Everyone in the base had heard the news of what happened in General Cao's Mansion. This is especially true when Ximen Xueya and his son, Ximen Chino's existence were revealed.
The survivors had already known that this base was made by both the state head and prime minister for their nephew, Ximen Xueya to own. To keep it short this Hope Base is his place and the rest were just allowed to stay here.
Those in the upper circle knew what kind of man Ximen Xueya was. He is cold and indifferent aside from his family. Now that his family includes only Ximen Chino and General Cao, the Government Faction had no other choice but to accept the merging of their faction and the military faction.
This is because the Government Faction listens only to the orders of the Ximen Family as the late Prime Minister had told them to. While the Military Faction listens to both General Cao and Ximen Xueya. With this the Elite Faction, which is almost left behind with only the Yun and more small aristocratic family, had been isolated.
But this isolation is not done by the upper circle of the military and government faction but the common mass people instead. There were a lot of civilians who hated the Elite Factions for their greediness and cruelty during the apocalypse.
There are lots of children stolen from the masses by this faction. They've turned the children into goods to be sold when the civilians weren't able to pay for their debts. Young girls were taken as well. They were used as sex tools by this crude men.
Moreover these kinds of things were done with extreme secrecy that even the Yun Family and Sun Family who were supposed to be the top clans of the faction didn't even hear a thing about this.
Now that General Cao had returned, civilians had built up their courage to pull out the dark truths behind the businesses under the Elite Faction. In just a few days the Elite Faction decline had started even the Yun Clan who had no connection to this kind of disgusting truth had gotten affected by it.
This happened when the Su, Pu and Ki Clan had declined after the deaths of their elders. There is no one to lead this clan and things had gotten out of control before the Yun Clan had heard of it.
But no matter what noise was happening outside, Cao Junye and Ximen Xueya ignored all the happenings and closed themselves up in the mansion for days.
Today is the 7th day of their rest.
The family had now entered the dimensional space and enjoyed the hot spring Cao Junye had created after learning that there's a water vein within the space. He had his soldiers work with him in creating hot springs for them to enjoy in the future.
Sometimes at night Cao Junye would accompany his wife to check their other home which is the Ximen Mountain. He had also left Uncle Wu and Lou Lan there to help Su Wan and Lu Meng with the management.
These two used to be police officers and management was never their forte. Their works only lightened when Uncle Wu and Lou Lan had taken over the management for authority and finance resources.
Nowadays, the couple Su Wan and Lu Meng only had to stay in their office welcoming newcomers their boss had transferred to the place but most of the time these two spent playing with their adopted daughter whom their young master had healed for them. They named the baby girl, Su Mengya.
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Back to the dimensional space, the group of six were playing in the hot springs. The following members are Cao Junye, Ximen Xueya, Ximen Chino, Zhi Yue, Baize and Baize's Host, Xu Lin. Sadly Wang Lei and Lou Lan aren't around as they're so busy with work that their bosses don't want to do.
Zhi Yue spoke, "My lord, host, I had found out the identity of two destroyers. Upon comparing the world plots and current events. Only the Zombie King and Zombie Queen's actions from the past few weeks had deviated from the original flow."
"I see. How did they deviate from the plot?" asked Cao Junye while holding his wife within his embrace.
"Answering to the Lord's question, the two Zombie Leaders had started acting like humans a month ago. They've started upgrading their levels nonstop by attacking human bases in a strategic manner. They would first send zombie birds to scout the area of their target base before planning their attack."
Except for the relaxed yet lazy Xueya and his naïve baby, Chino, the rest had a frown and worry in their eyes. The way these Zombie Leaders are acting is already beyond what an ordinary human does.
Original zombie kings would indeed have enough intelligence to lead a zombie siege but such a detailed strategic means is impossible unless...
Baize spoke, "The Zombie King and Zombie Queen of this era had been replaced with destroyers. Which means the Zombie Siege they would lead would be harder to battle with."
"But didn't you say that there are three destroyers? What about the last one, Zhi Yue?" asked Xu Lin.
Zhi Yue answered honestly, "This is the problem. I still haven't found any traces of the last one."
"If not found, that last one would become a hidden danger." murmured Cao Junye until he saw his wife smiling at him.
Once he saw Xueya smiling at him with hidden meaning only then did Cao Junye feel relieved knowing that his wife had already found the identity of the last destroyer.
Cao Junye squeezed the man in his embrace lightly. "Jing'er, since you already know the identity of that last destroyer, care to tell this husband who it is?"
Ximen Xueya just hummed but didn't reply. Then they could only watch the former use his index finger to poke at his husband's hard chest teasingly.
"Hmm~ Should I tell you~ hum~~" said Xueya with an obvious hint of playfulness in his voice and gestures.
Cao Junye's purple eyes turned black as he stared at his mischievous wife in his arms.
Seeing this scene the three adults were smart enough to give the married couple their privacy.
Baize pulled up his stunned yet blushing host preparing to leave. "I remember that I and Yan'er have to plant a few things on the farm. Yan'er, let's go."
Liu Yan a.k.a Xu Lin was looking at that man's hands within the water moving up and down to Venerable Lord's legs like a pervert but the Venerable Lord wasn't even getting angry.
Xu Lin, who was being pushed out of the hot spring, whispered to his system. "Xiaobai. T-That... Is that lord a pervert? His groping the Venerable Lord's legs within the water. Just now!"
Shss!
Hearing the content of his host's whisper, Baize almost panicked and covered his stupid host mouth and carried him away. Afraid that the two lords would overheard his nonsense.
"Please excuse us!" said Baize, who almost ran away just now. They could even hear him scolding his host for having a loose mouth from a distance.
Zhi Yue also made his move and carried away his nephew and said, "Xiao Jing it's almost time for your cultivation training. Come with Uncle Yue okay?"
Naked little bun in his uncle's arms, "Okay uncle. Daddy~ Father~ Going to train now~" said Chino while waving his hands towards his parents.
"Train well, son." said Cao Junye who is trying to pry his wife's legs to be spread from under the water.
Ximen Xueya who is trying his hardest to prevent that from happening smiled at his baby and said, "Daddy made your favorite ice cream cake in the fridge go enjoy it first with your uncle before training."
"Okay daddy~"
Zhi Yue could almost see his host's twitching smile and his lord's evil smirk behind his host. He knew that he had to leave with his nephew as fast as he could before things got rated X.
If he is alone he would love to watch it in secret but the young master couldn't be left alone. He could only leave behind an invisible camera to record everything.
After a while as Zhi Yue just left the premises a few meters away from the hot spring area, they could hear the sound of water splashing and some whispers mixed with groans and moans behind him. Imagining the scene happening in that place a warm thing stroll down on his face.
Chino's innocent voice resounds, "Uncle Yue your nose... It's bleeding!"
Zhu Yue embarrassingly wiped it up with his sleeves as he could feel Chino using his light ability to heal him.
"Okay. Stop! Uncle is not injured. See the bleeding stop already!" coaxed Zhi Yue to the worried child.
"Uncle, did your nose bleed because it's hot?" asked Chino innocently.
Zhi Yue, whose mind is full of perverted thoughts, still replied like a good uncle.
"Yes, because the hot spring (scene) is so hot. Uncle needs to cool down for a while."
Chino, this little baby, didn't understand the hidden meaning of his uncle's words and said, "Then let's eat ice cream cake. It's cold and tasty... Soft and sweet. Uncle would like it a lot too!"
"Sure. Let's invite the other uncles to eat snacks with us, okay?"
"Okay. Ask uncle white and uncle fool!"
"Xiao Jing, is the one you are calling Uncle Fool, Xu Lin?"
"Yes! Because Uncle White always call him stupid. So He is Uncle Fool."
"This... Why do I feel it's not wrong but not correct either. Whatever, let's just enjoy that Ice Cream Cake Host made for snacks."
The Uncle and Nephew could only walk back to the Mansion inside the dimensional space. They've called the other two and enjoyed the cold dessert in the living room while watching horror movies.
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Afterwards it was already dinner when Cao Junye and Ximen Xueya went out of the dimensional space. The other four had tacitly left the space after watching one movie and rest in the mansion at the base instead in the space. After all, space is their secret and safest place. This is their trump card.
After one week of rest, Cao Junye and Ximen Xueya had started cleaning up the upper circle within the base. The authority within the base must end with only them as leaders before they could merge the Hope Base to Ximen Mountain.
Cao Junye and Ximen Xueya plan to make the whole Z District as their own territory. Everything was under control after a month.
Within this month lots of things happened. Ximen Xueya personally cleaned up those disgust human trafficking and human experiment business and buildings. None of the people involved in it were spared. Ximen Xueya had killed them all.
Cao Junye took control of the whole authority of the base while Shi Moye and Wang Lei supported him. The government and military had started working together without any conflicts after being reprimanded by Ximen Xueya for being useless and fighting over problems that could be solved if they worked together.
As for those elite clans, Ximen Xueya and Cao Junye uprooted the useless one and kept those who were useful. Yun Family was able to remain as the top clan after the huge clean up. Now there no longer any factions in the base. They only need to listen to the management group and the management group only need to listen to their leaders which are Cao Junye and Ximen Xueya.
At their second month of staying at the Hope Base, Ximen Xueya had opened up all the sealed facilities and warehouses. He also filtered scientists who would be useful in the creation of the cure. They were directly under his observations and none of these scientists dared to go against him as they were all afraid of his means.
Cao Junye also started giving missions to clean up the zombies within the Z District. Sometimes it would be led by Wang Lei or Baize themselves. Slowly yet clearly, the territory of Hope Base started to spread from small villages to towns and to wide lands.
The command and control of authority in Z District had become stable as Cao Junye and Ximen Xueya decided to take control over it. They have to make preparations as they have three enemies lurking in shadows waiting for the opportunity to jump on them.