A light suddenly appeared on his shoulder, covering the area where his arm was supposed to be.

Right before their eyes, a replica of the Mingxu''s original arm was in place, almost as if nothing had ever happened.

However, the flesh of his arm still on the floor was a clear indication that it had not just been reattached.

"Xiaoyun you——"

"Shush, just listen to me and leave the tent. I can deal with this myself."

Mingxu hesitated for a second but eventually left the tent as Xiaoyun stood back up.

"You aren''t going to hide your ability at all?"

Liu Peng asked, looking a little surprised that Xiaoyun had just shown an ability that they had never seen before.

"Why do I need to hide something for someone who''s about to die?"

As Xiaoyun cracked his knuckles and stretched his arm, both Liu Peng and Chen Gang didn''t make a move first.

Instead, they both seemingly waited for him to make a move.

''You guys aren''t going to attack me?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

Both of them remained silent, but Liu Peng finally made his first move as he struck Xiaoyun with his extended claws.

However, Xiaoyun easily held it with his two fingers, trapping it in place before Liu Peng shrank it back to normal.

All these were within a second, shocking the two of them as their first attack had failed.

"Is that all you got?"

This time, Liu Peng finally charged forward with his body, slashing toward Xiaoyun with his claws.

Once again, Xiaoyun catches it with his bare hand, seemingly to be unaffected by the sharpness.

"You guys need some upgrades before messing with me next time."

As Xiaoyun crumbled the claws into pieces, Liu Peng quickly detached his claws before growing a new one.

"How about we call it a draw?"

Liu Peng finally spoke up, his voice and face showing a little bit of fear towards him.

"Chen Gang, you aren''t going to do anything?"

Xiaoyun ignored his suggestion, curiously asking the other one after noticing him sitting on the bed in silence the whole time.

"We apologize for our ignorance. How can we make up to you so we can leave in peace?"

"Death."

As Xiaoyun charged forward with the pieces of claws, a sudden cut appeared right on his neck before another one appeared on his chest.

Blood immediately began to spew out right onto the floor, but Chen Gang didn''t lower his guard a single bit.

After a few seconds, the bleeding stopped as if the cut had healed up on its own.

"What is that ability?"

"If I tell you, can we leave?"

"Nope."

This time, Xiaoyun pulled out his pistol, firing several rounds right at their heads.

But not a single one of them landed, with all of the shots narrowingly missing their heads.

"You have to make this difficult for me."

"Thank you..."

After the hug, Mingxu quickly took a step back before saluting him right in front of everyone.

"Commander Xiaoyun! Colonel Mingxu is reporting for duty!"

"Comrade Mingxu, you and your soldiers are free to go. Thank you for your service."

Mingxu didn''t say anything, but he began heading back towards his camp, with all of the soldiers saluting Xiaoyun before leaving.

At the same time, he quickly noticed several soldiers from the other three Colonels standing nearby, all seemingly watching it unfold.

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"Oh boy, why do I feel like there''s going to be some random-ass news report about this?"

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When everything was done and dusted, it was already the next day.

After sending the trash bag back to Luoping, Xiaoyun quickly ordered the release of the report he had made regarding the accident.

Most soldiers were initially skeptical until footage inside a different Zhaoqing metro entrance was shown.

This time, they could see the invisible zombie turning visible after the ziplock bag filled with blood was unzipped.

Within seconds, all the invisible zombies appeared in the metro, rushing towards the bag filled with blood.

But after realizing it wasn''t a living thing, they all remained still before blending into the environment.

Even though a small fraction of them questioned how the footage was recorded, Xiaoyun didn''t offer any of them an explanation for it.

Other than the accident, Xiaoyun watched the operation resume on the ground for a few days, with all of the metros being sealed up.

For now, the metros were being put on the back burner, being the lowest priority compared to clearing the city itself.

But just as he was about to head back to Luoping, he finally got a surprise visitor from Luoping.

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"Xiaoyun! Why the hell are you at the frontline? I thought you said you were in Guangzhou!"

Yueyue''s face was full of anger as she stood inside the tent right across from him.

"Does the others already know about it?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"What do you think? Do you really think you can hide here for almost a week and a half?"

"I was busy. It was an emergency that I had to deal with."

"Hmph! You could have just said you''re attending to an emergency rather than lying to us."

"My bad, my bad... I''m going to head back to Luoping after Yezi gets back here. You can go back to Luoping now——"

Before Xiaoyun finished talking, the tent flap suddenly opened, revealing a man in a military uniform.

"2nd Army Corp General on duty!"

Yezi yelled out loud as he stepped inside the tent, his face looking completely different compared to when he left.

"You snitched on me, didn''t you?" Xiaoyun questioned as his face looked a little disappointed.

"I can''t really hold back when your wife keeps pressuring Huayi for me to tell the truth." Yezi apologized.

Xiaoyun didn''t say anything further, getting up from his seat before patting him on the back.

"Good luck. Don''t mess up the job again."

"I won''t."