39 Zombie Queen has the Biggest Thigh of All 15 (1/2)

”What's your name?” Qin Shuang asked, but the kid remained silent, looking around in awe around him. ”Hey! Your name!” Qin Shuang shouted, snapping the kid to attention.

”Y-Yu Yan...” The boy said in an extremely quiet and rough voice, as if he had not spoken in a very long time. And he hadn't. Even he couldn't seem to remember when he last spoke. Maybe it was when his parents had died?

”Speak louder!” Qin Shuang said, as he briskly continued to walk past the lobby to the elevators.

”Y-Yu Yan!” Yu Yan said, louder this time, his voice trembling.

”Whatever, I'll take it. Yu Yan? You're the twelfth kid to come here now. The others are probably all doing their own thing, so you won't be able to meet them until dinner though.” Qin Shuang said, as they waited for the elevator. He then recalled, ”Oh right, breakfast, lunch, and dinner are all down here in the lobby area. There's a little restaurant next to it where we eat.” He said.

When the elevator arrived, they entered and he pressed the button for the 20th floor gym. ”The top floor is where Big Sis lives, so you can't go up there. Aside from that, everywhere else in the hotel is fair game. It's better for you not to go outside the hotel though. We won't stop you, but... well, whatever. Anyways, you can decide for yourself, I just wouldn't recommend it. The 20th floor has a swimming pool, spa, and training room for everyone to exercise or practice their abilities.” Qin Shuang, though he was clearly unwilling, still obeyed Yin Mei's orders and faithfully guided Yu Yan around the place.

Everything looked clean and luxurious, as if allowing one to forget that outside was the apocalypse.

”I-I don't have an ability...” Yu Yan quietly said with a nervous expression, fearing that he would be kicked out if he didn't.

”Everyone has an ability.” Qin Shuang replied, as the elevator reached its destination.

Opening up, they first visited the training area. It was the former gym, though it had been completely remodeled. The room was completely white, and the ceiling had been knocked down to include another floor, with an observation room overlooking the area.

There were three kids inside the room, and one strange looking adult. One was a long haired androgynous kid who seemed maybe 13 years old, wearing a traditional styled emerald green chang pao with white pants. He was kicking a shuttlecock from one foot to another, seeming to just be playing around.

The second kid was a small girl with wavy blonde hair and pretty blue eyes. She was playing with building bricks that were floating around her, talking to a strange looking adult dressed like a butler, a pair of red horns sprouting from his head and the whites of eyes pitch black, while his irises were a strange gold, and a thick lizard tail came out from his back. Yu Yan wondered if it was a result of an ability, though he wondered what sort of ability could give someone such a demon-like appearance.

The last kid was a boy with fluffy brownish red hair that was lying on the ground hugging a large body pillow as he snored loudly, fast asleep.

Qin Shuang immediately went up to the sleeping kid, kicking him awake.”Wake up! If you want to sleep, don't do it in the training room.” He said, as the boy yelped, getting up and rubbing the spot where Qin Shuang had hit him.

”I'm training, training. Can't you see that?” He complained, grabbing around for the pair of large glasses next to him and putting them on. He had a face of freckles and bright green eyes, looking like a foreigner like the blonde haired girl.

”I bet William was just sleeping,” the blonde girl, Maria, said in a childish voice as she giggled.

”I was not! I was practicing my ability, really.” William said, feeling wronged. This is what he got for having an ability that only activated when he slept, no one ever believed him when he said he was practicing his ability, they all just thought he was slacking off!

”You can practice just as well in your bed,” Qin Shuang said in a cold voice.

”But I like the training room,” William complained, but taking a peek at the other boy's unamused expression, he could only grumble as he grabbed his pillow to leave for his room. ”Oh, wait, are you a new kid?” He said, looking at a young boy. Yu Yan was eight, but because of malnourishment, he looked more like he was five. But, many of the kids here were the same way when they arrived. For orphans, it was hard to survive day to day, let alone get enough food to grow. William was also on the smaller side, but was at ten years old, only a couple months younger than Qin Shuang.

”Yeah, his name's Yu Yan.” Qin Shuang said.

William nodded, before leaning in to whisper into Yu Yan's ear, ”don't worry, Qin Shuang hates all of us because we take away his time with his beloved big sister,” he said, before leaning back like nothing had happened, pushing up his glasses with an indifferent look.

”I can hear you,” Qin Shuang said stiffly, and William made an innocent expression.

”William is just sour that he can't beat Qin Shuang!” Maria called from over where she was. Everyone here all had enhanced physiques from training their abilities, and so they were able to easily hear what William had said.

”Well, William's ability is the only one that can't be used in combat after all,” Lee, the boy wearing the chang pao, said as he kicked his shuttlecock one more time before letting it fall to the ground as he walked over.

William frowned, but didn't say anything. Dammit, if only his ability didn't require him to sleep to activate it! He huffed, but wasn't brave enough to go up against Qin Shuang, who was the strongest out of all of them. He left the training room, stomping loudly as he went.

”Ahhh, wait, Amon, you messed up my castle!” Maria suddenly said, as the demon-like man's tail had accidentally hit the building blocks when he had turned around to glance at Yu Yan. Amon fretted as Maria started to tear up, trying to comfort her.

”Ignore those two,” Qin Shuang said, bringing Yu Yan to leave. Lee also wasn't going to stay to listen to the young girl cry, and so also left.