After that, while the others cleared out the zombies, Yun Xiaoxiao took charge of collecting items.
She walked through each warehouse with Little Cutie and Big Beauty.
The factory's warehouses were filled with many boxes of canned goods.
For example: canned beef, spicy squid, luncheon meat, braised pork, red-braised pork, dace with black beans, canned ham...
Canned yellow peaches, mandarin oranges in syrup, mixed fruit cocktail, rock sugar and pear, candied hawthorn...
All sorts of canned goods could be found here.
Yun Xiaoxiao didn't miss a single one, storing them all in her spatial inventory.
In addition to this, she also collected all the canning machinery and equipment inside.
Her main goal was to empty out everything that could possibly be emptied.
When Yun Xiaoxiao arrived at the last warehouse, she found its large doors tightly shut.
They weren't locked from the outside, but from within.
Yun Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows slightly.
She knocked on the door, "Is anyone in there?"
After knocking three times, there was still no response from inside.
"If you don't open up, I'm going to break down the door, you know."
As soon as she finished speaking, there was a clanging sound from inside, followed by the noise of a lock being undone and heavy objects being moved.
She pursed her lips, there really were survivors inside!
The iron door opened, revealing about a dozen men and women.
Their faces bore traces of fear and unease.
Especially when they saw the imposing Big Beauty and the incredibly oversized Little Cutie, they all involuntarily took several steps back, their bodies tense with wariness.
Yun Xiaoxiao gave them a cursory glance, noting that their "goodness levels" were all above 60%, which was considered passing.
"Uncles and aunties, are you workers from this factory?" she asked.
The people nodded, without any hint of perfunctoriness.
The way they looked at Yun Xiaoxiao was not at all like how one would look at a child.
Just based on the zombie corpses on the ground and the two large creatures beside her, they knew that this child before them was certainly not ordinary!
"Would you like to come with me? I can take you to a safe place," Yun Xiaoxiao asked sincerely.
She meant it genuinely.
She had just collected the factory's machinery and equipment, thinking about processing canned goods herself in the future.
After all, there was too much food to eat it all, and making it into cans would extend its shelf life.
This would also make it convenient to sell to other bases.
Now that there were ready-made workers, of course she wanted to bring them along.
The dozen or so people looked at each other, then focused their gazes on a woman in her forties.
"Factory manager, you decide. We'll follow your lead."
Zhou Shumin looked at Yun Xiaoxiao, then at the zombie corpses on the ground outside, and finally at the group of people looking to her for guidance. She furrowed her brow slightly.
"Little girl, if we go with you, what do you need us to do?" she asked, out of responsibility for everyone.
"Just do your old job, make canned goods."
"Is it really that simple?"
"That's right, it's that simple. In return, you'll never have to worry about food or clothing again, and you'll have a safe place to live, free from zombie threats."
Zhou Shumin stared into Yun Xiaoxiao's eyes for quite a while.
In those few seconds, she considered many things.
Finally, she gave a slight nod.
"Alright, we'll go with you."
For the past few months, they had been hiding in here.
Fortunately, this warehouse was for storing finished products, so there were many canned goods inside.
One of them had also suddenly developed the ability to produce water, which had kept them from dying of hunger or thirst.
But these supplies were gradually dwindling, and they could see the end in sight.
Everyone had been worrying daily about what to do.
They thought they were surely doomed, but who would have thought that today they would suddenly hear the sounds of intense fighting outside, along with the excited howls of zombies.
They knew then that people must have arrived outside.
But they weren't sure if the newcomers were friend or foe.
They were very worried that if they were bad people, they might kill them all too.
So when Yun Xiaoxiao knocked on the door earlier, they didn't dare to open it.
But now, hearing Yun Xiaoxiao say she wanted to take them away, promising they could do the work they were skilled at, with food, shelter, and clothing provided, they couldn't help but be surprised.
Although trusting a child seemed a bit incredible, the strength of her companions was plain to see, leaving them no choice but to believe.
Besides, did they have any other options now?
She knew very well that the reason the other party came to kill zombies in the canning factory was certainly for the goods inside.
When they left, they would definitely take all these things with them.
Although these things belonged to her, with their abilities, it was simply impossible to keep them.
If they didn't go with the other party, once they left with the goods, what awaited them would be death.
So the wisest course of action was to agree to the other party's offer.
They could only take this gamble!
Yun Xiaoxiao's lips curved into a smile, "Auntie, you won't regret your decision."
"I hope so," Zhou Shumin smiled as well.
This was the first time she had smiled in a long while.
"You all pack up the canned goods in here first and wait for us here. We need to go collect things from the other factory areas. When we're done with everything, we'll come back for you," Yun Xiaoxiao said, pointing at the warehouse behind them.
Zhou Shumin and the others nodded.
After giving these instructions, Yun Xiaoxiao left to collect the remaining uncollected items in the factory.
As for the goods in Zhou Shumin and her group's warehouse, she didn't collect them, deciding to leave them for the group.
After all, there wasn't much left anyway.
Once they confirmed that all the zombies in the entire canning factory had been killed and most of the items inside had been collected, Yun Xiaoxiao and her group went to the neighboring factory area.
This was a large industrial park with many factory areas distributed throughout.
Next door was the 'Yangcheng Dried Fruit Processing Factory'.
There were also many zombies inside, but they were no match for Yun Xiaoxiao and her companions.
Yun Xiaoxiao similarly moved out all kinds of finished products by the boxload.
Items like peanuts, sunflower seeds, walnuts, the "king of nuts" pecans, thin-skinned almonds, macadamia nuts, apricot kernels, jujubes...
Various dried fruits, such as dried mango, banana chips, dried strawberries, dried apples...
Some were packaged in paper boxes, some in glass jars, and some were simply packed in large transparent plastic bags.
Without exception, all were swept up by Yun Xiaoxiao.
She also took away the machinery and equipment inside.
There were seven survivors in this factory.
One was hiding in the employee dormitory, two in the workshop, and the other four in one of the warehouses.
When they saw Yun Xiaoxiao and her group, they all burst into tears of joy, crying that they were finally saved.
Seeing that these people's "goodness levels" were not problematic, Yun Xiaoxiao decided to take them along as well.
Then they went on to sweep through several other factory areas.
Some factory areas had completely fallen, with not a single living person left.
Others still had some survivors.
These survivors generally didn't have major issues, so Yun Xiaoxiao incorporated them all.
Until they came to a rice mill.
