Chapter 63: She Still Weighs 706 Jin

If Shi Yuebai’s words got out, the storm they’d stir up would be unimaginable.

As for how Guai Guai would manage to build an enormous water tank, Shi Yuebai didn’t really care.

Instead, she went off to direct Nong Yasi and Second Sister-in-law Shi to clear the rocks near the potato field.

Right now, the potato field was still too small.

Shi Yuebai wanted to increase production.

She’d been observing for two days.

Because of the purification spell, the potatoes weren’t growing nearly as fast as before.

On this wasteland, anything that was about to mutate, or had already mutated, would grow rapidly.

Take Shi Yuebai’s own weight, for example.

She herself was a mutant.

So Shi Yuebai siphoned off a bit of her own soul power from the purification array, weakening its effect.

That way, the potatoes buried in the ground could grow a little faster.

But this meant that most of the potatoes they dug up had about 60% radiation contamination.

Here in the wasteland, anything with over 60% radiation was considered highly contaminated. Below 30% was considered low contamination.

Low-contamination food fetched the highest prices.

Food with 0% radiation could sell for a fortune.

But after five years in the wasteland, it was impossible to find food with 0% radiation anymore.

Shi Yuebai ignored the freshly dug potatoes with 60% radiation.

Based on her current abilities, she drew a separate purification array, about four or five square meters in size.

She had Shi Yaoyao put all the dug-up potatoes, along with every bottle and jar of clean water, into this purification array.

The array would run 24/7, fighting radiation and purifying whatever food was placed inside.

By the time she finished, Shi Yuebai had reached the limit of her soul power output.

For someone whose meridians were still largely unrepaired, this was already an incredible feat.

Even Shi Yuebai couldn’t help but admire herself for managing this much.

To survive in this hellish wasteland, she was giving it everything she had.

And even so, she still weighed 706 jin.

It left Shi Yuebai feeling helpless.

But she didn’t lose heart. As long as she was alive, she’d never stop trying to lose weight.

Meanwhile, over on Guai Guai’s side—

As soon as Shi Yuebai left, Guai Guai started sketching.

He had a real talent for this sort of thing. In just a couple of days, he handed Shi Yuebai a cleverly designed irrigation system.

Looking over the plans, Shi Yuebai figured it was an ancient irrigation device, something like a cross between a waterwheel and bamboo tubes, with gears for mechanical action.

Before, the Shi family watered the potato field by hand.

Most of the time, it was just leftover wash water after washing their faces—nowhere else to dump it, so they’d just throw it on the potatoes.

Shi Yuebai was determined to change this careless way of growing potatoes.

She called over Nong Yasi.

Among this group, Nong Yasi was the only one with a higher education and a knack for learning.

Shi Yuebai handed her the blueprints and told her to follow Guai Guai’s design and put it into practice.

With Nong Yasi gone, only Second Sister-in-law Shi was left clearing rocks near the potato field.

Shi Yaoyao was in charge of digging up potatoes, piling them next to the purification array.

Mother Shi was scavenging plastic bags from the mountains of trash.

Ah Hong was building up the walls.

Guai Guai had gone to the public restroom, pondering how to build a giant water tank next to it so he could finally take a bath.

Everything was progressing in an orderly fashion.

Except for the group of women from the Qu and Chen families who came to the Shi family’s wall to make trouble.

Shi Yuebai glanced at the sun, then at the women crowding by the gate, frowning as she asked,

“Don’t you have anything better to do?”

“It’s broad daylight—why not help fix the wall or move some rocks?”

After all, Shi Yuebai never had enough hands. There was always more work than people.

Qu Zhongshun’s wife spat at Shi Yuebai with a loud “ptui,” aiming straight for her face.

But as the spit flew toward her, Shi Yuebai blocked it with a perfectly intact palm fan.

The next second, she swung the fan and smacked Qu Zhongshun’s wife.

“Think I’m going to let you get away with that?”

Shi Yuebai hit Zhang Xueyao several times, breaking the fan in the process.

“I was talking to you nicely, and you dare spit at me?”

Because of her weight, Shi Yuebai was still sitting in her wheelchair. Even though she used all her strength, the fan only managed to knock Zhang Xueyao to the ground.

Zhang Xueyao lay there, wailing,

“Shi Yuebai, you monster! You killed my husband! I want your second sister-in-law’s life in exchange!”

No one expected Second Sister-in-law Shi to be so fierce, or to have a gun.

No one expected her to actually dare kill.

Now Zhang Xueyao’s husband was dead, and the Qu family still had so many mouths to feed.

What were they supposed to do now?

Along with the Qu family, Wei Lingxia had also come to the Shi family’s wall.

So had a few women from Chen Huaihai’s tent—the ones who “performed well.”

By “performed well,” it meant they cooperated with Chen Huaihai, never cried or made trouble, and were seductive and proactive when Chen Huaihai or the Chen men wanted them.

These women got more food.

On the other hand, those the Chen men thought “didn’t perform well”—the ones who always looked miserable, sighed all day, weren’t much to look at, and acted negatively—were lucky to get a meal every two or three days.

Knowing Zhang Xueyao was coming to make trouble today, Wei Lingxia brought the “good performers” along to join the commotion outside the Shi house.

Her eyes were red and swollen like walnuts.

She looked at Shi Yuebai as if she were her mortal enemy.

“Your Shi family killed someone and doesn’t have to pay for it?”

Wei Lingxia asked through gritted teeth.

Shi Yuebai looked at her strangely.

“Are you crazy, or am I?”

“In times like these, why would anyone pay for a killing? If you’ve got the guts, come kill me—life for a life, simple as that.”

Before she’d even finished speaking, Second Sister-in-law Shi charged out with her gun.

“I’m the one who killed Qu Zhongshun. If you want trouble, come for me. It’s got nothing to do with the rest of the Shi family!”

Seeing how fierce she was, the women outside the Shi family’s wall all took a big step back.

Wei Lingxia gritted her teeth, her eyes darting, then plopped down on the ground and started wailing,

“We can’t go on! This world is hopeless! My husband’s been killed, and the murderer is still at large!”

“What are we supposed to do? There are so many mouths to feed at home!”

Shi Yuebai looked at Wei Lingxia with a hint of mockery and said coldly,

“You’re not really going to throw yourself in front of my second sister-in-law’s gun, are you? You’re just here to extort some food, aren’t you?”

“Nice try, but reality’s harsh.”

“You want food? Too bad. You’re not getting any.”

Come on then, let’s all get moving today."