The Strong Female Lead Versus The Most Miserable Male Lead
Chapter 340 - 338: What’s the Plan?

Chapter 340: Chapter 338: What’s the Plan?

"There are supplies!"

Big Man shouted, but still, no one cheered; instead, they looked at Big Man with a bit of worry. What are you talking about?

Their doubting glances made Big Man shout again, "It’s true! We’ve succeeded this time!"

The people below hesitated. Really?

At this moment, Lin Mu stepped forward and gave Big Man a kick.

"Quit dawdling."

"Move the stuff," Lin Mu said, prompting an immediate cheer from the crowd. If Eldest said there were supplies, then there truly were.

After disembarking the Starship, the others successively followed Lin Mu down.

The girl who initially led Nian Shutong and the others noticed Lin Mu’s injury first.

"Eldest, you’re hurt."

"It’s nothing."

The girl looked worried and tried to help Lin Mu, but Lin Mu refused her assistance.

Following behind, Nian Shutong said to the girl, "It’s better not to touch her."

"Huh?" The girl didn’t quite understand but still hurriedly asked, "How did Eldest get hurt?"

"She was beaten up."

Nian Shutong answered matter-of-factly, leaving the girl tilting her head, eyes wide in astonishment.

"What are you looking at me for? I didn’t say anything wrong. She went out to fight, lost, and ended up like this." Nian Shutong asked the girl meaningfully, "Did you think she went out to play or something?"

The comment made the girl feel both ashamed and angry as she looked down and mumbled with a nasal tone, "I know, I know, it’s all because we held her back."

Nian Shutong didn’t say anything more but instead followed Lin Mu to the edge of the protective shield, even stepping outside of it.

Lin Mu was about to warn Nian Shutong about the radiation, but then she thought of Nian Shutong’s strength and ended up saying nothing.

Meanwhile, every cell in Nian Shutong’s body seemed active, eagerly absorbing the toxins in the area.

To her, the interstellar radiation was nothing but a tonic.

Nian Shutong followed leisurely behind Lin Mu, comfortably absorbing the surrounding toxins, very much at ease.

She kept thinking, if only she had known she should have seized the time to come out and cultivate.

"Why did you follow me back?"

Lin Mu finally stopped, turned around, and looked at Nian Shutong who seemed to be enjoying herself behind her.

Is this what separates Level 1 from S-rank?

Interrupted, Nian Shutong ceased absorbing the toxins and took a step forward.

"At first, I just thought you all were interesting. Back then, we truly had nowhere to go, so I just tagged along."

"And after that?" Lin Mu asked again.

Nian Shutong shrugged her shoulders and said calmly, "I stayed to see the people here."

The people here?

Lin Mu didn’t understand. What was so interesting about the people here?

"The people here have done nothing wrong; they’re just folks who’ve offended some powerful individual over a trifle and ended up as fugitives."

"Maybe life here isn’t any better than on a trash star or in a mine, but at the very least, you’re treated with respect, not like an animal to be enslaved."

At that moment, Nian Shutong pulled out two lounge chairs, offering one to Lin Mu.

"Let’s sit down and talk."

She comfortably lay on hers and began, "You’re right. I took a liking to these people, or to be precise, all people here, including you."

Nian Shutong was so full of admiration when he talked about Lin Mu that he even sat up to look at him more intently.

"I admire you, and I respect you, you actually endured the agony of shattered meridians and still managed to cultivate your physical ability to Level 1, you’re strong."

Nian Shutong’s words made Lin Mu, who was seated opposite him, become guarded in the blink of an eye.

No one knew about his shattered meridians, only his family members were aware of it. So why did she know?

Nian Shutong waved her hand at Lin Mu and said, "Don’t be nervous, it’s not only enemies who know these things, doctors know them as well."

Lin Mu furrowed his brow, skeptical, "You’re a doctor?"

She truly found it hard to believe — were doctors really this decisive in killing?

"Hmm? Don’t believe me?"

Reflecting on herself, Nian Shutong said, "That can’t be right, could it be that my killing methods today were not professional enough?"

With that, a hint of a smile crossed Lin Mu’s face, but he quickly suppressed it.

The two of them didn’t bring up the subject of the shattered meridians again — one didn’t want to discuss it, and the other felt it wasn’t the right time.

Nian Shutong had also only just met Lin Mu, and just like Fu Yunhe, even though she knew his constitution wasn’t up to par at the beginning, she had never thought about treating him.

Things took time.

Lin Mu used the radiation from outside to suppress the constant pain of his shattered meridians within his body.

His meridians would break, heal, and break again in a never-ending cycle.

Such pain, even experiencing it once, was enough to cost one half their life, yet Lin Mu was enduring it every second.

This was the reason Nian Shutong respected her.

"What are you planning to do with these people?"

Lin Mu inquired again.

"Farm," said Nian Shutong, "I have land but no people, I need people to farm it."

Nian Shutong looked at Lin Mu seriously and said, "If you’re willing, all of you can come with me. Don’t worry about your fugitive status, don’t worry about water supply, and stop being an unqualified star thief. You won’t have to live in the scorching heat every day, and most importantly, you’ll have enough to eat and drink."

"How about it? Are you willing?"

Willing?

Lin Mu didn’t know.

At the beginning on Desert Star, it was just her. One trip out, she rescued a few people, and every subsequent trip resulted in a few more rescues.

Shared experiences brought them together.

"I don’t know, and I don’t have the right to decide for others, they are free."

"Alright, I’ll give you three days to decide. If you choose to come with me, you are most welcome."

Nian Shutong packed up her own chair but left the other one. She casually turned her back to Lin Mu and said, "A return gift for the use of your tent."

Watching Nian Shutong walk away, Lin Mu envied her nonchalance.

The envied Nian Shutong returned to her tent first.

Standing at the entrance, she said to the few people inside, "Make yourselves comfortable. Do what you want to do, eat what you want to eat."

"Good person, Ha Ha doesn’t feel like dying at all!"

"Auntie, Dou Dou doesn’t feel like it’s the end of the world!"

The two sentences rang out together, with only Fu Yunhe smart enough to keep quiet, but he didn’t feel particularly proud of that.

After all, besting a Ha Ha and a three-year-old Dou Dou wasn’t exactly a glorious achievement.

Nian Shutong blinked twice on the spot, recalling what she had just said.

It seemed... there was a little... just a tiny bit of ambiguity.

"Don’t overthink it, we’ll leave in three days. No need to hide anymore, eat what you want to eat, just don’t expose our star."