After Bai Zemin and Zaid where alone they started talking about the path that they took to get to the gym. " So, after I put Sun Yin to rest, I fought my way here with Wei Jun and Yingzi, and you know the rest." Zaid said
" Damn, I'm sorry you had to deal with Sun Yin like that I know that you had a huge crush on her." Zemin commented after hearing the story, He'd already finished telling his to Zaid and even mentioned the Blood Manipulation skill that he got.
After they finished talking, they both decided that they should check their loot and then get some sleep considering what they had to deal with in the morning. Through all the fighting Zadi had commanded some of his skeleton soldiers to gather any treasure orbs and skills that dropped from the zombies and beasts he'd gathered a total of 2 red orbs, 2 orange orbs, 2 passive skills, and one active skill. after thinking a bit, he decided to learn all the skills.
[Zaid El-Amin -Level: 24 Race: Human Job: None Title: None Strength: 120/ Agility: 111/ Health: 200/ Stamina: 98/ Mana: 270 / Magic: 250
free stat points: 48 Skills: Active (2/5): Skeleton Summoning, Lightning Bolt, Passive: Iron Body, Special Forces soldier, Danger Sense]
[Lightning Bolt
Rank: Unclassified Level 5
Releases a bolt of lightning that cab travel a distance of 10 m from the caster]
[Special Forces Soldier
Rank: Unclassified Level 5
Gives the user the knowledge and skills of a special forces soldier
]
[Danger Sense
Rank: Unclassified Level 5
Warns the user by sending nerve signals to the body whenever his or her life is in danger]
The reason Zaid learned the lightning bolt skill even though he only had 5 slots for active skills was because he realized that he was lacking a lot in the ranged department while Bai Zemin and Shangguan Bing Xue had ways to fight both in close and at a distance, naturally he figured it would be best to remedy that weakness as fast as possible.
Now for the treasures,
[Velocity Boots (Common Grade treasure): extremely light, durable and adapts to the wearer, Agility +10]
naturally he decided to change out his boots considering his current pair only gives him +5 Agility.
[Special forces Knife (Common Grade treasure): a combat blade used by the special forces, Strength + 5 ]
For the knife he decided to tie to his belt to make sure that if he ever faced a situation where an enemy was too close for the Scythe, he would be ready.
'Now for the orange treasures.' Zaid thought somewhat excitedly
the first one was a ring
[Blazing Ring (rare treasure): a ring imbued with the power of fire, Magic +10. Once a day you can use flare fire to attack or defend]
the second item was a wristband
[Tremor Band (Rare treasure): a wristband imbued with the power of earth Magic +5. twice a day you can cause the earth with in 5 meters to shake pushing your enemies off-balance.]
Zaid quickly equipped the wristband and ring while jokingly thinking to himself, ' Now all I need is water and air and I can be the avatar.' He chuckled at the thought before deciding that he should get some sleep while he still could.
A few hours later there was a knock on the door to the gym cafeteria, which naturally woke up the already tense Bai Zemin and Zaid. When they got to the door, they found a short somewhat cute looking girl with black hair, "Mrs. Shangguan t-t-told me to come g-g-get you." She stuttered.
Zaid nodded at the clearly frightened girl before putting on his most easygoing smile, " calm down, don't be scared it's not like we're going to bite, at least not yet." he joked, stunning the poor girl, Bai Zemin just gave his friend a look that said, 'Really you're doing this now.'
The girl scared by words ran away leaving Zaid stunned a bit, " Well that stings, I was just trying to get her to calm down a bit, and maybe flirt." he said somewhat downcast.
"You call that flirting? That's downright sexual harassment, hell if we weren't in an apocalypse right now, you'd be arrested." Bai Zemin replied while giving an exasperated sigh.
" Hey, but that's how I got Sun Yin to agree to go on a date with me."
" You only got her to agree because I helped, it wasn't your flirting it was my wingmaning that got you that date."
They continued bantering as they walked to the front of the Gym leaving a certain Succubus speechless, 'He's been cold to me this entire time, yet the second this guy speaks he's making jokes, could this version be into guys?'
Bai Zemin suddenly shivered, " You alright man?" Zaid asked noticing the shivering, " Yeah, I'm fine."
After a minute they saw the others standing by the doors, after they gathered, Chen He started the meeting of by saying, " I say we make a list of supplies that we need before we plan anything."
" We need medicine, food and clothes for the girls." Shangguan Bing Xue said in her usual cold tone and Yingzi nodded along.
" What about fighting our way out of here we don't have time to be going on errands when our families could be in danger." Bai Zemin impatiently, He'd tried calling his family and they hadn't answered making him fear the worst.
Zaid knew how much Bai Zemin loved and cared for his family despite the cold front he put on, and he felt sad for his friend.
"We can't fight our way out without supplies." Bing Xue replied coldly
"She's right Zemin, we need food, water and fresh clothes to stop the spread of any infections. We're also going to need vehicles if we want to be able to move these many people safely." Zaid said understandingly.
" What about what we talked about yesterday with the survivors." Wei Jun asked.
"I say we tell them, what we decided and let them choose, but before that we have to all agree that those who don't contribute, cannot be valued as much as those who do, they should only get enough food and water to survive and no more." Bai Zemin said coldly.
" What if they fight back? After all no one likes being treated as lesser" Liang ye asked.
"Then we kill them." Zemin answered with a ruthless tone.
" We can't do that! they're humans just like you and me. " Chen said, his voice rising a bit at Bai Zemin's ruthlessness.
" I agree with Bai Zemin, those who don't work, should eat less than those that do and order needs to be maintained." Surprisingly Shangguan Bing Xue was the one who agreed with Bai Zemin first and Zaid Followed after although he didn't really like the idea of killing another person, he also understood that if he wanted to survive, he had to be ruthless, the rest followed soon after.