After one hour's journey, the military cars finally arrived at the big gate. The gate was guarded tightly by soldiers in complete uniform. Seeing the oncoming cars, they stand straight. The cars stopped and Zhou Rui jumped down. He saluted, then reported.
"Open the gate, I'm bringing survivors.""Sir, yes sir!"The soldier saluted and opened the gate quickly. The cars entered smoothly. Haoyu can see a lot of people inside, huddling together."They're other survivors we found." Zhou Rui explained.Haoyu hummed and then silently looking out the window. Although he feels that the way they're doing things right now is inefficient, but it's understandable since it's the first week of apocalypse. Zhou Rui smiled awkwardly, 'A quiet type, huh?'The car stopped and they jumped down from the vehicles. The students and teachers gathered in the center, with soldiers circling not far from them. Zhou Rui stands at the platform and speak."This is the temporary base. The military will do its best in protecting you, so please cooperate with us. We will assign you place where you can rest and hands out rations 2 times a day.""Until the situation's stable, please stay and cooperate."After that, Zhou Rui nodded to the soldier below. The soldier received his nod. He raised his hand and the soldiers standing guard walked closer. They hand out a piece of small note to each person."Please look at the number in your note and follow the soldiers with the same number. They'll escort you to your place and explain the things you need to know on the way."The students and teachers quickly looked at the not in their hand, then looked around, matching the number in their hand with the soldiers around them. Haoyu looked at the number in his hand.Six.He found the soldier, standing with a badge of 'six' on his right chest. He was about to walk to him, but someone called him."Mr. Zhang!"Zhou Rui ran to him as he waved, "Mr. Zhang! You're coming with me!"because of his loud voice and obvious direction, people's attention were drawn and put onto the cold young man. Haoyu, the cold young man, looked at the incoming bear with deadpan eyes. Does this guy really have to yell so loudly? We're literally only 3 arms apart, I can hear you even if you whisper.This man seems more and more like a trouble, Haoyu thoughts tiredly. He was annoyed, but his face doesn't show anything. He even waved back to the guy. Zhou Rui grinned."Let's go, I'll bring you to the commander's office.""Yeah."Haoyu followed behind Zhou Rui. His looks like he walks casually, even lazily, but if one to observe him carefully, they'll find that his steps were actually as if it's measured by a ruler. Straight and firm. The people around looked at their back as they disappeared into a tall building. A young man especially looked at them with thoughtful eyes. Different. It's different from my past life. Is he also..."Chu Yang? What's wrong?"The young man, Chu Yang, retrieved his gaze and smiled gently."No, nothing. Let's go, Liu."Liu nodded and walked together with Chu Yang, following the soldier at the front. The gaze disappeared, Haoyu paused his steps and glanced at the source of the gaze he felt before. Is it him?[Zero.][Zero is here. What's wrong, host?][That guy, is he Chu Yang?]Zero appeared in front of Haoyu and looked at the direction where Chu Yang left. It confirmed that his appearance matched with the data in its database.[Yes. That's Chu Yang, the protagonist shou of 'Sweet Love in The Apocalypse'][I'll open up your mission panel.]['Sweet Love in The Apocalypse'1. Survive as the original owner.2. Change Gu Yichen's fate and protect him.Reward:1,500 points and rights to system shop.]Haoyu read the content leisurely. The words engraved itself in his mind along with the story's plot information. His mind automatically organized these information neatly and store it in his memory. He glanced at the floating ball next to the panel.[Well, got it.]The panel disappeared by Haoyu's order. Zero was stunned, but then rest itself on Haoyu's shoulder. [You're a fast-learner.][I've read a lot before.][I see.]Zero nodded, satisfied and a bit proud of itself as it had found a smart host. "We're here."Zhou Rui's voice interupted Haoyu and Zero's conversation. Zhou Rui knocked on the door, after receiving a reply from inside, he pushed the door open and entered along with Haoyu. Zhou Rui stands straight and saluted."Sir, officer Zhou Rui reported."The middle-aged man behind the table salute back, then moved his eyes to Haoyu."Is it him?""Yes, sir."The middle-aged man hummed. He observed Haoyu from top to bottom, searching what's so special about this young man that Zhou Rui recommend him so strongly."Mr. Zhang Wei, is it?""Yes."The middle-aged man, commander Lin, narrowed his eyes. His eyes were tinted with amusement.No fear. Cold and composed, even indifferent. Is he a tiger cub or a grown one?Commander Lin retracted his gaze and smiled benignly. He sat down, "Well, I've heard a lot about you from officer Zhou Rui." "Aproximately 20 zombies. You killed them alone, without any help. Composed and no fear."Commander looked at Haoyu's silent smokey-grey eyes.Inhumane eyes, almost machine-like."And it seems your brain is working well too."But at least it seems he still has his own moral. He didn't kill indiscriminately and protect his classmates well.A rationale and logical killing-machine, this is what commander Lin's first impression. He'll determine the rest as time goes by.He smiled and placed a paper on the table and pushed it to the other side."You came at the right time. It's only been 3 days since the zombie outbreak starts and we already in short of manpower.""I'll give you a mission. After you complete this, no matter what your result is, the military will accept you as official officer."Haoyu took the paper and read the content silently. It's a mission where he'll join a team and set out to search for more survivors and escort them back to the base. It's an easy task. Thinking that, he placed the paper back to the table. "it's not an easy one, but with your ability, you should be able to complete it with no problem."He's testing me.Haoyu's eyes narrowed slightly. His cold eyes observed the man in front him discreetly.Then let him test. Haoyu sneered internally.Middle aged, approximately in his 30s. Based on his words and the information he holds about me... 25-30 zombies and save one or two teammates should be enough to impress and secure a decent position.Haoyu's mind raced, opening informations and organizing plans neatly. His thumb rubbed his index finger lightly as he calculated the best route while maximizing the benefits. All this was done behind his cold face.After neatly calculating and organizing his thoughts, he then nodded lightly, accepting the mission. Commander Lin smiled even wider seeing this. No one in the room knows that the 'young man' in front of them has calculated countless plans in his mind."You'll join team 3. You can go to your room to rest and set out tomorrow morning."Zhou Rui looked worriedly at Haoyu, but Haoyu ignored him and responded to commander Lin with a cold 'Yes.'Outside of the room, Zhou Rui immediately explained about team 3."You need to be careful in team 3. Especially the captain of that team. They're a team that's infamous for their behavior."Haoyu were silent for a while, then said, "Sounds like a trouble...""They are!"Zhou Rui agreed loudly, stunning Haoyi. Realizing his outburst, Zhou Rui coughed lightly."Anyways, just be careful of them.""Got it."While talking, they finally arrived in front of a door. The hall was long with more similar doors standing in a row. "This is your room, you'll stay here from now on as you'll be an official soldier soon."Haoyu took the key from Zhou Rui's hand, "You seem to be so confident in me.""Of course! It's my first time seeing a young kid able to kill zombies without blinking!"After saying that, Zhou Rui looked around like a thief, then approached Haoyu who looked at him like looking at a lost cause. He whispered, "Remember, careful of team 3. Especially the leader and a member named Jihuan. Don't let that girl touched you nor your temper. Keep calm around her or your thoughts will be used against you."Then he paused and looked at Haoyu, "Well... it seems you won't show any fluctuations even if someone exploded in front of you, so I guess my worries is a bit useless..."He hit right on the nail. Haoyu has witnessed people exploded in front of him while catching a sleep. He just wiped his face, moved to place untouched by the blood and resumed his sleeping while surrounding himself with a barrier."Anyways, I have high hopes about you! Then, I'm leaving first. Take a good rest!"Haoyu nodded as he waved to Zhou Rui. He waited until his back disappeared, then entered his room and locked the door. The inside of the room were pretty spacious with necessary items. Small kitchen, bathroom, and a bed. Not bad for now.Haoyu decided to take a shower first. He cleaned all the blood on his body and also washed his clothes. After letting his clothes hanging by the window, he sat on the bed with only a towel hanging loosely by his waist. His hand wiped his hair with other towel.Zero suddenly appeared, it was about to speak, but went silent after seeing the naked chest and the abdominal that faintly showing muscles. Abdominal muscles. Faint, yet seductive. In conclusion, a devil! What a devilish host!"Hm? Zero."Haoyu noticed the floating ball and stopped wiping his hair. He looked at the silent ball with light confusion."Zero?"[Y-yes!]It's thoughts were pulled abruptly. The mechanical voice seems glitched for a second. It then speak solemnly, as if trying to bury the embarrassment before. [Host, I came to ask for your plan.]