"Is that so?"
Li Yao waved his hands randomly. "It doesn't matter. Let's just fight our way out. My bloodthirsty saber that is hundreds of meters long has been thirsty for blood for a long time!"
Braving the aftermath of the barrage, he rushed to the rear cabin.
The structure of the carrier was not very complicated. After leaving the bridge and passing through a long pathway, they arrived at a large warehouse that was used to carry goods.
At this moment, after the heavy alloy gate was pushed open, the stink and panic came over. The warehouse was filled with people in ragged clothes, covered in blood, and with fear and sorrow on their faces. It was like a tin can that was filled with rotten meat.
Xiaoming and Wenwen, on the other hand, were trying their best to comfort the people who had just escaped from death. However, judging from their appearance, they were only seven or eight years old after all. Also, with their cute faces and childish voices, how could they be persuasive at all?
The moment they saw Li Yao, everybody was like a drowning person who saw a life-saving straw. With hope beaming out of their eyes, they all extended their hands to Li Yao.
"Master Li, the barrage outside is so fierce. What's going on exactly? Have the pursuers caught up with us?"
"Please save us, Master Li. We don't want to fight. We have never received any military training. We don't know how to fight at all!"
"We just want to live our lives in peace. The war tax that we pay to the Imperium every year is already astronomical. We have contributed everything to the Imperium. We are so exhausted that we can't live anymore! We don't know what's going on with the Imperium right now. Didn't they say that we just secured a great victory in the frontline? Why is the fire of war reignited in the rear? The reformists and the four families? We don't know who's right and who's wrong at all, but we really don't want to fight, and we don't know how to fight! "
"Master Li, many of our family members are locked in the starships of the Flying Rainbow Fleet. Will they be fine? They … Wu wu wu wu …"
The adults, the old people, the children, the women, the seriously ill, and the young people who had been tortured by the Immortal Cultivators with chains on their shoulders were all crying miserably.
"Dad …"
Xiaoming and Wenwen were at a loss, too. They looked back at Li Yao and frowned, as if they could not understand why a war in the world of human beings would be waged in such an absurd and despicable way.
Li Yao took a deep breath and tried to control his anger.
It was especially so when he saw that even children less than ten years old were captured by the Immortal Cultivators and sent to their deaths as "child soldiers". His fury was on the verge of exploding.
Every time, every time, he saw such a scene, he felt that his hundred years of practice of calming himself down was going to be in vain. It was as if he had returned to the unscrupulous young man of the past who would do whatever he wanted to and blast those scumbags into real "scum" regardless of the cost!
"I've told everyone yesterday that I'm not a real person. I'm completely different from those damned 'real people' of the Empire."
Li Yao said slowly, "You can call me 'Ah Yao' or 'Brother Li'. Speaking of real people, are we not real human beings and our compatriots?
"The next barrage may be a little fierce. Although it might not hit our carrier, the spiritual waves may interfere with our power units and cause severe quakes on the carrier. Therefore, I'm here to remind you. Please cover yourself with protective gel and fix yourself to the cabin wall. Remember, do not show your limbs or your head, especially your head. Otherwise, it will not be good if your head is bruised and bleeding!
"Leave the rest to me!
"I promise, in the name of the Cultivators, that all of you will be fine. All your family members who have been captured by the Immortal Cultivators will be fine, too. I will rescue them all and make the animals who have tarnished the dignity of the experts, erased the glory of the soldiers, and trampled on the boundaries of the civilization of mankind … pay a hundred times the price!"
For a moment, bloody brilliance and golden brilliance were interweaving in Li Yao's eyes. His fighting will and killing will were soaring!
"Brother Li Yao …"
Everybody was shocked by Li Yao's killing intent. For a moment, there was no sound.
However, a little girl with disheveled hair and a pale face gently bit her lips and stepped forward. "Grandma said that you are the most powerful, most powerful, most powerful hero, so you will definitely be able to beat those bad guys away and help me save my mother. Is that so? I miss my mother. I want my mother. Wu … "
The little girl sobbed.
Countless children bulged their clear eyes and looked at Li Yao expectantly. Just like the little girl, they had been forced to separate from their parents.
It was exactly in such a way that the Flying Rainbow Fleet forced the civilians to become moths to their death "willingly". The Immortal Cultivators captured the underage children and caged them on a starship, forcing their parents to say that if the parents did not lead the charge, the starship that carried the children would lead the charge.
As a result, the cannon fodder troops were naturally "boosted", and the civilians whose children had been captured as hostages were willing to die obediently without even locking their shoulder blades.
Before he found Boss Bai, Li Yao was too weak to rescue everybody on his own. Naturally, he took away the carriers that caged a lot of children first. Therefore, there were a lot of children here.
Strangely enough, Li Yao was not a man who liked children very much in the first place, especially the "naughty children" who were both disobedient and unpredictable. He could not have avoided them more.
However, after he became a father and had Xiaoming and Wenwen, the two super disobedient and unpredictable naughty children, he felt that the children in the world were more and more pleasing to the eye. He even had the urge to fight and protect them without caring about anything.
"Little Lingdang …"
Li Yao knelt on one of his knees and tried to restrain his killing intent. He put on an amiable face as his lips twitched and curled upward.
Because this little girl had the same name as Ding Lingdang, Li Yao had a very deep impression of her. Yesterday, he had chatted a lot with the little girl and comforted her until very late into the night before coaxing Little Lingdang to sleep.
It was also why "Little Lingdang" was bold enough to talk to him when he was full of killing intent today.
"Didn't Brother Li Yao tell you a lot of stories about the heroes in the universe yesterday?"
Li Yao grabbed Little Lingdang's shoulder neither lightly nor heavily and transmitted a stream of calming spiritual energy to her, which flowed around Little Lingdang like a warm current. "The greatest, greatest, greatest heroes. Brother Li Yao is certainly not one of them. Even if I am a hero, I will only be the smallest, smallest, and most insignificant one. Here, I'm just as small as this little finger."
Li Yao pinched his little finger and shook it softly. Together with his rather funny expression, the worried little girl burst into laughter through her tears. Many children behind her were laughing, too.
Li Yao was smiling himself, too. He coughed and said, "Let me tell you, there are many superheroes who are countless times more awesome than me. Boss Bai, A Boxing Champion, they are all good, righteous, and warm-hearted people who love to help others when they see injustice!
"My strength alone is naturally not enough to rescue your parents or end the goddamn war, but with the strength of the heroes and the good guys, it will be enough.
"Do — do you hear the rumbles when the spiritual waves hit the shell of our starship? It sounds like the thunder of thousands of cannons. It's exactly the heroes such as Boss Bai and A Boxing Champion who received Brother Li Yao's distress signal and learned what happened here. So, they came to rescue you and your parents without caring about anything!"
"So …"
Little Lingdang was both touched and in a trance. She mumbled, "Brother Li Yao did not lie to us. There are indeed heroes. There are so many heroes!"
"Of course."
Li Yao nodded his head heavily and glanced at all the children with his determined eyes. "Believe in Brother Li Yao. No matter how dark the world you see is, there is light, there is justice, and there are heroes. And there are thousands of them, one after another. There will always be heroes!
"The number of stars in the sky is the same as the number of heroes in the sea of stars. Sometimes, the brilliance of the stars will be blocked by the clouds, but eventually …
"The clouds will be completely torn apart by us!"
"Ah …"
Li Yao's words made all the kids forget the fear of the bombardment and the pain of being separated from their families. In a trance, they seemed to have entered a new world, a new world where the clouds were torn apart, the darkness retreated, and the heroes were as brilliant as the stars!
"So, Little Lingdang, don't think too much. Crawl into the jelly with your friends and have a good sleep."
Li Yao said with a smile, "After you wake up, your parents will naturally appear before you."
"Okay!"
Little Lingdang nodded her head heavily. "I trust Brother Li Yao. Thank you, Brother Li Yao. Long live Brother Li Yao!"
"Hehe. There's nothing for me to thank you for. I should be thanking Boss Bai."
Scratching his messy hair, Li Yao said, "Right. You didn't forget what I taught you yesterday about what you should do after you meet Boss Bai, did you?"
"I didn't forget. Brother Li Yao said that Boss Bai was a very kind and amiable grandpa who liked children best."
Little Bell said innocently, "Therefore, after the bad guys are driven away, Brother Li Yao will take us to meet Boss Bai. Then, the moment we see him, we will run to him, hug his thigh, and call him 'Grandpa Bai' in the sweetest voice. Then, he will be very touched. Once he is touched, he will offer a lot of resources and even give us some starships to live on so that we can find a place where nobody is around to hide with our parents and grandparents. We will be able to return to our home after the war is over!"
"Exactly. Brother Li Yao will entrust it to you. Little Lingdang, remember to practice with your friends."
Li Yao stroked the girl's head. "Remember, you must cling to his thigh tightly. Don't let him break free. Also, the speech I taught you, uh, superhero, chivalrous, kind-hearted, and so on, you must remember it by heart. Then, when there are the most people around, say it out loud. Trust me, Brother Li Yao is such a good person. How could he lie to you? If you do that, Boss Bai will definitely be so touched that he will cry. Then, he will promise you whatever you want! "
"Okay!"
All the children nodded at the same time, rubbing their fists solemnly.
Some of them couldn't wait to practice how to hold Boss Bai's thigh and the speeches.
"Let's go!"
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