Within seconds, everyone''s face changed in the meeting. However, it wasn''t out of fear. Rather, it was out of excitement.

"About time... Finally, we can fight them."

Lingang murmured the exact thought of most majors in the meeting as they had all been preparing for almost half a month for this exact moment.

"Mingxu, are you sure? Where did you get this from?" Xiaoyun asked calmly as Mingxu slowly caught his breath.

"O-One of the scouts almost died from a group of invisible zombies——"

"Where is the scout?"

"He''s in the hospital right now. He wasn''t bitten or anything, but he fainted from lack of sleep."

"Okay, you can take a break——"

"No sir, I want to fight alongside my comrades." Mingxu quickly interrupted before Xiaoyun could finish.

"Very well. You can return to your post."

The two saluted each other, and then Mingxu left the command center while Xiaoyun returned to the meeting.

"Everyone gets ready. It''s going to be a long day..."

---

When Xiaoyun''s group arrived at the new front wall, all the soldiers were on top of the wall behind the battlements.

"How many people do we have on the wall?" Kate curiously asked as they walked up the stairs.

"Around fifty thousand should be mobilized—thirty thousand at the outer wall and twenty thousand on the inner wall.

However, most of the people on the inner walls are civilian volunteers since Li Miao''s brigades are in Qijing and Han Bang''s brigades are in Qingyuan.

So that''s eight thousand soldiers not in the fight... But we won''t be needing them anyway." Xiaoyun explained as they finally arrived at the top of the wall.

"Don''t we want as many people as possible? Why do you look so confident and relaxed? Aren''t we not facing zombies from two different cities?"

Kate asked as the loss of two fully armed brigades compared to last time made her worried much more.

"Just you watch. This time, it''s not going to be like the last one..."

As the three headed toward the center, Lingang, Wuli, and the other Majors headed to their perspective troops.

Suddenly, Xiaoyun''s walkie-talkie received a transmission.

"Xiaoyun, more scouts are heading back, reporting that the zombies are suddenly rushing in our direction." Yezi''s voice came out, and his tone sounded extremely urgent.

However, Xiaoyun still looked relaxed as he answered with a simple ''ok'' and ended the transmission.

"What is your plan exactly? Why did you not show it to anyone?" Kate asked curiously.

"I told you, just wait for——"

Suddenly, a loud boom could be heard in the distance, interrupting the two as the wall shook a little.

"We thinned out the number like you wanted it. You better pay."

Xiaoyun''s walkie-talkie suddenly gets an anonymous message as both Kate and Tianci can''t recognize the voice at all.

Yuqi frozed for a second as she dropped the newspaper onto the table.

"What''s wrong?" the-place-NovelFire

As Xiaoyun moved closer to Yuqi''s desk, he could see a small section of the newspaper labeled novel.

Right below the novel was a fanfiction piece about Yuqi and Xiaoyun together in the office, with an oddly specific description of the office that matched the one they are in.

More importantly, the two actually did things that the fanfiction described in the office, albeit it was the wrong date and clothes.

"Come on, Yuqi, this is just fiction. You never wear hip-skirt with a fishnet to the office. People are just bored and wanting to——"

Before Xiaoyun could finish talking, Yuqi had already pulled out her phone to call someone.

"Lin Baozi, I need to come to my office right now."

Seeing the angry face on Yuqi, Xiaoyun quickly decided to stay silent and let her do her thing.

After a short knock, a middle-aged man walked inside the office.

"Lin Baozi, I need you to tell me how this is allowed to circulate in the market. What is your department doing?"

"Daily Luoping newspaper? I had never seen them step over the boundary before...."

Baozi''s face quickly shifted from calm to panic as he noticed the novel section in the office, which contained fanfiction between Yuqi and Xiaoyun.

"Sorry Mrs.Yuqi. We''ll have the police arrest the legal person of the newspaper——"

"No need for that. Just send them a warning that kids could get a hold of the newspaper and mislead them down the wrong path."

"Yes, ma''am. This won''t happen again... We''ll go send them a warning right now."

As Baozi left the room, Xiaoyun finally couldn''t hold in his laugh and let it out.

"Stop laughing. You''re going to react the same when someone makes the fanfic that has us and excludes——"

"You''re right, you''re right. My bad."

The two quickly resumed working as Xiaoyun began reading the weekly report in his seat.

---

Soon, December only had a week left.

Han Bang''s troops finally returned from Qingyuan, and his position was replaced by Zhen Ren''s brigade instead.

Meanwhile, Lingang was sent to replace Li Miao''s brigade in Qijing as Xiaoyun purposely had the two swap in different places this time to avoid one of them having too much influence in one area.

In addition to the troop movement, the food that Xiaoyun promised to Yiming was severely delayed.

When Yiming asked why, all Xiaoyun could say was: The road was destroyed by you guys'' bombs. It''s not my fault the truck can''t get to you guys.

Yiming couldn''t do much besides suck it up and wait, as the road took almost a week and a half to be repaired enough for trucks to drive through.

Still, it also hurt Xiaoyun much more when he saw the bill that Yiming sent as soon as the engineers he recruited from Shaoguan arrived.

As the year came to an end, Shuli finally finished making the monthly report that ended on Xiaoyun''s desk.

However, it wasn''t good news, as the document was a record of the total inventory at the warehouse.