"Y-You... I got the money from a patient who was thankful for curing them. This accusation is fabricated, and I don''t know anything about a factory reopening.

Miss Yueyue, is this how you accuse the innocent? Over a personal grudge after someone just pointed out the truth?"

Zhangmei replied and quickly shifted from being nervous to confident in an instant.

"You——"

"Enough, I''ll investigate this later. Now we have a more urgent matter." Xiaoyun forced the two to be quiet again.

"Everyone has now learned the town''s situation and what the surrounding is like. Does anyone have any suggestion on what we should do next?" Xiaoyun looked around the table for someone to raise their hand.

The first one to raise their hand was a Major.

"Introduce yourself to everyone and tell me your idea."

"My name is Han Bang. I''m the 8th Regiment Major. I had been only in construction my whole life, but I did graduate from college."

In the short pause, Yezi felt Han Bang looked familiar. Then he finally realized Han Bang was the same person who went on the trip with him to the building with the boss.

"Boss, I think the best course of action for us to expand is to steamroll every faction underneath us. The——"

"That''s enough." Xiaoyun paused it here as he felt the plan was ridiculous just hearing the start.

The other nine Majors felt ashamed of Han Bang''s idea as they reacted similarly to Xiaoyun.

However, Yezi decided to step in.

"Xiaoyun, let''s hear his idea before making any conclusion." Yezi signaled Han Bang to continue, but Han Bang looked back at Xiaoyun.

With a nod from Xiaoyun, Han Bang continued.

"The longer we wait, the more likely the other faction from the neighboring province will start consolidating. Since some provinces don''t have a military base in the first place, they will have a considerable advantage in having no one to check their power.

Of course, this also means they don''t have anyone to deal with the zombie hordes, but they are most likely in a small town in the first place. So it wouldn''t affect their expansion much.

If we combined the mass exodus of people from the city to smaller towns, they would have the number ready. It would only be a matter of time before a sizeable civilian faction emerges independently, not from the military."

Everyone in the room started to realize Han Bang''s words had some truth and was slowly starting to get convinced.

"Although the army has a much stronger military than us, would they actually be unhappy to see us consolidate? If I were their commander, I would love a strong neighbor to share the burden of dealing with the zombies."

With that ending, everyone in the room shifted from disappointment to extremely impressed by Han Bang''s suggestions as they started clapping.

"Good job Han Bang. This is the most convincing point I have heard." Xiaoyun patted him on the shoulder.

"Thank you, sir. This is all thanks to Mr.Yiming''s teaching."

"Yiming... I wonder where is he..." Xiaoyun''s mind drifted slightly before quickly snapping back to reality.

"Okay, anyone else has any idea?" Xiaoyun looked around the table again.

"I''m happy to hear that... Well, everyone, I''m happy to announce that we are expanding to another ten regiments.

And by the end of next month, we will begin unifying everyone under our banner! We''ll end the zombie apocalypse!

Is everyone with me?" Xiaoyun yelled at the top of his lungs as he raised his fist.

"Yes, sir!" All of them raised their fist in unison.

"Everyone is dismissed. Come back next week to meet your new peers and prepare for more rigorous training.

We''ll go by the end of the month." Xiaoyun lowered his hand to salute the soldiers.

"Yes, sir!" The soldiers saluted back, then started leaving in an orderly fashion.

"We''re finally doing it... I knew this was going to come one day." Wuli mumbled as she walked up from behind.

"Doing what? Like attacking other settlements?" Xiaoyun turned around to look at Wuli.

"Don''t call it that." Wuli disliked Xiaoyun''s term.

"You know, I wanted to go with Lingang''s idea... I really wanted to avoid infight. He right that history always repeats itself..." Xiaoyun sighed as he looked up to the blue sky.

"But reality just doesn''t let us avoid it... and I hate how that''s how it has to pan out," Xiaoyun commented as he looked back down at the plan in his hand.

"You have to think more about the positive side. We''ll be able to liberate those living in awful conditions and lift them out of poverty. And bring justice to the unfairly treated." Wuli gently pats Xiaoyun on the shoulder.

"Not to mention, it might not even be a bloodshed. They might surrender after seeing us be determined to have them join."

"I doubt it. Those medium size factions in those towns are all stubborn. That''s why our attempt to have them join failed in the first place."

"Actually, to be honest with you, Xiaoyun... I don''t even know where we are going to conquer. All the small factions have either joined us or left... No big faction is near us unless you go to different cities or towns."

"Those are the exact places we are going. We are going to go through every base in Guangzhou one by one until we need to resupply.

Then, we will expand the entire operation into the Guangdong province until we are strong enough to fight the military and zombies." Xiaoyun explained the ironed-out plan.

"That''s going to take a long time..." Wuli raised her worries as she looked up in the sky.

"I know, but time doesn''t wait," Xiaoyun thought back to hearing the news of the Northeast being completely reunified.

A sense of urgency started to rise inside his mind and heart.

"I can''t stop now. Everything is set in motion." Xiaoyun sighed.

"I guess..." Wuli mumbled.

As the cloud slowly blocked the sunlight, the two shifted their attention from the sky to the ground.

"Let''s get ready." Xiaoyun looked towards Wuli.

"Yeah," Wuli answered back.