Chapter 225 [The wolf joins the sheep]

Chen Nuo had a cigarette in his mouth.

Snap!

Behind him, a hand handed over a lighter, the flame flickering.

Chen Nuo raised his head and glanced at the female mercenary standing in front of him. Seeing her beautiful face covered with oil and sweat, he smiled faintly, leaned over to light the cigarette, and then took a puff.

"Thank you." Selena stood next to Chen Nuo and looked at the stream in front of her.

"Thank me for what?"

"A few times on the road, when you were taking turns to open the road, you consciously slowed down." Selina whispered: "A few of my people died."

"Um."

"You are all very powerful guys. I heard the words of several other people. They were even ready to abandon the team and leave... I know very well that if you leave, all my people will be destroyed in this red mist.

"

"Don't worry, if they leave, they will definitely take you with them." Chen Nuo shook his head.

"No, I will choose to stay with my people." Selena shook her head.

Chen Nuo took a long drag on the cigarette, then turned to look at the female mercenary: "Why, if you are too moved and are ready to commit yourself... now is not a suitable occasion and time. We are not even together now.

There are no tents, unless you don’t mind fighting in the wild..."

Selina's expression changed, she glared at Harvey fiercely, then stood up and walked away.

After taking two steps, she suddenly stopped, turned around and said coldly: "Mr. Harvey, do you have to deliberately act like such a bastard?"

"I didn't do it intentionally." Chen Nuo smiled and said: "Seriously, if you really don't mind having a field battle, tonight... we can make an appointment after dark, how about it?"

"..." Selena closed her mouth and strode away.

·

A temporary and crude camp was set up by the stream.

Most of the materials were discarded when escaping. At this moment, there was not even a tent in the team, so everyone could only repair in the open air.

Fortunately, it is still possible to make several fires. Even if the solid fuel brought is not enough, cutting down some branches can still make up for it.

Chen Nuo walked to the stream for a while, found a secluded place to urinate, and finally walked back to the camp slowly with a cigarette in his mouth.

Selena did not relax her vigilance. During her break, one-third of her manpower was assigned to be on guard duty.

Dinner was a single soldier's ration, plus fish that a few mercenaries caught in the stream.

The fish was not small, but Chen Nuo didn't take two bites...it had an indescribable earthy smell.

However, Sato Ryoko quickly delivered a small package of beef jerky.

Chen Nuo looked at the beef jerky in front of him. After being stunned for a moment, he looked at the chubby woman: "Did you not forget to take your snacks with you when you ran away?"

"...It's delicious!" Sato Ryoko frowned.

After Chen Nuo took it, he tore open the packaging bag and started eating.

"You are actually a very kind person." Sato Ryoko spoke again.

"Kind?"

"Yeah." The woman nodded her head, like a chicken pecking at rice, and whispered: "I know they want to abandon everyone and escape on their own, but you are against it... so..."

"I actually like the word 'kindness' very much, but I also hate the word 'kindness'. Do you know?" Chen Nuo shook his head.

"ha?"

"I tell you, if it comes to a life-and-death situation, I will abandon these mercenaries and escape alone!

If I tell you this, will you still think I'm kind?"

Chen Nuo looked at Ryoko Sato with a smile.

This woman doesn't speak.

"I just don't agree. You give up on these people before they reach the necessary moment... They obviously still have a lot of energy left. Just to increase the possibility of self-protection, you give up human lives without hesitation. I don't agree with this.

However, if it comes to a necessary moment, when life and death are on the line, I'm afraid I will run away.

Therefore, I may be just a little bit more noble than them.

Just a little bit."

"I don't quite understand what you said."

Chen Nuo sighed: "In the critical moment of life and death, those who are not willing to run away by themselves, but are willing to save their own kind, are... saints!

Saint, I can't do it.

However, we are far from reaching the critical moment, but if the situation is not good, immediately abandoning others of the same kind... that is inhumane.

Likewise, I can't do it without humanity.

I am just somewhere in the middle between being a saint and being inhumane.

I just kept a little bit of humanity for myself."

Speaking of this, Chen Nuo said in a deep voice: "In my opinion, being a human being is a bit human, which is the bottom line of the moral concepts I know.

This is the bottom line!

When can you be praised as 'kind' just by meeting the bottom line?"

I don’t know when, many strange things began to appear in this world.

If a person can abide by the moral bottom line, just the bottom line, will he be praised as kind?

A person who is just unwilling to cross the moral bottom line, just the bottom line, will be extremely scolded as a holy mother?

Then there must be something wrong with our world!

·

Varnell was not idle, and he quickly told everyone the bad news.

The satellite phone I brought out was unable to contact the base camp.

I don’t know if it’s a malfunction or some other reason, but in short, the team is currently out of contact!

This news was kept secret within a few people and was not known to the mercenaries in the team.

Moreover, there is another related effect.

"I'm afraid we won't be able to join up with the Son of the Sun.

Originally, according to the plan, Lord Son of the Sun would meet us at the outpost camp, but now we have escaped from the campground and lost contact with the outside world, so..."

Beside the campfire, several ability users looked gloomy.

Sato Ryoko seemed to have let herself go, with an expression of indifference on her face - Chen Nuo didn't know whether this woman really didn't understand what Varnell said in English, or whether she actually understood it, but really didn't care at all.

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When Varnell called the indigenous guide, opened the map and began to carefully study the direction of the team, Sato Ryoko had already pulled Chen Nuo to the stream.

This woman actually wants to catch fish.

Chen Nuo raised his eyebrows and waved his fingers casually, and a palm-sized fish jumped out of the water under the control of his mind. After landing on the ground on the shore, it kept jumping around.

"As a person with abilities, what fun is there in catching fish?"

"Of course it's not like that!!" Ryoko Sato glared.

Seeing this woman roll up her sleeves and trousers and jump into the stream... Chen Nuo shook his head.

Well, luckily this is a very shallow stream and not a place where piranhas live.

·

After all, Sato Ryoko caught the fish. However, Chen Nuo was not sure whether the fish was really caught or whether the woman finally got impatient after playing for a while and used her telekinesis to catch it.

But obviously this guy seemed to be in high spirits, and then he occupied a bonfire and started roasting her spoils.

There aren't many bonfires in the camp, but as an ability user, you still have the right to have one all to yourself.

A fish was half burnt, and Chen Nuo didn't even bother to look at it.

He would rather eat a compressed cookie than touch one!

The woman grabbed the grilled fish and tried to take the first bite, but then quickly spit it out.

“It’s so bitter and fishy!!”

Chen Nuo smiled: "Didn't anyone tell you... to make fish, you have to disembowel it first and remove the internal organs?"

·

The camp was filled with an atmosphere of survival.

We have encountered too many dangers in the past two days, especially today, when the terrible red mist attack made everyone's spirits suppressed to the extreme.
To be continued...