[BL] Guide to surviving the Apocalypse in another world

Chapter 22 -Apple Grove County (3)

At 3 pm, all the teams had gathered at the military training ground and the leaders were currently discussing their plan of action.

The team's we're divided into two groups. Those that were in charge of Killing Zombies and scouting the area and those that were in charge of collecting supplies.

The Pyro association was one of the biggest associations in the entire base so Ivan and the girls were very eye-catching. They were all dressed in all black matching uniforms with a fire emblem embroidered on them. Even though the association was large not many people had really seen the members of the main teams, so there were a lot of curious glances cast their way. 

It would take them about an hour by car to get from the base to the county so they decided to set off immediately in order to make it back by sundown.

Each team sat in their respective vehicles and uniformly left the base.

Even though Apple Grove county had a lot of zombies, it was still feasible to retrieve the food supplies and food preservation technology with little to no casualties if everyone was focused and properly listened to orders.

"All Units listen up, act as quickly and as quietly as possible. Come back here in forty minutes."

Zane put the walkie talkie in his pocket and looked at Ivan who was not too far away. Ivan turned around to look at him. Zane nodded slowly as if to say, 'be careful'. Ivan smiled and nodded back, his heart skipped a beat.

Space devices had already been developed by the base by using the nucleus of a zombie with a space ability. So many space users had lost their value. The space ability was very rare and it was once coveted by all the big teams and organisations but now only the smaller teams who couldn't afford space devices used space users to collect supplies.

Ivan swept his eyes across some of the teams that were using their abilities to kill zombies. A lot of them had pale faces covered in cold sweat. It was a clear sign that they had used too much mental power so they had to switch to using guns instead.

Ivan turned around and continued to shred zombies with a relaxed and unbothered expression. The girls used the same unmotivated expression to destroy the zombies like they were crushing ants. The other teams looked at them in awe.

Ivan leisurely glanced at Zane. His heart couldn't help but flutter. He knew it was wrong to be ogling another man when he was in a relationship.

Roar!

That deafening roar immediately pulled Ivan away from his wandering thoughts.

Ivan swiftly turned around and smashed a fireball towards the rapidly moving zombie. Almost immediately, a massive water pillar surrounded the zombie and started rotating violently, forming into a giant whirlpool.

Everyone saw its hideous appearance. It had a severely deformed face, red scales all over its body and a slimy tail instead of legs. The trail of slime it left behind melted all the grass it came into contact with.

Level seven zombie.

The zombie let out loud snarls for a few seconds before going quiet. Ivan let go of his ability and the whirlpool disappeared, leaving behind a big pile of distorted minced meat on the ground.

Ivan calmly walked towards the pile of meat and carefully extracted the nucleus from the zombie's decapitated head. Ivan took out a handkerchief and cleaned it. He turned around and placed it in Zane's palm.

Zane looked at Ivan's glistening eyes. He had hastily made his way here when he saw Ivan fighting with that zombie. Ability users could instinctively tell the level of a zombie.
So Zane was shocked when he saw Ivan defeat a level seven zombie like it was nothing.

"You killed it so it's yours, please take it back."

Ivan smiled brightly, " Consider it as a gift from me to you. Don't refuse it, it has little use to me anyway."

Zane looked at Ivan's charming appearance and his heartbeat quickened. He nodded and put the zombie nucleus in his pocket.

The first group focused on collecting materials while the second group focused on killing zombies.

After continuously killing a wave of zombies, Ivan was anything but tired.

"Who knew the leader of the pyro association would be so powerful."

"Right? He's so cool."

"He's rich, strong and good-looking. Is he single?"

"Even if he isn't single, I would be more than happy to be a side chick."

"So true!"

Zane who was commanding his subordinates not too far away could hear them enthusiastically discussing this topic. Zane pursed his lips. His chest felt a little stuffy. He couldn't help but glance at Ivan who was leisurely killing zombies with a relaxed expression.

How many people will throw themselves into his embrace when they went back to the base?

Zane frowned. He really wished they had met earlier.

The information about General Zane successfully bringing back a lot of supplies spread quickly throughout the base. At the same time, news about the pyro association's co-president easily killing a level seven zombie using a water ability also spread very quickly.

The former brought more supplies and technology to the base to help with the problem of perishable foods. Although a space device can be used, it can only keep the food for up to five months. This made the image of general Zane soar to even greater heights in the hearts of the residents.

However, the latter topic definitely peaked their interests a lot more. Most people think water ability is incredibly weak, so after hearing about what happened, they were undoubtedly shocked. And for the next few days, there was an influx of water ability at the pyro association, wanting to sign up.

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