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

Chapter 107 The Teacher's Test

Address the issue of food spoilage?

To tell the truth, he'd never considered this problem.

After all, the entire city was full of supermarkets and shops, and Liu Qingqing would take a group of zombie employees out to scavenge every now and then, almost filling the entire basement of the base villa with various convenience foods.

In the face of these towering piles of supplies, anyone would subconsciously overlook one problem.

And that was the limited shelf life of food.

Some a few days.

Others up to half a year.

Aside from the sealed bottle and canned goods, the remaining food items had a maximum shelf life of two years.

Foods like bread or cake had even less time, just a few months.

After a few months, they would spoil.

What then?

Perhaps for those survivors who lived day to day in hunger, eating a piece of spoiled cake wasn't much of a problem.

But for the company, serving spoiled food to employees was a different matter.

If even the most basic survival needs couldn't be met,

who would be willing to give their all for the company?

Even if these employees were all starving ghosts reborn, happy with just a bit of spoiled food, what about their own people in the company's management?

Were they also supposed to eat spoiled food?

Zhang Ye, contemplating this, seemed to envision a scenario.

A voluptuous woman busied herself in the kitchen, yet the food by her hand was already rotten and moldy, with maggots even visible wriggling on top.

Gag—

He suddenly felt a surging in his stomach.

Forget eating, even a glance was nauseatingly overwhelming.

Ai Bing watched the unpleasant expression on his face and suddenly chuckled, setting off a trembling of the soft flesh in front of her chest.

"It seems you've realized the seriousness of the problem?"

"Have you thought of a solution?"

A solution?

Zhang Ye, catching a fleeting look of smugness in her eyes, instantly understood.

This woman probably already had an idea.

Waiting for him to ask.

"Have you thought of it?"

"Want me to tell you?"

"As long as you're sincere, I can tell you right away."

Indeed, Ai Bing, seeing him silent, immediately leaned closer, her warm breath almost brushing past his ear.

Zhang Ye, upon hearing these words, suddenly felt a bit indignant.

After all, he was a man, why should he always be led by the nose by a woman?

Wasn't it just a matter of solving the shelf life issue of food?

He didn't believe he couldn't come up with a solution!

He snorted, wrapped his arms around the woman's waist to fully pull her into his embrace, and with her scream of surprise, firmly grabbed her full buttocks.

Wisdom mode, activate!

Forcing his brain to cool down, Zhang Ye quickly thought of two ways to solve the food preservation problem.

The first method was to start with the environment in which the food was stored.

Like controlling temperature and humidity to maximize the shelf life of the food.

But clearly, this was a stopgap rather than a cure.

Effective in the short term, in the long run, sooner or later, there would still be a food shortage crisis.

The second method was to tackle the root of the problem.

The reason food spoilage led to shortages was, after all, because social production had stopped.

Under such circumstances, food preservation issues would become even more apparent.

The only solution was obvious.

Restore production.

Having thought this far, Zhang Ye already had a clear idea of what he needed to do.

He looked up at the woman in his arms and said gravely:

"We need to take over a food processing plant that has its equipment well preserved."

"Figure out a way to get it up and running again."

"Only then can we solve the food shortage problem caused by food spoilage to some extent."

Ai Bing's eyes instantly filled with a few more hints of admiration.

But then she frowned, as if she thought of some thorny issue.

"What about the raw materials?"

"We haven't left the urban area up to now."

"Nobody knows what the situation is like in the suburbs or the surrounding villages. Even if we send people to plant crops, we don't have enough manpower."

After saying this, she lifted her eyelids and looked at Zhang Ye, her eyes faintly filled with expectation.

Clearly, she was waiting for the man's answer.

The usually aloof and erudite female professor suddenly showed this expression, which made Zhang Ye feel an instant rush of excitement, as if he had been injected with chicken blood.

The man's confidence surged to its peak in that moment.

He hummed, squeezing the woman's buttocks more firmly with his hand, only feeling complacent when he could feel his fingers entirely enveloped by soft flesh.

"Who said we have to grow our own raw materials?"

"With our company's current capabilities, getting a factory back to work would be quite an achievement."

"As for raw materials—"

"There's plenty!"

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The entire Sanjiang City is divided into five administrative districts.

Apart from the city center where Zhang Ye was located, the other four districts were Jiangbei District, Jiangnan District, the Old City District, and the Industrial District that had been newly designated in recent years to attract businesses.

Almost all the factories and businesses were concentrated in the Industrial District to the west of the city center.

There were more than a dozen food processing plants, large and small.

The one Zhang Ye had chosen was the smallest among these food processing plants, covering just over a thousand square meters.

The group looked at the old gate in front of them and fell silent.

Could this shabby factory have already gone bankrupt?

Look at that gate!

It creaks and creaks when the wind blows.

If someone went up and gave it a kick, they might just knock the whole frame down, right?

But as it turned out, they were wrong.

Zhou Yong, leading a few team members, pushed and kicked at the over two-meter-tall gate for a long time, but aside from a few more footprints, it showed no sign of opening.

Instead, the noise they made attracted quite a few zombies from around.

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Xu Lin chopped off the neck of the zombie in front of him with his knife, then looked down at the corpse on the ground with a slight frown.

Compared to two months ago, the zombies in front of him were obviously more agile.

Even their muscles seemed fuller.

They were indeed evolving.

Just as he was about to crouch down and take a closer look at the corpse on the ground, he suddenly heard a gunshot from behind him.

Then he saw a figure fly out from his side.

It seemed to be Zhang Ye's bodyguard.

At the same time, the combat team suddenly became a bit panic-stricken and started looking for places to hide.

Xu Lin immediately realized something was wrong.

He must protect Zhang Ye!

He quickly got up and looked behind him, only to see that Zhang Ye and Ai Bing were already surrounded by bodyguards, while on the factory wall opposite, a man was holding a gun aimed outside.

In a moment of urgency, Xu Lin shouted toward the man above:

"Stop!"

"Don't shoot!"

"We're from the rescue team!"

But as soon as he finished speaking, the man above pulled the trigger again.

Bang!

Another explosion-like gunshot!

A bodyguard wielding a shield nearly got flipped over by the powerful blast!