Chapter 142: As Long as She Follows Shi Yuebai, She Can Still Find Her Own Worth

Behind the public restroom, a large area had already been cleared out to build a water reservoir.

Because Shi Yuebai needed to pass through, she had to gather water in the reservoir at regular intervals.

So, around the reservoir, about a three-meter-wide buffer zone had been cleared.

Originally, Shi Yuebai hadn’t planned to use this three-meter buffer zone.

But clearly, Yi Zhe’s mercenary group was made up of tall, strapping men.

They were professionals at killing mutant beasts.

And even more professional at hauling cargo.

In no time at all, they had piled Shi Yuebai’s Tongzi crates high and full.

Shi Yuebai really wanted to teleport over and pull back that bit of soul power that could automatically transfer goods from the teleportation sub-array.

She was flustered, and by the time the cargo was stacked four meters high,

Shi Yuebai teleported a small portion of the goods from the Tongzi crates onto the empty strip behind the reservoir.

Her people, when clearing away rubble, would only crush the stones to mix with cement,

Or reuse the original long bricks to rebuild the walls.

So the more they cleared behind the reservoir, the less trash there was, and it didn’t look messy at all.

Ah Hong and Nong Yasi had just hauled a load of rubble back to the second wall,

When they saw a tight layer of cardboard boxes stacked by the reservoir.

They were stunned for a moment.

But quickly realized this must have been Yuebai’s doing.

No one but Yuebai had the ability to instantly move so many boxes from the Tongzi crates to here.

Yuebai really was something else.

Ah Hong and Nong Yasi exchanged a glance and sped up their cleaning.

They each took two mechanical digging arms from Guai Guai.

The current mechanical digging arms had been improved a lot compared to the first generation.

The old ones were basically big pincers.

But now, they were more like gloves.

The mechanical arms even had five fingers.

Even the weakest person, once they put them on, could easily pull rebar and carry stones.

Shi Yuebai, sitting in her wheelchair, came to the restroom to check on the cargo situation and overheard Ah Hong praising the mechanical arms,

“Guai Guai really is a genius. He never does any manual labor himself, but with these skills, he doesn’t need to.”

Nong Yasi nodded, “Exactly, exactly.”

She turned and saw Shi Yuebai wheeling over the tiles.

Nong Yasi immediately said, “Yuebai, I’d like to take an hour each day to check on the two pregnant women in the team.”

She was a doctor.

Nong Yasi couldn’t just ignore those two pregnant women.

“I think they’re about to give birth.”

Shi Yuebai thought for a moment. “Seems like it.”

Several times, Shi Yuebai’s paper airplane had flown over the riverbed,

And she’d seen the two pregnant women in the team, big bellies and all, climbing over the trash heaps.

Honestly, even with their huge bellies, the two women were still pretty nimble.

Maybe they’d just gotten used to moving through the rubble.

But Shi Yuebai felt that the two pregnant women didn’t seem very lucid.

When people spoke to them, one would just giggle foolishly, and the other looked blank, giving completely unrelated answers.

If it weren’t for the fact that even starving, they never wandered off,

With their mental state, they’d probably have been snatched away long ago.

There were plenty of ruthless people in the wasteland.

Nong Yasi had wanted to bring this up with Shi Yuebai for a while.

Seeing that Shi Yuebai had no objections, Nong Yasi happily said,

“Don’t worry, Yuebai, I won’t let it interfere with the cleanup work.”

“You do your thing, there’s no rush with the cleanup,”

Shi Yuebai was reasonable—since Nong Yasi was a doctor, she should use her skills.

The only reason Nong Yasi had nothing to do now but help with the cleanup

Was because Shi Yuebai’s healing array was in and around the Tongzi crates.

Nong Yasi had no use for her medical skills.

If she wanted to check on those two pregnant women, Shi Yuebai had no objections.

From Shi Yuebai’s perspective, those two pregnant women ate her food three times a day,

And absorbed her spiritual energy.

The babies in their bellies were growing fast.

There was no risk of stillbirth from malnutrition.

But the two babies’ foundations weren’t good.

Just like Shi Fuze and Shi Xiangrui.

Shi Xiangrui and Shi Fuze had only been raised by Shi Yuebai after they were born.

They carried a lot of radiation from the womb.

But after birth, the radiation didn’t develop further, and was gradually purified by Shi Yuebai’s spiritual energy.

Plus, the younger the child, the faster they grew.

They just got healthier and smarter as they grew.

It was the same for the two pregnant women in the team.

Shi Yuebai could ensure the two babies would be born alive,

To see this cruel and despairing wasteland.

But she couldn’t guarantee how long they’d survive.

At noon, Shi Yuebai called Xu Xuejiao up to the Tongzi crates.

Xu Xuejiao’s face was full of collagen, the fine lines at the corners of her eyes gone, her eyes big and bright.

Her hair was jet black with a bluish sheen.

She awkwardly edged along the wall, inching her way to Shi Yuebai.

Shi Yuebai sat in the doorway of the Shi family’s wall and said to Xu Xuejiao, who looked like a thirty-year-old woman,

“Your husband went to the big city to sell finished food. Can you handle the team’s personnel assignments?”

Xu Xuejiao nodded quickly.

“Good. Arrange a few people to do some heavy labor behind the reservoir, clear out a patch of land—pick the strong ones.”

After a pause, Shi Yuebai added,

“And you and Dajiao are too slow digging the trench. Aren’t those two pregnant women about to give birth? Have them dig the trench.”

“It’ll only do them good, not harm.”

Xu Xuejiao no longer dared to doubt a single word Shi Yuebai said.

She quickly agreed, silently repeating Shi Yuebai’s instructions to herself several times.

Actually, Xu Xuejiao felt that everyone in their team was pretty strong.

It hadn’t been obvious at first, but the old folks were walking faster and faster these days, and getting better at moving rocks.

Everyone seemed more energetic.

Even the disabled kids seemed to be perking up.

Xu Xuejiao mentally picked out a few especially clear-headed people.

“Yuebai, leave it to me. I guarantee I’ll find the right people for you.”

Shi Yuebai nodded. “Go on, once this is done, all the grudges between us are settled.”

Xu Xuejiao was overjoyed.

She knew that in the past, she’d been too full of herself and had argued with Shi Yuebai several times.

Until now, Shi Yuebai had never let her onto the Tongzi crates.

Today, it was only because Captain Qiao had gone out that Xu Xuejiao got this chance.

She was an ambitious woman.

If the apocalypse hadn’t happened, Xu Xuejiao would have been a leader in her own right.

She wasn’t content to just stay home and raise kids—she wanted to shine.

Xu Xuejiao had a feeling that as long as she followed Shi Yuebai, she could still find her own worth.

The cold rain poured down, pattering relentlessly."