[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-690":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},1887496,2510,"Chapter 690: Wen Zhang’s Story","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-690",690,"\u003Cp>\"You didn’t answer my question. Are they zombies or not?\" Major Lan questioned again, his hand steady, holding onto his gun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They... I don’t know if they are zombies or not. I haven’t seen them for years now. I don’t even know what they look like anymore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m going to need you to explain the whole story. From the beginning to the end. I don’t want a single detail left out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Zhang nodded his head, lowering his hands as he looked down at the photo inside his own phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was once a man who worked hard in the cities. He was just one of the many migrant workers who moved to big cities for a job.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was working day and night, carrying bricks off trucks in the hopes of making enough money to bring his whole family to the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did he ever achieve his goal? Nope. The city did not welcome him. They didn’t welcome any of the migrant workers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To those folks born in the city, he was always a second-class citizen. Just another disposable worker who should go back to his village after the work is done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he was more than happy to earn some money. He had enough to at least move to some smaller city somewhere else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he took the train back home for the New Year, he was a little surprised when he entered his village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turned out that while he was gone, the village had transformed into a town. His old brick-and-mortar house had turned into a brand new concrete apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gave his family a warm hug as they welcomed him home. His parent and wife were all perfectly fine living in their new apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the New Year break went by, the thought of staying in the town popped into his head. He was fed up with city life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one would want to live in a place that treats its workers as second-class citizens. He gathered up all his money from friends and family to start a restaurant business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It went surprisingly well as the man paid off all of the debt in a year. He was reaping in the profits that made all of his neighbors jealous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything was looking great. So great, in fact, that the men started thinking about opening a new business in an actual city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it wasn’t the big city that he once worked in. But a nearby city that’s literally right next door to their hometown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After discussing it with his wife and parents, they decided to go for it. They were going to sell their business and move to Wuzhou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as they started moving their stuff from their apartment to the new city, everything suddenly changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cuefew was put in place as the road became completely blocked. The police and the army were stopping everyone from entering Guangdong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His wife and kids were forced to shelter in a hotel in a small village between Wuzhou and their hometown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, he himself was stuck back in their hometown. There was nothing they could do but wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone thought the blockade was going to be lifted at some point. But as the news broadcast started talking about a viral spread, things changed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It soon became apparent that the roadblock was permanent. No one was to cross between Guangdong and Guangxi at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The zombie apocalypse had begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, I still haven’t met my family ever since the blockade. I tried. I really tried. I tried to cross the border.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to get them back home. I wasn’t going to leave them stranded in the middle of nowhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The army just kept catching me over and over again. They even threatened me and arrested me before releasing me back into my hometown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only a few miles. A few miles separated me from my family. Just as I thought all hope was lost, the military suddenly started evacuating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone received the moving order. The entire town was to head over to Wuzhou. I immediately hopped onto one of the long-haul buses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when the bus driver told me they weren’t picking up anyone from the nearby villages, I made up an excuse about having cancer and sneaked out of the bus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was gone from the town. No one was there to block any of the roads. I immediately knew this was my opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I got my car and drove down towards what my wife had last told me over the phone, only to find that the military had blown the bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no way for me to cross directly, unless I kept driving down towards Wuzhou, where the military would have arrested me for disobeying the travel order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I drove back to my hometown. I started looking for ways until I ran into a map. There was another bridge further south, a small town over in Yunan county.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was no brainer as I drove straight towards the town, only to find the whole town empty. Someone else had evacuated the entire population.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I kept driving, I eventually crossed the bridge and made it to the other side of the river. Now all I had to do was keep driving up north.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My heart was pounding as I drove closer and closer to the small village ahead. It was the only thing that kept me going all this time alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, this is where the luck ends. The whole village was full of zombies the moment I hopped out of my car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I immediately hopped back into the car, driving away as fast as I could as the zombie disappeared behind me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was my first time seeing a zombie. I never knew how scary they were until that exact moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mind told me just to leave and head back to my hometown. But I couldn’t bring myself to turn around and leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wanted to see my wife and kids, dead or alive. After a day, I turned my car around and drove right back to the village again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this time, an entire semi-truck happened to drive right by me. At the time, I didn’t know what the hell that truck was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I drove closer and closer to the village, I only found it dead silent. Not a single zombie was there to chase me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Getting out of the car, I soon found myself in the middle of a massacre. There was blood splattered everywhere, from the ground to the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything was painted red. Yet, not a single corpse was left behind. Only small bits of flesh and their personal items were left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I started looking for traces of my wife and kids. But after looking through the entire village, I found disappointment after disappointment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No trace of them at all. Even as I went to the only hotel in the village, there were no personal items that indicated they were one of the victims.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as I hopped back into my car, I noticed the semi-truck in my rear view. I immediately drove away, thinking they were the military.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wasn’t about to be arrested. I still haven’t found my family yet. At least that’s what I told myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After driving at full speed for a bit, the semi-truck disappeared in the distance. But a thought popped into my head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why would the military kill zombie and keep their corpses? Wouldn’t they just burn the corpses and leave them there?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned my car around once again, driving back towards where the semi-truck was earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lucky for me, I found them parked in the middle of the road. But, unfortunately for me, I saw them armed with guns next to another semi-truck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My mind immediately told me to drive away, but I couldn’t resist the urge to watch. I waited and hid my car in a ditch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I watch them load zombie cages from one truck into another, I know something is off. No normal person would transport a zombie live in a truck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were clearly trying to kidnap live zombies for some sort of experiment. At the same time, the thought of my family being alive was long gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, I wanted to see their corpses, or at least put them out of their misery. I wasn’t about to let them do whatever they wanted to their remains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After they finished loading their zombies into the other semi-truck, I immediately drove my car out of the ditch and started following right behind them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no way they didn’t know I was following them at this point, but they seemed not to care as they kept letting me follow right behind them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the semi-truck took a turn onto a dirt road. I kept following it until I realized I had driven myself into a trap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My rear view showed several armed men coming out of the nearby trees, their eyes didn’t look remotely friendly as they signalled me to get out of the car.\u003C\u002Fp>",1516,"2026-06-10T06:59:53.682Z",1,"novelbin.me","a209e00e6884509419f5a558da7033d6efb8ef82068613076f91dd02fc0ff7b9","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-691","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-689",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]