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Chapter 206 Expectations for Friends

Listening to the footsteps of the dragon hunter leaving, Huang Xuan said incredibly: "What the hell is he doing!?"

Hu Bo said: "Perform the duties of a representative. Before you, he was the previous street representative. When the streets are in trouble, the representative needs to go up and make sacrifices for everyone."

"Of course I know the representative system. I want to ask him why he did this? Is it because Sean exploded Tianxuan Yudong??"

Sean said, "I'm also very curious. For you, protecting a stranger like me will not be worth the effort."

"Is the gain not worth the loss?" Hu Bo sighed, "It is indeed not worth the loss, but the people in the slums are not qualified to care about any gains and losses."

"If you are patient, you might as well listen to me tell a little story. I am not a local galaxy. More than ten years ago, I came to [Li] with all my assets, because I heard that this is one of the most prosperous commercial ports in the surrounding galaxies, and it is also one of the few open windows for the prosperous and wealthy galaxy to outsiders."

"Objectively speaking, [Li] is indeed an absolute paradise for travelers like me. But even in paradise, there will be exceptional unlucky guys. I am the unlucky guy. I have been here for five years and finally owned my own shop in Tianxuan District 7. For travelers at the bottom, it seems that they have their own home on a lonely journey. However, less than a year later, my shop went bankrupt."

Huang Xuan asked, "Why?"

"Because my main bank suddenly said that I would take back all the loans, and I was at the time of the most tight capital chain." Hu Bo shrugged, "After the shop went bankrupt, I was carrying unimaginable debts. Even if I killed me, I couldn't afford it. I had no choice but to come to Tianhuang District 5, and then I never had the chance to come back."

Sean asked, "Who did you offend?"

"It has nothing to do with whom I offended. The bank took back the loan because I received funding from someone when I opened the store. The man heard that it was completely banned by the upper class because of a medical dispute. All financial transactions related to him were forcibly cut off, and I was purely implicated."

Sean moved his lips and wanted to ask a question, but finally swallowed the question back.

Because that answer is no longer important.

Hu Bo said again: "For me, that was purely a disaster. When I received the funding, he was still a famous star doctor of Nirvana. His investment was more valuable than simple money, and the funding procedure had no flaws. Why did you suddenly make things difficult for me afterwards? I tried to argue and struggled to the death. I carefully studied every law of [Li], checked a large amount of information from Qiankun Group in recent years, and tried to convince the bank to let me go once, or give me justice. However, it was useless. No one listened to me, and no one even cared about the right or wrong of the truth. I was like regular excrement in Tianxuan District, sliding all the way here."

"Then, in the slums, I looked back countless times, trying to figure out what I did wrong, and at which point made a mistake in the decision, which ended in this way... But unfortunately, no matter how I think about it, I can't think of my mistakes. Even if I do it ten times again, I will still make the same choice and then end up with the same fate. So, tell me, what's the use of weighing the pros and cons for me?"

Sean remained silent.

Hu Bo's tragedy has nothing to do with weighing the pros and cons, because the personal weighing is not worth mentioning at all under the sweeping trend.

"There are too many examples here except me. The Puxian couple was once a university professor, can't tell? The Wookie had owned their own spaceship... There was only the red-faced man, no one knew his past. He only heard that he was working for the Hutt man, but no one had seen the Hutt man behind him. In short, most of the people on this street have suffered from weighing the pros and cons, and it is clear that the pros and cons are weighing the pros and cons with those far better than themselves is purely a joke. Over time, he has an instinctive resistance to weighing the pros and cons."

Hu Bo said again: "For example, just now, the Dragon Hunter asked us to hand over someone. If we consider the pros and cons, we should indeed betray you for self-protection. But if we betray you, they will still not let us go? They can say, "I know that you were lying to me that time, and then killed this place to death, but we have no means of restraint."

Sean nodded, it was indeed very likely.

"In recent years, the lesson that slums have bought with countless blood and tears is to not be superstitious about weighing pros and cons. The more you calculate, the more you will lose in the end. Compared with interests, what is more important is principles, and the enlightenment and courage to practice the principles at all costs."

"Not cooperating with the upper class is the principle of our street. Puxianren stood up and practiced this principle at all costs. He could retreat at the last minute, which was a better choice for him. In fact, he could just betray you and exchange everything he had in Tianxuan District. Unlike me, Puxianren and his wife still have the chance to start over."

"But he didn't do that. He gave up his life without hesitation and replaced it with anyone else - well, it should be said that most leaders of the streets would do the same. This is also the reason why we were chosen as leaders. After all, we cannot ask everyone to ignore the pros and cons and adhere to the principles. Faced with the explosive guns and electric rods of the mercenaries, most ordinary people still choose to surrender and choose to consider the pros and cons. This is human nature, and there is no way to force it. But we cannot surrender to human nature, which is a precious quality that is not much left in the slums."

Sean was silent for a while and asked, "Your principle is not to cooperate with the upper class. What has adhered to such principles brought to you?"

Hu Bo said: "Haha, we won't consider those issues, and we are obsessed with what they bring. It's just a weighing of the pros and cons of the variant. But what we must say is, I think it is this principle that brings unity to the slums. For those of us who have fallen to the bottom, the biggest threat is not from the upper class. Although they hate us, they will not kill us. On the contrary, as the bottom of the ecological chain, slums can help them digest a lot of garbage."

"The real threat comes from ourselves. Once we, the crowded lower-class people, began to kill each other for personal gain, the complete destruction of the slum is near. Although many people think that the slum in Tianhuang District is purely a burden, for us, it is the only redemption when we are desperate. Therefore, it is better to regard it as the overall survival of the slum, and people must always stand up and do stupid things and then become the heroes that the people are willing to follow."
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