Zombie Apocalypse: Creation-Chapter 530: Qingyuan Village (2)

With the four of them heading back to the field, Xiaoyun didn't say much besides continuing down the dirt road.

After walking for about another ten minutes, he finally sees several buildings next to each other, alongside the sounds of cows and chickens.

"Hey! Stop right there! Who are you?"

Two people standing on top of a forest watch tower right at the entranced made Xiaoyun stop as he raised his hand into the air.

"I'm a soldier from Luoping! I'm sent here to find a certain individual nearby."

Xiaoyun's answer quickly made one of them climb down the ladder as the other kept their gun still pointed at him.

"What's your dog tag?"

"Songming Chen, 3rd Army Group, 4th Platoon Company Sergeant, 1-303-101."

After a short silence, the wooden gate finally opened, revealing a person in a police uniform.

"I need to take your gun away." The first police officer warned as he stared at the pistol next to Xiaoyun's waist.

"No problem."

With the pistol handed over, Xiaoyun could feel the person letting out a small sigh of relief before the other police officer came down from the watch tower.

"Can I see your authorization paper?" The second police officer asked as the three of them walked through the entrance.

"I don't have the paper, but Commander Xiaoyun gave me his dog tag as proof."

Both of them immediately looked a little intrigued by the answer as they accepted the dog tag from Xiaoyun.

"It really does say Chen Xiaoyun..." The young police officer murmured as he handed the document to the older officer.

"What's the name of the person you're looking for?" The senior police officer asked as he handed the dog tag back to Xiaoyun.

"Her name is Chen Xiaoyue. The commander said she arrived here a few hours ago."

"Huh..."

The two police officers looked at each other in silence, seemingly unable to recall anyone with that name.

"Are you sure you have the right name? I don't recall anyone with that name coming here at all, " the senior officer asked.

Seeing Xiaoyun nodding, both of them led Xiaoyun into a small room next to the entrance before the younger officer took out a notebook.

"Don't see her name here." The young officer pointed out.

"Do you have any depiction of Miss Xiaoyue?" The senior officer asked as he led Xiaoyun back out onto the paved road.

"No... But I have seen her with commander Xiaoyun once in the past on a festival before in Luoping."

After a short silence, the young officer returned to the paved road, and the senior officer concluded with a solution.

"Can you find Miss Xiaoyue yourself? We can't really help you find her with the entrance duty watch."

"That's fine. I'll probably just report back to Commander Xiaoyun later if I can't find her after five o'clock."

Just as Xiaoyun was about to walk away, the younger officer tried to hand the pistol back to him before being rejected.

"You guys can hold on to it. I'll get it back myself later."

"Thank you."

Seeing Xiaoyun's understanding, both police officers bowed slightly in gratitude before he finally walked away down the paved road.

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As Xiaoyun walked past the entrance, he could see a wooden shack next to another wooden shack.

Most of them looked freshly made, with only occasional ones that looked to have existed before the outbreak with dried vegetables hanging outside.

Not a single person was in sight as he walked down the road for a while, making him think for a second that he had entered a ghost town.

But the two police officers earlier quickly reminded him it was a place where people lived. Everyone was just working in the field right now.

After walking for five minutes, Xiaoyun finally encountered the first group of people—a group of middle-aged women with a minivan nearby.

"Hey, what's happening?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as he tapped onto one of the middle-aged women's shoulders.

As the woman turned around, she flinched a little as if she had been jumpscared by Xiaoyun. But she quickly calmed back down after noticing his uniform.

"The cow is sick, and the doctor is trying to figure it out."

Looking past the crowd, Xiaoyun saw a middle-aged man kneeling next to a fallen cow that looked barely alive.

"Can someone help me lift the cow over? I think I know why the cow is sick."

Three of the women immediately ran up, helping the middle-aged man lift the cow by its head while the rest of it remained on the floor.

"Moo!"

Hearing the cow groaning in pain, the middle-aged man suddenly started padding his hand onto its stomach.

"This is too firm. What have you guys been feeding the cow with?" the middle-aged man asked.

"Just grass and hay straws... We swear, doctor, we followed the guidelines strictly."

Seeing one of the young women answering with a sincere face, the doctor could only take her words for it.

"Whatever. We'll figure this out later. How long is the water going to take?"

"Pipe here!"

As a young kid emerged from one of the nearby houses, his hand held a long water hose connected to the inside of the building.

"Where's the water?" The doctor questioned.

"Oh snap!"

The kid quickly ran back inside the house, leaving a few bystanders sighing as the doctor pulled out a three-way pipe connector from his bag.

"Jesus, why is this cow not opening its mouth? Can someone hold his mouth open?" The doctor requested.

The young woman who answered earlier volunteered, but her strength was not enough to pull it apart as the doctor wanted.

"Can one of you guys help her?" the doctor asked as he tried to pull and hold the pipe piece simultaneously.

None of the women walked up, all seemingly disgusted by a foul smell that started to leak out of the cow's mouth.

Even the two other women who had walked up earlier refused to walk up, panting for breath in the distance as if they had smelled the worst thing on earth.

"I'll help."

As Xiaoyun walked closer, the foul smell immediately hit him right on the nose. But he remained firm as he moved closer to grab the cow's jaw.

"You two be careful, the cow's bit is pretty strong... On three, you two both pull at the same time, okay?"

Xiaoyun and the woman both nodded, waiting for the doctor's order as he positioned the three-way pipe right in front of the cow's mouth.

"One... Two... Three!"

Within seconds, the cow's mouth was wide-opened, allowing the doctor to shove the pipe right into the cow's mouth.

"Moo!"

Everyone could hear the cow's anger, but the sickness forced the cow to remain grounded on the floor, and it could only protest with its sound.

At the same time, water suddenly started following out of the water hose, spewing everywhere as the doctor rushed to grab the hose.

"Someone go get a bucket." The doctor ordered.

As one of the women in the crowd headed away to get the bucket, the doctor had already shoved the water hose directly into the pipe hole.

Water began to flow into the cow's mouth, confusing several of the nearby bystanders until a yellow goo began to leak out.

The foul smell also instantly became worse, sending all of them to take even further steps back as the doctor himself had to pinch his nose.

"This is definitely soybean. Who in their right mind fed the cow soybeans? " the doctor asked as he started to push the water hose deeper.

With more and more yellow gunk spewing straight onto the floor, even Xiaoyun had to pinch his nose just like everyone else.

"Did I do it right?" A kid asked as it ran out of the building.

"You did it alright."

As the young woman tried to pat the kid's head, they quickly ran away, pinching their nose as if the smell had gotten to them.

"Mom! It smells so bad!"

"I know, I know... Doctor, how long do we have to do this?" The young woman curiously asked.

"Until the cow feels fine. It might take a few minutes to an hour. Depending on how much the cow had eaten."

As everyone nearby watched the cow continuously spit out the yellow gunk with water, some of them began to leave.

"Thank you so much, doctor." The young woman bowed down in gratitude.

"No need. Just doing my job."

"Doctor, bucket here!"

As another woman handed a bucket over to the doctor, the yellow gunk suddenly stopped coming out just as he put the bucket below the cow's mouth.

"Doctor, is the cow okay now?" The woman nervously asked as everyone watched the clear water leak out of the cow's mouth.

"No. the gunk is stuck inside... Can you two press down onto the cow's stomach? Like just push it as hard as you can."

Both the young woman and Xiaoyun moved over to the other side, pressing down onto the cow's stomach as the doctor pushed down the water hose.