[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-764":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},1887585,2510,"Chapter 764: A Day Without Xiaoyun","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-764",764,"\u003Cp>\"Ugh, I miss Xiaoyun so much!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nami complained as she rolled around on the sofa, with the sunlight illuminating her body, before somebody overshadowed her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s only been half a day. Go outside and play with your daughter like the rest of them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leyan murmured as she stood by the windows, turning the blinds on to block out the burning sun from the outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t want to go outside. It’s so sunny... Lily can have fun dealing with Xuanhua.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Nami pushed her responsibility away, Leyan only shook her head and looked over to the other two ladies sitting on the sofa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kate, Anna, what are you two doing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just some work stuff... Kate, you sure Xiaoyun is going to make orders after he sees the thing your engineers have made?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m sure of it,\" Kate answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But it’s not even finished yet... You can’t expect him to give you money for research, only for you to upcharge him next.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What upcharge?\" Nami curiously asked as she crawled over to where the two of them sat on the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s not an upcharge. It’s called intellectual property. The government funds the research, and we make money off of it afterward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just standard business practice... You can’t expect a company not make money for themselves, no?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah... But it’s government-sponsored research if we accept the money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So what? Here, let me ask you this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kate paused for a second as she closed up the laptop and looked back at Anna right in the eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anna, who’s the one paying the engineer’s salary?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And who’s paying for the facility?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Us...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who’s coming up with the idea and the initial research for it to happen in the first place?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Us?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now tell me, if we took extra funding from the government to fulfill a future business order, is it really wrong for us to make up for the other costs?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Anna struggled to come up with an answer, Nami looked just as confused. Her mind was telling her Kate’s reasoning made sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nami’s heart tells her something was off, though. Something within the conundrum felt paradoxical and contradictory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If what you’re suggesting is a project being partially funded by the government, shouldn’t the government also have partial ownership?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leyan’s answer caught Kate offguard as she took too long to come up with something in her head to re-convince Nami and Anna.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom’s right! You’re trying to take away the share of the government contribution. Kate, you almost tricked me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kate...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Anna looked a little disappointed, Kate looked over to Leyan with angry eyes for a second before speaking up again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey! I’m just trying to help us make more money. We’re a private business. Why shouldn’t we try to maximize profit within the legal boundary?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tell me, is anything I mentioned earlier illegal? Can the government produce whatever we come up with themselves?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sounds like someone is a little desperate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leyan chucked as she walked off towards the kitchen before Kate had the chance to argue back at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We can still make money... Even if it is legal, I don’t like to earn money through unethical means.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ugh, stupid Leyan...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Kate facepalmed herself, Nami couldn’t help but chuckle a little as well, seeing how Anna had completely switched sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom! We’re hungry! When are you cooking lunch?\" Yuqi’s voice suddenly appeared as she yelled from the backyard door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m on it now. Give me thirty minutes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Leyan, let me help you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anna quickly got up from the sofa, heading towards the kitchen as she had nothing else better to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you smiling at?\" Kate grumpily questioned as she looked over to Nami, who was struggling to keep it together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the evening approached, everyone was out of the house to go shopping, except for Lily, who sat on the sofa alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of her was the TV, playing a certain anime on the screen as it was wirelessly connected to Nami’s laptop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ryuko, you don’t deserve the right to fight me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You don’t get a choice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as a fight scene was about to start, someone suddenly knocked on the door, interrupting the show.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh come on, really?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lily quickly turned off the TV, closing the laptop before walking over to the door’s peephole with a short little stool in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hm... What was that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jumping back down onto the ground, Lily scratched her head in confusion as no one was there to knock on the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Weird...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a second, Lily’s curiosity told her to open the door to take it inside. But her rational reasoning quickly took back control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back over on the sofa, Lily quickly opened the laptop again, reconnecting the TV to resume the show.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Little lady, do you know where Mr.Chen is?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sudden voice out of nowhere made Lily freeze in place, her hand hanging on the space bar as goosebumps all over her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"T-They are out shopping with everyone else,\" Lily answered robotically as her mind instinctively couldn’t think of anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sitting still for a whole minute, Lily finally had enough and turned around. But to her shock, no one was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What was that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Getting up and walking around the living room, not a single soul was near her. All of the blinds and windows were completely sealed as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the backyard door was closed. Not a single entrance to the house was opened as she double-checked the locks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Was that a ghost?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more Lily thought about it, the more goosebumps appeared on her skin to the point that she went back to the sofa and hid herself underneath a blanket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"G-Ghost doesn’t exist. Calm down, Lily, that must have been some weird hallucination or something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite attempts to reassure herself, she manages to scare herself even more as the voices from earlier felt too real to be fake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hello? Is anyone there?\" Lily nervously asked, with her head barely peaking out of the blanket despite it being a hot day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the living room continuing to be a deafening silence, the fear slowly disappeared from Lily’s mind as she pushed the blanket aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I must be suffering from heatstroke or something... That must have been it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lily quickly grabbed the remote to turn the air conditioner from low to high mode, sending a cold chill as she clicked on the laptop’s spacebar\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Satsuki!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the fight scene resumed, a sudden knock on the door appeared once again. But this time, it was followed by a voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lily! Open the door. We’re home!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Coming!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lily grumpily turned off the laptop, disconnecting the TV as she quickly ran over to the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go help carry some stuff from the car. Mom brought so much stuff today... You okay, Lily?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yueyue asked after noticing the pale look on Lily’s face as if she had just gone through some scary mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I’m fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Lily quickly ran off to the car outside, Yueyue didn’t think too much about it as Nami came in next with a bag of stuff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally, some cold air. Can’t believe it’s so fucking hot in the month of September.\" Nami complained as she dropped the bag on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The hot temperature is going to continue until next Wednesday,\" Yuqi murmured as she came in with a bag full of groceries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No fucking way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, watch your language,\" Shuli warned as a baby was strapped to her back, seemingly asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My bad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nami, your baby.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kate quickly handed Xuanhua over as she turned back around to go outside, grabbing more bags as the entryway soon filled up with bags.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You two get your lazy butt from the sofa. Carry these into the kitchen.\" Leyan hurried as she forcefully sat them back up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, okay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the two of them got up again and carried the bags over into the kitchen, Anna suddenly noticed an envelope on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Leyan, did we have mail today?\" Anna asked out loud as she dropped her bags and picked up the envelope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not that I know of.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leyan yelled from the kitchen as she sorted the grocery bags into different piles before putting them into the fridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Weird... Hey Lily, did you bring mail into the house?\" Anna asked as she stopped Lily, who just come back from the car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No... Wait, how did this mail come into the house?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Lily looked shocked by the mail, Yueyue and Yuqi both came back from the kitchen to carry more bags.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I saw it resting outside on the porch, so I brought it in earlier with me... Someone should probably open it.\" Yueyue answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh... No address, name, or anything. How did this thing even get here?\" Anna wondered as she examined the mail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let me open it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leyan quickly snatched the mail out of Anna’s hand as she personally came back from the kitchen to check it out herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, let me do this in case something bad is inside it.\" Tianci chimed in, remember what happened to Xiaoyun last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few seconds of thought, Leyan handed the mail over, letting Tianci open it as they all stood around her with curiosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s inside?\" Nami curiously asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1551,"2026-06-10T06:59:54.885Z",1,"novelbin.me","3d7ede44cff8b484adf49c1134fb88b45623fde8e5b4e5074d5daf955d409f8f","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-516","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-515",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]