Chapter 187: Auntie Says This Enhancement Medicine Costs 100,000 Points Per Piece

After Yang Wenyao left, Shi Yuebai studied the blueprints for a while longer before having Xiao Jiao accompany her to the vegetable garden behind the Shi family house.

Over the past few days, Pang Zhenggong and a few elders had finally finished clearing out the underground shopping street behind the visitor center.

They’d even cleared out some collapsed sections.

Every shop that could be excavated had been dug out.

Anything that could be used as firewood, Pang Zhenggong hauled over to Shi Yuebai’s old base and gave to Da Jiao.

Da Jiao used it to light fires and cook big pots of food.

Anything that couldn’t be used as firewood, Pang Ziyuan crushed to pieces.

While clearing out one of the underground shops, Pang Zhenggong found several packets of seeds—white radish, chili peppers, and tomatoes.

He also discovered that if they kept digging along the underground shopping street, there was actually a large underground mall ahead.

However, that mall had completely collapsed and was almost entirely filled with rubble.

If they wanted to excavate it, they’d have to start clearing debris from above.

After so long scavenging and digging, starting from the cistern behind the public restroom all the way to the underground shopping street, the entire area had been cleared.

Even the remains of the old visitor center had been thoroughly cleaned up by Ah Hong and Nong Yasi.

That whole area was now the supply depot.

If they wanted to expand the supply depot, they’d have to clear out the collapsed underground mall as well.

So now, if you stood behind the public restroom and looked out over the supply depot, everything was neat and orderly.

Not a trace of ruins was left.

As for the vegetable seeds Pang Zhenggong found, Shi Yuebai had Ah Hong plant them behind the Pang family’s place.

The potatoes, mushrooms, scallions, and other crops they’d planted earlier were growing densely.

These vegetables hadn’t stopped growing despite the changing weather.

It seemed temperature didn’t affect them much.

Not only did these vegetables meet the daily consumption needs of the mercenaries, they also fed Shi Yuebai’s people.

Except for the people captured from Scarface’s group, who still ate processed foods, everyone else was eating vegetables now.

Yet even with such high daily consumption, the harvested vegetables only kept increasing.

The ditches were piled high with vacuum-packed vegetables.

Shi Yuebai estimated that once they harvested the radishes, chilies, and tomatoes, even the ditches wouldn’t be enough—she’d have to stack the surplus in the supply depot.

There was no more room behind the Shi family house to plant new vegetables.

There was still a bit of empty land behind the Pang family.

If that wasn’t enough, Shi Yuebai had her eye on the front yard of Guai Guai’s house.

Behind his house was just a bridge pier—no space for planting, and every spot that could be used for storage was already piled with parts.

Only the front yard still had a patch of open ground for planting.

Since everyone else had given up their yard space for vegetables, why shouldn’t Guai Guai do the same with his front yard, right?

Shi Yuebai walked ahead, leading Xiao Jiao as they pushed through the thick vegetable leaves.

Aside from a narrow path from the back of the Shi house to the public restroom, just wide enough for people to pass, the rest was a sea of dense leaves.

Push aside any leaf, and you’d see crimson lingzhi mushrooms growing underneath.

The largest one was already as big as a human face.

No wonder Shi Yuebai felt that the spiritual energy in her spirit-gathering array had been depleting faster than ever lately.

The ground was covered with these crimson lingzhi.

They were like invasive pests, aggressively taking over much of the garden.

Even the original mushrooms had stopped growing—there was no space left because of the lingzhi.

Frowning, Shi Yuebai yanked up a face-sized lingzhi and handed it to Xiao Jiao behind her.

“Take this to your sister, have her make soup for everyone today.”

Who knew how much of Shi Yuebai’s spiritual energy this huge lingzhi had absorbed?

In any case, this kind of lingzhi couldn’t be given to any one person to eat alone.

Otherwise, the excess spiritual energy would make their body explode.

The people Shi Yuebai was raising could, at most, handle a palm-sized lingzhi.

Just like the one Second Sister-in-law ate before.

But even to fully absorb the spiritual energy from a palm-sized lingzhi, it would take them more than half a month.

And during that time, they might experience things like double vision or bursts of energy, just like Second Sister-in-law did.

So a face-sized lingzhi was best used to make a big pot of soup for everyone to share.

Xiao Jiao grabbed the big lingzhi and ran off.

When she was gone, Shi Yuebai used her staff to poke around in the garden.

Under the leaves, the ground was covered with thumb-sized crimson lingzhi.

“What a menace!” Shi Yuebai muttered, a little annoyed.

If this stuff had existed in her previous life, she could have wiped out so many enemies.

But now, not only were these lingzhi draining her spirit-gathering array, they were also taking over the vegetable patch.

The king of the vegetable patch—nothing could compete with the crimson lingzhi.

When Xiao Jiao came back, Shi Yuebai instructed her,

“Go to the supply depot and see if there’s any plastic wrap. Pick all these nail-sized lingzhi, and wrap them up individually.”

She planned to clear out the pests from the garden.

Lingzhi this size were only a little less effective than enhancement agents.

She could sell them to Yi Zhe’s mercenary group.

Mercenaries were always active in dangerous zones, exposed to radiation and fighting mutant beasts.

Their bodies were constantly under attack from the viruses carried by mutants.

So mercenary groups desperately needed enhancement agents to boost their physical strength.

But enhancement agents were expensive, so mercenaries usually had to settle for medical supplies instead.

Medical supplies were also expensive, but at least they could afford them with some effort.

Enhancement agents, on the other hand, were tightly controlled by the authorities and couldn’t be bought with points.

They were given out as rewards for those who made contributions to the city.

Shi Yuebai had ended up here in the first place because Second Sister-in-law used one of Big Brother Shi Da’s enhancement agents on her.

Shi Da’s enhancement agent had come from Yi Zhe.

That’s a long story, going back to the early days of the Xiangcheng Mercenary Group, when they were still the Xiangcheng Garrison.

In short, mercenaries needed enhancement agents—they were their lifeline.

Just like the spiritual medicine Shi Yuebai used in the Wu tribe.

She had Xiao Jiao wrap up the nail-sized lingzhi, one per packet.

In total, they packed 400 portions.

Then Shi Yuebai called over Da Jiao and Xiao Jiao.

She led the two of them to the teleportation array at the perimeter.

Yi Zhe had set up a command post next to the teleportation array.

When he got word that Shi Yuebai was coming in person, Yi Zhe rushed over from the front lines.

He ran toward Shi Yuebai, watching her walk step by step with her staff.

Under her specially made long skirt, the flesh on her legs wobbled with every step.

But no mercenary present dared laugh at her.

Xiao Jiao blocked Yi Zhe with her staff and said,

“Uncle, Auntie says this enhancement medicine is 100,000 points per piece.”

As she spoke, she opened her backpack, which was full of plastic-wrapped packets.

The lingzhi were so small, you could barely see them.

(My executive function is starting to fail again.)"