[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-637":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},1887467,2510,"Chapter 637: Stagnation and Changes","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-637",637,"\u003Cp>After just walking for five minutes, the fog stopped retreating completely, right near where a park was located.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same one that Wuli and her soldiers had entered in the past, as the street signs and the landmark told them everything they needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Major Wu, should we go inside the fog?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuli held onto the walkie-talkie for a whole minute in silence. She had heard the soldier’s question, but she couldn’t make the decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mind told her something was off, especially given how dense the fog looked. They could barely see five steps ahead of themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But backing down now meant they had to wait for the next supply drive. Wait for the next hazmat suit to arrive for who knows how long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 5th squad, you may continue advancing in the fog. 6th, 7th, and 9th squads, stay near the outskirts until Yiming sends reinforcements. Over.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the order given, Wuli advanced, leading her own squad into the fog. The moment she set foot inside, she felt an even heavier pressure on her hazmat suit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost as if she were swimming underwater, with the red particles completely blocking the hamzat suit’s window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck! Everyone, walk back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wuli stepped back out from the fog, the red particle vanished from the windows within seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could finally see and breathe again, as the physical force pressing down on her earlier felt like a hundred pounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the soldiers from further back finally caught up to where the line of engagement, everyone could tell that something about the fog had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was no longer just a grey color from the outside appearance. A blood-red fog that matched the same appearance as when stepping foot inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"General Yiming, we can’t go in any further... The fog is way too dense to see anything inside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuli reported as Yiming stepped out of his car, with a white hair lady wearing a lab suit and sunglasses following right behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s fine... Any news on the main task?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, sir.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yiming’s face looked a little disappointed, but he didn’t ask about it any further as he turned his attention back to the fog itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your soldiers can go take a break. I’ll send a few attachments to reinforce the area you had captured here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, sir.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wuli and her soldiers walked off into the distance, Yiming turned around before looking over to the white hair lady.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianci, can you tell me what changed about the fog?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right in front of Yiming and all of the soldiers, the white hair lady sticks her arm in before pulling it back out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Highly pressurized space inside... The living particles seem to be all gathered in this small area.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she looked around the fog, it was mostly contained within four blocks, or just tall four-office buildings in each corner, with the park right in the middle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is there any way for us to go inside and try to destroy whatever is in there?\" Yiming questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s going to be extremely hard... They’re going to need something that can hold on its own and something that can help them see through the fog.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So a diving suit?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, that would most likely work. But it has to be one for diving deep into the oceans. Like at least 400 meters deep.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s no way Houqin would ever find something like that in the stockpile.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s not my problem.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Tianci falling into silence, Yiming turned back to the fog as he stared at it for a whole minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some time, an idea suddenly popped up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What if I bomb the shit out of it? Surely whatever is inside would collapse, right? It’s just a few buildings I need to flatten.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can certainly try. But I’m not sure if that’s going to be effective.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not like I have any other options... Can any of you come up with a better idea?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yiming turned to the back, all three Colonels who had been standing there quickly shook their heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then bombing it is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the endless shelling ran through the entirety of the afternoon, everyone could hear the sounds of buildings collapsing along with smoke floating up into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the red particles remained in place. It had somehow gotten even stronger, as any attempt to stick anything inside was instantly pushed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the shells that landed inside didn’t even make any sound. It was unforunately a stalemate once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Putting the shelling on a pause, Yiming directed the entirety of the 3rd Army Corps in an attempt to find potential ’zombies’ within the rest of Shenzhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the directive said zombie, he was really trying to look for Xiaoyun’s whereabouts, dead or alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As days continued to go by, the hope of his being alive was ironically getting higher and higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no skeleton of him, unlike the other soldiers who had died in the fog. Yet, the concern remained in their mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The army had found zero. Not a single zombie throughout what was previously in the fog area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not in the buildings, not in the subways, not in any of the streets they had entered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost as if the fog had actually helped them, not needing to face any mutants that would have bogged down the speed into the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What day is today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yiming asked as he sat in the HQ tent, his face looking a little exhausted. Right by the entrance was a soldier who had been standing guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The 16th, sir.\" Yan Lin replied, standing right next to him as the only other person in the tent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"16th already?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking over to the open tent flap, soldiers were dismantling their tent. Some of them are already lining up to go inside the long-haul buses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turning back to the table was a letter—one with the word urgent on the cover. Houqin had once again sent a letter reminding him of the supply limitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shenzhen was just too far from Luoping. Too far for them to supply two full army corps in a single direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 3rd Army Corps had to go back to Guangzhou and resume guarding the rear against Zhongshan’s increasingly high zombie activity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, more and more zombies were starting to come towards Shenzhen itself in the rural countryside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Multiple reports from Li Miao indicated a renewed zombie activity from the south in Hong Kong and in the east in Huizhou city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of all these, a massive zombie outburst in Heyuan city in the north forced Li Qing to recall her troops back to Dongguan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yan Lin, has Wuli and Han Bang gone back yet?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, sir. She wasn’t a part of the troops that are heading back... Houqin had temporarily installed Han Bang as the 3rd army corps commander.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turning his attention back to the sandbox, Yiming could see his army stretched out thin, with a single Division in Shenzhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Tianci had reassured him that the death zone isn’t the same one in the north that produces zombies, he didn’t feel comfortable with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He barely had enough to cover the grounds he had recovered in Shenzhen, let alone having some reserve soldiers in case of an emergency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How’s the city search so far? Has every inch of the city been looked through?\" Yiming asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The troops have searched through forty percent of the buildings in the city... It’s going to take three more days to clear the city fully.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the answer, Yiming let out a small sigh as every day that went by was starting to become harder to hide the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the troops in Shenzhen had all brought the idea of their commander-in-chief heading back to Luoping, Houqin had seen right through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The letter itself had a hard deadline. One that required him to report Xiaoyun’s whereabouts by the end of the week.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was only willing to cooperate with him out of stability, but when the soldier’s rotation resumed, it was only a matter of time before the lie exposed itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yan Lin, what if I told you Xiaoyun is missing?\" Yiming suddenly asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Missing? Why would he be missing? Is there something wrong, General?\" Yan Lin questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Never mind. Just ignore what I just said... Tell me when you find anything alive. I want to be certain that it has no zombies in Shenzhen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, sir!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can go now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yan Lin exited the tent, Yiming sat there in silence. His mind was starting to think of the worst-case scenario.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe I should just be honest with Houqin... I can’t hide this any further.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking out his pen and paper, he started writing down letters. Inside, he stated himself as the sole person responsible for the loss of the commander-in-chief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no one else to blame but himself, acknowledging his mistake and his resignation after the whole affair in Shenzhen was finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the signature written right at the bottom, he walked over to his cabinet to take a small envelope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was about to put the letter inside the envelope, a soldier suddenly rushed into the HQ tent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"General Yiming! S-Someone found a person calling themsleve Commander in Chief!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1557,"2026-06-10T06:59:53.365Z",1,"novelbin.me","c16dca16ca7fdd7c29d378c8f0e36e849ac0c47e98c39a9720e5c57fddb602ed","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-827","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-826",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]