Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

Chapter 432: Diplomats from Hunan

The next morning...

As Xiaoyun sat in the administrative office, Yuqi was sitting on the other side with her legs crossed.

Even though they had already eaten breakfast and gone to work together, she was still upset about what happened yesterday.

It was almost as if she was giving him the silent treatment, the same way he did on the bed.

"Sick pervert..." Yuqi murmured after noticing Xiaoyun's mouth drooling a little.

As Xiaoyun quickly wiped his mouth and got back to work, he was unfortunately hit by a phone call that interrupted him.

"Who's this?"

"Commander, can you come to the logistics department right now? I have an emergency radio message from Lingang."

"I'll be right there."

Hanging it up, Yuqi got a little curious about what he was in a hurry for. But she didn't ask as he rushed out of the room.

When Xiaoyun arrived at the logistics department, a radio operator was already standing next to the head of the department.

"What's the message?"

"He's finished scouting Qingyuan and determined that the city itself has only a few stranglers inside.

He thought that it was the best time to advance... And he also received a diplomat from the Zhongxiong Defense Force."

Xiaoyun wasn't really surprised by Lingang's action, as he was the one who made a deal with the mutated zombie to bring them further north.

The city was always practically empty, and it was only a matter of time before Lingang marched North.

But he was surprised by the second part, particularly the timing of his advancement and the diplomat.

"Did he talk to the diplomat?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"He did, but they gave him a question that he couldn't answer... So he had sent them down towards Luoping instead."

"I see... Has he arrived yet?"

"Not yet——"

Before the radio operator could finish answering, the door to the department room was barged open.

"The diplomat is here!"

---

In a hotel lobby outside of Luoping's inner city...

A group of people stood right behind a middle-aged man who was sitting alone on a table.

"Sir, your tea."

"Thank you."

As a worker puts the teacup on the table, the middle-aged man sitting in his seat is clearly a little nervous.

"Wait, do you know how long until your city mayor is here?" The middle-aged man asked.

"I do not know, sir... But I think they are arriving here soon."

"Thank you."

With the worker walking off into the distance, the middle-aged man began examining the hotel he was in.

Although it wasn't as fancy as the one in cities, its creation after the outbreak was what made it impressive.

After waiting for a while, the worker finally came back a man who was shocked the moment he saw the middle-aged man.

"Pinli!"

"Xiaoyun!"

As the two excitedly ran up and hugged each other, the soldiers following behind Xiaoyun looked a little confused.

The people standing behind the middle-aged man meanwhile looked a little relieved.

"You're the diplomat that was supposed to meet me?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"Yep... Look at you, god damn. Can't believe you're the leader of a whole city now."

"Yeah, yeah. No need for praise... Pinli, are Uncle Wu and Chengyu doing okay?"

"Yeah, they are doing fine... Xiaoyun, I'm going to be straightforward with you. I was sent here to request your help."

"What kind of problem are you? If it is within my limits, I'll try my best to fulfill it."

"We... We're losing to the zombie. No, I shouldn't even say losing. We had lost to the zombies completely."

"Completely?"

Seeing Pinli looking down in sadness immediately raised an alarm bell inside his head.

"We got kicked out of all of the city outskirts, and we're just hiding in the countryside at this point."

"How? I can understand big cities like Changsha, but all cities? Weren't you close to capturing some of them?"

Xiaoyun questioned as he thought back to the last foreign report by Renqin regarding Hunan.

"Yeah, we were close. But the sudden zombie migration forced us to evacuate.

And then the military that was helping us left after learning their base was under attack."

"Oh. I'm sorry to hear that... I can offer you some guns if that's what you need."

"That will be great!"

"But I can't just give it away for free. You know I'm the leader of a town, and now I need to consider other——"

"I understand. We are willing to pay. But we don't have much to offer right now."

"That's fine. Just give me a list of things you guys have, and I can estimate how much I can trade over."

As Pinli went back to the group of people behind him to discuss it, Xiaoyun sat on the seat across from him and waited.

After waiting for almost ten minutes, Pinli returned with a piece of paper.

"We can offer these things, and we can have them transported over within a week."

Handing the paper over, Xiaoyun began reading it one by one.

The list was pretty long, but most of the items were things that Luoping already had or didn't need.

However, a few of the items were critical to growing his city and making it even bigger.

"If you guys can offer me all of them, I can send an entire army to help you all."

Hearing Xiaoyun's answer, Pinli, along with the group behind him, seemed a little shocked.

"X-Xiaoyun, are you sure you want everything?"

"Do I look like I'm joking? I can send 25,000 men to fight for you guys; all I need is you all to transport everything on your list."

After seemingly a short back-and-forth within Pinli's group, they finally made a decision.

"Deal. We can transport everything here. But that's going to take at least a month."

Pinli pointed out that several of them were heavy-duty construction or farming equipment.

Not to mention the several hundred tons of rice that was on the list.

"No problem... I'll go direct my general that right now. Also, just a reminder that you guys are going to need to feed those soldiers."

"No problem. We got plenty of food to spare. We have enough to feed as many as you can send."

As Xiaoyun left the hotel lobby, Pinli and his groups could not believe how quickly the deal was made.

They were expecting a tough negotiation back and forth rather than just a meeting that lasted less than an hour.

"Pinli, you sure he's not going to scam us?" One of the men in his group raised his concern.

"I'm sure of it. I know what he is like... If it weren't for him, my dad wouldn't be alive."

---

When Xiaoyun arrived at the logistics office, he immediately told the radio operator to tell Lingang to head toward Hunan instead.

After the message was sent and received with an affirmative, Xiaoyun headed straight back to the administrative office.

But as he walked into the office, almost everyone was already gone.

"Where did everyone go?" Xiaoyun curiously asked the janitor walking by.

"It's a lunch break, Mr.Governor."

"Oh, right. Thank you."

As Xiaoyun headed back downstairs, he went to the nearby building, which was named 'Luoping Cafeteria School.'

It was an extremely long building, replacing what used to be a residential area that had moved.

In its place was what the name implied: an actual government cafeteria meant to provide food to all civilian government workers.

After waving his hand and smiling for the hundredth time to all the workers on their lunch break, he finally saw Yuqi sitting in the corner.

"I finally found you," Xiaoyun murmured as he sat down next to her with a tired face.

"Hey! What took you so long?" Yuqi curiously asked.

"Just had to talk to a diplomat from Hunan. Anyway, our problems are all going to be solved."

"Really?"

"Yep. The food situation and all the equipment we ever needed in one single package."

"What's the cost then?"

Yuqi immediately didn't trust Xiaoyun's answer since it almost sounded like free money falling from the sky.

"Just sending an army to Hunan to help them beat some zombies."

"That's it?"

"Yep. That's it... I already directed Lingang over to help them take care of it."

"Wait, Hunan... Isn't that place still at war with Jiangxi?" Yuqi raised her concern.

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We're the only ones who seemed to be mostly unaffected." Xiaoyun replied.

"Yeah, I wonder why. It's totally not because someone entered some sort of negotiation to cause them to head North."

"Ahem." Xiaoyun quickly coughed to hide his awkwardness as his face blushed red.

One of the main reasons he was willing to help Pinli was that he felt a little guilty for causing their plan to fail.

If it weren't for his deal to let those zombies head up North, their plan to capture the city in Hunan would have most likely worked.