The main entrance of the distribution center.

Lu Xinyi lazily sat sideways in the driver's seat of the SUV with the door open. She gently wiped the Miao Dao and asked casually, "Teacher Zhou, are you sure those people you mentioned will come to join us?"

Before going to the abandoned residential building, Zhou Yan asked her if she could take in a few of Xu Changjie's men.

The people he mentioned were familiar with him, and he knew their characters. Moreover, those people also disliked Xu Changjie's leadership and had expressed to him many times that they wanted to leave Xu Changjie's team.

Therefore, he dared to propose to Lu Xinyi, hoping that she could take those people in.

That's why Lu Xinyi tried to steal the girl from the short-sleeved guy in public in the abandoned residential building.

Zhou Yan glanced at the direction of the residential building, feeling somewhat uncertain, and said, "I'm not 100% sure, but I'm 70% to 80% sure."

"Okay." Lu Xinyi said, "But let's make it clear in advance, Teacher Zhou, I won't wait here too long. If they haven't arrived by this time tomorrow, I won't wait any longer."

Although base members are indispensable, she will not recruit just anyone into her base.

If those people had no intention of coming, she would not force them.

I waited for nearly half an hour.

Qin Ju, who was standing next to Lu Xinyi, leaning lazily against the SUV with his arms folded across his chest, suddenly stood up straight.

"Xinyi, they are here."

Lu Xinyi put away her Miao Dao and got out of the car.

When they turned around, they saw three men and two women running towards them in a hurry.

Both girls were very young, around 20 years old, and looked about 60% similar, so I guess they were sisters.

Among the three men, the square-faced man was about forty years old, and the other two were about thirty years old, with a sense of integrity in their looks.

Seeing the five people running over, Zhou Yan, who was sitting in the pickup truck, immediately opened the door and jumped out, looking at the five people with a look of relief.

"Lao Tao, you're here at last." He walked quickly to the square-faced man and patted him on the shoulder.

"Our two legs are no match for a car with four tires. It took us half an hour to drive here, and we had to rush as fast as we could."

Lao Tao is a little fat. Although he has lost a lot of weight since the end of the world, he still looks fatter than Zhou Yan.

In such hot weather and after such a long journey, he was already sweating profusely and almost fainted.

He didn't care about anything else at this moment. He sat down on the ground, panting heavily.

The other few people also looked quite miserable. Their clothes had already been soaked with sweat, and each of them looked like they had been fished out of the water.

"Let's take a break first." Lu Xinyi said, giving each of the five people a bottle of water.

"Water!" When Lao Tao saw the water, he hurriedly took it as if he had seen a life-saving straw. After thanking the customer repeatedly, he unscrewed the bottle cap and started drinking it in big gulps.

"Lao Tao, drink slowly." A girl reminded him, "Don't drink cold water too fast when it's too hot. Drink it in small sips."

Lao Tao drank half a bottle of water in one breath, breathed a sigh of relief, and said nonchalantly: "Who cares? I'd rather die from drinking water than from the heat."

“Pfft, pfft, pfft, don’t be such a pessimist.” The girl glared at him, then turned to look at Lu Xinyi with a smile, “This… classmate? Thank you for the water!”

This girl looks several years younger than her. She must have been a college student before the disaster. There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with calling her classmate... right?

Lu Xinyi said, "My name is Lu Xinyi, and his name is Qin Ju. You two know Teacher Zhou, so I won't introduce them."

The girl also hurriedly introduced herself: "My name is Yuan Xue, and she is my sister Yuan Shuang. One of them is Tian Ming, and the other is Shi Nuo. Before the disaster, the four of us were neighbors in the same building. When the disaster happened, we happened to go out of the community to work together, and we have been walking together ever since."

"As for Lao Tao, we met after joining Xu Changjie's team."

After they got to know each other, Lu Xinyi said, "Although you are here, it doesn't mean I will accept you. Before that, I have a few questions to ask you. Only after you give me satisfactory answers will I let you join my base."

Upon hearing her words, Yuan Xue and the others became a little nervous, and Lao Tao couldn't help but look at Zhou Yan for help.

However, Zhou Yan didn't know what kind of questions Lu Xinyi would ask, so he could only give him a helpless look.

Glancing at the five people, Lu Xinyi asked, "What jobs did you all do before the end of the world?"

"Let me explain it all at once." Yuan Xue said, "I'm an intern at the hospital, my sister works in a cake shop, Tian Ming is a programmer, Shi Nuo is a courier, Lao Tao——"

"Lao Tao, I'm an electrician." Lao Tao said with a smile, raising his hand to wipe the beads of sweat that kept oozing from his forehead.

Lu Xinyi nodded and asked, "Have you awakened your superpowers? What kind of superpowers are they?"

"Let me talk about it." Lao Tao raised his hand very actively, "I have a gold-type ability, Shi Nuo has a speed-type ability, and Yuan Shuang has a water-type ability. Yuan Xue and Tian Ming have not awakened their abilities."

As soon as he finished speaking, a look of disappointment appeared on Yuan Xue and Tian Ming's faces.

Lu Xinyi took in the reactions of the others and continued to ask, "How many zombies have you killed?"

Yuan Xue said: "Since the disaster happened, we have killed many zombies. As for the exact number, we haven't calculated it."

The others nodded in agreement.

"Next question." Lu Xinyi said, looking at the others with a serious look, "Have you ever killed anyone? If you are required to kill someone in the future, would you dare to do so?"

This question stunned all five of them, and no one spoke for a while.

kill?

They never thought about it.

Even when they killed zombies for the first time, they needed to prepare themselves mentally for a long time.

If they were asked to kill someone, they really didn't know whether they could muster the courage.

Lu Xinyi didn't urge them and just watched them quietly.

After a moment, Yuan Xue, who had remained silent the whole time, said firmly, "I have never killed anyone, but if it really comes to the point where I have to kill someone, I will do it."

After seeing how decisive and ruthless Lu Xinyi was in the residential building, she knew that if she wanted to join Lu Xinyi, she couldn't be soft-hearted.

Besides, this is the end of the world. If you are soft-hearted to anyone, you will only hurt yourself in the end.

After hesitating for a moment, the others gave the same answer as Yuan Xue.

Lu Xinyi didn't say anything else, her deep gaze fell on the five people without blinking, making them feel as if they were seen through and had nowhere to hide.

The five people looked at each other nervously, and then looked at Lu Xinyi at the same time, waiting for her judgment.

After a long while, Lu Xinyi spoke slowly: "Your answers have passed my assessment. Welcome to join the Oasis Base."

With the addition of five new members to the base, her points increased by five thousand.

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