In his frantic sprint, he used all his strength. His body turned into mist, desperately surging towards Liang Yuan.
Liang Yuan chuckled lightly and shook his head slightly, "If you get any closer, I’ll kill this Space Ability User first."
The blood mist violently churned and hurriedly stopped, reshaping into the form of Zhou Qingming.
He panted heavily, glaring at Liang Yuan, and then looking at Li Qinghua’s neck.
Zhou Qingming’s eyes reddened, "I’m sorry... Qinghua, Sister Wan, it’s all my fault... I brought him here..."
Li Qinghua sighed and told Zhou Qingming, "Old Zhou, it’s not your fault."
He turned to Liang Yuan and asked, "What do you really want?"
Liang Yuan laughed, "Oh, what do you think I can get from you?"
Li Qinghua raised his head, looking at Liang Yuan, and spoke in a deep voice, "You didn’t kill me immediately, which means I’m useful to you, right?"
"What do you want me to do?"
Liang Yuan couldn’t help but clap his hands and laugh, "You’re indeed smart. Honestly, Space Ability Users are rare to me, so I didn’t kill you right away. I wanted to talk to you properly."
Li Qinghua asked, "What do you want to talk about?"
"Hehe, before chatting, shouldn’t we introduce ourselves first?"
"You haven’t introduced yourself either."
Liang Yuan nodded and said, "You’re right. Let me introduce myself. My surname is Liang, and my name is Yuan. Everyone calls me Mr. Liang."
"Oh, you might have heard, I’m also the leader of the Yangshan Shelter. By the way, Meishan is under my control now."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Li Qinghua.
Li Qinghua took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Li Qinghua, as you can see, I’m a Space Ability User. I used to live in Lishui Garden. After the Great Flood, Lishui Garden was plagued by terrifying mutants. I survived the crisis of awakening and became a Space Ability User. I met Old Zhou and Sister Wan."
"We joined forces to kill the mutant in the building and saved some people."
"But later, due to food issues, we had some disputes with those people, and we ended up driving them away."
"After exhausting our food supplies, we decided to go out and find some, discovering an island during the Great Flood."
"That island is the one you boarded before. I knew it was not normal, so I observed it for a while until I saw you passing by and then hid and followed you."
"I waited for you to explore the island first, then followed to see if I could find something like Mutated Fruit."
"You know the rest. After you injured me, we returned to Lishui Garden and recovered for a while, then met the people on the Firebird."
"Brother Huo saw my special ability to preserve food and invited me to join them. Since then, we’ve been following his Firebird until now."
Li Qinghua briefly recounted his half-year experience, which could be considered quite honest.
There was no other choice as his life was in the other’s hands.
Liang Yuan listened, sensing the other’s emotional fluctuations. He guessed that the other was telling the truth.
These people didn’t seem to be utterly evil.
They didn’t appear to be part of Brother Huo’s group.
Liang Yuan asked, "Were the people in the Firebird’s cabin captured by you?"
Li Qinghua shook his head, "The three of us didn’t do it. It was Brother Huo’s people who acted."
"He hasn’t fully trusted me yet. When plundering buildings, he generally doesn’t take us along."
Liang Yuan asked, "Did you participate in Tu Long’s injury?"
Li Qinghua’s expression changed slightly, hesitated for a moment, then admitted, "I participated. At that time, he rushed onto the Firebird and transformed into a Cyan-Scaled Python. Sister Wan couldn’t dodge him, so I used a spatial rift to injure him."
Liang Yuan asked directly, "Where did you hit him?"
"On the back."
"Slash—!"
As soon as Li Qinghua finished speaking, Liang Yuan raised his eyelids. Suddenly, Lin Wan lifted her hand, and the dagger swiftly tore a bloody gash across Li Qinghua’s back.
His skin burst open immediately, with blood dripping.
Li Qinghua screamed, his forehead instantly throbbing in pain.
Liang Yuan said calmly, "That stab repays Tu Long. The enmity between you and the Yangshan Shelter is now settled."
"Now I’m giving you two paths: the first path, come back to Yangshan with me and join the Yangshan Shelter."
"The second path, I’ll release you now. From today onwards, don’t let me see you near Yangshan, you can choose for yourselves."
Li Qinghua endured the intense pain in his back. He looked up at Liang Yuan but couldn’t read any expression on his face.
He turned to Lin Wan and Zhou Qingming. Zhou Qingming gritted his teeth and said, "Qinghua, we can find another place."
Li Qinghua looked at Lin Wan and said, "Can Sister Wan speak?"
Liang Yuan slightly moved his Spiritual Power and released a Puppet Thread.
Lin Wan’s face could move immediately. She burst into tears, crying, "Qinghua, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry..."
Li Qinghua shook his head, gritted his teeth, "Sister Wan, you heard everything I said, what do you think?"
Lin Wan lifted her head, looked at Liang Yuan with a trace of anger in her eyes, and asked, "Why don’t you kill us?"
Liang Yuan smiled, "You haven’t done anything utterly evil, you’re different from those beasts on the Firebird. Besides, you three have special abilities, and I appreciate talent."
Lin Wan’s expression changed, unexpectedly hearing Liang Yuan say that.
She turned to Li Qinghua and asked, "Qinghua, you decide, I’ll follow your lead."
Li Qinghua looked at Old Zhou and saw him still angrily staring at Liang Yuan. He thought for a while and finally lowered his head and said, "I can go back to Yangshan with you and join the Yangshan Shelter."