On the way to becoming the strongest, I first became a popular person.

"Why, are you shocked that I'm this kind of person?" Shi Chu looked down at Shen Xiuyin, who was trying to shrink back in the chair in panic, as if she was afraid of something, and chuckled softly.

"You...you devil..."

Shichu blinked innocently. Who would have the word "bad guy" written on their face? When you wanted to kill me, didn't you behave normally?

She lifted Shen Xiuyin's chin, looked into her eyes and said slowly: "Don't be afraid, I won't do anything to you."

"Even if you were sent to the front line to mine resources, at least you're still alive, right?"

Shen Xiuyin's heart skipped a beat, and an ominous premonition came to her mind. She realized that the smiling person in front of her was about to say words that would decide her fate.

Shi Chu narrowed his eyes slightly, and his gentle gaze slowly swept across her face. He raised his hand and gently brushed away the hair stuck to her face, and said in a faint voice: "Although you have been deprived of your status as a federal citizen, you still have a life, how great."

"If you're lucky, you might live to old age in the mining team, which would be a natural death."

She looked at the trembling and frightened person in front of her, a gentle smile appeared on her lips, and she said softly: "Don't worry, for the sake of our relationship, I will definitely ask them to protect you as much as possible. I won't let you die so easily. I will let you enjoy your life there. Maybe you can even find your own life there."

After hearing her words, Shen Xiuyin not only did not feel comforted, but became even more frightened. Her body trembled like a sieve, her teeth chattered, and the fear in her eyes almost overflowed.

The mining team on the front line, what is that place? It is the abyss of nightmares that everyone in the Federation fears. There, they are the cheapest labor force, the consumables that the Federation least needs, and there is no human rights at all.

Injuries are commonplace in the high-intensity labor from dawn to dusk, but the Federation will not provide them with medical resources, and the food is pitifully scarce, barely enough to sustain life. In addition, they must constantly avoid the attacks of star beasts, dance with death every day, and can only consume their lives in endless fear and despair.

What protection? She clearly wanted to lock herself up in the mining team at the front for the rest of her life, so that she would never be able to escape from that purgatory-like place, and would never be able to turn over, and could only struggle and die in despair.

From then on, she was a consumable without human rights in the front-line mining team. She would no longer have her own personality or even her own name. There, she would only be called by her service number, and then she would work day after day until her death in numbness and pain. Her body would be randomly abandoned in the wilderness, waiting to be eaten by star beasts.

All the efforts and schemes she had put into pursuing the power and wealth she desired would disappear like smoke and could never be grasped again.

From childhood to adulthood, she had made countless efforts to climb up the social ladder. After her mother died, her father became more and more distant from her. She tried her best to get a little bit of resources from the Shen family. In order to get admission to Icles College, she even gave up her own dignity and knelt in front of her father's door for three days and three nights, forcing him to agree.

But now, she was about to be deprived of her federal citizenship. Everything she had ever given would be wasted, and years of planning would come to nothing. This made her feel more desperate and uncomfortable than death.

Shen Xiuyin stood up from the chair with difficulty, and fell to her knees with a plop. She hugged the other person's legs tightly with both hands, tears welled up in her eyes, and her voice was sobbing: "I... I know I was wrong, Shichu, please, let me go. I really know I was wrong, don't do this to me, I beg you!"

Her body was shaking constantly, her forehead banged heavily on the ground, making a "bang bang" sound, and she kept begging for forgiveness: "I really know I was wrong, please, let me go..."

Shi Chu leaned down, pressed her shoulders with his left hand to stop her movements, and lifted her face with his right hand. Her originally delicate face was now covered with a mixture of dust and tears.

"Shen Xiuyin, you don't know that you are wrong, you know that you are really finished." She looked down at Shen Xiuyin's eyes and said word by word. Although there was a smile on her face, her tone was extremely cruel, like a poisoned dagger, stabbing into the other person's heart, determined to corrode the other person bit by bit.

After saying that, she ruthlessly pulled away, leaving Shen Xiuyin alone sitting on the cold floor of the meeting room.

"Then goodbye, Shen Xiuyin."

"Now cherish your last days as a citizen of the Federation. Life there is much more 'exciting' than on the main planet and must be very suitable for you."

Shi Chu looked back at her embarrassed appearance, smiled and said something softly, then opened the door and walked out.

"Are you OK?"

Luo Yanchuan, who was outside the door, came forward immediately. When the sheriff came out before, he actually planned to go in, but then he remembered what Shi Chu had said before, that he was not allowed to go in without being called, so he suppressed his restless heart.

He had been watching their actions carefully outside, just in case. He just didn't expect that she would be so gentle to someone who framed her, and smiled so gently to that guy, helped him wipe away the tears on his face, and stroked his face to comfort her.

Why does that guy deserve this? He didn't even enjoy this kind of treatment, Luo Yanchuan thought indignantly. That guy even knelt down and kowtowed, he must want her to help plead for mercy.

He secretly looked at Shichu's face, trying to observe something, but he couldn't find any abnormality. In the end, he could only ask tentatively: "Don't you have anything to tell me?"

Shi Chu looked at him strangely. What was wrong with him? He had to follow him for no apparent reason and was now saying something that made no sense.

"No." She turned to look at the sheriff on the other side and said calmly, "I'm done talking to her, and this meeting is over. Also, where is the restroom here?"

She looked at her hands with some disgust. There were still traces of Shen Xiuyin's tears on them, and they felt sticky, wet and disgusting.

"Miss Shichu, please go straight and turn right, then you will see it." The sheriff bent over, a respectful smile on his face, and his tone was humble and submissive.

Shi Chu turned around and was about to walk towards the bathroom when he suddenly heard a familiar voice and words behind him.

"I want to..." go too.

"Shut up and wait here." Shi Chu glared at him. Why were you going? He followed her just to wash her hands. What a psychopathic stalker.

"Oh." Luo Yanchuan stood there obediently and responded softly.

Shi Chu turned on the faucet, washed his hands slowly and carefully wiped the water droplets on his hands with the paper towel beside him, looked at the mirror in front of him, and slowly raised the corners of his mouth into a weird smile.

Shen Xiuyin, I wonder if you have the courage to accept your future. Will you choose to die as a federal citizen now? Or will you accept the fact and live numbly, becoming a walking corpse prisoner?

You value your identity so much, I am looking forward to your choice.