67 Its not like you have nothing lef (1/2)

”All the cigarettes supplied to the private army were delivered from other locations by the Qing Consortium. You've seen the fleet of trucks before, right? The supplies they delivered were none other than cigarettes.” Luo Xinyu said, ”Actually, the same thing's happening in the other strongholds. Although the various strongholds' overseers know they're puppets, there are always a few who try to break free of their strings.”

Ren Xiaosu nodded. It looked like he could not measure the consortium's power based on the private army's strength. Ren Xiaosu had learned enough from Luo Xinyu for the day and had to digest all of this information.

”I'll ask one final question.” Ren Xiaosu asked, ”Why did you choose a person like Liu Bu as your manager?”

Luo Xinyu was not exactly stupid either, so why did she choose Liu Bu?

Luo Xinyu explained, ”He's the younger brother of a unit chief in the stronghold's Logistics Division.”

Ren Xiaosu could more or less understand some of the reasons behind this, but he didn't exactly know what kind of authority a unit chief in the Logistics Division had.

Luo Xinyu felt her relationship with Yang Xiaojin and Ren Xiaosu had become a little closer. She hesitated for a moment before saying, ”Can you help me make it out of this place alive? I have nothing left out here in the wilderness and can only depend on the two of you.”

Ren Xiaosu shook his head and said, ”It's not like you have nothing left.”

Luo Xinyu was taken aback. ”What do you mean?”

”You still have the cheek to ask me to get you out of here alive.” Having said that, Ren Xiaosu ignored Luo Xinyu.

Luo Xinyu was left confused by Ren Xiaosu on this dark and rainy night. She still had something left? She still had the cheek to ask him for something?

What fucking language proficiency is this? Are we even speaking the same language?

It was at this time that Luo Xinyu realized that her ”close relationship” was only an illusion.

In reality, Ren Xiaosu found Luo Xinyu to be quite pitiable. She was all alone in the wilderness with no one to trust and had no one who was willing to help her. She was even surrounded by these ruffian soldiers who kept trying to take advantage of her.

But who wasn't pitiable? Yan Liuyuan, who was suffering in town from the pain brought on by the side effects of his wish, wasn't he pitiable?

If Ren Xiaosu promised to help get someone out of this place, that would be irresponsible towards Yan Liuyuan.

As long as Ren Xiaosu relied on his luck, Yan Liuyuan was bound to suffer even more from the side effects.

Although Yan Liuyuan would usually only get a headache or fever after making a wish, the problem was that if Ren Xiaosu used his luck to avoid death, Yan Liuyuan would not only be suffering simple side effects like a headache or fever!

This was a power governed by the law of conservation. If one party got luckier, the other would become unluckier.

The moment Yan Liuyuan made a wish for Ren Xiaosu, he had placed his life in Ren Xiaosu's hands.

Therefore, for Yan Liuyuan's sake, Ren Xiaosu could not promise anyone that he would help them get out of here alive.

The other people's lives were not as valuable as Yan Liuyuan's.

When Yang Xiaojin woke up in the middle of the night, she looked at Ren Xiaosu and said, ”It's your turn to sleep.”

Ren Xiaosu nodded. Then he closed his eyes to get some sleep. He had not gotten any rest for nearly 30 hours. Even that was too much for him to bear in his current shape.

Ren Xiaosu kept thinking about a couple questions while in a semiconscious state. 'What exactly is Yang Xiaojin's identity? Does she belong to the so-called combat brigade of the Qing Consortium?'

No, that couldn't be right. If she were from the combat brigade, she wouldn't have to hide her identity to join the team, right? Besides, she even had to pay Luo Xinyu to join them.

In Ren Xiaosu's opinion, if the Qing Consortium's combat brigade stationed at Stronghold 113 were to send someone to join them for the mission, wouldn't the soldiers from the private army revere her like a god?