"Oh, you all decided to follow me?" asked Kael.

"Hmm." After hesitating for a moment, the young ladies all nodded their heads in response to his words.

"Okay, as I said before, I will never force you to stay with me. If you like, you all can leave whenever you want," said Kael, holding his fists close to his hips.

He chose a building in good condition and said to the young ladies, "Since you are staying, you all have to listen to me. Of course, I will never ask you to risk your lives, but you all have to listen to me if you want to survive in this place. Right now, we will make this building our temporary shelter. Keep the place we live clean and tidy."

"Hmm," the young ladies nodded their heads in agreement.

"Good, I still have to kill a few zombie leaders. I will be back very soon. Just stay inside the building. Don't come outside unless you have a death wish. I'm sure you have all been living in this apocalyptic world for years, so I think you all know how to keep your distance from strangers. Okay, see ya," Kael walked towards the door after saying goodbye.

"Sir, variant..." one of the young ladies stepped forward.

"Hmm? Did you call me? Can you tell me what this variant is? Why are you calling me a variant?" asked Kael.

Even though the young ladies were baffled by the question asked by Kael, still one of them took the initiative to explain patiently.

"Variants are humans who have developed immunity to the virus and gained inhuman abilities like enhancing their strength, controlling fire, ice, water, wood, and so on. Variants are very strong and are sought after by many shelters, colonies, organizations, and so on. Even though we don't know what your variant ability is, we can tell that you are a variant just by looking at your inhuman strength and agility," said one of the young ladies with a timid look on her face.

"Oh, so there aren't just zombie leaders and mutants who are very powerful. There are also humans with abilities who are called variants and are also very powerful in this apocalyptic world," Kael murmured inwardly with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Okay, you want to say something? You don't have to hold back. Feel free to ask me anything that comes to your mind," asked Kael while sitting on the sofa.

"We... We didn't eat anything until yesterday. If you have something to eat, please share it with us. Not for free. We will do anything for you, even... even..."

"Even what?" asked Kael with an amused look on his face.

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"Even if you want us to warm your bed, we will do it for you," said the young ladies in unison, their faces turning as red as tomatoes.

"Haha, it's okay, no more jokes. Since you are all very hungry, I will give each of you a regular pack of instant noodles. Of course, these regular packs of instant noodles are not expired," Kael said. As he finished speaking, with a wave of his hand, four regular packs of instant noodles appeared on the tea table.

The eyes of the young ladies nearly popped out of their eye sockets. They had never seen or heard of this kind of ability in their lives.

"Are you really giving these packs to us?" asked one of the young ladies cautiously.

"What, you don't want these packs?" asked Kael in a teasing tone.

"We want..."

"We want..."

They hurriedly reached out their hands to take the packs and hastily opened the seals.

"Wait...wait," said Kael.

The young ladies looked at him with questioning gazes on their faces.

"Do you want to eat it raw? Here, pour this hot water and eat the prepared noodles," said Kael while placing four flasks filled with hot water on the table.

After hesitating for a moment, the young ladies reached out their hands to take the flasks and poured the hot water into the instant noodle packs.

Vapors wafted out of the pack as they brought it close to their noses and took a deep breath; the smell was so appetizing.

Even though it was steaming hot, they still put the noodles into their mouths, and tears welled up in their eyes.

Seeing the tears in their eyes, Kael sat up straight and said with a worried look on his face, "Hey, eat slowly and wait a little. Don't eat while it's hot. See, it could have hurt your tongues."

The young ladies shook their heads and kept eating the noodles without stopping for a second.

*Slurp... slurp...*

They cleaned every last drop in the pack and placed the empty packs back on the tea table with content smiles, yet tears slid down their faces.

All the young ladies looked at each other and kneeled down on the floor, sincerely thanking him with grateful eyes.

"Hey, it's just instant noodles. There's no need to do all these unnecessary things. As I promised, until you leave, I will take care of you," said Kael, hurriedly lifting them from the floor.

When he said, "It's just instant noodles," they were left speechless. "Don't you know there are hundreds of people dying every day to eat expired instant noodles? Don't mention instant noodles that are not expired," thought the young ladies, with the look of 'variants are really unfathomable creatures' on their faces.

"Do you all like instant noodles?" asked Kael, folding his hands.

"Yes... yes..." all the young ladies nodded their heads eagerly.

"Haha... good, then I will stay here and start a competition. Every room you clean will get you a pack of regular instant noodles as a reward..." Before he finished speaking, all the young ladies disappeared from the room and started cleaning other rooms in the building.

"Oh, these ladies are very active indeed," Kael smiled and went to see how they were cleaning the rooms.

He didn't want to be alone in his current life, so he planned to make a temporary shelter until he could get his private island from the system. In the future, if he meets someone who is good and friendly, he will let them join him and stay with him.