【Li Yao, what are you doing? Go save them!】
【This woman is not only selfish, she’s also cold-blooded.】
【Ning Xinyue and Yan Yuansi are both great—too bad their team has such a selfish woman like Li Yao.】
【Ugh, I’m done being her fan. With character like this, no matter how good her food is, she’s still trash.】
Bai Shuya’s manager immediately bought several trending topics on Xingbo:
#LiYaoTrash, #LiYaoColdBlooded, #LiYaoWatchedPeopleDie.
Li Yao’s beauty was well known, and naturally she had no shortage of haters. Now that these trending topics appeared, many people couldn’t help clicking in. After watching the clips, they all rushed into the livestream of the three of them.
Li Yao continued watching below. It took them five minutes to go from the thirty-fifth floor down to the third—pretty fast. Now only one woman was left struggling desperately.
Yan Yuansi appeared first. Without thinking, he jumped straight into the water to save her.
After some thought, Li Yao closed the door properly and went downstairs as well. Her speed going down was far faster than Yan Yuansi’s.
By the time she reached the third-floor window, Yan Yuansi was already close to the woman.
Ning Xinyue noticed Li Yao. “Didn’t you say you weren’t coming?” she asked irritably.
Li Yao replied indifferently, “I’m just here to watch the show.”
Ning Xinyue was left speechless with anger.
Yan Yuansi had already grabbed hold of the woman. She wailed loudly, “My husband is gone! He’s gone! Go save him—hurry up and save him!”
Her crying was so loud that even the wind and rain couldn’t drown it out. Yan Yuansi shouted back, “Your husband is already gone. I’ll save you first!”
When Lin Na heard that her husband was gone, fury surged up. “Impossible! My husband must still be alive—go save him now!”
Li Yao watched coldly. The woman in the water had already lost all reason. The most dangerous thing when rescuing someone in water was encountering a person like this—Yan Yuansi was in serious trouble.
Yan Yuansi didn’t realize it at all. Dragging the woman, he swam toward the third-floor passage. She was extremely uncooperative, even grabbing at him. “Go save my husband! If he doesn’t come back, you shouldn’t live either!”
With that, she pushed Yan Yuansi down into the water. Hearing this, Ning Xinyue didn’t hesitate and charged straight in.
Yan Yuansi choked on several mouthfuls of water, completely losing his rhythm.
Fortunately, Ning Xinyue arrived in time and dragged both of them inside.
“Waaah—my husband!” the woman cried her heart out.
Li Yao watched from a distance, unmoved. She hadn’t forgotten how the woman had just tried to drag Yan Yuansi under. In the apocalypse, there were countless people like this—what this woman did was nothing special.
“Cough, cough!” Yan Yuansi coughed so hard he felt like hacking out his lungs.
Ning Xinyue looked at him worriedly, then turned angrily to the woman. “We saved you out of kindness, and you tried to get him killed!”
Lin Na stared at them with bloodshot eyes. “Useless! Why didn’t you save my husband? He could’ve lived! It’s because you refused to save him!”
Yan Yuansi and Ning Xinyue both looked terrible. They never expected that saving someone out of goodwill would end like this. Only Li Yao, standing off to the side, looked completely unsurprised.
Ning Xinyue helped Yan Yuansi up. “Your husband’s death has nothing to do with us. Live well from now on.”
When the two of them saw Li Yao behind them, their emotions were mixed beyond words.
Lin Na and her husband had already been starving for two days, which was why they’d taken the risk of going out in the rain to look for food.
Now that she’d been rescued and saw that the three of them looked well-fed and rosy-cheeked, clearly living comfortably, she no longer bothered crying for her husband. She rushed up to Yan Yuansi and Ning Xinyue. “You saved me, so you’re responsible for me. I want food.”
Ning Xinyue felt a lump lodge in her chest. She pulled two tubes of nutrient solution from her pocket and tossed them to Lin Na. “Get lost.”
The ring on her hand was specially designed to store nutrient solution. Unlike Li Yao’s spatial ability, their rings could only hold nutrient solution.
Li Yao looked at the tubes on the ground—transparent glass bottles filled with a milky-white liquid. They looked somewhat like milk, but unlike the nutrient solution she’d drunk on Capital Star. There were no labels; clearly, Director Zhou had made them himself.
Tsk, tsk—worthy of a top director. Details really determined success or failure.
Jiang Yong looked at Zhou Chengxing with admiration. “Back then, all eleven people wanted nutrient solution, and you went to such trouble disguising it. I thought it was unnecessary—turns out you were right.”
Zhou Chengxing stared at the screen. The dangerous moment when Yan Yuansi nearly drowned was replaying again and again. He murmured, “Looks like Li Yao was right.”
When Ning Xinyue rushed in to save someone, Zhou Chengxing had seen Li Yao remain unmoved, and all the goodwill he’d built up toward her instantly vanished. He knew Li Yao was emotionally detached, but he hadn’t expected her to be so indifferent to human life.
Seeing the woman’s behavior now, his face suddenly burned with embarrassment—ashamed of his earlier thoughts.
“What is this? You think two little bottles of milk can fob me off?” she complained, but her hands were faster than anyone else’s as she picked up the nutrient solution.
Ning Xinyue said coldly, “Don’t take it.”
How could something already in her hands be returned?
Ning Xinyue supported the weakened Yan Yuansi. Lin Na then turned her gaze toward Li Yao. Seeing her face, jealousy surged up from the depths of her heart.
“Do you have food?” she asked outright.
“Yes,” Li Yao replied.
“Then give me some. They already gave me food,” Lin Na ordered arrogantly.
“Why should I?” Li Yao shot back. “They gave it out of kindness. My things aren’t for feeding ingrates.”
She was referring to how Yan Yuansi had jumped down to save her, only to nearly be killed by her instead.
Yan Yuansi and Ning Xinyue exchanged a look. Even though they knew Li Yao was talking about that woman, somehow it felt like she was talking about the two of them as well.
Helpless, they could only head upstairs in embarrassment. Li Yao didn’t want to stay there either—the damp air was heavy, and she disliked it.
“Stop right there,” Lin Na called out, trying to block Li Yao after failing to get any benefit from her.
Suddenly, a large kitchen knife appeared in Li Yao’s hand—a watermelon knife she’d just taken from home. It hovered three centimeters from Lin Na’s neck. One more step forward, and the blade would plunge straight into her throat.
Ning Xinyue and Yan Yuansi, who had turned back to wait for Li Yao, felt their own necks go cold. It wasn’t even that big a knife—how had she taken it out so smoothly? Even with a spatial ability, it shouldn’t be that seamless.
Meeting Li Yao’s icy gaze, Lin Na’s legs went weak.
Seeing that she was finally scared, Li Yao lifted her foot and followed the other two upstairs.
By the time they reached the tenth floor, Yan Yuansi was panting heavily. He’d completely overexerted himself today—his clothes were soaked, and he’d even swallowed water earlier.
Seeing him in such a sorry state, like a drowned dog, Li Yao clicked her tongue impatiently for the first time. She grabbed Yan Yuansi and hoisted him onto her back, carrying him upstairs.
If he weren’t her teammate, she wouldn’t bother with such a weak man.
As she walked, she muttered under her breath, “Team up… violation… five hundred billion… can’t afford to pay.”
Yan Yuansi and Ning Xinyue both heard her. They suddenly remembered—the three of them had to stay teamed up. If they weren’t, it would count as a violation. Ignoring a teammate’s death also counted as a violation.
And a violation meant paying five hundred billion.
Forget five hundred billion—even fifty million was something Li Yao couldn’t afford right now.