Reboot: Mechanic

As Phoebe promptly left the scene of the battlefield with her soldiers, Shi Tian glanced over at the pile of corpses. 

His expression was somewhat complicated as he couldn't find a word to describe the scene.

These soldiers who followed the orders of their commanders and had their life forfeited, couldn't even get a proper burial. 

Matter of fact, they were even left to rot by the pollution or some monsters that might be hiding to feast on their corpse.

"They really aren't great people." Vanessa suddenly exclaimed. 

"For a petty reason, they caused such casualties, and didn't even bother to mention or regret their actions." She added, feeling somewhat bitter. 

Naturally, she had ordered some people to die in the past, but it was always for a proper reason. Never once had she indiscriminately had someone killed because of a petty reason. 

"Did you really think they would care how many soldiers they have lost?" Shi Tian snickered coldly. 

"The world isn't filled with rainbows, and you should have understood that fact by now. Even you, yourself, had nearly lost your life twice, but did anyone feel bad for you?" 

"I know, but it just doesn't feel right. We're all humans, struggling to survive in this forsaken world. So why must we still have infighting?" 

It wasn't that Vanessa didn't understand the circumstances, but the fact that she couldn't comprehend why humans must be so fickle. 

Shouldn't they all be working together to restore humanity and wipe out all the beasts that had overtaken the world? 

Alas, Shi Tian merely shook his head when he realized Vanessa was hopeless. 

She was too naive despite all the experiences she had gone through.

Ignoring her, Shi Tian walked toward the pile of corpses and began scavenging for loot. 

Phoebe and Benedict might be a spendthrift and were unwilling to retrieve any of their equipment from the deceased soldiers, but not for him.

As if he would let such equipment and resources rot here.

Vanessa was visibly stunned by Shi Tian's actions. 

"Do you have any shame?" She asked in a disbelief tone.

"Do you even know the difficulty of surviving in this world by being alone?" Shi Tian didn't even need to reply to her when Mary stepped in and scolded Vanessa. 

"You are pampered from the moment you are born, but not everyone is lucky and blessed like you. For people like Nathan, who only had himself to rely on. Resources, no matter how trivial it is, he will look at it as if it was a pot of gold or fortune." She then explained, not feeling disgusted by Shi Tian. 

In fact, she respected Shi Tian's actions for not being a spendthrift.

This was practically a golden opportunity to increase his inventory, and he would have been a fool to simply let it rot in place. 

And seeing Shi Tian looting with such a solemn expression, extremely adamant about not missing any single resource, Vanessa began to question herself.

She was wondering if she would do the same action as him. Mary's words struck a chord in her, and she came to realize just how much of a spoiled brat she was.

No, it wasn't even a spoiled brat at this point. It was her being ungrateful despite having everything handed to her whenever she wanted. Yet she still acted impulsively and believed her family was restraining her.

Looking back, she realized her petty little scheme to obtain a big business for her family was simply nothing but a fart in their eyes when comparing how much the family treated her.

"Was Nathan always so frugal like this?" Vanessa turned to Mary and asked, seemingly curious about how Shi Tian lived. 

Meanwhile, Mary shrugged her shoulders in response. The time that she knew Shi Tian was no longer than the time Shi Tian had encountered Vanessa.

"The only thing I can say is that his identity is completely mysterious," Mary responded in a low but subtle tone. 

"I've tried to investigate him, but there were practically zero traces of him. However, I do know he isn't rich and was extremely stingy in his spending."

Mary paused her remarks there, allowing Vanessa to think of the answer herself.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Vanessa to realize the only time that Shi Tian had spent a lot of money was when he stocked up the refrigerator with food for her.

Though, she had to cough up the money in the end, proving just how irritating he was.

Sometime later, Shi Tian finished looting all the corpses, as he stood near the center and silently prayed for them. He might not know them, but thanks to their possession, he had managed to gain quite a fruitful loot. 

As the saying goes, those who helped you shall be respected. And those who harmed you, make sure to repay them twice or many times whenever the chance shows up.

After the praying was done, Shi Tian returned to the two women's side. 

"What are you two discussing?" He then asked. "It's probably about me being unethical, right?" 

"How did you know?" Vanessa accidentally had a slip of mouth. 

As she messed up, she bit her lips softly, seemingly trying to avoid eye contact with Shi Tian.

"I don't think it's unethical. Only Vanessa here is the spoiled one." Mary calmly replied when she noticed Shi Tian was looking at her. Announcing that she wasn't prejudiced, Mary soon went back to the Iron Sentinel, preparing for departure.

As for Vanessa, she held a guilty look as she sneakily followed Mary behind, promptly avoiding Shi Tian's stare. 

Shaking his head, Shi Tian was dumbfounded by her childish act. Since he dared to do such things, then would he really care about how others think of him?

'The battlefield between these two commanders might have benefited me in the end. But who knows how many families had to deal with their lost members now?' Shi Tian exclaimed inwardly, glancing at the pile of corpses ahead.