Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

Back in Luoping...

When Xiaoyun returned to the administrative office after his two-day wedding break, he was met by a stack of papers on his table.

"What's all these documents?"

Xiaoyun curiously asked as he looked over to Yuqi, who seemed to be typing something on the computer.

"You got to ask your logistics office. They just sent me a stack of paper yesterday for you to read."

Looking down, there was a bold letter with the word classified information with the head of logistic office stamps.

Curious, Xiaoyun began opening the first document.

"Operation Zero Hour... Who came up with these names?"

As Xiaoyun began reading the document, he realized it was Yiming's plan in Dongguan.

The first pieces of paper outline the plan he was using to execute the reclamation of the city.

From reading the first page all the way to the end of the 1st document, he was amazed by how perfect everything was.

To start, control the bridges. Then, establish a safe zone for the other side to prepare for gradual expansion with small, individual unit infiltrations.

Every step of the way was planned out, with room for maneuver and adjustment according to the situation.

There were no major flaws based on Xiaoyun's informal military experience from all the plans he had made with them.

The only issue he found was the speed of the set plan, as the estimated end date of the operation was next year.

Considering it was only April right now, the plan was way too drawn out to be sustainable.

But at the same time, the operation time Yiming gave was counting both Dongguan and Shenzhen.

After thinking for a bit, Xiaoyun chose not to add any comment or suggestion to it.

He didn't want to end up as an outsider directing professionals on how to do their jobs, not to mention that Yiming was his military teacher.

"What the next document... Operation Iron Shield?"

As Xiaoyun put the first document aside, he was surprised to see that the second stack document was Yezi's plan.

"Why are you so surprised?" Yuqi asked curiously, as it seemed normal to her that Xiaoyun's general write a plan of their own.

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"Because Yezi hates writing plans out... I was the one who always wrote most of the stuff when the three of us made any plans."

After Xiaoyun answered his question, he began reading Operation Iron Shield.

Unlike Yiming's plan, Yezi went with a much more aggressive approach in Zhaoqing.

Rather than gradual expansion, he opted to cut the city into small parts and clear the zombies by gathering them all together.

Weirdly enough, Yezi's plan stopped right after entering the entrance a few miles, and there was no further movement afterward.

It was practically just getting to the high ground of the city and securing highway the chokepoints from entering Zhaoqing from all three sides.

"What?"

As Xiaoyun reads the next few pages, he still doesn't understand why Yezi is opting out of fully clearing the city.

He is even more confused when he gets to the part where Yezi splits the army in half, with Han Bang leading the other half.

Only when he got to the ninth page of the document did he finally understand Yezi's decision.

The Guangxi reports of zombie hordes bordering Zhaoqing were making it way too risky to clear the city fully.

This is especially true when you consider that Zhaoqing and Jiangmen are in different directions, with one in the south and the other in the west.

Meanwhile, Yiming didn't have to worry about multiple flanks as both Dongguan and Shenzhen were mostly from the east.

The Iron Shield was intended to let Yezi's unit stay in a defensive position while Han Bang cleared most of the Jiangmen before the two reunited.

And just as Xiaoyun expected, there was a third document named Operation Jiangmen.

The first page had Han Bang's signature at the top, with Yezi's stamp of authorization right below it.

As he flipped to the next page and began reading, he was shocked by Han Bang's crazy plan.

He had turned completely 180 degrees, away from his usual safe, conservative approach.

It was something that he expected out of Lingang, not Han Bang out of all people.

"Shelling the city? What the hell is he thinking?"

As he read more and more, Xiaoyun slowly calmed back down as he realized it wasn't too crazy.

The plan was to shell the unfinished, abandoned condo to draw the zombies' attention up north, not directly at the city.

Then, his army can send in small amounts of troops to lure them towards a flat plain to strike them from a high ground.

If it worked, the payoff would be massive, as the estimation was over 20% of the zombies in the city would be cleared.

However, the risk involved was still very high, as Han Bang's unit wasn't fully motorized, meaning he couldn't run away if things went wrong.

Not to mention, Han Bang only had half of an army corp, with the other half still being led by Yezi in Zhaoqing.

"I have to reject this... But what if it works?"

Xiaoyun started to feel a little conflicted. He didn't want a drawn-out war on both sides.

The idea of a quick war, at least on one side, was too appealing in terms of the logistical stress it would put on Luoping and Guangzhou.

A lot of resources were already being funneled into the Qijing merger and the resettlement of people to Foshan.

This is in addition to the report of the settlement that Lingang had set up in Qingyuan for the refugees from up north.

Xiaoyun was starting to regret expanding the military with two more army corps, which added another cost to the government.

In the end, he made the executive decision to let Han Bang try the plan out.

"What's wrong? Your face looks a little stressed." Yuqi asked as she closed her laptop and turned towards Xiaoyun.

"Just some expenses... Don't worry about it. I'll handle this."

As Xiaoyun finished reading the third document, he was a little surprised to see that there was one more.

Unlike the other three, there was no title name or anything.

Instead, it was just a report from Lingang, with a detailed account of what he had seen in Changsha.

From the even stronger mutants up north to new zombie mutations that Xiaoyun had never seen.

On the very last page, Lingang flat out started making absurd requests ranging from making his Division into a Corps to air strikes.

Without any hesitation, Xiaoyun denied all of the requests besides the ammo reinforcement.

Considering that the logistics department had already approved it, Xiaoyun didn't even need to write anything about it.

"Whew... Finally, finish catching up with all the work——"

"Woah, who said you're done? You don't realize you missed almost half of the week of work?"

Yuqi interrupted as she headed over to her cabinet before carrying out a stack of documents onto his desk.

"Come on, I trust you to make all the decisions. You can just make it for me——"

"You wish. I'm not dealing with the overinflated military budget you have caused."

Xiaoyun's face blushed, as he could already predict that the military cost for this month would be way over the roof.

As soon as he opened the first document, he was surprised to see a decrease rather than an increase.

However, he soon realized he just held the document the wrong way, as the sharp decrease was actually a sharp increase.

Food consumption was, once again, skyrocketing as it never seemed ever to decrease at all.

Of course, there was no way to decrease ever since the population under their control was ever increasing.

The only thing to worry about was the food production, which had been climbing higher and higher.

After flipping through the first document for a bit, Xiaoyun finally found the food product report for the week.

Just as he expected, it was only increasing by a small amount, with barely any effect from the experts he had sent to.

However, he remained fully calm, as the implementation would take at least a month to take effect.

As long as the food stockpile hadn't run out, everything was still fine for him to stall it out.

This was answered on the next page, with a critically low level of food storage report.

Fortunately, an asterisk was right at the bottom of the statistic, stating the food from Hunan has not yet been counted.

The food shipment, particularly the canned fish from Foshan, has also not yet been delivered.

Everything was looking to be going in a good direction until he saw the next document.

"For fuck sake..."

Xiaoyun leaned back onto his chair in defeat as the government was once again way over budget.

The deficit once again rose, although it was still manageable as the central bank had enough to loan to the government.