Planetary evolution, how come you're Ultraman?

He himself is still developing; his own life, as well as the lives of Su Qingyue and Chu Yao, are the most important.

Those strangers, they're dead, so what? What's it to him?

He's not a saint; he wouldn't put himself and his teammates in danger for the sake of these complete strangers.

When he first transmigrated here, he realized that to survive in this star realm, he had to take care of himself and his people first. The lives and deaths of others were none of his concern.

Su Qingyue leaned closer, saw the SOS messages, and said softly:

"Senior, those people are so pitiful, can we help them?"

Lin Chen shook his head and said:

"No, we're still in danger ourselves. We need to save Chu Yao first and get out of the radiation storm. We can't and don't need to worry about those people."

He paused, then continued:

"In this astral plane, everyone must be responsible for their own choices. If they cannot avoid danger, that is their business. We don't need to risk our lives for them."

Su Qingyue paused for a moment, then nodded and said:

"Oh, I understand, senior."

She also realized that in this astral realm, not everyone can be saved; first and foremost, she had to take care of herself.

Lin Chen increased the spaceship's speed to the maximum and flew towards Chu Yao's coordinates.

He didn't care about the lives of those strangers. All he wanted to do now was rescue Chu Yao, and then take the two of them to hide from the radiation storm so they could develop properly.

No matter how many other people die, it has nothing to do with him.

He wasn't a saint; he didn't have that much kindness to save complete strangers.

As for Ye Zi, he doesn't know her situation yet. She hasn't contacted him or given him the core, so her life or death is temporarily none of his concern. He'll consider saving her once she brings the core over.

Finally, Lin Chen arrived just fifteen minutes before the radiation storm was about to catch up with Chu Yao.

Chu Yao's spaceship was on the verge of collapse. The shield had dropped below 5%, and the outer shell of the spaceship had been touched by radiation and turned black. She herself was also on the verge of fainting.

Those three raiders had long since disappeared; they were also afraid of the radiation storm.

Lin Chen quickly opened the cabin door and brought Chu Yao inside.

Su Qingyue quickly stepped forward and used her healing abilities to help repair the damage to her body.

Chu Yao woke up, looked at Lin Chen, and said weakly:

"Lin Chen... thank you... I thought you weren't going to come and save me..."

Lin Chen shook his head and said:

"Your core is with me. If I don't come to save you, am I supposed to just watch you die? Don't worry, as long as you stay with me, I won't let you die. But as for the others, I don't care."

Chu Yao was stunned for a moment, then nodded. She understood. Lin Chen wasn't the kind of person who was overly kind; he only cared about his own people.

That's enough. She's one of Lin Chen's people now, and that's enough.

After settling Chu Yao in, Lin Chen immediately activated his hyperdimensional detection and began searching for a place to escape the radiation storm.

The radiation storm was too fast for them to outrun, so they had to find a resource planet with a thick crust to hide behind and block the radiation.

His own probe swept around and finally found a suitable place. Eight hundred kilometers away, there was an unclaimed resource planet with a thick crust that could block radiation. Other places were either too small or had too strong radiation, making it impossible to escape.

Lin Chen changed the direction of the spaceship and flew towards that resource planet.

On the way, the world channel was still refreshing with messages. Strangers were still asking for help, and some were sending private messages to Lin Chen, begging him to save them and saying they were willing to give him their cores.

Lin Chen didn't even look at them; he simply deleted all the private messages.

He doesn't need those people's cores right now. He hasn't even finished developing his own abilities. If he takes in those people's cores, he'll have to be responsible for saving them and raising them. It's just asking for trouble.

He's not a saint; he wouldn't do something so stupid.

Chu Yao sat beside him, watching Lin Chen delete those private messages, and couldn't help but laugh, saying:

"You really are something else, you have absolutely no kindness in you."

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow and said:

"Kindness? In this astral plane, can kindness put food on the table? If my kindness were to overflow, the three of us would all die here today."

He paused, then continued:

"I'm not saying you can't help others, but you have to take care of yourself and your people first before you can talk about anything else. Otherwise, if you can't even protect yourself, what are you talking about helping others? That's just nonsense."

Su Qingyue nodded and said:

"Yes, senior is right. I was thinking of saving those people before, but now I realize that we can't just save others when we haven't even taken care of ourselves."

Lin Chen nodded. "That's right, that's exactly it."

Soon, they arrived at that resource planet.

Sure enough, the black monster planet was there, devouring the front of the resource planet. Lin Chen led the two of them to hide on the back of the resource planet and shut down all signals so that the monster planet could not detect them.

Su Qingyue said:

"Senior, what if that monster planet discovers us?"

Lin Chen shook his head and said:

"No, my detector can block our signals, it can't detect us."

As he spoke, he activated the light conversion, began clearing the radiation from the back of the resource star, and converted that radiation into light energy to upgrade his own planet.

That radiation, which would be fatal to others, was a resource delivered to his doorstep.

Chu Yao organized their weapons and shields to prevent other raiders or monsters from launching a sneak attack.

Su Qingyue, on the other hand, began preparing a place to live on the surface of the planet.

Both of them were busy with their own things and paid no attention to the distress messages on the world channel or the lives of those strangers.

Those people, they're dead, that's none of their business.

What they need to do now is to develop properly and improve their strength.

Once they've developed themselves and are strong enough, they'll consider other things.

There's no rush now, and there's no need to rush.

Lin Chen is not a saint; he will not sacrifice his own interests for others. He will only prioritize taking care of himself and his teammates.

Su Qingyue was squatting in the rest area, carefully using her healing energy to treat the radiation burns on Chu Yao's arm. White light seeped from her fingertips, and the originally blackened and scorched skin returned to its pinkish color at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Chu Yao leaned against the cabin wall, stretched her newly recovered arm, and couldn't help but click her tongue in amazement.

"Qingyue, your superpower is amazing! I felt like my arm was about to break just now, but it's only been a few minutes and I'm perfectly fine."