Rebirth: My Healer Wife Owns Superpowers-Chapter 291 - "Never Underestimate a Fatty!

Chapter 291: Chapter 291 “Never Underestimate a Fatty!

“My buddy went in to deliver the documents and heard the mistress saying this,” said the soldier, softening his voice to mimic Qi Yue’s.

“Ahem… Well said, take someone’s hand and you feel soft, eat someone’s food and your mouth feels tender. Those captives, after taking our copper coins, would feel embarrassed to just leave. Even if they did leave, they’d feel awkward to fight against us next time. And even if they fought, they’d surrender, waiting to get more copper coins. This, you see, is just human nature!”

“…”

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The crowd of soldiers went silent.

They looked at each other, and couldn’t help but put themselves in the captives’ shoes for a while, finally all nodding in agreement.

“Seems like that actually makes sense.”

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“So we should still feed these people?”

“Of course, haven’t you seen the several carts of food and that large flock of sheep?”

“Ah, so the captives get to eat the same as us!”

“Absolutely, the mistress said this is treating everyone equally, to let those captives know about our good life.”

“I’m just worried they’ll eat it all, and we’ll have nothing left.”

“Worrying for nothing, haven’t you heard?”

“Heard what?”

“Ever since the mistress took over the housekeeping, several storehouses have been packed full, no place to even stand inside, more food than we can eat.”

“I have heard that, which shows the mistress is really kind-hearted.”

“Indeed she is kind-hearted. Even the heavens like our mistress—haven’t you noticed the well water has been sweet lately?”

“Noticed it, and drinking it makes you feel energetic too!”

“You just do your job well; my buddy said that, follower our master and mistress, we’ll never be short of benefits!”

“….”

While they were enthusiastically chatting, suddenly a troop of horsemen rushed towards the city from outside, kicking up so much dust that one couldn’t make out the soldiers’ uniforms.

“Who’s coming? Could something have happened?”

“It isn’t a revolt of the captives, is it?”

“You crow’s mouth, always babbling nonsense—it’s General Fat arriving!”

Scolded with a hefty slap behind the ear by the city-guarding officer, the few chattering men finally shut their mouths.

From amidst the cloud of dust, a large black horse charged forth, majestic and imposing.

Atop the black horse sat a large, chubby man, whose size matched that of the horse beneath him. He wielded a broadsword, his face beaming like a blooming flower.

“Quick, open the gates wide and welcome General Fat back to the city!”

At the officer’s command, the gates that had just been closed were immediately pulled open, emitting a thunderous rumble.

The chubby man led the way on horseback through the city gate, heading straight for the former Yewang Prefecture, now the Marquis Residence.

Those curious had followed along to inquire, and soon it was known that General Fat had scored a major victory at Shifang Mountain, capturing Song Chengye’s reserve forces stationed there.

“Amazing, I heard General Fat only took three thousand troops with him!”

“Three thousand against a hundred thousand, how did he win such a battle?”

“I heard General Fat had a secret weapon called ‘Sky Net.’ With it spread open, only five hundred men were needed to block the entire valley mouth. Another two thousand shouted from all directions, making the Donggao Army believe we had an immense force. They panicked and fled towards the valley, but then… each one of them fell right into the net…”

“What sort of net could be that big? And even if there was such a big net, couldn’t they just cut through it with knives?”

“What do you know? I heard that the net was crafted by the mistress’s own hands, impervious to knife cuts and fire—it’s a rare divine object!”

“The mistress is that remarkable?”

“Of course she is. She’s also the Divine Doctor, you know!”

“…..”

The moment was early morning, and the streets were full of townsfolk.

Many had gathered at the city gate to read the announcement and were asking questions of the nearby soldiers.

Many of their family members had taken part in the previous night’s ‘call your sons home’ operation, so they were also waiting at the city gate, hoping for good news.

After confirming that there hadn’t actually been a battle the previous night and that many soldiers had been taken prisoner, the people eagerly hoped to see their loved ones return.

The discussions among the soldiers quickly spread among the civilians, and those who heard couldn’t help but feel happy about having chosen such a good master for themselves.

“I really hope the Marquis stays here and doesn’t leave!”

“If the Marquis doesn’t leave, Miss Qi Yue won’t leave either, right? I heard that Miss Qi Yue opened a medicine factory in Beiyuan. The pills they produce are miraculous; both adults and children can be saved without the bitterness of decocting medicines!”

“I know about that too. Last month my elder brother went to Beiyuan to escort goods and brought back two kinds of pills. My son had a fever at that time, and we used them that very night, they truly are divine medicines!”

“Is that really true?”

“Of course, it’s a pity we can’t use them. If only we were people from Beiyuan!”

“Exactly, Miss Qi Yue and the Marquis will have to return to Beiyuan sooner or later, right?”

“Are you guys dumb? Right now, we don’t belong to anyone, we’re neither from Beiyuan nor from Donggao. We’re truly the people of the Marquis and Miss Qi Yue; they won’t neglect us!”

“That’s right, we are the people of the Marquis and Miss Qi Yue!”

“I only heard the sound of the flames burning, no other sounds,” Sheng Jing answered, wondering if Mao Qiqi could hear something else.

“Oh, maybe after Sister Sheng upgrades, you’ll be able to hear it too, the sound made by mutated plants when they die—it’s so unpleasant,”

Mao Qiqi said, frowning.

Su Jin also heard their conversation and touched Mao Qiqi’s head, suggesting, “Qiqi, if you find the sound unpleasant, you can try to see if you can block it out.”

Mao Qiqi nodded, but it was a pity that the sound in her mind stopped at that moment—the mutated plant must have been burned to death. It looked like she would have to try next time.

Liang Jiuhui looked at Lu Hao in amazement. Could he really release his special ability over such a large area at once? The width of this staircase alone looked to be at least seven or eight meters!

“Won’t this consume a lot of your special ability?” Liang Jiuhui couldn’t help but ask.

Lu Hao shook his head, then placed his hand on the ground again, and the flames on the staircase that hadn’t yet burned out instantly surged towards him!

“Just take back what hasn’t been used up; it’s more energy-efficient this way,”

Lu Hao answered, after retracting the remaining special ability with a wave of his hand.

“…”

What does that mean? Special abilities can be taken back after being released?

“Can you all do this?” Liang Jiuhui asked Su Jin and the others.

Seeing them all shaking their heads, Liang Jiuhui felt a bit more balanced. Otherwise, this family would be too incredible.

However, the most important thing at the moment was still to collect the supplies from the hospital as soon as possible.

“The glass doors of this hospital are quite sturdy,”

Lin Cheng couldn’t help but go up and touch them as if he couldn’t see the horrifying zombie faces pressed against the glass behind the doors.

“The tempered glass made by our Huaxia is definitely top-notch,”

the driver Xiao Liu said. He remembered a video he had seen on the internet where several foreigners tried to test the durability of Huaxia’s tempered glass by striking it, and they all ended up completely in awe, including the famous glass bridges of the past two years, all of which were made in the great Huaxia.

Xiao Liu spoke eloquently, and everyone couldn’t help but feel a surge of national pride; Lin Xiuyuan was even excited, saying he had seen that video too.

“Maybe… we should kill the zombies first?”

Su Jin really didn’t want to interrupt everyone’s sudden burst of national pride, but now didn’t seem like the time for that, did it?

“Right, right, business comes first,”

Lin Cheng also snapped back to reality and quickly gave way for the Metal Element Ability User to unlock the glass door with his ability.

“It seems someone intentionally locked both halls’ doors from the outside,” Liang Jiuhui remarked.

“Yeah, the situation here must have been pretty severe at that time, so someone tried to stop the virus from spreading,”

Lu Hao nodded, pitying that the virus was a global issue.

After the glass door lock “click” was opened, the zombies leaning on it fell to the ground due to the sudden lack of support, and the other zombies behind them, indifferent to the plight of their fellows, swarmed over, stepping on the bodies of those in front.

“There are also a lot of zombies that ran down from the elevator upstairs!”

As Sheng Jing spoke, she swung her long sword, forcefully slicing through the zombies around her.

“There are too many zombies. You could hit one with your eyes closed.”

Nie Qing floated again in mid-air, sending several white Wind Blades quickly towards the zombies deep inside. He found that because there were so many zombies, even his indiscriminate attacks always hit their mark.

To save time, Su Jin also took out the Venus Flytrap. The Venus Flytrap’s combat power now equaled that of an adult human, and it was consuming zombies faster and faster. Liang Jiuhui looked at the Venus Flytrap, which had obviously grown a lot since last time, and thought to himself, so these things could grow bigger, huh?

Apart from the Venus Flytrap, Liang Jiuhui realized that Liao Yifan’s combat power within Su Jin’s team was also quite astonishing. Power Element Ability Users were often inadvertently overlooked by him. But after seeing Liao Yifan that day, he felt the combat power of this category of Ability Users was not inferior to other categories.

He used to only know that Su Jin and Lu Hao were very powerful, but he didn’t expect their family and teammates to all be experts in their respective elements.

Su Jin didn’t know how many zombies they killed, but during the fight, no one rested or complained. Only when the entire second floor’s hall was so filled that there was no place left to step, did everyone realize, had they really killed all those zombies?

The driver Xiao Liu, in addition to the sweat dripping from his forehead, also felt a cold sweat all over his body. He had almost been scratched by a zombie. Luckily, he wore a thick denim jacket, or else he might have had to say goodbye to these lovely people today…

“The pharmacy is right there!”

Xu Shi pointed excitedly to an entrance behind the elevator.

The two entrances from the third floor to the second floor were already blocked by the group. In fact, most of the hospital’s zombies were concentrated in the second floor’s hall that they just cleared. Although there were zombies on every floor upstairs, there were not many, and most were locked in rooms, as Mao Qiqi had said.

The second floor’s pharmacy was very large, several times larger than the one on the first floor. At the pharmacy’s cash register, several zombies in uniforms excitedly squeezed their heads out from beneath the window, all decapitated by Xue Wanyi’s Wind Blades in one stroke.

Guan Hong gave Xue Wanyi a thumbs-up.

This fellow had actually been carrying the net she had casually given him a year ago, and had even found a use for it—to say he was meticulous would be an understatement.

“Never underestimate the fatty, eh!”

Qi Yue smiled and shook her head as she closed the door and entered her space.

After today, Zhao Xiyan would have at least an additional 150,000 soldiers under his command. With the threat from Yecheng gone, it was time to start thinking about the next steps.