[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-715":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},1887292,2510,"Chapter 715: Major Lan’s Returns","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-715",715,"\u003Cp>\"You got the paper?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man in a soldier’s uniform immediately approaches Xianlin the moment he steps out of Yezi’s tent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, I got it.\" Xianlin quietly replied, his face looking oddly irritated as if he had done something he didn’t want to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nice. Finally, we can go to Luoping and meet your commander-in-chief.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking down the road, the two of them soon arrived at the entrance of a very spacious parking lot with several semi-trucks unloading crate after crate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, it’s not distribution time yet. Tell your Colonel to wait for a bit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A woman wearing a full blue uniform quickly stopped the two, with all the guards nearby quickly gathering up to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m on my off-duty. Here’s my paper... I need a ride back to Luoping fast, and I was wondering if you could arrange it for me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading the paper that Xianlin had handed over, the woman stared him in the eyes before looking back over to her guards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can sit in the back of his semi-truck after we unload everything.\" The woman offered as she pointed over to one of the guards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you, Ma’am.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t call me ma’am. Call me, sir.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, sir!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the guards quickly went back to unloading the crates from their trucks, the guard who was assigned to drive them waved his hand towards them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, you two, help me unload some of the stuff. Unless you want to wait until the evening.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them thought for a second, then quickly walked over to the guard, who pointed them to go inside the truck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without needing instruction, they began carrying one crate at a time, from the very inside of the semi-truck to the dollies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After stacking four crates on top of each other, the guard began pushing the dollies towards the small warehouse in the distance as the two got a little break.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You okay, Wen Zhang?\" Xianlin asked, noticing his breath panting a lot heavier than usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I’m fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can take a break if you want.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the two waited for the guard to come back, they soon got a little bored as they watched the other trucks offloading much faster than they were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were all streamlining the process, from the beginning to the end of the warehouse, as none of their hand stopped for a single moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their truck only had one person with a single dollie to carry the crate, which forced them to wait for one person to go back and forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, they only had eight crates left, which means just two more rounds of this before being done with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry for the wait, went to the bathroom.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guard apologizes as he took way longer than any of the other guards to come back from an empty dollie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three hours later...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the sun pointed towards the middle, their truck was long finished with unloading. But none of the trucks were allowed to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the trucks was stuck in a recounting error, forcing what was supposed to be an hour’s work to be three hours’ work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry about that. Didn’t mean to delay you guys for so long.\" The woman apologizes as the guards begin entering their semi-trucks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xianlin murmured the same answer again as he began to grow a little numb and exhausted for the day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, everyone, you can get it going now!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the trucks began to drive off, both Xianlin and Wen Zhang quickly realized something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, wait, wait, we didn’t get on the truck yet,\" Wen Zhang yelled as he desperately tried to make one of the trucks stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, none of them heard him as they all drove straight out of the parking lot, going straight on the highway in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Miss, why did you make them go? How are we going back to Luoping?\" Xianlin questioned as frustration began to brew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Relax. I’m letting you guys get in my car as an apology for the delay... You guys should be happy you aren’t sitting in a trailer oven.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of them froze for a second, but they quickly bowed down in gratitude as they began to realize how dumb their request had sounded earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you so much,\" Xianlin said out loud as the two of them followed her further down into the parking lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mhm... Did no one tell you guys that the new policy for approved transport is either long-haul buses or APCs?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No one had told me that. I had always sat in the back of the semi-truck with no problem before.\" Xianlin answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Probably because it isn’t peak summer heat. It’s the middle of August right now. No one should be forced to sit in the trailer of a semi-truck.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, why did you suggest we were going to sit in one of the guard’s trucks earlier, then?\" Wen Zhang quickly asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the back of the semi-truck doesn’t mean the trailer section... You two were about to unlock one of them and hop inside, weren’t you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Xianlin and Wen Zhang awkwardly scratch their head as she manages to predict exactly what they were thinking of doing earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anyway, here’s my car... It’s a little small. You two are sitting in the back.\" The woman warns as she clicks her car key.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked towards the small blue Sudan in front of them, then turned to each other for a second before opening the car door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why are you two still standing out there?\" The woman curiously asked as she already sat inside the driver’s seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"W-We just need to whip the sweat off our faces. Don’t want to get your car all dirty.\" Xianlin replied as he wiped with his clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s fine. I don’t own the car anyway. I’m going to give this back to the government when I drive back to Luoping.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both men finally went into the car at the same time through the same door, causing a sudden clanking sound as they sat at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s wrong with you two? One of you could have just gone inside the car through the other door.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry. Our brain is just a little past out from all the heat.\" Wen Zhang replied as he slowly nudged the air with an open palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the door closed, the woman didn’t bother questioning them again as she started up the car engine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wear your seatbelt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, back in Luoping...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Commander, when is Miss Houqin coming back?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A worker curiously asked as she happened to encounter Xiaoyun on his way to the main office in the logistics building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She’s still busy negotiating some deal. She’ll be back no later than... Monday.\" Xiaoyun answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the worker could ask any more questions, Xiaoyun had already left as he opened the main office door and entered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good evening, Commander.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good evening... Have the Russians finished making the bombs yet?\" Xiaoyun asked right away as he took a seat right across from the temporary department head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They finished making the bomb already. But they’re currently struggling to link the trigger mechanism when attached to the plane.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did they give a date on how long that’s going to take?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It should be completed by Monday... Also, Commander, Yezi had sent you a letter this morning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the department head handed him a letter, Xiaoyun quickly opened it and started reading it in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sitting there for a whole minute, he finally put it back down. His face was completely relieved from a stressed look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at the same time, he was a little annoyed on the inside. All of his work for the past week was rendered useless by the letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no emergency. There was no need for the bombs. There was no giant mutant that was going to attack them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had burned through all of the money he had spent on preparing for the worst-case scenario, only for it to be a nothing-burger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For fuck sake. Not again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Commander, is there something wrong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can get ready to go back to your original position. Houqin is going to come back by tomorrow morning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The answer confused the temporary department head a little, but she didn’t question Xiaoyun’s decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, sir. I’ll start preparing for it——\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Actually, it might not be tomorrow. But just get ready to transition the job back to Houqin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, sir!\" The department head said out loud again as her face didn’t look jealous of the job at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather, her face looked happy that she was going to leave soon. She had been through hell for the past few days trying to make it up to the new job.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem, almost forgot. You can lower the alert warning back down to the base level first while you’re at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s no need to rush the bomb anymore, either. You can write an email telling them they can take their time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun’s sudden shift of narrative confused the department head a little, as he had never told her the reason behind the emergency in the first place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is the emergency over?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1537,"2026-06-10T06:59:54.595Z",1,"novelbin.me","d9bc8df45beeb768020f2fcba43aeb71898771e7c228d5cf6cda9a437a22a945","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-716","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-714",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]