With her phone tucked into her back pocket and the volume turned up to maximum, Lin Xuan gracefully entered the room to the accompaniment of soft, romantic music.
The shelves in the factory were piled high with packaging materials such as boxes, foam cartons, plastic strapping, and transparent tape.
As Lin Xuan passed by these shelves, they disappeared one by one.
At the end of the shelves was a row of assembly lines, where Lin Xuan used to work. Many packaging workers were lying there.
The frozen meat, seafood, and fruit on the counter that hadn't been packaged yet had already thawed and rotted, and a bunch of flies were crawling on them, feeding like crazy.
The key to the cold storage seemed to be with an aunt who managed it. Based on my vague memory, I found the break room in the factory.
A woman in work clothes with a permed cauliflower-shaped hairstyle was slumped over a table in the break room. Upon closer inspection, oh my! That round face, it was her.
I reached into her work clothes pocket and found a bunch of keys. Perfect!
The cold storage rooms here are all designed in separate compartments because the items stored are not singular; I tried all the keys in turn.
Finally, I found the key to the door on the far right, and with all my might, I opened the door and entered the cold storage.
Although the power outage has lasted for more than fifty hours, there is still a bit of coolness in the cold storage. The ceiling height here is about five meters, and the area is about 150 square meters.
The sacks on the shelves were neatly stacked up to the ceiling, and they were all filled with whole pieces of frozen meat.
The shelves next to it were also piled high with styrofoam boxes containing whole chickens and ducks. These frozen meats had almost thawed, but they were still cool to the touch and had not spoiled. They were all taken away without hesitation.
The second cold storage room was full of frozen fruit, including vacuum-packed durians, bayberries, mangoes, lychees, and strawberries, filling the entire warehouse with plastic crates.
The third warehouse was filled with large wooden crates wrapped in cling film, containing frozen fish, frozen shrimp, and some frozen meatballs. All the seafood had been thawed.
Lin Xuan leaned closer to smell and look at them. They weren't that fresh, but they were still edible, so she took them away.
The last cold storage room was relatively small, probably around 50 or 60 square meters, and contained boxes of ice cream, frozen desserts, and other frozen treats.
The ice cream has all melted in the bag. I'll put it in the freezer in my space and freeze it again so we can eat it. I've taken care of everything here.
After collecting all these things, Lin Xuan estimated that the supplies in her space would be enough for her and Xia Feng to live on for a lifetime, and even more.
After leaving the cold storage, Lin Xuan headed towards the building where her boss's office was located.
The cold chain store owner's office was a converted two-story villa, and she wanted to go and see if the boss who had withheld her wages was there.
If he's not here, consider himself lucky. If he is, well... then we'll give him a doomsday gift package worth a thousand yuan.
Isn't that bald, fat man lying at the entrance of the villa the damn boss?
The fact that he withheld more than a thousand yuan from her wages made Lin Xuan remember this exploitative man, Huang Shiren, vividly.
They unloaded the handcart they had just retrieved from the factory and, with great effort, dragged the fat man onto it.
Pushing it back all the way to the assembly line in the factory, I secured the guy firmly to the cart with plastic strapping.
He put on disposable gloves and grabbed some rotten durian and meat from the table, throwing it at him.
A swarm of flies buzzed and moved to a new spot, surrounding his obese body. It was a fair game: you take my money, I'll take your life.
Don't say it's not worth it because of a thousand yuan. People like him have cheated countless people out of a thousand yuan.
In her past life, after she resigned from her job, she heard from the older woman who worked with her making meat about many of the despicable things he had done.
He kept a mistress and beat his wife, ruined his business partner's life and went to jail, harassed a young girl at dinner and beat her up so badly she ended up in the hospital, and then used his connections to smooth things over.
Withholding wages is just basic stuff for him.
He was like this even before the apocalypse; if he were allowed to live after the apocalypse, he would still be capable of killing many people.
I took off my disposable gloves and threw them at the fat man, feeling a sense of satisfaction in ridding the world of a menace.
It's 5:30 pm now, and it's almost completely dark. Tomorrow morning will be the day everyone wakes up and the zombie outbreak happens. Before that, she has one more thing to do.
That was something she needed to verify, based on people's speculations about gaining superpowers in her previous life.
With a flashlight on my back, I rode my balance bike towards home.
Following the road behind the cold chain, Lin Xuan saw the buildings of their residential complex. She entered the complex, put away her balance bike, and walked home.
"Meow~ Meow~..."
As Lin Xuan approached her building, she suddenly heard a cat meowing coming from the green belt.
Since everyone fell into a coma, no one knows where the animals in the city have gone. In the past two days, when Lin Xuan was collecting supplies, she didn't see a single one.
The consciousness scanned the spatial warehouse for a long time and found a large box of cat treats on the pet supplies shelf in the large warehouse.
Take one out, open it, and crouch down to slowly approach the area where you heard the sound.
Soon, a chubby, chubby orange tabby cat emerged from the bushes in the green belt and began gobbling down the cat treats from Lin Xuan's hand.
The kitten's name is Xiao Huang. Lin Xuan remembers it; her brother used to feed it often.
Despite his burly appearance, Xia Feng has a particular fondness for small animals like cats and dogs. There are many stray cats in the neighborhood, and Xia Feng often buys cat food to feed them.
He loves this little yellow cat the most, and he often buys it canned cat food and cat treats to give it special treats.
Xia Feng even considered taking Xiao Huang home to raise.
But at that time, Lin Xuan usually lived at school, and he often went to work in other places, so he didn't have time to take care of the little one and had to give up the idea.
Should we take Little Yellow into our space and raise it? We can put any living thing into our space except for living people.
If it weren't for the fact that all the animals in her previous life had mutated, she guessed that all the land in this space could be used for animal husbandry.
Oh right, there's also the issue of mutation. What if Little Yellow mutates into a hideous monster?
Lin Xuan looked at the little yellow cat sticks that were being displayed one after another and felt conflicted. It seemed that there were also mutated animals that weren't very aggressive.
But what if this guy mutates into a little monster?
Safety first, Lin Xuan steeled herself, tossed the woolen strip in her hand aside, and walked upstairs without looking back.
Little Yellow glanced at the cat treat on the ground, then watched Lin Xuan's departing figure, and without hesitation, raised its paw and followed.
Lin Xuan was exhausted after climbing five floors in one go.
She had been in a state of physical exhaustion for the past two days. She sat down on the ground, drank some bottled mineral water, and turned her head to find that Xiao Huang had actually followed her up.
The kitten meowed and jumped to her legs, rubbing against them and rolling over on its belly to be cute.
Good heavens! Who can resist this? How could such a cute kitten mutate?
Lin Xuan reached out and rubbed the little yellow, chubby belly. "Why don't we keep it for now? If it mutates and doesn't recognize its own family, we can find a place to release it."
Okay! That's it.
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