[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-572":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Zombie Apocalypse: Creation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1887528,2510,"Chapter 572: Story of A Refugee (8)","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-572",572,"\u003Cp>\"What are you thinking of, bro? Your mouth is drooling a little.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As my sister snapped me back into reality again, I didn’t think of what happened last night any further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All I could say, it was the most memorable night I ever had so far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next few days, I was finally able to remove all the bandages as the scar had mostly vanished on my chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was still a little shocked by how fast I was able to heal up considering the cut to my wound, but I digress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heading to the draft office with Jieqiong early in the morning, I signed up for the draft list at one of the booths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They told me that they will announce the news next week. So I had an entire week of waiting until I was fully cleared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the meantime, I went to the job center with her, hoping to get a job to lighten up the burden for my parent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, almost every single one of them required technical skills that I didn’t have. Not to mention, I only had a high school degree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was once again stuck at home, tutoring my sister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made me feel even more guilty seeing my parent come home with a tired face every night. I felt useless for the first time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jieqiong noticed the change in my mood and tried to comfort me, but seeing her going to work every day made me feel even worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was a freeloader. There was no other way to sugarcoat it. A fully grown man who couldn’t work to provide for his family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a short period of time, I was seriously considering the option to just leave. Of course, I wasn’t just leaving anywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather, I was thinking of joining one of those salvage groups that advertised a bountiful reward at the job center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although both of my parent and Jieqiong wanted me to stay safe in the settlement, I just couldn’t watch myself do nothing at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I told myself that I was going to join the salvage group by the end of the week... Until a mysterious man in army clothes showed up one morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did he tell me, you may ask?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had somehow hit the most unlucky, or luckiest, draws of all time, as the man told me only twenty people out of a hundred thousand were selected in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was now a part of the army, reporting for duty the next day at the barracks. When I told them about it, they were immediately shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after the initial reaction, they had no choice but to accept the fact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, I was extremely nervous and excited at the same time when I arrived at the military barracks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mind was already thinking of all kinds of exercises and drills ahead of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opposite of what middle school and high school’s military education is. Not just standing still and running around in circles for two weeks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was thinking of what my dad had always bragged about back in the days with actual guns and shooting range practice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, reality is often disappointing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The army training was completely different from what I had imagined. Or should I say there was no army training at all?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A senior soldier just came to the barracks in the morning and handed me and ninety other people a rifle with blank bullets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We were told to patrol the wall every morning and afternoon. With day and night shifted determined among ourselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the exact same job as the one I had back in the village. Except this time, I had a gun in my hand that couldn’t even kill a zombie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half of us were a little bumped out, including me. But the other half barely flinched at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost as if they knew it was going to happen. We soon divided among ourselves, with one half taking morning duty and the other half taking night duty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was a part of the morning duty for the first month, which meant I had to arrive at the wall for check-in early in the morning by six o’clock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ten of us quickly headed towards the wall with our weapons, walking past hundreds of other soldiers who looked to be armed to the teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the way, I learned the wall itself had four different entrances, each managed by a separate army unit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After climbing up the stairs for a whole minute, I finally arrived at the top of the wall for the very first time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was instantly awed by the view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the far, far distance was a massive water reservoir that almost looked more like an ocean at first glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right next to it was a large city with a bunch of buildings. All around us were a bunch of mountains, with a much smaller water reservoir just a few miles away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking down, we were almost a hundred meters tall from the ground, with only a singular highway leading up to the settlement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Various armor vehicles containing soldiers were preparing to leave, followed by a bunch of civilian cars armed with only melee weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were clearly the salvage groups that I was about to join if it wasn’t for the job I now have at the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Patrolling down the wall, I soon got to know several of the soldiers who were on duty with me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of them were just like me, people who had just recently gotten here. Some of them were even from Kaifeng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We chatted and chatted as the hot sun shot its hot rays down to our faces. One of us soon couldn’t handle the heat as he sat down underneath the battlement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I, too, joined in as we took turns lying down in the shade. A boring job that had nothing happening, as the road looked clearer than crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No zombies, no enemies. Nothing was in sight other than the heat. It was becoming clear why the other half pushed the morning duty to us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, we had no choice but to endure it. Waiting for the sun to continue to rise until it was finally time for lunch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half of us rotated for lunch while the other half remained on duty. Then, when one half finished, the other half went to get lunch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the long wait until the sun finally sets on the horizon. Heading back to the barracks until the next day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a month of what felt like the most boring job I ever had, we were finally given our salary and a day break to head back home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pay wasn’t much, but it was enough to buy several pork chops and canned fish at the store located in the fancy part of the settlement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I arrived back home, my younger sister instantly greeted me with a warm hug. No one else was home yet as they were all at work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She immediately began asking me what the military was like, only to be disappointed when I told her it was a boring, mundane task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few hours later, Dad and Mom finally came back home, with Jieqiong coming over as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They all asked the same question as my younger sister, and I gave them the exact same answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than being disappointed, their face looked a little relieved. They were more than happy to learn that I was assigned patrol duty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I showed them the food I brought, their eyes were in shock. Even Jieqiong was impressed as she grabbed the canned fish to have a closer look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could still remember the proud look on Dad’s eyes as he patted me on the shoulder while Mom popped open one of the lids to reveal the tasty smell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing how excited everyone looked in the shack, I, for once, felt the patrol job wasn’t as bad as I had thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was all worth it in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The day quickly went by. I was back to the boring old patrol job at the wall, sitting idly next to one of my peers with my rifle on the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just supposed to be another normal day with nothing happening. The only difference was that it was nighttime rather than in the morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was fortunately out of the seething heat, but unfortunately, my body and my peers’ bodies haven’t really gotten used to staying up late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our eyes were closing on their own once every few minutes... Until a sudden small light dot appeared in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I instantly woke up my peer and took out a pair of binoculars, only to see a civilian car with its headlights on driving closer and closer towards us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you see, Zhaoxun?\" My peer asked, noticing the light dot in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A normal car. I can’t tell who’s inside driving it... Oh shit! T-There’s a zombie chasing after it.\" I nervously responded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just a zombie?\" My peer asked again, his eyes almost closing again, as it didn’t sound alarming at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No. I-It’s too many to count!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1539,"2026-06-10T06:59:52.732Z",1,"novelbin.me","5eb5b7501b539e54f0ea99caf87d44beb41255c8dda217ad92d7331faf05df9d","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-573","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-571",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]