Chapter 78

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"Did you say something?" Li Shier, after a moment of stunned silence, understood the meaning of Ye Wu Yue's words and felt a chill run through his scalp.

The surrounding resistance fighters were also stunned into silence.

"Are you saying that you want to sacrifice the tens of thousands of civilians in Lingling City for our rebellion?"

"Why not?" Ye Wu Yue's face was flushed, his expression fanatical. "What is the goal of our resistance? To rise up and lead the people to drive the accursed Celestials and their lackeys out of our world!"

"But people want peace. Look, the vast expanse of the land has already fallen, yet everywhere you look, there is still revelry and luxury!"

"Take Lingling City, for example. If it weren't for today's siege, how many of the tens of thousands of people would willingly submit to the Celestials, and how many would be willing to join the resistance and rebel?"

"They are not without the will to resist. It's just that the Celestials are cunning, using high pressure from the outside and appeasement from the inside, like boiling a frog in warm water, making them forget to resist."

"So we need to shock them! To pain them! To make them realize that submission is not a way out, but a path to certain death! To make them understand that the Celestials will always be the Celestials, and we will always be us. Oil and water don't mix!"

"If we don't rise up and resist, not just in this life, but in the next, and the one after that, and even our descendants, we will always be trampled under the feet of the Celestials!"

"This is a gift from heaven! We were worried about not having an excuse to start the rebellion, and now this has happened."

"When the news of the tens of thousands of innocent civilians being massacred in Lingling City, with no one surviving, spreads through the telegraph, can you imagine the public outrage? Can you not see the future where our resistance rises and sweeps across the land?"

Ye Wu Yue, seemingly dazed by Li Shier's kick, shouted with a passionate expression, raising his hands high.

"So, you knew about the Celestials' plan to massacre the city all along?" Li Shier spoke slowly.

"Yes, we have a mole in the Celestials' army. I knew as soon as they received the order..."

"So, you followed us all the way here not to stop us from going to our deaths, but to stop us from saving people?"

"Exactly!" Ye Wu Yue said firmly.

Li Shier's eyes slowly narrowed, and those who knew him understood that this was a sign that he was about to kill.

Ye Wu Yue, still unaware, continued: "Don't talk about the tens of thousands of innocent civilians... Regardless of whether they are innocent or not, in this world, innocent people are killed by the Celestials every moment."

"To prevent us from being completely exterminated, the Celestials even have a rule that each person can only kill up to ten people per day..."

"What kind of ridiculous rule is that!"

"We are livestock in a pen! Livestock are only killed when they are no longer useful, but we are killed just for their amusement! If these tens of thousands of people don't die today, tomorrow, or the day after, it won't be long before the number of innocent deaths far exceeds tens of thousands!"

"People need a goal to have motivation, and a fist needs to pull back to strike harder... Li Shier, Master Gong, do you think what you're doing is noble? To me, it's just nonsense!"

"Don't forget, this is war! This is war! In war, there are no innocent casualties! In this world, dying is easy, but living is hard!"

"Without preserving your strength, without considering the difficulty of cultivating your skills, you want to rush to your deaths... Today it's the tens of thousands in Lingling City, but what if tomorrow the system army surrounds Yongzhou City and demands that your master, Li Shier, go to his death. Should he go?"

"Today it's Gong Yutian, tomorrow it's Li Shuwen, and the day after? The day after that? Are we going to keep being coerced by the Celestials?" Ye Wu Yue's veins bulged, and he roared in a fit of rage.

Li Shier coughed awkwardly and looked around.

The others were silent, but it was clear that while they were initially stunned by Ye Wu Yue's words, they were now somewhat convinced.

But Li Shier was not surprised, because even he was swayed by Ye Wu Yue's arguments.

He was usually resolute, rarely wavering from his decisions, but under Ye Wu Yue's storm of questions, he was momentarily speechless.

He turned to look at Gong Yutian, who was on his back.

Master Gong also looked hesitant, caught between a rock and a hard place...

Was he really wrong? It shouldn't be... It doesn't make sense... No matter how you look at it, it doesn't add up.

Was Ye Wu Yue wrong? Upon closer examination, his arguments were also logical, though extreme, they made sense.

So, who was wrong?

The scene fell into a heavy silence...

At that moment, a loud, bold, and unrestrained laugh suddenly echoed, "Ha ha ha, so that's how it is! I heard something quite interesting!"

Everyone was startled and looked in the direction of the voice, their faces changing dramatically.

They had been surrounded by the Celestials' army! This was the real system army, not the fake one led by Ye Wu Yue.

This was evident from their discipline.

Of course, it wasn't that the Celestials' army was more disciplined, but rather that they were disorganized and stood haphazardly... but they had a unique air of superiority and confidence. After all, it was just a game, and no one would really die, so why wouldn't they be confident?

"Ye Wu Yue, you're called Ye Wu Yue, right? Did you really think that planting a mole in the Celestials' army and impersonating a soldier to follow us all the way here would go unnoticed?"

"How naive! I only let you live this long out of curiosity to see what you were up to!"

The system army was not large, but there were about sixty to seventy of them, all armed, surrounding the resistance fighters.

The leader was expressionless. The words were not his, but were amplified through a megaphone he held.

Ye Wu Yue, cooling down from his fanaticism, looked grave. This situation was unexpected.

But what came next was even more unexpected...

"So, that's how it is? I must say, your plan is quite good. Sacrificing the tens of thousands in Lingling City to give your resistance a noble excuse, it's very much in my style."

"But..." The voice in the megaphone paused, then suddenly changed to a familiar tone—

"You say, what could be a better excuse for us to rise up than the tens of thousands of innocent people in a county being massacred by the Celestials' arbitrary actions?"

"This is a gift from heaven! We were worried about not having an excuse to start the rebellion, and now this has happened."

"When the news of the tens of thousands of innocent civilians being massacred in Lingling City, with no one surviving, spreads through the telegraph, can you imagine the public outrage? Can you not see the future where our resistance rises and sweeps across the land?"

"So, you knew about the Celestials' plan to massacre the city all along?"

"Yes, we have a mole in the Celestials' army. I knew as soon as they received the order..."

"So, you followed us all the way here not to stop us from going to our deaths, but to stop us from saving people?"

"Exactly!"

!!!

Some things can be done but not said...

But these words were actually recorded?