Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday-Chapter 194: Things Changed at Greenstone

Grace, her team, the soldiers, as well as the residents of the Greenstone Residential Area had to pull an all-nighter that night, but it eventually ended up working in their favor.

Several residents kept - either transforming into zombies, or unlocking some kind of superpowers, within every few hours of span.

The next few days were filled with immense calculations, planning, startegizing, and almost no rest, but it ended up helping them in keeping the Residential Area safe from another big zombie breakout or any other big mishap.

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The temporary quarantine system worked surprisingly well. The designated building housed over forty individuals who were initially identified as being in different stages of transformation.

With constant monitoring by Captain Harlow’s soldiers and Grace’s team, they managed to prevent any sudden outbreaks and took care of those who eventually transitioned.

The residents, who were initially fearful and resistant, gradually began cooperating when they realized that the soldiers and Grace’s teams were only trying to help them. The fact that no innocent lives were lost under this plan also helped a lot.

While it took less than twenty-four hours for Dr. Kian and Maria to identify the infected residents with 2025’s help, it actually took about a month before all the identified residents completed their transitions.

By the end of this one month period, the rest of the Country was heavily swarming with zombies. There were scared, and confused people who had unlocked superpowers. There were also those people who were scared of both the zombies and the people with superpowers as both were proving to be equally dangerous but for different reasons.

The military was struggling to keep the situation under control, and the government was only proving to be useless the more time passed by.

But among all these chaos, Greenstone Residential Area was actually slowly but steadily improving. Despite it not being her initial plan, Grace decided to take over the area after discussing the matter with her men and rest of the team.

While she started working with Captain Harlow and his team to reinforce the Greenstone Residential Area, Professor Neil and his research team finally began their work just as they promised her.

Dr. Kian and Maria also joined the research team, and Grace finally introduced 2025 to the research team. She told them that 2025 was her AI assistant and kept the creature’s true identity and appearance secret.

2025 was not only supposed to help the research team with their study, but also to keep them from making any mistake. And having Dr. Kian and Maria working with them only made Grace worry less.

By the third week, she found herself and her team conducting daily group meetings with the hundred and seventy-two residents of Greenstone Residential Area where she helped them understand both the zombie outbreak and the sudden emergence of superpowers.

The more time she spent with the residents and the soldiers, the more she was earning their trust and loyalty. Slowly, the residents were realizing that she was their only chance at survival in a world where everyone had abandoned them.

Among these hundred and seventy-two residents, only forty-nine people actually unlocked superpowers, and even among them, only four had powers strong enough to be worth mentioning.

Still, none of these four carried a power that could have made Grace interested enough to offer them to join her team. Besides, at this point, she had an entirely new plan for the Greenstone Residential Area.

One particular evening, Grace found herself facing Kevin and some other team members who were curious to know what she was planning to do with the Greenstone Residential Area.

"This place has good infrastructure, good location, and we have already spent quite a lot of effort in keeping this place safe as well as the residents here. After working so hard, I feel that it will be a waste to just leave this place behind." Grace spoke out her real thoughts.

"But we are eventually going to leave this place." Aleena pointed out the obvious plan they had for their future.

Grace shrugged her shoulders before replying, "We will. But for the time being, we are still living here. Maybe by the time we will leave, this place will be strong enough to hold on its own. And we might even be able to keep this place as our another base."

Her teammates looked thoughtful as they pondered on her words, trying to see the picture she was seeing.

It was Silas who spoke next. "Your plan sounds kind of good, Boss. But making this place a base, that can support us, will need a lot of hard work and attention."

Grace nodded her head in agreement. She too had realized the same, but that didn’t make her falter in her decision of turning Greenstone Residential Area into a base for her future plans.

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Though Grace was clearly occupied with Greenstone, she still made sure to continue paying attention to other important tasks, and one of them was the task of searching for the mutated plants.

Grace and Rune continued looking for the plants throughout the Starship Country. At this point, they knew that the Blood Rain had - either killed the mutated plants, or turned them into monsters. But they continued their search because they were also collecting samples of Blood rain’s mutation.

They not only collected plants, herbs, roots, and vines, but also some animals that showed signs of mutation to study them.

While the Blood Rain had immediately transformed Humans into zombies, the plants and animals that came in its contact were taking their time to complete their transition.

It wasn’t until they completed their search in the Starship Country and finally headed to Country k, where the Shadow Rain happened recently, did Grace finally started finding the mutated plants. With every new day of search, she ended up finding more and more such unique plants that were undergoing mutation.

She only handed one or two samples to the research team for study and shifted the rest inside her space to grow them into their full capability.

It was on her fifth day of search when she came across an entire clearing filled with such plants that were undergoing mutation.

[Master, almost all of them are dying. You need to shift them inside the space immediately.]