[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-758":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},1887572,2510,"Chapter 758: Autumn Draft and Promises","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-758",758,"\u003Cp>\"Why is it so cold all of a sudden?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun murmured as a breeze blew right over him. Looking up in the sky, the sun was completely blocked by the clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back inside the car, he immediately changed the temperature as he inserted the key and drove out of the parking lot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I guess it is fall already... Just a few days before the mid-autumn festival.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After driving for a few minutes, he was back in the logistics office, with Houqin sitting alone in her seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Morning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Morning... You came here so early today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I just wanted to see you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The attempt at romance fails completely as Houqin didn’t look back at him a single time, her eyes stared towards a piece of paper with an uneasy face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem, Houqin, I need you to help me with something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Commander, you need to take a look at this first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Houqin handed the paper over to Xiaoyun, he was a little intrigued by what was inside that was causing her to interrupt him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first thing he saw was the word classified, written at the very top, with Yezi’s name right at the very bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When did he send a letter back?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It just arrived this morning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reading the letter that Yezi had written, Xiaoyun’s eyes soon widened in shock as he couldn’t believe the request he had made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a request asking for permission to draft people forcefully. Not just any people, but the people they rescued along their way towards Yanfu city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is he thinking? Forced enlistment? There’s no way I’m permitting him to do this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading the entire thing, Xiaoyun still rejected the reasoning that Yezi had provided as he handed the paper back over to Houqin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you sure, commander? I think General Yezi’s request is somewhat reasonable...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Reasonable? How would you feel if you had been barely surviving in a city full of zombies and then were forced to turn around to fight them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But it has been two years at this point. Anyone who’s still out there is more than equipped to know how to fight the zombies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Houqin’s reasoning caught Xiaoyun a little offguard as it wasn’t a part of the reasoning Yezi had provided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he wasn’t about to change his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If they wanted to join, they could volunteer for the army. The fact that he’s requesting a forced enlistment implies those people don’t want to join.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Houqin didn’t speak back as Xiaoyun continued with his rambling against Yezi’s reasoning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if those survivors can provide critical info about the area that Yezi managed to rescue them out of, there’s still no need to put them into a combat role.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yezi could have just requested those survivors to tell them or act as a guide. I ain’t about to ruin our reputation over such a small thing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Houqin choosing to stay silent, Xiaoyun quickly created a piece of paper before writing down a rejection letter to shut down Yezi’s idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There’s no emergency or dire challenges we are facing, which makes him think I’m giving him the ability to draft civilians out of their consent?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Houqin, if we accept this, it would be a disaster. I really hope you can understand we’re literally giving away our power to enlist soldiers over to the Generals.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The serious look on his face made Houqin quickly nod her head in agreement, as she began to realize the drawback to Yezi’s idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Make sure you always think with your head, okay? Don’t just accept whatever request they throw at you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Houqin nodded her head again, Xiaoyun finally handed her the rejection letter for her to deliver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Send this back over to Yezi.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, sir!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching her leave the office with the letter, Xiaoyun froze as his brain seemed to have forgotten something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why did I come here early today... Oh, right, the Hunan issue. Dang it, I just sent her out of the room.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After waiting in the room for five minutes, Houqin finally came back as she took a seat at her usual spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem, Houqin. I need you to help me with something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is it, commander?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you remember I made a promise to bring those civilians living in Hunan back over here at all costs?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Um... I think I do. You said that like last month, right? To those soldiers under General Yiming?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yep. And Yuqi just reminded me about it this morning... I was wondering if you could come up with a plan for me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Houqin’s face looked a little surprised, as she couldn’t tell why Xiaoyun would request her help when he could very well do a better job than she.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, you. I trust you can do a much better job than whatever I can come up with. I can’t manage hundreds of thousands of people moving over.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she sat there in silence, Xiaoyun spoke up again to attempt to persuade her to take up the job offering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have the entire reserve and all the other units that aren’t busy to assist you. You don’t need to go out of the city by yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I guess I can do it. But wouldn’t it be better for Miss Yuqi do this? She had managed moving people over in the past.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well... Hunan is still a combat zone. It would be pretty dangerous to have unarmed civil workers to facilitate moving them over here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her starting to be convinced to take the job, Xiaoyun added one last reason to push her over the edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here, if you do need to go outside of the cities to examine the situation on the ground more closely, I’ll go with you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You sure? Aren’t you busy most of the time?\" Houqin questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yuqi can deal with most of the administrative stuff. We just need to get them over to here first before those men in Jiangxi decide to do something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay... I’ll start preparing a plan for this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let me help you as well. I’ve got nothing else better to do right now. I’m free for the entire day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After working through the entire morning with Houqin, the two of them had a rough draft of how to move the Hunan population over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plan was surprisingly simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were just going to disguise soldiers as traders and ’security’ guards and send them across the border in small batches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The job of the traders was to ’buy’ as many people out as possible without alarming the soldiers who were most likely stationed in Changsha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Commander, you sure this is a good idea?\" Houqin questioned, her face filled with doubt as she barely had the chance to give input.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The simpler the plan, the better. We can change along the way if there’s any problem with it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun paused for a second, then instinctively patted her on the shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For now, just get the initial stage up and running first. The longer we take, the more likely the Jiangxi soldiers are to change the status quo.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll start calling up the reservists.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Houqin was about to use her desk phone, Xiaoyun’s brain suddenly remembered something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, one last thing. You don’t have to worry about funding. I’ll go convince Yuqi to agree to the project expenditure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back out in the hallway...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hello?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yuqi, I already finished making the plan to evacuate the civilians out of Hunan. But there’s one last thing I need to ask you about.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need you to approve... around fifty million credits on this project. And you’ll need to allocate more to settle them after we move those people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s fine. We have plenty of room over in Dongguan and Shenzhen... Is there anything else I need to know about?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Yuqi’s calm sound, Xiaoyun was taken aback a little. Still, he continued with the conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Houqin will print over the copy of the plan to you later, and we’re going to do a test run before we do it in mass.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You aren’t going to test it out yourself, right?\" Yuqi questioned as her voice finally changed a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course not. The soldiers are going to be the ones doing it. I’m not going anywhere out of Guangdong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You better.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun hung up the phone on his side, he let out a small sigh of relief, as the biggest worry was now out of the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was really afraid that Yuqi was going to reject the budget needed for the plan, forcing him to somehow make up for the shortfall himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank god she’s being a reasonable woman for once...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What woman?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yueyue’s voice suddenly appeared behind Xiaoyun, he quickly turned around to see her standing right around the hallway corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m just talking about Yuqi... Ahem, why are you here today? You’re going to see Houqin?\" Xiaoyun asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah. I’m coming over to talk about her phone... Several of my aids noticed the calls within the logistics office aren’t encrypted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1515,"2026-06-10T06:59:54.885Z",1,"novelbin.me","355adc219be1a6b9d9be02b2c1c1ebdea00cb460b68bafc3f533727d1bdb0026","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-509","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-508",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]