The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 688 - 692: Interstellar Heartthrob (11)

Chapter 688: Chapter 692: Interstellar Heartthrob (11)

As he neared his destination, Su Li stopped.

After the hurricane, without the cover of yellow sand, he could see the massive iconic building from a great distance.

However, he now called it the Bird’s Nest, though Su Li felt that "Bird’s Nest" was more fitting.

The Bird’s Nest looked orderly and intact, while a bird’s nest always seemed messy.

Describing it like this felt particularly apt.

The building in front of him had shifted from its original various metallic colors to yellow. A large section also lacked a roof, allowing the internal structure to be clearly seen from afar.

One could say that the scene before him was full of devastation.

Su Li was also slightly astonished; he didn’t expect these people to fall apart so easily without him.

Logically speaking, there were trained professionals inside the Bird’s Nest, and a new generation of Martial Arts power had emerged; only a shortage of energy bodies, if they had been inclined, could have been found rummaging through the garbage dumps.

The result...

The result was quite surprising indeed.

Su Li knew there would definitely be casualties, but he hadn’t anticipated that they would be so incompetent they couldn’t even preserve their stronghold.

He hadn’t paid attention to them for a while, and now they’d presented him with such a "surprise"; Su Li didn’t even know how to comment.

Judging by the situation, the areas of the building completely destroyed by the hurricane seemed to belong to the South, North, and West Corners.

By estimate, the West Corner had suffered the most damage.

With Su Li’s eyesight, which was countless times better than that of ordinary people, he could see the bodies of the elderly scattered about the West Corner.

Either they were too slow to hide, crushed by heavy objects toppled by the hurricane, or they were already ill and succumbed not to the need to escape, but to the shock itself.

Mostly, though, Su Li could tell they had died from man-made disasters.

For example, the corpse at the corner with footprints all over its clothing, clearly stomped on by the panicked crowd that had trampled over the person who had fallen to the ground.

The person’s face was no longer recognizable; their head had been crushed out of shape, looking both pitiful and horrifying.

Then there was another direction where there was an old lady, her abandoned cane and not far from her, a wheelchair forlornly left behind.

Su Li boldly guessed that she may have been abandoned by someone close to her.

Escaping with an elderly person with mobility issues was extraordinarily difficult.

From the old woman’s eyes, wide open in unwilling death, Su Li still discerned a complex look of disbelief interwoven with despair.

The complex and sinister nature of humanity, in the instant disaster struck, revealed its ugly face.

The original owner always thought the people he was helping were a group of kind and loveable people, which is why he had forced himself to be their protector.

Yet it was these "kind" people who had pushed him towards death unhesitatingly.

What drove them was nothing more than the word "benefit".

But looking at their current state, they had not suffered lightly either.

Heavenly Dao brings retribution; whom can the universe pardon?

Su Li then pursed his lips and looked away.

His feelings remained undisturbed; neither the natural disaster nor the human-made calamity was his doing. He was merely retracting the kindness the original owner had bestowed upon them.

Looking at another side, although the exterior of the building also had a layer of metal peeled off by the hurricane, it fortunately still stood strong.

This side must be the East Corner, with the highest defensive power.

However, something Su Li could not understand was that everyone knew the East Corner’s defenses were the strongest, yet before the hurricane arrived, why didn’t they think to take defensive measures or simply move people to the East Corner for shelter?

Just didn’t get it...

What Su Li didn’t know was that though they were aware, no one thought to do so for the sole reason that they were accustomed to it.

Accustomed to being sheltered under someone’s wings, resulting in the loss of their own ability to think independently.

Especially out of inertia.

In past years, hurricanes of varying sizes struck annually, and though they panicked, they never moved to the East Corner, but they still survived.

Most of the worry and fear they had about the disaster were not due to the hurricane itself but the concern that without sufficient supplies, they would face hard times.

Well, congratulations to them, they no longer need to endure tough times; they don’t even need to live at all, just buried under the yellow earth to sleep eternally.

So sometimes, a shift in thinking is really important.

At the same time, it was a lesson for those carefree elders, who thought they could stand alone, which was not the case.

They believed that after breaking away from the Lord, they could develop independently, but the harsh reality taught them that Daddy is Daddy, once a Daddy, always a Daddy.

Su Li could imagine that after they killed the original owner in his past life, he probably didn’t last much longer before he kicked the bucket.

His fate perhaps was even more miserable than the original owner’s.

Just look at the present, a hurricane they’ve experienced many times has left them so disheveled, not to mention various other difficulties and obstructions in the interstellar universe.

Beyond natural storms, human nature is even more terrifying.

They had survived before because the garbage star was completely unprofitable.

But the garbage star, slowly developed over more than a decade by the original owner, had completely changed.

At the least, it was qualified as a backup base, not to mention a rare mineral that had appeared on the planet.

Even though the Federation kept a tight lid on it, the news was bound to leak sooner or later.

When that time comes...

The fate of these people was bound to be miserable.

Enough about that, Su Li had already noticed several armored vehicles driving out of the Bird’s Nest.

These odd-shaped armored vehicles had been specially designed and adapted for the terrain here by the original owner and could traverse it as if it was flat ground.

And these vehicles, with a clear objective, headed directly toward Su Li.

It seemed that, even from a great distance, the survivors inside the Bird’s Nest had spotted him.

Su Li didn’t move, just stood there, grinning, waiting to meet these old acquaintances. It was bound to be an exciting and significant moment.

Exciting indeed, and so thrilling that his hands and feet trembled and his whole body shuddered.

"How dare he, how dare he show up..."

In the Bird’s Nest’s high tower, the elder was supported by his granddaughter and struck the table repeatedly with great emotion.

In front of him, Su Li’s handsome face appeared clearly on a scout display screen, even the smile tugging at his lips was distinctly visible.

A smile that used to be charming and mesmerizing was now even more bewitching, yet it made people’s hearts turn cold, like the smile of a demon.

Xue’er frowned and turned her head away, feeling ashamed for once having been enchanted by such a smile.