Chapter 121: Wake Up and Get Out—You’re Not Welcome Here

Xiao Lingye never realized that the big tent where he stored food had less and less supplies.

Shiyue Bai had used two large sacks of food to feed the burdensome members of the team under the bridge until they were all full.

They spent two days clearing the rocks behind the visitor center.

Their entry point was one of the storefronts in the underground shopping street.

After moving all the boxes of stored goods from the second floor, they began clearing the rubble from the stairs.

Pang Zhenggong was still coordinating the work, and even Team Leader Qiao came over to help this time.

The rest of Shiyue Bai’s group stayed near the public toilets, starting a new round of wall construction.

According to Shiyue Bai’s plan, all the rubble and trash around the square-shaped enclosure had to be completely cleared.

A trench would be dug all the way around the enclosure.

Behind the Shi family’s place, everything would be turned into vegetable gardens, and another wall would be built outside the trench.

Because everyone’s physical fitness had improved, their minds were clearer than ever.

Those living on the spiritual gathering array seemed to be slowly shaking off the effects of radiation.

So people like Ah Hong worked faster and stronger than before.

Team Leader Qiao was no exception.

He was much slimmer than Pang Zhenggong and nimbly squeezed into the storefront corridor of the underground shopping street, using a shovel to clear away the small pieces of rubble bit by bit.

Even though he was the team leader, Qiao was a good person.

When Pang Zhenggong said he’d coordinate things, Qiao followed his arrangements without the slightest discomfort at having his authority divided.

Most of the corridor had collapsed, and the first floor was filled with rocks.

So everyone could only painstakingly move the stones one by one.

Shiyue Bai watched from a distance—her wheelchair couldn’t get there—so she cast strength-enhancing spells on the workers.

Everyone was working with great enthusiasm, and no one suspected the sudden surge in their strength.

They just thought it was because they’d eaten well and now had boundless energy.

Once the rubble in the corridor and on the first floor was cleared, they entered the first floor from the collapsed second floor of the storefront.

Pang Zhenggong, supporting his 250-pound frame, shone a powerful flashlight around the ruins.

“There’s some cooking oil here.”

It was obvious that before the apocalypse, this shop had sold food.

“There’s quite a bit of oil—at least twenty barrels here.”

In a corner, Team Leader Qiao happily pulled off a dusty cloth.

It revealed a small kitchen inside.

The kitchen was piled high with cooking oil—barrel after barrel.

Each barrel held 15 liters.

On the stove nearby were two large iron woks, with a few fallen bricks inside.

Next to them were several big ladles and two large freezers.

Although there had been no electricity in the wasteland for a long time, the food in the freezers hadn’t spoiled.

Shining their flashlights inside, they found the freezers were packed with vacuum-packed sausages.

Two whole freezers full.

Everyone was overjoyed and quickly passed the food up to the surface.

On the ruins above, Shiyue Bai closed her eyes while two white paper airplanes flew above the heads of the burdensome team members.

“Second Sister-in-law, have them bring out all the pots, bowls, and utensils from inside,” Shiyue Bai instructed.

Second Sister-in-law Shi’s face was full of joy.

This proved that it wasn’t impossible to find food in the safe zone after all.

It was just that none of the previous waves of survivors had dug deep enough.

If you really cleared out the rubble in this area thoroughly, digging down to the ground, you’d always find something.

Of the two large iron woks they found, Shiyue Bai kept one for her own group and gave the other to Team Leader Qiao.

Qiao put it away for now, not needing it immediately.

They hadn’t even finished the first of the two large sacks of food Shiyue Bai had given them, let alone the second.

Team Leader Qiao had Xu Xuejiao pile all the food in the trench where the white mist rolled.

He decided to grill some sausages for everyone today.

He set up a stone slab on the open ground in front of the trench, scrubbing it clean.

He lit a fire under the slab and poured a layer of oil on the smooth surface.

Sizzle, sizzle—the aroma of grilled sausage drew everyone over.

Even Pang Ziyuan brought Shi Yaoyao, Da Jiao, and Xiao Jiao across the ladder to gather around the sausages.

The smell was truly enticing.

But since they were past their expiration date, Shiyue Bai called them junk food.

She refused to eat junk food.

While everyone else excitedly ran over to wait for sausages, Shiyue Bai, disgruntled, went to check on the little mushroom.

“Yuebai?”

A surprised voice called out.

Shiyue Bai whipped around, suddenly remembering that she’d dumped three corpses in the corner—plus the still-unconscious Huo Chenggui.

Now Huo Chenggui was awake.

He looked at Shiyue Bai in confusion, then at the Shi family’s courtyard, piled high with supplies.

“Where am I?”

“We’ve only been gone a short while, and you’ve already piled up so much stuff?”

Mercenaries who earned management-level points had to guard the big city’s safety.

It was common for them to spend a month or two on the front lines.

Huo Chenggui seemed surprised to be alive, and before Shiyue Bai could answer, his gaze fell to his leg.

Shiyue Bai wheeled over and faced him.

“You lost a leg.”

“You can go find Guai Guai and have him make you a prosthetic. It won’t stop you from running and jumping.”

Just look at Shi Yaoyao—her legs were completely useless before.

But now, with long pants on, you couldn’t even tell her legs were deformed.

Guai Guai’s work was really good.

Huo Chenggui’s face was pale.

His face was scrubbed clean.

That was because Xiao Jiao wiped down the inside and outside of the Shi house every day.

It was something Second Sister-in-law Shi always did, but later Shi Yaoyao took over, bringing Xiao Jiao along.

When Xiao Jiao saw Huo Chenggui and the three mercenary corpses, their faces and hands were filthy.

So she washed everyone’s face and hands until they were spotless.

She didn’t touch any other parts.

Her mother had told her that no one should touch the parts covered by clothes.

Xiao Jiao was a very good girl.

Now, Huo Chenggui, with his clean face, looked painfully at his three fallen brothers.

“They… they’re dead?”

Shiyue Bai didn’t know how to explain, so she just said,

“If you’re awake, get out. You’re not welcome here.”

Huo Chenggui wanted to ask more, but Second Sister-in-law Shi and Ah Hong hurried over, each grabbing one of his arms.

They dragged him out of the Shi family’s walls.

He didn’t even get a chance to ask what would happen to his three comrades’ bodies.

Then he looked down and was stunned.

His amputated leg was smooth and fresh, nothing like a recent wound.

The new flesh was pink and oval-shaped, as if it had been healing for a long time.

“How… how long was I unconscious?”

Huo Chenggui asked, but no one answered.

Even Guai Guai moved quickly, shoving a prosthetic into his hands.

“Hurry up and go. Don’t ask.”

Everyone racked their brains to protect Yuebai’s little secret.

(I got a free car wash coupon today, hehe.)"