[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-718":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},1887295,2510,"Chapter 718: Evacuation and No Traces","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-718",718,"\u003Cp>\"Insure? You tell me to sleep safe at night knowing someone can coup me any time when you’re gone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yuqi yelled right into Xiaoyun’s face, he remained calm. He looked back into her eyes as he spoke softly next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn’t mean to use that word. Sorry... The coup was an accident that would never be repeated.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite his reassurance, Yuqi didn’t buy it. Still, her rationality took over as if she realized the anger towards Xiaoyun was unjustified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How can I possibly know about that for sure?\" Yuqi quietly questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because I’m here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What if you’re busy commanding the troops in the front line again? Who’s going to be there to stop them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The people and the soldiers themselves know what right and wrong... The only reason the coup was possible was that the town was just starting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Xiaoyun unwilling to compromise or change his view, Yuqi had no other choice but to accept the status quo once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whatever. You’re the one in charge... If anything goes wrong while you’re gone, you’re going to be the one regretting it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m more than certain the army knows their scared duty. They know the importance of a civilian government.\" Xiaoyun affirmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I really hope so.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Yuqi and Xiaoyun were about to make mends, someone suddenly knocked on the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiaoyun, you there?\" Yueyue’s voice appeared from the outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, I’m here. You can come in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the doors opened, Yueyue walked straight to the chair across from him, her hand putting down a file onto the desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One of our agents from Taishan just sent critical information. You need to check this out... Yuqi?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s fine. She can stay... You already read through this?\" Xiaoyun curiously asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opening the file, Xiaoyun was instantly shocked by the first thing he saw. It was an outside image of the metal fence he had once entered with Kate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second image, right behind it, was no other than the actual inside, with more and more pictures behind it documenting every single step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could even reconganize several of the hallway layouts and the massive hole he had left with the explosives he had used against Kate’s ’dead’ brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"H-How did this person get images of this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They had abandoned the lab.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing Yueyue’s answer, Xiaoyun froze. He had never even thought of them abandoning their positioning like this with no words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? When?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Based on the agent’s report, it seems to be two or three weeks ago... They used a secret exit that we couldn’t track beforehand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he looked through all the different images in silence, his mind soon realized he had been played like a fiddle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of the potential threat was just a smokescreen. The giant mutant’s attack might even be their doing just to distract him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he couldn’t understand why they could spend so much effort, they were now gone, out of their sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you have any traces of where they had gone?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"None of our agents were able to find them traveling on the main roads... They might have traveled through the nearby harbor that we didn’t take into account.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you two talking about? I’m so confused. What’s this place?\" Yuqi curiously asked as she looked genuinely confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s the lab that the secret society had been operating out of. They had abandoned it for some weird reason.\" Yueyue explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why didn’t we get rid of them sooner?\" Yuqi questioned again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re right next to a nuclear facility.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun’s answer instantly made Yuqi fall into silence. Her mind seemed to have finally remembered the story that Kate and Xiaoyun had told a few months ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the lab that you and Kate went to?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah... Yueyue, I want your agents to search every harbor and secure the lab. They had to leave some evidence of where they had gone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I already sent out all of my available agents on that task.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he looked back at the images in the file, he could vividly see all the machines that had been left behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost as if the whole evacuation was out of some emergency. Something inside that had gone terribly wrong in the lab forced them to abandon it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, based on the agent’s ability to go in and take an image and come out of it, it was clearly not an actual threat, at least to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiaoyun... You said this lab is in Taishan, right?\" Yuqi suddenly asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah. It’s right next to the Nuclear power facility in Taishan... What about it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think I know why they had left. Weren’t your army going towards Jiangmen city and Zhongshan city now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun looked over to the map he had hung on the wall, he soon realized what Yuqi was trying to imply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why didn’t I think of that. No wonder they left in such a hurry. They’re scared of us trapping them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a clear chain of logic in his head, Xiaoyun felt much better now that his settlement was being actively viewed as a threat to the secret society.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s good news, right?\" Yuqi curiously asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe. We don’t know where they went. They can still pose danger to us... Yueyue, have your agent secured the nuclear facility yet?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They reported no one was inside... The only thing they said about it was that the whole thing seemed to be turned off before the outbreak.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re really bluffing the whole time, huh?\" Xiaoyun murmured as he began to realize once again he had been played.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, does that mean we’re the ones in charge of the nuclear power plant?\" Yuqi urgently asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m afraid so... We’re going to need some scientists to run that thing properly, though.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he mentioned the drawback, the happiness on Yuqi’s face vanished as she herself didn’t know how many nuclear expert was left since the outbreak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Surely there will be someone out there who knows how it works, right?\" Yueyue chimed in as she looked much more optimistic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hopefully... Ahem, Yueyue, have you learned about the new cabinet position that we’re creating?\" Xiaoyun asked as he suddenly changed the topic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"N-No, what’s that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Noticing the hint of stuttering for a millisecond and the oddly calm face, both Xiaoyun and Yuqi immediately realized something was a little off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yueyue, you’re about to get a new role to watch over the military, aren’t you happy with that?\" Xiaoyun asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? You can’t be serious. I already have too many things to manage. You can’t give me more jobs to do... Yuqi, you have to stop Xiaoyun.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yueyue started haggling with Yuqi’s arm, Xiaoyun’s suspicion was lowered a little. But he still felt something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop shaking my arms. Xiaoyun, you’re being serious? You’re actually giving Yueyue the ability to oversee the military?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She already did a corruption investigation into the military before. I don’t see why not let her continue making sure the military is upright.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"B-But you——\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That was just a test. Ahem, it’s almost seven o’clock already, Leyan is going to get mad for us coming home late.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Yuqi could voice her anger, Xiaoyun had bolted out of the room with the notebook in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yuqi, you have to convince Xiaoyun to change his mind. I don’t want to manage more agents to deal with the military.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yueyue kept shaking Yuqi’s arm, she started to get a little annoyed as she wanted to catch up to Xiaoyun to question her earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yueyue, you have to take on more responsibility as an adult... Besides, you can appoint someone to manage it for you. You are just overseeing it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuqi finally managed to push Yueyue’s hand away as she ran up towards the elevator, catching Xiaoyun before the door closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, right. Why didn’t I think of that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Miss, the job had been done.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you... You can go back to your position.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Leyan hung up her phone, she slowly leaned back onto the sofa as she looked towards the Lily playing with the babies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister Leyan, who were you calling?\" Lily curiously asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just a woman I ask to help me get some groceries for tomorrow... Your friends didn’t ask you to go out today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are busy working their summer job.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see... Hey Lily, do you want a summer job? I happened to know someone who had been looking for an assistant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who is it? What kind of job is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You know this person... It’s a very simple job. You just sit in the office all day and help carry coffee to other people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That sounds boring. No thanks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Lily rejected her offer and turned her attention back to playing with the babies, Leyan didn’t try to persuade her any further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"M-mommy! When is d-dada coming back?\" Xuanhua suddenly asked as she crawled over to the sofa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He should be back by now... Probably just late with work. You miss Dada?\" Leyan quietly asked as she lifted Xuanhua to her lap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xuanhua quickly nodded her head. But before Leyan could say anything else, the door suddenly rang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, look like dada might just be home now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1546,"2026-06-10T06:59:54.595Z",1,"novelbin.me","f2a2f5ae0381a81cc838648d1919d0cd0e8663b730929364c034170aa5aba1b7","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-719","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-717",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]