Zombie Apocalypse: Creation-Chapter 672: Transporation Report

Chapter 672: Transporation
"You’re lucky we’re going to give you a break today. Go take a shower and go to sleep."
As Yuqi let go of her hand and Leyan hopped off his lap, he was genuinely surprised by their sudden change of attitude.
"Just wait until the weekend. You’re going to need to prepare yourself."
Yueyue’s ominous warning sent a chill down his spine, but he didn’t say anything back as they all headed upstairs.
"How nice of them... Time to go take a shower."
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The next day, Xiaoyun woke up just in time as he ate breakfast with everyone at the dining table.
Reading Luoping Daily, the headline was the entire TV show in text format, with a schedule to replay it tonight as well.
"Do they really have to replay it?" Xiaoyun murmured, his mind still felt a little embrassed by it.
"Shen Wen is going to juice every bit of views he can get. You know how a journalist is going to behave when you give them news for free."
Leyan answered as she handed a small piece of sandwich over to Wuli, helping her eat while Bingbing rested on her arms.
"I guess..."
"Oh, almost forgot to tell you this, Leyan, the two of us are going to come home late, you don’t have to cook us dinner." Anna suddenly mentioned.
"Where are you two going?" Leyan curiously asked.
"Just needing to go visit the newly assembled factory in Qingyuan. We should be back around nine or ten." Kate answered this time.
"Stay safe... Xiaoyun, you aren’t going to say something?"
"Stay safe... Ouch, why was that for?" Xiaoyun complained as Leyan stepped on his foot.
"Is that all you got to say?"
"What else am I supposed to say?"
"Never mind, this guy truly has a cardboard brain... You two make sure not to do anything dangerous, okay?"
The two of them nodded as they headed out of the house, leaving the rest to eat dinner as they watched them close the door.
"Sister Leyan, what did you call brother Xiaoyun a cardboard brain?" Lily curiously asked.
"Because this idiot doesn’t even give them a goodbye kiss or give them a hug before they leave the house."
Leyan answered, looking over to Xiaoyun with disappointment as if she had had high hopes from him after yesterday.
"Hey, she’s going to come back tonight. It’s not like they are staying overnight... You’re making it like they are going on a long trip or something."
Leyan only shook her head as she made the next sandwich for Shuli to eat, helping Shuli eat while Wenwen sat in her arms.
"Sometimes I really wonder how I fell in love with you?"
Yuqi murmured as she still couldn’t believe how smooth-brained Xiaoyun was when it came to relationships.
"What? I’m being serious. You guys don’t give me goodbye kisses when I go to work. You guys are overreacting over nothing."
As Xiaoyun took a sip of the coffee and turned the newspaper to the next page, his brain suddenly realized something.
"Wait a moment. Lily, when did you start calling Leyan sister again? Didn’t you use to call Mom?"
"It’s none of your business. Stop being so noisy."
Leyan interrupted, not letting Lily answer as she handed her the second sandwich to keep her busy eating.
"Whatever..."
Just as the kitchen fell into a minute of silent eating, Xiaoyun suddenly started taking a cold breath.
"What the hell..."
"You okay?" Tianci worringly asked, noticing his hand shaking a little as she sat right next to him.
"Y-Yeah, I’m fine."
As Xiaoyun closed the newspaper, his mind was zoning out a little as he couldn’t believe what he saw on the second page of the newspaper.
It was a photo of a massive, naked zombie. A titan mutant, to be exact. The same one he had once witnessed back when he first visited Foshan.
He had always wondered where the titan mutant disappeared into, since no trace of its existence had ever been found other than the destruction it left behind.
If he didn’t witness it once before, he would have thought the photo was fake. But he could instantly recognize its look.
The same mutant. No other way around it, with the location of the picture being in Nanning, Guangxi.
"Shit. This is going to be annoying."
"What’s going to be annoying?" Nami curiously asked, noticing the worried look on Xiaoyun’s face.
"Nothing. Just some things I have to talk to Houqin later..."
As Xiaoyun flipped the newspaper back up to the third page, he was once again shocked as the photo ops made his eyes drop.
Lines upon lines of people, all migrating on foot. With the city’s direction being once again from Guangxi.
"What the hell is happening in Guangxi?" Xiaoyun wondered, as the fog of war began to elude him.
"Guangxi? Why are you talking about Guangxi for?"
As Yuqi took a peek at the newspaper herself, she froze for a second before flipping over to the front to check the date.
"Fuck! This can’t be serious. More people coming over towards our direction?" Yuqi questioned in anger as she got up from her seat.
"It’s not that much... Who knows how many of them are going to be alive by the time they make it here?"
Yuqi fell into silence as she knew what Xiaoyun was trying to imply, but she still could feel the stress of the possibility of even more people.
"I can send more agents to Guangxi... But it’s kind of hard since zombies block off all of the corridors to the province."
Yueyue suggested as she began to realize she might have overlooked some key info on a province that bordered one of their cities.
"It’s fine. We’ll do something about it when we get there... Spend your effort more on crime and corruption investigation——"
"No more talking about work." Leyan interrupted, ending their conversation as everyone went back to eating breakfast.
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When Xiaoyun came to the administrative building with Yuqi, they were instantly met with file after file of s on the table.
Jianlin was already standing there, waiting for them to come into the room as she bowed down towards Yuqi.
"Deputy Governor, this is all the information we have gathered so far on the refugees coming from Guangxi."
"You can go back to work. I’ll read these later."
As Jianlin left the room, Xiaoyun reached for the , only to have Yuqi take it before he could.
"Go do something else. I’ll handle the refugees." Yuqi murmured as she began reading the by herself.
"You sure?"
Seeing her nodding her head, Xiaoyun didn’t think too much about it as he went over to the 2nd stack of s to read over.
It was a on the railroad construction—more specifically, a progress on the connection of Guangzhou to Luoping.
The two cities had completed their connection and had begun their first test run, with full operation estimated by the end of the month.
Everything seemed to be fine until he read to the second half of the , where the word ’limited’ capability was stated.
Once again, the electric grid’s limitation meant the metro itself could only operate during the peak hours of the morning and afternoon.
Near the end of the , it also brought up the pause on the metro system across Foshan and Guangzhou due to the lack of electricity.
"Damn electricity... Hopefully, those generators start working soon." Xiaoyun murmured as he began reading the next .
The second was once again transportation. But rather than the metro, this one was more specifically regarding trains and high-speed rails.
Everything had been repaired and was fully functioning, with the only thing being in the way being the lack of budget actually to operate it.
What was worse was the survey it had conducted, as all the effort Xiaoyun had spent repairing might have gone into a sunken hole.
The number of passengers who were willing to take either of them remained low, as the need for across-city transportation wasn’t that high a priority.
Still, it wasn’t a dead-end, as the survey over time had shown an increasing trend of more people wanting it to become open to the public.
"Am I really going to operate this at a loss?" Xiaoyun murmured to himself as a decision became apparent.
"Operate what at a loss?" Yuqi curiously asked as she turned over to Xiaoyun for a second.
"The trains and the high-speed rail... The trains are going to be used for transporting goods, no matter what.
But for the high-speed rails... Not a lot of people need it to travel across the city far enough to justify the cost."
"Then just put it on pause for now until there’s enough interest to restart it."
"I guess."
As Xiaoyun took out a piece of paper to begin drafting a letter to put the operation on pause for now, he quickly noticed a small note at the end.
"Repairing railway to other unexplored cities for the army... Who came up with that idea?"