A child of about eight or nine years old, yet his presence was in no way inferior to that of a thirty-year-old man.

Li Yuan approached Tike, "Because you're unwilling to accept it, you want to lead those people to their deaths? Do you think every captain who buys you will grant you freedom? Many of your kin might be living lives worse than animals on some ship! How many more are waiting to be bought and forced into a lifetime of unpaid labor?"

"For the anger and hatred in your heart, are you going to lead those twenty Mutants to their deaths? To squander the only hope of saving your people? Tike, how can you even think of being a teacher with such short-sightedness?"

The conference room fell silent, even the furious Tike was left speechless.