Chapter 175: Hacking Away in Chaos

Ying Ruoying stared in shock at the two children in the shopping cart.

And at the two panicked paper people.

She—she felt like she’d stepped into a fairy tale world???

For a moment, Ying Ruoying didn’t even know what to say.

Shi Yuebai might look fierce and act cold on the surface.

But she was actually a very gentle person.

No—in this wasteland, Shi Yuebai was the gentlest of all.

What she gave Shi Xiangrui and Shi Fuze was a world full of fairy tales.

When Ying Ruoying was little, she too had dreamed of having a tiny friend from a miniature kingdom.

But when she was a child, everyone laughed at her for being naïve and fanciful.

Shi Yuebai was different—she had brought friends from the miniature kingdom into reality.

How could someone as gentle as Shi Yuebai even exist in this world?

Ying Ruoying covered her mouth, grabbed the shopping cart with one hand, crouched down, and tears streamed down her face.

Paper Person No. 1: “Demoness, don’t you dare hurt the Gold-Devouring Beast! Ahhh, take this—my sword!”

Paper Person No. 2: “I’ll cover you! We’ll definitely overcome this challenge and protect the Gold-Devouring Beast!”

A toothpick poked the back of Ying Ruoying’s hand.

It didn’t hurt or itch.

Ying Ruoying pulled her hand back.

No. 1 and No. 2 were about to keep going when Shi Yuebai came out from behind the wall, leaning on her staff.

Shi Xiangrui gripped the wire of the shopping cart with his little hand, sitting inside and babbling at Shi Yuebai.

No one knew what he was trying to say.

Shi Yuebai said, “Why are you here?”

Ying Ruoying ran over in tears, collapsed in front of Shi Yuebai, and hugged her leg tightly.

“Scarface sent people to break in, I, I—”

Honestly, she’d been really panicked at the time.

After all, she’d suffered so much before and had seen the worst of the wasteland.

Who knew what Scarface’s men would do to her if they caught her?

Tears still streaked Ying Ruoying’s face.

“What do we do now? They’ve taken over the house.”

Shi Yuebai sneered, “Obviously, we take it back.”

Don’t ask her what to do—there was only one option: take back what was stolen.

Shi Yuebai patted Ying Ruoying, grabbed her by the back of her collar, and pulled her up from the ground, pushing her aside.

“Go call Cao Lingyun.”

She gave the order, and Xiao Jiao hurried off to fetch Cao Lingyun.

Ying Ruoying didn’t know what Shi Yuebai was planning, and asked nervously,

“I want to go back too. I can kill people.”

She touched the ring on her finger.

Later, when she was in the big city, she’d bought all sorts of rings, but never wore any of them.

The only ring she wore was the one Shi Yuebai had given her—the one that could pull out a thin steel wire.

It could kill, even decapitate.

Shi Yuebai glanced at Ying Ruoying. “We’ll see.”

Soon Cao Lingyun arrived. He’d heard the story from Xiao Jiao and asked as soon as he arrived,

“Yuebai, do you want me to go find Commander Yi?”

In situations like this, survivors like them who lived outside the city and didn’t even have the right to enter—

All they could do was call on a more powerful backer.

Let Commander Yi of the mercenary corps negotiate with Scarface.

Shi Yuebai snorted, “When something happens, all you can think of is relying on others?”

Seeing Cao Lingyun’s confused face,

Shi Yuebai continued, “I have a security team captain position now. Want it?”

Cao Lingyun was surprised. “When did that become available?”

“Just now.”

Shi Yuebai said it as if it were the most natural thing in the world. She waved at Guai Guai.

Guai Guai handed over a watermelon knife.

Shi Yuebai had told Guai Guai to prepare it after she came back from Ying Ruoying’s place.

With a swish, Shi Yuebai drew the watermelon knife and handed it to Cao Lingyun.

“Come hack your way through with me. I’ll make you the security team captain. All you need to do is keep swinging. If you die, I’ll take responsibility.”

“Cao Lingyun, do you dare? Give me a straight answer.”

Cao Lingyun nodded slowly. “I do! I dare!”

He’d always seen himself as Yuebai’s lackey.

A lackey and a security team captain—weren’t they basically the same thing?

After all, the security team was Shi Yuebai’s security team.

Shi Yuebai quickly assembled the team: herself, Ying Ruoying, Cao Lingyun, and Second Sister-in-law Shi.

They were ready to go head-to-head with Scarface.

Xiao Jiao quietly picked up a stick and, looking delicate and soft, also stepped onto the teleportation array.

Soon, everyone knew Shi Yuebai was going to fight.

Ahong, Nong Yasi, and Xu Xuejiao hurried over.

Their hearts were pounding.

They’d heard Scarface in the big city was ruthless, had lots of men, and powerful backing.

Shi Yuebai’s side only had five people.

Could so few really take back their lost territory?

Shouldn’t they call the mercenaries for help?

No one knew what to do.

Everyone was panicking.

Only Paper Person No. 1 and No. 2 were the happiest.

No. 2 breathed a sigh of relief. “The demoness is finally gone. We’ve won, yay!”

No. 1 cheered, “Thanks to our brave resistance, we’ve once again overcome adversity and protected the Gold-Devouring Beast!”

Throwing confetti, throwing confetti.

Shi Yuebai led her four companions and took the teleportation array straight to the basement.

All the food in the basement had already been hauled away by Scarface’s men.

Laughter and chatter drifted down from the first floor.

The bodyguards Ying Ruoying had hired were being strung up and beaten in the yard.

Shi Yuebai leaned on her staff, walking forward with heavy steps.

She was heavy to begin with—how could her steps not be heavy?

A paper airplane flew overhead, up to the next floor.

“There are more than twenty people up there, eating my prepared food.”

Shi Yuebai’s eyes were icy cold.

Those prepared foods were originally gifts from Shi Yuebai to Ying Ruoying.

After Ying Ruoying started earning her own food, Shi Yuebai’s prepared food had just been left in the basement, untouched.

She was stingy—she’d rather let the food rot than let others steal it.

The people behind her were all tense.

They silently followed Shi Yuebai, watching her lumber up the stairs.

“Go. Kill them.”

Shi Yuebai stood at the basement stairs to the first floor.

She tapped the ground with her staff.

An invisible shockwave rippled outward.

Cao Lingyun charged up first.

He was a bit reckless—eyes shut, watermelon knife in hand, not caring who was in the living room.

He just started hacking away in chaos.

The dozen or so Scarface thugs eating and drinking in the living room never expected that, in this three-story villa they’d already cleaned out,

Someone would suddenly burst in with a weapon and start hacking at them?!

Cao Lingyun actually managed to knock down a few people.

But the rest quickly reacted and swung their knives at him.

Cao Lingyun took a slash to the chest, staggered back in pain, and rolled away.

Shi Yuebai’s staff hovered above the ground.

She let go of the staff and began forming hand seals.

Soon, the wound on Cao Lingyun’s chest healed at a visible speed.

“The rest of you, what are you waiting for?!”

Shi Yuebai shouted. Xiao Jiao rushed up with her stick.

Second Sister-in-law Shi raised her crossbow. Ying Ruoying charged in and grabbed a man by the head.

Cao Lingyun: I got a promotion.

From a lackey, I’ve been promoted to security team captain.

Even if I’m the only one on the team,

It’s still a promotion."