Tian Yin did not like hearing people speak ill of her uncle, but she was willing to be reasonable.
However, Qu Jianlei was not easily swayed by others.
He sneered as well. "You're weak, yet you resort to extortion and bullying the weak with your strength. Hillary, do you think you deserve to die?"
Hillary's lips moved as she tried to retort. She had never believed that she deserved death.
The weak did not deserve to live at all, while she herself was powerful.
But in the end, she still forcibly suppressed her anger and asked, "Just because I exerted a little Coercive Pressure on a mere B-rank, I have to pay such a huge price?"
Even now, she did not think she had done anything wrong by first refusing to save them and then seizing the "ownerless land."
From the bottom of her heart, she believed this was a "reasonable choice" any normal person would make.
Qu Jianlei looked at her strangely. "Who gave you the nerve to seize our spoils of war?"
"This..." Hillary truly had no answer to that.
If the other side had been weaker, she would have had plenty of excuses. But now... there was nothing she could say.
Then she looked coldly at Coning. "That is only your side of the story. I haven't taken any action yet."
She was clearly trying to muddle through. She might not be able to provoke the people opposite her, but could she not provoke Coning? Qu Jianlei shook his head and said indifferently, "We never intended to reason with you. One question: will you compensate us or not?"
He was not an unreasonable person, but since she had first refused to be reasonable with Tian Yin, he would not be so pedantic as to insist on reason