Chapter 150: In the Wasteland, It’s Rare to See Such Pretty Girls

Shi Yuebai lifted her head and looked at the people in front of her.

Commander Qiao and Xu Xuejiao both lowered their heads in shame.

Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao, though not fully understanding what was happening, were no longer as oblivious as they used to be.

Something was different now.

They seemed to have some inkling—maybe they’d caused some trouble?

But they were still lost and at a loss for what to do.

All they could do was stare wide-eyed at their aunt, Shi Yuebai.

Shi Yuebai had originally wanted to say something sharp and biting, but when she saw the four members of the Qiao family looking like that,

She simply pressed her lips together.

Xu Xuejiao and Commander Qiao knew very well what kind of situation Shi Yuebai was in now.

If you said she was omnipotent, well, she really was.

If you said she was strong in combat... well, she’d still have to keep her head down and crawl like a worm in front of the city’s ruling class.

Otherwise, once everyone found out about Shi Yuebai’s unusual abilities, they’d lock her up and force her to endlessly produce water and grow vegetables.

But would that water and those vegetables ever end up in the hands of ordinary people?

No one could guarantee that.

At least for now, ordinary people had only ever heard the word “Ability User,” but had never seen one, let alone been saved by one.

So-called Ability Users stood at the very top of the pyramid.

None of them would ever come to this city.

There were countless big cities like this in the wasteland. The one where the Bridge Team was based didn’t even have a name.

It was just called “Big City.”

That’s why Shi Yuebai was their hope for survival.

Everyone who knew Shi Yuebai wanted to protect her.

But unfortunately, Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao from the Qiao family kept causing trouble for her.

Commander Qiao and Xu Xuejiao felt heavy-hearted and conflicted.

They didn’t want to drag Shi Yuebai down, but their daughters were the apples of their eye.

They couldn’t bring themselves to sacrifice their own flesh and blood, to just hand Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao over to that office supervisor.

Honestly, if they just gave Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao away,

Xiao Lingye would stop making trouble for Shi Yuebai.

This thought kept circling around in Commander Qiao and Xu Xuejiao’s minds.

Round and round.

“To the north, I gaze at the stars, sword in hand, a lifetime of worry for my country—”

Suddenly, a passionate voice rang out.

Everyone turned to look. The one who’d always curled up in the corner like a ball, Shi Chengyu,

It was as if a switch had been flipped—she suddenly shouted,

“If only the Flying General still guarded Dragon City, no barbarian horse would ever cross Yin Mountain!”

Shi Yuebai straightened her face and said to the group,

“When Xiao Lingye went to the city, he only took seven or eight people. The rest he brought this time are mostly that office supervisor’s men.”

Pang Zhenggong asked, “So we let Xiao Lingye die here, but let those dozens of office supervisor’s men go back safe and sound?”

It was Xiao Lingye who started all this.

He was the one who talked up Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao, planning to offer them as a tribute to that supervisor.

Of course Xiao Lingye had to die.

Shi Yuebai snorted coldly.

She raised her staff and tapped it against her palm, again and again.

“Wrong.”

“Let Xiao Lingye go back. The rest die!”

Commander Qiao and Xu Xuejiao looked up, finally a bit invigorated.

Killing people in the drainage ditch wasn’t hard for the Qiao family.

Even though there was now plenty of ready-to-eat food in the ditch, all taken from Xiao Lingye’s former team,

The foggy, sunless tunnels were still rigged with plenty of rebar by the Qiao family.

Plus, the two pregnant women had dug out a lot of useless side tunnels.

Anyone who hadn’t lived in the drainage ditch wouldn’t have a clue how to navigate it.

Back before Xiao Lingye’s team split,

He’d often sent squads to kidnap Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao.

Most of them never made it out of the ditch alive.

But today, Shi Yuebai decided to play with them herself.

It had been a while since she’d killed anyone—her hands were itching.

Xiao Lingye led his group straight to the Bridge Team’s base.

He was very polite to the supervisor’s men who came along.

“It’s right over there. I heard from Zhang Xueyao—they haven’t moved, still go out scavenging every day.”

These days, Zhang Xueyao went out to the city outskirts every day to solicit customers.

Business was reportedly decent.

She’d occasionally complain to people about the Bridge Team, saying it was just a bunch of old folks.

She never bothered to count exactly how many.

Every day before she left, Pang Zhenggong would be organizing a team.

When she came back, there’d be another big pile of rubble and trash on the ground.

No sign of any food, but the team’s useless supplies kept piling up.

Zhang Xueyao looked down on this.

How much longer could those old men and women live, anyway? They were all dressed in brand-new clothes,

All scavenged from the ruins.

What good was that?

Better to have something to eat.

After Xiao Lingye finished relaying this, the group burst out laughing.

To them, dealing with a team made up of the old, weak, sick, and pregnant was no challenge at all.

One man, walking alongside Xiao Lingye, remarked,

“The guys you sent last time weren’t worth a damn either—Du Hanwen managed to scare them all off.”

“So, did you ever find Du Hanwen?”

At the mention of that name, Xiao Lingye ground his teeth.

“I found him. He’s in the city now. Once I’m done with this, I’ll make Du Hanwen cough up everything he took from me.”

The group laughed again.

But soon, they noticed a huge, obese woman sitting on the riverbank ahead.

She looked like a giant white bun, her face expressionless.

Behind her stood Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao.

Two girls, sixteen or seventeen years old—one with a single thick braid, the other with two pigtails.

Both wore clean, simple tracksuits.

They looked full of youthful energy, radiating a fresh, dewy vitality.

In the wasteland, it was rare to see such pretty girls.

All the men stared, dumbstruck.

Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao huddled close behind Shi Yuebai, bewildered, facing thirty-odd pairs of unsettling eyes.

But standing behind their aunt, they weren’t afraid at all.

Shi Yuebai said, “Didn’t you want to see Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao?”

“Today, I’ll let you see them.”

The two girls hadn’t always been so pretty and full of life.

It was only after a few months under Shi Yuebai’s care that they’d blossomed like this.

All thirty-some men, including Xiao Lingye, had a disgusting, lecherous look in their eyes.

Shi Yuebai sneered and ordered Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao,

“Go back now. Run.”

The two girls, hearing their aunt’s command, immediately turned and ran across the riverbank.

The riverbank was wide and, after months of scavenging, had been cleared of trash.

Anything burnable, Shi Yuebai had ordered burned for firewood.

What was left was bare white stone.

With fewer tarps around, the space looked even bigger.

Xiao Lingye and the others let out hunting cries, like rabbits let loose.

They spread out, chasing after Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao.

Yesterday, I got an important phone call. The other party asked a few formal questions,

And my mind just went blank.

So I guess my ability to think on my feet really isn’t great."