Li Yi looked at the unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar face in front of him, but couldn't remember who it was.

Why is the other party so determined to kill him? Is there some deep-seated hatred between them?

"Heh." Chen Yu sneered, "Li Yi, you don't know me, but I know you."

After a pause, Chen Yu continued, "You can consider me as one of the millions of people you have persecuted."

Although he suffered greatly at the hands of Li Yi in his previous life, he was just one of the hundreds of thousands of lowly laborers in the Fire Seed Base. Compared to Li Yi, he was worlds apart. Now that he has been reborn, the whole world has taken a new turn.

Even if he had stood in front of Li Yi in his previous life, Li Yi would not have known him or cared about someone as insignificant as him.

Therefore, he didn't need to argue with Li Yi about those things.

Li Yi has harmed so many people, and by saying this directly, the other party will naturally understand what grudge they have against him.

Upon hearing Chen Yu's words, Li Yi's expression shifted between light and shadow before he said in a deep voice, "So, you've come representing those lowly fund users to demand an explanation for them?"

"Slap!" Chen Yu stepped forward and slapped Li Yi across the face.

The slap sent Li Yi sprawling, aggravating his thigh injury and causing him to grimace in pain, nearly fainting.

"You have a really sharp tongue," Chen Yu said calmly. "Enjoying the fruits of your labor squeezed from countless survivors, yet you keep calling people lowly 'base citizens.' Do you really think you're superior?"

Li Yi lay on the ground, his face pale, his eyes filled with shock and resentment.

“You… In this dog-eat-dog world, what’s wrong with what I did? The strong live, the weak die! The weak are meant to serve the strong, that’s the law of nature! If I hadn’t taken them in, they wouldn’t even have a place to eat, so how could I have exploited them?” Li Yi struggled to refute, his voice filled with resentment and anger.

Suddenly, his eyes widened, as if he had remembered something. He pointed at Chen Yu and said in a trembling voice, "You...you are Chen Yu? Chen Yu from Tianyu Base?"

Chen Yu looked coldly at Li Yi, a sneer curling at the corner of his lips: "You're not so confused after all."

After receiving confirmation from Chen Yu, Li Yi fell silent.

The Fire Seed Base and the Tianyu Base are only about 200 kilometers apart. Over the past year, he had naturally heard about the Tianyu Base. He even sent someone to investigate the Tianyu Base to see if he could annex it and expand his sphere of influence.

However, the investigation revealed that Tianyu Base was no weaker than Huozhong Base. What worried him even more was that the soldiers of Zhongyang Garrison had not disappeared like the military town of Rongdu. They were still stationed in the garrison and had an unclear relationship with Tianyu Base.

If a conflict were to break out with Tianyu Base, it would inevitably attract the intervention of Zhongyang Garrison Command, which is something he absolutely cannot risk.

After all, the Zhongyang Garrison Command is a regular national army with all kinds of top-notch and complete weapons and equipment, which is far superior to his ragtag army.

Through the information he received, he also learned that the founder and leader of Tianyu Base was Chen Yu of Tianyu Group.

Before the natural disaster, he was a well-known figure in Daxia. He rose from humble beginnings to build a business empire worth hundreds of billions in less than two years!

In addition, Chen Yu is also a super philanthropist. He not only invested huge sums of money to build tunnels in his hometown, but also built schools and hospitals in many impoverished areas and donated to charitable organizations.

Before the natural disaster, as the head of a charity, he had repeatedly tried to go to Tianyu Group to ask Chen Yu for some funds, but each time he was stopped at the gate by security guards.

That's why he was so impressed with Chen Yu.

That's how they recognized Chen Yu's identity in such a short time, and from that they connected it to the Tianyu Base.

"Chen Yu, we are all leaders of surviving bases. If you want to annex my base, just say so. Why put on such a hypocritical act! And you stand on the moral high ground to judge me for exploiting my base members. Humph! What right do you have?" Li Yi lay on the ground, and although he was seriously injured, his tone still carried an indomitable arrogance.

He was furious. Seeing the other person's expression, as if he wanted to skin him alive, he thought the other person was a low-level survivor who had been oppressed by him. Little did he know that the other person was also the leader of a survivor base.

Since we're all the same kind of people, he should accept his loss. But you keep saying he represents "millions of persecuted people," making him seem like the embodiment of justice while you're the wicked villain. How can he tolerate that?

“You’re wrong. I really do have the qualifications.” Chen Yu shook his head. “The people of my Tianyu Base have never been oppressed by anyone, and everything I have today is not obtained by exploiting anyone.”

Li Yi sneered, his eyes full of disdain: "Hmph, that's easy to say. As long as classes exist in this world, there will always be oppression. Do you think you're the Virgin Mary, able to save everyone from suffering? Don't be naive, Chen Yu. You and I are just drifting duckweed in this chaotic world. Who can guarantee their hands are clean?"

Chen Yu said somewhat helplessly, "There's no point in arguing with you about these things. All I can say is that your grudges are far more complicated than you imagine."

"Hmph!" Li Yi snorted coldly, "Chen Yu, all you want is my Fire Seed Base, right? I'll give it to you, as long as you release me, I'll cooperate with you unconditionally."

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