Chapter 126: Down to 691 Jin

Xiao Lingye wasn’t just hot-tempered—he was also suspicious by nature.

Now, Du Hanwen and his group had to go to Xiao Lingye and report that the tent where they’d stored food had been completely emptied out by a traitor.

Xiao Lingye’s first reaction would be to kill them all.

Even if, by some miracle, Xiao Lingye didn’t kill them, they still wouldn’t be able to explain why, while the whole team was busy putting out the fire, they’d run over to the food storage tent.

“So what do we do now?”

A teammate gritted his teeth in frustration.

That food was supposed to be theirs, but now it was all gone—no one knew who had taken it.

Just thinking about it was infuriating.

Du Hanwen fell silent for a few seconds, then said, “Move it. Take everything. We’re leaving today.”

Their squad was a dozen or so people, and now everyone sprang into action.

They split into two groups and carried out the last of the food.

By the time Xiao Lingye had finished organizing the fire-fighting efforts, there wasn’t much left to save.

All that was left was a group of people standing around the tent, watching helplessly as the flames reduced it to ashes.

“Boss, Ying Ruoying says she saw Du Hanwen and his men steal all our food.”

Someone came running over in a panic.

The news hit everyone like a thunderclap.

Xiao Lingye exploded in rage, smashing his fist down and killing the messenger on the spot.

Ying Ruoying stood not far away, watching.

She had deliberately chosen a moment when there were lots of people around to break the news.

Sure enough, Xiao Lingye, that fool, hadn’t noticed a thing.

Now, the looks his team members gave him had changed.

A leader with nothing left but a violent temper and no food, who kept dragging innocent people down with him...

On the wasteland, people had gotten used to hunger.

But the muscle team was different—they’d never lacked food.

Where did those old team members get all that muscle?

They ate their way to it.

Which meant their appetites were huge.

If you’ve never gone hungry, your stomach just keeps getting bigger.

Ying Ruoying turned her gaze away from the chaos.

She noticed that Shi Yuebai was still sitting by the edge of a tent, looking unwell.

Ying Ruoying’s heart sank. She hurried over to check on her.

But before she could reach her, a man suddenly grabbed her around the waist.

“Where are you off to, Miss Ying?”

The man had a buzz cut and a lecherous look in his eyes as he stared at Ying Ruoying.

He hadn’t noticed Shi Yuebai hiding in the shadows.

Up ahead, the open space surrounded by tents had already descended into chaos.

Xiao Lingye, furious, was preparing to lead a group to chase after Du Hanwen.

Ying Ruoying looked at the muscle-bound man holding her, her face expressionless. “All the food’s been stolen. Aren’t you going with the boss to get it back?”

The man grinned. “I just got back from scavenging. Let the boss and the others handle that kind of dirty work.”

“Right now, I just want to have some fun.”

Ying Ruoying was a bit of an anomaly in this group.

She was Xiao Lingye’s first woman.

So, thanks to some twisted hierarchy, she had a higher status among the women.

Even though, in the men’s eyes, she was no different from the others, for Xiao Lingye’s sake, the team didn’t dare go too far with her.

She was smart—she knew how to play psychological games, escaping danger time and again, and had managed to survive in this team for five years.

Ying Ruoying’s face didn’t change. Instead of dodging, she wrapped her arms around the man’s neck.

Her fingers toyed with the white pearl on her ring.

She pulled out the steel wire hidden inside.

She didn’t hear a word the man was saying.

As he pushed her to the ground, Ying Ruoying looped the steel wire around his neck.

Her eyes were wild and manic. “I’ve been wanting to tell you for a long time—who do you think you are? Get your filthy hands off me, disgusting pig!”

She thought it would take a lot of effort.

But the steel wire was razor sharp.

With barely any strength, she sliced the man’s head clean off.

She pushed the body off her in a daze, her face splattered with blood from his neck.

Sitting up, Ying Ruoying looked at Shi Yuebai, laughing and crying at the same time.

“If only I’d had this weapon back then—if only!”

If she’d had this ring five years ago, Xiao Lingye would have been the first to die!

Shi Yuebai looked at Ying Ruoying, expressionless.

This woman was completely unhinged.

Even more so than Shi’s mother.

But that was fine. From the looks of it, Ying Ruoying would live much more freely from now on.

She didn’t show the fear or panic most people would have after their first kill.

She was already used to corpses and hot blood.

She’d only get better at killing in the future.

Shi Yuebai turned and left.

Today, Xiao Lingye’s team was a complete mess.

Even if Ying Ruoying didn’t get a chance to kill Xiao Lingye right away, he wouldn’t have the time or energy to send people after Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao anymore.

Shi Yuebai returned to the Shi family home, planning to rest and recover from the chaotic energy surges caused by constantly conjuring fireballs.

After all this turmoil, her weight had already dropped to 691 jin.

Shi Yuebai planned to lose a bit more before trying to stand up on her own.

“Yuebai.”

Captain Qiao approached with a resentful look on his face.

She turned and raised an eyebrow at him, questioning.

What is it?

“We’ve got so much food in the ditch, Yuebai—what are you planning to do with it?”

Captain Qiao was hinting that the bottom of their ditch was piled high with expired food.

Even counting the 20 elderly people, two pregnant women, and seven oddballs, plus ten disabled kids, their whole team couldn’t possibly eat it all.

Other teams were fighting tooth and nail every day for a little bit of supplies, racking their brains for ways to get more.

But here, there was so much food that the Qiao family barely had room to live.

What Captain Qiao meant was, could Shi Yuebai think of a way to move the food somewhere else?

Otherwise, there wouldn’t even be room to stand in the Qiao house.

Shi Yuebai just said, “Oh. Why don’t you carve a passage along the wall of the ditch?”

Da Jiao and Xu Xuejiao dug at the bottom of the ditch every day as soon as they woke up.

Wrapped in thick spiritual energy, they hardly ever got tired.

For ordinary people, spiritual energy was like a breath of fresh air, quickly restoring stamina.

If Da Jiao and Xu Xuejiao ate their fill and then absorbed some spiritual energy, the effect would be amazing.

The white mist in the ditch was just a visible sign of the overflowing spiritual energy.

The densest spiritual energy was still in the “Tong” character enclosure above the ditch and in the Shi family home.

Which meant that everyone living in the Shi house and the enclosure was brimming with energy every day.

Captain Qiao: “...”

Couldn’t you just move the food to the Shi family home instead?

But he didn’t dare say that to Shi Yuebai.

He was afraid she’d scold him to death.

My memory is getting worse by the day.

I actually forgot to bring my power cord when I went out today.

Maybe I should try some brain supplements or something?"