Chapter 961: The Miserable Situation After the Disaster (1/2)
Chapter 961: The Miserable Situation After the Disaster
Translator: LawEditor: Hitesh
Ji Hao left a troop to help those poisoned magic formation artists under Yao Meng’s command. Then, he grabbed the neck of Si Water God, with Yao Meng dragging that giant octopus, and headed to Si Water City.
Si Water God had been murmuring all the way. This entire area was under the government of his Si Water River. Therefore, wherever Ji Hao brought him to, the flood silently drew back into rivers and stopped surging rampantly.
After half a day, they arrived at Si Water City. Or in other words, they came to the ruins of Si Water City.
Si Water City had disappeared already. This city was built by Yao Meng’s grandfather, his father and himself, with countless efforts. It occupied a large fertile alluvial plain near Si Water River, which was rich in many types of natural resources. But now, this great city had become a giant pit.
The whole Si Water City and millions of meters squared fertile farmlands around it had sunk down, turning into a bottomless pit.
Si Water River surged into the pit as turbid waves roared, with watery mist reaching to the sky. This place was turned into a whirlpool hundreds of miles in radius, with countless aquatic creatures happily swimming in and out of it. They laughed, dragged out a few high-quality pieces of clothes from the whirlpool, or some kitchenwares like iron pots and clay bowls.
The city sank, and all of Yao Meng’s families and clansmen were killed by the water. But the properties in the city remained undamaged. These aquatic creatures laughed excitedly while searching for all kinds of valuable things in the water, then showed off their harvests to their friends.
Some fierce ones even dove down to the bottom, bringing up bloody human heads one after another, or broken human limbs. They proudly held those human body parts, as if those were medals, giggled, then threw these body pieces at each other.
”Amma! Abba!” Yao Meng had just been through a long-lasting fight, and he remained calm all the time. But now, he fainted and fell straight down from the air. Fortunately, Yu Mu reacted pretty fast, grabbed Yao Meng’s belt and dragged him up.
”Si Water territory.” Ji Hao clicked his tongue, then his face turned especially dark.
Yao Meng’s grandfather didn’t have a nice family background. He was given birth by the second wife of the leader of a small-scale clan. After he had grown up, Yao Meng’s grandfather was forced to leave his clan and live a vagrant life in the wilderness of Midland. In that vagrant life, this talented man fought natural disasters, countless fierce wild beasts and eventually cultivated himself into a powerful one.
Afterward, Yao Meng’s grandfather joined the human army in Pu Ban City and volunteered to go to Chi Ban Mountain to fight in the frontal line. For countless times, Yao Meng’s grandfather went deep into the grassland in the northern side of Chi Ban Mountain and attacked the battle forts of the non-humankind, killing incalculable non-humankind beings. He accumulated his credits, until he was conferred the title of Earl Si.
That wasn’t a massive war fought by Yao Meng’s grandfather. Therefore, despite the fact that he had killed a great number of enemies and made countless meritorious contributions, the credits he earned were still not as great as Ji Hao’s, for what he did back in Evil Dragon Bay with Yu Yu’s sword formation. For this reason, although they were both conferred the title of ‘earl’, at the beginning, the territory of Yao Meng’s grandfather was not as big as even one-tenth of Ji Hao’s territory.
Yao Meng’s grandfather, his father and himself were all simple and honest people. They kindly invited homeless people to come to their territory and start a life, helping their people build new homelands. They amassed wealth bit by bit. By the time Yao Meng took over the position of Earl Si, they had spent all they had and finally built the Si Water City!
This was a story of the rise of a human clan in the most traditional way. Countless strong human clans grew larger and larger like this; their ancestors worked as hard as possible, stayed as cautious as they could, to gradually turn their small and weak clans into powerful ones.
Si Water City, Yao Meng, his father, and grandfather put all of their hearts and souls in here. All of Yao Meng’s families lived in here.
The tall and sturdy city wall shielded Yao Meng’s clansmen from wild beasts, and the fertile farmlands fed the people. To Yao Meng, Si Water City was all he had; it was the only spiritual support of his.
But now, the city sank; it was gone, and everyone who lived in it was killed! Including Yao Meng’s father, mother, brothers, all his clansmen, all those loyal warriors under his lead, all those people were killed by these happily laughing aquatic creatures!