Chapter 104
Was the Three Gorges Fortress a good place?
Yes!
It was much better than they had imagined. At least it had everything they needed, and the residential area was already much like the outside world used to be.
Everyone lived together without having to worry about what happened outside.
For some people, this was the best choice. Staying here was far better than risking their lives outside.
But...
Deep down, Lin Yi felt a certain aversion to fortresses like this.
It wasn't that he looked down on them. Rather, the people who founded them had thought things through far too simply.
The more people gathered in one place, the more attractive it became to those massive Aberrations, and the more dangerous the fortress would become.
Without overwhelming strength, fortresses and settlements like this were nothing more than communal graves, liable to collapse into disaster at any moment.
But when fleeting comfort lay right before their eyes, many people overlooked the danger lurking behind it.
Perhaps, in the eyes of the people in the fortress, Sequence Transcendents were beings who could protect them.
They might even take it for granted that they deserved that protection.
But Sequence Transcendents were people too.
Were Sequence Transcendents supposed to throw away their lives, regardless of the cost, just to protect the people inside the fortress?
Lin Yi knew in his heart that he could never do that.
After all, when faced with mortal danger, he was the kind of person who constantly considered whether to abandon his teammates. There was no way he would risk his life for a bunch of strangers.
Liu Chuan wouldn't either. The Liu Chuan of today was no longer the man who worried about everyone else's safety.
He, too, had now come to recognize the reality of