Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

As the moon rose high in the sky, several civilian guards were patrolling around the outside of the training field.

In the middle of the civilian guards was a man in a soldier uniform. However, his uniform design indicated that he wasn't a soldier of Luoping.

Rather, the man's uniform was the soldier's uniform for the country before the outbreak.

"Yo brother, how did you end up in Luoping? You seem to have a Beijing accent." One of the guards curiously asked.

"First off, don't call me brother. My name is Man Ge. Secondly, I'm not from Beijing. I'm from Changchun.

And lastly, who hired you to talk so much? Are you a spy or something?"

Hearing Man Ge's sudden questioning tone, the civilian guard who asked the question quickly shook his head.

"No, no, no, I'm a journalist. I work at Luoping Weekly as the editor-in-chief, and I have been looking for people outside of Guangzhou to interview."

"Ah, damn journalist... Did you know the people that I admire the most are journalists?"

"Wait, really?"

"Yes, really. I admire them because they always can't shut the fuck up when someone has already asked them to be quiet several times in a row now."

The civilian guard instantly fell into silence as he finally realized what Man Ge was trying to get him to do. But the other two civilian guards felt a little offended by Man Ge's attitude.

"Brother Man Ge, why are you so aggressive and secretive? It's almost like you got something to hide." A second civilian guard pointed out.

"Me? I just want to focus on my job. And I got nothing to hide. I had served Luoping's military for several months now."

Despite Man Ge's argument, everyone could feel a little nervousness in his voice.

"Really? Then why are you wearing the country's military uniform?" A third civilian guard curiously asked.

"I... I just used to be a former soldier. I'm wearing this because I don't have other spare clothes." Man Ge replied.

"Wait, if you are a soldier for Luoping, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be off duty?" A fourth civilian guard pointed out.

"Stop asking. It's none of your business. I'm going to report all of you for lacking off if you all don't shut up."

This time, the entire group finally shut their mouth and began patrolling the fences again.

Thirty minutes later...

A soldier suddenly emerged from the darkness and appeared on the road. As he walked closer to the payroll unit, he began waving toward Man Ge.

"Yo Man Ge, how is it going?" The soldier asked out loud.

"I'm fine. Why are you here?" Man Ge asked, seemingly annoyed, as several civilian guards followed just a few steps behind.

"I just want to see how our buddy forgot to wake up during the mission call." The soldier replied lightly.

"Oh, shut up. How am I supposed to know that there was an emergency call-up just on the same day I went back to my home?"

Hearing the soldier's answer, all the civilian guards immediately realized why Man Ge was walking along with them.

"Just unlucky timing. Anyway, why are you walking here now?"

"What do you think?" Man Ge rolled his eyes at the soldier.

"Y-You didn't get fired, right?"

"Yeah, obviously. But now my entire break is canceled. All thanks to the person that was supposed to call me didn't call me."

"Sorry. My bad. I just forgot, okay? I'll buy you a drink next time we have a break."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Go back to your dorm and sleep."

As the soldier left the training field, the civilian guards immediately began talking again. But Man Ge was too tired to bother telling them to shut up this time.

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Meanwhile, in the training field inside...

"Everyone ready?"

A man asked as he stood inside a tent next to four different people, all holding a needle syringe in their hands.

With a small nod, all of them injected into the arm and pushed the plunger all the way down.

As they all pulled the syringe out, their body began trembling left and right as if they all were drunk.

Their faces quickly began to turn pale, with their fingernail rapidly growing three times as long.

Soon enough, their eyes were filled with bloodlust, and their voice slowly devolved into a bunch of growling sounds, almost looking like some sort of new mutants. But none of them moved as they remained still, a little lost as there was no target in sight.

However, this was about to be changed.

"What the hell are you all doing? Can you guys not be quiet in the middle of the——"

The man opening the tent froze as he couldn't believe what he saw right before his eyes.

"Holy shit!"

As the man scrambled to run out of the tent, the five deformed-looking mutants quickly chased right after him.

Before the man could even get away for a few steps, he was brutally mauled into pieces as blood scattered all over the nearby tents and the grass field.

With the man yelling in pain for a millisecond, tons of people were instantly awake by the noise and decided to step outside of their tents.

Before they could even blink, families began being mauled down one by one.

"Everyone run!"

One of the survivors, who was in the corner, finally caught a glimpse of one of the monsters and began warning everybody.

But soon enough, he came to regret it as one of the monsters quickly targeted him and mauled him into piles of flesh.

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"What the fuck is happening in there?" Man Ge asked through the walkie-talkie as he quickly hopped over the training field fence, with all the civilian guards quickly following suit.

"There's some sort of mutant inside! We request assistance——"

Before the person on the other side could finish, their voice was cut short as the only thing coming from the walkie-talkie was a bunch of growling sounds.

"Fuck! You two go request backup. Everyone else, follow me and get ready to fire."

"Wait, where do we go to request backup?" One of the civilian guards curiously asked.

"What do you mean you don't know——Just go to the command center and activate the town alert!"

Man Ge quickly changed his attitude, realizing that he could not waste time lashing out at a group of volunteers.

As the two guards headed back over the fence, the four of them, along with Man Ge, began heading towards the center of the training field where thousands of tents were located.

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"What is going on?" Zhen Ti quickly pulled off the people running away and asked.

"T-There's a monster!"

The man quickly pushed Zhen Ti's hand away and began running outwards, away from the center, as fast as he could.

"Honey, I think we should be running——"

Before the woman could finish talking, Zhen Ti quickly interrupted her.

"You all go run towards the training field exit. There should be hundreds of patrol guards there."

Zhen Ti didn't give any of his group members time to argue back as he and old Liu quickly began heading toward the center.

As the two continue heading towards the center, Zhen Ti handed old Liu a gun.

"Boss, how did you——"

"Lingang gave it to me for self-defense. I need you to go back and make sure my son gets back safely, okay?"

"But you——"

"Someone has to be responsible for this. Now go!"

Old Liu hesitated for a second but left in the end as the two went their separate way.

"Fuck... I really can't even catch a break."

As Zhen Ti ran closer and closer to the center, he suddenly noticed the mutants who were chasing after people were constantly changing their target every time someone was screaming or simply went back to hiding inside a tent.

"Everyone! That way! Don't try to run to the grass field! They're all faster than you! Hide in the tent or run toward the exit!"

Hearing Zhen Ti's warning, several of the people who were being chased quickly went inside one of the tents and hid themselves.

To their surprise, the mutants seemed to lose focus, as if they had a memory of a goldfish, and changed to a different target, just as Zhen Ti described them.

"You fuckers! Come and get me! You son of a bitch, dogshit mutants! You two hide in a nearby tent!"

Zhen Ti yelled as loudly as he could, instantly attracting the two mutants who were chasing after two kids.

But just as the two mutants were about to get close, he quickly rushed inside one of the empty tents and covered himself underneath the blanket.

However, the two mutants were already lunged at the tent, instantly causing the tent to crumble as the two mutants stood right on top of the ruined tent.

"Fuck fuck fuck... Just go away, goddamn it."

Zhen Ti's body started to shake uncontrollably as the shadow of the mutants was right above his blanket.

What's worse was the mutants didn't show any sign of movement either, as everyone had either already left the area or hiding inside the tent.