Free Web NovelChapter 2040: Chapter 2040: Taking People In for Refuge! We’ve Been Abandoned? Why?!
Mu Jinyu stepped into the VIP room.
Wang Qingxue glanced at the rest of them, hesitation flashing across her face, then followed him in as well.
She actually did kind of want to let more people come in to take shelter.
But unfortunately, this VIP room wasn’t hers.
Secondly, Mu Jinyu had just gone through something like that; he would definitely be on guard against others now and wouldn’t casually trust them anymore.
So naturally, it wasn’t her place to try to persuade him to let these people into the VIP room too.
Moreover, she felt that after those people attacked Mu Jinyu just now, Mu Jinyu might not even trust her anymore. How would she still dare to casually try and talk him into anything!
She just couldn’t help feeling a bit soft-hearted inside!
Mu Jinyu walked into the VIP room, and he was naturally in a very foul mood.
These people were really cheap.
He’d been the one who let them depart early for the Central Domain by ship; it was one thing not to be grateful, but they had even wanted to scam him out of his Source Stones.
Even that he could have tolerated!
But then when they ran into danger and there was a risk of shipwreck, instead of coming to discuss it properly with him and asking to be let in, they chose to try and force their way in and even went so far as to strike at him with killing intent.
This really made Mu Jinyu feel deeply disappointed in them!
After killing those Creation Realm cultivators just now, his killing intent had surged; for a moment he’d even wanted to kill those Life and Death Realm cultivators as well.
They weren’t any good either!
But in the end, Mu Jinyu’s heart was still a bit soft.
He couldn’t quite bear the thought of watching them, eyes wide open, fall into despair and die when the ship completely collapsed later!
He thought for a moment and muttered in his heart, "Among those Life and Death Realm cultivators just now, a few of them didn’t mock me in the main hall, and a few didn’t even attend that banquet at all. Those ones I can invite in..."
"As for the others, forget it!"
Thinking this, Mu Jinyu then walked out the door again.
The passengers on the ship, seeing Mu Jinyu kill those Creation Realm cultivators and then return to his VIP room, all let out long sighs of relief.
It felt really good to still be alive!
They had truly been afraid just now that after killing those people, Mu Jinyu would also decide not to spare them.
That would have been way too unjust to them.
But after breathing that sigh of relief, the emotions that followed were despair and powerlessness.
Unable to stay in the relatively safe VIP room, they could only remain outside, and in this extremely perilous Underworld Ghost Sea, they were basically doomed to die.
How could they not feel despair?
And since they weren’t allowed into that VIP room and had no ability to force their way in, they felt utterly powerless as well.
They could clearly see a sliver of hope, yet just couldn’t grasp it!
"Tap, tap..."
Just then, Mu Jinyu came out of the VIP room again.
This made everyone freeze for a moment, then grow anxious and uneasy, not knowing what he intended to do.
Mu Jinyu swept a cold gaze over the crowd, then pointed at more than ten of them and said, "You! You! And you! Come with me!"
Hearing Mu Jinyu’s words, the dozen or so people he pointed at couldn’t help getting extremely nervous, thinking Mu Jinyu wanted to do something to them.
But they remembered they hadn’t done anything to Mu Jinyu at all!
They hadn’t even harbored any harmful thoughts toward him...
They were worried sick, but didn’t dare disobey Mu Jinyu’s command, so they could only swallow hard a few times, then step out and walk toward him.
Seeing the look of going-to-their-deaths on their faces, Mu Jinyu couldn’t help finding it funny and said, "What kind of faces are those? You don’t want to come in? If you don’t, then forget it. I won’t force you!"
"What?"
"This..."
Hearing Mu Jinyu’s words, after a brief moment of shock, their faces were suddenly filled with wild joy and disbelief.
They had never imagined that being singled out by Mu Jinyu wasn’t because they were in danger, but because Mu Jinyu was actually preparing to let them move into the VIP room together to guard against the possible risk of shipwreck.
"N-n-no..."
"We’ll come in, we want to come in..."
After they reacted, they hurriedly apologized to Mu Jinyu for misunderstanding him, and stated directly that they did want to go in!
"Then hurry up and get in."
A trace of a smile appeared on Mu Jinyu’s face as he spoke casually.
Hearing this, the dozen or so people quickly bowed deeply to Mu Jinyu, then entered the VIP room in an orderly fashion.
After they’d all gone in, Mu Jinyu swept his gaze over the several dozen remaining passengers.
Seeing his look, they all grew excited yet anxious, hoping fervently that Mu Jinyu would choose them too, so they could also move into the VIP room and be much safer.
However, to their surprise, Mu Jinyu made no move to invite them at all. Instead, he withdrew his somewhat cold gaze and directly shut the VIP room’s main door.
And activated the Restrictions again.
Then, Mu Jinyu walked away!
He had abandoned them?!
Seeing this scene, the dozens of passengers felt their hearts turn ice-cold; waves of despair and disbelief surged up, along with that suffocating feeling of unwillingness!
Why were they the ones abandoned?
Why had those dozen people been accepted by Mu Jinyu?
They watched as Mu Jinyu was about to disappear from their sight.
Someone, unable to swallow the injustice, couldn’t help but ask, "Why? Why won’t you let us in? Why did you choose them? I want to know the reason!"
With that person’s question, the other passengers thought that since they couldn’t enter the VIP room and would only die sooner or later if they stayed outside, what did they have to fear from Mu Jinyu?
They wanted an explanation too!
Why had Mu Jinyu chosen to abandon them!
So they also joined in, questioning Mu Jinyu about why he’d singled out only them to abandon!
Were those people really any better than they were?
Hearing their questions and the growing clamor, Mu Jinyu couldn’t help but stop walking. He turned back and looked at them with indifferent eyes.
Then he let out a cold laugh and shook his head. "You’re asking why I won’t let you in? What face do you have to question me?"
"In essence, you’re the same as those Creation Realm cultivators I just killed. The only difference is that your Cultivation is too low, so you don’t dare make a move on me, or fight with them for it!"
"You think I can’t see what’s in your hearts?"
"The only reason you’re being this well-behaved right now is because you know you’re no match for me. Otherwise you would’ve already made a move on me!"
"So why would I let people like you, who harbor hostility toward me, go in? So you can become tigers I’ve raised to later bring calamity on me?"
"The fact that I’m not killing you already is pretty generous. And you still have the face to question me?! Get lost!!"
At the last word, Mu Jinyu’s expression suddenly darkened, and he bellowed in anger.
Hearing his roar, the group of passengers instantly turned pale with fright.
The courage they’d finally managed to muster to question Mu Jinyu was blown to pieces in an instant!
After that, none of them dared linger in the corridor any longer; they all scrambled back to their own rooms in a panic, stumbling over themselves!
Seeing this, Mu Jinyu snorted coldly and said with disdain, "And they still had the face to ask why I took them in but not you? If I’d refused them, they definitely wouldn’t be yapping at me this much. Just for that alone, I’m willing to take them in. What the hell are you, to dare raise your voice at me?!"
