Mother Lei said nothing to defend Lu Yin. She understood why Lu Yin was making so many plans for her survival, but that didn’t mean she supported these selfish schemes. They were all in the same boat but Mother Lei would never do something like push someone else off the deck just for the sake of her survival.
However, Lu Yin was different. That girl would do anything. Anything, if it meant that she could survive in the end.
With these thoughts swirling in her head, Mother Lei sighed worriedly. She understood Lu Yin’s desperation but at the same time, she couldn’t agree with her actions.
She could only hope that Lu Yin would stop when she still had time. While she didn’t expect Lu Yin to become like Bai Meiyue, who would live a good life with or without Lei Qian, she did expect the girl to become more self-dependent. And even if she wanted to rely on someone else, she had a brother who was willing to do anything for her.
It wasn’t Lei Qian’s turn to raise and take responsibility for that girl.
Bai Meiyue didn’t know that she had left quite a deep impression on Mother Lei. If she knew what Mother Lei was thinking, Bai Meiyue would only chuckle at her naive thoughts. Some people were selfish to the core from the beginning; Lu Yin was the same kind of person.
Lu Yin’s conditions were better than many survivors in the apocalypse. She had a brother who was willing to protect her and look for supplies as well; at least she wouldn’t starve to death. However, Lu Yin was greedy and selfish. She wanted to cling to Lei Qian, not only because staying with him would ensure her survival but also because she would be able to receive the same admiration that she used to get in the past.
Something her brother could not give to her.
For Bai Meiyue, these things were not important. She had her own goals. With her character, she would never rely upon or call Lei Qian. But Mother Bai was a typical village woman, even though she knew that Bai Meiyue was skilled enough to survive well on her own, she still hoped that Lei Qian would get together with Bai Meiyue and protect her.
Because of Mother Bai, Bai Meiyue didn’t refuse Lei Qian outright; if keeping that man around gave her mother peace, then she might as well let him buzz around.
But for Bai Meiyue, Lei Qian’s existence was not as crucial as it was to Lu Yin. In the last life when Lei Qian was not with her, she survived back then as well and now that he was with her, she would still survive and live well with her system. Whether Lei Qian was willing to protect her or not had nothing to do with Bai Meiyue. With or without him, she would only rely on herself and no one else.
She didn’t care about Lei Qian’s skills or the team he would lead in the future. He might become the big boss of the most prosperous base but Bai Meiyue had nothing to do with that. She only wanted to live well and raise her son.
Though Bai Meiyue didn’t care about Lei Qian and his team, the survivors in the building did. They had heard of Lei Qian’s skills and knew that the rest of his team was comprised of supernatural beings.
Word had spread throughout the building, and the survivors were now waiting for Lei Qian to take them under his wing and save them. They couldn’t rely on Bai Meiyue, who was cold and heartless, but they had higher expectations of Lei Qian.
After all, the man looked gentler and weaker than a woman. Surely he would be kinder than that cold-faced witch?
Thus, they have been squatting outside the electric door, waiting for Lei Qian to step out. So, when Lei Qian and his team walked past the door, they were immediately surrounded by survivors.
The entire corridor was filled with these survivors, who looked at Lei Qian as if he were their messiah.
"You... you are Master Lei?" one of the survivors stepped forward and looked at Lei Qian and the rest with hope on his face. "You are the richest man in the city, right? I heard that you and your family used to do a lot of charity. Can you give me something to eat? We haven’t eaten anything for days."
"Yes, give us something to eat, please."
"That Bai Meiyue and her family are not good things. They beat and scold us but you are kinder than them, sir. You will help us, right?"
"They are tyrannical about their supplies because their hearts are shallow and they are selfish. Someone like you will help us, right? Please give us some supplies."
"Master Lei… can you take us under you? You are really strong, so you can protect us, right? Master Lei, don’t let the Bai family fool you. They have supplies and they have three supernatural beings; they don’t need your protection at all. But we do." Explore stories on NovelHub.Côm
Facing the many survivors, Lei Qian frowned while Yun Chuan glared at them with reddened eyes.
"You bastards! Don’t pretend to be pitiful with us; there is no way we will be sympathetic towards you. You want me to give supplies to you? Pah! Do you want me to ask how my sister and mother died? I left them safe and sound when I went out before the apocalypse started but when I came back, the door of my house was broken and the two of them died in such a disrespectful and sorry manner."
"You should be glad that I am not killing all of you bastards for the things that happened to my family!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Mo He’s eyes also turned red, while Wan Guofu’s expression turned solemn. The two men glared at the survivors with hatred burning in their eyes, which showed how much they hated them.