Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

Chapter 415: Foiled Assassination Attempt

After a short silence, Yuqi dialed the central bank's phone number.

"Liuqian there?"

"Yes, Mrs.Yuqi. But he's having a meeting with a customer right now." The receptionist on the other side answered.

"Okay, call me back when he's done."

As Yuqi hung up the call, she looked over to Nami, who was still standing there and looking a little nervous.

"Hey, Nami."

"What?"

"You can't wear so casually if you want to work in the bank, you know that?"

"Oh, right. Um, I'll go buy a suit later——"

"No, let me come with you. It's almost lunch break now anyway."

Yuqi forcefully dragged Nami with her, heading out of the office before locking it.

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Meanwhile, Xiaoyun was all the way in the printer room, next to Yuqi's secretary, who was watching it print.

"Mr.Mayor——I mean Mr.Governor, you don't have to wait here."

"Don't worry about me. I have nothing much to do besides waiting... Oh, snap!"

Xiaoyun suddenly ran down the stairs, leaving the building and heading straight to the training field.

When he arrived, he immediately went to the military storage unit, only to see that the four guards were already back.

"You guys deliver the food?" Xiaoyun asked.

"We had delivered it to the mayor as you directed."

"Whew... Thanks for the hard work, everyone. You all are great people."

Xiaoyun padded one of their back before leaving the training field and began driving his car back to Guangzhou.

After driving for less than ten minutes, he arrived at Guangzhou's administrative building.

"So much back-and-forth today..." Xiaoyun murmured as he parked his car and entered the building.

As he reached the top floor, he was surprised to find Leifeng not there, only to realize it was already lunch break.

Heading down all the way to the first floor, he finally sees Leifeng eating next to a few office workers at the communal cafeteria.

"Mr.Xiaoyun!"

Leifeng waved as Xiaoyun walked all the way to his table before sitting down at an empty seat.

"I finally found you. How's the recruitment going so far?" Xiaoyun asked.

"Amazing. So many people showed up that I'm pretty sure we're about to reach your goal today."

"Today?" Xiaoyun asked in a little surprise tone.

"Yes, today. We already have 174,220 people signed up. It's going to have even more people in the afternoon."

"That's good to hear... Wait, did you apply any standard to it?"

"Standards?"

Seeing Leifeng's face look a little confused, Xiaoyun facepalmed himself for forgetting to tell him the requirements.

"The soldier's recruit has to be at least 16-36 and has to be in good health."

"Oh, you're talking about this requirement. Of course, we use the same standard you gave us for the militia a few days prior.

But for the age. We had to eyeball it to be close enough since we couldn't really fact-check their age before the outbreak.

Some might have been falsely reporting their age... Also, most of them are still a little malnourished."

"That's fine. That can be determined later."

Just as Xiaoyun was about to bring up his idea of moving some of the people to Foshan, he suddenly sensed something was off.

As he turned around, a man walked past with a tray, heading over to his table.

"Mr.Xiaoyun, what's wrong?" One of the office workers curiously asked.

"Nothing——"

Within seconds, Xiaoyun stood up from his seat before pulling his gun out and pointing it right at the strange man who had just walked past.

"Put your hand into the air."

Everyone in the communal cafeteria was a little shocked as they all noticed it was the mayor who was pointing a gun at a person.

More importantly, the man seems to be resistant to Xiaoyun's command despite a gun pointed at his head.

"Can I ask what caught your attention, Mr.Xiaoyun?" The man asked as he finally raised his hand into the air.

"Holding a tray one-handed and tucking something into your pocket after I turned around.

Don't you think you look a little stupid for that? What are you looking at? Go call the police."

Several bystanders finally got up from their seats and headed over to the guards at the entrance.

As they arrived in the cafeteria, they were just as shocked as everyone else.

"Come over and tie him up. I want an answer——"

"Mr.Governor, can I take him away instead?"

A middle-aged man intervened and interrupted Xiaoyun from talking to the two guards who had just come in.

"You are?"

"I'm from the Department of Internal Security. This is my badge number and my ID."

After looking at it for a bit, Xiaoyun handed the assassin over to him before looking back to the guards.

"One of you go tell your branch of the police department to hire more people. I don't want to see this place unguarded."

"Yes, sir!"

As everything calmed back down, Xiaoyun turned his attention back to the alerted bystanders.

"Ahem, everyone can resume eating."

Just as Xiaoyun sat down in his seat, everyone was clapping as if he had saved their lives.

"Mr.Xiaoyun, you sure have a busy day today, haven't you?" Leifeng asked as he started digging into the rice.

"Yeah. I visited five different places in a single day today. And it's only noon."

"The first week of the month is always the busiest." One of the office workers commented.

"I feel like it's going to be busy for me the entire month..." Xiaoyun murmured as he thought about the workload he had set up.

From managing the soldier's recruits to the militia that had already been recruited in all three cities that he still hasn't seen yet.

Not to mention, Wuli and Shuli are both going into labor later this month, and the war bond payment is still lingering in the background.

"Leifeng, how many people are in Guangzhou exactly?"

"956k people last time I checked." Leifeng instantly replied.

"How many people can you say Guangzhou can currently handle?" Xiaoyun asked another question.

"For the metropolitan area we are in, it's about 300k people. But we can stretch it to around 340k.

Given more time and enough supplies to gather all the resources, it can easily handle over 10 million people in the future."

"How many supplies are there to gather in Guangzhou?" Xiaoyun asked, disregarding the future potential for now.

"Half of the city is still mostly untapped besides soldiers that went over to each of them and cleared it.

I had already allowed almost 200,000 of the 856,000 people to settle in that area to attempt to reduce the strains.

Some of them are already attempting to farm in more rural areas on the city outskirts with leftover equipment.

But it's kind of hard to manage them so far away from the metropolitan area unless I send in the police force once in a while to check."

After doing all the calculations, Xiaoyun came up with a number.

"So with 200k gone to be sent to Luoping and 300k settled in those untapped zones, you are currently directly managing 556k people?"

"Yeah. If assuming no more people come to our city."

"That's still 216k people over the limit. What if I told you that you could move those people somewhere else?"

"Really? Where?" Leifeng asked, his voice unable to hide his excitement.

"Yuqi and I had been considering moving some of them over to settle in Foshan instead.

And don't worry—Foshan is already cleared, except for a few remote areas on the outskirts of the city."

As Leifeng and the other two office workers fall into silence, they are still a little hesitant about Xiaoyun's plan.

"Mr.Mayor, how many people are in Foshan right now?" One of the office workers asked.

"About less than 10k people. It's still a relatively untapped city compared to Guangzhou."

After a short consideration, Leifeng stood up and suddenly bowed down in front of Xiaoyun.

"Thank you, Mr.Xiaoyun. You have helped us do our job so much easier!"

"No problem. I'm the leader, after all." Xiaoyun replied as he hid in the urge to scratch his head.

"I'll go make a list and start recruiting people to move to Foshan tomorrow——"

"Not tomorrow. That's way too fast. How about you make a list first, and I'll help you move them next week?"

Leifeng accepted Xiaoyun's suggestion, as he still had enough food to last a while after the food that had been delivered earlier.

"Ahem, I got to go now. I'll be back to get those soldier recruits back to Luoping tomorrow."

"See you!"

As Xiaoyun headed out of Guangzhou's administrative building, he headed inside his parked car before driving it back to Luoping.

Just as he arrived back home, it was still barely past one o'clock, with the sun still high up in the sky.

"Why does time go so slow today?" Xiaoyun murmured as he took out his keys to unlock the door.