Growing up, almost every girl is her parents' little princess. It is even more so in this era of one child is more than enough 'work'.
When that one child is well behaved, does well in academics, on top of that, gets into a good university? pampering, praising and spoiling reach a new height, where their little princess evolves right into a selfish little princess not quite aware that the world doesn't revolve around her.
Some learn it in their first year as they look at their classmates.
Some learn as they start their first romance.
Some never learn it.
Unfortunately, this little number of selectively blind, deaf and dumb people will become poison to any social responsibility or social coherence.
Wuli opened the doors when she heard the designated morse code knock.
As expected, the phoenix room members were there, so she let them come inside.
After all of them are through, she sealed the door half way, taking care to leave the other half as bars, and then, she reinforced the sealed part with bars.
MeiBing looked at her work appreciatively.
Wuli may be a little coward, but she was still a good helper.
As long as it doesn't involve putting her life on the line, Wuli worked tirelessly.
Also, they are going to wait for Yanlong to defeat the mutator.
As such, even if they fought, they were no better in the end.
If not for the sturdy bars Wuli created, they would have had far more trouble than they had just now.
"We will clean ourselves with cloth." HuoMei proposed.
Everyone else nodded. Su yan filled a tub with water, while Huo Mei heated the water.
Biyu took up the old blanket from Yanlong's bead, spit it up into wash clothes.
They hung a blanket to allow for privacy.
All of them cleaned themselves thoroughly.
"Did all of you read the first draft of the E-mail sent by Yanlong?" Huo Mei asked.
They shook their heads.
Huo Mei sighed, and opened the mail on her computer.
"So, Biyu and my powers may change any time soon?" Ming zhu asked as they read the part about active and a mutant.
"Here, look at what she says. Though some Actives change their powers when they absorb crystal nuclei, not all do. More clear an Active's power, nearer they are to become a mutant.
Once an Active reaches this stage, changing power's effect is not possible. However, it is still not advised, for no one could determine whether a person is active or mutant without help of a Sensitive." HuoMei read outloud.
"What's Sensitive?" Biyu asked.
Huo Mei explained once more.
"A person who could sense the power of another person. Yanlong is one." she told them.
"Where is Yanlong? Why is she only texting, but not coming back?" MingZhu wondered.
"Off fighting the zombie we couldn't defeat. She said the zombie is called a mutator, and we made the correct decision to run away. She would fight the zombie, and defeat it if she can."
Huo Mei answered.
"She says the best way to defeat a mutator is to starve it. Since we cut off it's legs, the battle will be slightly easier for Yanlong, and she wants to kill it before it could find more victims." MeiBing added.
"Then, what should we do till then?" Wuli asked.
She is the outlier among this group.
The phoenix room is famous. Yanlong is a famous academic tyrant, while the rest are all school flowers.
She did not expect them to be this brave, or expect them to fight the zombies this well.
They read the mail sent by Yanlong twice, thrice and four times, as seriously as they would read an academic disposition.
After some time, Mei Bing spoke.
"For now, our biggest problem is Mutator. Yanlong will solve it one way or another."
Everyone nodded.
"Our second problem is motivating everyone to kill zombies. I do not see that happening here anytime soon. If we were to fight with boys, we would lose." Suyan opined.
The rest agreed.
"Let's go with carrots and stick. If we are to establish a base here, we need to gather our power earlier than later. " Mei Bing said.
Wuli sighed at this time, and raised up her mobile to show them what happened.
One of the girls in the chat group is bad mouthing Wuli.
It's the mean girl from before, who was disruptive to their entire operation.
Biyu took the phone and read the messages.
The girl took the phoenix room's name, and scolded Wu li.
"You are nothing but a coward who is sticking like a parasite? And what is a coward like you doing joining the fight? You are not even worth wiping the shoes of phoenixes, why are you stuck by their side… I bet you are aiming for the supplies they have stored up.
What did they have that you have to sell your conscience like this? Aren't you ashamed of selling yourself for a morsel of food.. " Biyu read.
"This girl, she was trying to kill chickens to scare monkeys, and worse than that, she is preparing to grab our supplies by tricks." Mingzhu opined.
She is sensitive to these kinds of words.
Li Qinqin, the girl who's writing this barrage, is a famous green tea bitch in their department.
Pretty good at praising the professors, and always willing to steal the work of others.
Biyu typed in her message immediately.
"I am one of the phoenixes you are talking about. I do not know Li Qinqin, nor do I support her statements. You guys belong to the upper one percent of the country's literati. I believe all of you have the ability to read between the lines."
MingZhu forwarded the same, so did Huo Mei and Mei Bing.
"I can not believe politics have begun this early." Mingzhu sighed, as she looked at the following discussion in the college forum.
"We need to make a stand." Mei bing said.
"We can indeed continue to rescue people like we are doing right now. However, there will be a second and third Li Qinqin. They will not come with a loud announcement like Li Qinqin. What do we do then? " She asked her friends.
They all agreed.
"Let's send out a message. We will form a coalition, called MayFly. Those who are willing to kill zombies with us may join us. If they do not kill the zombies, then they are on their own." Suyan proposed, and everyone agreed.
They have neither the supplies nor the power to tow everyone with themselves.
Moreover, they need people with absolute talents, not ones like Li Qinqin who are first to run away when there's trouble, and first to line up to receive the benefits.
On the other side, Yanlong set out to kill the mutator.
Now that they have decided to move together as a small team, they have decided to organize themselves properly.
They brought out all the weapons they bought.
Seriously! Yanlong really did bolster them up very well.
They each spread their own weapons, and then conducted an internal sale, where they exchanged weapons with each other.
The sounds from outside were frightening during this time, so, they stayed safely ensconced in their room, and packed all their clothes and food.
MeiBing gave up her giant whip and halberd to Biyu, while Biyu exchanged them with a countless number of finger knives, flying disks, and miscellaneous small weapons.
Suyan had Wuli remodel the swords she bought into a fine tipped long spear like nozzle.
The center of the spear is a hollow steel pipe with holes, like a drain.
The hollow pipes then extended towards either side, ending in a sharp pointy edge like an injection needle.
When Su yan uses the spear, she puts pressure on water in the sword, resulting in an extremely strong and thin water spray that could cut a zombie, or person.
On top of that she had another sword which looked like a rapier which was modified the same way.
Huo Mei could not use normal swords any more. In the first place, Yanlong did not let her buy any common swords.
All swords Huo Mei had were made of tungsten, so, an edge was created by Wuli, further allowing HuoMei to direct heat power to the sword rather than just using fire.
Wuli further refined the weapon by creating a thin tungsten rich edge, and an iron rich core.
This way, the weapon's durability increased, and Huo Mei can fight easily .
Biyu made handles for the weapons, while Mingzhu solidified them.
Mei Bing, at the suggestion of Yanlong, bought a few special plastic soft knives.
Now she brought them out and tried putting the cold power through them.
As she put the cold through them, the knives shrunk to incredibly small size, and as much as they shrunk, their edge became sharp.
Yanlong truly did put a lot of thought into the items they bought.