The soldier's voice turned more and more fervent as he continued to speak, "Chief Yu could have saved us. She could have sent a few ability users with us, but she didn't care about our lives. She left us to fend for ourselves. How can we not be disappointed in her?"
Another soldier blinked the tears that were flickering in his eyes and said to Fox, "Leader, I want to stop working for the army. I can't do this anymore. When I joined the base, I thought that they would give me a better place to stay and a job that would be respectful and would help me live a comfortable life. But today I realised that this job is simply a trap."
"No one cares about our lives and deaths. Even if we die, the chief will not even blink her eyes and fill our positions with someone else. But our families care for us, my parents love me, and I have siblings to care for. Even if I am not an ability user, there are people who love and care for me. I don't want to give up on my life for someone as heartless as Chief Yu. I want to leave the army. But will Chief Yu accept my resignation?"
"Why does it matter if she accepts the resignation or not? In this time and era, what can she do to you even if you run away from the army?" Fox looked at the soldiers with an inexplicable set of emotions. His lips, which were curved up, dropped, and he stopped smiling. The smile lines near his eyes also disappeared as he stopped smiling.
He said to the soldiers with a calm voice, "If you want, then you can follow Bai Meiyue. I will arrange for your families to follow you all very soon, don't worry. They will be safe under my command. You are right, even if Chief Yu doesn't care about you, your families do care about you all. You are their sons, brothers and husbands. They cannot survive without you."
"I believe following Bai Meiyue is better. You don't aim to do meritorious deeds and dominate the world. All you want is to survive. Bai Meiyue and the team under her wings have the same goals; they don't want to have any other ambition but to live a good life where they don't have to worry about anything else. Why do you have to worry about what Chief Yu would do? Since she doesn't care about your lives, you shouldn't care about her either. Once Bai Meiyue leaves, you should follow her and her team, just go with them and have them take you all in. There is no need to come back. I will bring your families to where Bai Meiyue will live in the future."
Fox was a bit disheartened, and the pain in his voice was obvious. Although he wanted to make great changes and have everyone know his name, he could still understand the pain and suffering of these soldiers. Using the lives of the soldiers to make the base bigger and bigger, it was really a cruel gamble.
With the invisibility talisman stuck on her clothes, she easily walked past the soldiers and ability users guarding the boundaries of the base and went to the warehouse number one. It was actually a garage that had been renovated into a warehouse. Bai Meiyue had already followed the guards around; thus, she knew the code as well as the security measures.
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