"Sir, you cannot enter——"

Just as one of the soldiers before room 209 was about to stop Xiaoyun, the other soldier immediately saluted Xiaoyun and pulled the other soldier back.

"Good afternoon, sir!"

"Good afternoon to you, too."

The soldier looked puzzled as he couldn''t understand why his partner was letting Xiaoyun right into the room.

But the soldier on the right didn''t say anything until Xiaoyun went inside the room as Kate and Tianci closed the door.

"You idiot. Do you have any idea who you were talking to?"

"Who? I don''t know who that guy was. Why did you just let him in?"

The right soldier rolled his eyes in disbelief as soon as the left soldier finished talking.

"That was Commander Xiaoyun. Have you not seen him in any of the——"

"Oh shit. No wonder why he looked so familiar..."

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Inside the room, Zhen Ti was alone on top of the bed, with nothing else in the hotel room.

Xiaoyun moved a little closer to check his pulse, only to find a completely normal pulse.

"He''s still alive... I guess he really did fall into a coma."

Xiaoyun thought to himself as he lifted Zhen Ti''s hand and began imagining the old Zhen Ti he had met just a month before.

A short shock appeared in his head, but it quickly dissipated as Zhen Ti suddenly opened his eyes.

"Zhen Ti, you there?"

Despite Xiaoyun waving his hand before Zhen Ti''s face, he doesn''t flinch a single bit as if he couldn''t see at all.

"Zhen Ti! Can you hear me?"

Xiaoyun yelled right into Zhen Ti''s ear, only to see him not react for a single bit.

"Zhen Ti! Wake up!"

Xiaoyun patted his forehead once, then decided to slap him right on the face after still not getting a reaction back.

"Ouch, why did you slap me?" Zhen Ti finally responded as his pupil reappeared in his eyes.

"You fell into a coma. Don''t you remember?"

"Coma? When did I fall into a coma?

"You fell down the stairs and hit your head. Do you not remember any of it?"

Zhen Ti froze for a second, and then a moment of realization suddenly set in as he nodded his head.

"Oh shit. I did trip off that stupid brick on the stairs... Wait, how long has it been?"

"About a week since you fell from the coma. How did you even manage to trip over a brick?"

"I was too focused on resolving the food deficit and didn''t notice it when I was going down... Wait, wait, wait, why are you here?" Zhen Ti asked in shock, realizing he had been talking to Xiaoyun the whole time.

"I just came here to help you since you fell into a coma. Don''t ask how... Anyway, since you''re awake now, you better deal with the mess you left at Qingyuan."

"We should just wait——"

Before Xiaoyun could finish talking, gunshots and explosions suddenly appeared from the north.

"Let''s go check."

Xiaoyun changed his mind as he got a little worried for Wuli, but the more he thought, the more he calmed down, as Qingyuan had no zombies and no faction that could put her in danger.

After walking for five minutes...

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In the distance, Xiaoyun could finally see Wuli''s troops right before a metro entrance, which they surrounded with barricades.

As he got closer, he could finally see what was happening.

There was a massive concrete block that blocked off the entire metro entrance, but right in the center was a large enough hole to fit five people through.

Wuli immediately noticed the three moving closer and closer to the front.

"Commander Xiaoyun! Can you come over here for a second?"

Xiaoyun changed his direction as he headed towards Wuli, and all the soldiers finally noticed Xiaoyun was walking among them, going completely unnoticed the whole time.

"What are we doing here?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"We heard a massive explosion earlier, so we came over to check it. By the time we got here, there was a massive hole in the blocked-off metro."

"Explosion? Is there any trace of human-made explosives? Have you sent anyone inside?"

"Yeah, I sent two people to check what''s check it... But they haven''t come out——"

Suddenly, several gunshots came out of the metro inside, followed by more explosions.

Immediately, all the soldiers got behind cover as they readied their weapons and aimed them at the hole.

After a minute, a dark figure emerged from the hole.

"Finally, they are out. What did you two——"

Before Wuli walked closer, Tianci suddenly pulled out her pistol and pointed at the two.

"Tianci, what are you——"

Everyone looked confused at Tianci, as nobody could understand why she was pointing a gun at the two soldiers.

"Put your hands up! Get on the floor, or I''ll open fire." Tianci warned as she didn''t explain herself at all.

But Xiaoyun didn''t question Tianci''s choice. He repeated the same line to the soldiers, ordering them to throw their guns to the floor.

To everyone''s surprise, the two soldiers reached for their guns on the back instead of following Xiaoyun''s order.

Still, none of the soldiers opened fire, but by now, they all realized something was wrong with their fellow comrades.

Within seconds, Tianci unloaded several rounds at both of the soldier''s arms.

Despite being shot at and bleeding severely, neither of the soldiers screamed in pain. Instead, they reached for the gun on the floor again.

This time, Kate opened fire right at both of their legs, making both of them fall onto the floor.

"Enough! What the hell had happened to them..."

Xiaoyun murmured as he raised his hand to stop the two from firing any further.