I'm just an assistant, I don't save people

"and many more."

You Mingli trotted after him and said anxiously, "I just don't understand why you would want to die like this. It's meaningless."

Zhang Jinglie did not stop. He knew all of You Mingli's thoughts, the things he couldn't figure out, and what he was afraid of.

If I were in your shoes back then, I wouldn’t be much better than You Mingli.

But at this moment, all his patience was gone.

Zhang Jinglie thought of his former close friends and teammates who had fought side by side with him, and continued walking in silence.

He needs to slow down and be patient.

"Be careful." You Mingli saw the long tongue and wanted to catch him back, but it was too late. A three-headed snake monster appeared from the left.

Zhang Jinglie remained calm, wielding a mid-level spiritual weapon and directly killing the snake demon.

"A snake demon that's only a few hundred years old dares to show up."

He shook off the blood on his clothes and walked away with an indifferent look on his face.

You Mingli stared blankly at the fallen snake head, then quickly walked away in panic, calling out, "Zhang Jinglie."

Zhang Jinglie still ignored him.

You Mingli had no choice but to continue following him. If he wanted to leave, he had to take Zhang Jinglie with him, otherwise he could not go back and he did not know where the camp ahead was.

Half an hour passed...

Hearing the footsteps behind him, Zhang Jinglue sighed and asked, "Do you know why we still need to build small towns and villages, and even camps, when the environment here is so harsh and there are so many monsters?"

When You Mingli heard Zhang Jinglie's question, he felt relieved, because it at least meant he had a chance to save himself.

You Mingli thought about what he had said and said, "To prevent the monsters from attacking Tianluo City?"

"Yes, what are the reasons for those people guarding this forest?"

"Protect Tianluo City."

"If they are injured and short of supplies, who will treat them and transport them?"

You Mingli was stunned for a moment and said, "We."

"Before the team set off, our storage containers were full of supplies. Because as long as one person arrived, there would be enough to last for two months. There were also medical supplies inside. Everything else can wait, but this can't."

"Do you know why the defenses outside the South Gate haven't collapsed yet? Because every small town, village, and camp has blocked the monster's attack. The thousand-year-old cloud spirit grass in the storage device is an important spiritual herb for detoxifying monsters, and it's delivered to the camp every once in a while.

Now the transport team is dead, and there are only two of us left. If we can't deliver it today, it is very likely that a place will be lost. The next monster to attack will be the gate of Tianluo City, your alley, and my yard."

"Are you going back now to see if your family and your academy will be scolded to death tomorrow, and if your teacher Qi Siji will be expelled?"

You Mingli stared at the dried bloodstains on his shoes and fell silent, as if he began to understand what Zhang Jinglie said.

Zhang Jinglie glanced at him and immediately guessed what he was thinking. "Do you think such an important matter shouldn't be left to two of us students?"

You Mingli nodded.

"You just said you were here to die?" Zhang Jinglie sneered at him and said in a deep voice, "Some people don't even have the qualifications to come here, and you can't carry anything on your shoulders or lift anything with your hands, but you can bow your head."

You Mingli asked, "So I'm considered quite powerful?"

Zhang Jinglie was shocked and really curious about how Qi Siji taught him.

Is it just reading according to the book without any expansion?

Zhang Jinglie slammed his head and said, "The powerful people are all fighting against the big monsters, you are nothing.

Outside the South Gate, transporting supplies is a relatively safe job. You just need to deliver them to the designated location according to the route.

The route we just walked on had been cleared by three exploration teams and five monster-killing teams. But this is a forest, the territory of monsters, and no one can guarantee that ten-thousand-year-old monsters won't appear."

You Mingli somewhat understood what he meant. Just like the final exams, the teachers at the United College could only drive away a large number of thousand-year-old monsters for the candidates, but they had no way to completely eliminate them.

This is a dangerous monster forest, a real exam.

You Mingli figured things out, but his fear was still hard to control, so he asked, "If we follow the boundaries, we are now on the outskirts of the forest and have encountered a ten-thousand-year-old monster. Aren't you afraid?"

"If you encounter something, you encounter it. The fear will pass after a while. When you encounter a big monster, you will find how ridiculous your current fear is."

You Mingli calmed down a lot and began to think about some issues.

He asked, "Why did the monsters attack Tianluo City?"

Zhang Jinglie sighed and said slowly: "If you are strong, the monsters are just resources and food. Otherwise, our identities will be reversed."

"Let me tell you a few more words. If I were to explain the conflict between the two races, I could spend three days and three nights explaining it all.

Back to your original question, why do the monsters attack Tianluo City? If they don’t attack Tianluo City, they can only wait for Tianluo City to continue to expand the city’s scope, and eventually become pets in cages.

In an even more ancient time, there were no cities, no territories belonging to humans, and we and the monsters lived in the Tianluo Forest.

Zhang Jinglue waved his hand and spoke to the surrounding forests, "Just like now, there are forests everywhere, and monsters everywhere. Humans can only live in small villages to avoid monsters.

In the eyes of monsters, we are just ants. It would be a waste of effort to step on us to death. Our human rights have been lost. It took countless generations of efforts for our ancestors to build cities on the plains. Finally, humans have their own territory and are qualified to be on equal footing with the monster king.

Therefore, any Tianluo person here must be determined to defend the city behind them even at the cost of their lives."

After hearing this, You Mingli was stunned at first, and then his expression became serious.

His brows furrowed slightly, lost in thought...

Soon his eyes gradually became firm. He slowly raised his head, straightened his spine, and said to himself, "So that's how it is."

Seeing that he had calmed down, Zhang Jinglie approached him and asked, "Do you still want to go back now?"

You Mingli said without hesitation, "I do."

Zhang Jinglie widened his eyes, thinking that he had wasted so much time and energy, and cursed Qi Siji for teaching such rotten students.

It's bad enough that Lin Yan, that freak, is from another world. Even You Mingli doesn't listen to me. I don't think Wen Linhai is anything either.

He was so angry that he almost died on the spot. Seeing this stubborn student still walking, he immediately asked, "Why don't you turn around?"

You Mingli said: "It's just a thought, but I know what I should do now."

"Hmm?" Zhang Jinglie was about to get angry, but stopped talking.

He looked at You Mingli and thought that it was acceptable that this little brat was able to control himself after experiencing such a terrible thing.