Zombie Apocalypse: Creation

"Okay and? We can just go back to our bedroom to breastfeed them." Yueyue raised her voice as well as she stated her plan.

"You two need to calm down." Leyan walked in to stop the two from arguing any further.

"Xiaoyun, which side do you support?" Both of them looked at Xiaoyun for an answer.

All four of them looked at Xiaoyun for an answer. Despite them only been sitting on the sofa watching the two argue.

"Lily go back to your room." Xiaoyun signaled Lily to go upstairs.

"Whatever." Lily left the living room to Nami's room.

"I trust Mingxu, he's a friend and he genuinely love Ningjing from the bottom of his heart." As soon as Xiaoyun finished the first part, Yuqi looked a little upset while Yueyue looked happy.

"But Yuqi isn't wrong about her concern. Having Mingxu and Ningjing here is a little inconvenient for you guys... I'll go help them find a job and help them move out." Xiaoyun offered a compromise at the end.

"Hmph!" Both of them crossed their arm in frustration.

"You're so smart honey." Leyan walked closer to compliment Xiaoyun.

"Of course I'm." Xiaoyun accepted it.

'Ugh." Both of them got up and went upstairs.

"I'm gonna go take a shower... we're going to stay in our room for today." Shuli and Wuli both got up and went upstairs.

"Um, m-me too." Nami got up as well and left.

"Look like honey might of made a lose-lose situation rather than a happy compromise." Leyan laughed out a little.

"That's the best I can do." Xiaoyun shrugged his shoulder.

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The night went pass uneventfully as Xiaoyun slept through the night alone today.

When Xiaoyun woke up, it was already seven o'clock.

"Damn this is the first time I woke up so early today... and on a weekend too." Xiaoyun changed his cloths and went to the restroom.

After freshening up, Xiaoyun walked downstairs to the living room.

Xiaoyun walked as lightly as possible as the three babies were still sleeping peacefully in the crib.

After walking all the way to the kitchen, Leyan was already up cooking breakfast.

Xiaoyun slowly approached her from behind, then covered her eye.

"Honey stop it, I can hear your footstep." Leyan elbowed Xiaoyun in the stomach.

"Ouch... Anyway what's for breakfast today?" Xiaoyun failed to get any sympathy and changed back to normal.

"Just some noddles for today. I need to go buy groceries today since it's the weekend." Leyan replied as she continued flattening the dough.

"You need me to go with you?" Xiaoyun scratched his head as he had nothing else planned for the weekend.

"Nah, I'm good. Shuli and Wuli already planning to go with me."

"Okay then, guess I'll just have a chill break day today." Xiaoyun walked over to the dining chair to relax.

Just as Xiaoyun was playing some games on his phone to kill time, Mingxu and Ningjing walked into the kitchen.

"Good morning." Leyan waved toward the two.

"Good morning Mrs.Leyan." Both of them waved back.

"You guys not sleeping in?" Xiaoyun asked after greeted the two.

"Got used to waking up early... Xiaoyun sorry for requesting this but is there any job we can do?" Mingxu suddenly brought it up.

"Of course, but you sure you don't want to rest more?" Xiaoyun asked again.

"We're good. It's feel wrong to live like this without needing to do any work." Mingxu mentioned it again.

"Well I can get you any job you want in the town. From white collar job to the military. Or I can give you some money to start your own business." Xiaoyun suggested.

"I... don't really have any skills. You know how's my school grades are." Mingxu awkwardly scratched his head.

"Oh right... um there are construction job, joining the militia, and joining the army. Or you can work for the private sector, but I can't help you in that." Xiaoyun listed the possible options.

"What's different between the militia and army?" Mingxu curiously asked.

"Militia is part time, they are mostly on defense duty. While joining the army is being a soldier full time. You'll get free housing and all three meal covered as well as a hefty pay compare to other jobs." Xiaoyun replied.

Mingxu turned to Ningjing to discuss something, but the two seem to get into a heated debate until the two suddenly started talking out loud.

"You're not joining the military, we just got out of the hellscape outside." Ningjing argued.

"Do I look like I have any other skill? Beside, how else can I support us?" Mingxu argued back.

"I can work too! I can join the military too." Ningjing raised her voice.

"No you're a women, they aren't going to let you join. Just stay at the house okay?" Mingxu asserted his view onto Ningjing.

"No, I'm going with you." Ningjing refused to budge.

"Um, sorry to interrupt you two, but the military we have is open to both gender." Xiaoyun decided to chime in before it gets worse.

"Look, Xiaoyun just said I can join." Ningjing patted onto Xiaoyun left shoulder with full force.

"Ouch... that hurt so much." Xiaoyun mumbled in his head as he could feel his shoulder feeling a little numb.

"Really Xiaoyun? You really let women join?" Mingxu looked a little surprise by it.

"Yeah, why not? Have you not seen the soldiers that rescue you guys?" Xiaoyun reminded the two.

"Oh right!" Both of them facepalmed themselves.

"Anyway, if both of you guys want to join, I can put you guys in." Xiaoyun pushed his shoulder back to it's place.

"That will be great! When do we start?" Ningjing looked a little excited.

"On Monday. We're just about to expand the army, so you guys are perfectly on time." Xiaoyun gently messaged his shoulder.

"Thank you so much! I really can't repay you brother." Mingxu patted onto Xiaoyun's right shoulder with full force.

"Ouch..." Xiaoyun mumbled as other shoulder felt dislocated now.

"No problem, I'm all for helping other people." Xiaoyun signaled for the two to not worry about it as he relocate his right shoulder.

"Sorry, did I hit you too hard?" Ningjing noticed Xiaoyun messaging his shoulder.

"Nah I'm fine, I just slept wrong today." Xiaoyun made up an excuse on the spot.

"Breakfast is ready!" Leyan brought three bowls of noddle to the three.

"Thanks Mrs.Leyan." The two of them said out loud.

"No problem." Leyan turned around to get the rest of the bowls.

"Mom! What's for breakfast today?" Yueyue's voice could be heard as she walked toward the kitchen.

"Just some noodles." Leyan replied back.

"What kind of noddles?" Yueyue asked as she sat down on her seat, barely able to keep her eyes open.

"Just some handmade this morning. Why do you look so tired?" Leyan curiously asked as she put Yueyue's bowl of noodle onto the dining table.

"Qiaolan kept crying in the middle of the night for some reason. Usually she's super quiet." Yueyue replied after as she slurp down the noodles.

"You already cleaned her and fed her right?" Leyan sat down on her seat.

"Yeah I checked everything, but she just randomly crying in the middle of the night once then fall back asleep. It's like she's having nightmare or something."

"Hm... maybe you should bring it to a doctor." Leyan suggested.

"Yeah, I'm going to bring her to the hospital later." Yueyue finished up her noodles and got up from her seat.

"I'm going to the gym to exercise... you two want to join?" Yueyue looked over to Ningjing and Mingxu.

"Sure." Ningjing accepted the offer.

As the two walked away from the kitchen, Ningjing noticed Mingxu still in his seat.

"Mingxu?" Ningjing tilted her head a little.

"I'll go later, I need to talk to Xiaoyun about something." Mingxu signaled her to leave with Yueyue.

"Okay..." Ningjing left with Yueyue.

"Mingxu you want to talk to me?" Xiaoyun asked.

"I need to tell you something in private." Mingxu didn't want to say it out loud.

"Okay, we can go to the backyard." Xiaoyun got up from the seat and left to the backyard with Mingxu following him.

After the two arrived at the backyard, Xiaoyun closed the glass door.

"What do you want to talk about?" Xiaoyun got a little curious what Mingxu couldn't say to the other.

"Can you promise me something?" Mingxu pleaded.

"What is it? I can't just promise you something if you don't tell me what it is." Xiaoyun didn't hastily promised it.

"I'm pretty sure I'm getting chased by something from the city...You know how I said the air-raid shelter was the one that lure the zombies to the apartment right?" Mingxu paused for a second.

"Yeah I remember you saying that multiple time." Xiaoyun nodded in agreement.

"Well, that was only partially true. Before they lured those zombies, we were already being chased by something... I saw it one time when I woke up at night. It was staring from the apartment across the street." Mingxu brought it up.

"What? Like a person?" Xiaoyun felt it was the only logical reasoning.

"No, it's not a human. That thing's eye was glowing bright red at night. No human's eye does that." Mingxu clarified.

"So a zombie. But how can it be in a building and see you from that far? Why would that particular zombie specifically choose you over the other?" Xiaoyun argued back.

"I don't know... maybe it's this rock I found on the side of the road?" Mingxu brought out a very small piece of black rock out of his pocket.

"This look familiar... but why?" Xiaoyun couldn't put his finger on it.