the rescue team?”

Su Jin knew the rescue team must have come by because some houses still had red cloths hanging on their windows that hadn’t been taken down yet.

“I…” The man hesitated, as if he had something difficult to say.

“Our family doesn’t have any red cloth…”

Everyone: “…”

“Don’t you even have a pair of red underwear?” Lin Xiuyuan asked incredulously. Although he, as a man, didn’t like red either, he did have red underwear and socks for his benmingnian (Chinese zodiac year).

“No, I hate red,” the man said.

Well, looking at the living room uniformly decorated in white, off-white, and at most, some shades of gray, Lin Xiuyuan didn’t inquire further. After all, with such a big villa, all kinds of birds could be found.

“Then why didn’t you go out to find some food?” Lu Guanhai couldn’t help asking. Was this another coward?

“The zombies outside are too disgusting. I have a cleanliness obsession and didn’t want to go out,” the man answered confidently. A cleanliness obsession wasn’t an illness; to some extent, it was a good living habit.

Great, this one’s high-maintenance.

Guo Yang rolled his eyes, somewhat regretting the milk he had just given. He didn’t want to be saddled with a high-maintenance ancestor.

“You’re a doctor, how can you have a cleanliness obsession?” Lu Hao questioned.

“Eh? How did you know I’m a doctor?” Yao Yi looked up at Lu Hao, puzzled.

“Guessed it.”

Lu Hao hadn’t really guessed; he had just noticed the heaping pile of honor certificates on the table. It appeared this man was also quite a skilled doctor.

“Because I am a doctor, I have a cleanliness obsession. What you see as an object, I see as a bomb covered in bacteria and microorganisms, ready to explode!” Yao Yi said all in one breath. He felt quite fond of these people, especially since they had saved his life.

Lu Hao nodded, glanced at everyone, and seemed to ask if they were ready to leave.

“Young man, you take it easy. We have some things to take care of, so we’ll be going now,”

Mrs. Su and Lin Tianhui prepared to stand up and leave with the rest.

“No, auntie, don’t go. Look how pitiful I am. Can you leave some food for me? My name is Yao Yi, I’m a surgeon, and I can treat your illnesses in the future!” He wanted to say that he would repay them many times over, but having studied abroad for so many years, he couldn’t quite express his gratefulness with eloquent words.

“Who do you think treated you just now?”

Su Jin had already reached the door when she heard Yao Yi’s words. Finding his question intriguing, she turned around to ask him.

“I, I, but other than treating illnesses, I don’t know how to do anything else,”

Watching the crowd that had already left, Yao Yi suddenly felt a wave of sadness. Was he going to die again?

Suddenly, from the door that was about to close, a black canvas backpack was thrown in.

He crawled over on his bare feet, overjoyed, opened the backpack, and found it was full of food! There were eggs, milk, corn, biscuits…

“Thank you, thank you all,”

Yao Yi couldn’t help but cry. These people didn’t ask for anything in return.

Before the Apocalypse, Yao Yi was a medical PhD student who had studied abroad. He had won many prestigious awards both in China and internationally. A single surgery performed by him was worth a fortune. How many people had spent a large sum of money just to see him, all for the sake of getting a treatment plan from him.

It seemed that everyone who approached him had an agenda, had something they wanted. Even when relatives from home called him on rare occasions, it was to seek medical advice. He felt that life was a series of quid pro quos: I give you what you need, and you give me what I ask for.

But today, without a word said, without any demands, these people gave him so much food!

He understood what these supplies meant, and knew how precious a single egg was. For the first time in his life, he felt an urge to repay a kindness. Fortunately, those people lived right here. Suddenly, he felt that this cold, empty villa neighborhood had, from today on, warmed up a bit.

“Sister Xiao Jin, why did you give him so much food just now? He won’t even dare to kill a zombie,”

Mao Qiqi looked down on the man they had just left, thinking he was too femininely meek.

“Because, he didn’t expect something for nothing,”

Su Jin said with a smile, as she stroked Qiqi’s head.

Mao Qiqi thought about the frail man’s words and seemed to understand something, nodding her head.

In fact, Su Jin hadn’t intended to save the man. If he could survive and he was well-intentioned, maybe he would at least not be a bad person in the future.

Soon, the family arrived home. Local Tyrant Gold was waiting at the door, watching the family change their shoes, and climbed skillfully onto Su Jin’s shoulder. It’s boring for it to be home alone.

Su Jin laughed, took out an apple, and handed it to Local Tyrant Gold, who chittered twice before hugging it and nibbling away.

“It really knows how to act cute,”

Lu Hao picked up Local Tyrant Gold and set it down on the nearby sofa.

With an apple to nibble on, Local Tyrant Gold didn’t mind. It probably knew that Lu Hao was not easy to deal with, so it concentrated on eating its apple.

Lin Tianzhen drew a bucket of water first, for everyone to wash their hands. The more it was the Apocalypse, the more important hygiene became; getting sick would be a big problem.

Taking advantage of the moment she went upstairs to use the bathroom, Su Jin entered the Space to see what they were going to eat for lunch. After cleaning the villa all morning, not just everyone else, but she was hungry too.

No sooner had she entered the Lu Residence than she was greeted with a delicious aroma, drawing her into the kitchen.

“Grandpa, are you stewing ribs? It smells so good!” She could recognize the smell of stewed ribs immediately, it was just like the ribs stewed at home when she was little.

“Clever nose, I’m making rib noodles, they’ll be ready as soon as I put the noodles in,”

Lin Yunguo had made handmade noodles from the flour from the Space. Eating rice all the time was too boring, so he decided to change it up for the family.

Watching Su Jin enter, Li Xiuying, who was watching over the pot on the side, used her chopsticks to pick up a rib and put it in a small bowl, handing it to Su Jin.

Su Jin was a bit emotional. Although she was all grown up now, her grandparents’ habits hadn’t changed. Whenever the family stewed ribs or chicken and duck at home, her grandparents would always scoop a few pieces into small bowls for her and Lin Xiuyuan to eat first when they were kids, and usually, it was the tenderest, tastiest parts…

“Grandma, thank you,” Su Jin thanked sincerely from the bottom of her heart.

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