Everyone looked puzzled as the group quickly left.
Yu Yanbin held a cigarette, his expression revealing no joy, and calmly turned away.
"It's nothing, keep going."
Indeed, there was nothing wrong, but it still took up a lot of time.
"This guy is so arrogant. It would take several cigarettes to get any information out of him." Shao Jie was still a little indignant. When had he ever been looked down upon like this?
Oh, except for last time. Shao Jie selectively forgot.
Cheng Shaolin just smiled casually, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and crushed it with his foot.
"Maybe they think we're just small investors and don't even look at us."
"Damn it! Look at yourself, you have no guts at all, yet you dare to look down on people." Shao Jie was furious, like a gas cylinder about to explode.
"Alright, alright, what's there to be angry about? They don't even know. Besides, do we need them to care?"
"Hey, that makes sense." Shao Jie's gas cylinder instantly returned to normal.
Zheng Yongnian, who was originally unhappy, was also taken aback. Hey, yeah, who cares?
We know our own capabilities, and we really can't stand the behavior of these people at the base.
They're so arrogant, thinking they're really something, but they're just average.
"It's a good thing we didn't go inside this base. It doesn't seem very impressive." Meng Yang frowned as he looked at the green world opposite him.
Everyone felt the same way; apart from the group they met at the beginning, the ones they encountered afterward weren't very good.
It can't be said that all teams are like that; some may have something to rely on and can disregard everyone else.
"Are we being too low-key, or taking people too seriously?" Shao Jie squinted and thought for a couple of seconds.
Xiao Peng, who had been silent, looked at him in surprise, not understanding why he would think that way.
Yu Yanbin suddenly smiled, his handsome face relaxing completely.
He slowly looked around his team and thought, "We're just too low-key; nobody even notices us."
He casually exhaled a smoke ring, his thin lips curving into a slight smile.
"I always thought we were all compatriots, so I should help each other if I could, without worrying too much about the details. But alas, the world has changed, and people's hearts have changed too."
His eyes were deep as he looked into the distance. Although he was smiling, the smile didn't seem to reach his eyes.
Cheng Shaolin leaned against the courtyard wall with his arms crossed, one leg casually bent, neither agreeing nor disagreeing with what Yu Yanbin said.
He wasn't a particularly kind person either. Although no one said it, it seemed like everyone had a tacit understanding, and their thoughts were surprisingly consistent.
No one spoke; the quiet street was eerily silent.
Everyone is reflecting on their actions and wondering if what they are doing is right.
Did I do something wrong? Or should I not have done it?
"Alright, stop overthinking and making things harder for yourself. What's done is done, there's nothing to dwell on." Cheng Shaolin couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted his wild thoughts.
Seeing that his companions all looked devastated, Li Xiao didn't know how to comfort them, so he could only rummage through his personal storage space and pull out a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes.
Previously, they were all half-packaged and opened, but now they are whole strips, brand new.
She tore off the outer film, opened the packaging box, and distributed one packet to each of the standing men.
"Oh, there's more."
Li Xiao pouted and smiled, "What's there to be proud of? I have everything they have, and I also have things they don't. I just didn't think of it before. From now on, everyone remember to tell me, what are you talking about? Who do you think you are?"
Everyone was amused by Li Xiao's remarks, and the unpleasantness from before vanished in an instant.
"Oh, Xiaoxiao is so magnanimous. What's the point of comparing yourself to those people? It would only lower your status."
"Pfft." Even Li Xiao was amused by Shao Jie's words.
“Exactly, those people aren’t even qualified. What’s the point of comparing them? Aren’t they disgusted?” Meng Yang couldn’t help but chime in.
Li Xiao didn't forget about the non-smoking ladies either, so she rummaged through her space again and pulled out several large bags of things like beef jerky, chocolate, and spicy strips.
He held her in his arms and let Tian Tian and the beautiful Qiu choose whatever they wanted.
"Haha, we got some too!" Tian Tian was overjoyed to find that she got some as well.
Qiu Fengyu also smiled and took a bag of beef jerky from Li Xiao's arms.
With a smile, Li Xiao handed the items to Tian Tian and Qiu Fengyu, and after they took them, she passed them on to the others.
Without any politeness, they took the last few packets of food from her, leaving Li Xiao's arms empty in an instant.
When I'm in a bad mood, I eat something. If one pack isn't enough, I'll have two.
There's nothing that food can't cure; she has plenty of food, more than enough for everyone.
"Why bother arguing with others? We do what we want, we don't harm anyone, we just try our best to survive, and we don't bother anyone."
"That's right, Xiaoxiao is right. We should just be ourselves. Who cares if they care? Humph!"
Even stuffing a mouthful of spicy strips couldn't shut Tian Tian up. Seeing her still chattering away, Shao Jie couldn't help but tease her.
"It's missing, it's missing."
"Oh, where? Where?"
puff--
Everyone burst out laughing.
Tian Tian then realized she had been tricked and chased after Shao Jie, beating him.
The group of people standing by the courtyard wall felt much more relaxed now. With such united teammates, what couldn't they accomplish?
"If I hadn't thought that I could have been more tolerant and not been so petty, would I have felt less aggrieved?" Yu Yanbin, who was sitting next to Cheng Shaolin, had his head down and his emotions were unreadable. Only a hint of self-doubt could be heard in his tone of voice.
Cheng Shaolin glanced at him in surprise, wondering why this person would think this way now.
"What's wrong? Do you feel like you did something wrong?"
"A little, I have thought about it before. Do you guys think I'm being a bit of a saint?"
Cheng Shaolin turned around, exhaling a cloud of smoke, before slowly speaking. "No, it wasn't you who did it, it was all of us."
Yu Yanbin looked up at him in surprise.
"You don't need to be so doubtful. If you were the only one doing this, and everyone else was against it, they would have opposed you from the very beginning. Look, did anyone oppose you? Everyone just chose to ignore it."
Yu Yanbin thought about it for a moment, and it seemed that things were like this.
"The end times have just begun. We have the ability to survive, and we should show the greatest tolerance to those who do not have the ability to survive."
Perhaps we think they're all pitiful people struggling, and there's no need to be so harsh on them." As he said this, Cheng Shaolin flicked his cigarette ash, which had already burned quite a bit.
Yu Yanbin let out a breath, looked into the distance, and said with some sadness, "Yes, that's what I think too. Life is tough enough as it is; why bother with an ordinary person who will be gone soon? We have so much to do; let's give them a way to survive."
"Heh, yes, it's not just you who thinks that way, it's all the same to us. Look, even people like Xiao Peng and Feng Yu, who have been through life and death, can be tolerant, so it goes without saying that we can too."
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