Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

"Wait, don't you want to attack the casino ring? We are planning to attack it tonight."

The woman suddenly yelled out just as Xiaoyun was about to leave with his men.

"Maybe in another day."

As Xiaoyun walked to the exit, he noticed one person was missing—the exact person he had been trying to save the whole time.

"Yezi?"

"I know this is selfish... But I'm going to join their attack. You can go back to Luoping with them."

Seeing Yezi standing firm, Xiaoyun let out a sigh as he stopped right at the exit again.

"For fuck sake... You two, go call the rest of the soldiers downstairs to come here."

With the two soldiers heading downstairs, the women looked a little surprised, seeing everything unfolding before them.

"Fine. I'm willing to work with you to attack that casino ring... You should thank my friend's stubborn ass."

The women could tell Xiaoyun looked a little annoyed, but she still bowed down slightly in gratitude to both of them.

"Thank you for changing your mind."

"Before we can continue further, what is your plan?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"We'll go through the main entrance and go up the stairs. With these rifles, we can easily overwhelm them..."

A few minutes later...

"This sounds like a suicide plan... they have guns of their own," Xiaoyun commented after listening to the entire plan.

"We know, but we are not afraid to die for it." The crowd of people behind the women yelled back.

"Fine, but do any of you even know how to use a gun?" Xiaoyun questioned.

The woman looked back at her men, who held the rifle in hand, and all shook their hands.

"How about this: You guys give us the gun back, and we will go in ourselves.

All you need to do is assist us, and I'll take care of the problem," Xiaoyun suggested.

"But how can we trust you?" The woman didn't reject the proposal outright, but she wasn't going just to hand it over.

But before Xiaoyun could reply, the rest of the soldiers, alongside Yueyue, finally arrived at the roof.

"With these."

As soon as Xiaoyun pointed at the soldiers behind him, all of them pointed their rifles at her men.

"W-Wait, what are you doing?" The woman nervously asked as her men quickly raised their rifles back at the soldiers.

"Your guys don't even know you have to turn off the safety. Why do you think your men are equipped to use a rifle? "

Hearing Xiaoyun pointing it out, all of them checked their rifle only to realize he was right.

They immediately turned it off, but their face was blushing red from embarrassment.

"So you sure you want to hold onto those rifles? It takes a long time to train someone how to use a gun." Xiaoyun advised.

After a short silence, the woman accepted Xiaoyun's advice.

"Fine, you guys can have your gun back."

Despite the woman signaling her group to give the gun back, none of them made a move.

"But Miss Li... Are you sure we can trust them?" One of the men asked.

"Just give it back... They could have shot us all dead right there. He's right. We don't know how to use it." Miss Li repeated her order.

The men finally folded and gave the guns back to the soldier and Yezi, who still looked a little embarrassed from being unarmed by civilians.

"We don't have to attack through the main entrance. I know there is a back entrance to the hotel." Yezi suggested.

"Really? Where is it?" Miss Li curiously asked.

"It's at the dark alleyway a few streets from here." Yezi pointed down in the distance.

"Let's just do that instead. At least it isn't the suicidal main entrance..." Xiaoyun decided, and Miss Li nodded in agreement.

---

After Wuli picked some of her men to go inside Xiaoyun's bus, Yezi directed Renqin to the dark alleyway.

They arrived at the dark alleyway that Yezi had gone to earlier. With everyone quickly getting off, Xiaoyun turned his attention to the bus driver.

"Renqin, if there is a zombie horde coming here, you can just drive away," Xiaoyun ordered.

"Of course... I'm doing that even if you don't tell me to."

A few minutes of walking later...

Miss Li's men, along with Xiaoyun's soldier, finally arrived at the gate where Yezi and Jixi fought.

After Yezi put in the key and opened the door, it was a dark, long tunnel ahead of them.

"It's going to take a while to get there," Yezi commented as he walked in the front, guiding everyone behind him.

"Yezi, how do you know this place?" Xiaoyun asked curiously, as he felt the place was way too specific to be known randomly.

"Just an old friend's place..." Yezi replied, not speaking up again as the tunnel fell into dead silence.

After walking for ten minutes, they finally arrived at a ladder going up.

"Here it is. Up there is the storage room in the main lobby. I'll go up first."

Yezi started climbing the ladder. Then, everyone began taking turns to go up the ladder.

After five minutes of taking turns climbing, the entire group was finally up there.

As Xiaoyun looked around the storage room, it was empty. No one was in it, or any item for that matter.

"Miss Li, can I ask how many people you have?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"You don't have to call me Miss Li. My name is Wuli. We have thirty-four people, but we only brought fifteen people with us."

As everyone began to prepare to leave the storage room, Xiaoyun suddenly found the name very familiar.

"Wuli... why do I feel like I heard this name before?" Xiaoyun thought to himself before turning around to face everyone.

"Ahem, everyone, please get ready. We're about to go inside the main lobby.

Soldiers go first with their rifles. Miss Wuli and her men can follow behind." Xiaoyun ordered.

With a nod from everyone, Xiaoyun turned the door open, only to see the main lobby empty.

"Huh. This is unexpected."

As everyone walked into the main lobby, they were surprised by how quiet it was.

The main lobby's entrance with furniture was completely blocked off, as Yezi expected.

The stairway was also completely blocked, and the fire exit was nowhere to be seen.

It left the elevator as the only way up, which surprisingly still works, as it has backup power.

"Shit, we need to take the elevator. How about we go up first?" Xiaoyun suggested.

"Sure. We will go up next." Wuli agreed.

"The highest we can go is the tenth floor. We will have to check the stairway up.

The casino operation is above the tenth floor," Yezi reminded Wuli before pressing the tenth floor.

Seeing her nodding in agreement again, Xiaoyun and Yezi, along with three soldiers, went into the elevator.

As the five arrived at the tenth floor, there were blood stains all over the floor.

But there were no bodies. It was almost as if all the bodies had been thrown out the window, as not a single window was intact.

As Yezi walked up to the stairway entrance, it was finally not blocked from the inside.

"Let's wait for them to get up first."

The six of them waited, and after several turns taking the elevator, all of them finally got up.

"When we get up there, open fire on anyone with a weapon," Xiaoyun ordered as he stood alongside the soldiers in the front to boost morale.

After walking to the eleventh floor, the first soldier opened the door only to find it dark inside.

The curtain covered the windows completely, just like what Yezi said earlier in the planning discussion.

"All clear, sir! No sign of life here." One of the soldiers replied after finishing checking the entire floor by himself.

"Let's go up to the next floor."

After closing the door, they began heading upstairs to the next floor in the same formation.

"The next one is going to have people in it," Yezi warned.

All the soldier immediately began to double-check their rifles, putting them in a more raised position for close combat.

"Yueyue, you stay with Wuli, okay? You don't have a rifle."

Yueyue didn't try to argue back, moving all the way back to be with Wuli with her pistol.

After reaching the entrance to the 12th floor, one of the soldiers kicked the door wide open as the other ten soldiers flooded inside.

"What the hell——"

Before they react and pick up their weapon, the soldiers immediately opened fire at anyone who was reaching for a weapon.

Most of the henchmen were instantly killed, but some were able to get away just in time.

The soldier rushed for cover as five of the henchmen were able to get behind a pillar and started firing back.

"Everyone surrender now, or all of you will be killed! We are the military sent in to catch only the boss!"

As both sides fell into a stalemate, Xiaoyun decided to bluff to see if they would fold.

"Bullshit! When did the military get issued with M16? That's an American rifle!" One of them yelled back across the other side.

"Why die for a boss that doesn't even care about your life? You guys only have pistols!

Just surrender, and we will allow you to live! Or we are going to start throwing grenades."

Xiaoyun yelled, avoiding answering their question as he didn't have a good reason to argue back.

But after a minute of silence in the room, the five henchmen finally stepped out with both their hands up in the air.

Xiaoyun's firepower was simply too much for them to handle, and they just couldn't see their chance of winning.

The soldiers rushed up and tied them with ropes that Xiaoyun had handed out earlier from Yezi's bag.

"You better keep your promise." One of the henchmen yelled.

"You lucky that you surrendered," Xiaoyun replied as the rest of the group finally entered the floor.

"So many bodies..."

Several of Wuli's men started to throw up, their minds shaken from all the henchmen's dead bodies.

"Two of you guys, look over these five. We are going to the next floor. They probably heard us now."

Xiaoyun directly ordered over Wuli's men, but nobody spoke against it as there was no time to waste.

After assigning two people, the rest immediately headed upstairs to the next floor.

"Yezi, do you know what's on the next floor?" Xiaoyun asked as he started to forget what had been discussed during the short planning time.

"If I remember correctly, this one has a lot fewer people. I assume it's higher-ups like management of some sort," Yezi replied.

As they arrived at the 13th floor, the soldiers repeated the exact strategy, with ten of them spearheading in.

But to their surprise, no one was there except rows of women lying on the floor naked.

"Shit, they ran up the stairs. They must have heard the gunshot." Xiaoyun murmured as the rest of the group walked onto the floor.

Suddenly, several of Wuli's men ran straight to the woman lying on the floor, looking extremely relieved to find them alive.

"Um, sorry about that. They used to be their wife before getting kidnapped here." Wuli apologized.

"It's okay. I understand."

Xiaoyun thought back to the people he first saved, who had the same reaction when they were reunited.

"They might need a lot of time to heal from the trauma," Yueyue murmured after noticing a few of the women unresponsive.

"Ahem, we need to continue. The next floor is the boss room." Yezi reminded.

"You all stay here. We can do the rest."

Xiaoyun didn't let them have a chance to argue back as he rushed upstairs along with the rest of his men.

Wuli's men looked over to her for her order, but she repeated the same line as him after noticing Yueyue's eye signal.

---

"What's inside the floor after the boss room??" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"Their prison, then... Oh shit, I completely forgot. They have an explosive room filled with TNT."

Hearing Yezi's answer, everyone's heart skipped a beat, and Xiaoyun stopped to look him in the face.

"You kidding me? Why didn't you say that earlier? If they blow it up as a last resort, this whole building is gone."

"I'm sorry. I just remembered, and I'm not even sure if those crates are actually full or empty," Yezi apologized.

"Whatever, let's clear the building first... We just have to make sure we don't push them over the edge."

As they arrived at the entrance, Xiaoyun tried to open the door, but it was locked from the inside.

"Shit, this one has a lock," Xiaoyun murmured as he tried to kick it open, only to hurt his feet.

"Wait, I know how to pick up the lock." One of the soldiers stepped out.

After a few wrangling and clicks with a pick, everyone could hear a click sound coming from the lock.