[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-624":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},1887439,2510,"Chapter 624: A Bull Market","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-624",624,"\u003Cp>Back in Guangzhou...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the month came to a close, Xiaoyun and Yuqi were heading to work early in the morning today as they parked their car in the parking lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So many people out there... Look like Liuqian was really right. People are just waiting for an opportunity to put their money somewhere.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun murmured as the two of them could see a long, long line in front of the Guangzhou stock exchange building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could they handle this many people?\" Yuqi questioned, looking a little concerned as they entered the administrative building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Muxie didn’t call us, so it’s probably going all right for now. Let’s just go inside our office.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entering the elevator, they could feel that the administrative office was a lot emptier than usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they arrived on the top floor, they could barely find anyone in their cubicle. Only the newly hired workers were working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where did everyone go?\" Yuqi asked as she approached her secretary, who was still working in her cubicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They went downstairs to open an investment account,\" Jianlin answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Investment account?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuqi was shocked upon hearing the news, while Xiaoyun didn’t seem to think too much of it as he brought her into the office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, why are you so calm? Our workers are putting money into the stock market!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And? Isn’t that what we wanted? Letting people who have money actually use their money rather than letting it sit in the bank.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuqi fell into silence for a second before speaking up again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, but they are government workers. They have more info than your average Joe who’s investing in the stock market.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So you’re saying we should prevent them from investing?\" Xiaoyun questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes! They should absolutely be prevented from investing! Half of them would be insider trading, knowing what is scarce and in hot demand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she picked up the office phone and was getting ready to call Muxie, Xiaoyun snatched it away before signalling her to take a seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Listen to me for a second. Do you remember what Liuqian and Muxie said a few days ago when we met them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching her sit in silence, Xiaoyun spoke up again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have to realize, one of the wealthiest classes within our settlement is the white collar office workers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we prevented them from investing, what do you think would happen to the stock market?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fifth of liquidity just gone like that? Do we want a market that barely could support under its own weight?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But but... are we allowing for insider trading then?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Muxie has his own idea. We don’t need to worry about it. He’s the expert here, not us. We just need to trust his judgement.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a short standoff, Yuqi backed down in the end, accepting Xiaoyun’s decision as she turned her attention back to her monitor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time the two of them headed outside for lunch, they could still see a long line outside the exchange building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, even the side entrances were being used, with their own line stretching almost an entire block.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, there was even a line at the bank, all with customers of various age ranges, from teens all the way to the elderly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Geez, why are there two lines now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who knows. Let’s just get lunch. I’m way too hungry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the two of them headed down the road, they could see all the nearby restaurants filled with people inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a single one of them had empty seats, with appointments booked all the way til the end of next week.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when they arrived at the government’s cafeteria did they find some empty seats to sit in and eat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A lot fewer people today,\" Yuqi murmured as she began eating the food on her tray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yep... Maybe we might have gone a little overboard with the advertisement.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking back to the newspaper during breakfast, Xiaoyun couldn’t help but let out a small chuckle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you smiling at?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just the newspaper this morning... Hey Yuqi, do you think the government should go public and let people invest in it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That sounds like the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard. If they want to invest, they could very well buy government bonds that the bank offers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You aren’t wrong... They really need to hire new writers at the press.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the short lunch, the two of them went their separate ways as Yuqi headed towards the administrative office while Xiaoyun headed towards the logistics office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anything new I need to know about?\" Xiaoyun asked as he entered Houqin’s office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, sir. Nothing new... But I am starting to get a little concerned with the ammo usage in Shenzhen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ammo usage? What about it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Houqin pulled out a report on her monitor, Xiaoyun could see a bar chart indicating each week’s ammo usage since April.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The ammo usage has been relatively stable... But ever since the report of the death zone in Shenzhen, it has been doubling every single day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We had to send out supply trucks every two days instead of every week. It’s coming dangerously close to needing to divert other theaters’ ammo supply.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more Xiaoyun stared at the graph, the more he realized the situation might be more serious than he had imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only a matter of time before ammo supplies ran completely dry if the graph continued to go exponentially like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell is Yiming doing? Has he reported back what the reason is behind all this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ever since he started attacking the death zone, it has been releasing more and more zombies to fight back,\" Houqin answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sitting there for a whole minute, Xiaoyun quickly pinpointed the issue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tell him to pause the attack. No need to grind pointlessly against it. Just encircle it for now and wait.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll send that message over right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Houqin started typing an email into her computer, Xiaoyun’s mind was thinking back to all the information that had been gathered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he wasn’t at the logistics office for the past few days, Houqin still sent him a phone call, reporting how Yiming’s plan had failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind had no solution. He couldn’t think of any other weapons that could be used that Yiming hasn’t tried yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Tianci had left for Shenzhen for the past four days, assisting her team in extracting and testing the flesh sample in the death zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she hasn’t sent back any reports yet, he was optimistic that they could be the key to dealing with this problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"General Yiming has affirmed our decision and paused their attack against the death zone,\" Houqin reported out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good... Tell him that I’ll go over to Shenzhen next week. I need to leave now. See you tomorrow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See ya, Commander.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun sat inside his car, he began driving towards the one destination that needed him more than ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was more important than the whole stock market. More important than all of the work he had in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was to attend Lingang’s wedding all alone. A small private wedding where Lingang oddly requested him not to bring any of his wivies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun already knew the list of people he had invited. Every single one of them was a soldier in his motorized unit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do I need to do as best man in the wedding again?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun wondered as he drove down the road in Luoping, heading towards the destination that Lingang had told him the previous night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Weirdly enough, although the road was within Luoping, all of the cabins and the nearby buildings looked to be completely abandoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was clear that everyone had been moved out of this area to allow for reforestation, as the small trees were planted alongside the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After driving for a few minutes down the slightly bumpy road, he finally saw a small group of people gathered together in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The place was surrounded by dusty cabins, with an open grass field right in the middle that conveniently allowed for a bunch of tables to be placed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tables, chairs, and wedding arches were already placed down further down, with food still steaming hot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Commander!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good afternoon, everyone. Sorry for being a little late. I had some work to do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun exited the car, a bunch of soldiers all waved towards him before he finally got the chance to see who the bride was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a young woman who looked a little too young. For some odd reason, he could feel she looked a little familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking over to the right, he instantly connected the dots. It was almost a semi-replica of Lingang’s current wife, Lele.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren’t for the fact that he knew Lingang’s wife didn’t have a kid yet, he would have believed it was her daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You finally decided to show up, Commander... I thought you weren’t coming at all.\" Lingang murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No way I would miss something so important. Ahem, what do I need to do now?\" Xiaoyun asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just follow me... Everyone, get in your seats! We are finally starting the wedding!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1527,"2026-06-10T06:59:53.365Z",1,"novelbin.me","001dbc3c5a3eb83bb249ab343614f27e700b9d7d90cfdc807e7de4819b185a96","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-819","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-818",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]