[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-zombie-apocalypse-creation":3,"chapter-zombie-apocalypse-creation-zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-805":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},1887395,2510,"Chapter 805: The Northern Report (2)","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-805",805,"\u003Cp>\"There are over a hundred rules in the rulebook, but we picked five that stood out the most and what most of the people who had left talked about.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Xiaoyun’s eyes, the very first line of the rule shocked him. It was one of the harshest rules he had ever witnessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Encoarchingment law... Immediate expulsion for robbery, with items valued over a hundred dollars punishable by death.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agent Thunder didn’t wait for Xiaoyun to read the whole thing, as the next few rules all appeared at once, right below the robbery law.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Universal Conscription Order... Child Reassignment Directive... Reproductive Licensing Law... Who in their right mind made some of these?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The laws finally made Xiaoyun more confused than ever. He couldn’t understand why anyone would put up with these levels of restrictions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Most accounts from the people who left had stated some had rarely been enforced... It seems to be only enforced during the start of the outbreak.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Xiaoyun read through each of the law’s details, it soon began to make somewhat sense to him as the explanation page appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Many of the specific laws seem to stem from needs or real cases, like this one after a zombie baby came out of a mother.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I had never heard of that happening before,\" Xiaoyun murmured, his mind unable to wrap around it at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We can’t really confirm the validity of this story. But based on intel we can gather, the atmosphere around these provinces is heavily rigid and restrictive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can definitely see that... I almost forgot to ask, what do they call themselves?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the official communications, they refer to themselves as the Government’s Army, but it seems that most survivors in the North called them Jiaotu Army.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jiaotu... Scorch Earth?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The word sounded familiar in Xiaoyun’s head for a second before Agent Thunder fully revealed the meaning behind it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Every city they had been into, it’s been mostly scotched down to the bare bones from extensive use of artillery barrages.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As new pictures appeared on the slide, it was a whole city under near destruction. Most of its skyscrapers had fallen onto the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rubbles were everywhere, completely blocking off a road running through a city. Only a few single-story buildings managed to survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It almost reminded him of the destruction seen in Wuzhou over in Guangxi province, where giant mutants ran through everything in the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s the point of the city if they destroy it like this?\" Yueyue questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Based on some of the people we interviewed, their objective seems to be killing as many zombies as possible while avoiding urban combat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Make sense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun muttered to himself, his mind beginning to realize how they managed to expand so fast to control all three of the northeastern provinces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem, moving on to its governing structure, they’re under a military restructure with the commander-in-chief named Lin Gaojian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each of the three provinces is assigned a civil servant who works alongside a military governor... Except for the Hubei area.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Agent Thunder pointed his laser pointer around the zoomed-out map of the North, it included half of the Hubei province and Beijing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re under direct control, and as of our last intel report from this month, they seem to be on track to clear Tianjin city.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do they have any particular weaknesses?\" Xiaoyun questioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s extremely cold up north, reaching an inhabitable level of coldness. Some of those who left cited it as the main reason for leaving as well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How cold exactly?\" Xiaoyun questioned again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Um, below 10 degrees Celsius? We can’t confirm it, but the record snowfall had been broken year over year based on a man we interviewed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see... Continue.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sitting through the entire day of the report, Xiaoyun finally figured out a rough estimate of what the situation in the north was like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first faction was the government faction, or the Jiaotu army. Composed mostly of the army before the outbreak, they were the de facto ruler of the north.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second came Zhangfei’s father’s army, or the Green army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its name came from the trees that continued to grow along the provincial border to prevent a sandstorm from coming south.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are composed of the army before the outbreak, just like the Government forces, except they’re based in the Northwestern part of the country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The area they control stretches from Gansu til Zhangjiakou city in the northwestern part of Hubei, with presence scattered throughout the north of the Yangtze River.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Purely based on a map project, they had a vast area under their control that literally covered everything north of the Yangtze River.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was even bigger than the Government Forces. However, the reality is that most of the small settlements are just using their name for protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The core area of the Green Army only consisted of the much smaller towns in the northern tip of Ningxia, Shaanxi, and Shanxi provinces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than a strict hierarchical structure, their governing system functions more as a loose-knit coalition between each of the bases in the rural countryside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A replica of what Zhongxiong’s forces tried to do in Hunan, except expanded threefold across multiple provinces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third faction was more of a neutral party in the conflict, a civilian government whose founding had zero ties to either of the two factions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They called themselves the People’s Commune of Henan-Anhui-Jiangsu. As the name implies, they mostly control the three provinces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It started out as a group of small settlements fighting against zombies, a united front founded by local militias during the start of the outbreak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing pressure from both Jiantu and the Green Army, they joined forces into a more centralized structure, with its headquarters being Xuzhou city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Survivors in the north called them ’demilitarized’ in the sense of having a civilian leader. But the militia technically served under a different militia leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on some rumors gathered, the commune came into existence due to a ludicrous number of zombies that traveled in the open plains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither of the two Government Forces wanted to be the one dealing with it, which could partially explain why they avoided expanding further inland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside of the three mainstream factions, there was technically a fourth faction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the zombies themselves who had increasingly become more aggressive and more dangerous than ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From all accounts of survivors and traders up north, the situation was starting to become dire as zombies mutated much faster than anyone had expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The difficulty up north was apparently unparalleled. Every street corner had a tank mutant of some sort that had grown immune to grenades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention the endless number of zombies, despite the situation on the map showing progress being made by the big three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More and more of the independent settlements, even in the rural areas, were being crushed by massive zombie hordes, being wiped off the map as refugees fled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost as if the zombies had reached a common consensus. A need for all-out push or nothing if they wanted to survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s all we have gathered so far, Governor. Is there anything we can help you understand the situation?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nope, I think that’s all I needed to know,\" Xiaoyun answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the last agent finished giving their presentation, Yueyue took this chance to thank everyone for their hard work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So what do you think?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yueyue asked after all of the agents had left the room, leaving only the two of them inside the meeting room alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think I learned a lot today. A lot more than I had expected after asking you to work on this for a month.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not a month, we had been working on this before Renqin had left. We just started putting the pieces together now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Still extremely impressive in such a short time. You did a fantastic job.\" Xiaoyun complimented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn’t do that much of the work, though. The agents are the ones who are out there risking their lives.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need to diminish what you did. The agents carried it out, but you’re the one who brought the pieces together.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her shyly lowering her head, Xiaoyun couldn’t help but reach his hands out to pat her on the head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You want any rewards? Anything on your mind for doing such a good job?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I think I’m good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yueyue answered as her face suddenly started to blush red, and her eyes continued to stare down towards the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You sure? Nothing at all?\" Xiaoyun asked again as he stopped patting her head to make her feel more comfortable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s just a part of my job, sir.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sir? When did you start to get so formal? No one is in this room right now... Are you scared to ask for a reward, Yueyue?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his face inched closer and closer, Yueyue finally got enough courage to look up as she quickly got up from her seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I-I’m not scared. Excuse me, I’m going to head back to work now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiaoyun didn’t try to stop her, watching her in silence as she ran out of the room. He turned around as he looked towards the blank projection sheet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jiaotu Army, huh...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1537,"2026-06-10T06:59:56.420Z",1,"novelbin.me","f40fdb081b2e9ed4713ea15849bbde578d5e1993ab1b4415d4598fd071f69f4e","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-608","zombie-apocalypse-creation-chapter-607",829,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fzombie-apocalypse-creation-cover.jpg"]