[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-757":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},1887570,2510,"Chapter 757: The Last Report","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-757",757,"\u003Cp>\"Wake up, honey, it’s the morning already. You can sleep in tomorrow morning when it’s the weekend.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun slowly opened his eyes, Leyan was standing right beside the bed, with the clock pointed right at eight o’clock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re going to be late for work if you keep sleeping—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, okay, I’m getting up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he sat up in bed, waves of soreness came straight from his legs and back as if he had done a serious workout last night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Leyan, can you help me get up the bed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you that tired?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a gentle hand pulling him up, Xiaoyun finally managed to get out of the bed as Leyan headed over to the closet afterward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You guys barely let me go last night, you tell me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing stretching his arm and yawning out loud, Leyan’s face blushed red as she started helping him put on his formal suit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re the one who suggested it... We were willing to wait til the weekend if someone didn’t say, ’Oh, I just feel like it.’\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Leyan mimicked Xiaoyun’s voice at the end, he closed his eyes to avoid needing to face the embarrassment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop standing here expecting me to do everything for you, go brush your teeth yourself, and come downstairs for breakfast.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the door closed, Xiaoyun opened up his eyes once again as he stood in his bedroom all alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tomorrow is the weekend... Fuck.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Morning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Morning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun walked into the kitchen and took a seat next to Tianci, Leyan had already carried over his coffee mug.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you that tired?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kate curiously asked, noticing the tired look on his face as opposed to everyone else’s energetic look at the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mhm... Easy for you to say.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bitterness instantly sent a small rush of energy into Xiaoyun’s brain as he put the coffee mug back onto the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe you should just stay home for today,\" Yuqi suggested, her face looking a little red, thinking back to what happened last night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m fine... Leyan, where’s my breakfast?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here it is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a bowl of noodles put in front of him, Xiaoyun quickly picked up the chopsticks and the bowl before ’chugging’ the noodles down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Slow down, there’s more in the kitchen. You don’t have to eat that fast.\" Leyan quietly murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Another one, please.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun put the empty bowl back down, Leyan quickly sat back up again before getting him a new bowl of noodles from the pot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shuli, let’s do a little bet. How many bowls of noodles do you think he’s going to eat?\" Wuli suddenly asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Um... Five bowls?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"More like ten bowls.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuqi chimed in as she watched Xiaoyun chug a whole bowl of noodles down again before handing Leyan the empty bowl again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After back and forth three different times, Leyan was starting to get a little annoyed, needing to get up every time he finished his bowl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go get it yourself.\" Leyan declared as she refused to help Xiaoyun get his fourth bowl of noodles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun headed over to the stovetop, he could see that the pot itself had roughly five bowls of noodles left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Does anyone needs second?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can have it all to yourself! Everyone already had their bowl on the table.\" Leyan responded out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Xiaoyun was about to pour himself a bowl of noodles, an idea popped into his head as he picked up the entire pot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xiaoyun, what are you doing?\" Yueyue curiously asked, noticing him walking towards the table with the entire pot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Saving myself extra work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the pot down on the table, everyone rolled their eyes as Xiaoyun started eating straight out of the metal pot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty minutes later...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bye, Mom.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bye.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Leyan waved goodbye to Nami and closed the door, all of Xiaoyun’s wives were out of the house to work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for Xiaoyun himself, who was still sitting at the table, chugging down more and more noodles that he had just created.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Honey, are you that hungry?\" Leyan worringly asked as she had watched him eat at least twenty bowls of noodles at this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My body just feels hungry... Ahem, I’m good, now though.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him putting the pot and his chopsticks back down, Leyan let out a small sigh of relief as she was seriously thinking about bringing him to the hospital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Honey... if your body can’t handle it, just tell us next time, okay? Don’t try to act tough and disregard your body like this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Relax. I’m fine. Stop worrying over nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun dismissed her concern once again, Leyan didn’t say anything back other than to resume eating her own bowl of noodles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anyway, I’m off to work now... You need anything from me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop saying that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, my bad... Muah! See you later tonight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a kiss on the cheek, Xiaoyun walked right out of the kitchen before seeing Lily sitting on the sofa watching TV.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You going to work?\" Lily curiously asked as she watched Xiaoyun grab his shoe from the shoe rack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lily quickly got up from the sofa, walking over before standing right before him. As she tiptoed and struggled to reach his cheek, he couldn’t help but giggle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, stop laughing—Mhm!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice was instantly interrupted as Xiaoyun kissed her right on the lips before turning around, opening the door, and waving goodbye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See you later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See ya.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re ten minutes late, you know that?\" Yuqi grumpily murmured as Xiaoyun walked straight into her office without knocking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you just waited five minutes, both of us would have been here... Anyway, anything different today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he took a seat right across from Yuqi, she rolled her eyes before handing him a little folder filled with paper inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The last August report before everything transitions into a quarter system... The data had been harder and harder to get a full picture.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuqi’s answer didn’t really surprise him. In Xiaoyun’s mind, it was only a matter of time before the monthly report became inaccurate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The level of information and data needed from the census department was increasing at an unsustainable pace as the population almost quadrupled in a year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was on top of the general population living more spread out in different cities and countless little towns in the countryside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So much lighter than usual...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun opened the first page, it was a general overview of the population, which had reached 6 million people, over the 4 million figure since the May report.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next page was food storage, which was actually getting full for once, rather than the usual half-empty for the past few months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yuq, you reading this? The food surplus is actually more than the population growth for once?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah. Some good news for once.\" Yuqi murmured as she glanced over him for a second before turning back to her monitor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Delving deeper, he soon finds the increase was a one-time jump, not a measured increase due to agricultural output increasing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just a pre-outbreak food deposit found in Shenzhen and Dongguan, right in the middle of the two cities, inside a storage facility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn, that was a little anticlimactic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Read the whole thing first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Yuqi’s face so cheered up, Xiaoyun continued as he opened to the third page, which provided the actual level of food production.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whoa. Are we actually measuring this much food for the harvest? And it’s all rice, not just short leafy green?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mhm... The oil you brought was able to run the tractors year-round rather than just using manual labor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile appeared on Xiaoyun’s face as he couldn’t help but feel optimistic about the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With this much food, we are more than ready to accept even more migrants, aren’t we?\" Xiaoyun questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah. That’s what we’re doing already... Actually, I almost forgot to ask you this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When are you helping those civilians living in Hunan to move over here? Didn’t you make a promise to the soldiers and the news?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun froze for a second. His brain short-circuited as he dropped the report down onto the desk before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shit. I completely forgot about it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You serious?\" Yuqi questioned, her face seemingly in disbelief and disappointment as she stared into his eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was too busy for the past few days. You know, going to meetings with all those department secretaries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, you’re the one who made the promise. You’d better deal with it yourself. I’m not going to clean up after your mess.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun tried to soften her up, he hit a brick wall as Yuqi didn’t even bother looking in his direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine, I’ll deal with this myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuqi didn’t stop him as she watched him step out of the office, leaving the report on the desk as she picked it back up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do I need to do today?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After putting the report away, she stared back at her empty monitor. All of the work that once required her to make the decision was now gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing she needed to do was to read up on a few reports each department produces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t need to micro-manage every single thing anymore. Soon, she started to get a little bored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking down in the streets, Yuqi could see people walking busily through the streets, all heading to work or already working.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe I should pick up some hobby again...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1582,"2026-06-10T06:59:54.885Z",1,"novelbin.me","604caf288bf52e7899c9900106d4e56e71d941a85598fbd873643b5494c5706d","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-508","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-507",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]