As a matter of fact, such a thing had already happened.
A lot of mobsters congregated into destructive torrents of iron and charged at the Netherwind Channel after looting for a while.
Perhaps the big nobles were all gathered in the Netherwind Channel, and they intended to use the heads of the big nobles as their stepping stones on the reformists' side.
Or maybe, they simply did not want the big nobles to run away and wanted to drag everybody down with them.
The order of the city was gone. Li Yao and his team struggled to move forward in blood, screams, flames, and explosions. They encountered too many mobsters on their way. Their eyes were bloodshot, their facial organs were twisted, and their faces were so hideous that they were foaming at the mouth. They slaughtered and destroyed everything that they saw randomly.
These people were no different from wild beasts.
No. Even the most brutal animals did not have the evilness around them.
"The 'ecological balance' of the billions of devils deep inside the souls of those people has been completely broken."
Long Yangjun said, "To put it another way, those people have been bedeviled. The violent brainwaves that their completely out of control souls are releasing are likely to trigger quakes and reverberations, which will lead to the loss of control of the devils in more and more people's heads. This is an unexpected and typical 'arrival of extraterrestrial devils'.
"Now, you should believe that I did not lie to you, right, Li Yao? How can there be so many 'extraterrestrial devils' from the extraterrestrial lands? Most of the devils are hidden in people's heads and hearts in the first place. "
"Human beings, our fathers are truly incomprehensible."
Brutality and brutality were reflected in Li Xiaoming's and Li Wenwen's eyes. They sighed in confusion too. "If we want to preserve the whole as much as possible, shouldn't some people be sacrificed in order for the other people to evacuate in an orderly manner?
"Just like right now, when the city is already in chaos before the enemy arrives, everybody is fighting everybody around them. How many people can escape in the end?
"It's like all the processes under our control exist for the purpose of the whole. As long as it can help the completion of the mission, any process can be sacrificed without any hesitation. There will be no resistance at all, and they will not act on their own."
"Perhaps, that is the nature of human beings. That is the nature of life."
Li Yao was rendered speechless. After thinking for a long time, he could only say, "To accept that everybody has an independent self-awareness in order to give birth to a brilliant, ever-changing civilization, we have to accept the existence of selfishness and incommunicability. Those are the inseparable light and dark sides of the civilization of mankind.
"If everyone becomes something like a machine or a process, they can sacrifice themselves without any hesitation in such a situation, without any complaints at all … If you think about it carefully, it might be even more horrifying!"
"What Dad said makes sense."
The two little fellows thought carefully for a moment. "Maintaining the changeable individuals and viewing and modifying the material world in hundreds of different ways of thinking may be more beneficial for the survival of the entire civilization in the cruel universe, but maintaining the independence of individuals will inevitably lead to the current situation. It is a price that cannot be avoided. We … We have to consider carefully how to resolve the problem."
That was all for later. Right now, they had to hurry to the Netherwind Channel as fast as they could.
After taking care of quite a few ferocious mobsters on their way, everybody's Crystal Suit was stained with blood and even fresh human tissue. The soaring killing intent was the best warning sign. Not many mobsters dared to bully them anymore. They all kept a respectful distance from each other as they rushed to the entrance of the Netherwind Channel.
When they passed by the largest hospital in the city, Li Yao slightly came to a halt.
The hospital was full inside and outside. No, it was full of wounded soldiers who were covered in wounds and bandages.
Most of the wounded soldiers did not receive basic treatment. Not just the medical cabins that were filled with nutrition drugs, even their bandages had not been changed for days and were soaked in blood.
Had it not been for the fact that the wounded soldiers were all strong, high-level warriors and low-level Immortal Cultivators, who had the most vigorous vitality, they would've been killed a long time ago.
Even though they were as strong as bulls, they were dying at this moment and did not seem to be able to persist for much longer.
They had all been heavily wounded in the defense line at the periphery of the city a few days ago in order to cover the escape of the nobles.
Once they lost their value, they were immediately abandoned by the nobles and piled up here like rotten salted fish.
Although Li Yao was a Cultivator, he could not help but feel sorry for the pitiful and pathetic Immortal Cultivators.
The only consolation was that Li Yao knew that the army of the reformists would soon march into the city and rescue the dying wounded soldiers.
Li Yao did not have high expectations for the moral standards of the reformists, but the wounded soldiers were the best propaganda materials. In order to reveal how ungrateful and ruthless the big nobles were, the reformists would treat the wounded soldiers carefully and use them as the most powerful weapons for psychological warfare, exactly like Zhang Guanglong, the deputy leader of the Furious Tide Sect, did.
Soon after they left the hospital, the road ahead was completely blocked by an ocean of people. It was impossible to pass.
Further ahead, at the main mountain range of the Netherworld Mountain that rose to the clouds, was a splendid gate made of alloys. The gate was dozens of meters long and wide and weighed almost ten thousand tons. Behind the gate was the main part of the Netherworld Mountain Channel that had been hollowed out.
It was the gate of survival and hope.
But right now, it had become the gate of death and destruction.
Almost a hundred burning and exploding crystal tanks had been piled up at the gate, blocking the road leading to the gate completely. A team of Exos with extremely fierce firepower was hiding in the fortresses on the two sides of the gate, pouring flying swords, cannonballs, and scorching metal particles at their companions a moment ago crazily.
The terrain here was very dangerous. There were towering mountains and even cliffs on both sides of the road. No matter how many people came from the city, they had to squeeze through the narrow road in the middle. Therefore, only a few elites and enough firepower were needed to reap countless lives. It was a bit like "one man can hold the pass, ten thousand can't pass".
The soldiers charged forward, only to be blown back by the rainstorm-like firepower. After more than ten consecutive sprints, their morale immediately plummeted.
They were mobsters in the first place, and they were even "devilish people" who had lost control of their souls. They did not have the determination to fight a life-and-death battle. Instead of charging into the Netherworld Mountain Channel by brute force, they might as well go back to the downtown area and continue looting!
But right then, the burning tanks and the ten-thousand-ton gate behind the fixed firing points slowly closed under the control of the enormous axes and hinges.
It seemed that the escape of the Netherworld Mountain Channel had come to the last moment. Few starships were available inside.
Once the gate was truly closed, it would be impossible for the people outside to get in.
As a result, the soldiers and bottom-level officers who stayed in the firing points to buy time for the big nobles inside were immediately dumbfounded.
They had just killed thousands of their former companions. Their hands were stained with the freshest blood. Even if other people could surrender to the reformists, how could they be accepted by the reformists?
No. Before they met the reformists, they would be torn apart alive by the crazy ferocious beasts outside!
Realizing that, all the soldiers and bottom-level officers in the fortresses and the crystal tanks howled in grief and fury. They abandoned the positions that they were defending and fled toward the gap of the gate that had not been closed yet. BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Some of them even turned their crystal cannons and opened fire at the axes and hinges at the edge of the gate, trying to sabotage the locking system of the gate.
They all turned from the nobles' pawns into crazy rebels in half a second.
The rebels who had been low in morale and about to retreat were greatly encouraged, too. They roared and passed the burning tanks, charging toward the gate that was unguarded.
Li Yao and his companions naturally led the charge. Activating the power rune arrays, they turned into five streaks of brilliance and crawled into the gate before it was closed. Shua! Shua!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
When they landed, almost twenty broken limbs were already next to them. They were all the guards who tried to stop them from breaking in.
Li Yao and Long Yangjun were like gods of slaughter. None of the guardians were a match for them. Even the crystal tanks were cut apart and ripped apart by them easily, only to explode brutally after the crackling electric arcs were dancing around them.
After Li Yao caught a whistling crystal cannonball in midair with one hand and blew it away in a different direction, no one dared to make a move against this mysterious and powerful squad.
Li Yao's squad marched forward and reached the starting point of the Netherwind Tunnel unimpeded, which was a secret dock deep inside the mountains.
Tens of thousands of noisy nobles and their entourage were gathered in the dock, waiting anxiously for their starships to finish the fuel injection and jump preparations. The news that the gate had been breached also scared them out of their wits. They were so anxious that they hurried to urge their subordinates to speed up.
The Netherwind Tunnel was a single-channel design. Only one starship could be accommodated at a time through the helical rails to enter a super high speed and perform a jump in the four-dimensional space. The interval between two starships' consecutive jumps would take at least two minutes.
There were still almost ten starships that hadn't left yet, which meant that it would take at least twenty minutes for everybody to evacuate.
However, it was a great question whether or not the rebels who had already invaded the gate of the mountain would give them another twenty minutes.
"I'll go first. I'll go first!"
"Let me go first. You can name any conditions you want. Anything will do!"
"Bullsh * t. Whoever dares not to let me go first will not be able to leave at all!"
Dozens of nobles who seemed to be CEOs, leaders, or captains opened their arms like crabs and argued with each other furiously without the slightest elegance.
Suddenly, dozens of flying swords turned into fatal streaks of brilliance and focused on the most intimidating noble among them, blowing up his spiritual shield and protective magical equipment. Then, his entire upper body and his head were completely ripped apart, burnt, and obliterated!
Before everybody realized what was going on, the noble who had been holding his head high a moment ago had only the lower half of his body that had been burnt into charcoal. He fell to the ground and shattered into smithereens!
"There's no need to argue."
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