Chapter 335 The Greed of Lily's Students
Lily was very serious about teaching.
Because Steven had been quite nice to her, she wanted to repay him in this way.
However, actually learning it was not easy.
At the very least, Steven had to start by getting hit to train, to improve his body's defense.
Fortunately, Steven had been exercising regularly, so his physical condition was good and he could keep up with Lily's pace.
After two and a half hours of practice, he was drenched in sweat and his whole body ached.
"Your physical condition is pretty good, but achieving results won't happen overnight. You need to be mentally prepared." Lily wiped the sweat from her forehead and said to Steven.
"I'm not expecting to become some great combat master. I just want an extra means to save my life." Steven sat on the foam mat, panting.
Lily couldn't help but say, "Even Charles was killed by you. There aren't many people who can threaten your life."
Steven smirked and said lightly, "This world is full of surprises. No one should take their life lightly."
He knew very well why he could defeat Charles.
He relied entirely on the information gap and a lot of preparation in advance.
If the two of them didn't know each other's abilities and fought in an unfamiliar environment, Steven really wasn't confident he could beat Charles.
If his Dimension Door couldn't ambush Charles, he would be dead for sure.
"Let's continue tomorrow! I can't go on today," Steven said and stood up.
He took out a bag of food from the extradimensional space, enough to barely feed ten people.
He always kept his word.
Steven left the downstairs bathroom for Lily and went upstairs to shower.
Lily watched Steven go upstairs and couldn't help but think of Cindy's suggestion.
If those words had come from Steven, she would definitely worry about some conspiracy.
But she really couldn't suspect the paralyzed, innocent Cindy of having any bad intentions.
'Can I come live in this place?' Lily was a bit uncertain in her heart; she didn't like living under someone else's roof.
But this place was really too comfortable!
In fact, she was already starting to waver internally.
After Lily left, Earl came over and asked Steven, "Captain Rogers, we're going to West Mountain Base the day after tomorrow. Should I ask Lily to come along? The more people, the safer. To be honest, although we concluded that there are no survivors at West Mountain Base, no one has gone down to check, so it's full of uncertainties."
Henry couldn't help but tease him, "Earl, you're really too timid."
Earl chuckled, "Being cautious is never wrong! Captain Rogers taught me that."
Steven smiled, "Earl isn't wrong. But it's not appropriate to ask Lily now. She's not one of us yet. We're just in a cooperative relationship. If we ask her for help, I would owe her a favor. It's unnecessary. The few of us are enough. It's just searching the ruins; there won't be any risks."
Even high-level Psychics like Charles were eliminated, and Peter was burned to ashes by Steven. There shouldn't be any human threats inside the base.
On the other side, Lily left the shelter with mixed feelings.
On the way back, she was also thinking about what Cindy had said.
'Can I live in the shelter?'
Thinking about the superior living conditions in the shelter, it would be a lie to say she wasn't tempted.
But she needed to discuss this with her students.
Lily always felt that as a teacher, she needed to consider her students' feelings.
Actually, Cindy made a lot of sense.
Whether she moved into the shelter or not wouldn't affect the students' living conditions.
After all, Steven wouldn't let them all live in the shelter.
'In that case, moving to live with Steven and the others isn't impossible. I should discuss it with them and ask for their opinions. Actually, thinking about it, we do need to get closer to Steven so he can help everyone more!'
The more Lily thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed.
In Steven's words, Lily also longed to enjoy life; she just needed a reason to convince herself.
Lily returned to Cox Town.
When she placed the food she got from Steven in front of her students, the hungry students immediately exclaimed, "Great! We have food to eat."
Everyone rushed up and started grabbing.
Seeing them like this, Lily sighed slightly.
She looked at Nathan and Warren, who were now responsible for managing all the students.
Nathan had been modified by West Mountain Base and was the strongest among the students.
Warren had a good head on his shoulders and was the class president before, so he acted as the commander.
"Nathan, Warren, this morning I asked you to organize the students to go to the Mississippi River to break the ice and catch fish. How did it go?" Lily asked.
Warren's eyes were a bit evasive as he said, "Ms. Evans, you know, we already work hard every day pedaling bikes at West Mountain Base. Now that they can finally relax a bit, asking them to work in the freezing cold is too much."
Nathan frowned slightly and pointed to the table in the igloo, saying, "I did try to catch a few fish. But with the crude tools, just pickaxes and hoes, the efficiency is very low."
Lily saw the two pitiful carp on the table and felt quite disappointed.
In fact, she didn't know much about breaking ice to catch fish either.
Back then, the villagers of Cox Town succeeded only with the help of tools and sled dogs.
These students had no experience and the tools were not handy. Relying on this method to fill their stomachs was simply impossible.
Lily sighed and said to the two, "You need to think of ways to improve the efficiency of fishing. These foods are what Steven gave us according to our previous agreement. But don't expect he to keep supplying us. What will we do when the food runs out? We have to rely on our own efforts to survive in this cold apocalypse!"
Although Steven promised that as long as she taught him fighting techniques, he would provide some food.
But what kind of person was Steven? He never did a losing deal.
Moreover, the food Steven provided was limited and couldn't meet the needs of a dozen people.
Sure enough, after the students divided the food, they looked at the pitifully small portions in their hands and started complaining, "Why is there so little food, Ms. Evans? We can't get full."
"In this cold weather, not eating enough can easily make us sick."
Nathan quickly said, "Everyone, bear with it! Even this food was hard for Ms. Evans to get from Steven. We can't always rely on others; we need to get food ourselves. After eating, let's think about how we can solve the food problem."
They looked at each other, all showing reluctant expressions.
In such cold weather, braving the wind and snow to break ice on the river was too hard.
Moreover, they were not full and had no strength.
Warren looked at Lily and suddenly said, "Ms. Evans, since you go to teach Steven fighting techniques every day, can you ask him to let us live in his shelter too?"
He added, "Look, Aubrey and Cindy can live there. We're in the same class as them, so it shouldn't be too much to ask Steven to let us live there too."
Hearing Warren's words, the other students' eyes lit up.
"Yeah, Steven's shelter is so big, and there are only a dozen of us. We can definitely fit."
"We can eat less food and help him with work."
"If Cindy and Aubrey can live there, why can't we?"
These students were once the children of prominent figures in Starlight City and looked down on Cindy and Aubrey.
So they naturally thought they deserved better living conditions than Aubrey and Cindy.
Lily felt a bit speechless and explained, "You're different from them. Cindy is Steven's girlfriend's sister, and Aubrey is Cindy's best friend. You can't compare to that. Moreover, both of them have strong professional skills. That's why Steven let them live in the shelter. As for you, do you have these two qualities?"
The students were very unwilling.
They knew the reasoning, ut they were not reconciled.
Watching that paradise-like shelter across the river while they lived in igloos and ate Steven's charity food.
"Ms. Evans, please try harder!"
"You're our teacher; you must have a way!"
Everyone pinned their hopes for a better life on Lily.
Those eager eyes staring at Lily brought her immense pressure.
Lily originally planned to discuss Cindy's invitation to live in the shelter with her students, but now she couldn't bring it up.
Three days passed quickly.
Steven, Earl, and Henry had recovered to their best physical condition.
The three of them packed their gear and planned to go to West Mountain Base to see how much useful material they could recover.
Aubrey had also revised the design drawings for the defense line several times.
After Steven approved the final version, they decided to start construction as soon as Steven and the others brought back the building materials.
"By the way, can we repair our outer wall?" Steven hadn't forgotten the part of the outer wall destroyed by the special forces.
Aubrey said, "It was built with integrated casting, so repairing it will be difficult, but with some time, it's doable. However, the materials needed will be more complex."
Steven nodded. The outer wall repair wasn't urgent; its damage was about 20% and wouldn't affect living conditions.
"Make a list of the materials needed, and we'll look for them at the building materials company in the city," Steven said.
"Yes, Steven!" Aubrey playfully saluted, and Steven couldn't help but pinch her nose with a smile.
"Keep up the good work!" Steven said.
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