Chapter 112: Our Potatoes, Green Onions, and Mushrooms Are All Gone

The front line wasn’t far from the defensive perimeter.

All the wounded mercenaries from the front line were sent to the defensive line for treatment and rest.

Yi Zhe, the leader of the Xiangcheng mercenary team, hurriedly logged off the front line, hoping to find a moment to check on his injured men placed here.

“Where are they?”

Yi Zhe looked disheveled, barely able to stand.

The relentless, high-strung fighting had left him so exhausted he could hardly keep his feet.

But he couldn’t care about himself right now. All he wanted to know was—

Why was the area he’d set aside for the wounded now completely empty?

“Who? Who ate them?”

Yi Zhe trembled with rage. His brothers, his wounded men—

They’d actually been eaten by mutant beasts.

Not even a bone was left behind; the mutant beasts had carried them all away.

His eyes were bloodshot, burning with hatred.

“You bastards! I’ll fight you to the end!!!”

He turned around, grabbed his weapon, and charged back to the front line.

He knew: for every mutant beast he killed, there’d be one less brother dragged away.

He wanted revenge. Revenge, revenge!

Shi Yuebai, not wanting to draw attention to herself, hid in a corner.

Watching Yi Zhe’s staggering figure, she quietly cast a healing spell on his back.

She kept herself hidden, doing good without seeking recognition.

Yi Zhe, as he left, suddenly felt a jolt—his pain lessened considerably.

But he didn’t think much of it.

In such a moment of grief and anger, Yi Zhe would never have guessed, even if he turned his mind upside down, that Shi Yuebai was here.

He pressed on, heading firmly back to the front line.

Not long after Yi Zhe left, two more mercenaries stumbled down for a break.

They were covered in wounds.

Hidden in the shadows, Shi Yuebai repeated her trick, casting healing spells on both of them in turn.

For someone of her… “weight class,” leaving the spiritually rich Shi family’s territory meant that, even in darkness, her weight would increase due to radiation.

Radiation was everywhere.

It was just that during the day, with the sun out, the radiation was stronger.

But in the wasteland, every plant, every tree, even every stone, carried radiation.

So, although Shi Yuebai’s healing spells kept working on the mercenaries, they did nothing to slow her own weight gain.

All night, mercenaries came down to rest in waves.

Almost every one of them received a healing spell from Shi Yuebai.

They might not have noticed anything, but their wounds stopped bleeding.

Sometimes, minor injuries they didn’t even know they had would heal on their own.

After this wave of mutant beast attacks finally passed, the mercenary teams were able to catch their breath.

Only then did Shi Yuebai take a deep breath, adjust her energy, and instantly return to the Shi family home.

The ditch in front of the Shi house had already been cleared out.

The ten people who’d split off from Song Yucheng and tried to sneak into the Shi house from the ditch to rob Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao had already been killed by Xu Xuejiao and Captain Qiao working together.

The rest hadn’t escaped being hunted down by the others either.

They all knew Shi Yuebai didn’t like to see corpses.

So before she came back, all the bodies inside and outside the Shi territory had already been dealt with.

But a few corpses in mercenary uniforms were still lying conspicuously inside the Shi family’s walls.

No one knew what to do about them.

Shi Yuebai suddenly appeared at home, and everyone was standing around the bodies, looking confused.

“Auntie!”

Shi Yaoyao was the first to spot Shi Yuebai. She ran over and threw herself into her aunt’s arms.

“Where did you go, Auntie?”

“I thought you didn’t want us anymore.”

This was the fear in everyone’s heart.

If Shi Yuebai abandoned them, none of them knew how they’d go on.

Seeing her return, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Nong Yasi came over, wiping her reddened eyes.

“Yuebai, where did these come from?”

If it weren’t for the fact that one of the corpses was the very familiar Huo Chenggui, they might have already tossed these mercenary bodies out.

Shi Yuebai was brief and to the point. “Picked them up.”

Wasn’t that the truth?

Nobody wanted these corpses left on the defensive line.

Everyone fell silent for a moment, wondering why Yuebai had brought back a few corpses.

But no one dared ask.

Except for Shi Xiangrui and Shi’s mother, everyone else barely dared to breathe.

Shi Yuebai looked around at the Shi family courtyard, now piled high with supplies.

She frowned.

“This place is really too small. Move those corpses over to the side.”

She spoke casually, as if these mercenaries were just trash.

But in fact, inside and outside the Shi territory—including the ditch—the place with the densest spiritual energy was the Shi family courtyard.

Because Shi Yuebai had always stayed here.

The healing array she’d hung above the courtyard to treat herself and Pang Zhenggong was still in place.

She’d originally stayed under this array to repair the chaotic energy in her body and heal her injuries.

Now, the array was perfect for treating Huo Chenggui and the three corpses.

So now, they were lying on a spirit-gathering array, with a healing array above them.

Probably, in all the wasteland, this was the most nourishing place to be.

No one objected. Everyone followed Shi Yuebai’s instructions and moved the mercenary corpses aside.

As long as they weren’t blocking the way, it was fine.

One corpse had nowhere to go, so Pang Zhenggong and Nong Yasi just put it on top of the pile of supplies.

Everyone had seen how Pang Zhenggong had survived.

They might not understand the mysteries of Shi Yuebai, but they all knew: anyone who stayed by her side could live.

Once the three corpses and Huo Chenggui were settled—mainly to make better use of the courtyard space and not leave corpses and supplies lying everywhere—Shi Yuebai turned to check on the potatoes, green onions, and mushrooms.

Nong Yasi, Second Sister-in-law Shi, Yaoyao, and Xiao Jiao all followed her.

Second Sister-in-law Shi said worriedly, “Yuebai, are our potatoes, green onions, and mushrooms all ruined?”

Shi Yuebai didn’t answer.

The painstakingly cultivated vegetable patch had been almost completely destroyed.

Nong Yasi said grimly, “Even the pile of potatoes we’d stored was burned up by the flares.”

This was a source of anger for everyone.

Wasting food in the wasteland was practically a crime against heaven.

Yaoyao and Xiao Jiao both looked anxious.

The lack of food weighed heavily on everyone’s mood.

But no one showed it.

Everyone was thinking: Yuebai will have a way.

Shi Yuebai raised her hand and rubbed her round face.

Looking at the trust on the faces of those behind her, she wanted to kick each one of them.

What could she do?

“Other than waiting for them to grow back, all I can do is go kill a few people from the neighboring teams to vent your anger.”

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