After another 2 days, everything were already settled for Adam and the rest to be integrated in the base. In the past days, the base chief that Adam expected to visit failed to show up to their door which made Adam a little fidgety.
In the past life he never tried entertaining guest in his home. In this case, the base chief is the first guinea pig in Adam's social experiment.
* knock * * knock *
Who's there?
* knock * * knock*
" Coming! "
Adam went to the door and as expected, no one else visited but the chief herself.
Along with Adam, the rest of the team also went to welcome the guest and even quickly prepared treats like chips and some chocolates in the table in the living room.
When the door opened, Base Chief Rhea was welcomed by the handsome youth who claimed to be the leader of the most talk about team, Abyss. To tell the truth, Rhea was still doubtful about the ability of Adam as she can't feel any fluctuation of power from the young man.
If they didn't witness those armies of skeleton and exploding bugs, she would consider the young man as an ordinary teen.
But Rhea composed herself and immediately displayed a smile.
" Hello Mr. Adam, I'm sorry for disturbing. "
" No, no, you're not disturbing anything chief! " Adam then lead the female chief inside and let her seat on the sofa especially produced by Adam.
Seeing the simple but pleasing decorations in the living room, Rhea was quiet shock as she was already accustomed to messy surrounding since the start of the apocalypse. Even now where people are protected in the base by walls, people were just grouped together and let them settle on their own. Most of these groups are individuals who become not particular about order and cleanliness since the apocalypse too, that's why seeing a fresh and clean room is quiet different and distant to most.
" I am here to tell you about the arrangements of the headquarters about your team. In regards to Sir Arthus' strength, the General of the Army was informed and he had decided to bestow him a rank of a Major General, same as Major General Christopher who you guys once met. As for the rest of your people, we will be giving you previleges including the priority for weapons and some of the genetic serums that the Army has successfully produced. Also, your people can choose a department in Pandora to get a position or you can also just become a normal survivor team that will go out and hunt zombies. "
Rhea then passed a stack of papers to each person present in the room.
" Here are the materials you can exchange here in the base and some other things that you can request on the main headquarters, but it will take days to be delivered and most of them required high tiered zombie nucleus to exchange. You can just check it yourself later. "
" As for Mr. Adam, as we only knew that your ability lets you summon hundreds of tier 3 advance skeletons and bugs, we made a comprehensive judgement of your strength and decided to give you the same rank as sir Arthus. Sir Arthus undoubtedly exceeds the qualifications for a Major General but we can't give him a higher rank yet as he is still new in the system. Also, though you are Major Generals, the two of you aren't yet given soldiers to command so basically your ranks are still in name. But don't think it is practically useless, in fact, your ranks gives you the rights for exclusive devices and new genetic formulas that are controlled by the higher ups. "
" Any questions? "
Adam was dumbfounded by the long explanation. Also, he was quiet nervous meeting a big person for the first time. It is like in school where students become nervous meeting the principal alone. The feeling is quiet uncomfortable!
" About the task assignment, do we still need to be sent to retrieve supplies? Also, what about supplies allocation? " Gil took the initiative to ask knowing that Adam is not used to these kind of serious talks.
" Oh yes, your team will be classified as a class A team. " survival teams in the bases of the army are divided into class E to Class A. The higher the rank, the greater the benefits and treatments. Ordinary people who don't joint survivor teams are only given enough food to survive and need to do a lot of jobs. As for survivor teams, even the lowest rank can have enough food to support another person. That's why many ordinary people still chose to join a team despite being cannon fodders. It's nothing else because they have other people to worry about, just like Jackson who actually have a wife and a son to support. Same for the other members of team, they chose to join a survivor team back then just to fill their stomachs.
"As for the tasks, you just need to went out once a month to help major retrieval operations. But if you want to earn extra nucleus, you are free to hunt zombies and the base will not interfere. "
Rhea then explained to Team Abyss some relevant informations about the base, especially to Adam, Arthus and Jaya who didn't have any records in the base. This basically means that the trio are vagrants in the past and have no affiliation. They even checked the records of other bases in the northern region but failed to found any trace. As for the three belonging to the other two major forces? Arthus is suspected to have the same strength as the strongest human powers, did they really need to infiltrate others ?
As a final analysis, the emergence of the three is a mystery.
And the higher ups basically knew all the current strongest individuals but another one pops out of the blue.
Rhea and the directors of Pandora are actually vigilant and sent people to observed and report.
Rhea being here is not actually because she needs to explain to Team Abyss. Her real purpose is to meet the mysterious trio and make a personal judgement. As a lawyer in the past, she had good grasp of human psychology and she believes she had good judgement of people.
And in her observation....
She basically get nothing!
Everything she see, she can't find any hint of acting or pretension.
Adam is a normal teen who stutters meeting people with high position which is normal according to his age.
Jaya, the maid looks like a simple maid with trained skills. She even peeled the treats and offer some from time to time to Adam which the kid happily ate.
As for Sir Arthus, he is nothing but a statue beside Adam. If no one knows about the strength of the knight, he will be treated as a decoration in the room.
Everything about the three is way too accurate for their roles that Rhea can't find any loophole.
" S-so Base Chief, I want to join the production or department who works on plants and foods. Is it possible? " Adam nervously asked Chief Rhea who is like a smiling guidance officer in Adams primary school years.
This is a good chance to asked about it. If he can join the production team, he won't be idle and really, unlike others, he don't need to work hard for supplies. He have lots of those and if he is not afraid to show all his card, he can basically feed everyone here.
" You're into research? " Rhea asked surprised.
" N-no but I have some useful skills for production. So maybe I can be of help. "
" What skill? Can you tell me about it? "
" It's nothing fancy. It is just an ability to produce mutant plant and help accelerate their growth. "
Then there was a momentary silent in the room.
" What?! "
" Aid mutant plant to survive and accelerate their growth? " Adam said in incomprehension seeing how drastic the change in Rhea's tone.
Isn't it just producing plants? What's so special?
" Mr. Adam... i-is that true? You can produce mutant plant? "
" W-well right now I can only produce seeds but it can grow and mature in 5 days. And you can treat is as another type of summon. "
Rhea's breathing is rapid and the gears in her brain is working fast. With Adam's power... mutant plant research will surely have breakthroughs!
Aside from researching for plants that can be used for consumption, the scientists are also trying to make breakthroughs in making serums which will help people achieve evolution.
Some of the current results are the evolutionary serum that is circulating among the survivor teams. Although the effect is not that satisfying, at least their is hope for the minority.
Base Chief Rhea then took some time to catch her breath and composed her self. Hearing such good news is actually very stimulating and she find it hard to find her calm.
After a few minutes, she calmed down and asked tentatively.
" So Mr. Adam, what type of mutant plant can you produced? "
Mutant plants are divided into many type. Some are carnivorous and are good in traps and attacks.
Some are poisonous and some variants can even melt iron when touched.
There are also some that are good for defenses like the wall of thorns of the Trojans. Unfortunately, people who awakened who can control mutant plants are rare, actually there is only one person.
The army wanted to have intensive research on mutant plants but the army don't have anyone capable of controlling or producing one. This is the reason why the headquarters are behind the other forces in mutant plant research.
Trojan have someone who can control the wall of thorns while the Espoir Church had an alchemist who is proficient in herbs and mutant plants. As for the army, they have no one.
" It can produce fruits... and lots of them. "
" .... "
" Can you show it to me? "
" I planted one in the yard and it is already 3 days old. Right now, it is already bearing flowers and tomorrow, fruits will already be produced and should be ready to harvest the next day. "
Then everyone in the room went outside with the sluggish Base Chief who was unsteady in her steps like someone who just had a steamy and intense night. Gil even took the initiative to support the Chief seeing that no one dares to come near her because of the difference in status.
Hays, he can only bite the bullet.
When Rhea saw the tree in the yard with trunks bigger than two persons waist, full of flowers and emitting sweet fragrance of pollens unique to mutant plants that can bear fruits, she become speechless.
This!?
It's real!
" Mr. Adam, welcome to the plant and food research department. " No need for anything, the kid is a good person and the base should not doubt him.
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