I Have a Group of Earth Players
Chapter 711

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Lei Xue: "Captain, why are you so obsessed with the title 'Gou Dan'?"

Li Gou Dan: "It was the childhood name my mother gave me..."

Lei Xue: "But I heard your family is supposedly a wealthy clan, not some rural household..."

Li Gou Dan: "But the sentiment is the same. Rural people believe that the worse a name sounds, the easier it is to survive. When the Judge of the Underworld checks the register of life and death, he'll think a name like that doesn't belong to a 'person,' so it's easier to slip through. When I was born, I was a skinny little thing weighing just over three pounds. In ancient times, I would've been considered impossible to raise. But my mother was determined to keep me alive, so she gave me the name Gou Dan. Sure enough, after I turned one, she raised me until I was sturdier than any boy. By the time I was three, no one my age in the Li family compound could beat me!"

Lei Xue: "..."

Li Gou Dan: "I like this name because it represents my mother's determination to keep me alive. That wasn't easy. My mother was an artsy intellectual, and most artsy intellectual women are the type to moan over nothing and have self-destructive tendencies no matter how good their circumstances are. Yet she gave me such a rustic name for my sake. That shows how much she loved me..."

Lei Xue: "That sounds... oddly reasonable..."

"Right?" Li Gou Dan grinned, baring his neat, pearly white teeth. "That's why I named this ship Egg Dog. Just as my mother hoped I would grow up strong, I hope this ship will be just as tough as I am!"

The logic was so bizarre that Lei Xue stared blankly. After thinking

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