[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-638":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},1887470,2510,"Chapter 638: Xiaoyun’s Returns","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-638",638,"\u003Cp>\"Wait, wait, wait, don’t shoot. If you don’t think I’m our commander, at least look at my clothes. I’m on your guy’s side.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a group of soldiers gathered in the distance raised their rifles, Xiaoyun quickly realized they didn’t buy it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, look, I even have an AKM... There’s no one else that could be in the city other than our army.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Xiaoyun took out his rifle from his back to show, his face immediately started panicking as they started aiming it right at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whoa whoa whoa. I’ll put my gun down. No need to shoot... Here, can you see my ID? I’m a part of you guys, I swear.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dropping the rifles made the soldier ease up a little as they lowered their rifle back down, but the situation was still extremely tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How can you be our commander? He’s supposed to be at Luoping right now.\" One of the soldiers yelled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Luoping? What the hell did Wuli say to Yiming... Well, you all see my ID, thought, right? It says Chen Xiaoyun right here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After yelling back at the soldiers one last time, one of them finally took out some sort of binoculars to check.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next thing he knew, the soldiers were finally walking up with him with their rifles strapped to their backs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Commander, we didn’t expect you to be here.\" The soldier who led the front apologized, with the others bowing down in apology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s fine... But none of you guys have seen me before? My voice and face are pretty recognizable, no?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Commander Chen... Y-You might want to check your face.\" One of the soldiers in the back nervously murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My face?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reaching down to the pocket, Xiaoyun quickly took out his phone and turned the camera into selfie mode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the fuck?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every inch of his skin, from his face down to his hands, was red—the same color as the living particles when he was inside the fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, he couldn’t see any of it with his own eyes. Looking down at his arms, everything seemed to be fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost as if the red particles had become invisible, only visible to everyone else except him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do all of you see my skin to be covered in red?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing all five of the soldiers nodding, Xiaoyun’s mind quickly realized something had gone terribly wrong with him while trapped in the fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shit... Wait, what day is today?\" Xiaoyun asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The 16th, sir.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? It’s been that long already? Wait, I need you guys to get me a car... I’ll be right back in about a minute.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yiming waited at the front entrance of the base, he was finally met by several soldiers along with a person in a hazmat suit in the back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiaoyun?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yiming, let’s talk somewhere more private.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Xiaoyun’s voice, Yiming didn’t question it as the two of them headed all the way back to the HQ tent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What took you so long? You know how long you had been missing for?\" Yiming questioned with a hint of anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was trapped within the fog... But I got something very important from it. This is the flesh of the sphere that we managed to kill.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking over to the ziplock bag in Xiaoyun’s hand, Yiming could clearly see the glass vial with some mysterious dark red flesh inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This might just be the key to dealing with the fog,\" Xiaoyun murmured as he examined the glass vials in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiaoyun... Where did you come out of the fog?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just a few minutes earlier... What about it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you not notice it’s all gone already?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun froze for a second before putting the vials back down. He hesitated for a second before unzipping his hazmat suit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t freak out. I’m still perfectly fine... I’m going to need your help to catch up with everything that happened while I was gone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"W-What happened to you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yiming instantly questioned as his face looked more and more nervous, unable to believe the appearance of Xiaoyun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His skin was just way too red, almost as if he got a sunburn or some sort of severe rash all over his entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s just some side effect of the fog... It’s probably going to go away in a few days or so. Don’t worry about it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reassurance calmed Yiming down a little, but he still felt a little unnerved to look towards Xiaoyun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I see... Ahem, I’ll catch up with everything that happened.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes later...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So the entirety of the 3rd army corps is back in Zhongshan city?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not exactly, Wuli and a few of her soldiers are still here. But Han Bang had been put in charge as the temporary General.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yiming finished catching up with most of the news regarding the troop movement, Xiaoyun’s mind suddenly thought back to what he had said earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not going to lie, Yiming, your lie about me heading to Luoping is not bad. Looks like all of the soldiers brought it.\" Xiaoyun complimented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I much prefer never needing to do that again. I almost got into trouble with Houqin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t worry, it won’t happen again... Anyway, this is the area that’s still fogged up?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun questioned as he looked over to the sandbox, which only had a very small area circled in red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yep. It retreated all the way in this corner of the city ever since we burnt through all the tentacles.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why didn’t you go any further?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s too pressurized inside. Tianci had told me we needed a pressure suit meant for diving deep underwater.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Houqin already reported there wasn’t any in the inventory, and I already tried bombing it and nothing happened.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Yiming’s explanation, Xiaoyun nodded his head in acknowledgment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see... So everything in Shenzhen is resolved at this point, other than just this very small pocket?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yep.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bring me to this area later. I think I might have just got the solution for this.\" Xiaoyun murmured as an idea suddenly popped up in his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Really? You sure?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah. I’m certain this might work... But I need to take a shower first. My body smells like hot ass right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the afternoon had arrived, Yiming was standing right next to a person wearing a hazmat suit once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one else was nearby other than the two of them, with the dense fog right just three steps in front of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This area is the remaining fogged area?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yep... Xiaoyun, don’t try to stick your hand in, it’s going to hurt like hell. A few soldiers already tried it and got injured.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The warning made Xiaoyun a little curious, as what he saw in front of him was completely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing in front of him at all. What was supposed to be a ’dense fog’ was completely invisible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could see right through the fog, where a bunch of collapsed buildings lay on the ground, with one of the office blocks barely hanging on its last legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You said bombing didn’t work, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We dropped artillery shells nonstop on this whole area for yesterday. The only thing we got was a bunch of smoke and sounds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mhm... Yiming, this fog for you is extremely red, right?\" Xiaoyun asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, it’s as red as the paint on your skin... Why are you asking that? Is there something wrong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let me go try something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait——\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Yiming’s shock, Xiaoyun walked straight into the fog headfirst, seemingly to be perfectly fine as he stood still inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This doesn’t make any sense. How the hell are you perfectly fine in there? You don’t feel pain or anything?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t feel anything at all... I can’t see the fog either. Everything is clear to me inside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yiming tried to stick his own arms into the fog, he instantly felt a sharp pain that pushed him back out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck, this hurts,\" Yiming complained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think I might have grown resistant to the fog... It probably explains why the color on my skin looks so red now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the explanation, Yiming’s mind had no choice but to accept it as reality. But when Xiaoyun stepped out, he was shocked once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anyway, I’ll go into the fog myself later to explore what’s inside... Yiming, what’s wrong? Why are you looking at the shop over there?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun curiously asked, noticing him suddenly turning around and looking in the other direction away from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem, you might want to look down,\" Yiming murmured as he cleared his throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look down... Huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Xiaoyun looked down, he froze for a second as his brain quickly realized the hamzat suit wasn’t there to block his vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, all of his clothes were completely gone. He was standing there, completely naked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shit, why the hell did the fog rip my clothes?\" Xiaoyun complained as he quickly created a new pair of clothes to put on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe you stayed inside the fog for too long...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1508,"2026-06-10T06:59:53.365Z",1,"novelbin.me","8dea46b47a8849ee2098ba1a9223e2a338aea83d269f2ccc6afb74eeaf1c7992","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-679","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-678",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]