[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-677":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},1887463,2510,"Chapter 677 677: Tianci's Checkup and Old Buildings","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-677",677,"\u003Cp>\"Is Tianci and the baby okay?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your wife and baby are perfectly fine. Just make sure to keep her in a good mood and avoid putting her on any hard labor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the doctor give his final note as she came out from the other room with Tianci, Xiaoyun finally could let out a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was getting a little worried that something might have gone wrong as the two had been in the other room for a few minutes now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Will do, doctor. Thank you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No problem, Mr.Governor... Miss Tianci, as a advice for the problem you mentioned earlier, you should be safe as long as you don't overdo it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Tianci and Xiaoyun both got up from their seat and headed out the door, they soon arrived at the hospital's parking lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally, it's over... That thing took way longer than I had imagined.\" Xiaoyun murmured as he got inside the driver's seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiaoyun, can you drive me to work? I still have an experiment coming up later.\" Tianci asked as her belly vanished right in front of his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun inserted the key and started up the car, his mind suddenly got a little curious about the whole water thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianci, what did you two talk about in the other room? What does she mean by overdoing it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun curiously asked as he drove the car out of the hospital's parking lot and into the main road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"N-Nothing. It's just small little things.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianci's face blushed red as she looked away, not wanting to answer him, as the rest of the ride was taken over by the car music.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes of driving later...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See you later tonight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See ya.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After watching Tianci go inside the building, Xiaoyun started up his car again as he began driving out of Luoping and into the administrative building in Guangzhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, when he reached the halfway point, his car suddenly came to a stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hello? You serious?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Checking the gas meter, he had more than enough to keep running. But the engine just wouldn't start, no matter how many times he turned his key.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun popped the car hood open, he quickly exited the car before walking over to lift the car hood completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he saw the engine, he knew exactly what was wrong. His negligence has destroyed the car's engine due to a lack of an oil change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't even remember the last time he went to a car mechanic for an oil change, never since he had gotten this SUV for himself again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck me. Why does it have to break down here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking around, Xiaoyun was in the middle of the road. It wasn't a highway exactly, but there wasn't much sidewalk to begin with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the same road he once walked from Guangzhou to Luoping when he was saving Yuqi right at the beginning of the outbreak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No fucking signal either... I really need to start putting more funding into telecommunication, don't I?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After taking his key out of the car, Xiaoyun began walking down the road all alone. He wasn't about to wait for someone to drive by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he knew that every hour a bus usually drove through this road, he just didn't want to gamble that the bus would stop for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's just a thirty-minute walk. It can't be that bad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time Xiaoyun's phone signal came back online, he had only been walking for five minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than calling the police to pick him up, he continued walking down as he witnessed rows upon rows of cabins forming small neighborhoods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were built when he first connected Guangzhou and Luoping together, going as far back as almost a year ago, when he first started expanding outside the walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sense of nostalgia hits him as he sees the demolition tape all over each of the buildings, with wild grass growing almost halfway to the cabin's window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's been two years already... Time really flew by fast, hasn't it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun took a left turn to check out one of the small neighborhoods, more memories flooded into his brain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was one of the first small-scale neighborhoods he and Yuqi had designed to meet the surging population after Guangzhou's liberation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An experimental design that was first put into practice outside of Luoping, as the area where he stood was outside Luoping's wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing each one of the buildings labeled with the demolition tape made his heart ache. Especially when he encountered the public bathhouses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the concrete, all the wooden logs, all the hard labor used to build all these, only to end up with the fate of demolition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt wasteful in every way possible. But he himself was the one who signed the authorization for it to happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one lived here. No one wanted to live here. It was really just that simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone chose to live back in the cities where furniture and utilities are fully built—a massive reverse migration from Luoping to Guangzhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Housing shortage had been completely erased, a relic of the past that no longer poses a threat to the government.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ironically, the new reality had become more houses than people. People could freely choose to live where they wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They no longer needed to put their entire lifesaving and their salary into a bird nest that could barely support a family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All they needed was a week's worth of salary to pay off a month of rent in a luxury apartment that they could only dream of before the outbreak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, Governor! What are you doing here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A loud voice from behind snapped Xiaoyun out of his thoughts as he quickly turned over to the main road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two police men in a cop car had just pulled over to the street, their eyes looking a little curious at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My car just died a few blocks down the road. Do you guys mind giving me a ride?\" Xiaoyun asked as he approached the police car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course. Come on in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun hopped out of the police car, he was right in front of the administrative building in Guangzhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before going inside, he quickly called a towing service to tow his SUV to a repair shop. With that done, he finally took his first step into the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After taking the elevator to the top, he was a little surprised to see Jianlin missing in her usual cubicle outside the main office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What took you so long today? Did something go wrong with Tianci's appointment?\" Yuqi worringly asked as the door opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She's perfectly fine. My car just broke down halfway to here... Anyway, I'm going to need you to drive me back home today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking a seat next to her, Xiaoyun quickly flipped through the agenda for today, only to find everything had been done already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You aren't going to the logistics department today, then?\" Yuqi curiously asked as she started to put away her pen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Houqin can call me if she does have something important to report... What are you working on right now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun tried to take a little peek at her work, Yuqi immediately closed her notebook before throwing it into her drawer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's just some notes... Ahem, to be honest, you didn't even need to come today. Everything had already been done.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How about your plan with the whole city and town checkup?\" Xiaoyun asked, choosing not to press her on the notebook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I already finished writing the legislation and sent it to Jianlin to implement it in Foshan to test it out first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No wonder she's not outside in the cubicle... Then there really isn't much to do for the two of us today at work?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the room fell into silence, Yuqi's phone suddenly got a notification as it rang for a second on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's wrong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun curiously asked, noticing the frown appearing on her face the moment she picked up her phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They caught the roadside bandits. But a police officer is currently in critical condition during the raid on the bandit's hideout.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What! They are just a bunch of robbers with muskets... How could they possibly be hurt by them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know... Can you go to the police station to check? You can take my car instead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yuqi threw her keychain over, Xiaoyun caught it midair before running out of the room straight to the elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did Li Zhen pull off such a blunder?\" Yuqi murmured to herself as she couldn't understand how such an accident could occur.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to think of an explanation, she didn't bother digging into it as she took out her notebook from the drawer again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, she also took out a book from a different drawer. One that happened to have a title in French.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be compelled to do so by the whole body, which means nothing else than that he will be forced to be free...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1521,"2026-06-10T06:59:53.682Z",1,"novelbin.me","dd61d3a426bc5aa0f17f8439c4a30585b54b08739e3f848abc26735c03b0f99e","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-635","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-634",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]