Chapter 171: What Comes Next Is R-Rated—Don’t Look

The people inside the second wall had originally planned to drive Duan Xiangtong and the others away.

But then Shi Yuebai gave the order: let them argue.

So everyone held back and stopped paying attention to the wailing women.

Each person just went about their own business as usual.

Those who were building walls kept building, and those scavenging kept scavenging.

The two pregnant women looked like they were about to give birth at any moment, having frequent contractions every day.

Nong Yasi simply took the two pregnant women to the canal.

They dug earth together with the eight elderly people who had been kidnapped.

At first, those eight elders were terrified, afraid the cannibals would rush out and eat them.

But after a few days, when they received three full meals every day, their nerves gradually eased.

If death was inevitable, then at least this wasn’t so bad.

They could eat their fill every day. The labor of digging the canal was tough, but just within the limits of what each person could handle.

It was exhausting, but not to the point of killing them.

After a while, they got used to it.

One of the elders, when abandoned by his son, was given a radiation detector.

His son, heartbroken, simply couldn’t afford to feed him—he still had two children to raise.

So the old man volunteered to leave home.

The son hesitated for a long time, then tearfully kowtowed to his father a few times and carried him to the team under the bridge.

The old man had resigned himself to dying.

He never thought he’d actually need the radiation detector.

Nowadays, radiation detectors weren’t very useful anymore.

In the past, you could use them to check how contaminated processed food was.

But after five years in the wasteland, even if you found out a food item was highly radioactive or only a little contaminated—so what?

When you’re starving, and someone hands you highly contaminated food, are you really not going to eat it?

Only those at the very top of the pyramid, who never lacked food, could afford to care about radiation levels.

For ordinary survivors, as long as there was something to fill their stomachs, that was enough.

This old man missed his son and grandson, so he took out the radiation detector his son had given him.

[Scan: Processed food, 35% radiation contamination.]

He froze, and the people around him turned to look.

They’d been digging the canal all morning and were now resting by the water.

Da Jiao had finished cooking the big pot of food and, under Xu Xuejiao’s orders, was delivering meals to the corner outside the second wall.

She was handing out today’s bean buns and mixed canned food.

Since these eight had only just been kidnapped here, Xu Xuejiao was wary of their intentions, so Da Jiao was told to only give them processed food.

The really good stuff was reserved for their own people.

“This can has 35% radiation contamination,”

Grandpa Xie said, his hands trembling so much he nearly dropped the can and the detector.

Da Jiao glanced back, her face full of innocent cheer.

“Oh, is that so?”

These cans had been delivered by mercenaries through a teleportation array a while back.

Auntie had said to dump them all in the canal.

No one cared about the radiation levels of processed food anymore.

Because the people inside the second wall didn’t eat processed food at all now.

Auntie said they were all garbage, all expired.

Da Jiao looked at the shocked faces of the elders.

She didn’t really get it.

“You don’t eat food with 35% radiation? It’s high, but Auntie said you don’t get to be picky.”

You can’t spoil people—if you do, they’ll get more and more demanding.

That’s what Auntie said.

There were still lots of zero-radiation processed foods in the canal, but they were buried under the rest.

Auntie said all processed food had to be dumped in the canal to purify.

The longer it soaked, the lower the radiation.

So the food just dumped in hadn’t been purified much yet.

Da Jiao was busy today—cooking, teaching the kids to build walls and dig—so she hadn’t dug down to the bottom of the pile.

If she had time tomorrow, she could dig out some zero-radiation food for them.

What a headache.

There was just too much processed food. It would take her ages to dig to the bottom.

She was busy every day.

Auntie said the freshly picked vegetables had to be washed, or they’d cause stomachaches.

Da Jiao took Auntie’s words as law, making three big meals a day.

Now, everyone inside the “Tong” enclosure and the second wall ate together.

Every meal, she washed all the vegetables spotlessly clean.

No, no, no.

Grandpa Xie hurriedly shook his head and immediately opened the can to eat.

He trembled as he ate.

It wasn’t that they thought 35% radiation was too high.

It was—they were shocked.

35% radiation was already very low.

The city authorities had already determined that most processed food now had over 100% radiation.

Anything under 100% could fetch a lot of points in the big city.

Grandpa Xie ate with a heavy heart, thinking how wonderful it would be if his little grandson could eat this can.

The others shivered, looking at Grandpa Xie with envy.

And everything that happened here was reported to Shi Yuebai by Second Sister-in-law Shi.

Shi Yuebai looked at Xu Xuejiao.

Xu Xuejiao’s face went pale. “I’m sorry, that was my oversight.”

She stood up and sprinted to the canal, shouting coldly,

“Da Jiao, search everyone!”

Cao Lingyun, who was guarding the eight elders, quickly stood up. “Sister Xu, what’s wrong?”

Xu Xuejiao pulled out her little notebook and wrote a new rule in the confidentiality code:

Rule 4: No one may carry a radiation detector without permission.

This really was a huge oversight.

Team Leader Qiao took food out to sell every day.

Most of that food, which no one ever tested, was actually zero-radiation processed food.

Team Leader Qiao was just lucky.

Also, radiation detectors were expensive.

When you’re starving, they’re a luxury.

More and more wasteland scavengers didn’t even bother with detectors anymore.

Cao Lingyun realized what was going on and strode over to Grandpa Xie, looking fierce.

He clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking.

“Old man, you dare hide a radiation detector? Hand it over!”

See? Wasn’t he scary?!

Yuebai said he’d be her henchman in the future.

A henchman has to be fierce!

Grandpa Xie was so frightened he handed over the detector, shaking all over.

Da Jiao pointed at the other seven.

“Uncle Lingyun, search all of them too. They can’t keep their old clothes—make them change into ours!”

Cao Lingyun clenched his fists even tighter, knuckles popping louder.

“Did you hear Da Jiao? Hurry up and strip!”

He turned back and gently said to Da Jiao,

“Kids should go now. What comes next is R-rated—don’t look.”

It’s going to get steamy—everyone, close your eyes!"