With the help of Jiang Jingchao, a mental-type ability user, the team spent an hour accurately avoiding the large groups of zombies in the factory and soon arrived at the cold storage entrance.
“I found the key!”
After dealing with the zombies at the entrance of the cold storage, they were also lucky enough to find the key.
The key to this cold storage was hanging on the corpse of the security guard lying outside. This saved them a lot of time. Otherwise, they would have had to think of a way to pry open the lock before they could get in, and who knew how long that would have taken.
After opening the cold storage door, a wave of cold air rushed toward them.
Gu Yicheng left most of the team at the entrance to stand guard, preventing zombies from approaching or entering the cold storage and blocking them inside.
As for the remaining people, they followed him in. Ruan Ning, who had a space, was naturally among them.
Although the city had been without power for days, the insulation of the cold storage was very good, so the temperature here was still below zero degrees Celsius. After stepping inside, Ruan Ning could not help shivering and moved a little closer to the heat source beside her, which was Gu Yicheng.
“Very cold?” Gu Yicheng noticed her movement, frowned slightly, and said gently, “Ningning, you can actually go outside and stay with the others. I can collect the supplies here by myself.”
Although his space had already stored quite a lot of supplies before the apocalypse, fortunately, the original area of his space had been large enough. It had also advanced once before, leaving plenty of room. So he alone should be able to put everything in the cold storage into his space.
Ruan Ning shook her head. “It’s not that cold. I can hold on.” The temperature outside had been dropping quickly lately, so this place was not actually much colder than outside. She had only felt uncomfortable because she had entered so suddenly. After staying inside for a while, she felt much better.
Seeing that he was still looking at her, his eyes showing disapproval, Ruan Ning had a thought, and a coat suddenly appeared in her hand. She put it on and said, “Brother, look. This way, I won’t be cold.”
Only then did Gu Yicheng’s brows relax slightly, and he no longer told her to leave the cold storage.
After putting on an extra coat, Ruan Ning also asked the other people who had followed them in whether they were cold. She still had several blankets in her space. If everyone was cold, she could give them one.
However, aside from Ruan Ning, whose natural constitution was a little weak and who could not adapt to the cold storage temperature immediately, the other grown men did not feel particularly uncomfortable, so none of them took her blankets.
They found a shipping order on the wall near the entrance. The date happened to be the night the apocalypse broke out. This large batch of goods had not yet been sent out, so it had been left stranded here.
But this happened to benefit them perfectly.
There were many goods inside the cold storage. Seeing so many supplies laid out before her, Ruan Ning’s face lit up with joy. Her hamster-like instincts erupted, and she wished she could empty the entire place, shelves and all.
It was not that Ruan Ning was selfish and unwilling to leave anything for other survivors. It was because the cold storage had now lost power. Once someone opened it, most of the cold air inside would escape. After they left, the temperature here would rise quickly and would definitely not even be able to maintain its current state. Even if they wanted to leave some supplies for those who came later, by the time those people arrived, the items inside might already have gone bad. It was better to take everything away, so nothing would be wasted.
Ruan Ning’s space had restrictions. Low-value items could not be put inside; only high-value items could. But as long as these things were tied together with something and counted as one item, and the combined value was high enough, they could be put in.
This was a method Ruan Ning had discovered later. Although the space still had limitations, it was not as troublesome as she had first imagined. If these goods were tied together with a rope, or taken together with the shelves, the space would count them as one item.
As the temperature rose, although the temperature here was still below zero, quite a few supplies had already begun to rot and stink and could no longer be eaten. However, after discarding that unusable portion, the remaining amount was still very considerable.
Ruan Ning and Gu Yicheng worked together to store the supplies inside into their spaces.
In an instant, half of the entire cold storage became empty.
This trip to the cold storage was extremely fruitful, and everyone’s faces were filled with smiles. After the apocalypse, having more supplies meant being able to live longer. Who would not hope for more food?
Things went even more smoothly than they had imagined. It was still early, and there were still several hours before dark.
Gu Yicheng did not plan to check the other cold storage rooms anymore. He led the team straight toward the factory entrance.
However, before leaving through the gate, they encountered the people from the Dragon-Tiger Squad again.
“Your team finished scouting the eastern area so quickly?” A tall man with a scar on his face looked at the Morning Light Squad heading toward the gate and asked in surprise.
He was also one of the nine people who had previously followed beside Dragon-Tiger Squad Captain Zeng Yi. He had been arranged to guard the entrance. If anything happened, he was to notify the other team members.
“What’s wrong? What happened?” Gan Lan wanted to return to the vehicle to get something. Hearing movement, she quickly walked over from the nearby corner and happened to see Gu Yicheng’s group standing beside her teammate.
“Captain Gan, this is the team that accepted the factory mission together with us. They’ve already finished scouting the eastern area and are preparing to leave the factory.”
After recognising the Morning Light Squad, Gan Lan’s body stiffened for a moment. She had never expected to run into this team again here.
Her first thought after seeing them was: thankfully, after Wu Yinchuan had been knocked unconscious, he still had not recovered and had been left by the captain to rest in the vehicle. Otherwise, if he saw this team here again, he definitely would not be able to get past it. When the time came, he would surely cause trouble again.
Gan Lan did not want to clean up another mess for that brainless fellow Wu Yinchuan.
However, without Wu Yinchuan here, Gan Lan did not want to have any more contact with this group either. She was just planning to pretend she had not seen them and let them leave quickly when she suddenly noticed someone.
“Hello, have we met somewhere before?” Gan Lan looked at the girl beside that powerful man. She was wearing a mask, had a petite figure, and the more Gan Lan looked at her, the more familiar she seemed.
Gan Lan had a good memory. She quickly remembered that the girl before her was the one who had agreed to exchange crystal nuclei with her at the market.
“It really is you?” Although Gan Lan and Ruan Ning could only be considered strangers who had met twice, if not for the mutated crystal nucleus Ruan Ning had given her, allowing her to advance successfully, she might have found it difficult to survive alone now, let alone go back to rescue her cousin and come with her to B City’s Base Three, then join the Dragon-Tiger Squad.
Gan Lan always felt that exchanging ordinary crystal nuclei for Ruan Ning’s mutated crystal nucleus meant she had taken advantage of her.
Gu Yicheng narrowed his eyes and asked, “Ningning, you know each other?”
“Back in S City, I met her at the safe zone market and exchanged crystal nuclei with her once,” Ruan Ning explained.
She had already explained the matter of experimenting with her healing ability a long time ago, so now she was not afraid of the male lead finding out about her exchange of crystal nuclei with this person.
Gan Lan actually did not have much to say to Ruan Ning either. But seeing that this young girl, who had exchanged the mutated crystal nucleus with her, was safe, had joined a powerful team, and was living well now, she felt much more at ease.
“All right, there’s nothing more here. Let them leave,” Gan Lan said to the scar-faced man beside her.
The scar-faced man hesitated for a moment. “But the captain said we should wait until both teams finish scouting, then integrate the information and report it to the base together. If they leave now…”
“What’s the issue? Reporting it back at the base is the same.” Gan Lan did not know what had happened at the factory entrance before they arrived. She thought that going to scout the eastern area had been this team’s own request, because she did not believe this team would listen to their arrangements.
Gan Lan had decent prestige within the team. Hearing her say this, the scar-faced man did not say anything more.
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