Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

"My ability? I don't have any ability... My wife can turn invisible, though."

Ranzhi turned invisible right before their eyes and then turned back visible again. But the baby in hand didn't turn invisible, indicating that it only applied to the person using it.

"If it's not your ability, then how can you lead those zombies?" Xiaoyun pointed out.

"They just follow me. I don't know why——"

"Honey, don't you remember? One time, you protected both of us by fighting off a mutant, then all of the nearby zombies ate the mutant's body and started following you?"

"Oh right, I guess that's my ability then. I can get zombies to follow me." Lin Yu replied as he awkwardly scratched his head.

"Okay... If I were to ask you to leave the city with as many zombies as possible, how many can you bring with you?"

Kate immediately realized what Xiaoyun was trying to do, but she didn't say anything about it because she knew it was a hard decision for him.

"All of the zombies that are on the streets. The ones in the building I can't do anything about."

After a short consideration, Xiaoyun gave his final verdict.

"I want you to drag as many zombies as possible and head as far up north as possible. Can you do that?"

Without any hesitation, Lin Yu nodded in agreement.

"Deal. You'll see an empty street for three days. I'll get every single zombie out to follow me up north."

"Then we have a deal... I hope we don't have to meet ever again."

This time, Xiaoyun walked away with Kate down the stairs with footsteps, letting them know they had left.

"Are we really going to head up north?" Ranzi worryingly asked as she held the baby in her arm, which had fallen asleep after the fire alarm stopped.

"We don't have any other options... We can't fight back something that we can't see. Besides, there's no more easy food down here anyway."

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"Why didn't you just kill them there? No way you're letting go of something that big of a threat."

Kate drags Xiaoyun's hand, wanting to bring him back to finish the job.

"What's killing them going to do? They are not the outlier. There are going to be this kind of zombie throughout the entire country.

Why should I accept a free city being handed over? What do the people in the north have to do with Luoping?"

Hearing Xiaoyun's heartless explanation, Kate felt a little disappointed. But she knew what he was saying was the best possible outcome for the town.

"You're going to regret doing this. I can feel it. They're going to become your biggest enemy." Kate randomly predicted as they arrived back at the front gate.

"Yeah, sure. Like that's ever going to happen. How much do you want to bet that we'll never see them again?" Xiaoyun argued back as they hopped over the fence.

"If that come true, I'll let you cum inside me."

Kate whispered through the mic before jumping onto the bike and riding off in a random direction.

"Why the hell would I want to bet on that? I don't want another kid."

Xiaoyun quickly catches up to her as they continue biking down the street, with zero care where they are heading.

"Really? Then how come every single woman that's with you is pregnant?"

"Because they wanted to. I never forced them to get pregnant... Wait, you want to be my woman?"

"What do you think, you dummy?"

Kate quickly sped up her paddling and drove off into the distance as the sun settled down on the horizon.

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By the time Kate and Xiaoyun stopped, they were all the way back to Zhen Ren's military base outside of Foshan.

The soldiers who were at the gate were a little shocked, as they hadn't seen them for weeks now.

"What are you guys waiting for? Do you guys not see me standing here?" Xiaoyun asked as he waved his hand with a badge number.

The gate was immediately lower, letting the two bikes forward until they ran right into the entire Zhen Ren army standing there, with Zhen Ren himself on a makeshift stage.

"Shush, don't freak out. What's happening?" Xiaoyun asked one of the soldiers.

The soldiers froze for a second after seeing Xiaoyun's face in the darkness, then replied to him.

"Zhen Ren is explaining our new plan for tomorrow's attack on the city. He had set up artillery to bombard the city outskirts with hot air balloons scouting the strike zone."

"Oh shit."

Xiaoyun quickly threw the bike over to Kate as he ran up the stage, confusing Zhen Ren as he didn't expect him to show up now.

After grabbing the mic, Xiaoyun looked down at the soldiers on the stage.

"Scrape everything you had just heard. We're only attacking the city three days later. You all are dismissed."

All the soldiers got a little confused, but they all took Xiaoyun's command to heart, going back to their own tent as Xiaoyun was the commander in chief.

Before Zhen Ren could ask why, Xiaoyun jumped back down the stage and entered the HQ tent.

After Zhen Ren walked into the HQ tent, he finally raised his question.

"Commander, why did you stop the operation like this?"

"I can't explain this to you, but just know that most zombies in the city after the next three days will be all gone."

"Huh?"

Seeing Zhen Ren still looking a little confused, Xiaoyun still didn't want to explain why to him.

"Just trust me. You'll see it for yourself. I haven't lied to you in the past, have I?"

"No, sir."

"Then just follow the order and come back three days later, you understand?"

"Yes, sir!"

As Zhen Ren left the tent, Kate entered the tent herself.

"You really going to follow through with that zombie's plan?" Kate curiously asked.

"I got nothing much to lose. It's only three extra days."

"I guess... What do we do now, then?"

"Going back to our own tent and go to sleep. We're going to check on the city again tomorrow."

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For the next three days, the two of them headed from the base to the city to check the progress.

To their surprise, the streets were empty after two days —much sooner than the promised three days.

Still, despite the street being mostly emptied, many of the buildings had zombies for the army to clear.

When the two drove back to the apartment complex, they even noticed a goodbye letter labeled at the front gate.

It detailed a specific path, with Lin Yu and the zombies going from Foshan to Qingyuan to Shaoguan, then all the way from Changsha to Hefei, with the final destination being Beijing.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure we're never going to see them again this far up north." Xiaoyun pointed out the path to Kate.

"Hmph! It doesn't mean I have lost yet. We still have years to determine if I'm right." Kate argued as they began biking back to the base to deliver the news.

After the news was delivered, Zhen Ren quickly sent in the entire army, clearing the city building by building as it began making safe zones.

The survivors living above ground soon noticed their operation and came in to join, which Zhen Ren dismissed and sent them on a ride to Guangzhou instead.

With almost everything now settled in Foshan, Xiaoyun only had one last worry about the city before going back to Luoping.

Not wasting any time, he directed two companies from Zhen Ren's army to head down to the metro with him, surprising Lianzheng when they met up.

But to Xiaoyun's surprise, Lianzheng handed over full control of his men, letting him lead after explaining what had happened in the metro since he had left.

The metro situation ended in a stalemate, with neither side wanting to back down as it split into two.

A loyal small minority was willing to join Lianzheng's group, while the majority had grown distrustful of outsiders and remained in their own metro line.

"Crazy that it got to this point... You two, go clear the metro station one by one. I permit you to free-fire anything that is a threat.

And Lianzheng, have your men follow behind them. Collect all the civilians and get ready to bring them up."

"Yes, sir."

As the two captains left the room, Lianzheng hesitated for a second but left in the end with them.

After waiting for almost an entire day, the two companies cleared the entire metro line without losing a single person.

When Xiaoyun asked what had happened, the two captains said the same thing: "They all surrendered when we came over."

Xiaoyun didn't think too much about it, as he didn't expect much from a bunch of police and riot guards who came down to the metro to survive to fight back, especially after hiding since the start of the outbreak.

With the metro cleared, Xiaoyun quickly assigned Lianzheng to redirect the effort to resettle everyone back to the surface.

It shocked everyone who lived in the metro as they learned that the city had already been mostly cleared, especially after they saw it with their own eyes, with zombie corpses on the street still being burnt by soldiers.