Zombie Apocalypse: Creation-Chapter 774: Mayor Lu
"Where are we going now, Commander?" Lingang asked.
"Can you drive me to Shenzhen? I want to visit the mayor of Shenzhen next." Xiaoyun answered after seeing the time.
"Okay... Commander Xiaoyun, can I ask something?"
"What is it?" Xiaoyun asked back as he took off his sunglasses before putting them into his pocket.
"Why didn’t you want to show your identity? Is this supposed to be some sort of secret visit or something?"
"You could think that."
With Xiaoyun not elaborating any further, Lingang didn’t ask again as he started up the car before driving it off into the distance.
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Thirty minutes later...
As the car approached closer and closer to Shenzhen’s most busy metropolitan area, the number of skyscrapers increased almost a hundredfold.
It was even more than Guangzhou, as an endless number of skyscrapers were fully visible on both sides of the road.
With a massive signature arch in the middle that’s impossible to miss, they had arrived at the civic center of Shenzhen.
"Can’t believe this city was covered in fog a few months ago..." Xiaoyun murmured as everything looked almost unreal.
"Yeah... Actually, Command, did you know if the fog damaged any of the buildings?"
Lingang asked as he remembered the newspaper report that stated how Xiaoyun was the one who resolved the fog crisis.
"A lot of the buildings got damaged... But not this side of the city. It was mostly at the center of Shenzhen."
As the car continued driving down the streets, it eventually came to a stop as it arrived at the tallest building in the city.
"Ping an bank..." Xiaoyun murmured as several memories suddenly started flashing inside his head.
"You came to this place before, Commander?"
"Maybe."
As Xiaoyun exited the car and put on his sunglasses, an armed police guard immediately stopped him when he walked towards the building.
"Sir, please show your ID—General Lingang!"
"Do you want to check my ID?" Lingang questions the guard as he quickly catches up to Xiaoyun.
"N-No, sir!"
"Good. Now move out of the way."
The two of them easily entered the building as they walked straight past the front desk and towards the elevator.
"They really picked the coolest building to be converted into a government building," Xiaoyun murmured as he suddenly felt a little jealous.
"Commander, you could—Ahem, I mean Mister, you could use the Guangzhou tower if you want to one-up Shenzhen."
"I’m good. I don’t like driving too far for work every day."
As Lingang pressed the elevator button to the top floors, the two of them soon reached the floor they needed to be on.
Every step of the way, Xiaoyun could feel the level of luxury, from fancy million-dollar paintings to various kinds of office decoration.
The entire floor was a single room, as the area they were in acted as a main lobby. There wasn’t even any office cubicle as they were located on the floor below.
It just felt even more facier than his own office. Still, he wasn’t about to be petty over something so small.
"This is the mayor’s office. She should be inside here working."
Lingang murmured as he led Xiaoyun to the only door to the floor, standing by it as he weirdly didn’t knock on it himself.
"Okay then."
With the door knocked, the two waited as a woman’s voice soon appeared.
"Come in."
Opening the door, the first thing they saw was a young woman sitting in a chair, with two office men standing before her desk with papers in hand.
"General Lingang, surprise to see you here... And who’s this person?"
"I’m Lingang’s personal bodyguard," Xiaoyun answered as he deepened his voice a little, hiding his identity even further.
"When did you have a bodyguard?" The young woman asked, looking a little surprised at Lingang.
"That’s none of your business. When are you going to return my soldiers? Don’t tell me it’s one or two months."
"Seems like you had met with the Dongguan mayor already then... Do you like to hear the same answer from me?"
As the young woman innocently looked back at Lingang, Xiaoyun quickly noticed the two office men on the side looking a little nervous.
"Whatever. You’d better get an extension as well... And please don’t come to my office by yourself again."
"Too bad... Ahem, you two can go now."
Both of the office workers quickly left the room, leaving the three of them in the room as they closed the door behind them.
"Lingang, can you have your bodyguard out of the room?" The young woman requested as she slowly sat at her desk.
"He’s staying in the same room with me."
"Boo, you’re no fun... Ahem, anyway, what else did you come here for? You didn’t just come to see me, right?"
Lingang froze for a second as he looked over to Xiaoyun, who only stood still in complete silence, forcing him to come up with something on the spot.
"I came here to check if you had been resettling the refugees properly. I don’t want my soldiers to get tainted military records."
"You don’t have to worry about that. The deputy governor had already sent extra police over to maintain order."
The young woman paused as she stared right at Lingang’s face before speaking up again.
"I wouldn’t dare to taint your records. I put them on traffic patrols and managing police calls instead."
"Thanks."
As Lingang looked over to Xiaoyun again, he continued to remain silent, forcing Lingang to continue the conversation despite wanting to leave already.
"Shenzhen mayor, is there anything else my soldiers can help with? Or else I’m going back to my base."
"I do have something that you can help me with—"
"Please try to stay professional, Mayor Lu. I don’t want to be forced to file a harassment letter to the governor."
Lingang’s threat surprised Xiaoyun a little as he couldn’t understand why Lingang seemed to be so hostile towards her.
"You want to scare me away with that?"
The young woman completely ignores the threat as she gets up from the desk, walking one step after another towards Lingang.
"I’m dead serious. I don’t want to repeat myself."
"Do you think the governor would really believe your report? A tough military general being harassed by a defenseless female mayor."
As Lingang looked over to Xiaoyun for the third time, a grin appeared on his face as Xiaoyun started to realize why Lingang acting so nervously earlier.
"I can very well report this to the deputy governor... Imagine a military general entering a room drunk and sexually assaulting the mayor of Shenzhen."
"I didn’t even do anything. Why couldn’t you just leave me alone? What’s about me that’s making you so interested in me?"
"Everything—What are you laughing at?"
The Shenzhen mayor finally noticed Xiaoyun’s grin as he chuckled a little, unable to hold in his laughter.
"Nothing. You two can continue. I’ll leave to make room—"
"Commander Xiaoyun, enough. You have to put a stop to this. I’m tired of having her harass me."
As Lingang exposed the sunglasses man’s identity, the Shenzhen mayor started looking up and down towards the ’bodyguard.’
With the exact haircut, same height, and the same way of dressing in suits, she finally realized Lingang wasn’t joking.
"G-Governor Chen?" Mayor Lu nervously asked as the joking face instantly vanished, replaced by nervousness. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦
"Lingang, do you dislike this woman?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as he finally took off his sunglasses.
"I am already married to two wives. I’m more than happy with them. I don’t need someone else."
"I see... Mayor Lu, I think it would be in the best interest of the government for you to leave General Lingang alone."
"Yes, sir."
Mayor Lu slowly nodded her head, her eyes seemingly accepting his demand. Yet Xiaoyun could see right through it.
"Just as a reminder, the government contract explicitly stated that high-ranking officials should actively avoid having a relationship with military officers."
The warning seemed to have worked as she bowed down all the way before getting back up and heading back to her seat.
"Sorry, General Lingang, I didn’t mean to be joking with you that much."
"It’s fine... Just don’t do it again."
"Ahem, I came here today to check if the resettlement program for the refugees had been conducted properly.
Since you’re in the office right now, do you mind leading the two of us to check it out? Or do you have something else to work on?"
"I can lead you there, sir."
Mayor Lu immediately got up from her seat, walking over to the door as she led them back over to the elevator.
After reaching down to the basement parking lot, she led them to a car as she opened the car door for them to enter first.
"There are currently five resettlement programs in the city, which one do you want to see, sir?" Mayor Lu asked.
"Whatever is the closest," Xiaoyun answered, putting his sunglasses back on as he sat next to Lingang in the back.
