"You gave me this life! From today on, my life belongs to you! You tell me to go east, but I will never go west! I will go through fire and water without hesitation!"
Xiao Han touched his chin and looked at Jin Dongdong with a squint. This boy seemed quite honest. But when he thought about Xiao Lei, he felt uneasy.
Having more strangers in the team is always a problem. Especially since this kid has seen the magic of the fruit with his own eyes, if he doesn't keep his mouth shut one day... Tsk, there will be endless troubles!
Or... should we find a way to make him keep his mouth shut? As soon as this idea came to his mind, he rejected it.
Are you kidding? He just swore allegiance. Besides, he doesn't look like a wicked person. Oh, what a headache! He secretly glanced at Lu Shiyan. Well, for such a brain-burning matter, let Young Master Lu make the decision.
Lu Shiyan's eyes swept over Jin Dongdong, and an imperceptible curve appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Your life is ours? Yes, we saved you." He paused, his voice calm but with unquestionable pressure, "But we don't accept trash."
Su Wan's heart skipped a beat. Jin Dongdong! This was a character she admired in the original book. He was loyal and brave, sunny and cheerful. Although his ending was a bit tragic, he was definitely a good person!
Now that I finally met such a promising young talent, I can't just watch him get driven away! But Lu Shiyan is such a ruthless person!
She quickly came to Lu Shiyan, gently tugged at his sleeve, and softened her voice: "Ashi, let him follow."
Seeing that Lu Shiyan was unmoved, she added with a bit of coquettishness in her tone: "Look, with one more person, we can take turns to keep watch at night. We are already short of manpower..." She quickly glanced at Xiao Han.
Xiao Han, who had been listening attentively, received Su Wan's eyes. Since Sister Su Wan valued this boy so much, she must have her reasons. Besides, it would be good to have more people to share the night watch, so that he could observe closely.
So he came up quickly and nodded rapidly: "Yes, yes, yes! Sister Su Wan is absolutely right! It makes so much sense! Let me tell you, I have dark circles under my eyes lately. If I continue to suffer like this, my handsome image will be completely ruined! I urgently need fresh blood to share my pain!" As he spoke, he rubbed his eyes exaggeratedly, trying to look a little haggard.
In the carriage, when Li Kui heard the word "waste", his body trembled violently, and the knuckles of his fingers holding the water bottle turned white.
He is the loser in the team.
When his brother was around, he was the one being protected. Now that his brother is gone, what can he do?
Lu Shiyan and Xiao Han have powerful supernatural powers, A'mo's marksmanship is divine, Su Wan has a magical space, and even the little mouse can spit out life-saving fruit.
What about yourself?
He has brute strength, but is vulnerable to real danger. If it weren't for my brother, I would be the one dying under the vines!
The gratitude on Jin Dongdong's face froze in an instant, and was replaced by paleness and embarrassment.
He eagerly defended himself: "I'm not useless! I have superpowers! I can release ice spikes!"
In order to prove himself, he concentrated hard and stretched out his trembling right hand.
A faint wisp of white gas gathered in his palm, struggling, and finally condensed into a crooked ice cone the size of a knuckle.
The ice cone only existed for less than two seconds before it turned into a puddle of water with a "puff", leaving a wet mark on his palm.
Jin Dongdong's face turned even paler, with beads of sweat oozing out of his forehead: "I... I just awakened. Although I'm not very stable, I will definitely work hard to become stronger! I can do anything! Please, don't abandon me!"
He looked at everyone pleadingly, and finally fixed his gaze on Lu Shiyan, who had the strongest aura in the team. It was an expression that only a small animal that was forced into a desperate situation would have, pitiful and helpless.
"Hey, Old Lu, your words are too hurtful." Xiao Han couldn't stand it anymore. He hooked his arm around Jin Dongdong's neck and half-jokingly tried to smooth things over. "Who hasn't been a rookie before? When I first awakened my wind power, the wind blades I blew couldn't even cut a piece of paper. But I still grew up to be this suave, powerful and handsome guy now, right?"
At this moment, Li Kui, who had been silent all the time, suddenly opened the car door and walked out.
His eyes were red as he stared at Lu Shiyan, and his voice was very hoarse.
"Team Land Force."
He didn't look at Jin Dongdong, but it seemed like he was speaking for him, or even more so for himself.
"How can I prove that I'm not trash?"
Lu Shiyan's attention finally shifted from Jin Dongdong to Li Kui's face. He was not surprised, but seemed to have expected it.
"Oh? You want to prove it too?"
"Yes!" Li Kui answered firmly, his chest heaving violently with excitement, "I don't want to be a burden anymore! I don't want to watch you guys fight for your lives while I can't do anything! I don't want to have a next time... I don't want to have to watch helplessly next time..."
He couldn't continue speaking, the overwhelming grief almost suffocated him.
Lu Shiyan looked at him quietly. After a few seconds, he raised his hand and pointed the way he came.
"I remember there's a motel about 5 kilometers ahead."
Lu Shiyan's tone was calm, almost cruel.
"You two, go in. Come out with something valuable. Anything, medicine, usable parts, or... the crystal cores of the zombies wandering inside."
He withdrew his hand and glanced at everyone.
"You shouldn't use your mouth to prove your worth."
"Lu Shiyan, this is not good!" Su Wan was the first to jump out and object. Jin Dongdong had just awakened his superpowers. Isn't this just asking them to die?
"You let them go in like this? No one knows what's in there! You're sending them to their deaths!"
"To die?" Lu Shiyan looked back at her, his tone revealing a bit of helplessness, "Su Wan, don't you understand yet? In this world, being weak is the greatest sin, it is to die. I am not forcing them, I am giving them a chance to live. If they don't become stronger, they can only wait to die, or become stronger and live."
"But they...but..." Su Wan opened her mouth, but she couldn't say any words of objection.
He was right. Why did Li Xinhu die? Perhaps it was because he followed them and did not encounter the twists and turns in the original novel that made him stronger through bloodshed, but instead made him lose the ability to face danger alone. In the end times, no one can protect anyone forever, and only one's own strength is the final trump card.
Seeing that Su Wan stopped talking, Lu Shiyan turned to the two people and asked, "Are you not leaving yet?"
Li Kui took a deep breath, picked up a half-meter-long steel pipe from the car, and picked up a fire axe with his other hand.
He walked up to Jin Dongdong and put the fire axe in his hand.
"Walk."
Li Kui uttered only one word and walked towards the dark building without looking back.
Jin Dongdong held the cold axe handle, his hands shaking so much that he could hardly hold it. He glanced at Lu Shiyan's cold profile, then at Su Wan's worried expression. Finally, he gritted his teeth and followed Li Kui's back.
He didn't want to die, and he didn't want to die again just after coming back to life.
Xiao Han and A'mo went to clean up the bodies of the pursuers, while Lu Shiyan lit a fire and burned several bodies to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Su Wan watched the two figures disappear at the intersection one after the other, and then asked in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "What if something happens to them?"
Lu Shiyan's voice was very light, but it carried a hint of unquestionable coldness and hardness: "That proves that I was wrong about him."
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