The soldier was speechless for a moment, listening to his officer.
What did he mean, “the steel gate is shut tight”? The phrase itself sounded like a physical tension.
The officer continued to lounge in his recliner, swaying gently, as he looked out at the vast, desolate North District beyond the steel gate and sneered.
“This damn place is scorching hot.”
“Little Wang, go get me a bottle of ice water, I’m parched!”
The soldier, called by name, quickly fetched the water, then cautiously asked:
“Officer, what if someone actually tries to force their way through? We can’t actually kill them, can we?”
The corpulent officer glanced at him. “I don’t believe they’d dare! Hahaha, at worst, we’ll just beat them up!”
Below the city gate.
The Dean of Tiandou Academy quickly disembarked and hurried to the North District city gate, speaking to the security officer at the entrance.
“We are participants of this Graduation Show, just returned from the North District.”
“These are all registered students, Inner City residents. Isn’t this unnecessary?”
But all he received was a cold, hard reply.
“Graduation Show? No show is exempt. Please disembark.”
Wan Qianhong also stepped forward from behind, displaying her identity card.
“I am Wan Qianhong, Head of the East District.”
“A major anomaly has occurred in the North District, involving many Inner City residents. We must enter immediately.”
Upon hearing Wan Qianhong’s name, the North District personnel clearly took her a little more seriously.
But after a moment of hesitation, they decisively refused:
“Why is the Head of the East District in our North District?”
“That’s irrelevant to us. The North District’s defense level is incomparable to the East District’s. Please follow the rules!”
Just then, from behind, city defense soldiers, fully equipped with protective gear and firearms, began to semi-surround the trucks.
“Hurry up, didn’t you hear? Get out of your vehicles within two minutes.”
“Otherwise, you will be deemed to be resisting, and activating the violence clause would be unfortunate.”
The students in the vehicles immediately grew furious, some starting to curse:
“Do you even know what just happened deep within the North District? We nearly all died there! It could have even affected all of Dawn City!”
“That was supposed to be your problem to solve, but now you’re just here performing perfunctory inspections!”
Listening to the students’ voices, these city defense Scavengers laughed even louder.
“You little brats, facing an anomalous riot that affects all of Dawn City?”
“Stop trying to make us laugh, alright?”
Another city defense soldier spat. “What major anomaly? Don’t make such a fuss. Have any of you seen a real aberration?”
“You didn’t mistake a few mutated rats for aberrations and get this scared, did you?”
All of them were masked, and with orders from above, none feared this group of young masters and ladies, coarsely mocking them.
For a moment, laughter echoed, giving the impression that both hosts and guests were enjoying themselves.
Wan Qianhong frowned deeply, her expression already turning grim.
The North District had always been overbearing, and its policies indeed received various preferential treatments.
But judging from the current situation, it was still very abnormal, clearly a deliberate targeting!
Even if the inspections were strict, such obvious mockery of Inner City students and deliberate delays were unacceptable.
Just as she was about to speak, someone walked past her.
It was Bai Feifei.
Wan Qianhong was startled, watching Bai Feifei, still dressed in clothes stained with dark red blood, calmly walk to the very front of the North District city gate.
Then, she looked at the soldiers before her and spoke.
“You are merely executors.”
“This sin has little to do with you. Step aside; don’t do something so pointless.”
“Who instructed you?”
The people before her fell silent for a moment, then burst into even louder laughter.
A soldier swaggered up to Bai Feifei and said:
“Who instructed us? Nobody. Here, no matter who you are, you listen to me!”
He scrutinized Bai Feifei from head to toe, his gaze lingering on the bloodstains on her face, his voice laced with lewd laughter.
“The little lady looks decent, but her brain seems to be malfunctioning?”
As he spoke, he reached out, intending to lift Bai Feifei’s chin.
However, the next second, Bai Feifei’s eyes flashed with sharp light, and she struck like lightning, seizing his wrist and twisting it with force!
CRACK!
The entire wrist was wrenched 180 degrees, a sight that made one’s teeth ache.
The one who dared to reach out had instantly achieved the “Severed Wrist Bone” achievement.
“Aaahhh!”
The city defense soldier’s scream had barely escaped his lips when Bai Feifei, still twisting his arm, swung his entire body up.
A living man was swung over the head of a seemingly slender and delicate girl as if he were a sack.
Then, she hurled him towards the top of the city wall.
Whoosh!
A sharp, piercing whistle cut through the air as the immense force launched the man like a cannonball, sending him soaring over the dozens-of-meters-high colossal wall!
...
On top of the city wall.
The corpulent officer was still lounging in his wicker chair, comfortably sipping ice water from a stemmed glass.
He cast a disdainful glance at the commotion below the city and spoke to the guards beside him:
“Those lowlifes outside, I wonder how they manage to live day to day.”
“Heh, tsk tsk, I bet they’ll never get to drink water like this in their lives, hahaha!”
“No wonder they’re willing to do anything for a chance to enter the Inner City. That woman from the west side the other day, tsk tsk…”
Before he could finish speaking, a dark silhouette suddenly flew up from below the city wall.
Thud!
The dark figure crashed beside the corpulent officer’s feet, rolled twice, and revealed a distorted face, pale with agony.
“Aaahhh!”
The screams continued.
His right wrist was bent backward, bone fragments protruded from beneath the skin, and his entire arm dangled limply like a noodle.
The corpulent officer jolted in fright, lowered his head, and stared blankly at the person at his feet, unable to process what had happened.
What just happened?
...
Below the city wall.
“Hehe… little girl,” Xu Mo’s voice echoed in her mind.
He chuckled softly, his voice tinged with disdain.
“You’re still not decisive enough.”
Bai Feifei felt her body tremble, and her heart couldn’t help but quiver; control of her body had already changed hands.
“Time is life.”
“Don’t let these insignificant lives waste your time. Do you still want to save Dawn City?”
“Perfect, let me show you how I usually play this game!”
Meanwhile, the other city defense soldiers, witnessing what had just happened, looked up in shock. They were now shouting and pointing at Bai Feifei, closing in.
Zing!
Xu Mo flicked the silver short sword from his wrist, his eyes filled with a sinister smile.
“When time is so precious, efficiency is a form of mercy!”
Before the city defense Scavengers could get closer, Xu Mo had already charged.
The short sword cut a silver arc through the air, accompanied by a cold whistling sound.
With his current strength, this was hardly more difficult than slicing vegetables.
The first head flew off, flicked by the sword’s tip, and soared onto the city wall!
Then the second, the third…
The city defense soldiers had barely taken two steps when their heads flew off, dark red blood spraying everywhere.
On the city wall, the corpulent officer watched, wide-eyed, as one head after another was tossed up from below, like someone throwing balls onto the ramparts.
Thud.
Thud.
Thud.
The heads crashed onto the city wall one after another, landing by his feet, rolling like watermelons.
He recognized those faces; just seconds ago, they had been fawning over him.
The corpulent officer screamed, tumbling from his recliner, and scrambled backward on all fours!
“Wh—What’s happening?!”
“They’ve… rebelled…”
“They’ve rebelled!!”
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