Boom!
Boom! Boom!
As if to prove Bai Shan's words …
Muffled explosions came from the distance.
The people in the darkness felt as if they were in a broken submarine that had fallen thousands of meters into the sea. They sensed the shock and pressure coming from all directions.
"Where did the explosions go?"
Wild Wolf's expression changed swiftly. He gritted his teeth and said, "Bai Shan, tell me, where is your next target?!"
"I don't know. Even if I did, it's too late now."
Bai Shan laughed brokenly and stared at Wild Wolf. "Wild Wolf, no one knows you better than I do. You might seem ruthless, radical, and decisive, but in the depths of your heart, when you're asked to lead Leprosy Village to fight against the nine great mega corporations and the current order in Dragon City, you can't help but be indecisive and hesitant.
"That's true. No matter who it is, if they want to fight against giants like the mega corporations and the peerless fighters behind them, they will think twice before they act.
"It's fine. If you can't make up your mind, I'll help you.
"Right now, there's a pitched battle that will decide Dragon City's fate at the borders. As long as the monsters and mega corporations are injured in the pitched battle, Dragon City will definitely return to the chaotic era decades ago when order collapsed and we were lawless.
"What's different from decades ago is that this time, we're the descendants of the zombie virus carriers. We're deformed and ugly mutants. We're no longer meat for others to slaughter.
"Perhaps this is our best chance to rise to power in the chaos and build a brand new order that is one hundred times more just than the current order."
As she spoke, her voice gradually became weaker.
The third eye at the center of her brows first shone with a pearl-like luster before it turned into a red, bloody diamond. In the end, wisps of gray fog appeared, and it turned into a frozen stone.
"Bai Shan!"
Wild Wolf widened his eyes and went forward to grab Bai Shan's shoulder.
With a clang, another Spirit Snake Venom Blade fell on the ground. It was stained with Bai Shan's cold blood.
When the blood came into contact with the poison on the dagger, it instantly turned from red to black. It was as thick as ink.
In truth, while she had been distracting the people, she had used her right hand, which was hidden in the darkness, to stab the dagger deep into her own organs from her waist.
Her flesh was torn, and the poison entered her bones. It was only natural that she felt pain.
However, her expression remained the same, and she did not even blink her eyelashes.
Therefore, no one noticed it at the first moment.
"Bai Shan …"
Wild Wolf held her in his arms. His facial muscles twitched for a long time, but he still could not make a suitable expression. He only said, "Do you have to choose this method and this kind of ending?"
"What else?"
Bai Shan's face was stark pale, and her breathing was weak. "Are we supposed to continue enduring all this and hope that once we win the Monster War, the mega corporations will share all their resources with us, and the rich people will offer up their mansions, cars, and treasures so that they can share them equally with the dirty, smelly, deformed children in Leprosy Village?
"Two years ago, when we achieved complete victory in the northern offensive, our extravagant hopes were dashed once.
"At that time, when we learned that we won the northern offense, all of Leprosy Village cheered, sang, and danced, just like the outside world.
"Everyone thought that the rich resources we obtained from the northern offense would definitely be used to modify the lair and Leprosy Village to improve our living environment, cure our illnesses and pain, and give our descendants hope to cultivate and level up.
"But who knew that most of the resources we harvested from Shattered Starlake to Raging Waves would end up in the pockets of the mega corporations? Before the last warrior's corpse could be buried, the mega corporations had already divided more than 90% of the profits from the northern frontlines like they were dividing a cake.
"Hence, over the past two years, the mega corporations obtained even more resources and were able to expand. They set up more bases and developing lands around Dragon City and snatched more resources to make themselves stronger and larger.
"The rich people also obtained ten times more cultivation resources and could cultivate to a higher realm. They evolved from fighting against one hundred people to fighting against one thousand, and no one could challenge their status.
"But what about us? Did the lives of Leprosy Village change in the slightest?
"Wild Wolf, do me a favor. My voice isn't loud enough, so he might not be able to hear me clearly. Help me. Help Meng Chao, who's over at Keke's side, ask him to face his conscience and say that all the hardships in Leprosy Village are caused by the harsh conditions during the war and the lack of resources.
"Then, on the day we win the Monster War, will his close comrade, Lu Siya, the model superhuman that the mega corporations have been talking about, do you think that she will do everything in her power to help us so that she can live the same life as us?"
Wild Wolf had nothing to say.
Meng Chao heard it.
But he did not answer.
And Bai Shan had never held any expectations for Meng Chao's answer.
"To me, this is a good ending, really."
Bai Shan smiled and said, "When I took this step, I thought about many endings.
"I thought about being exposed like this, being condemned by everyone, and having my reputation ruined.
"I also thought about helping the evildoers and having the monsters destroy Dragon City. Then, the mega corporations and Leprosy Village would face the apocalypse, treating everyone equally.
"Of course, the best ending would be for the monsters and the mega corporations to be badly injured, and the order in Dragon City would collapse again. Even though a lot of people in Leprosy Village died, we had the advantage of having our genes mutate quickly and being immune to most of the zombie viruses. Most of the powerful fighters, including the Wild Wolves, survived and rose to power in the chaos to become the new masters of Dragon City!
"Heh, all of these endings are good. I can accept all of them, but there's only one ending."
"What ending?" Wild Wolf asked gravely.
"I can accept any ending, as long as I don't end up like my mother and rot to death in the production lines of illegal workshops."
Bai Shan smiled.
Her entire body gradually turned black.
It was as if she had been burned by invisible flames.
Her head and arms fell limp. She exhaled, and all three of her eyeballs froze at the same time.
Wild Wolf hugged her in silence for a long time.
Noisy footsteps and noise came from outside. A few Wild Wolf Gang members ran down in panic.
"This is bad! Wild Wolf, the warehouse for food cans and the water purification warehouse exploded at the same time! Everything within a circular area of hundreds of meters is burning!"
…
When Meng Chao brought A 'Ji and Ms. Mulian to the surface with the Wild Wolves, he saw two huge black pillars of smoke rising a few streets away. They were hundreds of meters away from the Deification Capsule pharmacy that had exploded in the morning.
Fierce flames licked at the smoke pillars and burned the dark clouds in the sky until they turned red.
There were three pillars of smoke, and they were like the bars of a huge cage. They pressed down from the sky, and it made the people who saw them panic.
Even though they were hundreds of meters away and there were skyscrapers in the way, waves of heat still swept at them. Before the first wave died down, another wave of heat swept at them.
The heat set off dust, and it was mixed with a lot of low-grade crystal powder and fragments of monster materials. Red, green, yellow, gray, black, and purple snowflakes fell from the sky.
The Leprosy Village villagers curled up at the ends of the streets became even more shocked and bewildered. They looked panicked.
Meng Chao learned from Ms. Mulian that Leprosy Village had a bad environment. It was poor in resources, and the pollution was pretty bad. It was a purely industrialized village and could not produce a single drop of food or clean drinking water.
All the food, drinking water, gene medicine, high-calorie nutritional fluid, and other necessities for survival had to be imported from the outside world through the gangs.
This was why the Leprosy Village villagers had to accept the harsh orders and carry out all sorts of heavily polluted work day and night.
The villagers were all poor, and the food they stored in their houses would not last more than seven days.
It was not easy to store drinking water, so the amount they stored was even lesser.
Most of the strategic reserves were stored in the two huge warehouses. This was a habit they had inherited from the zombie crisis era.
This morning, there had been an earth-shattering explosion.
Then, the secret police and wanted criminals fought fiercely in Leprosy Village and destroyed dozens of buildings along the way.
Countless Leprosy Village villagers lost their homes. Their food and drinking water reserves were buried in the deepest parts of the ruins.
Right now, even the strategic warehouses of food and drinking water, which were of paramount importance, were exploding and burning. The fire was growing at a visible speed.
This meant that Leprosy Village was on the verge of having no food and water.
"Zhang Tie, how's the situation?"
The worse the situation was, the calmer Wild Wolves became.
Or rather, from the moment Bai Shan died in his arms, something in the depths of his mind fell into complete darkness.
"It can't get any worse!"
Zhang Tie exchanged information with a few Wild Wolves who had rushed over and were badly battered. He turned his head around and said, "The explosion seemed to have happened in the two warehouses. The first explosion destroyed 80% of the reserves. Many villagers gathered over to save the remaining 20%, but at that moment, the second explosion happened, and it caused countless deaths.
"Now, the fire caused by the explosion hasn't died down yet, and the morale of the villagers has fallen to rock bottom. The news that Leprosy Village has no food and water and has been locked down has spread like wildfire. Everyone is lost and doesn't know what to do next. Some people hate the secret police who came from outside and believe that they brought this disaster. They believe that they will destroy Leprosy Village to capture the wanted criminals and monsters!
"Wild Wolves, make a decision now. We know that the monsters and not the secret police caused all of this, but no matter what, we have to survive!
"Leprosy Village's destruction is right before our eyes. We don't have food, medicine, and water, and the flames and poisonous smoke continue wreaking havoc. Before long, all of Leprosy Village will be devoured by flames. Before that happens, we have to escape!"
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