It was just past five in the afternoon.
Xiao Yu and An Xiaoran had finally emptied out the entire seed depot, collecting a total of 10 tons of seeds.
There was still time before dark.
Xiao Yu decided to head to the agricultural market to sweep up a batch of farming equipment—
especially rice threshers and flour mills.
With all that grain and wheat in the Space Warehouse, it had to be processed before it could be eaten.
Han Kexin drove the car.
They soon arrived at the agricultural market.
The huge marketplace was deserted, littered with garbage and trampled vegetables and fruit.
Clearly, others had already been through here.
But Xiao Yu didn't mind.
He already had plenty of vegetables and fruit—this market wasn't even on his radar for that.
As it was close to dusk,
the market had no lighting and looked incredibly dim.
Occasionally, they could spot shambling figures and hear the low groans of Zombies.
Not many.
Roughly three or four Zombies.
"Let's clear the Zombies first!"
Xiao Yu led the team around the market, killing four Zombies in total and picking up two Lucky Tokens.
[Ding! You picked up a Lucky Token, which turned into 'A Box of 9mm Bullets'.]
[Ding! You picked up a Lucky Token, which turned into 'A Box of Shotgun Shells'.]
All bullets.
Not bad at all—the more, the better.
After clearing the market,
Xiao Yu told the team to break open the rolling shutters one by one.
The shutters in the market were all basic models—
low quality, easily smashed.
A few slashes and they shattered.
The first grain and oil store was filled with rice, flour, and cooking oil.
Xiao Yu and An Xiaoran quickly emptied it out—
including the small warehouse in the back.
The second was a dried goods store—
filled with shiitake mushrooms, dried wild vegetables, daylilies, seaweed, pickled beans, bamboo shoots...
The third, a nuts and snacks shop.
Then a spice shop.
Then a grains shop.
One by one they looted.
Whenever they got tired, they'd rest, then continue once their energy returned.
Elsewhere—
At the temporary command post of the city governor.
Guo Weihui had already relocated to the southern suburbs of the city, just one bridge away from the Free Zone.
"Too bad I can't cross that bridge."
Looking across to the other side—
he saw heavily armed soldiers, armored vehicles, and mounted machine guns stationed there.
Anyone who tried to cross would be shot on sight!
Today, 5,000 more soldiers had been deployed,
but only 2,000 entered the city.
The remaining 3,000 were stationed at various key access points in the suburbs, setting up heavily fortified checkpoints.
Helicopters hovered overhead.
Even sneaking out via side paths was impossible.
Guo Weihui sat back down in his chair.
He could understand it—if he were the higher-ups, he would've made the same decision.
Just then, his assistant walked in.
"Report: the granary has been looted. All stationed soldiers have turned into Zombies."
What?!
Guo Weihui shot up from the couch.
"How much food was lost?"
"Ev... everything. Not a single grain left."
Impossible!
"That was over twenty thousand tons of grain!
Who could empty it out so silently?"
Wait a minute—
Suddenly, Guo Weihui remembered that several slaughterhouses and frozen storage facilities in S City had also been looted without a trace.
There must be a hidden force operating behind the scenes—
and it was massive.
Worst of all, with battles erupting across the city, many surveillance systems had been destroyed.
There was no way to trace anything.
I can't panic.
"Activate the strategic reserve vaults immediately—especially the food stores.
Mobilize personnel tonight and bring all the reserve grain to the command center."
"I refuse to believe it—
Let's see who dares come steal from the command post."
"Yes, sir!"
The assistant turned to carry out the order.
It was already past 11 p.m.
Back at the agricultural market—
Xiao Yu had looted all the important goods, including a batch of rice threshers and flour milling equipment.
A massive haul.
But they were also exhausted.
"It's almost midnight. Let's head back and rest."
They needed to get their sleep schedule back on track.
With the city becoming more dangerous by the day, scavenging at night was just too risky.
Han Kexin drove.
The four of them began the return trip.
In the car, Xiao Yu was planning the next day's mission.
Among the critical supplies still missing were fuel and young livestock.
Fuel was hard to come by.
Gas stations had long since been abandoned—he could only drain it from roadside cars and garages.
It'd be a bit of a hassle.
As for livestock, that was tough too.
Farms were usually in rural areas.
Now wasn't the best time to leave the city—
there were still so many shopping centers yet to be looted.
Before they knew it, they had arrived at Jinhu.
By chance, Xiao Yu spotted a police armored vehicle parked by the roadside.
The engine was off.
No one was inside.
He took a closer look at the license plate—
"Damn, stop the car!"
Han Kexin hit the brakes, stopping next to the armored vehicle.
Xiao Yu got out and walked around it.
"It really is the car that got stolen from us."
"And it ended up parked right outside our hotel."
But the doors were locked—
they couldn't open them.
"That's low. They stole our car and parked it right outside our hotel—trying to mess with us?"
"Too bad we don't have the key. Even if we take it back, we can't drive it."
"Hey, how about tomorrow we visit a kids' store and get a child tracker?
Stick it in the car—once it moves, we'll know where that car thief is."
"Great idea. We'll definitely teach them a lesson!"
The team was indignant.
Xiao Yu, on the other hand, wasn't all that mad anymore.
Right now, collecting supplies was the top priority—he didn't care much about a petty car thief.
Still, if they happened to find a tracker tomorrow,
he didn't mind giving it a try.
Maybe they'd really catch the thief.
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