You were supposed to hoard supplies, why the heck did you hoard zombies!

Theoretically speaking, the electricity supplied by the Huangshitang Hydroelectric Plant was more than enough to power all the factories in the industrial district, so providing electricity for the company was naturally a piece of cake.

Having secured the hydroelectric plant, the next task became much simpler.

That was to deliver the power to the places that needed it.

As for how to deliver it, that was no longer the concern of chairman Zhang Ye, otherwise what would be the point of having Luo Xin as the head of the energy department?

It was naturally up to her to figure out a solution.

However, judging from the relaxed expression on Luo Xin's face at the moment, the remaining work probably wasn't anything too headache-inducing, most likely involving laying a few cables or modifying some circuits.

What attracted Zhang Ye's attention at this moment, on the other hand, were the two enemy corpses in the yard.

The black one was clearly some kind of mutated creature.

From its appearance, the features were actually very distinct; its skull was rounded, its limbs well-developed and muscular, and it was clear at a glance that it was some kind of feline that had mutated.

As for which breed it specifically was—

"Eighty percent chance it's a stray cat," Ai Bing quickly concluded.

After saying this, a look of worry appeared on her face.

The situation they feared the most had indeed occurred.

It wasn't just the rats that had mutated.

Cats had, too.

What about tomorrow?

The wild dogs that used to roam the streets?

Or the sparrows that were seen everywhere, flocking together on telegraph poles?

The crisis seemed to be taking shape secretly in some place out of their sight, until one day it suddenly erupted, swallowing up all the survivors in the city and even the whole world.

Zhang Ye was also somewhat worried but turned his gaze to the other corpse in the corner.

The fat, giant zombified creature.

Compared to the mutated cat, it was clearly more abnormal, both in size and habits, having undergone extraordinarily astonishing changes.

The other half of the corpse in the turbine room had been found.

It was indeed a zombie.

This meant that the giant zombie in front of them had a characteristic that was completely different from the zombies outside, cannibalism.

And the food that had been crammed into its stomach was the missing zombies from the hydroelectric plant.

This beast and this monster, somehow trapped in the turbine room, managed to eat all the zombies and humans in the entire hydroelectric plant, completely ruining Zhang Ye's plan to find a few electrical engineers.

Luckily, Luo Xin knew a little bit.

Together with the dozen or so zombies who had already been assigned jobs, the hydroelectric plant was still smoothly operated.

And the next place they were headed was naturally the factory.

An instant noodle processing plant.

As for what the company's first factory should produce, everyone had their own opinions.

Some thought it should be basic semi-finished goods like rice, flour, grain, and oil, which were daily necessities.

But considering the problem of raw materials for production, this idea was apparently dismissed by Zhang Ye as soon as it was proposed.

Not to mention other things, the raw materials for these goods.

Rice required paddy fields.

Flour needed wheat.

Oil came from the extraction of high-oil content crops like peanuts, rapeseed, etc.

These three supplies had an obvious commonality in their raw materials—they all came from agricultural crops, with the only source being outside the city.

The suburbs with vast farmlands, as well as the rural areas.

Now there was a problem.

Who would dare to go to the villages to farm at this time?

Even if it was possible, the human resources, materials, and most importantly, time that would need to be invested were enormous.

And this was not something Zhang Ye could accomplish now.

Moreover, these semi-finished food products were essential necessities, which had to be stocked in large quantities at supermarkets and markets to meet the needs of the people of Sanjiang City.

Most of these semi-finished foods also had a relatively long shelf life.

Whether it was rice or flour, if they were stored for an extended period, at worst, they might get some insects, which would not make them inedible.

What the company needed to do was to transport them from the supermarkets and markets swarming with zombies.

But these semi-finished products also had an obvious downside.

They were inconvenient to eat.

This gave Zhang Ye a new direction.

That was to process all these inconvenient-to-eat semi-finished foods into finished products.

Considering the factor of ration coupons, there was only one choice of goods, and that was the extremely convenient-to-store and eat pancake.
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As for seasonings, it was out of the question.

In the apocalypse, who the hell eats instant noodles and is willing to add a seasoning packet?

Even a hotel had recently had an astonishing dispute because of this issue, which unfolded as follows:

One night, a survivor named Li finally received his pay after cleaning toilets all day.

A bag of old altar pickled vegetable instant noodles.

When he brought the prepared pickled vegetable noodles back to his room, his roommates Zhang and Wang immediately became envious and asked Li to share the soup with them after he finished eating the noodles.

Li agreed and, as promised, left half a bowl of soup for Zhang.

After taking a sip, Zhang found the flavor lingering on his lips and thus tipped his head back, gulping down the half bowl of pickled cabbage soup!

Seeing this, Wang, who had been eagerly waiting, flew into a rage!

"How dare the traitor drink my instant noodle soup!"

"Take my blade!"

Fortunately, Zhang, with his exceptional combat skills, dodged the knife and the enraged chicken attack, and the two began to scuffle.

The noise from the fight quickly attracted the attention of the zombie security in the corridor, and four or five guards rushed into the room, subdued the two men, and eventually tied them up along with Li and brought them before Xu Lin.

Xu Lin reported this special case to the company.

Chairman Zhang Ye was furious and made it a point to issue instructions, expressing strong criticism of the three men's actions.

And eventually decided on the following punishments:

Li distributed his personal reward to others without the company's approval, causing a fight between two parties, and was punished with cleaning all the hotel toilets for three days without compensation.

Wang and Zhang violated company regulations by fighting among themselves, severely harming the atmosphere of unity and friendship between company survivors.

The punishment for the two men was to work as laborers at the company base for half a month.

Of course, there was another extremely important reason.

That was the scarcity of seasoning packet raw materials.

Anyway, most survivors currently just needed to fill their stomachs; the presence of a seasoning packet wasn't that important.

However, just as Zhang Ye decided not to produce seasoning packets, Ai Bing suggested a different approach.

Continue producing seasoning packets, but—

hand them out immediately.

Rarity brings value.

Once instant noodles were produced in large quantities and survivors below no longer worried about hunger, they would inevitably seek flavor.

At that time, instant noodles with seasoning packets would inevitably increase in value.

The company could naturally profit from this.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ye immediately expressed great appreciation for the suggestion and ultimately decided to go along with what Ai Bing had proposed.

As the two spoke, the convoy had already arrived at the entrance of an instant noodle factory.

Without his command, Xu Lin had already led the combat team off the vehicle, and it took less than half an hour to take down this moderately-sized instant noodle factory.