Chapter 105 Everyone Panicked
Seeing that Meng Shiwan didn't continue, Tao Yarong asked, bewildered, "What did you discover?"
Qiu Zhiyi explained, "There are twenty cows, dairy cows, horses, sheep, and pigs here, ten males and ten females."
They're being housed in this factory, pampered with good food and drink, clearly raised specifically for future breeding.
Just like the incubation facility we just saw, these were specially raised by the survivors here, to prevent them from running out of resources and to ensure they could reproduce later.
Tao Yarong understood, "I see."
She said, "Why keep several different animals in one factory? It turns out it's for backup purposes."
These things are now all for Meng Shiwan, saving her the trouble of searching everywhere.
She had originally intended to take the automatic feeding machine away as well, but then decided against it.
It's important to reserve space for storing essential supplies.
After collecting all these items, she had already used nearly half of the newly expanded 2,000 cubic meters.
Two thousand cubic meters seems like a lot, but in reality, it can't hold too much.
The remaining 1,200 cubic meters were used to store the pigs with the highest meat yield.
Castrated pigs cannot reproduce and can only be eaten for meat.
One pig may require two to three cubic meters of space, and a maximum of 1,200 cubic meters can hold only 500 pigs.
Meng Shiwan called to them, "Let's go find the pigs."
"Okay, sis."
The group didn't drive; they followed the smell of manure one by one to find the pig farms.
Upstairs in the administration building, Liu Mingliang, holding binoculars, watched helplessly through the factory window as the animals and machinery inside disappeared. He was so anxious his bald head was practically steaming.
"Just what I feared has come true. There really was a space ability user among those people. They took away all our incubators and breeding animals."
Everyone else around panicked.
"How can this be? Without them, we won't be able to reproduce. Once the existing animals are all gone, we'll go hungry!"
"Exactly, why do these people only pick the important ones out of everything else?"
"What do we do now?"
The factory area is very large, but in order to save on feed, diesel, and other energy sources, they don't raise all the animals in the factory area, as that would consume too many resources.
Instead, they chose to raise only a few animals in a few factories, just enough to feed them.
They can breed and eat at the same time, and the supplies stockpiled in the factory will last them a long time.
As a result, their sustainably bred animals and incubators have now been taken away.
It's tantamount to cutting off their future livelihood, how could they not be anxious?
Liu Mingliang scratched his sparsely shaved head. "You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask? They're superhumans, and we can't beat them. What can we do?"
Ma Gao stamped his feet anxiously, "Without these things, are we really going to have to go to the base with the rescue team and live a hard life? I don't want to live a life where we don't know where our next meal is coming from, and have to fight zombies for a bite to eat."
"What do we do? What are we going to do now? They're superhumans!"
After the apocalypse, these people lived a life of debauchery and arrogance, doing whatever they pleased to women.
Having just begun to enjoy this carefree life, neither of them wanted to give it up.
Liu Mingliang gritted his teeth, "There's no other way. We can't hide anymore; we have to confront the rescue team."
We can either ask them to leave us half of the incubators and breeding animals,
We can either go with them to the base, or without these supplies, if we stay here and wait for the animals to finish eating them, we'll just be waiting to die.
In this situation, the base is actually safer.
After discussing it, the group decided that going to the base with the rescue team was the last resort.
Before that, they tried their best to persuade the other party to leave them something.
The rescue team are good people who serve the base and the people, so they should be easy to talk to, right?
Meng Shiwan and the others had just come out of the pig farm.
Her space was completely crammed in, and in the last remaining corner, she even went to the neighboring factory to collect six white rabbits and placed them there, making sure not a single inch of space was wasted.
Tao Yarong asked, "Sister, shall we go to the germplasm bank next?"
Today was very fruitful, and everything went smoothly throughout; there weren't even many zombies.
Tao Yarong felt that they had all become more capable now, and their trip would definitely go smoothly.
Meng Shiwan responded, "Mm."
With the animals collected, the most important thing next is the seeds.
However, Meng Shiwan did not have high hopes for the germplasm bank.
As the place with the most complete seed storage, the base certainly wouldn't give it up; it's probably already emptied out.
She went to try her luck; if the germplasm bank was empty, they would look at agricultural universities or seed wholesale markets.
Going around once is like collecting more crystal cores.
"Extraordinary people, please wait a moment."
Just as Meng Shiwan and the others were about to get in their car and leave, a shout came from afar behind them.
The group turned around and saw a group of men running towards them.
The leader was a bald man with a big belly, panting heavily and drenched in sweat.
The tight-fitting short-sleeved shirt and shorts were soaked with sweat, which dripped onto the ground.
The group of people all had flushed faces and were not thin, so it seemed that they had been doing quite well in the past month or so since the apocalypse.
Anjavin frowned. "They don't want us to take them to the base, do they? We're not a rescue team."
As the large group of people drew closer, they all wore restrained smiles as they faced the several superhumans.
This demeanor is completely different from their previous arrogance in the office.
Liu Mingliang stood there, catching his breath, wiping the sweat from his face, and smiled, "Gentlemen with supernatural abilities, I'm very happy you could come here. We hope..."
Lei Zhe was about to refuse the group, saying that their team wasn't there for a rescue and they didn't have time to take them to the base.
To everyone's surprise, Liu Mingliang said, "We hope you can leave us a few incubators and breeding animals, so we can have a way to survive."
His words surprised everyone except Meng Shiwan.
This group of people came not to ask to be taken to the base, but to ask for incubation boxes?
Are they planning to live on this farm forever?
When Tao Yarong and her team went on missions, any survivors they encountered hoped to follow them safely to the base.
This is the first time I've seen someone who doesn't want to go to the base.
Anjiewen asked, puzzled, "Why don't you want to go to the base? It's safer there."
Liu Mingliang forced a shy smile onto his chubby face. "To be honest, we've seen many posts online from survivors of the base, saying that life there wasn't very good."
We're safe here, and we have plenty of food. Life feels better than at the base, so we're thinking of just surviving one day at a time. If we can't survive anymore, we'll go back to the base.
With incubators and breeding animals, we can stay here longer.
He spoke sincerely, and it seemed like there was nothing wrong with him.
In the apocalypse, who wouldn't want to live, and live a better life?
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