Chapter 79: If You Mess Up Again, Get Lost!

Seeing Shi Yuebai injured, everyone was struck as if by lightning, as though their whole world was collapsing.

Even Commander Qiao, who had only just regained consciousness and realized Shi Yuebai was an ability user, felt all hope was lost.

It was a kind of faith-shattering despair that was hard to describe.

In this hopeless wasteland, they trudged alone through a world of darkness.

It seemed they had finally found a glimmer of light, and were about to follow it toward a bright future.

But that glimmer was suddenly snuffed out.

The hope they had managed to ignite once again began to fade.

Commander Qiao stared in disbelief at the barely breathing Shi Yuebai.

He was plummeting into the abyss of despair.

A paper airplane floated up, and Shi Yuebai roared irritably,

“Are you done yet? I’m not even dead and you’re already mourning me?”

“Get out, all of you!”

With her like this, even if she didn’t die from her injuries, she’d be cried to death by them.

Pang Ziyuan’s sobs stopped abruptly, and Commander Qiao and Ah Hong, snapping out of it, quickly dragged him out.

When Shi Yuebai lost her temper, whether it made sense or not, it was best to just do as she said.

Tears still clung to Pang Ziyuan’s eyes. Once outside the Shi family’s walls, he looked up anxiously.

“Mom, Auntie…”

“Don’t cry. Your aunt will get annoyed.”

Ah Hong’s eyes were red and swollen, but she still chose to believe in Shi Yuebai.

“There’s nothing we can do right now. The best we can do is not make things harder for your aunt.”

Commander Qiao nodded along. “Yeah, that’s right.”

So Pang Ziyuan could only wait outside the Shi family’s wall with Ah Hong, Commander Qiao, and the others.

As for the seven or eight men who had fought over instant noodles and bottled water in the yard—

They were already hugging their wages with satisfaction and had run back to their own tarps.

The job hadn’t taken much time, but each of them had managed to grab two packs of noodles and three bottles of water.

That was probably more food than they could scavenge in several days on the ruins.

And bottled water, no less.

These days, people would trade whatever food they could find for water.

Three bottles of water were worth far more than two packs of noodles.

If only there were jobs like this every day.

Not long after those men left, panicked shouts erupted from the Shi family’s yard.

The first to wake was Shi Yaoyao. She saw Shi Yuebai bleeding from every orifice, and Pang Zhenggong lying in front of her, covered in blood.

It was as if the two of them had been baptized in blood.

Shi Yaoyao’s scream was even shriller than Pang Ziyuan’s.

Within seconds, everyone in the inflatable tents was awake.

They rushed out and surrounded Shi Yuebai, wailing in despair.

Not even the paper airplane’s attempts to calm them could pull them back from their grief.

Shi Yuebai, thoroughly annoyed, sent the paper airplane over the wall and ordered Commander Qiao, who was squatting outside,

“Get them to quiet down and talk some sense into them.”

Commander Qiao was good at this.

He immediately got up and strode into the Shi family’s yard, putting on an air of authority, hands clasped behind his back.

“All right, all right, everyone quiet down and listen to me.”

“Here’s the situation: Yuebai is a good person and fully capable of saving herself, so there’s no need to panic.”

“Look, this is Yuebai’s paper airplane—it can talk, so clearly Yuebai is fine.”

“Now, follow me: calm yourselves, and shout together: ‘We believe in Yuebai!’”

He was eloquent, one hand on his hip, the other gesturing grandly.

Everyone quickly quieted down, staring at the floating paper airplane.

In truth, among the Shi family, only Nong Yasi was truly panicked.

Because she was the only one with normal intelligence, she knew how dire Shi Yuebai’s current, paralyzed state was.

But things involving Shi Yuebai could never be judged by normal standards.

So when Shi’s mother and Shi Yaoyao looked up and nodded at Commander Qiao,

Nong Yasi quickly calmed down as well.

Shi’s second sister-in-law couldn’t see, and her heart was uneasy, but she didn’t dare cry out loud anymore.

She waited until Commander Qiao had talked for over half an hour before quietly feeling for Shi Yuebai’s hand.

“Yuebai, are you really okay?”

she whispered.

Shi Yuebai squeezed her hand in reply.

The paper airplane landed on her shoulder, and Shi Yuebai’s cold voice sounded,

“I’m fine.”

“Go get to work, just pretend I’m not here.”

She kept her healing technique running. Fixing her paralysis was only a matter of time.

Pang Zhenggong, lying beside her, was also within the range of her healing technique.

He wouldn’t be jumping up and running around anytime soon,

but keeping him alive was no problem.

A streak of white appeared on the horizon.

Shi Yuebai frowned, probing her paralyzed meridians.

The sun’s radiation was causing her weight to rise again.

Her shattered meridians would soon be filled with fat.

It was like a broken road—before the path could be repaired, the trees on either side started swelling, and there was a landslide…

Faced with this predicament, Shi Yuebai didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

It was as if the wasteland was determined to kill her.

Shi Yuebai wanted to curse out loud, but the sun gave her no time.

Today, the sun was rising especially fast.

Soon, half the sun had leapt above the horizon.

Shi Yuebai quickly called to Commander Qiao, who was about to leave,

“Drag your tarp over here and cover me—hurry!”

Commander Qiao blurted, “Huh?” What would his family use for shelter then?

But he didn’t dare disobey Shi Yuebai.

Just that talking paper airplane was enough to make him listen.

It was hard to get close to an ability user.

Even the lord of a big city might not know one.

How had he, of all people, ended up with an ability user in his team?

Commander Qiao had to seize this opportunity.

His rise to glory, his days as the loyal sidekick to a future powerhouse, all depended on Shi Yuebai!

Shi Yuebai was the future Dragon Overlord!

Even if he couldn’t be the Dragon Overlord himself, being her sidekick would be great.

He ran at top speed, dodging the ditch in front of the “Tong” character frame, and raced back to his own tarp.

Before his wife could say a word, Commander Qiao yanked down the tarp and dashed back to the Shi family.

Xu Xuejiao chased after him, yelling,

“What are you doing? Are you crazy?”

He was the only able-bodied worker in their family, with two teenage daughters at home.

If he got radiation sickness and lost his mind, how would they survive?

Commander Qiao ran like a monkey out of the mountains and soon reached the Shi family’s yard.

He threw the bundle of tarp over Shi Yuebai’s head.

The paper airplane cursed,

“Are you trying to kill me? Set it up properly!”

“Are you trying to smother me? If you mess up again, get lost!”

Commander Qiao apologized at once. “Sorry, sorry, Yuebai, I thought you were in a hurry.”

He quickly adjusted the tarp on Shi Yuebai’s head, found a long stick, and wedged it into her wheelchair.

“Let this stick prop it up for now, so you can breathe. I’ll fix it right away.”

Every day, I feel like I never get enough sleep."