Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

"You? The layman? But everyone in the town knows how smart your strategy and planning are." Kate argued.

Xiaoyun chucked but didn't try to argue back. Instead, he looked up to the orange sky, already about to settle on the horizon as they arrived at the Foshan base kind of late.

"I can't be everywhere... Guangzhou——No, the entirety of Guangdong itself is surrounded almost on all three sides.

It's only a matter of time before they'll need to manage what to do, just like Zhen Ren or Lingang when they are alone in Qingyuan."

"I guess... Speaking of Lingang, you aren't going to promote him?"

Xiaoyun remained silent as he considered it in his mind but shook his head in the end.

"Lingang he... he's probably going to be stuck as a Lieutenant colonel for a long time——"

"Wait, why?"

Kate interrupted Xiaoyun as she had always viewed Xiaoyun as treating all five of the Lieutenant Colonels as equals.

"Because he's the only one that has fully armored units. He knows the town can't afford to have an entire division full of armor cars and tanks, and I doubt he wants his army to become a regular one.

Anyway, why are you asking so many questions? Are you trying to get info out of me and sell it to other powers?"

"Yeah, I'm going to sell your info straight to the newspaper. What are you going to do about it?"

Seeing Kate's arrogant face, the feeling to punish her surged in Xiaoyun's head. But just as he was about to do something about it, he suddenly felt something was watching him.

---

"Is it just me, or does it look like Commander Xiaoyun is the bodyguard for Ms.Kate rather than the other way around?"

Two soldiers stood at the temporary watchtower, one sitting on a foldable seat and the other who spoke holding a binocular.

"The last time someone said that out loud, they got beat so hard that they couldn't move for a week."

"It's not like they are going to hear us from all the way down there. Come on, you're worrying over nothing."

Seeing the other soldier not wanting to comment on anything, the soldier with binoculars started reporting what Kate and Xiaoyun were doing.

"Ms.Kate and Commander Xiaoyun are walking together towards the entrances... The two stopped right at the wall, looking up to the sky?"

Unable to hear what the two were saying down there, the soldier with binoculars started making them up.

"Ms.Kate is probably begging for Commander to take her, but she's getting rejected because he already has too many wives.

Oh, poor Ms.Kate, failing to propose. All she could do was hold up a smile and tough it out... If only I have a foreign wife——"

"Would you shut up, man? Say one more word, and I'll go down there and report it to them right now."

"Like they're going to believe you. It's just I say, you say... Oh shit, did Commander hear me talking?"

As Xiaoyun looked up at the tower, the first soldier got scared and quickly turned his binoculars back to the entrance.

"Didn't you say there's no way someone could hear you? Now you're scaring yourself?" The second soldier joked as he stood up and took out his binoculars.

The first soldier's face blushed as he realized he was being way too sensitive, considering he would be extremely small for the two down below to see.

"Shut up... Wait, why are they entering the storage tent together? This can't be... My idol..."

"You really are delusional... Keep dreaming." The second soldier pointed out as he turned his attention over to the distance, away from the base.

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"Huh, maybe I'm just tripping..." Xiaoyun murmured as he couldn't find who was looking at him.

"You're just too sensitive... Anyway, what are we doing here?" Kate curiously asked as Xiaoyun brought her to the storage tent.

"We're going to Foshan," Xiaoyun explained as he took out a black cloak from his backpack.

"Wait, right now?"

Kate looked back at Xiaoyun with a confused face, not understanding the situation as they were still a third of the way from the entrance.

"Yep. Catch. Put it on, and we'll be leaving now."

Kate catches the black cloak that Xiaoyun threw out of nowhere and puts it on. But as she turned around, there was no one there.

"Xiaoyun? Where did you go?"

Kate looked around the room, only to see not a single trace of Xiaoyun anywhere in the room.

"I'm right here."

Xiaoyun suddenly appeared out of nowhere, making Kate jump back a little as she didn't expect him to be so close.

"How did you do that? You just turned invisible!"

Seeing Xiaoyun purposely staying silent, she quickly grabbed his arm and started shaking it.

"Come on, tell me already! How did you turn invisible like that? What kind of magic is behind the cloak——"

"It's not magic, it's called science... I don't know how to explain it, but all you need to do is flip this switch here, and it turns on."

As the button flickered, the black cloak and Kate disappeared before Xiaoyun's sight. But Xiaoyun's hand holding onto her shoulder revealed that she was still there.

"You still can bump into things, so be careful when you're moving with it... And make sure you don't remove the cloak while it's on, or else it's going to be hard to find it.

A heat detector usually doesn't show when you are standing still, but when you move, it shows a heat map.

Lastly, when you move, you still can cause footsteps and break the wind, so make sure not to move too fast."

Feeling the wind blowing towards his face, Xiaoyun knew Kate was nodding in agreement. So he finally let go of his hand, making her truly invisible as no trace of her remained.

"We're going to walk to Foshan. Are you ready?" Xiaoyun asked softly.

"Yes! I'm born ready for this!"

Kate's voice was full of excitement, but it quickly died down when she realized something.

"But wouldn't Zhen Ren and the other soldiers be worried that you're gone?" Kate raises her concern.

"Don't worry about it. I already stated in Zhen Ren's promotion letter that I'm going to be gone for a few days.

But before we leave, I need you to put on this mic piece——"

Kate quickly snapped the mic piece out of Xiaoyun's hand, attaching it to her ears as she turned it on.

"Let's go then!" Kate excitedly whispered through the mic piece.

Xiaoyun sighed as Kate ignored all his warnings and ran straight out of the tent, causing the flap entrance to fly right open.

But none of the soldiers nearby felt anything was off, treating it just as the wind blowing in an odd direction.

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When the two arrived at the first building of Foshan, it was one of the hardest things Xiaoyun had done.

It wasn't because the walking took almost thirty minutes on a very bumpy road filled with broken cars, nor was the invisible cloak malfunctioning.

Instead, it was the fact that the two couldn't see each other, so they kept bumping into each other on repeat.

Eventually, Xiaoyun was fed up with it as he grabbed Kate by the hand and forced her to be next to him, not letting her stop at random times in front of him.

"What are you? A five-year-old child who got a new toy?" Xiaoyun asked through the mic, his voice full of anger despite being extremely quiet.

"Sorry... I was just examining the building over there." Kate apologized as she accepted Xiaoyun's punishment.

As the two continued walking down the street, Kate's face started to blush as it was her first time holding a man's hand like this.

But Xiaoyun couldn't see any of it as the both of them were invisible, with his attention on the surroundings, as it felt awfully quiet.

"Kate, you noticed something is off about this street?"

With no response back from Kate, Xiaoyun shook her arm a little, snapping her back to reality.

"Y-Yeah, there's not a single zombie in sight. Not even blood on the floor or anything... It's like someone had already cleared it."

"But I asked Renqin before I came here, and he said there was no major faction in Foshan at all."

"Then maybe it's just a small faction that went unnoticed," Kate suggested as the two finally stopped by a tall skyscraper.

"Maybe... Anyway, let's go to the roof. Maybe we can see some human activity in the city somewhere.

"Should we turn off the invisible cloak? The battery is already halfway empty..." Kate asked as she noticed the battery number inside the cloak.

"Right, almost forgot about that."

After the two turned visible again, they slowly walked past the glass broken glass at the front entrance.

"A lot of dust on the counter... And the broken glass door looked like humans were the ones that broke in rather than zombies."

Kate whispered through the mic as the two stopped at the receptionist's desk, shaking their shoes to get rid of the broken glass.