Chapter 46: I’m Moving Into Your Team

“I already told you, didn’t I? The Shi family is under my protection now. You bastards dare bring chicken manure here to humiliate them?”

Yi Zhe was furious.

A few mercenaries beat Chen Huaihai’s group of men until they were wailing and begging for mercy.

On the ground, Qu Zhongshun’s corpse seemed to be deliberately ignored.

Yi Zhe didn’t notice it, and neither did the other mercenaries.

Amidst the chaos, Shi Yuebai’s eyes fell on the dozens of bags of chicken manure that Chen Huaihai and the others had brought over.

She hesitated inwardly—she actually wanted that manure.

It wasn’t that her family was short on manure.

Ever since Shi Yuebai stopped eating and drinking, using only her body fat for energy, she no longer needed to relieve herself.

As for Nong Yasi, Second Sister-in-law Shi, Mother Shi, and Little Yao, the four of them only drank a bit of water that Shi Yuebai gave them each day, and ate nothing else.

Even though Yi Zhe had traded hundreds of potatoes for Shi Yuebai earlier, those potatoes were just left to sprout in the ground—Nong Yasi and the others never touched them.

With only water to drink, the four of them still needed to use the public toilet once a day, for both big and small business.

All they had to do was climb over the tarp behind the Shi family’s shelter, to a pile of rubble nearby.

In fact, the public toilet, half-buried in the ruins, wasn’t hard to access.

As long as your legs worked, you could step on the rubble by the door and get inside to use it.

In the Shi family, the only ones who used to relieve themselves anywhere were Little Yao and Shi Yuebai.

Little Yao, because of developmental issues, couldn’t control herself.

Shi Yuebai, because she was so obese, couldn’t move at all.

But ever since Little Yao got her prosthetic legs, there was no one left who relieved themselves outside.

Now, the Shi family’s shelter was clean and tidy—nothing like what outsiders imagined, with filth everywhere.

Shi Yuebai quietly wheeled her tablet cart closer to the bags of chicken manure Chen Huaihai’s group had brought.

On the plastic packaging, the words “Chicken Manure” were printed in big red letters.

But underneath, there was a line of small print explaining its use.

It really was chicken manure.

But it was composted chicken manure—fertilizer for growing crops, to improve the soil.

Shi Yuebai only had a small patch of potato seedlings, planted behind the Shi family’s tarp.

It stretched out from under the shelter of a bridge pier.

This chicken manure from the wasteland could be used to grow potatoes.

Having made up her mind, Shi Yuebai tapped the bags of manure lightly with her stick.

Glancing up, she spotted Ah Hong, who was carrying her son to work nearby.

“Come here!”

Shi Yuebai waved her over, asking Ah Hong to carry all the bags of chicken manure into the Shi family’s yard.

Ah Hong did as she was told.

She set her son down.

He lay quietly under the wall of the Shi family’s yard.

Last night, Ah Hong’s son had eaten a can of cat food and drunk a bottle of water.

Today, he finally wasn’t as sickly as before.

He lay there quietly, watching the mercenaries beat Chen Huaihai’s group bloody.

In the end, Chen Huaihai and his men fled in disgrace.

They didn’t even have time to take Qu Zhongshun’s corpse with them.

Yi Zhe and the others glanced at the chaos on the ground, their eyes skimming over Qu Zhongshun.

They just assumed he’d been knocked out by someone.

“Yuebai, I gave you a communicator so you could contact me right away if anything happened.”

Yi Zhe frowned deeply, bending down to look at Shi Yuebai, who was like a mountain of flesh.

“How long have people in this team been bullying you?”

Shi Yuebai thought for a moment.

“You mean their constant mocking? That’s always been the case.”

What did “bullying” even mean?

Shi Yuebai never really felt like she was being bullied by the others in the team.

Even today, when Chen Huaihai’s group brought chicken manure to trade for her little bread rolls, Shi Yuebai had seriously considered how many bags of chicken manure she could get for a single bread roll.

Seeing Shi Yuebai’s calm, expressionless face, Yi Zhe lowered his head and rubbed his face.

“What are you all going to do?”

The more Yi Zhe thought about it, the more worried he felt for the Shi family’s widows and orphans.

They really didn’t seem very bright.

Back when Shi Yi was still around, Yi Zhe hadn’t paid much attention to the Shi family.

But now Shi Yi was dead.

Yi Zhe’s best brother in the defense squad was gone from this wasteland.

All that was left was a group of widows and orphans.

Yi Zhe felt the burden on his shoulders growing heavier.

He gritted his teeth and said decisively to Shi Yuebai,

“I’m moving into your team.”

Most mercenaries now lived in the big city.

The city’s management arranged housing for them, but it was always right up against the city walls.

To the city’s leaders, they spent points to hire mercenaries to expand the safe zone and protect the city.

So they wanted to get the most out of these mercenaries.

By making them live right at the city walls, if mutant beasts or zombies attacked, the mercenaries would be the first in danger.

In that situation, the mercenaries would fight to the death against the monsters.

But Shi Yuebai’s team was outside the city, not far from the walls.

Shi Yuebai politely refused, “That’s not necessary, Brother Yi Zhe.”

“People in the team humiliating us is nothing new—we’re used to it.”

What she really meant was that she didn’t want to get too involved with Yi Zhe.

Yi Zhe was a good person, but he liked to meddle too much.

Even though he’d been busy fighting mutant beasts these days, every morning he’d remind Shi Yuebai to take everyone in the Shi family to scavenge for food in the area he’d marked out.

Shi Yuebai would agree, saying she’d already taken everyone out.

But in reality, she just stayed home, enjoying her days.

If Yi Zhe moved into their team, she’d have to go scavenging under his watchful eye every day.

People say that once you tell one lie, you have to tell a hundred more to cover it up.

Shi Yuebai thought gloomily that, if she’d known it would come to this, she should’ve just told Yi Zhe from the start that she didn’t have time to scavenge.

Yi Zhe’s dark eyes burned with a barely contained anger.

“You’re used to being humiliated by others?”

This was bullying Shi Yi’s family.

These cowards only pick on the weak!

“As long as I’m here, no one will dare humiliate you again.”

At least, not so openly in front of him.

Yi Zhe turned and found a patch of empty ground next to the Shi family’s odd-looking tarp.

He decided to settle down there.

His decision quickly spread through the whole team.

Not long after, the team leader came over to Shi Yuebai with a friendly smile, ready for a chat."