"What''s wrong?" Xiaoyun asked as he walked inside the living room.

To Xiaoyun''s surprise, Lianrong and Qiaolan were both crying on the floor, with Yongyi sitting right in front of them, holding his toy car.

"Okay, okay. Daddy is here. Tell Daddy what happens, okay?"

Xiaoyun lifted the two in his arms as he gently swung and rocked them back and forth.

Slowly, their crying stopped as they calmed back down.

"So what happened? Did something break or something?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as he gently put the two back down.

Both of them pointed at their toy car on the ground, which had no wheels.

"Where did the wheel go?" Xiaoyun asked.

Both of them shook their head at the same time.

"Let me look for it..."

After looking for a minute, he finally found it right below the sofa.

"How did it end up here? Did you guys take off the wheel on purpose?"

Both of them instantly pointed toward Yongyi, who looked back at Xiaoyun with an innocent face.

"Yongyi, did you take the wheels off?" Xiaoyun questioned as he put the wheels back onto the two toy cars.

Yongyi nodded in agreement.

"Why?"

"I-I win!"

"Win what?"

Yongyi looked back at Xiaoyun''s face with a confused look, as if he expected Xiaoyun to understand it.

"Okay. Let me guess, you guys are racing with the toy car, right?"

As Xiaoyun moved both of the toy cars on the ground, both of the girls clapped their hands in excitement.

"Yongyi, you don''t win by taking other people''s wheel, okay? You win by having your car be faster than others."

Qiaolan excitedly cheered as Lianrong looked disappointed when Xiaoyun moved Qiaolan''s car in front of Lianrong.

With a switch, Lianrong was cheering next as her car was back at the front.

As Xiaoyun handed the car back to two girls, he forced Yongyi to open his hand and took his car away.

Yongyi looked up at Xiaoyun with a confused face until Xiaoyun took off the wheel and handed the car back.

"If you are going to make something unenjoyable for someone, you better expect them to do the same to you."

Yongyi tried to move the car, only to have it swirling left and right.

"Now, do you think winning is important?" Xiaoyun asked as he handed the two wheels each to the two girls.

Yongyi shook his head.

"Good, now go apologize to your sisters."

Yongyi immediately nodded in agreement as he walked over to the two, who looked confused about what was happening.

"I-I am sorry."

The two got even more confused as they didn''t react to the apology at all. But they both handed the wheels back to Yongyi.

"No play fairly with each other, okay? Winning fairly and legitimately is what matters."

Xiaoyun apologized as he took a seat in front of the village leader, whom Renqin had reported to be a new one who had just been elected to replace the old one.

"No problem. I can wait as long as possible——"

"Okay, let''s just be frank with each other. What business do you have today?"

Seeing Xiaoyun wanting to be direct, the village leader was more than happy to reply directly.

"We want to join your city."

Xiaoyun froze for a second as he was completely caught off guard by the request, then quickly recovered back to the conversation.

"Why?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as all the different village leaders he had met had refused it when he did offer them to join.

Especially the old village leader he talked to at first, who flat out rejected the offer and ended up in a compromise where the village sent extra people that they couldn''t handle to Luoping.

"There''s just too many small zombie hordes that are wandering into the countryside. We can''t deal with them...

We know you already sent troops to our villages to protect us, but even your soldiers had said it''s just not feasible to hold any longer."

"Really?"

Xiaoyun looked surprised by the man''s answer as he couldn''t recall the soldiers that he sent reported back anything about it.

"Yes, just two days ago, we had over five thousand zombies that wandered from Foshan to our villages——"

Suddenly, Xiaoyun''s phone started ringing as it interrupted the village leader from finishing.

"Sorry, I''ll be right back."

Xiaoyun quickly left the room as he picked up the phone call from Yezi.

Ten minutes later...

"Sorry about that... Just got a phone call about some security issue."

Xiaoyun apologized as he sat back down in front of the village leader.

"No problem. The town security is more important."

"Okay, so I''m willing to send more soldiers to protect you guys. But I can''t accept your people to Luoping."

Hearing Xiaoyun''s answer, the village leader immediately looked a little disappointed.

"Why not?"

"Your town has roughly Twenty thousand at this point, right?"

The emotion on the villager leader''s face changed to shock for a second before changing back to normal as he nodded in agreement.

"I simply can''t handle that many people anymore. But I''m willing to turn your village into a fully defended city with more soldiers guarding it." Xiaoyun offered.

"What''s the catch?" The village leader asked as an alarm rosed in his head.

"You wanted to join us, right?"

Xiaoyun avoided his question as he stared into the village leader''s eyes.

"Of course. I''m just asking so I can prepare the villagers to have a smoother transition."

The village leader wiped a drop of sweat on his forehead as Xiaoyun stopped looking at him with a questioning look.

"Don''t worry, you''ll always be the village leader and run the civilian part of the town... Perhaps you can grow your village to be just as big as Luoping and be a mayor."

Xiaoyun reassured the village leader as he only wanted full diplomatic and military control of the villages.

"Commander Xiaoyun, I would never dare to be equal to you. I''m just a small village leader."

The village leader immediately changed his tone as he learned he could keep his position.