Chapter 89: News from the Capital

Just as Xiaoyun was about to walk back home, his phone suddenly rang.

Xiaoyun took it out only to see Yiming calling him.

"Hey Yiming, what's wrong?"

"Someone from the outside want to talk to you. We are at the training field." Yiming voice didn't sound urgent.

"Sure, I will be there." Xiaoyun hung up the phone and started walking toward the training field.

When Xiaoyun arrived inside the training field, Yiming and an mysterious man was standing in the shade.

"This is the person that want to talk to me?" Xiaoyun asked.

"Yes, this man is from the capital." Yiming answered it for him.

"The capital? That like two thousand kilometer." Xiaoyun looked stunned.

"Yes, he is right. I'm from the capital. I just um... landed at one of your training field." The man nervously replied.

"What? You mean you got an entire plane?" Xiaoyun looked in complete shock.

"Y-yes, well no... It's uh crashed toward the city. I just was able to parachute myself out of the plane and landed here." The man explained.

"I can be the witness, I saw him slowly descending down with with a parachute." Yiming added.

"Well then, Mr.Pilot, can I ask why do you want to see me?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"I need you to tell this to the southern theater, the central government has fallen." The man looked down as he announced the news.

"Huh? You not joking?" Xiaoyun asked again.

"No, I'm not joking."

"How's that possible? I though the central command got all the reinforcement from every single theater." Yiming was the one asking this time.

"Yes, the central theater did got all the reinforcement, but Beijing was just too big of a city. We simply just couldn't retake Beijing as the endlessly zombies just kept running out. Not to mention the amount of mutants that kept running out of the city.

We could only set base at the outskirt and force a stalemate where we can't enter the city, but the zombies couldn't leave the city either. It was like a containment zone."

"So how did they lost? Isn't this just a stalemate as you say?" Xiaoyun looked curious.

"The soldier was getting tired of fighting and the moral was low, especially with the snow that got worse everyday. The zombies were quickly able to adapt to the snow while people were getting tired of fighting in the front-line for almost three month nonstop, with no end in sight.

Then some of the soldiers and commander started asking the general for a retreat just temporary. But the general had too much pressure to order a retreat as the remaining government official pressure him to continue the missions.

Eventually, several of the commander went rogue and left with the soldiers that are also tired of fighting. This is when the nightmare started. The general was fired for failing to deal with the mutiny, and replaced with a new general.

The new general was overly ambitious and wanted to have an all out assault against the zombies. So he set up a trap to lure as much zombies as possible... by using civilians." The pilot stopped here.

"Civilians? What do you mean they used civilian as a trap? Tell me!" Xiaoyun lifted the pilot's collar as he looked frustrated at the pilot.

"Xiaoyun calm down, he is just a pilot. Please continue." Yiming moved Xiaoyun away from the pilot.

"T-the plan worked... almost a thousands, no millions of zombies ran out of the city as he predicted. He started indiscriminately bombing the zombies, including the civilians that acted as baits." The pilot looked ashamed as he said this part out loud.

"Did zombies got eradicated?" Yiming asked as he held back Xiaoyun from the pilot.

"No... just when we thought we were done and started going inside the city, more appeared. The zombies we cleared was only a faction of it.

That was the last straw for most of the soldiers as they became disillusion from the mission. The reinforcement all went to join Northern or Eastern theater." The pilot paused for a second.

"The new general was fired and replace with a new one... but by that point it was too late. The containment zone had failed as we simply didn't have enough soldier to guard the line.

Some of the soldiers got so fed up that they went to assassinated most of the government official... This is when all hell broke loose as everyone started fleeing and all units started fighting for themselves." As pilot got to this point, he face suddenly changed a little more positive.

"But luckily, the old general came back. Many were willing to listen as he organized a withdraw from the city outskirt completely. We went to join forces with the northern theater to create a safety zone in the north, with Shandong as a launchpad to recapture Beijing again." The pilot finally finish explaining the events.

"So you telling me... there is no more central government?" Yiming asked.

"All of them died with the plan to capture Beijing... So far the Western and Eastern theater had both supported the Northern theater as the successor to the central government." The pilot replied.

"I was suppose to go to the Southern theater to ask for their support... but as you can see, my plane malfunction and I had to eject early." The pilot finally explains his situation.

"Do you want me to send you a ride to the Southern theater?" Xiaoyun asked as he finally had gotten over it.

"Nah, I wasn't the only plane that was sent to the Southern theater. I told them they will have to continue the mission so I'm a free man." The pilot thought for a second, then added.

"Can I live here? This town is one hundred times better than the military town they had set up." The pilot pleaded.

"Of course, we welcome everyone to join. Can I ask what your name?" Xiaoyun stretch his hand.

"My name is Man Ge, I'm from Changchun." Man Ge accepted the handshake.

"Just one more question I'm curious about, what are military town?"

"Um, every civilians are put to work in the factory, mines, or the farm. The only way up is to join the military. Even when you join the military, it still barely any pay... you wouldn't want to be a women in a military town." Man Ge explained.

"What do you mean by that?" Xiaoyun got curious.

"Um, you sure you want to know?" Man Ge looked a little nervous at Xiaoyun.

"Yes, I'm sure." Xiaoyun looked determined.

"M-most of them are used as a frustration relief for the soldier since women are extremely hard to come by. Only the higher up are excluded. I didn't participate in it I-I'm never gotten lucky with the lottery system...

I mean I would never do such a thing even if I get it." Man Ge realized what he almost just said.

"It's fine. I understand. Yiming, can you introduce to the town to him?" Xiaoyun asked Yiming.

"Sure, I am on break anyway. I haven't have someone from the outside to talk to. Come on lets go." Yiming patted Man Ge on the soldier and left the training field.

"Military town... what a nightmare product." Xiaoyun mumbled as he walked back home.

"The military is willing to sacrifice civilians and be fine with it... I have to be prepared. The Southern theater is a ticking time bomb." Xiaoyun suddenly just had a thought of Southern theater taking over the town as their own.

"I'm thinking too much, the town can't even deal with a single battalion from the military. Beside, I just have to bide my time until something happens." Xiaoyun was finally at the driveway

"I need to hide this news away from the public... if the public learns about this, people will start losing faith." Xiaoyun pulled out his phone to call Yiming.

"Hey Yiming, is Man Ge next to you right now?"

"Yeah, he's right here."

"Can you tell him to stay silent on the whole thing we just talked about? We can't have this news go into the public."

"No problem, I already warn him about it. He promised he won't say anything."

"Okay then." Xiaoyun hung up and walked to the porch.

Xiaoyun unlocked the door and goes inside the house.

"Hey Xiaoyun! What did you do for the afternoon?" Yanyan asked.

The five of them were all sitting on the sofa watching TV.

"Just visited the factory and talked to Yiming about something. Anyway, wake me up when dinner is ready. I'm a little sleepy." Xiaoyun walked upstairs to his room.

Xiaoyun was back in his office room as the bed sheet was changed to a new one already.

Xiaoyun changed back to his pajama and laid onto the bed.

"How can I expand faster? The outskirt is almost completely cleared out. Within a month or two the entire area would be cleared... Maybe its time to start sending rescue mission to clear the city proper. We got the firepower to do it now right?

But Guangzhou is two-third the size of Beijing, if the military failed to do it, how can I do it with two company... No I don't need to capture the city, I'm just rescuing the people inside." Xiaoyun realized he almost dug himself into a hole.