As soon as the man finished speaking, someone beside him sneered. "You're just afraid of dying! If you're scared of death, don't come to the front lines and drag us down!"
The man flushed bright red and frantically shook his head. "No, no! I'm not afraid of dying! I'm..."
His lips trembled. He was so anxious that he could not think of anything to explain what he meant, making him look as though he really was afraid of death.
That only made him more embarrassed and angry. His fists clenched, and he wished he could rush out and fight the Zerg for three hundred rounds right then and there to prove he was no coward!
But everyone in the Holographic Meeting Room burst into laughter. The air, both inside and outside the room, was filled with cheer, and the chilly silence and grim tension from earlier vanished.
Xia Chujian tilted her head and looked at the head among the dark sea of people in the Holographic Meeting Room, already marked by the meeting's auxiliary Mechanical Intelligence. "This comrade is right."
"When we fight the Zerg, what we seek is not only to kill them efficiently, but also to preserve our own lives."
"Compared to the Zerg, our numbers put us at a disadvantage."
"If every one of you only thinks about bravely killing Zerg but forgets to protect your own lives, then at most, you are merely showing off individual courage."
"You would be of no help to the overall battlefield and might even end up aiding the enemy."
The man beside him who had mocked him earlier could no longer stand it and shouted, "How is sacrificing ourselves for our country aiding the enemy?!"
Xia Chujian said expressionlessly, "If you are like our Captain Chen Rongnan and pilot a