TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 147

Chapter 147: Unable to Reason

Perhaps there would be a few who couldn’t accept reality and commit suicide, but humans are, after all, the most cowardly of creatures. More likely, they would resent themselves for waking up, feeling that it wouldn’t have been so bad to live a lifetime in a blissful daze.

When that time comes, the conflict might focus on the person who woke them up.

Saving people only to receive resentment from those who cowardly cling to life – that is reality…

Xie YunChuan said in a muffled voice, “My companions are trapped. I can’t pull away.”

Besides, Luo WuShuang deliberately brought him here to level up by fighting monsters. If he showed any sign of retreat, wouldn’t he be torn apart and sent back by Luo WuShuang? That brother-in-law of his wasn’t easy to deal with. Of course, Xie YunChuan would never tell Shen Ye this reason.

Moreover, Xie YunChuan really needed to increase his strength. So, from any perspective, it was impossible for him to withdraw from Shuoyang Base.

Based on the information from the research institute, Shen Ye could roughly guess how Xie YunChuan’s companions were trapped. He asked strangely, “Didn’t you notice something was wrong from the beginning?”

Anyone with a normal experience of surviving the apocalypse would clearly notice something was wrong!

Li Meng’s dream-weaving technique could only be used when people were in deep sleep at night. Even if Xie YunChuan and his companions didn’t have the strength to kill Li Meng, they should at least have some means of protecting themselves and escaping, right?

Xie YunChuan said, “We noticed!” His tone didn’t indicate that anything was wrong at all.

Shen Ye was puzzled. “You noticed, and you didn’t run?” It wasn’t like him, who came with a mission.

It was like stepping one foot into the gates of hell, seeing the demons and monsters inside, and instead of retreating, stepping the other foot in without hesitation, right?

“I need Li Meng’s Jīngpò- Crystal Soul or Core to upgrade.”

“So?” So, regardless of how different their strengths were, whether they could win or not, they would just stubbornly go ahead? Xie YunChuan wasn’t usually someone so mindless as to willingly throw his life away!

Of course, Xie YunChuan wasn’t someone who would senselessly throw his life away. It was all thanks to Luo WuShuang giving him the confidence. With Luo WuShuang’s life-saving charm, he wouldn’t be allowed to die no matter what.

“So, you need to help me kill Li Meng.”

Shen Ye said, “And then give her Jīngpò- Crystal Soul or Core to you?”

Was he really planning things out so meticulously? Did he need to consider whether he, the person involved, would agree?

Regardless of Shen Ye’s tone, Xie YunChuan steadily and confidently nodded. “Yes.”

“Oh~? You really dare to think, huh? On what basis?”

Help him kill Li Meng, then save his trapped little companions, and then Li Meng’s sixth-level zombie Jīngpò- Crystal Soul or Core had to be given to him, Xie YunChuan? Nothing could be better than that.

Xie YunChuan repeated the same sentence, “Because you’re my brother.”

Shen Ye subconsciously retorted, “We’re not blood-related.”

Xie YunChuan said, “Then just tell me, are you or aren’t you going to help?” Whether they were blood-related or not, he had to help him.

Shen Ye gritted his teeth and helplessly blurted out, “Yes!”

An adopted son was still a son, an adopted brother was still a brother, and he couldn’t deny that unless he was an ungrateful wretch who didn’t acknowledge his adoptive parents.

Xie YunChuan smiled slightly, striking a victor’s pose. “Then that settles it.”

Shen Ye was so angry that his teeth itched. He pointed a trembling finger at Xie YunChuan and said, “Hey, how come I never realized you were such a shameless person before?”

Before, Xie YunChuan had never called him “brother” with brotherly respect, and every time they met, they were at each other’s throats, itching to kill each other. Now he knew to play the emotional card.

Xie YunChuan chuckled. “Heh, that only means you, as an older brother, haven’t fulfilled your due responsibilities. Don’t blame me for not writing a detailed character introduction for you; blame yourself for not understanding your own brother.”

What was the use of having a face? Adults cared about benefits.

Shen Ye was choked speechless for a moment. After a short pause, he regained his calm and composed demeanor and said, “It’s no use trying to get me to join you. I can’t beat Li Meng. My mission is just to come in and assess the situation.”

If necessary, Li City would send someone to solve the problem of Li Meng, rather than sending Shen Ye, a clearly incapable fourth-level ability user, to his death.

Shen Ye leisurely swung his leg. How did he forget about that? He was led astray by this kid, Xie YunChuan.

Xie YunChuan asked, “If you go back like this and bring the situation here to them, will Li City send someone to solve it?”

Xie YunChuan guessed they wouldn’t. Li City wasn’t a place that valued sentimentality. The leaders there never acted without benefit.

Shen Ye paused for a moment and said truthfully, “No.” The situation here didn’t reach the level that would require Li City to send people specifically to solve it.

“Then are you going to watch this place continue to become a human-eat-human hell, a human slaughterhouse?”

Shen Ye said, “After I go out, I will report the real situation here to Li City, and they will spread it.”

In other words, the action they would take was to spread the real news to prevent more people from continuing to enter Shuoyang Base. As for the tens of thousands of people already inside, they wouldn’t be rescued.

As for whether anyone would stubbornly insist on coming in to see for themselves, that wasn’t Shen Ye’s concern. People who actively sought death wouldn’t live long, and they would die sooner rather than later.

Xie YunChuan tried to persuade Shen Ye. “Isn’t letting a sixth-level zombie continue to grow a huge hidden danger in the future?”

Shen Ye remained unmoved and said, “After they spread the news, there naturally won’t be a continuous stream of ability users entering here to provide her with energy to upgrade. She has to guard this illusory realm and won’t go far. Without a sufficient supply of energy, her level will naturally stagnate and won’t be a threat.”

Xie YunChuan lost his patience and said irritably, “So, no matter what, you refuse to kill her with me?”

How could Shen Ye be so stubborn?

Shen Ye said, “Big brother, can you be my brother? It’s not that I don’t want to kill her, but we two are simply no match for her, you know? I want to ask you, are you going to throw your life away no matter what?”

How could Xie YunChuan be so unreasonable?

Both wanted the other to listen to them and felt that the other was a stubborn mule.

Xie YunChuan firmly said, “Yes! I said, my companions are waiting for me to save them.”

“Your companions can be taken away and sent to Li City for treatment.”

“It’s too late.”

“As far as I know, the worst consequence for them is just becoming mentally impaired. That’s better than you losing your life, right?”

“Do you think that a mentally impaired person in the end of the world is better than losing your life?” Not to mention whether they could escape the zombies’ mouths after becoming mentally impaired, the ability users who killed and stole Jīngpò- Crystal Soul or Core wouldn’t let them go either.

“They are the ones who will be mentally impaired; your life is your own. Which do you think is more important?”

Except for his lover, Luo Shuyou, Shen Ye had never seen Xie YunChuan be so selfless towards others. He had just seen Xie YunChuan’s lover following behind him just fine. He was just wondering why Xie YunChuan hadn’t brought him into the room and had just left him outside.