[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-661":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},1887412,2510,"Chapter 661: Trade Talks and Pipelines","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-661",661,"\u003Cp>The moment Zhangfei mentioned the word buy, Xiaoyun’s eyes widened for a second before returning to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How much are you guys looking for? I can try my best to get enough to sell.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"About fifty thousand tonnes,\" Zhangfei answered casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fifty thousand tonnes!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun’s heart skipped for a second. He had never even seen that much food, let alone selling that much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry, did I hear that right? You said five thousand tonnes?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Zhangfei nodding his head, Xiaoyun paused for a second again, recollecting his cool before speaking up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can sell however much you want. It’s okay if you can’t sell that many at once.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhangfei quickly added, seemingly to have realized how big a number he had just mentioned without thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can sell you around a hundred tonnes per week. I can’t give you any more, I have my own mouth to feed.\" Xiaoyun answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s fine. We’ll take it as well...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the car drove out of the airport and reached closer and closer to Foshan proper, Xiaoyun could notice his face looking a little off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is there something wrong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun curiously asked as the car took a right turn, heading around the outskirts highway rather than entering the city itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, Mr.Chen... Can I ask where we are going?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To Guangzhou. You said you wanted a tour of our city, right?\" Xiaoyun questioned, looking a little confused by his response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You had cleared Guangzhou and Foshan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, they are like twin cities. There’s no way someone could clear one without clearing the other.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun casually responded, he could feel the change in Zhangfei’s face—a hint of shock and jealousy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s very impressive... Are there more cities under your control?\" Zhangfei curiously asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Qingyuan, Shaoguan, Shenzhen... Almost forgot to include Zhaoqing. I just had it cleared about two days ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The atmosphere in the car started to get a little tense as Zhangfei could tell at this point that Xiaoyun was just flexing his muscles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No wonder the trader who came to our place calls you the ’King’ of Guangdong.\" Zhangfei complimented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please don’t call me that. Just call me Xiaoyun if you want... How about your guys? How much does your leader control?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Zhangfei could even say anything, the bodyguard in the front cleared his throat once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Does your bodyguard need some cough syrup? Xiaoyun offered, looking a little annoyed as he kept on interrupting his talks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you for asking, but he just had a small cold... I know this might be shocking to you, Mr.Chen, but we don’t control any cities.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No cities?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun was a little intrigued as he remembered Yiming once telling him how fierce and tough the soldiers in the Northwest were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t make sense to him that any possible threat could stand in their way, other than an actual death zone similar to the one in the Capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We only have military bases. It’s too burdensome to take over cities that are riddled with zombies and dust storms.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see... Then what are you guys planning to trade food with? I have a lot of things from the cities already.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The gas around here is pretty limited, aren’t they? And those lights in the cities?\" Zhangfei asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are pretty expensive...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun fell into silence for a second, his mind started to realize what Zhangfei was trying to suggest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, we can perfectly complement each other with you giving the food to us and we giving the fuel to power your cities and cars.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But how are you going to transport all that oil down here?\" Xiaoyun questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s already a pipeline that connects all over the country. All you needed to do was send a small team to make sure everything was fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You do know that there are almost 3000 kilometers of pipes that I would need to maintain for this to work, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhangfei didn’t seem to be too bothered by Xiaoyun’s question. It was almost as if he had to answer the same question before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’ll only need to send a small team to each of the city’s checkpoints. You wouldn’t need your soldiers to check the entirety of the pipeline to know what to replace with.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun sat still in the passenger seat. The thought of accepting the deal started brewing in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having near-unlimited fuel was just too tempting, especially with the recent manufacturing boom that had created an energy shortage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention Yuqi’s upcoming plan to implement rolling blackouts due to the aging power stations that haven’t been properly taken care of since the outbreak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How much are you offering?\" Xiaoyun asked, his face remaining mostly calm to hide the urge to say yes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are willing to give 1 tonne of oil for 2 tonnes of food.\" Zhangfei offered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"1 tonne of oil for 1 tonne of food.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Deal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing how easily Zhangfei accepted his counteroffer, Xiaoyun couldn’t help but feel a little ripped off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need to be so rushed. I have two conditions that I haven’t said yet... How about we talk it out inside the office?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the two of them exited the car, they were already at the administrative building, as Houqin and the bodyguards quickly exited the car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can you tell your men to wait here? The four of us are enough to go inside the building.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhangfei thought for a second before agreeing to it as he and Xiaoyun both signaled the rest of the troops to remain in their cars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This building is yours?\" Zhangfei curiously asked as the four of them entered the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The government owns everything in the city... But people have their own rights and liberty to their own private properties.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun quickly added the last part as he could notice the change on the bodyguard’s face when they headed towards the elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow... This thing really worked?\" Zhangfei murmured, his face looking genuinely surprised as the elevator began to go up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course. I don’t want my workers to be forced to take the stairs every day... If you came here in the morning, you would have seen a lot of people right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After exiting the elevator, Xiaoyun guided the three of them into an empty meeting room before he signaled Houqin to take out a piece of paper and a pen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Houqin, write down all the conditions we had discussed earlier... So other than the 1 tonnes of oil for food, I have two conditions that I wanted to mention earlier.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun paused for a second, then continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have no way of transporting the food over. But I assumed you have your own ways of transporting it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’ll be using the plane we came in with to carry the food,\" Zhangfei answered straightforwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then that’s one condition off the list. The second condition is... I’m willing to pay to have your armies check the pipeline is working properly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s going to be a hefty price on that,\" Zhangfei warned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know. But I’m going to be frank with you, my army is stretched thin. I don’t have the men or the capability to project people outside of the province.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The answer didn’t seem to surprise Zhangfei in the slightest, as he could already tell through the various cities Xiaoyun had conquered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then we can do that for you. But you’re going to need to pay a one-time fee of one hundred tonnes of food for the checks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Food is no problem. Give me three days and I’ll gather five hundred tonnes of food for you to carry back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhangfei’s face finally changed a little as he looked a little surprised by Xiaoyun’s willingness to trade so much food at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You aren’t scared that we might just take the food and never come back?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you can grow more food in Lanzhou, then you wouldn’t fly all the way over here just to get a month’s worth of food.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re much more daring than I had expected, Mr.Xiaoyun.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m just naively believing humanity wouldn’t focus on infighting when there’s a crisis right in front of us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the two reached a consensus on the deal, Houqin quickly handed the two copies of all the negotiated terms to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr.Zhangfei, looks like we have a deal,\" Xiaoyun answered as he signed both papers without even reading them a single time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nice working with you, Mr.Xiaoyun.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhangfei didn’t read it either, as he wrote his signature on both copies before handing one back over to Xiaoyun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With one last handshake as the two of them both stood up, the deal was finally complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since it’s going to be three days before we can gather enough food for you to fly back, you can visit around the cities if you want.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Will do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Very well then... Houqin, can you bring them to a hotel?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, sir.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Houqin led Zhangfei and the bodyguard out of the meeting room, Xiaoyun let out a small sigh as he stared towards the paper he had just signed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Five hundred tonnes... Where the hell am I getting this much food in three days?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite trying to think of multiple solutions, there was one clear path right before him, one that took a snap of a finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m going to need to work overtime, don’t I?\" XIaoyun murmured as he looked towards the canned food he had just created in his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>",1580,"2026-06-10T06:59:53.682Z",1,"novelbin.me","dcaa664f306d5f6b5e9375982e296c518b1fa8ec69724bfefb381f223b936bbc","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-810","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-615",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]