"There was no need to meet them. They weren't even from the same world as me." Shen Fei rose as he spoke, preparing to leave. As for the Rainbow Team, Rhodes Island could handle them.
"If they were fellow countrymen, I could look after them a little. Unfortunately, they aren't."
To Shen Fei, if there had been anyone from his homeland in the Rainbow Team, he could have taken care of them even if they were not from the same world. Unfortunately, there was no one like that.
And if they were talking about usefulness, that mad scientist Levi had played a far greater role on Terra than the Rainbow Team. If he had not died, Shen Fei might have sought him out and asked him to help study Originium. Judging from his attitude, he seemed to have discovered the need to research Originium over twenty years ago. However, for some unknown reason, the laboratory he had been in was later abandoned.
"Thank you for what happened to Alto." Kal'tsit nodded lightly before bringing up Alto's matter. Thanks to Shen Fei's warning, Alto had avoided a needless sacrifice this time. Unfortunately, Warfarin Mund had still failed to escape the Catastrophe.
All of it had naturally stemmed from a gambler's mentality. The food crops they had planted were about to ripen, the signs of the incoming Catastrophe had not been especially obvious, and the local lord and most of the guards had been taken away to attend some noble's wedding. There had been no one left locally with the authority to make a final decision.
Kal'tsit's expression did not change in the slightest as she spoke of it. She had seen such things countless times while traveling this land. Even so, Rhodes Island had still done everything it could to provide