Chapter One Hundred and Seven: No Favor in the Face of Disaster

At that moment, a pitiful cry for help rang out.

“Save me, please save me!”

Beneath the warship, a woman badly mauled by the undead was shouting.

Her condition was miserable, and around her, more of the undead were closing in.

Chen Yi spread his wings and dove, cutting down the undead tormenting her at once.

“You’re safe now. Go.”

“Wait!”

The woman wiped the blood from her face, pouting with wounded grievance.

“Can’t you hear me out for just one more sentence?”

“I have nothing to say to you.”

Chen Yi spoke coldly, then swiftly flew off. The woman, who had been putting on a desperate performance, immediately clenched her teeth.

She had never expected that Chen Yi, the captain of this new squad, would be so guarded, so unyielding in his decisions.

She had thought she could use this chance to persuade him to save her, but now it seemed things were not so simple.

After taking a deep breath, the woman clenched her fists.

No. This matter could not be left to die here. She had to push it once more.

With that thought, she cried out again.

“Help me! Don’t leave me here! There are undead everywhere, and if I slip up even a little, I’ll die!”

When Chu Yunxi heard this, she immediately turned to Chen Yi, not quite understanding his intentions.

“You already saved her. Why not bring her back?”

“Bring her back so she can compete with you for my favor?”

Chen Yi said half in jest. “That woman may be injured, but I can tell the wounds were not caused by the undead. She only made them look like bite marks. I don’t know what her goal is, but she is definitely no good.”

As soon as those words were spoken, everyone was stunned.

“So you mean she showed up here on purpose, pretending to be miserable so we’d sympathize with her?”

“If you already know, there’s no need to say it outright. Otherwise, how is her little act supposed to continue?”

Looking at Chen Yi’s calm composure, the gloom in Chu Yunxi’s heart vanished at once.

If she did not know that this man held only her in his heart, she might even have thought Chen Yi was using people too. But now Chu Yunxi felt secure, and so she fully supported every decision Chen Yi made.

However, there were always thoughtless people. At this moment, Zheng Xiaoda could no longer bear it. Clenching his fists, he flared up at Chen Yi.

“No matter what, that’s a living human life. How can you be so indifferent? If you won’t save her, then I will!”

Seeing Zheng Xiaoda jump straight into the water, Chen Yi did not stop him, but instead turned his gaze to Hu Sanhan.

“Move the warship away.”

Hu Sanhan hesitated slightly. “But he—”

“Leave him alone.”

Chen Yi looked slowly at Hu Sanhan before him. “You should know my temper. What use is a disobedient man like that?”

“Exactly.”

At this moment, Chen Yaxi also spoke up.

“I don’t like anyone who says such cruel things to my brother either. Besides, that guy is obviously just putting on a show of great righteousness so everyone will think better of him and direct unnecessary hatred toward my brother.”

“Forget about it. Whatever he wants to do is his own business. I don’t care.”

Chen Yi did not want to concern himself too much with other people’s thoughts.

“Anyway, if some people like me, there will certainly be others who dislike me. So I think it’s enough to simply do my own part well.”

“But brother, I’m not convinced.”

With her hands on her hips, the little girl pouted. “Why should we have to bear all this pressure for no reason? I don’t accept it.”

“Don’t be naughty.”

Chen Yi patted the little girl’s shoulder, then flew back up into the air to observe Zheng Xiaoda and the woman.

Just as Chen Yi had expected, the woman saw that it was merely Zheng Xiaoda, a nobody, and immediately began hurling abuse, slashing at him with everything she had.

If Zheng Xiaoda had not already gained some abilities, he would have been dead by now.

Though Zheng Xiaoda was full of regret, watching the warship grow farther and farther away, he knew there was no turning back now.

At that moment, he raised his head and saw Chen Yi still circling in the sky. A glimmer of pleading rose in Zheng Xiaoda’s heart.

“Save me. I know I was wrong.”

Chen Yi gave no answer, only turned coldly away to leave.

This only made Zheng Xiaoda even more frantic.

“Boss, I know I shouldn’t have been so self-righteous and tried to save her, but in this situation you can’t just leave me here. If you abandon me, I’ll die!”

“What does that have to do with me?”

Chen Yi swept him with another frigid glance, sneering at the man before him.

“Don’t forget, your life was never in my hands. It has always been held in someone else’s. If I save you, it would still depend on your own will. Since you don’t want it, why should I force the issue?”

“I didn’t mean that, boss, don’t—”

Before Zheng Xiaoda could finish, the woman left to one side had already gone mad.

“Since none of you are going to let me have peace, then I’ll make sure you all suffer too.”

As she spoke, she attacked with sudden speed.

“Oh no, she’s gone crazy!”

Taking another sharp breath, Zheng Xiaoda fought back while begging Chen Yi once more.

Chen Yi had originally intended to help, but in Zheng Xiaoda’s eyes he saw resentment.

A person who did not even understand gratitude could never truly mend his ways. So at that moment, Chen Yi merely shook his head and left.

Zheng Xiaoda’s eyes widened once more. “How can you just leave like this? If you abandon me, what am I supposed to do?”

“That is not for me to consider.”

From high in the sky, Chen Yi shouted sharply, “You brought this on yourself. You can blame no one. Now you are simply reaping what you sowed.”

After returning to the ship, soon no one could hear Zheng Xiaoda’s voice anymore. Though no one knew whether he had been killed by that woman, at the very least they knew they would never see him again.

Chu Yunxi took Chen Yi’s hand. “Now I finally understand what you meant about not showing mercy. For those who harbor resentment in their hearts, we cannot save them.”

“Exactly.”

Chen Yi spoke again. “Not only can we not save them, we may even end up staking everything we have on them, and in the end stand upon the edge of life and death.”

Besides, Chen Yi was now thinking about something else as well, a decision he had to make at once.

“Traitors are always lurking somewhere, but now that this trouble has come to this, what remains are still the people we started with. That means we need to forge ourselves into the strongest force possible. From now on, however much we expand our numbers, everything must be kept under control.”