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

Chapter 87 Where's the One Calling Fellow Villager?

"Fellow villager?"

"Open the door, fellow villager!"

"We really aren't bad people!"

Tian Gou had been banging on the door for a long time, but there was still no movement inside.

"Brother Gou, stop knocking."

"Looks like there really is no one inside."

Zhang Wei saw that he was about to continue pounding on the door and immediately spoke up to dissuade him.

Behind him stood Song Hao, who wore a similarly helpless expression, having just come down from the staircase.

"There's no one upstairs either."

"There was one door that was open."

"By the time I got in, the bones were almost rotted away."

Tian Gou glanced one more time at the anti-theft door behind him, thinking that it seemed today's task wouldn't be completed.

Zhang Ye demanded that they find at least three survivor enclaves every week, but now it was almost the last day of this week, and they were still one short.

It wouldn't be good to go back like this.

No, that won't do.

You must work hard.

If you don't work hard, you'll be out of a job sooner or later.

Even the newly joined Xu Lin was so busy every day that he was hardly seen, let alone the three of them who were long-term employees?

"Come on, let's take a look in the building next door."

"I refuse to believe it."

"In such a large residential area, is there really not a single living person to be found?"

Tian Gou gritted his teeth and made the resolute decision to work overtime.

So what if it's getting dark?

Just do it.

Below were over a dozen figures in black uniforms, which the three of them had chosen after consulting with each other.

Not for any other reason but to be noticeable.

Otherwise, mixed in with the zombies outside, who could tell who was one of us?

If you get it wrong, at best you have a heart attack, at worst you drop dead on the spot and are then forced to work for Zhang Ye in a different capacity.

Because the work of the three was quite special, these employees were as stiff as boards.

Shoulder to shoulder, they formed a human wall wherever they stood, enough to protect the three as they moved freely in and out of various zombie-infested areas.

Seeing the three managers descend from the building, they immediately straightened up and started leading the way.

The target was residential building number 23.

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Meanwhile, Zhang Ye was punching the clock at one of the survivor enclaves.

It was a convenience store with its doors tightly closed.

There was blood all over the ground.

Next to it stood a zombie, its back turned to everyone.

Seeing this, Xu Lin's gaze immediately tightened, and he was about to get out of the car with his ax to take care of the zombie.

But just as he got out, he saw that the turned zombie had a piece of white paper taped to its head with clear tape, and on it was a crookedly drawn smiley face.

"Don't worry, one of us."

Zhang Ye followed him out of the car, patting his shoulder with a smile.

The mask was clearly drawn by Tian Gou and his group.

This was the marker.

As he approached the door of the convenience store, the prompt for task completion had already started to chime.

"[Human Resources Market discovered, employee count limit +10.]"

The number on the employee list had changed too.

180->190.

Done.

"Xu Lin, I'll leave this place to you."

"Same rules apply, transport everyone uniformly to the Bindu Grand Hotel, then hand the list over to Qing Qing, and that's it."

Seeing Xu Lin nod, Zhang Ye immediately turned around, got in his car, and drove to the next enclave.

The main task had already been updated three days ago, requiring him to monopolize all economic activities in the urban area under the company's name within a year. Under this premise, it had been broken down into several sub-tasks.

First was the employee count, with the goal set to reach five hundred.

He had less than two hundred.

Next, he was to continue refining the company system and further subdividing the internal organizational structure.

Put simply, it meant eliminating the practice of holding multiple jobs.

And additionally, to establish more departments.

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The requirement was for at least seven departments, yet he only had three.

They were the Market Intelligence Department led by Tian Gou and two others, the Energy Department overseen by Luo Xin, and the Engineering Department managed by Ai Bing and Wang Jianguo.

It was precisely because of this that he decided to recruit Xu Lin on the spur of the moment.

A person who is upright and kind may not make a qualified leader,

but it's different for a subordinate.

As the company continued to expand, with more human employees recruited and survivors under control, internal disciplinary issues were bound to increase.

At such times, there was a need for someone to supervise and review.

Xu Lin was the most suitable candidate for the job.

He would take on the position of Director of the newly established Supervision Department, primarily responsible for disciplinary issues within the company and those that would arise among survivors under company management in the future.

With that, only three more departments were needed to complete the mission.

Apart from the two tasks mentioned earlier, there were several others, including establishing production lines with the requirement to get at least three factories back to normal operation and opening stores in the city to sell goods, among others.

The most challenging of these was the demand for Zhang Ye to establish a new currency system.

The world now lay in utter disarray.

Money was as worthless as waste paper.

Valuable things were scarce.

Food, water, medicine, and weapons and equipment.

Besides these, nothing else held any value in the eyes of these survivors.

The crux of the problem was that these items were equally important to Zhang Ye, so naturally, they couldn't be used for bartering.

Without bartering, there was no talking about currency.

It was headache-inducing just to think about.

Fortunately, the deadline for the mission was a full year away, so Zhang Ye decided to focus all his attention on the several sub-tasks in front of him.

The first was to increase the number of employees, which was relatively the easiest.

It only took one sentence to do so.

"For every ten survivor enclaves you find, you three may choose any one woman from among them,"

"Of course, that's if she is willing."

"The company will provide for her."

Upon hearing this,

the head of the Intelligence Department, Tian Gou, immediately declared, "Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

How many lonely nights had he been woken by the screams from the next room, one wave louder than the next.

"Wang Hu!"

"Can't you let people sleep!"

He cursed! He roared! He pounded the walls in frustration!

He even wished he could kick down the door and strangle that bastard Wang Hu!

But the other man gave no response, simply increasing the vigor of his actions, propelling the woman beneath him to peak after peak.

Now the opportunity for revenge had finally come.

Women, women!

Just ten survivor enclaves, that's all?

Tian Gou immediately led Zhang Wei and Song Hao into residential areas they would have never dared to enter before, starting intelligence work in these densely populated zones.

Jealousy twisted him, but it also drove him to work even harder.

In just a few days, they had successfully found four survivor enclaves, leaving marks before rushing to the next target.

What Zhang Ye had to do was accompany Ai Bing around to register their presence.

Meanwhile, Xu Lin was to take in survivors and bring them all to the hotel for centralized management.

These survivors were also extremely precious resources for the company, not only as potential employees, but also for performing daily tasks such as cleaning and various chores.

Zombie employees were then uniformly assigned to heavy labor units.

Maximizing resource utilization efficiency.

To avoid conflicts and prevent the waste of human resources as much as possible, following Zhang Ye's advice, Xu Lin brought several sets of police inspector uniforms back from the Security Bureau.

The crisp uniforms made him look more upright and reliable.

Xu Lin cleared his throat in front of the convenience store.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

He tapped lightly on the roller shutter door.

"Hello."

"I'm from the rescue team."

"It's safe outside now; you can come out."

As he was speaking, a strange noise suddenly came from inside, and a man's voice, sounding somewhat cautious, came from behind the shutter door.

"Rescue team?"

"What about that moron who used to shout 'fellow townspeople'?"

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