Li Changtai moved "quietly" toward Peiqi. All he had to do afterward was pretend he knew nothing. With so many Sawtooth Beasts outside, she would probably be devoured in an instant, without even a chance to speak!
One step, two steps...
No one noticed Li Changtai's movements, even when he reached Peiqi's back. Excited, he gave her a hard shove toward the outside!
Imagining her being torn apart and devoured by all those Sawtooth Beasts, he couldn't help smiling!
But... the reality was fucking nothing like he'd imagined!
Wasn't she out of strength? Why was this cute girl, who looked barely five feet tall, sitting more firmly than a two-hundred-pound brute?
"Why did you push me?!" Peiqi cried out in shock and anguish, instantly drawing everyone's attention.
Li Changtai hurriedly pulled his hand back, but everyone had already seen it.
"Li Changtai! What are you doing?!" Professor Zheng's chest hurt with anger. That idiot! That complete idiot!
"Have you lost your mind?! Why did you push her?!"
"It must be because they wouldn't sell him anything, so he held a grudge! I even heard Li Changtai calling Captain Bai and the others butchers last time!"
"He brought that on himself! If I were Captain Bai, I wouldn't sell him anything either!"
The researchers were no fools. Before the apocalypse, they had been teachers or top students at various universities and research institutes. Even if they were a little inexperienced in social matters, they weren't so blind to right and wrong that they would automatically side with one of their own.
Peiqi stood straight up, her eyes red as she pointed at the group. "We protected you out of kindness, and you stab us in the back?! No matter what dangers we faced along the way, we never abandoned you, and