Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

When Kate asked why this foreign task wasn't assigned to the CIA, the answer she received was a confidential meeting with the president.

He told me that Congress didn't trust him enough, so he needed to make it visible for Congress to have oversight on how it is done.

She was the only one who graduated from college with the necessary language skills, so her team was selected for the mission.

With no other choices, she boarded a flight to Turkey, where her team met a German girl about her age and three Russian men.

She soon became good friends with the girl and developed a slight disdain for the three men, who seemed a little rude at first glance.

Just as we boarded the flight to China next, the plane attendants gave her a letter.

Inside the letter, she was to hand over her team along with all four of the people she had just met.

Kate eventually refused. But she soon received another letter upon landing in China.

This time, with a picture of her family tied up to a chair.

It made her hesitate, and they failed to board the plane in time, as their mid-flight transfer time had expired.

With the mission already in limbo, she booked a hotel and bought another flight the next day.

In the meantime, she decided to call the number in the letter, demanding why they wanted her team and the four hostages.

They offered her a meeting and were willing to give her answers by sending a mysterious figure downstairs to the hotel.@@novelbin@@

When she met with the mysterious figure, they told her things that shocked her mind—a deep secret that revealed the truth behind this secret organization.

The secret organization was a loose organization with no names—or, as one might call it, an infinite number of names.

They have existed throughout history, from the Knight's Templar to Freemasonry. Every influential figure has some ties to it.

All those conspiracy theories about government control were just a facade or made up.

In reality, they had been heavily suppressed, actively being issued warrants for arrest globally.

But what was their purpose? Why would they receive so much negative attention?

It's quite simple. They wanted to find a path to immortality, the most desired thing in human history.

They had previously been actively researching folklore and legends, from the epic of Gilgamesh to the Holy Grail.

The elixir of life, the fountain of Youth, and many more. You name it, and they tried to look for it.

However, as most people would have expected, all of them turned out to be hoaxes, completely made up for various reasons.

Everything changed when WW2 broke out. The secret organization started looking for an alternative way, a more scientific way.

Human experiments were conducted in mass, all in the pursuit of immortality.

After the fall of the Axis, they began recruiting members on both sides of the Iron Curtain, managing to be influential enough to continue their experiment.

Human experiments were conducted in mass, all in the pursuit of immortality for the powerful and rich.

However, they started to get attention from the public, causing them to go into hiding.

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"So that's their foundation story?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"Yep. At least, that's what the mysterious figure explained to me. They offered me a seat when that time arrived.

I wanted to refuse, but after remembering my family was still under their control, I was stuck."

Kate paused for a second, then continued.

"That's when the outbreak happened. The streets fell into chaos before I could accept the demand.

I threw everything aside as I struggled to survive with my team, going from the hotel to the embassy.

By the time we made it there, my two teammates were both dead, and only the four new people I met remained.

What was more disappointing was the fact that the country that I once called home had fallen.

There was no rescue... Until another mysterious figure showed up and offered to bring me safety."

"Just you?" Xiaoyun interrupted to ask.

"Yes... Just me."

Her face looked a little depressed, almost as if it was triggering her bad memories.

"I told the four of them that I was going out to find food, leaving them at the hotel as a mysterious figure brought me to the lab.

That's when I met with my family, all still tied up in the same chair that the picture had sent."

"Sorry to hear that..."

"It's okay... I did this to myself. I should have just died at that kidnap house, and everything would have been fine——"

Before Kate could finish talking, Xiaoyun suddenly appeared right before her eyes.

As their lips touch, her eyes widen, and her heart starts racing, unable to process what just happened.

After what felt like forever, they finally separated.

"I don't want to hear you blaming yourself over this, okay? You were the victim, not the one who caused all this."

"Sorry..."

"I don't want to hear that ever from you again. I want to hear you say, I promise." Xiaoyun demanded.

After a short silence, Kate nodded her head.

"I want to hear you say it."

"I... I promise."

"That's the good girl I know of."

As Xiaoyun gently patted her head, Kate's face blushed red, and her heart started beating faster and faster.

"Ahem, You can stop right here if you want."

Xiaoyun offered as he got out of bed and moved back to his sleeping bag, not wanting to bring his smell onto her body.

"It's fine... Let me just finish the story up. I wanted you to hear the whole thing."

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As Kate toured the inside of the lab, she was horrified to see live zombies being experimented on with humans.

At the same time, it made her realize how powerful they truly were. She thought that they were the ones who made the outbreak.

However, when she approached the laboratory head, she learned that they didn't know what was going on either.

All she knew was that the timing was perfect for them, as the zombie samples had a gene that was much closer to their objective.

They were still chasing immortality after all this chaos. Their goals have never changed a single bit.

After the conversation, she finally decided to ask what they wanted her to do to free her family.

She was surprised to learn that they wanted her to monitor a man who had been acting against the organization's interests.

They didn't want to kill him, at least not yet.

They wanted a big human city nearby to be a perfect breeding ground to siphon humans for the experiment.

So Kate accepted the offer, being sent back to the embassy with bags of food for a week.

When she met up with the four of them, they didn't notice anything different and assumed she had finished going out.

A few days later, a soldier showed up and brought us to Luoping just as we were about to run out of food.

"Is that the last time you met up with them?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"Obviously, no. They had been asking me to send them reports of how many people were in your settlement.

I kept sending them back the information until they realized you had gotten too big for their liking.

Especially with the number of guns you had magically appeared in your settlements, they couldn't understand how you were getting them.

After the negotiation with you to stop clearing Guangzhou fell apart, they requested that I eliminate you and the settlement."

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"That's when the coup happened, right? With Chen Gang and Liu Peng?" Xiaoyun interrupted to ask. Discover hidden tales at My Virtual Library Empire

"Yes. But as you know, that coup failed. It never went anywhere, and I felt a little guilty for causing them to be exiled.

So I redirected them to the location of Longxue base, hoping that they could find a home there instead."

Kate paused, then continued.

"After all that, the secret organization stopped contacting me and went radio silent... Until you cleared one of their base in Longxue."

"That's like several months ago... This is before we married, right?" Xiaoyun asked to make sure.

"Yeah... They noticed how close the two of us were. So they decided to ask me to help them with another assassination attempt.

I told them that I needed some more time to get even closer... That's when I fell in love with you at the rubble."

Kate's face blushed a little as she shyly looked to the other side, triggering something inside her mind.

"But then I got a letter last Friday telling me to cooperate with them or else..."

As the room fell into silence, she didn't need to say anything for Xiaoyun to understand what was inside the threat.

"Kate. Tell me about this in the future, okay? You don't have to hold this all to yourself."

Even though Xiaoyun couldn't see her face exactly in the darkness, he could hear her nod as an answer.

"Ahem, let's go to sleep now. We have a lot of things to do tomorrow. Goodnight."

"Goodnight."