7 Chapter 7

The first week of the apocalypse had fairly peacefully. People had successfully incorporated themselves into keeping order and each got jobs that were useful.

Construction workers, zombie hunters, analysts, and etc.

Zhang Yuqi's group was paid handsomely to lead around a group of noobs with food, so she took up the job.

"Sis Yuqi, why do we have to take them along? We have plenty of food!" Longwei complained. He had gotten used to calling her "Sis Yuqi" when at home and "Boss" when outside killing zombies.

Zhang Yuqi frowned.

"Don't you understand? If we let them take over our job, we can live peacefully while they do the job for us. And it's not like you weren't a noob either. You're still a beginner in my eyes. If you really want to become the Control King, then toughen up. You look like one of those pasty Korean idol group boys. Beauty only brings trouble outside, just get fatter instead."

As Zhang Yuqi turned around and went to Cinna's room, Longwei lifted up his shirt and turned towards the mirror.

"I'm not that feminine... am I?"

Longwei poked at his smooth skin that was as pale as snow.

"Nah, I have abs."

He convinced himself that the current small flabs he had were abs.

"Yeah, I'm gaining muscle. No doubt about it. I'll get a six pa- no, an eight-pack soon."

At 11 AM, Zhang Yuqi drove herself, the noisy Longwei, and the baby Cinna to the public library where everyone had agreed to meet at.

There were people sitting or standing around the entrance of the public library.

Zhang Yuqi got out of her car with a smooth hair flip, dragging everyone's attention.

Longwei grimaced, thinking, 'She's going to drag in more rivals for me.'

Yes, there were many more men compared to women, and they were naturally attracted to the youthful girl's looks.

But unlike how frivolous she looked, Zhang Yuqi was serious.

"I presume all of you are SEMs?" she asked straightforwardly.

The crowd nodded their heads with a few shaking their heads.

"The ones who don't have any powers. Get out, go look for another job."

The "regulars" looked shocked, furious, disappointed, and like they expected it.

"Hey, you can't have possibly thought that you would be able to fight zombies that are automatically as strong as Olympic athletes?" she asked in a mocking tone.

They left after hearing that, embarrassed.

"The rest of you, line up in the order of tallest to shortest. Starting from the shortest, tell me your power. No need for names or age. Unnecessary information should be kept out."

"Water."

"Air."

"Earth."

"Air."

"Earth."

"Earth."

"Water."

As Zhang Yuqi expected, psychic abilities and the fire or lightning ability didn't appear. No special abilities like space or affinities with animals and plants either. There was a person with metal abilities, but that couldn't be used without a large amount of metal. And the person's manipulating metal skill was barely able, so Zhang Yuqi sent the person away with a recommendation to join construction working.

"Ok, listen up. All of you get into groups of five. There are 27 people left, so the remaining two come with me."

They all fortunately had cars, or they would've been left behind.

The remaining two people were a middle aged man and a young lady. Before they could even get a word out, Zhang Yuqi shut them up with an order of, "I dont need to know your names, this is the first and last time we'll meet. So, as said before, no unnecessary comments."

Meng Longwei smirked at the side, with what little ego he had left.

"You too. Stop talking when fighting zombies."

Longwei shriveled up and gained much damage.

Longwei was seated at the back so that he could take care of Cinna, but also to keep an eye on their two temporary members.

They both looked nervous, but the young lady was faking it, by looking bashfully at Zhang Yuqi whenever she sniffled or fidgeted.

'What's she looking at me for?' was Zhang Yuqi's thought while Longwei was panicking with the thought of, 'This green tea b*tch! Going after my Boss! Back off!'

Truthfully told, the girl only wanted see the charming profile of Zhang Yuqi and maybe even talk to her. The Boss had gained her first fan, and the future Lady of the Mist, the legendary woman who could choke people merely with their spit.

Cinna only looked at them with disdain as the mature baby he was. He was too good for all this drama. He only needed the care taker to do his job properly by feeding, clothing, and changing his diapers. He wouldn't put himself in this mess. Yes, he was too smart for that. After all, because of the apocalypse, even babies got special powers, and the advanced perspective skill came with it too.

Anyways, all of this didn't matter right now.

The 6 cars full of people had arrived near a city that had been almost completely taken over. Zombies started trickling out and were groaning mournfully.

"Here's your first lesson. Don't yell when you see a zombie. They dont have good eyesight, but they can hear pretty wel-"

"Kyaaaaaaaa!"

Zhang Yuqi turned towards the scream's direction, shut her eyes and rubbed her glabella.

"It's supposed to be daytime, but that'll bring out more zombies than the number that comes out at night... This is why noobs are so annoying..."

Thus started Zhang Yuqi's pitiful and unfortunate lesson for the inexperienced SEMs.