"Not bad! It seems your old director educated you well. You are lucky to have such a director!"

Hearing Tianya's words, Li Chenzhou nodded lightly, looking at Tianya approvingly:

"You're right. It's true that few of the children in your orphanage are capable enough right now. Maybe no one will say anything in the short term, but it definitely won't work in the long run.

"So, you have to follow me because you belong to the orphanage, and right now, I and Xiao Lei are probably quite terrifying figures in their eyes. They definitely won't dare provoke me. In that case, as long as you leave with me, those people will definitely not dare to treat the people in the orphanage too badly, because they're afraid we'll come back and cause them trouble!

"And you, by following me, can both fulfill your previous promise and deter others. You even think that even if you die, as long as you die for me, I won't abandon the children in the orphanage, and I will definitely take care of them for you, right?"

"Yes!"

Tianya nodded honestly.

"Was this idea told to you by your director, or did you come up with it yourself?"

Li Chenzhou asked again.

"I came up with it myself!"

Tianya replied:

"After leaving the orphanage banging the gong, I didn't talk much with the director. After arriving here, I've been helping out and haven't returned to the orphanage!"

"Alright! Then you stay too!"

Li Chenzhou hesitated for a moment, then nodded. Afterwards, he turned to look at Fatty, casually tossing him a bottle of evolution potion:

"Go upstairs and find a room, and inject this!"

"What's this stuff?"

Fatty took the evolution potion, his eyes shining as he asked.

"Poison! I don't like you, so I want to get rid of you!"

Li Chenzhou said irritably.

"Hehe! Boss, if you want to get rid of me, a single blow would do the trick, no need for something so good!"

Fatty smiled lewdly, then happily went upstairs with the evolution potion!

Li Chenzhou looked at Fatty's back, a hint of expectation in his eyes. Whether this guy is the Undying Heavenly King from his previous life will soon be revealed.

Afterwards, Li Chenzhou's gaze fell on Xiaoya, and a rather strange feeling suddenly surged in his heart.

In his previous life, whether it was Xiaoya, the Nether Corpse King, or Fatty, Shi Lin, the Undying Heavenly King, both could be said to be famous figures. But now, both of them have been recruited into his team, which made Li Chenzhou feel a bit proud.

You have to know, in the apocalypse, there is no internet or anything like that, and all long-distance communication is cut off. So, those who can spread their names far and wide are all absolute big shots.

As for the leaders of some bases, or some powerful figures in the base, basically only people in their own base, and at most people in neighboring bases, would know. Any further than that, and their reputation simply wouldn't spread.

After all, in the apocalypse, the most important thing is survival. Everyone is thinking about how long their food will last, and whether they will be able to return from gathering supplies tomorrow. No one will care about other people's names.

No matter how awesome someone else is, even if they can clear a city of zombies by themselves, it has nothing to do with me, and they won't come over and give me a bun! It would be completely idiotic for me to bother remembering their name, zodiac sign, constellation, what they like, or even what kind of toilet paper they use!

Looking at Xiaoya, who was happily playing with Little Fish and constantly giggling, Li Chenzhou felt that the Nether Corpse King from the previous life, who was accompanied by hordes of corpses, destroyed countless bases, and whose name made humans tremble, should no longer appear.

Afterwards, Li Chenzhou looked at Tianya, feeling somewhat conflicted. He still had an open slot for a follower, and this little guy seemed quite clever and valued relationships, daring to bang a gong to lure away zombies. Not just anyone could do that!

However, if he didn't take him as a follower and simply gave him an evolution potion, it seemed a bit wasteful, because Li Chenzhou wouldn't get any killing points for the zombies killed by someone who wasn't a follower.

Especially since Li Chenzhou only had one follower slot left. To expand the number of follower slots, he would have to raise his military rank, but the problem was, Li Chenzhou still didn't know the specific criteria for raising his military rank. He wanted to work hard, but he didn't even know where to start.

"Forget it! I'll just take him in, and it'll save me some trouble in the future!"

After hesitating for a while, Li Chenzhou finally gritted his teeth and made a decision.

So what if he didn't have any slots left? Anyway, he was the main force for killing zombies right now, and if he swept through cities every day like this, he would get a lot of killing points.

So! Li Chenzhou took out a set of combat uniforms and an evolution potion, and presented them to Tianya:

"Tianya, the clothes are our team uniform, and the potion is an evolution potion that can make you stronger. Actually, both of these things originally required you to go through a series of tests to get them.

"I don't know if your old director ever taught you this saying: the easier something is to obtain, the less it will be cherished! But at least I know this saying, so even Fatty just got the potion, and Gray Bear just got the team uniform!

"But we need to speed up the cleaning tomorrow, so I don't want to waste time testing you anymore. I'll give them to you now. Go upstairs, find a room, inject the potion, then take a shower and put on this team uniform!"

"Thank you! Boss! I will..."

Tianya took the clothes and the evolution potion, his face very excited. He looked at Li Chenzhou and was about to speak, but Li Chenzhou waved his hand to interrupt:

"Alright! No need to say words of gratitude and loyalty. Many things aren't said with words, but are mainly seen in actions! Go! I'll be watching your actions later! If your behavior makes me dissatisfied, then... what I can give you, I can naturally take back! Most importantly, you have to remember, which comes first and which comes after, handing your life to me, and helping your director and younger siblings. Distinguish the priorities, understand?"

"Understood!"

Tianya nodded, looking at Li Chenzhou with a serious expression.

In fact, Tianya was the same age as Duan Lei, both seventeen years old. Even if he wasn't as smart as Duan Lei, he had grown up in an orphanage without the care of parents since he was a child, and he had been struggling in society alone for two or three years. No matter what, he wouldn't be too bad.

So Tianya understood what Li Chenzhou meant. According to his previous promise, his life now belonged to Li Chenzhou, so naturally, he had to put Li Chenzhou first, and then the younger siblings in the orphanage.

Just as Tianya nodded, a mechanical voice suddenly sounded. Li Chenzhou had already issued a follower invitation to him...