736: Chapter 736 Bowing Down?

"Huff... huff..."

The three of them sat down on separate sofas, panting heavily. That frantic sprint just now had completely exhausted them.

Wang Quan's condition was actually alright. Although he was also breathing hard, he looked much better than they did.

[You have completed a long-distance dash. Physical Fitness +0.1]

[You have successfully mastered the skill: Running]

[Running Lv1 (3/100): Increases running speed by 5%, reduces running stamina consumption by 5%]

Excellent! Another skill mastered.

And it was all thanks to the three of them!

Without them, Wang Quan estimated he might not have had such a frantic sprinting experience during this period.

After all, he had been extremely cautious from the moment he left his place to go to the supermarket.

"Who are you?" the man with the buzz cut asked Wang Quan after catching his breath for a while.

"Uh... a survivor?" Hearing the question, Wang Quan suddenly didn't know how to answer: "Let's get to know each other. My name is Wang Quan, a survivor in this apocalypse."

"Who here isn't a survivor?" the short-haired girl couldn't help but remark.

"Hello, Wang Quan. You can call me Xiao Bai. She's Xiao Hong, and this is Xiao Xin," the buzz-cut man said to Wang Quan.

Wang Quan matched the names to the people.

The buzz-cut man called himself Xiao Bai, the short-haired girl was Xiao Hong, and the second male, who had shoulder-length hair and a somewhat gloomy aura, was Xiao Xin.

"Did you just arrive around here? I don't think I've seen you before," Xiao Bai asked Wang Quan.

"You could say that," Wang Quan said after a moment of thought.

"It's either yes or no. What do you mean 'you could say that'?" Xiao Hong couldn't help but say, her brow furrowing. "We've been very honest, yet you're still being secretive?"

"Xiao Hong is right. You've even come to our safe base," Xiao Xin added, nodding from the side.

"I'm not being secretive. It's just that I don't really know myself. When I woke up, I was already here. I just came out of a building and ended up here," Wang Quan shrugged and said to them. "And I only just found out it's the apocalypse... By the way, how many days has it been?"

"..."

"..."

"A Transmigrator?"

"Do you know if this is Earth?"

Xiao Bai and Xiao Xin's eyes immediately lit up. "Bro, do you have a System? Or are you an Awakened with abilities? Why don't you be our boss and lead us to greatness!"

"No, what are you guys doing?" Xiao Hong didn't read novels and had no idea what kind of madness had possessed her two companions.

What? They were going to acknowledge him as their boss just like that?

The guy said one sentence, and you're bowing to him?

Were you intoxicated by some sort of 'overlord's aura'? Xiao Hong looked at her two companions with a face full of disbelief.

"Actually, I do have a small ability," Wang Quan thought to himself. His real trump cards were the Cross-World Group, the search, strike, withdraw system, and the Safe House base.

Exposing a little bit of something inconsequential didn't matter.

"For real?!" Xiao Bai and Xiao Xin's eyes lit up instantly upon hearing this.

"Of course. You know about storage abilities, right?" Wang Quan's lips curled into a smirk. He reached out toward a rattan chair nearby.

Then, he directly pulled it into his Storage Space.

"Holy shit!" Watching the rattan chair vanish from Wang Quan's hand, Xiao Bai and Xiao Xin cried out in unison.

"Boss! From today on, you are our boss!" Xiao Xin said excitedly.

"Sob, we finally have an organization!"

"Yeah, yeah, the three of us have been living so miserably in this apocalypse!" Xiao Bai said, weeping tears of joy.

Xiao Hong opened her mouth to speak, but then she thought of Wang Quan's action just now. Although she didn't read novels, she wasn't an idiot.

This was the apocalypse!

And that was a rattan chair! Their rattan chair!

Forget about magic tricks; there was no way that was possible!

[You have gained three subordinates. This location can be marked as 'Extraction Point - Fandou Garden, Building A, Tower 2'.]

[When you head out to search, the three subordinates can be marked for 'Escort' or 'Hatchet Run'.]

['Escort' provides you with additional bonuses to all attributes. 'Hatchet Run' provides you with extra gathered loot.]

Yahoo! I actually gained an Extraction Point!

Man! Taking in subordinates even gives Escort and Hatchet Run bonuses?

Not bad, not bad! This is a good thing! Wang Quan's eyes lit up.

Setting aside the System's buffs for a moment, from his interactions so far, Wang Quan could tell these three weren't particularly calculating people.

To put it bluntly, even though it was the apocalypse, these three didn't seem to have encountered any truly dark events or situations that tested their humanity yet.

Secondly, the reactions of these two men clearly showed they had read plenty of novels.

So their so-called 'apocalypse survival' was likely based purely on imagination and 'experience' from fiction.

"Fine, I'll take the three of you in!" Wang Quan nodded slightly. "Since I'm your boss, we're now part of an organization. This safe base is pretty good, but you need to tell me what supplies we currently have."

"Over here, over here. All our stuff is here!" Xiao Bai said to Wang Quan, adopting a 'this way, Excellency' posture as he led Wang Quan to a partitioned area further inside.

Wang Quan went over and saw two bags of rice, a jug of cooking oil, a bag of salt, and two large jugs of mineral water, one of which was already half empty.

"Ahem~ Boss, this is all we have left. There are also a lot of things we gathered because they might be useful, even though we don't know what for..." Xiao Bai said, pointing to the side.

Wang Quan looked over to see a pile of miscellaneous items: various clothes, rags, bags, plastic, woven sacks, as well as nails, hammers, wooden boards, sheet metal, and wire.

Man, truly Chinese—if they aren't farming, they're hoarding like squirrels.

However, they did have some manual skills. Although they clearly weren't professionals, they had modified this rooftop quite well.

At the very least, it looked cozy. In the apocalypse, it was practically a Holy Land.

"It's fine, it's enough to survive. I have quite a few supplies on my end." Wang Quan wasn't stingy. Since he was the boss, these three were his subordinates.

Wang Quan was always generous with his subordinates.

"Here's some food." Wang Quan took out quite a few snacks, a bag of rice, a bag of flour, and some seasonings.

At the same time, he marked the three of them for a 'Hatchet Run'.

"From now on, we'll act together and go out to search for supplies," Wang Quan said to the three of them. "Don't worry, since you've acknowledged me as boss, as long as I have a bite to eat, I definitely won't let you go hungry!"

"Yes, Boss, we'll listen to you!" Xiao Bai and Xiao Xin nodded in response. Xiao Hong also nodded slightly in agreement, clearly accepting Wang Quan as the boss.

"Now we can start planning. Are you locals? Are you familiar with this area?" Wang Quan asked the three of them.

"Yes, yes, we're locals. We're very familiar with this place; we've lived here for over a decade! But we were away at university before and just happened to be back for the holidays... when the apocalypse broke out," Xiao Bai said quickly.

"How many days has it been since the outbreak?" Wang Quan asked.

"Hmm... I'm not entirely sure, but from the time I first knew there were zombies until now, it should be about seven or eight days," Xiao Bai said after some thought.

So the apocalypse has been going on for at least seven or eight days... Wang Quan pursed his lips upon hearing this.