The battle is over.

It was actually only three minutes since Zou Zichuan left Lan Ji and the female pirate leader, but these three minutes were as long as a century for them.

dark.

Quiet.

Suffocating quiet.

Who's winning?

The sounds of impact and screams suddenly disappeared without warning, replacing endless darkness and suffocating silence, just like a noisy holographic movie suddenly stopped.

Lan Ji and the female pirate leader held their breath and did not dare to let out the air.

"chef!"

"Cook, are you here?" After a long time, the female pirate leader shouted in a trembling voice.

"I'm here." A voice rang in front of the two.

"ah……"

Lan Ji almost subconsciously waved the sharp dagger in her hand behind her, but her wrist was grabbed by a forceful hand. The hand was like an iron hoop. She felt that her hand was about to break. Fortunately, the hand slowly loosened.

"If you use a knife in front of us, I will kill you." The chef's cold voice rang in Lan Ji's ears.

"..." Lan Ji opened her mouth and didn't say anything. She wanted to scold the arrogant chef, but she was like she was controlled by an invisible pressure and could not even say a word.

"Follow me!"

Zou Zichuan held Lan Ji's hand and walked in the darkness.

Just as the chef held Lan Ji's hand, Lan Ji's heartbeat inexplicably and her face felt hot. She always felt that the chef was deliberately approaching her. Is this guy playing hard to get?

Does she want to be a lady or a lady?

Lan Ji shook her head fiercely. At this time of life and death, she felt ashamed that she still had this kind of thought.

"Stop!" Just as Lan Ji was thinking about it, Zou Zichuan suddenly stopped. Lan Ji, caught off guard, couldn't stop and hit the chef's body, hanging on the chef's arm to avoid falling.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

"Remember, you are pirates!" Zou Zichuan said coldly.

"What's wrong with the pirates? What's wrong with the pirates? Do you think you're amazing, right? Then why do you still make a living on our boat? What's so great about you? Didn't you just kill a few people? Bah, don't think that if you save us, you can pretend to be a big-tail wolf in front of us. You men have few good things." Lan Ji suddenly broke out and cursed.

"Ah..." the female pirate leader exclaimed, because she was pulled into her arms by the chef, and a strong hand held her slender neck.

"What are you doing?" Lan Ji heard the lady's abrupt stop, but she did not dare to move around, for fear that the dagger in her hand would accidentally hurt the lady.

"Apart from a group of dead people, I am a man and two women with no power. What do you think I can do?"

"You...you...don't hurt the lady...If...if...if you want...I can give it to you...I can..." Lan Ji's delicate body shook. In the darkness, the chef's voice seemed to come out of the ice cellar, which was creepy. This chef always didn't play according to common sense, and he didn't seem to be sympathetic to women at all, which made Lan Ji's repeated challenges end in failure. What made Lan Ji hate the most was that the chef would use the lady to threaten her. It was really despicable!

"Put your dagger, I'm not interested in you."

"Yes, yes..." Lan Ji did not dare to disobey the chef's words, and quickly inserted the sharp dagger into the scabbard hanging on her thighs.

In the darkness, a rustling sound rang out, and then the lights lit up.

A corpse.

Lan Ji and the female pirate leader gasped at the same time because they saw a corpse under the chef's feet, which was a difficult scene to describe, because the corpse wearing exoskeleton armor was very intact, but the chest had already collapsed significantly, and it collapsed with the strong exoskeleton armor. You can see that the armor on the chest of the exoskeleton armor had been twisted and deformed, with a clear footprint on it.

What a great power.

The light was emitted by the tactical helmet.

Under the eyes of the two women, Zou Zichuan carefully inspected all the bodies, and then removed the communication system and metal mask of the three tactical helmets with bare hands, retaining only the light on the head.

During the inspection, Lan Ji and the female pirate were both so arrogant that they didn't dare to show off because they saw the solid parts on the helmet shattered like tofu in the chef's hands.

The chef's terrifying power was not only reflected in his removal of the attachments on his helmet, but also in those corpses.

There were five corpses in total. Two of the five corpses had completely collapsed on their chests, as if they were crushed by heavy levitation vehicles. There was also one corpse under the huge iron pillar. The corpse was twisted to the ground at a strange angle. It should have hit the iron pillar and died. The remaining two corpses were even more tragic. The two tactical helmets directly deformed and sunken, and the head inside the helmet was squeezed out of the white brain marrow.

The deaths of the five people were very thorough.

No wonder the scream can only be half...

...

The three of them got lost. The steel building was like a huge maze, and every road became endless. Zou Zichuan guessed that they should have entered the undeveloped area of ​​the oak barrels.

After walking for half an hour, Zou Zichuan found a clean place to sit down, and he decided to sort out his thinking.

The three of them sat down and turned off the lights, and immediately, the surroundings fell into darkness.

"Cook..." the female pirate leader shouted carefully.

"Um?"

"Why don't we talk to them?"

"What are you talking about?" Zou Zichuan asked lightly.

"We can promise their conditions, such as compensation..."

"Do you think they will talk to us?" Zou Zichuan asked back.

"We can find a relationship." Lan Ji said with a slight accent.

"What relationship do you look for?"

"us……"

"No matter who you are, here you are the prey. The stronger the power behind you, the less they will let you go." Zou Zichuan interrupted the female pirate leader's words.

"Why?"

"Because, the stronger the power behind you, the more reason they have to kill you. At that time, they can shirk responsibility and say that they don't know your identities at all. They are all done by their subordinates, so killing you is more beneficial to them."

"Aren't they afraid of revenge?" Lan Ji asked gritted her teeth.

"Revenge! Haha, how many real revenge has happened in human history? It is irreplaceable in the minds of your family when you are alive, but after you die, they will have to weigh the gains and losses, because they are also worried about the revenge of Oak Barrel Space City. Your family will feel that there is no need to make enemies with such a powerful force as Oak Barrel Space City for the sake of two dead people..."

"In other words, will we die in vain if we die?" Lan Ji sneered. She did not agree with the chef's words.

"Don't overestimate yourself." Zou Zichuan glanced at Lan Ji lightly.

"Don't overestimate yourself, chef!" Lan Ji faced tit-for-tat.

"I will never make the same mistake again!" Zou Zichuan said word by word.

"Have you made the mistake of overestimating yourself?"

"If you want to live longer, don't inquire about other people's privacy!"

“…”

"Cook, why do you want to kill innocent people indiscriminately?" asked the female pirate leader softly.

"Kill innocent people indiscriminately! Who is the innocent? Is it you, or me?"

"Those tourists from the Colosseum." said the female pirate leader weakly.

"When an avalanche is not an innocent snowflake."

“They are just tourists…”

"Aren't you a tourist? Didn't you be very happy when you watched someone else be killed in an iron cage? Do you know what the two men who died in an iron cage experienced? Will they have the same experience as you? Will they be innocent? If they are innocent, then your happiness is not based on other people's pain? Remember, in the beast fighting hall, no one is innocent, because the applause, cheers, screams and screams of tourists are based on other people's deaths, and no one knows the reason behind those deaths. Just like after you were sent into the iron cage, they would not know what you experienced. What they saw was the desperate battle between beauties and beasts. They would watch your scattered cheers in the process of being torn into pieces by the colorful shellworms... Do you think these people are innocent?"

"Why is this happening? Why..." the female pirate leader murmured to himself.

"Because, the happiness of most people is based on the pain of others. You are pirates. When you loot huge wealth, you will be very happy. But have you ever thought about how painful the businessmen you robbed? They are not only robbed wealth, but they are likely to be destroyed... In fact, the human world is full of such a prey on the weak. When you open a company and make a profit, you are equally exploiting the surplus value of employees. Their efforts do not receive corresponding returns. The more you earn, the more exploited you are, and the happier you are. Similarly, the more you are exploited, the more you are... "

"It seems that this is not the logic, it is obviously a job offer, okay?" Lan Ji retorted.

"Yes, humans will set up all kinds of seemingly fair game rules, but in fact, any game rules are beneficial to the setter. For example, this Oak Barrel Space City has many versions of those contracts. They can come up with any version to restrict you according to their needs, and the person who signs the contract does not know at all, because no one will read those cumbersome legal texts, even if they read them, it is useless. There are too many legal clauses that are unfavorable to us. This is actually a model for building your own happiness on the pain of others."
Chapter completed!