As Shi Tian concluded his thoughts, he resolved to honor the fallen soldiers in the best way he could.
Despite the ongoing chaos and instability of the world, he understood the significance of paying respect to those who had lost their lives in this tumultuous landscape.
"You may have been forgotten since no one would be bothered to send your corpses back to Gearits City. But at the very least, you can rest in peace, unlike so other unfortunate beings." Shi Tian mumbled softly.
Gently walking over to the pile of corpses, he took a mont to set up a makeshift morial.
Gathering rocks and wooden remnants from the battlefield, he carefully constructed a small altar to commorate the fallen soldiers. Placing so wildflowers and whatever remnants of respect he could conjure up, he created a touching tribute to the departed souls.
While Shi Tian was busy doing this, Mary smiled softly in the Iron Sentinel.
"Look at him, always acting so cold-hearted, but it seed like he still had so heart." Mary calmly said, turning her attention to Vanessa.
"I'm sure his inner nature isn't bad, but it's just that the world is an unforgiving place. He probably doesn't want to show his weakness to anyone." Vanessa chid in.
The ti she spent with him wasn't much, but she could feel that despite his shrewdness, there was a hint of humanity left in him.
"Whatever, he's probably doing this to repay his gratitude for the resources he looted from them. The resources should be decent enough to warrant him to do such acts." Mary stretched her arms.
Although she knew there was sothing fishy, she decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.
"Why does it seem like Nathan is doing this with a nefarious intention now that I've heard you?" Vanessa raised an eyebrow, seemingly suspicious of Shi Tian's action.
"Could it be that he's going to demand so money from the deceased soldiers' families?" She suddenly gasped and looked at Mary in disbelief.
Mary quickly faked a few coughs, clearly not trying to answer that question.
Truth be told, she ca to such a conclusion as well but found it rude to point it out.
Who told Shi Tian to always be so calculative and shrewd?
Because of his character, it had beco increasingly difficult for anyone to believe he would ever do sothing out of goodwill without trying to look for benefits.
Poor Shi Tian didn't know the two won were judging him so poorly and was focused on continuing his business.
As the makeshift morial took shape, he whispered a silent prayer, a plea for their souls to find peace in this ravaged world.
Even though their nas and faces were unknown to him, he at least gave them a proper burial compared to most unfortunate ones that can't even have a morial tablet.
"Rest assured, deceased soldiers. I have taken a picture of each one of you, so if your family ever cos up to . I'll make sure to send them the picture, albeit with a bit of reward." Shi Tian mumbled, not feeling a bit ashad of his conduct.
What he did was considered magnanimous already.
Just the fact that he wouldn't actively look for the deceased soldiers' families was his gratitude for looting them.
Clasping his hands, Shi Tian returned to the Iron Sentinel promptly.
As soon as Shi Tian arrived at the front, Vanessa looked at him and asked, "So, are you going to demand paynt from the deceased soldiers' families?"
Unlike Mary, who was going to keep silent since she did not wish to pry information from others, she was still sowhat curious.
Starting the vehicle, Mary pretended to focus on driving but actually had it on auto-driving mode as she perked her ears up to listen in.
Shi Tian didn't plan on hiding his intention either, so he was directly confused.
"Yes, I will naturally demand paynt for such works since I'm not the one that got them killed. But I also won't actively search for them unless they co to themselves." He shrugged his shoulders and responded.
Call him cold-hearted or disgusting or whatever insulting term you have in your mind. But he was soone doing his best to survive. It might seem immoral, but at the very least, he wasn't like so criminals who would actively search for troubles from others to sustain themselves.
Hell, there were even worse criminals who were willing to kidnap won to pleasure themselves and possibly even kill them later on as well.
Comparing these vile villains, Shi Tian's actions could be considered mild and gentle.
While Shi Tian was having such a thought process regarding his action, Mary and Vanessa only silently glanced at each other. They were speechless that their intuition was correct, and that Shi Tian was truly a profit seeker in any situation.
Given that the atmosphere had turned sowhat awkward, Shi Tian was also too lazy to have a conversation. Taking a seat by the side, Shi Tian ntally began to recalculate the resources he had managed to gain this ti.
Ti slowly passed by, and Mary soon drove the Iron Sentinel back to the camp area.
Although not many days had passed since they had left the camp, it still felt like an eternity with the amount of turbulence and obstacles they had to deal with.
What was worse was that Mary seed to have realized there might be more troubles back here.
"Trouble after another… just which one of you is the bane?" Mary exclaid in disbelief when she saw the scene up ahead.
Her limit was reaching near the end as she turned to Vanessa and Shi Tian, seemingly trying to discern who was the unlucky star in their group that constantly attracted trouble.
And before Vanessa could even speak up, Shi Tian smoothly raised his hand and pointed his finger at Vanessa.
"It's obviously Vanessa. There's no other possible candidate." Shi Tian responded, extrely smoothly and swiftly throwing her under the bus without hesitation.
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