Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

It was a hot sunny day as Monday arrived.

All the cars and buses stopped as they were now a mile away from the city outskirts.

"Everyone ready?" Xiaoyun asked as all the soldiers stood outside of the vehicle.

"Yes sir!"

With a loud and confident response, Xiaoyun was proud of what he achieved as a fighting force.

"Very well! That's what I like to hear. Remember, if you need help, request support."

The soldiers began walking off toward the cities in their small group of squads, leaving Xiaoyun with a single regiment holding onto all of the vehicles.

"Why are we staying here? Why don't we set up camp in the city outskirts?" Kate asked curiously as they watched the soldier start scouting the surrounding area.

"Well, more zombies have moved from the city proper to the outskirts. Since we plan to fight the zombies in smaller skirmishes, we don't want to drag too many zombies simultaneously...

All the cars would undoubtedly make way too much noise. Besides, we're here to transport them in case something goes wrong. We're not doing any fighting." Xiaoyun explained.

After a short silence, Kate spoke up again.

"That just sounds inefficient, in my opinion. Like having all the soldiers fighting street to street sound like it will take forever."

"Not really. I spread out the regiments, which should be split into squads to clear each designated area." Xiaoyun explained his thoughts again.

"But how would you be sure the soldiers are clearing the area and not just hiding in some corner?"

"They won't. It would be practically impossible to hide something like this when so many soldiers nearby can point it out...

Besides, if they really wanted to hide, they wouldn't have signed up to be a soldier in the first place."

"I guess..." Kate didn't ask any further.

---

In one of the apartments inside the city.

"Room 121 clear!" Two soldiers yelled out as they walked out to the apartment hallway.

"Good. You two go clear 126." Wuli replied.

As the two soldiers went their way, more soldiers started coming out of their room as they cleared it.

Soon, the entire floor was cleared, and all the soldiers moved onto the next floor.

After repeating the same thing on all five floors, the soldiers could finally take a break as the building was cleared.

"Major Wuli, why did we split up all the regiments like this?" A soldier asked curiously.

"It's to train you guy's decision-making... And it's much safer to clear in a building than fighting an entire zombie horde, right?" Wuli asked back.

"True. I prefer this much more than fighting a giant horde." The soldier replied as what they saw earlier on the street.

"Ahem, anyway, how many zombies have we cleared? Does anyone have an accurate count?" Wuli asked out loud towards all five squads relaxing on the floor.

"I think over one hundred zombies." One of the soldiers replied.

"No, definitely over five hundred. The building had like one hundred, and we had to kill so many of them on the way to here." Another soldier argued.

"Seem about right. Ahem, everyone, check your mags and ammo. We're heading to the supply depot now."

Hearing Wuli's order, the soldiers immediately got up from the ground and started checking their guns.

Wuli peeked outside the window and noticed there were almost no zombies in the street.

"All clear. Let's go now before an entire horde appears."

As Wuli and the soldier left the apartment building, they began walking toward the nearest supply depot on the map.

On their way, they could hear a scattering amount of gunshots throughout the cities.

"Geez, they must really not care about attracting too many zombies." One of the soldiers commented that most of the soldiers Wuli led were using melee weapons in buildings.

"They are probably in some trouble."

As Wuli replied to the soldier, she took out her walkie-talkie to check if there was any request for help.

Seeing zero transmission from nearby, Wuli and the soldiers continued walking towards the supply depot.

Ten minutes later...

Wuli stopped right in front of a shop as she double-checked the map given to them.

"Okay, the ammos are on the right, and other equipment is on the left."

The soldiers went their separate ways as they each needed to restock their equipment.

As Wuli walked inside the abandoned shop, one of the squad leaders decided to ask a question.

"Major Wuli, how did Commander Xiaoyun get all the supplies here?"

"Um, I think they preemptively put it here last week before this. They probably put the supply inside a car, then dropped it off here." Wuli gave one possible suggestion.

"But why don't we just carry more ourselves? Or have a central one?" The squad leader asked.

"Then we wouldn't be as flexible, and it's safer having it decentralized like this rather than having everyone go to the same place," Wuli repeated the line Xiaoyun told her in the meeting.

"Oh, I see, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you."

After the soldiers were resupplied, Wuli and the soldiers went toward the next building they had been assigned.

On the way, several zombies stood still on the street, which the soldiers in the front quickly took care of with the tactical shovel.

When they finally arrived in the building, they repeated the same process as earlier.

Then afterward, they went to the next assigned building rather than restocking more ammo as the soldiers were getting used to killing the zombies in melee rather than using a gun as a stealth option.

---

As the sun set on the horizon, Xiaoyun sat inside the car with Tianci and Kate.

The soldiers were getting inside their vehicles as Kate started up the car.

"Just me, or is the sun setting earlier than usual?" Tianci suddenly asked as she noticed the time was only five-thirty.

"Huh, you're right. Usually, this only happens in December, right?" Xiaoyun looked over to Kate.

"Yeah, I remember seeing an article that the northern hemisphere is in December, and it's only August... That's a bit odd." Kate replied.

"Well, I'll probably just need to readjust the time to be a little more early next time."

After a thirty-minute drive, they finally arrived back at the base.

As soldiers began getting off their buses and cars, Yezi approached Xiaoyun's car with a piece of paper.

Just as Xiaoyun exited the car, Yezi handed the paper to Xiaoyun.

"Xiaoyun, you might want to read this."

Sensing the urgency in Yezi's voice, Xiaoyun immediately started reading the paper.

The paper was a detailed list of different materials needed.

"Many arms factories are starting to run out of raw material again, especially copper."

"Okay, I'll go and restock it later. Is there anything else?" Xiaoyun asked.

"Not really... Anyway, How did the new plan go?" Yezi asked.

"Can't really tell yet. But most of the soldiers looked pretty happy, and no casualty so far."

"I see..." Yezi mumbled to himself.

"Yezi, can you go direct the soldiers? I'll go restock it right now." Xiaoyun suddenly felt like doing it right now, as he hadn't been to the warehouse for quite a while.

"Okay, sure. I'll go manage them."

With Yezi leaving, Xiaoyun went to the warehouse to check the supply.

After sending the security away and turning the camera off, Xiaoyun entered the storage area.

And just as he expected, the storage area was almost empty as the raw material section only had a few stacks of raw material left.

"Huh, I thought I just restocked this last month," Xiaoyun murmured as he began creating the different material on the list.

---

When the next day arrived, Xiaoyun got the results back from Yezi's survey with the soldiers.

On average, the soldier could kill at least fifty zombies, meaning roughly one hundred thousand zombies were killed in total.

More importantly, many of them were killed in melee rather than using guns, which was a massive relief to the ammo shortage that was beginning to appear as the factory couldn't keep up with the demand.

However, what surprised both Xiaoyun and Yezi was the performance of the old recruits from the 10th to 20th regiments.

At first, the two didn't have high expectations for them as they were always the reserved force defending the town.

But with ten brand new regiments being the new reserve, it finally gave them the chance to join the operation.

And they were able to form a similar level of success as the veteran regiments.

---

With the first two days being a massive success, Xiaoyun continued it for the entire week to see if it could keep it up.

As Xiaoyun expected, they couldn't keep up the pace.

Soldiers were having a harder and harder time finding zombies as they were starting to group up in the streets in massive zombie hordes.

And since Xiaoyun's new plan specifically stated to avoid fighting zombie hordes, the soldiers couldn't fight the large hordes.

Even if they wanted to fight the horde, none of them had the equipment or the men to do so, as all units were separated into platoons and squads.