You were supposed to hoard supplies, why the heck did you hoard zombies!-Chapter 288 - 287 Emergency Meeting (1)

"North side?"

"What happened?"

Zhang Ye immediately put down the inspection work at hand and turned back to ask.

"Could it be that Li Wanhao is about to make a move against us?"

The first thought that came to his mind was just that, but the woman in front of him shook her head and answered seriously, "No, it’s that settlement that took over the water plant and confronted Li Wanhao—it’s been wiped out."

"Was it Li Wanhao’s people?"

Zhang Ye immediately frowned and asked.

His response was almost exactly the same as Liang Zhijie’s.

But Gao Feng shook her head again, then revealed the news that left everyone present dumbfounded, "A swarm of rats emerged out of nowhere and filled the entire water plant."

"The people inside were eaten clean overnight."

As the woman finished speaking, Zhang Ye, who had just led the group into the room, exclaimed in shock, "Rats? Rats that could devour everyone in the entire water plant?"

He was still somewhat in disbelief, but the serious expression on Gao Feng’s face clearly wasn’t joking.

Zhang Ye immediately realized, his longstanding fears had come true.

The disaster hidden underground had erupted.

The rats had come to the surface.

In fact, this phenomenon had caused large-scale disasters more than once in ancient times, much like locust plagues, spreading quickly to surrounding areas every time they erupted.

The tremendous reproductive capability of the rats, coupled with an ample food supply, made the outbreak of a rat plague completely logical.

How many rats would it take to occupy an entire water plant?

Not a thousand, not ten thousand, but hundreds of thousands of rats gathered together could wield such destructive power.

Zhang Ye did not doubt the authenticity of the news, for it was precisely what he had always feared.

It was just that too much time had passed, and he had completely put it out of his mind.

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Now his fears had become a reality.

Without bothering to explain the source of the news to the others, he immediately ordered a staff member to bring over Yu Yongkang, the head of the breeding department, and convened an emergency senior-level meeting.

After Gao Feng left, Peng Yue, who remained at Jiangbei Base just in case, hadn’t come over.

The heads of other departments were nearly all present.

The one who brought the news, Gao Feng, immediately repeated the information from Wanhao District, and many face went pale, their expressions filled with disbelief.

Someone immediately began to doubt the authenticity of the information, but before they could speak, Zhang Ye decisively suppressed them.

"The information is true."

"This point does not need further discussion."

"The main reason I called you here today is for us all to discuss how the company should respond to this crisis that could devour everyone at any moment."

Zhang Ye had just finished speaking when Zhao Dechu, the somewhat corpulent head of the cannery, couldn’t help but ask, "Director Zhang, aren’t you a bit overly worried?"

"It’s just a bunch of rats, we have guns and people; do we need to be this nervous?"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately chimed in, "Right, just send a combat team or a Hunter Squad over."

"Just bring extra ammunition."

"Exactly, can rats be scarier than zombies?"

"A barrage of bullets and not just any rat, but even if it were Mickey Mouse, it’d turn into a pile of rotten meat! We could turn it into canned meat and swap it for some rice and flour from the north, hahaha!"

Zhang Ye looked at the several people in front of him who still seemed to joke around, not taking the rat swarm seriously, and his expression gradually grew cold.

He glanced at Yu Yongkang, the head of the breeding department sitting to his left.

The latter immediately straightened his back and cleared his throat.

"Ahem."

"Everyone, listen to me for a moment,"

The crowd, who were laughing and chatting, immediately turned their attention to this man who seldom spoke. Curiosity gleamed in their eyes, clearly eager to know why this usually reserved man had suddenly decided to speak up today.

The reason Yu Yongkang spoke up was simple.

"You should all know that I am in charge of breeding rats and wild dogs."

"We provide raw materials for our canning factory."

As he spoke, his gaze shifted towards Zhao Dechu, the head of the canning factory and several other food processing plants across from him. Zhao immediately praised, "Yes, thanks to Yu, otherwise my canning factory would have shut down long ago!"

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately showered him with flattery.

"Minister Yu always handles things very cautiously; he is an honest man."

"So, what then?"

"Minister Yu, what are you trying to say?"

"You wouldn’t happen to want to share your experience in raising rats, would you?"

Someone said teasingly, which prompted another round of laughter from the others. However, Yu Yongkang’s expression grew increasingly serious.

He stiffly said, word by word, "Yes, I came today to share my experience."

The people in this conference room were no fools.

Some already sensed something was afoot.

Seeing this, the others gradually stopped joking and started looking at Yu Yongkang seriously.

"President Zhang?"

Yu Yongkang glanced again at Zhang Ye, and upon seeing him nod, he earnestly said, "Do you know how many rats the breeding department can produce in one day?"

The so-called meat rats were actually mutant rats that had been selected and bred by the employees of the breeding department.

They had bulky bodies, short limbs, and were both sleepy and gluttonous.

That was the meat rat.

When Yu asked this question, everyone’s expression turned strange, clearly puzzled about what Minister Yu really intended to convey.

Three minutes passed quickly, and yet no one in the conference room had an answer.

After a long while, Zhao Dechu hesitantly proposed a number.

"A hundred?"

"Ah—"

A gasp swept through the conference room.

Clearly, this number had exceeded many people’s expectations about the reproductive rate of rats, with a hundred a day growing geometrically—wouldn’t that mean tens of thousands in just half a month?

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The production rate of this stuff was indeed astounding!

But just as everyone thought that this was the correct answer and secretly marveled at it, Yu Yongkang gently shook his head and said, "Unfortunately, Manager Zhao, you are wrong."

"Wrong?"

Zhao Dechu was also somewhat perplexed.

He had actually guessed based on the supply amount from the breeding department, which not only supplied rats but also similarly selected and bred mutant canines and mutant wild chickens, which had almost no changes in form.

Plus, there were the mutant fish and shrimp occasionally sent by the aquaculture department.

Rat meat was not everything.

Therefore, this hundred was merely his personal guess.

If it was based on each delivery amount, there were actually about five hundred each time, but the deliveries were spaced three to four days apart.

Conservatively estimated, over a hundred per day was quite good indeed.

After all, these rats were quite large.