Li Tianming desperately wanted to join, but his current circumstances prevented him from doing so.
Qin Siyang understood how he felt.
Li Tianming was not like Qian Wendao or Gu Weiyang, someone willing to sacrifice everything-even his own life-for the collective good.
He was more like Zuo You, someone who cared about the collective good but did not disregard the feelings of his loved ones.
Emotionally speaking, people like them were the normal majority.
Zuo You did not want to join the Expedition Team because his loved ones were in the Safe Zone.
Li Tianming wanted to join the Expedition Team because his loved ones were on it.
But Qin Siyang could not take Li Tianming, the most versatile top researcher in the Safe Zone, away just for the sake of his own expedition.
He had many things to consider now, just as many as Qian Wendao and Gu Weiyang.
Even if he was not that sort of person himself, he was inevitably moving in that direction.
Qin Siyang now felt that perhaps Qian Wendao and Gu Weiyang had not been born with those personalities either. After all, acting that way truly went against human nature.
They, too, might have constantly reflected on themselves amid personal changes and the environments they grew up in, arriving here one step at a time.
Just like everything he was going through now.
Qin Siyang was now the [Domain Master] of the Eighth Domain. He had to take responsibility for everyone in it.
Even if he returned successfully from his expedition, he could only secure the Eighth Domain's upper limit.
While he was away, he still needed Li Tianming to help safeguard its lower limit.
Old Li was still the same Old Li, but Xiao Qin was no longer the same Xiao Qin.
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