CHAPTER 299: CHAPTER 298: OTHER NEW MEMBERS

When both of them were invited, it was after lunch, so Luciel was also present when they introduced themselves.

"Hello, I’m Claire. I have a sound-related ability. I previously worked as a sales agent before the apocalypse began, and I also worked in the supply area of the base. I’m really glad to be recruited to this team, and I hope to have pleasant cooperation with all of you."

While Claire was introducing herself, Luciel was reading her investigation report together with Treyton.

Claire was a 25-year-old woman. She had indeed been working in the supply areas, just as she had said.

There was no mention of her family in the report. Since arriving at the North Base, she had been living alone.

She had been supporting herself fully with her current work.

However, Claire had no records of leaving the base at all since her arrival.

Her only combat experience was likely from before coming to the North Base, along with her recent military training.

It could be inferred that she wasn’t strong enough yet—especially in combat.

If not for her sound ability, which was particularly useful for group attacks, she likely wouldn’t have been recruited at all.

"Your ability is related to sound. Does that mean you also have better hearing compared to normal people?" Treyton asked.

"Indeed, my hearing has improved a lot, but it’s not much different from that of other ability users.

My power mainly works by attacking others through the sounds I produce. For example, the most common attack is to scream at a target and create a sound so loud that the target can’t bear it."

"I see. Are you already able to control your ability well enough to affect only your target and not others?"

"I’m not that good at controlling it yet, but I’m improving. My ability also isn’t very strong yet, so it doesn’t affect a large area.

I didn’t have much time to practice before because of work, but now that I do, I believe my control over it will improve quickly."

"You’ve been working in the supply area since you arrived at the base, and you haven’t left the base since then.

According to the report, it seems you haven’t shown much interest in going outside.

I’m sure the others have already informed you that once you join our team, you’ll mostly be busy with missions outside the base. So, why did you accept our recruitment this time?"

"I wasn’t interested in going outside because I didn’t believe I had the strength to fight zombies.

Even though I knew I had an ability, it’s not very powerful, so I didn’t have the confidence to leave the base.

I also heard there are mutant animals out there, not just zombies.

I didn’t dare to join any other teams because I wasn’t sure if I could trust them.

I heard many people died outside—not just because of zombies or mutant animals, but also because of other people.

That scared me. I was afraid I might be treated as expendable if I joined the wrong team.

When the military announced they were willing to train people with superpowers and teach methods to strengthen them, I saw it as a chance to improve.

I already felt lucky to have an ability, so I wanted to make the most of it.

Then I found out that my ability could only be improved using zombie crystals, unlike others who could absorb energy from the surroundings.

That meant I had to go outside and fight if I wanted to grow stronger. But I knew I couldn’t do it alone.

That’s why I took my time. Even though many teams tried to recruit me after learning about my ability, I wanted to wait until the end of military training before deciding which team to join.

But after hearing about your team’s recruitment, I decided to accept. I believe that with your team, I can truly improve.

Even if I face a lot of danger later, I know I’ll survive—as long as I’m not reckless—because of the strength of this team that I have heard about."

"I see. Don’t worry; as long as you aren’t lazy and keep training, you can certainly keep getting stronger while you’re part of the team."

"I will certainly do my best not to drag everyone down," Claire promised.

After Claire finally finished speaking with Treyton, the next person introduced himself.

"Hello, I’m Edwin. I used to work as a coach for a basketball team before the apocalypse. After coming to the base, I joined the team working on building the walls around the base. I hope we can all work well together."

The report stated that Edwin was 34 years old and lived with his wife, Jonna. He was indeed part of the construction team, while his wife worked in the clothing factory at the base.

"The others should have already informed you about the situation regarding the team.

As a member of the team, you can support your wife on your own. But she can only be considered as an auxiliary member.

Auxiliary members can only be supported by the contributions of the member who truly joined the team.

But even though they aren’t full members, they will still be required to undergo training and go outside the base every three months. So, what’s the decision from you and your wife?"

"I tried to persuade my wife to stay as an auxiliary member of the team. But after learning that the team has women members—despite not having abilities—and that only the children are considered auxiliary members, she decided she wanted to be a full member as well.

I couldn’t convince her otherwise, no matter what I said, so I had to agree with her. I also heard that the team has subgroups. May I ask if we can be in the same subgroup so that at least I can look out for her?"

"Don’t worry, both of you will be in the same group. She’s already decided to join the team, so don’t forget to bring her later."

"Yes, I’ll definitely bring her later. Actually, I asked her to come with me, but she didn’t want to yet. She said that I’m the one who was recruited, so I should come first."

"Okay, just bring her later so she can be properly introduced to the team," Treyton said to Edwin. Then he turned to both of them and added, "Now that you’ve both joined the team, be sure to train hard and do your best to strengthen yourselves, because in a week, we’ll be heading out of the base again."

"We will definitely train hard!"

Afterwards, Yang started to properly explain all the rules, benefits, and duties of being part of the team.

When Luciel heard Yang talking about the rules and duties of the members, he realized that there were more things added.

There were indeed more things added, but they were all helpful for all the members so that they won’t have any problems in the long run.

In a team, especially with a lot of people, if it isn’t managed well, it will certainly cause and encounter a lot of problems later on.

Everything might still be okay in the beginning, but as time goes by, a lot of problems will certainly arise.

In the book that he read, Yang was indeed in the team, but because of Ashlee’s death at the beginning, Yang’s mind wasn’t in good condition at all.

Yang is indeed still one of the people in charge of managing the team, but he didn’t put much effort into it, so there were still a lot of problems, and when he was killed, more problems arose in Treyton’s team, resulting in a lot of losses for them.

Treyton was also busier in the novel than he is now, because he had to devote a lot of his time to strengthening himself because the space he had was incomplete, so it wasn’t like what their space already looked like.

Because of his business, he didn’t have enough time to pay much attention to the problems of their team until it resulted in a lot of losses for them.

Fortunately, this time Ashlee was still alive, so Yang wasn’t in a state of depression at all and was doing his best in managing the team.

In the evening, Edwin brought Jonna and introduced her to everyone. After a brief introduction, they all had dinner and began interacting with one another to learn more about each other.

The old members were trying to properly talk to the new members for them to understand more about the new members of the team.

In the next few days, all the others were training really hard to become stronger, and no one had slacked off on their training.

As for him, he was still enjoying his leisure time as always.

The new members were obviously curious about him, but they never asked anything about him.