Chapter 80: 702 Jin

The paper airplane kept a close eye on Captain Qiao.

A few other paper airplanes circled above the character “Tong.”

They saw Ah Hong and Pang Ziyuan still crouched in the corner.

One paper airplane swooped down, its tip pointing at Ah Hong.

Ah Hong immediately stood up, a little scared.

“I—I’ll get to work right away. Yue Bai, how’s Ah Zheng?”

“Get to work!”

Shi Yue Bai’s cold, merciless voice came from the paper airplane.

Ah Hong hurried off to dig ditches and build walls.

The paper airplane’s tip then turned to Pang Ziyuan.

Pang Ziyuan silently put on his mechanical digging arm and, eyes lowered, started picking up stones.

The paper airplane quietly flew away.

Pang Ziyuan secretly let out a sigh of relief.

Even though his aunt was half-paralyzed, her oppressive presence was as strong as ever.

As for the Shi family, Shi Yue Bai yelled at them too, sending them off to work.

“Don’t slack off! I’m watching you all the time!”

The paper airplanes flew diligently, patrolling over everyone’s heads from time to time.

These things were even more intimidating than Shi Yue Bai watching in person.

If anyone so much as took a breath, Shi Yue Bai would know.

No one helped Captain Qiao; he had to climb up and down by himself, tying the corners of the tarp above Shi Yue Bai’s head to the top of the wall.

One careless moment, and Captain Qiao fell off the wall.

He glanced at Shi Yue Bai, slumped in her wheelchair, his heart nearly leaping out of his chest.

But Shi Yue Bai’s paper airplane only let out a cold laugh as it flew past him and continued its patrol.

She never blamed someone who was already giving their all.

On the ruins, Shi’s mother stood gracefully, a plastic bag hanging from her wrist. She spoke to the paper airplane that had stopped beside her,

“Yue Bai, what do you think of that plastic bag over there?”

The paper airplane was silent for a moment. “It looks nice.”

“I’ll buy it for you.”

Shi’s mother walked over, pinched her fingers into an orchid shape, and dug a plastic bag out from under a few stones.

She examined the bag critically, turning it over and over.

“Yue Bai, the workmanship on this plastic bag isn’t great, is it?”

“You’re the eldest miss of our Shi family. This plastic bag isn’t worthy of your status.”

The more she looked, the more dissatisfied she became. But as if in a hurry, she pinched her fingers again and said in a delicate voice,

“Forget it, forget it. You’re always like this—if things don’t go your way, you just sulk and stop talking.”

“I’ll buy it for you, I’ll buy it for you!”

With elegance, Shi’s mother turned and hung the plastic bag she’d dug out from the ruins on the tip of the paper airplane.

Her eyes were full of doting affection as she patted the back of the paper airplane.

“Happy now?”

Shi Yue Bai replied gloomily, “Mm, I’m happy.”

“Come on, go with Mom to get our nails done.”

As she walked, Shi’s mother pulled a card out of the plastic bag on her arm.

“Waiter, swipe my card!”

“Wrap up all the plastic bags here for me.”

“Hurry up, don’t make me and my precious daughter late for our manicure.”

Shi’s mother was getting impatient.

Shi Yue Bai’s paper airplane beeped, “Di!”

Shi’s mother, satisfied, put her card away.

“Sweetheart, it’s done. The plastic bags will be delivered to our house later.”

She walked with elegance. “Honey, is your allowance enough this month?”

“I’ll give you another million. Don’t hold back—if you want something, just buy it.”

“Is anyone bullying you at school? Don’t worry, Mom’s on the school board. You just go ahead and bully others if you want. Our family’s rich; we’re not afraid of trouble.”

A paper airplane, with a plastic bag hanging from it, accompanied Shi’s mother as she picked through the ruins.

From time to time, it would chime in to humor her.

By noon, Captain Qiao finally finished setting up the tarp.

His tarp was the biggest and most intact among all the families in the group.

Spread out, it was enough to cover most of the Shi family’s courtyard.

Shi Yue Bai let him work as he pleased.

Although the sun above her was blocked by the tarp, the daytime sun’s radiation was much stronger than at night.

If she didn’t burn off more fat, even with the tarp, her weight would keep going up.

She decided to take a risk.

Shi Yue Bai moved her one usable arm over, pressing her fingers together with her other hand.

Slowly, she channeled the small amount of fat energy she had into a newly formed meridian.

She had always liked to challenge herself beyond her limits.

Especially in desperate situations like this—if she didn’t push forward, death was all that awaited her.

And not just her own death—the Shi family and the Pang family would die too.

She had no choice but to fight with her back to the wall.

Shi Yue Bai kept her head lowered the whole time.

Even though her body was paralyzed like this, only one arm’s meridians were still clear.

Her other usable arm was already close to having its meridians shattered from overuse.

Still, she gave it her all, forcing energy through her battered meridians.

Even if it was just a trickle of energy.

Even if the fat energy in her body, under her urging, ran wildly and chaotically.

Even as blood began to gush from her seven orifices again.

The searing pain was so intense that she didn’t even dare pass out.

She was afraid that if she lost consciousness, her energy would spiral out of control and blow her to pieces.

She wasn’t afraid of being blown to pieces herself.

What scared her was not knowing how big the blast radius would be.

In her previous life, when she self-destructed, she wiped out more than half the Wu clan.

This time, she didn’t want to drag the Shi and Pang families down with her.

Maybe it was her mother’s craziness, or maybe it was Shi Yaoyao glancing back at her from time to time.

Shi Yue Bai bit down hard on her tongue to stay conscious.

Just then, a healing spell, its soul force even more powerful, suddenly rose up behind her.

It hovered above Shi Yue Bai’s head.

Golden, red-tinged grains of sand drifted down from the healing spell.

Most of them landed on Shi Yue Bai, with a small bit falling on Pang Zhenggong at her feet.

Pang Zhenggong’s breathing grew steadier, no longer ragged—he was exhaling more than inhaling.

Shi Yue Bai’s whole body felt like it was being torn apart.

A web of blood-red lines appeared on her usable arm.

From time to time, faint golden light flickered.

On the back of her other hand, a similar web of blood appeared.

The faint golden light on her hand gradually grew stronger.

The healing spell continued, its soul force nearly breaking off several times.

But Shi Yue Bai gritted her teeth and held on.

The blood vessels on her arm snapped one by one.

Her once-clean skin turned blotchy and bruised, as if she’d been beaten.

Shi Yue Bai’s weight dropped to 702 jin. This was the result of her pushing herself to the limit in broad daylight.

Only then did Shi Yue Bai finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Now she could pass out.

But by making it through this ordeal, she’d raised her threshold for fainting.

Behind her, Captain Qiao bent down cautiously, craning his neck to look at her.

Suddenly, Shi Yue Bai jerked her head up from her wheelchair, her bones cracking audibly.

Her face turned ghastly and terrifying, blood streaming from her eyes, even dripping from her hair.

“What~ are~ you~ looking~ at?”

“Ah!” Captain Qiao fell to the ground, a chill crawling up his spine.

“N-nothing, nothing at all.”

Kids these days really are under a lot of pressure."