Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

The next day...

As Xiaoyun woke up, both Yueyue and Nami were next to him, still sleeping peacefully on the bed.

He wanted to wake them up for a second to satisfy his urge, but seeing the baby sleeping in their crib made him forget that idea.

"When is the house finished renovating?" Xiaoyun wondered as he opened the suitcase lying in the corner.

After changing into his work suit, he grabbed his toothbrush and a piece of cloth before heading toward the bathroom.

"Morning, honey."

"Morning, babe."

As Leyan and Xiaoyun both walked into the bathroom together, they started washing their faces at the sink.

"Hey babe, when is our house going to finish renovating?" Xiaoyun asked as the two of them applied toothpaste onto their toothbrush.

"It has been renovated for a week now... So, probably one more week or so."

"Okay... Is everything going well?" Xiaoyun suddenly asked as they started brushing his teeth.

"Everyone is going to their jobs and everything. Even Shuli headed back to work at her school again."

"Oh really?"

"Yeah. She flat-out brought her baby to her office, and nobody really cares since she's practically working at a daycare anyway."

"How about you? You feeling fine?"

Leyan turned over to Xiaoyun for a second before turning back to rinse her mouth.

"Why are you suddenly asking so many questions?"

"I'm just making sure since I have been gone for a week and a half... You know I can't keep track of everything in the household."

"Then maybe you should control your lust for once."

Just as Leyan reached over to grab her clothes, she quickly reached her hands down to grab onto his crotch.

"You're going to save this energy until we get back home, okay? I don't want to make this awkward for Huayi."

Xiaoyun slowly nodded as she let go of her hand, turning her attention back to freshening up.

"Anyway, why are you up so early? Isn't there still an hour and a half before you go to work?"

"I just don't need to sleep as much... Hey babe——"

"Nope, don't even think or ask about it... If you hold it for a week, we'll give you a special reward, okay?"

Hearing the word 'we,' Xiaoyun accepted her demand and shifted, beginning to wash his face with a splash of cold water.

"You promised."

"I promised."

"You're going to see me be the most abstain monk for a week. You won't see me ask for it a single time."

As Xiaoyun left the bathroom with that sentence out, Leyan shyly looked towards the mirror.

"Come on, Leyan, you're at your friend's place. Don't show off when she's lonely at home."

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When Xiaoyun arrived in front of the administrative office, there was only a security guard standing at the front.

As Xiaoyun walked closer and took out his ID card, he quickly noticed the security guard dozing off.

"Beep!"

"Who's there!"

The security guard quickly sat back up, only to see Xiaoyun putting his ID card away after scanning it.

"Good morning... If you're sleepy, why don't you go take a nap?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"Just ten more minutes before my night shift ends... Sorry, Mr. Governor." The security guard apologized.

"Don't worry about it."

As Xiaoyun headed inside the administrative building, he slowed down a little to examine the first floor.

It had been a while since he had actually walked around the building itself, which had undergone several iterations of changes.

Even though the structure itself was still only two floors, it was clear there was starting to run out of space from all the cramped boxes.

"Everything needs to be renovated... Maybe I should really consider moving to Guangzhou."

Walking down the aisles reinforced Xiaoyun's idea, especially as he compared it to the administrative building in Guangzhou.

Having an entire office building compared to just two floors was nowhere near enough, causing Yuqi to separate departments in different places.

Despite knowing that it would be more efficient to have them all centralized in one place, they were forced to be scattered around town.

After having a good look, he headed back upstairs before taking his keys out to open the office door.

As he entered inside, he quickly noticed a box full of documents next to Yuqi's seat.

"This wasn't here yesterday... Where did it come from?"

Curious, Xiaoyun decided to open it and look at what was inside. To his surprise, the document was full of various reports.

"Oh right, it's May report."

Xiaoyun facepalmed himself as he had completely forgotten it was the start of a new month.

After taking all of the paper out onto the desk, he began to read over them one by one.

The first one was a report from the finance department, which reported tax revenue growth but a small trade decline.

Interestingly enough, rather than a trade deficit as expected with the new currency, the outsiders seemed to double down.

They were all choosing to spend the money in Luoping and holding the new currency that had been introduced.

For the first time, the central bank shows actual growth in saving rather than the usual stagnant deposits and withdrawals.

A slight concern was raised, as the citizens in Luoping and Guangzhou were both trending towards saving money.

At the very end of the central bank's report, it stated policy advice to cut rates to boost spending and create artificial inflation.

"Really... More inflation even though we already inflated the new currency amount by five times?"

Xiaoyun chose to put it on the back burner because he felt there weren't enough goods to match the amount of money in the market.

Although inflation would boost people's willingness to spend money on domestic consumption, it needed to be a long-term solution.

After reading the financial report, Xiaoyun moved on to the next document, which was the public health.

This one only took a few minutes to scan compared to the half an hour of reading, as nothing good or bad was happening.

The only concern raised was the typical issue of vaccination, which was practically non-existent besides the critical ones.

Hospitals were starting to run out, with the ones available in cities and abandoned hospitals in cities all damaged or unusable.

Of course, the only solution was to throw money at the problem, as the hospital had already begun to develop its medical lab.

However, there was still a long way to go, even with cross-collaboration with the Department of Virology.

"More funding, more funding... It's always just more money needed."

Xiaoyun didn't really object to it as he wrote a little note to himself to allocate more funding to the health department.

At the same time, he realized that Tianci's department was now public and could not be hidden.

Bringing more talent to it could be a good thing, but it could also be a bad thing in terms of the attention that outsiders might see.

But it was too late to change it, considering Yuqi already had her interview with the newspaper.

"Wouldn't it be handy if she didn't kill those scientists... No, no, what am I thinking?

Those scientists conducted illegal testing. But then, how about Tianci? She——"

Within seconds, Xiaoyun quickly got that thought in his mind, turning his attention back to the paper.

"Stop thinking about that, you idiot. She's your wife. She was a victim and was forced into it."

After finishing the second report, Xiaoyun took out the third report, which was the police department.

Just as he expected, it was just the usual funding needed to function properly and efficiently.

With a simple rejection, Xiaoyun continued reading the police reports and checking the crime rate.

It had a drastic jump, but it was all petty crime from the people who had just moved in.

From breaking into leaving the designated area, it was all still manageable as the re-offending rate was less than 1%.

They were clearly only doing it once out of desperation, and he couldn't really blame them.

The refugee aid was only enough for them to survive, and after survival was met, it was only natural for them to start having thoughts.

But those thoughts crossed the legal lines, from stealing to robbery to even selling kids out in the open.

"Did I let in a bunch of criminals or something?" Xiaoyun jokingly murmured to himself as he quickly dismissed the idea.

The statistical rate was still only hovering around 2-3%, nowhere near what the actual majority of refugees are doing.

Most were still law-abiding citizens just trying to survive, and in extreme cases, they simply didn't know the laws of Luoping.

Still, their disadvantaged situation didn't justify their action, as many of them are incarcerated.

Most of their sentences were only a few days, with none of them longer than a month.

At first, he felt some of the crimes were let go lightly until he saw the prison capacity.

Almost all of them were full, with makeshift ones just using different office buildings in Guangzhou as prisons.

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