If the situation got serious, they might even be expelled from the safe zone.
Zhou Yin probably didn’t care about that, but Su Yue didn’t want her brother to get into trouble.
Zhou Yin was surprised.
“Her little mute sister just spoke?” he thought.
And… called him a “sticky candy”?
While Zhou Yin was still in shock, Su Yue had already pulled Su Yi away.
Realizing this, Zhou Yin hurried to chase after them
“Hey, little mute! Don’t run off yet!” Zhou Yin shouted, remembering something.
Su Yi turned back and threw a punch.
“You’re the mute!” he yelled back loudly.
Su Yue silently panicked.
She glanced at the sky to make sure there were no drones around and quickly grabbed Su Yi.
“Stop fighting! If you have something to say, go upstairs and talk!” she shouted.
Su Yi stopped moving.
Zhou Yin, meanwhile, grinned shamelessly at the siblings.
“Hehe, we’re not fighting!”
Then he turned to Su Yi.
“Your sister said we should go upstairs to talk!”
Reluctantly, Su Yi let him follow them upstairs.
Once upstairs, Zhou Yin shamelessly entered their apartment.
His gaze wandered around, full of disdain.
“Hey, your brother’s psychic power is S-class, and his skills are pretty good. How did you two end up in this situation?”
“Did the landlord come by yesterday to chase you for rent? Is that true?” After scanning the apartment, Zhou Yin plopped onto a chair.
He wanted to pour a glass of water but realized the table was empty.
Su Yi glared at Zhou Yin, wishing he could crush this man with a look.
If it weren’t for his sister stopping him, he would’ve knocked him out.
“Thanks for your concern, but we’ve already settled the rent,” Su Yue replied calmly.
“Also, my brother won’t be joining your team. Don’t bother asking him again. Otherwise” Su Yue paused slightly, letting the threat hang in the air.
Zhou Yin glanced at her, not taking her warning seriously.
“Otherwise, you can’t fight in Wubian City, but you can outside,” Su Yue said coldly.
Zhou Yin was startled.
The chill from Su Yue’s gaze made him involuntarily imagine being beaten by Su Yi outside the city and thrown to the star beasts like dead meat.
Well… that was terrifying.
“Cough… alright, alright!”
Facing Su Yue’s cold stare, Zhou Yin’s smile stiffened.
“Fine, I won’t invite you to join my team. At least let me help you make some money, okay?”
“I’ll be straightforward.”
“This time, I got a job. Someone discovered an energy ore field, but it’s full of star beasts, some above level 5.”
“They’re offering a 500,000-star-coin appearance fee for an S-class solo mech operator. You provide the human; they provide the mech.”
“My team doesn’t have anyone qualified, otherwise I wouldn’t have shamelessly come to you.”
Zhou Yin’s eyes burned as he stared at Su Yue.
“So? Let your brother go, and I’ll give you 300,000 of the 500,000-star coins!”
He had figured out the sibling dynamic: Su Yi was simple-minded, and Su Yue made the decisions.
Earlier, he thought Su Yue was useless, but today he started to think differently.
“No interest,” Su Yue rejected immediately.
Zhou Yin was surprised; he thought she was just balking at his offer.
After hesitating for two seconds, he made a “cutting off my own flesh” expression.
“Fine, you can take 400,000 in total! I introduced this job; I at least deserve a share!”
Su Yue remained cold and indifferent.
“Go away,” she said.
A 500,000-star-coin fee was high, but the risk was too great.
They already had a relatively safe way to earn money. No need to take such a gamble.
In her eyes, no amount of money even 5 million, 50 million-, or 500-million-star coins was worth her brother’s safety.
Zhou Yin wanted to say more, but Su Yi, following Su Yue’s signal, stepped forward to chase him out.
Zhou Yin was pushed out the door.
Even after being pushed out, he tried to knock and shout a few times, but with no response inside, he left.
Once outside was quiet again, Su Yue exhaled in relief.
She went to the kitchen and took out the unprocessed sugarcane from the space, handing it to Su Yi to work on.
She started preparing food herself.
Though they called it cooking, they still didn’t have rice.
Their staple remained potatoes, and they stir-fried wild vegetables for the side dish (only Su Yi ate the medicinal wild vegetables).
Natural food tasted great, and the siblings ate their fill without wasting any ingredients.
After dinner, they busied themselves processing all the sugarcane from the space before going to sleep.
The next morning, the siblings rode the hover bus to the commercial street.
With yesterday’s experience, by the end of the morning, they had earned nearly 2,000-star coins, and didn’t get chased by a drone even once.
At noon, Su Yue took out the pre-prepared “wolf tooth potatoes” from the space and found a place to eat lunch with Su Yi.
After lunch, they continued selling sugarcane pieces.
As in the morning, some were sold wholesale to fruit stores, and most sold to passersby.
By 3 PM, all the sugarcane pieces were sold.
They now had over 4,000 star coins an enormous sum for them.
With time to spare, Su Yue took Su Yi to a supermarket.
The dazzling array of goods almost blinded Su Yue, reminding her of their poverty.
In the end, she bought some natural seasonings and rice flour.
It wasn’t luxury that she avoided synthetic seasonings; it was because she had a child in her belly, and she wanted to provide more nutrition whenever possible.
Next to the supermarket was a clothing store. Su Yue and Su Yi each bought a new outfit.
They would be selling on the commercial street long-term, and dressing too poorly might hurt business.
Leaving the supermarket, Su Yue bought a medium-sized chainsaw, a bulldozer, and compatible energy crystals.
The previously cut sugarcane had been processed; wild vegetables and potatoes were not yet convenient to process and sell, so tomorrow they would go out again for supplies.
Yes… all the sugarcane from that field needed to be brought back.
That night, the siblings ate a dinner cooked with natural seasonings.
Su Yi, a true eating machine, finished five full bowls of rice.
Such an incredible appetite made Su Yue determined to work even harder.
The next day, after leaving the city, the siblings went straight to the place where they had found the sugarcane.
Su Yue handed the chainsaw to Su Yi, and he got to work.
With the tool in hand, thick, pillar-like sugarcane fell one by one.
Su Yue stayed alert, worried someone might come by.
After all, chainsaws were loud, and the sugarcane was taller than the surrounding grass.
The falling sugarcane left a large empty area on the ground.
But she had worried for nothing the location was too close to the safe zone, so no one came.
They only encountered three wild chickens, roughly the size of ostriches.
The chickens were startled and ran off without attacking.
Near one of the fleeing chickens, Su Yi discovered a nest of eggs.