Regardless of Han Jingjing and the others' attitude, the right move was to praise the authorities to the skies. He wasn't deliberately denigrating the base; he was simply describing the mindset of most people, which made his words all the more credible.
The benefits of speaking this way were obvious. It let him come across as completely sincere and made it easy for the others to understand him.
Lin Yifei giggled. "You're Brother Dao, right? You're the only engineer at Kengtou Base, and you can even sleep with the manager of internal affairs whenever you like. I bet you can sleep with any other woman in the base, too. And you're willing to give up a good life like that? Can you bear to? If you join the authorities, you won't be so free and easy. Once they take over the base, they won't let anyone have privileges like that."
Brother Dao awkwardly scratched his head. That really was the privilege he'd find hardest to give up.
Still, Brother Dao had thought things through carefully.
"To be honest, I do have a bit of a weakness for women, and I really am popular with them. This privilege does make me happy. But compared to staying alive, is this really a difficult choice? Besides, if Kengtou Base really is colluding with the aliens and using everyone's lives to satisfy a few people's ambitions, anyone with half a brain knows what to choose, right?"
At this, Brother Dao chuckled. "Privileges or no privileges, it doesn't really affect my ability to sleep with women. Back in the Sunny Era, in a society governed by the rule of law, I didn't have this privilege either. But I was still fairly popular with women. If a man has talent and resources, there'll always be women