The Value of Something

I mean, I couldn't be the only one thinking that was an asinine idea, right?

"It's not a bad idea," I said after a long pause when no one else spoke. "But I don't think that this is the right time. Let's get the city set up for human habitation first. I am sure that there are going to be a lot of things that we need to tackle before we can take on more people."

There, that made sense, right?

"She does have a point," interjected Lai Dan Dan as she looked up at Chang Guo Zi. "At the very least, we can trust the people here to all be on the same page as us. That might not be the case with outsiders. I don't want to wake up one morning and have all of our supplies stolen simply because we rescued someone we shouldn't have. No one wants another Wu Bai Hee."

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Zhao Jun Jie flinch at that statement. But Lai Dan Dan wasn't wrong.