Survival Game: Call Me an Honest Businessman

Li Zhi picked up people one by one according to their coordinates.

As she expected, when her airship stopped in front of the dilapidated wooden houses pecked by night bats and rock-beaked birds, most of the people inside showed expressions of relief and joy, weeping with relief.

They were very cooperative.

She sat quietly on the deck, silently wiping away her tears despite her lingering fear.

Some people were injured but didn't say a word. They just covered their wounds, biting their lips, worried about disturbing others and being kicked off the ship because of their injuries.

After recovering, some people looked on with curiosity, leaning over the railing to look down, and a relaxed expression gradually appeared on their faces.

Some people are completely unsuspecting; they find a corner on the ship, close their eyes, and go to sleep, or simply wander around carelessly.

The last type of person would occasionally glance at the cockpit and cabin, their eyes concealing their thoughts.

Li Zhi observed silently, and by the time the sun was high in the sky, everyone had made contact.

When her airship returned to the safe zone, the airships of the European Emperor and Master Hao had already arrived.

Greedy Pass sat on the terrace, her eyes red as she applied medicine to the lucky one.

Li Zhi sighed inwardly.

The thing I feared still happened.

"What happened?"

The survivor, who had been trying to survive, looked up, tears instantly streaming down his face: "There...there are robbers..."

She finished speaking with a sob in her voice, and Li Zhi then understood the general situation.

Their initial pick-up went smoothly, but when they picked up the second-to-last person, a group of people rushed aboard before the airship had even come to a complete stop.

It turns out that when this group saw the job posting, they had their eyes on the fishing boats and the security base.

They devised a detailed plan and used search tools to locate one of the girls who had been accepted. They had already been lying in wait at the girl's house the previous night.

As soon as the European Emperor's ship arrived, they quickly boarded it, hijacked the other workers, and demanded that the surviving Pass and the European Emperor open the cockpit door, or they would kill the others.

The Lucky has high defensive attributes, so there won't be any problems if you don't open the hatch.

But those people actually started killing people without any scruples.

The European Emperor did not open the door.

There were dead bodies outside the door.

She knew she couldn't bring these people back to the safe zone, so she secretly contacted Teacher Hao.

The two airships met, and Master Hao slaughtered the bandits.

But most of the people on the ship were dead, leaving only two girls hiding in a corner.

Seeing that everyone was dead, the European Emperor was so angry that he went out and fired two more shots.

Unexpectedly, there was still one who wasn't quite dead. The man fought back as he was dying and slashed the European Emperor's thigh, cutting right on the femoral artery. Blood gushed out immediately, mingling with the blood in the pool on the deck, a truly horrifying scene.

If they hadn't had the potions to restore their health, they probably wouldn't have made it back.

The European Emperor's face was pale, but his tone remained relatively calm: "I'm fine, don't cry."

Tan Sheng's tears fell one by one: "I should have grabbed you and stopped you from going out. It's my fault for being too cowardly. I was squatting there and couldn't get up no matter what. If I had grabbed you, you wouldn't have gotten hurt... And those people, those people..."

She sobbed hard, but couldn't catch her breath and could only keep gasping for air.

Li Zhi knew that she wasn't crying because the Emperor was injured, but because she was terrified by the scene of the robbers killing people.

"It's all in the past. You did a great job. You stayed in the cockpit the whole time, which protected you and your sister."

Greedy Pass shook his head: "But they're all dead..."

Her eyes were filled with panic as she looked at the blood and corpses on the Lucky Ship that hadn't been dealt with yet, and tears fell again.

The front yard was completely silent.

Everyone wore expressions of either sorrow for the fallen or resentment and fear.

Li Zhi: "That was an accident."

Greedy for Life (pass): "But..."

Li Zhi interrupted her, "There are no 'buts.' Even on Earth, accidents can happen at any time."

"But such a thing would never happen on Earth!" Greedy Pass retorted, choking back tears.

Li Zhi closed his eyes to calm himself down and said softly, "Then calm down. Teacher Hao, you and Ou Huang stay with her. I'll go settle the others. I'll be right back."

Teacher Hao nodded.

Just as Li Zhi was about to leave, he heard Ou Huang patting Tan Sheng Pass on the back and whispering comforting words to her.

"It's alright, everything will be alright."

"But I feel like I'll never forget it..."

Li Zhi suddenly turned around and looked at Tan Sheng Pass: "It will never be over."

Tan Sheng was startled, his sobs stopped, and he hiccuped.

"You'll encounter many more things like this in the future. It's not just strangers who will die; your sister might die, Teacher Hao might die, and I might die too. No one dares to say how many days they'll live in this world."

Li Zhi looked into the eyes of the person who had chosen to live: "You see someone die, and you're powerless to stop it; your closest loved one is injured, and you're powerless to prevent it. And then what?"

"What did you do?"

Tan Sheng was startled, his sobs stopped, and he hiccuped.

Li Zhi coldly replied, "You're crying."

"I don't want to say whether crying can solve the problem, but you made everyone panic and directly damaged the morale of the entire team, filling this newly established safe zone with an atmosphere of insecurity."

He passed away, tears streaming down his face. He opened his mouth as if to apologize.

Li Zhi interrupted her: "Don't think that what happened to you today will pass. The idea that things will pass is just a coward's self-deception. If you don't face your fear, it will haunt you forever. If you don't become strong, weakness will keep you passive forever."

"Next time you encounter the same thing, you will just have to watch helplessly, cry, pity yourself, and seek comfort."

"Then I would wake up from nightmares, living in a daze day after day, until I myself became a corpse."

"Do you think this is the worst thing?"

"No, you could also become a slave, meat on someone else's dinner table, a pet, an animal to be watched in a cage by another race!"

Li Zhi's eyes were icy: "But if you ask me for my opinion, I would only say, you deserve it."

Tan Sheng passed, his face pale. Teacher Hao had already stood up, his eyes flashing a warning.

Li Zhi ignored her: "You have your sister, you have Teacher Hao, you have a better starting point and more resources than anyone here, but after it happened, besides crying and complaining, hoping someone would comfort you and tell you it wasn't your fault, what else did you do?"

Teacher Hao: "Stop talking."

The European Emperor lowered his eyes and pulled Hao Shi back: "Let her speak."

"Master Hao killed those people, and the lucky one came out to finish them off. You did nothing. Of course, I can still offer you false comfort like before, saying you did a great job and that you locked the door properly. But what about next time? You'll still hide inside the door, under the protection of your sister and Master Hao, using their flesh and blood as your walls—"

"Three or five!"

Teacher Hao interrupted her: "She wasn't capable of doing anything at the time, isn't what you're saying...?"

"What about her intuition?" Li Zhi repeated each word carefully. "What about her talent, her instinct for danger?"

Teacher Hao was taken aback.

Tan Sheng suddenly raised his face, tears streaming down his face like beads on a string, his pupils trembling violently: "I... I often feel danger, but nothing has ever happened..."

"Talent needs to be trained, not squandered."

"You indulge in comfort, enjoy being protected, and are grateful for your good fortune, so you don't value it and let it become a sixth sense that can be ignored."

"Therefore, talent may be taken away, and good fortune may disappear."

"And you..." Li Zhi looked at Hao Shi and Ou Huang, "Did the crisis she sensed never actually happen?"

"It still happened, and it was even quite dangerous, but you didn't tell her."

Seeing the expressions on Hao Shi's and Ou Huang's faces, Li Zhi already knew the answer.

"You two are the ones who condoned her becoming a useless person, your accomplices."

"This world is a meat grinder, and you willingly let your sisters and friends become pieces of meat to be slaughtered."