The Door to Rebirth in Apocalypse

When they arrived at the Five Stars Brigade Seven Squad in Pingze, then Gu Ning realised that Ji JiuZe’s words about coming to fight were actually not a joke!

The Seven Squad was the lowest-ranked squad in the Five Stars Brigade.
In short, they were the least powerful squad yet it consisted of hundreds of members in it.

The Five Stars Brigade team was like a pyramid and they were at the bottom of the hierarchy.
Thus, the First Squad was like the pinnacle of existence for them to look up to.

Therefore, when they were informed that the captain of the First Squad was coming, it was hard to describe their excitement.

When Ji JiuZe took Gu Ning to the Seven Squad’s training area, he directly ordered a few soldiers to step out.

The few members of Seven Squad who had originally thought Gu Ning was fragile, even with some slight contempt for her, had their contempt gone once they learned that she was the first official member of First Squad in nearly three years.

Gu Ning never had the habit of taking her enemies lightly, it was just that she usually trained by sparring with Ji JiuZe, so she wasn’t half apprehensive in her mind.

The first person to spar with Gu Ning was a young man of twenty-six or seven years old.
His name was Yao Wei and his smile was a little shy.

The two parties exchanged greeting and as soon as the captain of the Seven Squad shouted start, the smile on the young man’s face instantly faded before taking the lead and attacked Gu Ning! Gu Ning’s greatest strength was her reflexes and speed, so her body dodged to the side in a flash while avoiding his punch.
Before he could retreat his fist, Gu Ning’s hand fiercely probed out like lightning, using her palm as a blade to vigorously strike down towards the middle of Yao Wei’s arm!

Yao Wei was surprised by the speed of Gu Ning’s dodge and the speed of her strike.
Yet, it was too late for him to dodge away so he thought of resisting her blow and then taking the opportunity to attack the side of her waist……

“Ah!” As Gu Ning’s seemingly slender hand blade slashed at Yao Wei’s arm, a sharp pain that he couldn’t have imagined came through! Instantly, he couldn’t help but scream out miserably and his entire arm went numb! Yao Wei felt that it was not a hand-chopping at his arm, but a strong man wielding an iron bar, swinging heavily at his arm.
The sharp pain of bones cracking instantly paralysed his whole arm so much that his brain went blank for a moment.

The next thing he knew, he has knocked off the ground with a kick and didn’t even realised until he was helped up.

The captain of the Seven Squad and the few members of the squad who had come in to watch were all stunned by the scene…… They only saw that the girl called Gu Ning just hit Yao Wei, and Yao Wei began to scream miserably.
His face was instantly paled as if he had been slashed by a knife.
What’s more terrifying was that more than ten pairs of eyes were staring at their fight yet none could see clearly how Gu Ning had struck……

Is this the standard of the First Squad?! Just a newcomer who had joined the squad less than a month ago was already so frightening? In just one move, Yao Wei, who had been a member of the squad for three years, and had one of the best combat skills in Seven Squad was knocked down so easily——

In fact, Gu Ning knew very well that if she hadn’t relied on her unusual strength which caused Yao Wei to make a wrong judgment, she would have to drag at least two or three minutes before defeating him and it definitely wouldn’t have been as clean hit as it was now.

Looking at Yao Wei’s dumbfounded look, Gu Ning felt a bit guilty: “Sorry, my strength is a bit strong, are you seriously injured?”

That was just a bit strong? ? ? It was obviously *Li YuanBa! Yao Wei muttered angrily in his mind but Gu Ning’s expression was so sincere that even if he had been angry, he was too embarrassed to say it out.
He squeezed out an ugly-looking smile on his face and said to Gu Ning while covering his still-shaking arm: “It’s fine.
I’ve lost.”

(T/N: 李元霸 Li YuanBa is a fictional character in the classic novel “Speaking of Tang” who was skinny like a stick, pale like a ghost but his arm had the strength of four elephants and was invincible.)

Then he was helped to the side to rest.

Gu Ning gave an awkward glance at Ji JiuZe who was slowly drinking his tea at the side.
Ji JiuZe raised his eyes to look at her, then spoke slowly: “Control your strength.
You’re here to learn, not to kill.”

This was bluntly telling the soldiers of Seven Squad that he brought Gu Ning here to practice.

Of course, in turn, the soldiers of Seven Squad could likewise learn Gu Ning’s attacking moves.
It was a mutually beneficial thing and the soldiers of the Seven Squad had such a small plan in their mind but Gu Ning’s strength had clearly exceeded their highest predictions.

The captain of Seven Squad coughed dryly, his eyes glancing at the man sitting next to him.
Zhang Xu, the same age around twenty-five or six years old, stiffened and moved his butt off the stool at the captain’s gesture.
The corner of his mouth pulled up awkwardly as he made a gesture of invitation to Gu Ning.

Gu Ning nodded, then waited for Zhang Xu to attack first.
Yet after waiting for a while, Zhang Xu only glared at her as if she was his nemesis, and only then did she strike.

Gu Ning’s current combat skills should be on par with Zhuang Chen’s and her strength and speed were both better than hers.
Thus, right now, she was confident that if she was to have a real fight with Zhuang Chen, she was 90% sure that she could beat her.
However, all along, she had faced opponents who were stronger than her, so when she fought against Yao Wei just now, she didn’t control the force and speed which caused such an effect.
As Ji JiuZe said, you only had to be quick if you were there to kill.

Gu Ning was much more cautious when fighting with Zhang Xu, and under her deliberate control, her strength and speed lessened.
Zhang Xu felt less pressure all of a sudden but was still secretly surprised by the speed and strength Gu Ning was displaying.
Plus, this was still under her control! The First Squad really did live up to its name.

Gu Ning held two knives in both hands and dashed towards the two speedy zombies that pounced with sharp screeching.
The knives spun nimbly in her hands, blades facing outwards as she slid through the middle of the two zombies with great speed! In the moment of sliding through, the knife blade made two long cuts on the abdomen of the two zombies.
Foul-smelling intestines and various internal organs flowed out along the wounds on their stomachs but they were oblivious to it and were about to turn their heads to continue lunging at Gu Ning.
Just then, the two heads fell to the ground, their bodies stumbled twice, and took a few steps forward in motion before thudding to the ground.

Wu Sen put away the look of amazement on his face and immediately came forward with his gun on his back and pulled out his pocket knife from his waist.
He neatly dug out the crystal cores from the two zombie heads on the ground without feeling disgusted at all.

Three days ago, he had received permission from Brother San to follow the team out on the hunt.
Although there were crystal cores in the heads of the zombies, the stench and greyish-white pulp in the heads sometimes makes their hands dirty and it didn’t feel nice getting it on their hands.
Therefore, digging into crystal cores could be considered a chore but Wu Sen was happy to do it.
His greatest pleasure was to follow Gu Ning and dig for them as soon as she finished the kills.

After he had collected the crystal cores, he saw Gu Ning once again rushing toward the three or four zombies that came over after noticing the human scents and Wu Sen’s eyes shone with admiration.
Previously, what he aspired the most was to emit gorgeous psychic powers like Cheng Ming and Zhang XiaoBai, but now, he wanted to be like Gu Ning who dared to charge into a horde of zombies and carrying just two long knives! There was nothing fancy to it, just powerful slashes and the zombies that seemed so scary to him fell one by one under her slashes……

Brother San chatted with Jia DaoZhang with a cigarette in his mouth: “Gu Ning has been acting strange lately.”

Jia DaoZhang replied: “Not recently, she’s always been strange.”

“It’s not about that.” The cigarette in Brother San’s mouth bobbed up and down as he spoke: “Don’t you think Gu Ning has been getting skillful lately?” He looked at Gu Ning who was stabbing through the back of the zombie’s head, his eyes flashed in awe: “Before, I only felt that she was just ruthless in striking.
But in the last half month, I feel as if Gu Ning has become more powerful, look at the beautiful dodging movement she just made……”

Jia DaoZhang interrupted Brother San: “Don’t look too much into these.
The more powerful Gu Ning is, the better it is for everyone.
Why think so much about it and make yourself a headache?” He commented and chewed on the chocolate in his mouth.
Jia DaoZhang firmly believed that Gu Ning was the saviour in the post-apocalyptic world, so he had always trusted Gu Ning so much that whatever strange things happened to her was no longer weird for him.
Just that…… he looked slightly sympathetically at Cheng Ming and Fang Fa who had a complicated expressions as they watched.
He shook his head as he thought that it was so unlucky for them to like such a “perverted” little girl like Gu Ning.

Gu Ning was very excited at this moment, she obviously felt the benefits of learning close combat skills.
In the past, when she saw a zombie, she would only think about attacking its head as soon as possible but she often failed to do so.
Most of her energy was spent playing “chase” with the zombie so she only relied on her ruthlessness.

However, right now, when she saw the zombie lunging toward her, countless pieces of information would instantly flash in her mind.
It included what direction to dodge from, what part of the body to attack first, and then dealing a fatal blow.
At the same time as these thoughts flashed through her mind after Ji JiuZe had taken her to various squads of the Five Stars Brigade for “special training”, her body seemed to have developed a reflex system that was already autonomous and reacted before her brain could send out the commands.
This response was becoming more acute and clearer every day —— It was a very special and wonderful feeling.

Gu Ning now gained more confidence that she could survive in the post-apocalyptic world even if she didn’t have her powers.
Compared to psychic powers that developed for no reason and she didn’t know when would it disappear.
Honing the skills that required her to sweat and taking one step at a time, made her feel more at ease.

The image of Gu Ning wielding her long knife with a smile as she reaped the heads of the zombies caused a chill to inexplicably rise in the back of those who came over to take a break.

It seem that it was about time to change to a better weapon.

Gu Ning didn’t know that she had somehow become a “pervert” in their eyes as she was lost in thoughts while staring at her long knives with curled blades in disgust.

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(T/N: Ok managed to rush out another short chapter.
Gu Ning becoming more powerful weeeeeeeee! Thank you all for reading!