Chapter 74

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Duke Fu put away his phone and, following the sound, carefully made his way through the ruins. Before long, he found his target. It was actually the house diagonally across the street, a neighbor.

In the dilapidated ruins, the man and woman of the house were sitting on a dirt bed, hugging a fallen beam.

By the moonlight, it could be seen that the beam was leaning into the corner, pinned down by the collapsed wall. In the triangular space formed by the beam and the wall, a child was lying inside, already silent.

The cries for help came from the man, who was trembling, his veins bulging, and he said with all his strength, "Please, please, pull my son out!"

"Don't worry." Duke Fu nodded and immediately bent down to pull. He pulled once, but it didn't budge. He pulled again, but it still didn't move: "It seems to be stuck..."

"Indeed, indeed." The man's face showed sorrow, "Before my son passed out from the pain, he said his foot was pinned." He gritted his teeth and said again, "Cut his foot... cut it off."

Duke Fu was taken aback and looked up.

"Without his foot, at least he can still live." The man, having made up his mind, became calm.

The NPC was really straightforward. Thinking of Li Shier and looking at the current situation, Duke Fu sighed.

But there was no other way. He took out a packet of medicine from his pocket and mixed it with alcohol. He drank one cup himself, having forgotten to treat his injuries from the Death Space; he gave one cup to the man; and he bent down to give the child the last cup.

"No need." The man waved his hand to refuse, smiling bitterly, "In my state, what use is medicine..." Under the beam, his body was already turning blue and purple from the weight of the heavy beam. He was only holding on by a thread.

"This medicine can relieve pain," Duke Fu explained.

"Then... thank you." The man no longer refused and opened his mouth to drink the medicine. In a moment, he let out a long breath: "It really works. It seems Baor will suffer less." Suddenly, his veins bulged and his muscles swelled: "I, I'll try again! Pull, pull and see! Ah~~~" With the help of the medicine, he shouted loudly, his voice piercing the night.

Incredibly, the heavy beam, which was still pinned by the wall, actually lifted a bit.

Duke Fu, who had been watching with wide eyes, reacted when the man called out and bent down to pull the child out.

"Thud!" As soon as the child was free, the heavy beam fell back down, landing on the man with a dull thud.

Not only that, but without the man's desperate hold, the beam, pushed by the slanted wall, slowly rolled over, like a rolling pin, pressing down on the man's lower body... The woman, who was still hugging the man, rolled away with the beam.

Until they rolled off the dirt bed and fell to the ground with a "thud," the entire slanted wall collapsed, dust flying everywhere.

But it didn't matter anymore.

When Duke Fu was giving the medicine, he had already noticed that the woman was already dead. She had remained stiff, protecting the child even in death.

"Phew..." Leaning against the bed, the man exhaled deeply, "Sigh, my son is safe, I can die in peace."

Duke Fu only then noticed that, at some point, the man had rolled a cigarette and was smoking... In the smoke, the man, whose lower body had been crushed flat, said in a low voice, "Thank you. I can't repay such a great favor. In my state, I can't even bow to you. If there is a next life, my wife and I will serve you as oxen and horses."

His injuries were already unlikely to be survivable, let alone after such a burst of strength. Even in a normal state, such a burst of strength would damage the body, let alone when he was already critically injured.

Looking at the man, Duke Fu's face was solemn, "No need to wait for the next life. There's a chance in this life. Will you?"

"In my state, how can I repay?" The man smiled bitterly.

"With your life. I happen to need it."

The man chuckled, "In this state, my life can still be useful? Fine, take it as you wish."

"You won't regret it, because... this is also for your revenge."

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The Xiang River was vast.

Standing on the deck of a steamship twenty meters high, the entire county was in view.

It was a sleepless night. At ten o'clock at night, not a single person in Lingling City was asleep.

Thanks to the influence of the resistance, the news that the Celestial Army might massacre the city quickly spread.

Although the sounds of cannon fire and gunfire were heard, most people initially didn't believe it. They were all good citizens, and in Lingling City, they all had roots. The Celestial Army, though ruthless, couldn't be unreasonable, right?

Siege? So what if the city is besieged? Maybe they're just looking for wanted criminals, which has happened before. Bombardment? So what if they bombard? Who knows where the shells are landing? As long as they don't hit me.

Until the indiscriminate bombardment began, and more and more innocent people were affected, they finally believed it. But... it was too late.

Even if they had believed it from the start, it would have been too late. Three of the city gates were sealed.

This sealing wasn't just a matter of soldiers guarding the gates. If that were the case, with the resistance's leadership, though there would be casualties, some people could still escape.

This sealing was real.

The reinforcements brought a strange iron fence. When separated, each person's包裹 space could hold quite a few. When combined, the iron fence became a solid iron wall. No matter how the NPCs charged, the iron wall stood firm, locking the city gates tightly.

Duke Fu thought that the NPCs could break through the Celestial Army's blockade by sheer numbers, and the fat man Hong Qingsong clearly thought the same.

Once activated, the siege of Lingling City was airtight!

Then the Celestial Army lined up on the city walls, pointing and laughing at the NPCs gathered at the city gates.

If someone caught their eye, they would make a bet, betting on who had better aim, saying they would shoot the ear but not the nose, or the eye but not the forehead. If someone pleased them, they would pull them up to the wall and... well, it was already midnight, and they would indulge in debauchery in broad daylight.

Naked figures were everywhere on the city walls. Cries, screams, curses, and noise... echoed at the city gates. The Celestial soldiers didn't mind the noise, nodding their heads as if listening to a symphony.

Those who were shot dead, those who jumped to their deaths, those who were trampled to death... bodies were scattered everywhere at the base of the city walls.

Some people realized that this couldn't go on, and they would eventually be killed, so they turned away from the city gates and headed for the Xiang River. Although the city gates were blocked, the riverbanks of the Xiang River wouldn't be, right? But what awaited them was merciless heavy artillery bombardment...

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