Warehouses.
Rows upon rows of warehouses, tall and enormous.
Their walls stood a full three stories high, their roofs covered in sheet metal that reflected a deathly pale light in the midday sun.
The stench of rotten eggs wafted endlessly from one of them.
Wang Ying walked over.
With a swing of the Black Gold Bone Blade and a crack, the lock on the roll-up door fell away.
She grabbed the handle and pulled the door up.
She glanced inside.
One look was all it took for this woman, who had always presented a tough image, to jerk her face away, her expression ashen.
Yang Yong stepped forward for a look as well.
The sight made his stomach churn.
Maggots, packed together.
White, writhing maggots covered the entire warehouse floor like a living white carpet, constantly churning, heaving, and surging.
Beneath the maggots, they could faintly make out fish after fish.
The flesh had been almost completely eaten away, leaving only stark white fish bones that barely retained their shape.
At the very back of the warehouse, black wastewater flowed out through an open freezer door.
It turned out this warehouse had been full of frozen meat products.
Nearly four months had passed since the apocalypse began.
For this many maggots to have bred, the freezer's generator must have held out for a considerable time, keeping the meat fresh.
Only recently had the generator finally given out.
A sharp pain twisted through Yang Yong's heart.
He stared at the warehouse full of rotten meat and maggots. Those supplies could have fed them for months.
Now it was all gone.
Eaten clean by these maggots.
"Let's go. Next one."
Gritting his teeth, Yang Yong led the way to the second warehouse.
Wang Ying swung her blade again, severing the lock.
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