Chapter 163 - Chaos Begins (1/2)

Chapter 163: Chaos Begins

The north wind howled, and the leaden clouds hung low. The guards at the city gate were freezing despite wearing thick clothes. This was especially so for their faces. They either felt a stinging pain as if they had been scraped by a knife, or their muscles were already numb and cold.

Although the sky was dark like it would be before an impending storm, it was ultimately morning—daytime in every sense of the word. This made the guards less vigilant.

As they swept their gazes, they saw faces that were so numb that they didn’t look like living people. It was as if they were facing a group of statues that were completely inept.

“I wonder when the other slave hunters from First City will rush over… It won’t be good if this continues.” The junior officer with a pistol hanging from his waist walked back and forth at the city gate and casually said, “If more people die, a plague might erupt.”

A plague was a nightmare that many people found more terrifying than war.

At this moment, he heard a loud boom—this clearly came from an explosion.

The sound came from the depths of North Street!

All the guards at the city gate turned their bodies and heads to look over, unsure of what had happened.

At this moment, the junior officer from before saw a group of bearded wilderness nomads suddenly stand up from the crowd near the city gate from the corner of his eye.

They were all holding guns!

Some held revolvers, some held shotguns, and others had rusty-looking rifles. However, they were ultimately firearms.

“Care…” The junior officer had just shouted a syllable when he heard numerous gunshots. His vision turned black as intense pain drowned him like a tide.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

After a round of intense shooting, more than half of the guards at the city gate fell. The remaining few were injured, and they were in terrible conditions.

They each ran to the fortifications and retaliated with their weapons. However, they were abnormally horrified to discover that the group of wilderness nomads had stormed over despite the bullets. Although people kept falling, the rest remained unaffected. It was as if the New World or Paradise was up ahead.

These people’s expressions were extremely warped, and their eyes were bloodshot. They looked like intelligent beasts or Heartless.

At this moment, Li Tou held a loudspeaker and shouted crazily, “Rush in! Rush in! There’s food if we rush in! We can survive if we rush in!”

Countless wilderness nomads outside the city cast their gazes over, their eyes turning red one after another.

Upon seeing that only a few guards were left at the city gate and that they had almost been wiped out, they instinctively stood up and rushed over.

Some still had stamina and ran very quickly, while some were already relatively weak and could only follow behind slowly.

Ta! Ta! Ta!

The machine guns on the city tower lit up, showering the nomads with bullets. Large swaths of wilderness nomads fell down like straw.

In just a minute of sweeping gunfire, a large number of people lost their lives.

The wilderness nomads behind the frontrunners cowered, hesitated, and paused.

But at that moment, the machine guns went silent. A new ammunition belt had to be reloaded.

The first batch of people—Ah Cai and the others—had already finished off the guards there and obtained better weapons. They quickly rushed up the stairs to the city tower.

Upon seeing this, the wilderness nomads—who were about to scatter—went crazy again and surged into Weed City like a tide.

The city guards and castellan guards—who had been mobilized due to the explosion at First Hospital—were momentarily at a loss as to which side they should support in such a situation.

…

In First Hospital, Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei raised their guns and aimed at their colleagues.

At this moment, Jiang Baimian finally understood something.

Lin Feifei’s entry into Wild Wolf Alley had nothing to do with any bar. She passed through it and had entered North Street through a secret passage.

At this moment, Shang Jianyao—who was fighting his hand—suddenly asked, “Why didn’t you fire yourself? Why did you find two servants?”

Father originally didn’t want to waste any more time, but for some reason, he felt that he should share his meticulous plan. Otherwise, wouldn’t he have done so much for nothing?

“Don’t be in a rush,” he said to Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei. He then smiled at Shang Jianyao as Oudick kept sneezing. “Guess.”

Shang Jianyao immediately became excited. “I guess it’s a restriction of that ability of yours. Its essence is to connect a certain part of your body to another person’s corresponding body, allowing the target to ‘replace’ you in doing what you want. In other words, what we are doing now is equivalent to what your hands are doing.

“Since it is already doing something, there’s no way to complete other actions. For example, pulling out a gun and firing.”

Father chuckled. “Although it’s not right, it’s not too far from the truth. You’re smarter than I imagined, but there seems to be something wrong with your brain.”

Shang Jianyao smiled and looked at the other party before saying something strange. “Fall, fall, fall…”

As soon as he said the third ‘fall,’ Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei’s eyes glazed over. Their bodies fell to the ground uncontrollably.