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

Just as everyone was beginning to harbor doubts, a few pairs of eyes in the crowd following Peng Yue suddenly lit up.

"Tsk."

"It really is."

"This Chen guy is indeed malicious at heart, nothing good about him."

Zhang Ye looked at the situation unfolding before him and clicked his tongue in wonder, while the three women by his side also wore somewhat unusual expressions.

A row of names suddenly appeared on the container in front of them.

[Zombie Li Ergou, would you like to add to the employee list?]

[Zombie King Sanpang, would you like to add to the employee list?]

[Zombie Zhao Xiaochun, would you like to add to the employee list?] Read new adventures at My Virtual Library Empire

...

The iron boxes, only a bit taller than a person, unexpectedly contained more than a dozen zombies each, with dozens more like it in this huge warehouse.

Even closer to the trio, to their right front, was an object over two meters tall and covered with a black tarpaulin.

At first glance, it resembled the lathes commonly seen in factories.

However, at this moment, what appeared here couldn't possibly be a lathe, otherwise there would be no need to cover it with a tarpaulin.

Zhang Ye gave Ai Bing a look, and the woman immediately understood and stealthily moved toward it.

She returned in less than half a minute.

"Indeed, it's a Type-D variant."

"Two of them."

Zhang Ye's expression became instantly solemn.

Catching some ordinary zombies and keeping them wasn't much of an issue.

After all, this area was not particularly crowded with people; solitary zombies or small hordes were commonplace, and one could probably catch quite a few by setting some traps at random.

As long as one wasn't afraid of casualties, it was possible to confine these zombies in containers and transport them back to the warehouse.

But when it came to mutant zombies, it was a different story.

The weaker individual strength Type-T variants not only moved with astonishing speed but also had the agility to scurry on walls and roofs, scarcely inferior to that of mutated wildcats. What's more, they usually moved in groups.

Once lured out of those abandoned buildings, at least a dozen would emerge at a time.

Chen Xiaoyong certainly couldn't hold them off with the equipment he had.

He could only use human lives to fill the gaps.

As for the individually strong Type-D zombies, comparable to human flesh tanks, they were even harder to subdue, unless one used high-voltage electricity reaching thousands of volts to momentarily collapse their nerves causing fainting.

And this was precisely the method now employed by the company's Hunter Squad.

But how did Chen Xiaoyong achieve this?

Could it be—

Indeed, Luo Xin who returned from the other side immediately said in a low voice, "There are cables running behind the containers over there; the lines seem to come from behind the warehouse."

As she mentioned this, the answer to Zhang Ye's doubt became clear.

The zombies' weakness had been exposed.

Chen Xiaoyong evidently already knew that zombies were afraid of high-voltage electricity.

Not only did he know, but he directly took advantage of this weakness, capturing all the nearby zombies and confining them in this large warehouse, and that was why he ignored his brother-in-law Lu Yong's advice and brought so many people out with him.

Setting traps to capture zombies was not a job that just a few people could accomplish.

It required a substantial amount of manpower.

Once these people saw Chen Xiaoyong's method against zombies succeed, his prestige in their hearts would rise to a new level, enabling him to become the definitive leader of the entire Ecological Park and the surrounding areas.

At that point, the company's expansion to the north of the suburbs would surely be hindered.

Thinking this, Zhang Ye quietly looked up again at the man who wore a smug expression above, and couldn't help but snicker internally.

Too bad, you've encountered me.

[Ding.]

[Zombie Li Ergou has been added to the employee list.]

[Zombie King Sanpang has been added to the employee list.]

[Zombie Zhao Xiaochun has been added to the employee list.]

...

In just one minute, the zombies in the boxes closest to Zhang Ye had all become official employees of the company.

The three women accompanying him were also busy at work.

They all served part-time in human resources.

With the cover from Peng Yue's subordinates, Ai Bing and Liu Qingqing were the first to vanish among the shelves, and then a large number of unfamiliar names began to appear on the staff list.

Meanwhile, Luo Xin was quietly following the wires hidden in the corners, trying to locate the power switch.

As the four were occupied with their tasks, the others were not idle either.

Chen Xiaoyong finally spoke from above.

"Hahaha."

"Isn't that our great leader Peng?"

"The wound on your arm, it healed so quickly?"

Chen Xiaoyong, leaning on the railing of the second-floor walkway, showed a rare smile on his somber face, filled with mockery and sarcasm.

The people below had stealthily reached for their guns, but upon seeing the steel plate in front of him, they put them down again in frustration.

It was clear that the adversary had anticipated a possible sneak attack.

So they had preemptively shielded their body with a steel plate.

Exposing only a head, based on the current marksmanship of these people, it was very unlikely they could injure him.

It was precisely for this reason he dared to stand out in the open without worrying that Peng Yue would shoot him into a sieve without a second word.

"Hmph."

Peng Yue didn't speak but stared at the man above, clenching his teeth so hard that his cheeks twitched uncontrollably.

Intense hatred surged within him like waves crashing in his heart.

"Where's the third one?"

He didn't mention any terms for exchange.

Because the conditions had already been made clear to Chen Xiaoyong.

If he didn't hand over the person that day, then he might as well forget about living peacefully ever again.

After hearing this, Chen Xiaoyong chuckled eerily, his cold gaze lingering on the man below with interest before finally assuming an expression of pity and saying,

"Ah, why wasn't it you that got killed by that shot last time?"

These light words instantly stirred up the anger of Peng Si and others; many people who had just stopped cursing, out of breath, could not help but start hurling insults again toward the group above.

"Damn! What did you say!"

"Chen, you son of a bitch, born without an asshole!"

"Come down if you dare, I'll chop you up and feed you to the stray dogs!"

As soon as this person finished cursing, someone immediately responded, "Hey, as much as dogs eat crap, even they wouldn't eat something as repulsive as him!"

The crowd burst into laughter with the back and forth banter, making the faces of those above turn extremely ugly.

They couldn't help it, they were simply outnumbered in the verbal confrontation.

Yet Chen Xiaoyong remained calm, or at least appeared so, but the look in his eyes that stared at the group below grew colder and more murderous.

He constantly fidgeted with something in his hand.

It looked like a long, narrow object.

A mobile phone?

Peng Yue thought it probably wasn't.

It must be a walkie-talkie like the ones used by the company.

During the time the two sides were hurling insults at each other, Peng Liu had already led a few men to check out the entire first floor of the warehouse.

No staircase leading to the upper walkway was found.

In other words, other than trading insults, they had no opportunity to get to Chen Xiaoyong.

Unless those few people upstairs decided to come down themselves.

But it was obviously impossible.