Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

At a top of a nearby apartment roof...

Xiaoyun and Kate could see the army getting ready down below, with all the nearby zombies completely around the park itself.

Meanwhile over the city hall, more zombies were attacking the city hall than before. Partially, it was due to the trail of zombies behind their army left behind.

However, the majority of them were dragged by the sheer volume of loud explosions going off within the building itself.

"Jesus, how many explosives do they have?" Kate murmured as she felt the ground shaking a little.

Xiaoyun didn't comment on it, but his face started to look a little concerned. His eyes felt like he was being decieved by Zhongxiong's army.

Considering that Lingang had reported the zombie attack as occurring the previous night, Zhongxiong's army had been fighting for almost an entire day.

He couldn't comprehend how an army would have enough ammo to fight for that long. Nor could he comprehend the amount of zombies that would be killed.

Just as he was about to take out an binocular to have a closer look, his walkie-talkie suddenly picked up a signal.

"Wen Pi, my soldiers are heading towards your direction within one minute. Where are you located in the building?"

"The East and North side! Come quick! My men are starting to run out of ammo!"

"Okay."

As Lingang ended the tranmission, Xiaoyun and Kate both turned their attention back to the city hall itself.

Piles upon piles of body were lying outside, right along the staircase up to the entrance. From normal zombies all the way to even tank mutants.

The glass door entrance was completely shattered from the outside entry, while every window on the West side was shattered from the inside, seemingly to gunshots.

Unfortunately, the two of them couldn't see the other three sides as the other buildings covered them.

"So many of the dead bodies are in soldier's uniform," Kate murmured as she lowered her binocular.

"Yeah... They really didn't expect this attack at all."

As Xiaoyun looked over to the right with the binocular, his eyes were hooked onto the various table and chairs on the street.

With unfinished food on each of the tables, it was clear that Zhongxiong's army was in the middle of a celebration, just like Lingang had described.

"Kate, what did you do while I was gone?" Xiaoyun curiously asked, watching his army slowly moving forward towards the city hall.

"Guess."

"Um.. You went to fight alongside the soldiers?"

"Nope."

"Then I don't know."

"Come on, guess."

Xiaoyun fell into silence for a second, trying to come up with something that Kate would do with barely any weapons in hand.

"You went driving with the pickup truck? But you were already too late to join the assigned teams, right?"

"Close. But no cigars. I did drove the car around, but rather than being a bait, I actually went to the park."

"Really? Why did you go to the park out of all places?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"Because I was just a little curious how Zhongxiong's army was doing... You gave me the invisible cloak to scout ahead, no?"

"Yeah... Of course I thought of that."

Xiaoyun awkwardly scratched his head a little. He had only given her the cloak because he thought she might need it if something went wrong.

"Anyway, how was your limit testing, big hero?"

"It went okay... I felt a bit of pressure, but not enough for me to feel anything different."

"A bit? You know how many soldiers were shocked by what you were doing down there? Everyone was praising you as some insane rambo hero."

Kate's comment quickly made Xiaoyun realize how much he really stood out, standing against the zombies all alone on the streetblock.

"Thanks for the compliement."

"That's not a compliement you idiot. You know how worrying I was? A person firing a bullet in the wrong direction could have ended——"

"What can I say? I just have faith in my soldiers."

Despite the confidence on Xiaoyun's face, his mind was sweating a little, as he had never even thought of it as a possibility.

"Ahem, what else did you do after getting to the park?"

"I tried to sneak into the city hall. But there were so many zombies that I just went back into the truck and drove off."

As soon as Kate finished answering, she finally decided to ask the question that had been on her mind since getting on top of the roof.

"Xiaoyun, what are we doing here on this apartment? Are we just going to watch the army fighting the whole time?"

"Close, but no cigar——"

"Stop it. Don't copy me. It sounds weird hearing you say that." Kate interputed, covering his mouth before letting it go.

"Why not?"

"Your accent is too heavy for it to sound right... I rather have you say it in Chinese."

"Fine, I won't say it again... Ahem, we're here because we're going inside the city hall first."

"First? As in we're going to use our invisble cloak?" Kate questioned, her voice sounding a little unconfident.

"Yep. I'm just looking for a path that look relatively empty right now."

As Xiaoyun looked around in his binoculars, he saw that every road leading to the various entrances was filled with zombies lining up.

They were all seemingly fixated on getting the human to the city hall, even though his army had already started firing their guns as they walked down the streets.

"Shouldn't we be down there?" Kate raised her concern.

"Just wait."

Kate didn't question back this time, waiting in silence as she turned around to secure the entrance to the roof.

"Which one is going to move first?"

Murmuring to himself, Xiaoyun watched as the zombies started to turn their attention to his armies.

The western entrance was first to be distracted, as the approaching gunshot was simply too loud for anyone to ignore.

However, the endless waves of zombie flooding from both the northern and southern sides of the city hall streets still made it very difficult.

The jam-packed road was just too blocked to sneak it, almost like a sardine in a can—barely any room for even zombies to walk without trampling on each other.

At the same time, Xiaoyun quickly noticed something was a little off.

All of the zombies flooding into the city hall were normal zombies. Not a single one of them was a mutant.

For a second, his mind started to have weird feelings, from how the zombies suddenly attacked Changsha to how normal zombies were used as bullet sponges.

Every conclusion was leading towards someone or something was behind this attack and not just zombies doing randomly.

"Kate, turn around. We're going to start moving."

"Okay——Hey! What are you doing?"

As Xiaoyun grabbed Kate's arm, he lowered his other hand to lift her into his arms forcefully.

"Leaving, duh. You might want to close your eyes for this."

Before she could ask why, Xiaoyun had already jumped off the building, entering freefall straight from a five-story apartment.

"Ahhh!"

Kate scream in pure panic as she swung her arms out, looking for something to grab before grabbing onto his shoulder.

With a loud stud cracking the concrete ground, Xiaoyun's feet finally landed onto the ground.

"W-What did you just do? A-Are you okay?" Kate questioned, her brain still processing what had just happened.

"Just limit testing, I'm fine... Shit, my knee kind of hurts. Definitely not doing that again."

As Xiaoyun puts her back onto her feet, Kate's attention is on the five-story roof from which they had just jumped off of.

"You really just jumped off this apartment..." Kate murmured to herself, trying to convince herself that it really had just happened.

"And? Come on, don't stand here. We don't have all day."

Seeing her not moving at all, Xiaoyun quickly turned around, grabing her arm to snap her back into reality.

"What do you mean and? You just jumped off that building! Why the hell are you acting like you just done something normal?"

"Its not that big of a deal. Don't you remember me lifting an entire collapsed building? That was harder than jumping off this building."

Memories began flooding into her brain, and she began to realize how absurd Xiaoyun's body was, given every detail she had experienced.

"Stop acting so surprised... Don't you remember the time when Anna shot me in the heart and I turned out to be fine?"

Kate still didn't answer, but the surprise on her face finally began to disappear. Instead, her face looked a little frightened.

"Look, is it really that ridiclous for me to survive that fall? I need you to focus up and get ready to enter the city hall with me, okay?"

Kate nodded in silence as Xiaoyun created an invisible cloak before putting it on, looking over to her, who was already wearing it.

"You ready to turn on your invisible cloak?" Xiaoyun asked.

"Yeah. I'm ready."

Kate answered, the fear on her face quickly replaced by an oddly looking smile that looked a little creepy.

"Perfect. Here's your bluetooth mic piece."

As the two of them put their mic pieces on their collars, a word from a certain individual suddenly popped into her mind.

"You really are the chosen one..."