Chapter 320: The Curtains Fall, Questions for Old Man Illusionary (1/2)

Bai Xiaofei could no longer remember how much he had run or how many necks he had snapped in this night of ceaseless yelling. The only thing he knew was that he was truly exhausted.

At the base of the city wall, Huskie, who had once again transformed into a Thunder Devouring Tiger, fought to let Bai Xiaofei climb the wall. Once he got onto the wall, Bai Xiaofei felt as if several lifetimes had passed.

There wasn’t a single gap in the corpses piled up on the city wall, and the originally intact wall had become riddled with holes and was on the verge of crumbling.

Tie Zhu had lost one arm, and his remaining right hand was holding himself up on a sword because his left leg was broken…

When Bai Xiao had jumped down the wall, there had been hundreds of soldiers on the wall, but when he came back, less than fifty could still stand.

This battle almost beat Bai Xiaofei back to his starting state.

Below, new enemy troops were still massing while the surviving old troops had gathered below the front wall, but it didn’t matter. They had entered the ending countdown. Even if Bai Xiaofei and the others did nothing, the opponent still wouldn’t be able to break through the city in these last ten minutes.

“General, our reinforcements are coming soon, right?!” Tie Zhu still had that silly smile on his face, but Bai Xiaofei looked at him and couldn’t smile at all.

In the clearance setting, the soldiers and the civilians were told that reinforcements would come, that was why Tie Zhu would ask such a question.

“They will be here soon. We have already won,” as Bai Xiaofei said slowly, he suddenly had a feeling of heartache.

Is this how wars in the real world are as well? How many soldiers are like Tie Zhu in the real world? How many generals will really care about them?

Are they just pawns most of the time? A pawn that can be discarded at any time?

As these questions popped in his mind, Bai Xiaofei just wanted to find a person to ask them all in one breath. He wanted to know what this world which he hadn’t yet officially gotten to know was really like.

Compared to the long night, ten minutes seemed insignificant. When the first ray of sunshine came through from over the mountain, earth-shattering shouts were heard from the distance. The enemy troops at the base of the city wall immediately panicked. After a while of confusion, they retreated like the tide despite the city that was about to be conquered in front of them.

We won, we really won…

Of the remaining few dozens of people left, some wept bitterly, some yelled loudly, while some looked at the corpses on the wall and fell into a long silence.

Bai Xiaofei observed every single reaction as gradually, a seed took root in his heart…

“General is righteous! General is righteous!”

After the enemy troops retreated, the old civilian leader somehow got the news and led many people to kneel under the now-broken wall again.

The same place, the same people, the same scene… Everything was similar, but what was different was the mentality of the person standing on the wall.

“There might be no such great righteousness in this world, but there are heroes. Those who stand in front of you and those who fail to stand in front of you today are all heroes. I hope you can remember their names, even if we are just strangers to you…”