Zombie Apocalypse: Creation-Chapter 799: Wu Min’s Request

Hearing Li Zhen’s voice outside the door, Yueyue quickly got up from her seat and headed outside.

"Is there something wrong?"

"No. I was just wondering how long you’re going to stay inside my office." Li Zhen jokingly said out loud.

"Sorry. I didn’t mean to—"

"Relax. Take a deep breath and calm down... You’re worried that Governor Chen was going to be mad at you, weren’t you?"

Yueyue wanted to say no, but she slowly nodded her head, unable to lie to the old man who had once been her boss.

"He’s not mad at all. He knows he can’t expect us to catch something so sudden... Go back to your office and take a break."

Li Zhen didn’t say anything else as he patted her on the shoulder, sending her off as the sounds of a siren came closer and closer.

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"Governor, I had been expecting you."

"What makes you think what you’re doing is a good idea?"

As Xiaoyun confronted Wu Min at his restaurant, he didn’t show any fear in his eyes at all. Instead, his face remained calm.

"Do you want to talk about this in private?"

Looking around, the entire restaurant was full of people, with waiters and guests turning towards him with confusion.

"You’d better have a good explanation," Xiaoyun muttered as he held in his anger, returning his face to calm.

"Of course."

Wu Min slowly got up from his seat, walking deeper into the restaurant as Xiaoyun followed right behind.

After walking for a bit, the two entered the 2nd floor of the restaurant, where a table full of food was already in place.

Not a single person was in sight, other than Wu Min and a waiter, who quickly came up to pour Xiaoyun a cup of tea.

"You can go now."

As the waiter headed downstairs, Xiaoyun finally turned his attention away from the surroundings and back towards the man before him.

"So, do you mind explaining yourself, Mr. Wu?"

"Governor, did I do anything wrong?"

"Wrong? You purposely incited a protest, endangering public safety in times when stability is the most urgent government task."

"Is a bunch of unarmed woman voicing their complaint considered dangerous to you?"

The sudden question from Wu Min caught Xiaoyun a little off guard, but he quickly recovered from it.

"There was no reason to purposely create trouble when there are legal channels from the government to deal with this kind of stuff.

That newspaper literally came out just today. None of the police stations even received any reports from the victims themselves."

Wu Min didn’t say anything back. Only looking back at him in silence as he watches Xiaoyun lash out with his anger.

"You could have had those people affected report to the police first. Or even just give me a phone call to let me launch an investigation.

You know how dangerous this is? Is this really how you repaid me after I saved you once in the past?

A single thing could have gone wrong, and neither of us would have seen the light of day tomorrow."

"Is that all you wanted to say?" Wu Min questioned, his face not reacting to Xiaoyun’s threat at all.

"Just because you’re Pinli’s father, I can send you to prison right now for treason. Is that what you really wanted?"

Wu Min shook his head, picking up the cup of tea as he took a small sip before looking back over to Xiaoyun’s face.

"If I didn’t bring those women together, will the police really investigate it? Or will it be a toss-out case due to lack of evidence?"

This time, Xiaoyun fell into silence. It was exactly the concern he had while speaking in front of the protestors.

The police didn’t really have a way to investigate something that could have happened years ago, right at the beginning of the outbreak.

Most of the reported cases were most likely ending up as dead-end cases, especially if they are reported by individual victims to the police.

"You aren’t scared your son might be in prison for this? Even if he didn’t do anything himself, he’s still a former high-ranking officer in Zhongxiong’s army."

"If he didn’t do anything to stop the soldiers from acting out like this, I’m more than happy to see my son serving prison time."

"You..."

Wu Min’s answer once again caught Xiaoyun off guard. This time, he was left speechless as he just couldn’t understand his logic.

"Why? Did you really have to do this? What do you want out of this exactly?"

"Justice."

"Justice?" Xiaoyun questioned.

"Yes, justice. The things I had witnessed while working under Zhongxiong’s army... They can scar a man for life."

Xiaoyun didn’t interrupt him as he saw the newspaper report himself this morning. The crimes in the newspaper really were disgusting.

From robbing food to trafficking children to rape, the list goes on as the ’soldiers’ in Hunan had acted with little to no oversight.

In other words, Wuli’s previous description of them as bandits was not only right, it didn’t go far enough to describe them as straight-up scums.

"Mr.Governor, I think you said yourself the best... If justice is taken away from someone, then that will just make me an accomplice."

As Wu Min got up from his chair, getting ready to leave, Xiaoyun let out a small sigh before speaking up again.

"Sit down... What exactly do you want? I mean, besides justice, there has to be something you want out of this."

This time, Xiaoyun seemed to mysteriously catch Wu Min off guard as he sat back down and remained silent.

"Justice might make you feel less guilty for the things you had witnessed, but when did guilt force a businessman to act only out of their morals?"

"I... I do have a request."

"What is it?"

Seeing Wu Min hesitating a little, Xiaoyun decided to add a little more to the bargaining chip.

"You know, Wu Min. You’re right. I should have conducted a more thorough search into the men’s past before recruiting them into the army.

Even though this really annoys me, you had done absolutely nothing wrong for me to be the one criticizing you.

Now I’m willing to put all of it aside. What do you want from me so you aren’t a little annoying bug on my back again?"

"Mr.Governor, you can create things out of thin air."

The moment Wu Min said the sentence out loud, hundreds of thoughts ran through Xiaoyun’s mind before he sat up from the table.

"How do you want to leave this restaurant? In a coffin or in a basket?" Xiaoyun coldly questioned.

"In one piece, please."

As Wu Min’s face remained calm, Xiaoyun was the first one to crack as he sat back down with his pistol on the table.

"How do you know? Did Pinli tell you this?"

"He didn’t tell me anything. I just noticed how similar the canned food is when you sold a stash of them to Zhongxiong’s army."

"Have you told this to anyone else?"

"Not that I know of... This has only been a theory of mine I kept to myself."

The answer made Xiaoyun let out a small sigh of relief inside his head. But still, there was more concern raised in my mind.

"What do you want me to help you with? Is there anything in particular that you want me to help you create?"

This time, Wu Min showed zero hesitation. He reached into his pocket and handed Xiaoyun a prescription bottle.

"I need more of this drug for someone close to me... I had looked everywhere, and all the hospital had run out of it."

Looking inside, three white pills were inside with the outside label description completely scratched off.

"What kind of drug is this?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"Levothyroxine. Meant to be used when the thyroid gland doesn’t make enough thyroid hormone."

"You need it?"

Wu Min hesitated for a second again, but chose to reveal it in the end.

"No, my daughter does. I had been looking for someone who could make this... Your hospital doesn’t have the knowledge to make it." 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"I see... How much do you need?"

"As much as you can make. It will be even better if you could precisely make it in the same portion—"

Before Wu Min could finish his sentence, Xiaoyun had already thrown a whole bag into his arm straight out of thin air.

"There you go... Next time, you don’t have to get my attention by annoying me. I have a phone number you can just call."

After putting a business card on the table, Xiaoyun left the room, leaving Wu Min all alone with the bag in hand.

Looking inside the bag, he could see twenty orange bottles, all containing exactly three white pills that looked the same as the original.

Even the scratch mark on the bottle remains the same. It was to the point that he couldn’t tell which bottle was the original.

"How..."

The shock still couldn’t make Wu Min believe it. In his mind, he never imagined Xiaoyun could replicate it this easily.

He had expected some sort of heavy cost associated with it. But Xiaoyun just did it as easily as drinking tea from a cup.

"I can really never thank him enough, can’t I?"

Wu Min muttered to himself, his mind starting to feel a little guilty for putting Xiaoyun through all the troubles.