Chapter 803 - Rules are Set by the Powerful (2/2)

Zhang Wu resented that but knew his time of ruling was up.

“I will never forget today’s humiliation.” Zhang Wu turned and ran away.

Qin Feng did not stop him.

Ning Xin was baffled that things had turned out this way. He could barely keep his lips together.

Qin Feng turned to him. Ning Xin looked away instinctively due to a guilty conscience.

No doubt, they had acquiesced on sacrificing Lin Yuting to please Zhang Wu. Now that Qin Feng had stopped the clown show and even saved Lin Yuting out of harm’s way, their lack of principle and incompetence was laid bare under the sun.

“General Qin. We had no other choice…” Ning Xin said dejectedly.

Qin Feng replied harshly, “I am not the one you need to explain to.”

Ning Xin understood immediately and turned to Lin Yuting, “My dear sister, we are so sorry for not protecting you earlier. But as you are aware, we are in the middle of a crisis and we don’t know what happened to Haolin. At the very least, Zhang Wu is a dependable man here. We thought you would be in good hands.”

Lin Yuting obviously has a strong personality. She sneered and said with a cold face, “Did I ever say I need to depend on someone else? I can live on my own just fine if you are not willing to protect me. But handing me out like an item is unacceptable. So, stop calling me your sis. What a great price I had to pay to be called that.”

Qin Feng admired the lady’s staunch stance. He said, “Jiang Haolin left the city yesterday. He asked me to come and rescue you. Sorry for the delay. I was stalled by other matters.”

“Glad to hear that he is okay.” Lin Yuting let down her guard. After the overlap took place, Lin Yuting did not become entirely defenseless despite losing her internal strength. She was an ancient warrior, after all. She knew a few martial arts that did not require internal force to execute, thus was able to kill the assaulting beasts and escaped with the nanny. Of course, they had Zhang Wu’s help along the way.

She intended to thank Zhang Wu once they were safe, but what happened next completely threw her off guard.

Ning Xin became excited after he heard Qin Feng’s narration. He did not care whether Qin Feng was still offended by how they had treated Lin Yuting.

“General Qin, will the spatial tunnel still be opened up? Why didn’t they start the evacuation from the city center?”

After all, the city center was where most elects were at.

“At the beginning…” Qin Feng explained to them the difficulty of breaking out from this overlapped space. As for the spatial tunnel that opened up in the sky above the city, Qin Feng had never expected it too. He would not be too surprised if the tunnel connecting to the outside world could no longer be opened. The perimeter of the city had already been conquered by the mutated plants.

Later, Qin Feng assured them that they would be leaving tomorrow. The trapped victims were relieved to hear that.

Nobody wanted to stay in this terrible place for another second. This was especially true for those who had their strength sapped away by the dimension. But for now, they could only wait patiently until tomorrow arrived.

***

At the same time, outside the fog, people were busy building a stairway using ancient tools. Something that could supposedly be done by a metal-type ability user in a snap of the finger now needed to be constructed carefully with bare hands.

They were trying to build a stairway that would reach the sky.

If they wished to transport a city’s worth of people, a metal box would not cut it.

Thus, they had opted for the giant stairway.

The stairway only had a basic frame without a proper base. Though there were fences on both sides, they were merely made out of thin wooden planks due to weight concerns. It might flip anytime hanging so high in midair.

Since the stairway could not be made using any form of rune elements, they used normal alloy and hence its quality was only borderline acceptable. Nonetheless, this was the best impromptu solution they could find in one day.

The day passed by quickly with workers bustling around the stairway. They worked painstakingly and finally welded a four-hundred-meter-high foldable stairway.