Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

Chapter 356: Chapter 356: The first step

"It's a good thing we picked you as the leader. That would have been so bad if I was the one in charge." Cheng Zui complimented.

Lianzheng didn't say anything back but held up a smile as the biggest hurdle was now out of the way.

With a handshake to the police chief, Lianzheng was now leading his men to the last destination as a final door stood between him and the person in charge.

But as he pushed the door open, the room was revealed to have an old man sitting right in the middle, holding a lighter in hand.

"Can I get a cigarette before I step down?" The old man asked.

Several of Lianzheng men wanted to move up as the old man moved his hand towards the drawer, but he signaled them to stay back.

"Comrade Liu... You know what I'm here for." Lianzheng asked coldly.

"Comrade. That's a word I haven't heard for so long... Did you know your dad was a very good secretary?"

As the old man pulled out a cigarette and lit it up, Lianzheng's face became a little annoyed.

"It's a shame he went the wrong route and caused his career to an expulsion and yours to end before it can——"

The old man coughed several times, then slowly got up from the seat as he breathed out the cigarette smoke.

"But at least he got his conviction overturned... Ahem, I know my son had done many wrongs."

As the old man stood up from his seat, he suddenly bowed down towards all of the Lianzheng's men.

"I'm sorry for what my son has done. I sincerely apologize and plead for him to be let go."

Hearing the old man's voice getting weaker and weaker, Lianzheng's men felt as if they were seeing an almost seventy-year-old man making a plea for his son's mistake.

"Tell him that one more mistake, he's going to prison forever." Lianzheng leniently gave out his decision.

"Thank you... I'll go back and teach him a lesson myself."

As the old man hunched out of the room, several of Lianzheng's men were unhappy with the decision.

But after Lianzheng stated Liu Peng was a war hero back in the fifties, they all instinctively closed their mouth.

"Lianzheng, y-you used to be a part of the party?" Cheng Zui curiously asked.

"Me? No, I was only like ten back then. That would be impossible... Liu Peng and my dad were in the same army sent to the Korean War."

Lianzheng clarified but didn't go any further as he didn't want to talk about it.

"No wonder why I never saw him..." Tingliao murmured as he connected the puzzle in his head.

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By the time Lianzheng had full control of the station, it was already four in the afternoon.

"Congratulations, comrade Lianzheng. It looks like you accomplished your goal without a single drop of blood," Xiaoyun complimented as he clapped his hand.

"You aren't here just to celebrate this, is it? Mr. Songming?" Lianzheng asked as he sat in the seat that Liu Peng had sat in earlier.

"Of course not. I'm here to remind you that the food is ready."

"Great. Where is the food?" Lianzheng asked, his voice sounding a little urgent.

"Miss Kate had already led a few of your men to bring the food over to the station... I'm here to discuss what you need to do next, comrade Lianzheng."

Hearing Xiaoyun's answer, Lianzheng looked much more relieved. One of the biggest problems that he had faced the past few hours was now solved.

"Of course. I'll follow your command, Comrade Songming."

As the two sat across from each other, Xiaoyun took out a piece of paper from his jacket and handed it over.

"The army is about to attack Foshan within a week. I want you to unify the entire metro station around that time frame. Is that possible?"

"A week? That's impossible. It takes almost a week to just walk from one station to the other end of the station line."

Xiaoyun ignored Lianzheng's complaint as he tapped the table to signal him to open the paper.

As Lianzheng opened the paper, he was shocked by the info inside it.

It was a fully scouted map of almost a third of the metro lines. More importantly, it had the precise location of the nearest fully functional metro train.

"You want me to hijack a metro train?" Lianzheng asked, despite knowing the answer.

"Yes. I want you to take over this metro train and use your men to seize the entire metro line before someone can react."

"React? The entire metro line probably already knows that someone took over this station from the elderly.

Did you know information travels almost instantly down here? It's impossible to stop people going down from one station to another."

"Dang... Well, look like you already have another plan then?" Xiaoyun asked as he noticed the confidence on Lianzheng's face.

"Of course... But I need you to tell the army to make some noise. Preferably tomorrow or the day after."

Hearing Lianzheng's request, Xiaoyun considered it for a second. Then nodded in agreement.

"I'll have them fire artillery into the city tomorrow. Is that enough?"

With Lianzheng nodding in agreement, the two were finally done talking about business.

"That's all the request I have... I should probably warn you, though, when the army arrives, they're going to enforce the country's law into this land."

"Of course. We are all law-abiding citizens... I'll tell the police to get rid of those signs and crack down on illegal activities."

As Lianzheng said it out loud, Xiaoyun felt a little guilty for making up the whole cover for himself.

But he didn't tell him the truth, as it would ruin all their progress so far. Not to mention, he isn't exactly lying, as the real army in Shaoguan was technically part of his influence.

"I'll go inform the army now. If you need me, just call me with this phone."

Xiaoyun threw a satellite over before leaving the room, leaving Lianzheng alone as he played with the phone in hand.

"Songming... Songming... Why does it feel like I heard this name before?" Lianzheng thought to himself as he suddenly felt a familiarity seeing Xiaoyun's face.

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After Xiaoyun was back down to the metro line, he instantly went over to a corner before turning his invisible cloak back on.

As he walked back to the metro stations, he could see police walking down the station aisles, telling people to throw away the signs indicating 'illegal' activities.

Many of them were angry at first, but they didn't speak up when the police officer also told them to gather in the staircase later for free food.

Xiaoyun eventually stopped when he arrived back at the room where he had made the guns and food.

But all of it was long gone, with Kate leaving a note to meet at the metro station's restroom.

So Xiaoyun had to walk all the way back to the metro station, turn off the invisible cloak, stand near the restroom, and wait.

"How long have you been waiting for?" Kate curiously asked as she suddenly appeared behind him.

"About ten minutes. Why did you tell me to come over here instead of meeting back in the room?" Xiaoyun asked as the two headed down to the dark metro tunnel.

"I noticed a person was standing by the door, watching our place after the food was delivered," Kate explained.

"Really? You think it's Lianzheng?"

Xiaoyun looked a little surprised as he couldn't understand why Lianzheng would send someone over to watch him.

"But I'm not sure who they are from... It could be someone from another metro line, or maybe it is from Lianzheng."

As the two arrived at the dark metro tunnel, they turned their invisible cloaks back on before walking back to the lightening-up station.

"Where are we going?" Kate quietly asked over the mic.

"To Lianzheng's office."

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"Huh, how odd... Why did that station door open longer than it should be?" Cheng Zui murmured as he arrived before Lianzheng's office.

"Probably just a malfunction. Anyway, let's show the food to Lianzheng. I bet he would never expect it to be so high quality."

As Tingliao and Cheng Zui pushed the door open, Lianzheng sat in his seat, working on a piece of paper full of ink.

"You two finished delivering the food?" Lianzheng asked, his eye still glued to the paper.

"Yeah. Enough to last us at least a month... What are you working on?" Tingliao curiously asked.

"Just a plan on what to do next... Oh my, is that a beef can?"

Lianzheng asked as he finally looked up at the two, only to see his brother holding three different cans.

"Yep, we're finally getting meat and rice! We can finally have a good meal. You wouldn't believe all of the cans contained meat, vegetables, and even rice!

I miss eating rice so much. I can't wait for Sister Lingling to cook with this," Tingliao excitedly pointed out as he put it down on the desk.