Chapter 1021: Calling for Reinforcements?

Calling for Reinforcements?

At this time, the Factory District was already a mess.

Several figures surrounded a worker who had collapsed on the ground, their haggard faces full of horror. They looked at the young man continuously vomiting blood on the ground, at a loss for what to do for a moment.

Although he was a young man, his hair had almost completely fallen out, and his entire person exuded an aura of decay from the inside out. He lay on the ground, and after vomiting a few mouthfuls of blood, his eyes rolled back, and he fell rigidly to the ground...

Black and foul-smelling blood spread from beneath him. In just a few short seconds, he lost his breath.

Wu Duo and Fang Liangye, who had just walked to the window of the Warehouse, witnessed his death with their own eyes.

"This..." Fang Liangye froze in place.

"Old Li... is dead?" A worker tremblingly stepped forward and touched his nose, his face instantly turning pale.

"Last night he said he was tired and feeling unwell, but he was forcibly dragged up in the middle of the night to work overtime in the workshop... I just didn't pay attention to him for a while, and he ended up like this..."

"Those people from the Silver Government are truly insane!!!"

"An 18-hour workday was already the limit, and now they don't even give a single hour of rest a day... If this continues, all of us will die here sooner or later!!"

Commotion gradually sounded from the crowd. The next moment, a gunshot pierced the sky!

Bang——

The person with the most intense emotions had a blood flower explode between his eyebrows, and he fell heavily to the ground.

Bursts of exclamations came from the crowd. All the workers were frightened. They subconsciously retreated a few steps and looked toward the distance... A group of Fire-Stealers, weapons in hand, were looking in this direction expressionlessly.

The Ranks of this group of Fire-Stealers were not high, mostly only First-Tier or second-tier. But just standing there with weapons in hand was enough to bring a terrifying sense of oppression to the workers who were Ordinary Persons.

"The Silver King has ordered to adjust the work and rest schedules of all factories. All production targets must be completed within the remaining two days... Whoever causes trouble will die right now."

The leading Fire-Stealer spoke faintly.

Everyone was dead silent.

Extremely oppressive smog and despair shrouded the hearts of all the workers in the Wuji Domain. Ever since Chen Ling's attempt to overturn the Wuji Domain failed, their last hope had also been extinguished... From that moment on, they knew very well in their hearts that the future of themselves and this Realm was already finished.

In this Realm, they were just tools for production. They had no freedom and no human rights. All they could do was mechanically complete every task, and then eke out an ignoble existence.

Looking at Old Li's corpse, they couldn't muster up any anger or resentment at all. What they felt more was despair and numbness.

"Go back and continue production!" the Fire-Stealer spoke in a deep voice.

Immediately after, the people behind him each took out a list and began to stand at the door of every workshop to do a roll call, ensuring that everyone was at their corresponding post.

"Han Zhaohua."

"Xiong Shangzhi."

"Hong Yuqiong."

"Lu Yu."

"Cao Jun..."

"..."

The workers whose names were called walked into the workshop one after another with their heads lowered. When it was Cao Jun's turn, he silently clenched his fists, turned his head to glance at the Warehouse where Wu Duo and the others were hiding, and entered without saying a word.

Seeing this scene, anger climbed up in the eyes of the Rat Party members in the Warehouse!

"The Silver King is simply insane!!" a Rat Party member gritted his teeth and spoke.

"He doesn't treat human lives as human lives at all."

"... What do we do?"

The sparse few Rat Party members looked at each other. After a long silence, they turned to look at Fang Liangye.

Durand's whereabouts were unknown. Right now, the Rat Party simply didn't have anyone capable of making decisions. Before this, they had seen Fang Liangye's methods, so naturally, they were also willing to trust his judgment.

"Those few Fire-Stealers outside are very weak. We can easily kill them. Do we attack?"

Fang Liangye opened his mouth, but he couldn't utter a single word.

He was no longer "Six of Hearts".

At this moment, without Chen Ling's decisiveness as support, he simply didn't dare to issue any orders, because every choice he made concerned the lives of everyone. To him, everything about Chen Ling in the past was like a dream. When he woke up from the great dream, Fang Liangye was still Fang Liangye.

"No... No!" Wu Duo suddenly spoke. "If we fight them now, even if we can kill them, more Fire-Stealers will come..."

"Then do we just do nothing?"

Wu Duo pondered for a moment. "The crucial point right now is that we must reduce the casualties of the workers... Let's do it this way. You guys stay here for now. I'll go find Mr. Fu."

"Are you going alone?"

"En, too many people will make the target too obvious."

After Wu Duo instructed everyone a few times, she quietly left the Warehouse, her figure disappearing into the smog.

...

Time passed, day and night cycling.

When the sun sank into the earth once again, three wretched figures finally stepped into the territory of the Tianshu Domain.

"It's only been how long... and we're back again." Sun Bumian looked around, his face full of exhaustion. "This broken Gray World, I really don't want to walk through it a single time more..."

"If it weren't for Club being here, we probably would have died hundreds of times over." Jian Changsheng patted Jiang Xiaohua's shoulder. "Club, it's all thanks to you."

Jiang Xiaohua: "?"

Jiang Xiaohua lowered his head and glanced at his largely exposed body. For a moment, he didn't know what to say... In truth, he didn't do anything at all. At most, he just took off his clothes and walked around in the Gray World.

"They are going to execute Chen Ling tomorrow... Is there still time for us to call for reinforcements now?" Jian Changsheng couldn't help asking.

"Although the truth is somewhat harsh, with our current strength, this is all we can do... Going to provoke the Fire-Stealers head-on is absolutely courting death." Sun Bumian shrugged. "Fortunately, the Tianshu Domain's guard has been relaxed for the past two days, so we can take the Realm train... If we can't gather reinforcements in the Tianshu Domain, we can only head to other Realms."

"There is still no news from Senior Bai Ye's side either. Who knows what the situation is exactly..."

"Calculating the time, he should have reached the Ancient Vault of the Drama Path by now. Could he have encountered some accident on the way?"

"This is troublesome..."

While speaking, the three of them walked toward the direction of the Realm train.

Just as they were checking the schedule, preparing to leave this Realm to seek help from more Dusk Society members, a train slowly drove over from the distance amidst rumbling sounds!

Clatter-clank—— Clatter-clank—— Clatter-clank...

At the same time Jian Changsheng and the other two stood on the platform, that train slowly stopped not far away. Along with the whistle of released steam, the carriage doors covered in Curse Runes were opened one after another.

"The train is here, let's go quickly." Jian Changsheng was already incredibly anxious in his heart. He lowered his head and was about to charge onto the train.

Right at this moment, a palm suddenly grabbed his shoulder.

Jian Changsheng looked back, only to see Sun Bumian staring blankly at the figures getting off the train, wearing an expression as if he had seen a ghost...

"It seems... we don't need to go call for reinforcements."

A faint smile curved up at the corner of Sun Bumian's mouth.