Chapter 1: Shi Yuebai

Shi Yuebai was woken up by the sound of a child crying.

She opened her eyes and glanced at her own filthy, fan-sized, grotesquely fat hand.

A flood of memories that didn’t belong to her surged into her mind in an instant.

Combined with the chorus of wailing infants nearby, Shi Yuebai’s head felt like it was about to explode.

She realized she had transmigrated into a post-apocalyptic wasteland ravaged by disaster.

Here, everything—humans, animals, even plants—had mutated.

Even she herself, affected by mutational radiation, had undergone a grotesque transformation: from a delicate, slender beauty into a 750-pound behemoth.

For a moment, Shi Yuebai wanted nothing more than to die.

She lay on the ground, struggling to sit up, but her massive body made even the slightest movement difficult.

Let alone actually getting up from the ground.

Someone beside her let out a sigh.

“Yuebai, you’re already like this. Don’t move around anymore.”

“If you can’t breathe properly again, we don’t have a second dose of enhancer to save you.”

Shi Yuebai tried to lift her bloated, jowly chin and turned her head toward the voice.

By a flickering campfire sat a woman whose eyes were all whites, without pupils.

Memory told Shi Yuebai that this woman was her second sister-in-law.

The radiation had mutated every species on this planet, humans included.

Ordinary people were left with all sorts of physical defects.

Like Shi Yuebai, now weighing 750 pounds, and her sister-in-law, blinded by radiation.

And then there was her little niece, lying in her sister-in-law’s arms, snot streaming from her nose, her head disproportionately large compared to her scrawny body, with a messy mop of short hair—clearly not right in the head.

Shi Yuebai was currently under an abandoned overpass.

After a cataclysm that nearly wiped out the world, the surviving Shi family had lost their home.

Along with other survivors, they could only gather under derelict structures.

They used scavenged tarps to cobble together a shelter.

During the day, those still able-bodied would go out to scavenge for food.

At night, everyone would band together to guard the overpass.

Because in this wasteland, many mutated animals had become vicious, preying on the remaining survivors.

They often prowled at night, hunting unarmed humans.

The human authorities hadn’t been entirely unprepared for this disaster.

Before the catastrophe, they had developed two kinds of serums.

One was a purifier that could cleanse radiation.

The other was an enhancer that could strengthen the body.

But with the factories destroyed, both serums were now extremely rare, mostly reserved for mercenary groups and those at the very top of the social pyramid.

For a family like the Shis, scraping by at the very bottom, getting their hands on even one dose was a miracle.

This time, because Shi Yuebai’s enormous body was crushing her internal organs, she’d nearly suffocated herself to death just lying on the ground.

The Shi family had used their only dose of enhancer on her.

But the original Shi Yuebai never woke up again.

Instead, it was this Shi Yuebai who opened her eyes.

Shi Yuebai sighed inwardly.

She had been a great shaman of the Wu tribe, fighting her clansmen for the position of chief.

Caught off guard, she’d been stabbed in the back by her own people.

Death was one thing, but now she’d transmigrated into this world, stuck in this monstrous body.

What kind of sick joke was this?

Fuming, Shi Yuebai tried to roll over, only to tumble off a pile of rocks, her face—bigger than a washbasin—smashing straight into the gravel.

Her sister-in-law by the fire jumped in fright, hastily letting go of her daughter and groping her way toward Shi Yuebai.

“Yuebai, are you okay?”

Shi Yuebai lifted her pancake-sized face from the gravel, spitting out a pebble in irritation.

“I’m fine. Don’t come over.”

She looked at her sister-in-law, who could barely take care of herself, yet was still worried about her.

Shi Yuebai snapped, “Just take care of yourself. Don’t worry about me.”

From her memories, the original owner had been spoiled by the Shi family since childhood, the little princess of the household.

As a result, she’d developed a host of bad habits—selfishness, arrogance, and more.

After the radiation, her weight had spiraled out of control—she could gain several pounds just by drinking water.

The original owner couldn’t accept this, constantly pestering the family to get her a purifier.

Shi’s parents, at their wits’ end, had to take Shi Yi and Shi Er—who still had mobility but whose minds had regressed to that of young children—out scavenging every day.

They hoped to trade what they found for points to buy a purifier for Shi Yuebai.

The enhancer used on Shi Yuebai this time had been a gift from the garrison captain to Shi Da, back when he was still of sound mind.

But the world collapsed too quickly—the garrison was long gone.

Now there were only mercenaries, no more garrisons.

Shi Yuebai struggled to lift her fan-sized hand and wiped her nose.

Her pancake face was now bleeding from the impact.

Outside the tarp, a few male voices rang out.

“That woman in this family isn’t bad looking. Even if she’s blind, it won’t stop us from having a good time.”

“Best part is, all the men in their family are out on duty. Not a single one left.”

Shi Yuebai turned to look at her sister-in-law.

Her sister-in-law’s blind, pupil-less eyes were filled with terror.

The daughter in her arms babbled incoherently, words no one could understand.

She tried to get up, shaking her head, but her thin, deformed legs couldn’t support her at all.

Before Shi Yuebai could react, a few burly men, covered in thick hair, ripped open the tattered tarp.

Her sister-in-law curled up in the corner, clutching herself, shaking her head desperately.

“Don’t touch me! My husband will be back soon!”

“Go away, get out, leave us alone!”

Among the survivors under the overpass, the Shi family was one of the most intact.

Not a single member had died in the disaster.

But while they’d escaped the cataclysm, they hadn’t been lucky enough to escape the radiation.

Every member of the Shi family had been severely affected.

What made it even crueler was that, though her sister-in-law was blind, her mind was still intact.

Unlike other girls, who were too simple-minded to realize what these ugly men wanted to do to them—she knew.

And because she knew, because her mind was clear, she was all the more terrified and disgusted.

Screams rang out, and in the cramped tarp shelter, Shi Yuebai’s little niece began to wail.

Lying on the ground like a mountain of flesh, Shi Yuebai frowned as she watched the men grin and approach her terrified sister-in-law.

Damn it, do they think just because I’m this huge, lying here, I’m already dead?

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