Since most of the people sitting in the auditorium liked that suggestion, they all nodded in unison and decided to go with it. Even the leader admired the young man named Neil. So the man on the stage quietly gave orders and chose several teams to head outside the borders of the safe zone.
When everything was done, he walked over to Neil and said, "I still haven't introduced myself. I'm Clay Howard. Pleased to meet you."
The male lead squinted his eyes at the man and nodded before opening his mouth. "I want to be the team leader of my people."
Tyler, who was still beside him, rolled his eyes. He clearly knew why this person wanted to become the team leader at this time. The male lead clearly wanted to take advantage of the time when no one would be looking to flirt with him!
But Clay didn't seem to see through Neil at all. He was amazed and showed a happy smile on his face. "Fine. But be careful."
The male lead waved his hand as if this was something trivial.
After a while, Clay ordered all the stronger people to form multiple groups of their choices and head out for the mission. He wanted everyone to bring back as much information as they could. But once they were outside, Neil's group faced another problem.
"Why aren't we seeing any zombies today?" Gavin suddenly said, frowning as his gaze swept past the entire field filled with cars.
"Yeah. When we need to see some zombies, why can't we see them at all?!" Someone else commented, still trying to find a zombie that could help them with this mission.
On the other side, Tyler and Neil quietly exchanged looks. Both of them knew well why they couldn't see zombies. It was because the zombie king was present here, and none of the zombies wanted to approach this group.
Neil leaned toward his baby and whispered. "Can't you lock your powers or something? Poor zombies are getting frightened for nothing."
Tyler lazily glanced at this person and sighed. He actually didn't know how to lock the powers, but he could try. So he closed his eyes and thought of one sentence over and over again: 'Lock my powers.'
He repeated this in his mind repeatedly and only got back to his senses when someone suddenly exclaimed.
"There's a zombie!"
"Let's kill it and grab its blood!"
"We are finally going to be productive!"
And just like that, everyone left the scenario and rushed to kill the zombie. Since it was only one weak monster and so many people with power, it couldn't survive for long and died tragically. After that, they wrapped their bodies with the zombie blood as they wrinkled their noses.
"Couldn't you have found any other solution?" Gavin suddenly said, glancing at the male lead with a wrinkled nose.
Neil sighed helplessly. "Help yourself then. Why blame me for something like this? If you don't like the zombie blood, you should have stayed back in the safe zone."
"You-" Gavin wanted to curse this person, but when he saw Tyler's indifferent face getting colder and colder, the former finally shut his mouth and pretended that he didn't exist.
When everyone was ready, Neil nodded and gave all of them a walkie-talkie. "Stay close, and find a zombie to spy."
And after everyone was gone, Neil wanted to wrap himself with the zombie blood too so that no one could point fingers at him. But just as he was about to take a step, his hand was suddenly grabbed by someone. He looked back to see Tyler's face, and the latter was making an expression that screamed that this guy was somewhat embarrassed.
The male lead tilted his head. What's up with his baby now? But he wasn't complaining. He even wanted to dance around, saying, 'My baby just held my wrist!'
Tyler, who could clearly see through Neil's expressions, coughed awkwardly and let go of Neil's wrist. "Don't use that blood. I can just turn on my power, and the zombies will stay away."
"No." Neil grabbed his baby's hand again and said, "To live until we get old, we need fewer people to doubt us. So it's better if you don't use your power at all."
"Then…" Tyler suddenly thought of something, and a trace of a blush crept up his face. This kind of reaction confused the male lead the most, but the latter didn't say anything. "Then…"
"Hmm?" Neil urged his baby to speak up. He didn't know what kind of words this person would say, but he was excited. This was the first time Tyler had ever started to do something like this. He really wished he could record this scene.
Finally, after what seemed like hours, Tyler opened his mouth to say, "You can take my blood instead of another zombie."
"Really? And why's that?" Neil urged more, wanting to tease his baby.
Unfortunately for him, Tyler could even see through the male lead's expressions and glared at him viciously. "If you don't want to, it's fine."
"Okay, I'm sorry." Neil finally compromised and dragged Tyler back, bringing the latter inside an empty house. "This is the first time my baby ever asked me for something. How can I reject you?"
Tyler averted his eyes awkwardly and raised his wrist toward the male lead, silently asking the latter to take out the blood. But he waited, waited, and waited, but Neil didn't budge. Finally, he couldn't help but look at that person in confusion.
"What? Do you think I would voluntarily cut off your wrist? Dream on!"
At this, Tyler couldn't help but smile as he fished out a knife and made a minor injury to his index finger. After that, when the blood spurted out of the finger, he simply raised his hand and rubbed his blood on either side of the male lead's cheeks.
When Tyler was finally done with everything, he finally nodded in satisfaction. But just as he was about to take his hand back, Neil grabbed that hand and cocked his head. "I listened to you this time, but shouldn't I get compensation?"
Before Tyler could respond, the male lead pulled the person closer. His hand went on the latter's waist, firmly embracing the guy as he leaned toward Tyler and kissed his lips.