[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-725":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},1887302,2510,"Chapter 725: Yiming’s Feuds","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-725",725,"\u003Cp>There were endless problems just on the very first day of Yiming being pushed to be the commander of Hunan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The original army meant for holding the north was gone. Tens of thousands of soldier just deserted their position and headed north with no explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one was left to replace them. All of the civilians left behind in the countryside were now under threat from a potential zombie outbreak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somehow, this wasn’t even the worst news that we faced. As early as Saturday morning, we received the news that the army in Liling city had gone rogue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By ’rogue’, it really meant they all switched sides. The bulk of Zhongxiong’s army that had been holding off Jiangxi’s men had joined their enemy’s ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire road to Changsha was completely opened. Essentially, Zhongxiong had left a problem that’s impossible to salvage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the evening, we started to be surrounded by their forces. I realized this was a mess that we are nowhere near equipped to deal with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I told Yiming personally that we should all just retreat to Luoping with everything we got and let the locals deal with the mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was just no way for us to stop the advancing army from Jiangxi. Every single post that was meant to stop them had already surrendered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, Yiming’s stubborn ass kept refusing my request.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said he wasn’t about to abandon his men. The only ’solution’ he could come up with was gambling that Jiangxi’s army wouldn’t advance any further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It worked initially as Jiangxi’s army halted its advances right at the doorstep of Changsha. Not any closer, not any further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people who switched sides knew what kind of weapons they were dealing with. They knew the missiles that Yiming now possessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So it’s a stalemate?\" Xiaoyun questioned, as it sounded exactly like what Houqin was describing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, but they had Changsha surrounded at this point. No one could go in, and can only come out if they surrender.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wanted Yiming to hand over the weapon as the condition for him and his army to leave in peace.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He’s never doing that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Exactly, there’s no way he’s going to hand over the only chip. But the thing is, time is not on Yiming’s side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s almost zero food in the city ever since they laid siege to the city. I’m not even sure how long they could last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m scared that Yiming might get desperate to the point of suiciding with them, or if those traitors get too impatient and rush in anyway.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Houqin’s explanation, Xiaoyun was concerned and a little confused at the same time, as he couldn’t understand the background.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More specifically, he couldn’t understand how this whole conflict even started. Why did Zhongxiong and Jiangxi’s men come into conflict?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It just didn’t make sense to him that Zhongxiong’s men would suddenly side with their enemy, a conflict he had known ever since he heard of Zhongxiong’s men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Houqin, how did you get out then?\" Wuli curiously asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I left when nobody was looking for me. I didn’t want to die, and I thought maybe I could call for reinforcement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then, a bunch of bandits happened to notice me driving out of Changsha, and they managed to kidnap me and put me into a hotel.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They didn’t abuse you or anything, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuli asked again, her voice sounding a little concerned as neither of them had told her about that story earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was fine. They didn’t harass me when I told them I was a diplomat from Luoping. But they wanted to get some more guns before heading west.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"West?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun thought back to a map, he quickly realized he was never going to catch those bandits, let alone know about them, in the mountains of Guizhou province.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiaoyun, you paid the extortion fee?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuli questioned. Her mind quickly connected the dots on how Houqin came to be trapped and bitten by a zombie from the context.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah... It’s just guns that can always be made again. Houqin, why didn’t Yiming want you to call for reinforcement?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun asked, as he could vividly remember that every single response Yiming had sent back was that everything was fine and the negotiation was still ongoing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was clear Yiming had lied to him for some reason and that Houqin herself might not even be made aware of his letter’s existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t know... He never let me see the letter you sent to us a single time. Maybe because it’s his ego?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ego?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuli and Xiaoyun both murmured in a surprised tone. They both had worked with Yiming for years now and never saw him as an egotistic person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think he just didn’t want to drag you into this mess that he had created himself.\" Houqin quietly answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That can’t be the full truth... Houqin, there has to be more to this story, right?\" Xiaoyun pressed her again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long silence, Houqin finally speaks up again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I think the main reason that the army in Liling city switched sides was because of Yiming. Rumor has it that they protest Yiming as the head.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why did they protest the decision?\" Wuli curiously asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t know the exact details, but none of them seem to like Yiming at all... They might have had a feud in the past.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So they invited the enemy that killed their comrades just to get back at Yiming?\" Xiaoyun questioned as doubt remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not exactly that... O-One of Yiming’s first decisions was to recall the officer in Liling and to expedite him back to Changsha.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Wuli and Xiaoyun quickly realize why Yiming had chosen to remain radio silent. It was a personal feud that had led to this disaster getting out of hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The feud must be seriously pissing Yiming off...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuli murmured as he had never seen that Yiming had put his personal emotion over a rational decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah. That’s why I left. I didn’t want to get dragged into their drama with my life... Commander, you have to save Yiming somehow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the room fell into silence, Xiaoyun’s mind was a little conflicted. He just couldn’t decide what to do next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, saving Yiming was critical. He is still his general at the end of the day, not to mention the pre-outbreak weapons he now possesses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, he had never once directly confronted Jiangxi’s men. He never even had a formal relationship with the ’supposed’ Ming empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of Renqin’s and Yueyue’s past intelligence reports had stated the men in Jiangxi were extremely closed off, almost as if there was some secret underneath it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A secret that Xiaoyun wasn’t sure if he wanted to bring his army against, especially when he hadn’t even taken care of Guangdong province.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was scared that the ’Ming’ empire might have already conquered Jiangxi province and was looking for a place to expand, hence the incursion into Hunan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiaoyun, isn’t your friend Pinli and Chengyi also at Changsha? Did they really send nothing to tell you about this?\" Wuli suddenly asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They didn’t say anything... I have now decided. I think I know what we’re going to do next to deal with this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A plan began to formulate inside Xiaoyun’s head. One that could resolve all of the trouble in Changsha once and for all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Wuli and Houqin asked at the same time. Their faces were full of curiosity and annoyance as he appeared to want to keep it a secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll tell you two tomorrow morning. I’m getting a little too sleepy right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun paused for a second as he got up from the sofa, then continued as he started walking over to the bedroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wuli, tell the army to stay put, and Houqin... You should probably take a shower first and wear some clothes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the sound of the closed door echoed in the living room, both of them looked towards Houqin’s body before freezing for a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Houqin, do you not feel cold the whole time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuli quietly asked, looking away to the side as her mind just realized again that Houqin had been naked the whole time with her husband’s cum stain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I——Ah, sorry!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Houqin couldn’t handle the embrassment any longer, rushing into the bathroom as Wuli looked over to the sofa with all the mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How am I going to tell this to everyone else? Leyan is never going to believe me if I tell her this story...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wuli wondered, her own mind still unable to get over the fact that her husband’s cum managed to ’cure’ someone from a zombie virus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whew, finally alone...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun collapsed onto the bed, he barely had any strength left to take off his clothes, let alone put on his pajamas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His leg was constantly twitching on its own, almost as if it was trying to protest against him about the amount of time he had abused his own body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take a deep breath and relax. Everything is going to be fine tomorrow... Your body is going to recover by then.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite trying to calm down, his palms, his legs, his arms, and most importantly, his crotch, just felt too sore to relax.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come on, just go to sleep. You still have a lot of work for yourself tomorrow...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1571,"2026-06-10T06:59:54.595Z",1,"novelbin.me","83779ab189f08f149b4e99d30998b7c85fdead0d7049d5698af1e38cea76d671","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-726","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-724",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]