Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

"Y-You can't be serious. This is way too dangerous! It's just a suicide mission!" Kate questioned.

"Do you think you can do this alone? Let's be honest here. You need my help if you want any chance of success."

The two stared at each other in silence. Her mind conflicted over the idea he had offered. Your next chapter awaits on My Virtual Library Empire

"But what about your other wives? They would never let you go if they learned how risky it is."

"Trust me, they won't say a single thing. Here, let me call them right now."

As Xiaoyun took out his phone, he quickly dialed Leyan's number before putting it on speaker.

"Hello? Is there something wrong?"

"Babe, I need to save Kate's parent. But it's all the way over to..."

Xiaoyun handed the phone over, letting Kate talk as he didn't even know the exact location.

"It's located at Taishan. It's in a dangerous lab owned by the secret society that had been targeting Xiaoyun."

Kate's answer caused the other side to fall into silence until a different voice answered.

"How long will it take?" Yuqi asked.

"About a few days to a week. We'll call you guys back if it takes longer." Xiaoyun explained.

"I better see the two of you back in one piece. Stay safe."

"Of course."

As Xiaoyun hung up the phone, Kate's face was on the verge of tears again. She couldn't believe how kind they were.

"Told you... They ain't selfish. They would want the same if they were in the same position as you.

Anyway, let's get up and check the assassin's corpses... How did it even get all the way there?"

"They contacted me with an offer. I don't know how he got there in the first place either."

The two quickly headed over to the trees, only to see a dead body with a bullet wound on its head.

On the side was a walkie-talkie and a sniper rifle in the dirt, with a single shell casing on the side.

"God damn, no wonder why it hurt so much..." Xiaoyun murmured as he unclipped the magazine.

The bullet was a .50 BMG, a large cartridge much bigger than any of the bullets Xiaoyun's army had used or even seen before.

"I'm surprised it didn't blow your head off... That thing was specifically targeted towards your durability." Kate commented.

"Could have told me beforehand if you wanted me to prepare for it. It was only a few centimeters off my face."

Xiaoyun quickly created a shovel, digging a small grave as he thought back to the sharp pain he felt.

"I... My bad."

Noticing her face blushing red, Xiaoyun suddenly realized something inside his head.

"You didn't actually intend for me to die there, did you?"

"O-Of course not... I-I was just scared that you might fail to act properly if I told you about it beforehand."

Kate quickly answered as she started dragging the body towards the grave that Xiaoyun had just dug up.

"Besides, I know for certain you could have dodged that bullet. You knew it was just off your vital organ."

"Uh-huh... You know if I moved out of the way, that bullet would have landed on you, right?"

The answer made Kate freeze for a second before realizing the assassin intended to kill both of them.

"Damn bastards! How dare they! Tuah!"

As Kate kicked the body into the grave and spit into the grave, Xiaoyun didn't say anything else other than covering it with dirt.

"Now we're done... Let's go get our car."

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The two of them quickly returned home, getting into the car and not saying goodbye to save time.

They both knew the longer the two waited, the higher the likelihood of her parent's demise.

After almost one hour of driving nonstop, Kate had only driven past Foshan as they approached uncleared territory.

"How long do we have before getting to Taishan?" Kate asked as her eyes focused on the road.

"About one more hour... We're approaching Jiangmen soon. Han Bang's troops might be there."

As soon as Xiaoyun finished looking at the map, they both could see a checkpoint in the distance.

"Just hand them this document."

Xiaoyun quickly hid himself underneath the glove box and in a large jacket as the car approached the checkpoint.

"What are you doing here? This is a combat zone. Get lost, " A soldier said as Kate rolled down the window.

"I'm on a special mission to Taishan. Here's my permit."

After a few seconds, the soldier outside finally moved all the roadblocks aside before handing the permit back.

"Stay safe."

As Kate started up the car and drove off, Xiaoyun finally sat back up from his seat.

"How nice of them to tell us to get lost," Xiaoyun commented.

"What kind of insane person would drive towards a combat zone?" Kate questioned.

"Valid point."

After driving on a bumpy road for thirty minutes, the two finally passed the outskirts of Jiangmen and returned to the highway.

However, their trip took much longer than expected, as it was already nighttime when they arrived in Taishan.

Worse, they needed another hour's drive down the bay before they arrived at the nuclear facility itself.

"Let's just find a place to stay for the night for now," Xiaoyun suggested as they drove past a horde of zombies behind them.

"Sure..."

The two of them continued onward for a bit before finding a quiet, abandoned condo near the edge of a small village.

As Kate parked the car, Xiaoyun quickly created two machetes and gave one over to her.

Even though it was mostly quiet, they could still hear a low growling sound from the buildings as they exited the car.

"Let's just put these on first."

Kate instantly accepted Xiaoyun's black cloak, putting it on before turning herself invisible.

The two of them slowly approached the condo with a broken door, heading inside as Kate watched the front.

Meanwhile, Xiaoyun watched the back as they carefully walked up the stairs to enter the main lobby.

Inside was empty, but the low growling noise had only gotten louder as they walked towards the stairs.

"Let me go first."

Kate didn't reject the offer, switching places with Xiaoyun as she turned into the rear watch.

As they approached the second floor, no zombies were in sight, but there were many old blood stains on the floors and walls.

There were even small pieces of bones lying on the stairway, with not a single bit of flesh remaining.

"How far are we going up?" Kate quietly asked.

"To the top floor."

After walking through several staircases, they could hear zombies in one of the rooms on the third floor. But they both chose to ignore it and continued upward all the way to the sixth floor.

With no other way to go up, they quickly checked down the hall before finding all of them to be locked.

"Which one do you want to rest in?" Xiaoyun asked.

"How about that one with no blood?" Kate answered.

"Step back a bit."

As Kate moved away from the door, Xiaoyun kicked the door with full force, breaking right through the metal security door.

Next, he created a hatchet in hand, chopping the door until he could use his hand to open it from the outside.

Just as they expected, the condo had no traces of anyone living there, with dust all over the place.

But there was still furniture in place, almost as if it had never been sold to a customer before the outbreak.

"I'll cook dinner. Can you go check if there's anything useful in the room?"

"Sure."

As Kate headed over to the bathroom to check first, Xiaoyun started pushing a few pieces of furniture to block the broken door.

After securing the entrance, he headed over to the kitchen and created several dishes out of thin air.

Unfortunately, two of them ended up being frozen cold, forcing him to create several more copies before he got the right one.

"You finish checking the rooms yet?" Xiaoyun asked as he turned off his invisible cloak.

"Almost, just give me a minute."

Sitting down, Xiaoyun created two bowls of rice, eating one himself and putting the other next to his seat.

"Geez, you didn't even wait for me before you started eating," Kate complained as she turned off her invisible cloak.

"What took you so long to check the rooms in the first place?" Xiaoyun curiously questioned as he handed her a pair of chopsticks.

"Nothing... Also, there's no running water in this house." Kate mentioned as her face blushed a little red.

"Of course there's no running water. We're eating in the dark here."

The two of them could barely see each other through the slight moonlight shining through the window.

Unable to endure it, Xiaoyun took out his phone and put it into flashlight mode, lighting the room up back.

"Much better. Now we can actually eat."

"You sure this isn't going to attract too much attention?" Kate raised her concern.

"It's fine. We're only in a small village. There's barely any human or zombies here in the first place."