Chapter 113: Weight Down to 695 Jin

The wood-element spell that can make plants grow rapidly—Shi Yuebai actually knows it too.

But it’s very dangerous.

Unless it’s absolutely necessary, there’s no need to mess with it.

She wasn’t someone who cherished her life before. Back when she was among the Wu tribe, it was winner takes all—if you died, you died.

But now, if she died, what would happen to this whole family of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people?

Besides, things haven’t reached the point where she has to risk using the wood-element spell.

Even though the scallions, potatoes, and mushrooms were all burned by the flare, the roots are still there.

With Shi Yuebai’s spirit-gathering array, the spiritual energy in this area hasn’t dissipated much.

Those roots buried in the soil—it’s only a matter of time before they grow back.

Just need to wait a few days.

Thinking about how they had nothing to eat, Shi Yuebai grinned.

Before, there was too much food. Everyone was eating mushrooms and potatoes at every meal, so it was hard for Shi Yuebai to stuff more fat energy into their bodies.

After all, if she poured the leftover fat energy into them while they were already stuffed full, it wouldn’t get used up much.

They’d just get fatter and fatter by the day.

Now, Shi Yuebai already had a 250-jin Pang Zhenggong by her side.

Pang Zhenggong ate his fill at every meal, so his weight loss was extremely slow.

If there were a few more giant fatties, after a while, people would definitely start getting suspicious.

Shi Yuebai might be arrogant, but she still had a bit of sense.

Being a big shot in a small area is fine, but if she became everyone’s target—just like in her past life—

That would be bad.

No one knew how happy Shi Yuebai was, but seeing that she wasn’t panicking, everyone else stopped acting anxious too.

When it came time to cook dinner, when they should have been lighting a fire and making food,

Everyone seemed to have been hit hard by that flare from the sky. No one was in a good mood.

And they didn’t feel all that hungry.

So the whole day passed like that. People tidied up what needed tidying, kept laying bricks where they were supposed to.

After being hungry for a while, by evening, they didn’t even feel hungry anymore.

At this point, Team Leader Qiao was filled with regret. He squatted in a pit and said,

“If I’d known disaster would strike, I wouldn’t have brought out those mushrooms and potatoes to eat.”

These past few days, Team Leader Qiao had been encouraging the team to scavenge in the ruins.

He provided the oddballs and old folks with three meals a day of mushroom and potato stew.

It looked like a lot, but in reality, it wouldn’t last more than a few days.

Especially since every time Xu Xuejiao made a big pot, she put in tons of mushrooms.

Team Leader Qiao grabbed his hair and yanked out handful after handful.

“If we hadn’t wasted food, today we could have brought those mushrooms and potatoes out to help everyone.”

Xu Xuejiao silently dragged a plastic bag out from a corner of the pit.

“There should be about 10 jin of mushrooms, 2 jin of potatoes, and a handful of scallions in here.”

She was a thrifty person, so she habitually kept the food meant for outside separate from what her family ate.

Seeing Team Leader Qiao’s surprised look, Xu Xuejiao said,

“Take this to Yuebai tomorrow. They cook in big pots over there, so I’m sure they can use it.”

Team Leader Qiao immediately stood up. “But, but—”

Logically speaking, in the wasteland, if you don’t look out for yourself, you’re doomed.

Now that the Shi family was in trouble, who knows if they’d ever have food again.

Maybe the food shortage would last a long time.

Maybe if the Qiao family gave up their last food, they’d starve to death later.

Xu Xuejiao said lightly,

“No buts. I trust Yuebai.”

“She’s capable. She’ll lead us out of this mess.”

In that moment, Team Leader Qiao’s eyes grew hot.

The next morning, Team Leader Qiao carried the bag of food up to the canal.

He was just about to reach the Shi family’s door when he saw the chubby Pang Zhenggong leading Ah Hong and Pang Ziyuan over.

All three of the Pang family were carrying boxes, each one filled with food.

“Team Leader.”

Pang Zhenggong greeted Team Leader Qiao, and the two exchanged a smile.

In tough times like this, everyone bringing out their hidden supplies—there was a kind of heartwarming understanding in it.

Shi Yuebai came out from inside the wall in her wheelchair, face dark.

Team Leader Qiao saw her sour expression and thought she was worried about food.

Well, with so many people relying on her, of course Shi Yuebai would be anxious.

She just didn’t say it out loud, so everyone would share the burden with her.

Yuebai really was a kind and good person.

Team Leader Qiao quickly comforted her:

“Yuebai, our family and the Pang family still have some food left. If we ration it carefully, it should last us quite a while.”

At that moment, Guai Guai walked over and silently dropped a big bag of food.

These were all the rations Shi Yuebai gave him after he finished his work each day.

He always ate from the big communal pot at the Shi family, so he never used these rations.

“Eat up.”

Guai Guai’s voice was hoarse. “If you don’t eat it soon, it’ll just go bad in storage.”

Seeing the huge plastic bag Guai Guai dragged out,

Team Leader Qiao was moved. “Yuebai, with this food, we’ll definitely last until the scallions, mushrooms, and potatoes grow back.”

Pang Zhenggong was happy too. “I’ll go out and look for food today. I’m sure I’ll bring something back.”

Shi Yuebai’s face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

Why?

She had planned everything so well. Starting this morning, she was going to stuff 8 jin of fat energy into everyone’s bodies.

Eight jin a day!

That way, it wouldn’t be long before she slimmed down into a bolt of lightning.

Why did they still have food stashed away at home?

What kind of world was this?

This was the wasteland!

Why were they still bringing out their hidden supplies?

“Eat, eat, eat! Go ahead and eat! And when you’re done, level out the whole garbage mountain behind us!”

Shi Yuebai decided to squeeze as much work out of them as possible.

She was going to assign them more tasks, make them burn energy, make them hungry!

Shi Yuebai turned and, with a stern face, went over to the corpses of Huo Chenggui and the three mercenaries.

She stuffed a few jin of fat into each of their bodies.

After all the adding and subtracting, Shi Yuebai’s weight had dropped to 695 jin.

Meanwhile, not far away in the neighboring team, Xiao Lingye was raging.

He punched a woman next to him.

The woman died on the spot.

“Why aren’t they back yet? What the hell are they doing?”

He had someone drag over Liang Yimo, who had a broken leg, and kicked him hard.

“I spent so much time and effort supporting your squad.”

“And you can’t even bring me back two girls?”

He was just venting his anger. Liang Yimo was convulsing from the beating.

“Boss, boss, there’s something wrong with the Shi family. They have a lot of food, really.”

Nearly beaten to death, Liang Yimo couldn’t be bothered to hide anything anymore.

He had to divert Xiao Lingye’s attention.

“Boss, the girls aren’t important—the food the Shi family’s hoarding, that’s what really matters.”

Unknowingly, the end of the year was almost here."