Chapter 158: He Said You Name the Price—He Has No Objections

Guai Guai mulled things over for a while.

The current solar panels were already enough to meet their lighting needs.

Even though both inside and outside the Tong-shaped enclosure, everything was shrouded in white mist.

The solar panels were installed above the ditches, but that didn’t affect their ability to absorb sunlight during the day at all.

As for the new batch of solar panels, Guai Guai installed all of them on top of the first wall.

There were just too many of these LED strips, so he strung one along the top of the first wall.

The lights wouldn’t turn on during the day; at night, the solar panels would automatically activate the discharge switch.

The LED strips would light up, illuminating every household inside the Tong-shaped enclosure.

As for the remaining LED strips and solar panels, Guai Guai took them to the back of the Shi family’s wall.

He used the LED strips to decorate a path, leading all the way up to the swimming pool.

With the lights paired with the drifting white mist, the Shi family’s environment looked even more enchanting.

When Shi Yuebai returned to the Shi family after exercising outside for several hours, it was already evening.

She looked around at the much-improved surroundings and clicked her tongue in amazement.

These LED strips really could turn something ordinary into something magical.

She immediately sent a message to Ying Ruoying via her paper airplane.

They could collect as many LED strips as possible.

They could also stock up on seeds, and basically any kind of daily supplies—whatever they could get, they should take.

Guai Guai squatted next to Shi Chengyu. The two of them looked like a pair of siblings down on their luck—hair messy, clothes disheveled, both seeming a bit unhinged.

He lifted a pair of resentful eyes to look at Shi Yuebai, who was barely standing.

More LED strips?

Shi Yuebai averted her gaze, maybe out of guilt, or maybe because she still needed Guai Guai to work hard for her.

She instructed Ying Ruoying via the paper airplane, “And all kinds of mechanical parts too.”

“Take as many as you can get. I’ll give you a few more bags of ready-to-eat food, so you don’t have to worry about meals at all.”

Because Shi Yuebai had so much food now.

Not to mention the ready-to-eat food—she’d basically emptied out the strongest team’s entire stockpile outside the big city.

On top of that, the rapidly growing potatoes, mushrooms, scallions, baby bok choy, cilantro, chives, and amaranth had not only filled up every inch of space in the ditches, but also taken over all the areas the Shi family was supposed to occupy.

Space was tight at the Shi family’s place—they still had to leave a path wide enough for Shi Yuebai to walk through.

So when the Shi family couldn’t store any more, the vegetables got piled up at the Pang family’s place.

Xu Xuejiao was so anxious her lips broke out in blisters.

Everyone in the wasteland knew how precious food was, and it was torture for her to watch so many vegetables go uneaten, just to be left to rot in storage.

It felt like a knife twisting in Xu Xuejiao’s heart.

“Yuebai, before Captain Yi left, he asked if we could sell them some vegetables.”

Xu Xuejiao waited until Shi Yuebai finished talking to the paper airplane before stepping forward to report.

She was holding a little notebook in her hand.

“Yesterday, when you fainted, Chen Yong and your third brother both came into the Shi family’s yard. They saw our vegetables.”

Shi Yuebai paused, recalling the situation.

Back then, Chen Yong and Huo Chenggui hadn’t said anything about the vegetables.

Yi Zhe had been blocked outside the yard by her puppet—he hadn’t been let in.

Xu Xuejiao spoke up again, “During this time, You Zhizhen has vacuum-sealed and packed about 1,000 portions each of potatoes, mushrooms, and scallions. She’s practically become a professional packer.”

If nothing else, You Zhizhen had gotten so good at it that she didn’t even need a scale—she could just grab a handful, and it would be exactly 1,000 grams.

Xu Xuejiao had assigned her to the ditches, where she worked day and night packing and sealing vegetables.

At first, she’d even cooked the vegetables in a big pot before packing.

But later, You Zhizhen decided that was too slow. Besides, all the vegetables looked so fresh and tender anyway.

They could be eaten raw.

If someone didn’t like raw veggies, they could just open the vacuum bag and cook them however they wanted later.

It all worked out the same.

Shi Yuebai opened her mouth, wanting to say that the vegetables actually didn’t need to be vacuum-sealed at all.

Because they wouldn’t spoil.

But thinking about how the sheer volume of vegetables was making everyone anxious, she let it go.

Everyone was eating as much as they could, but there was just no way to finish all these vegetables.

They needed some psychological reassurance.

Besides, the open space behind the public toilets, which had been cleared with great effort, was now piled high with cardboard boxes—stacked three stories tall.

Each box was packed full of vacuum-sealed bags.

In the end, Shi Yuebai just asked Xu Xuejiao, “How many points per bag of vegetables did Captain Yi offer?”

“He said you name the price—he has no objections. If he can’t pay, he’ll trade supplies instead.”

Xu Xuejiao’s eyes sparkled.

“This is a good deal, Yuebai, do you know? Most of the daily necessities used by the city’s management come from what the mercenaries find.”

“They go into the danger zones—places no other survivors ever reach.”

“So every time they bring back supplies, it’s always in bulk.”

That’s why Yi Zhe could find an entire industrial park so easily.

They were the first to clear out the danger zones, and the mercenaries would sweep through and take the supplies.

Whatever was left would go to the management.

But before, the mercenaries had no choice but to sell the supplies to the management at low prices.

To exchange for points, medical supplies, enhancement agents, and so on.

But now, the mercenaries could use these daily necessities to trade for Shi Yuebai’s vegetables in bulk.

Why wouldn’t they choose Shi Yuebai?

She was Huo Chenggui’s sister, after all—so when you add it all up, the mercenary corps and Shi Yuebai were basically connected by family ties.

There was no reason not to do business with Huo Chenggui’s sister.

Shi Yuebai nodded. “Sure, but I want not just daily necessities—I want ready-to-eat food too.”

She knew the mercenaries could find not only lots of daily supplies, but also plenty of ready-to-eat food.

But after eating her vegetables, anyone could tell the difference.

Compared to her vegetables, the taste and effects of the ready-to-eat food were instantly outclassed.

Anything grown in the earth absorbed spiritual energy the easiest. On Shi Yuebai’s spirit-gathering array, spiritual energy would slowly dissipate.

Most of that dissipated energy was absorbed by the vegetables.

People on the array would also absorb a little spiritual energy.

But unless you sat still and practiced breathing exercises, most of that energy would just be breathed out again.

So there was a trick to absorbing spiritual energy properly.

The most obvious effect of eating vegetables full of spiritual energy was that your stamina would recover quickly.

And they were very filling—you wouldn’t get hungry easily.

Yi Zhe must have noticed this already.

That’s why he wanted to buy Shi Yuebai’s vegetables.

But ready-to-eat food was also irradiated.

Everything in the wasteland was irradiated.

Inanimate objects had radiation on their surfaces.

Living things mutated from radiation, growing into all sorts of strange forms.

Processed foods were irradiated through and through.

Eating that stuff wasn’t good for you.

They’d have to leave it in Shi Yuebai’s ditches for a while, to be purified by the purification array.

Renovating really burns through money. Maybe I should just move in with a “Syrian style” bare minimum setup.

Honestly, I think that’d work."