Chapter 961, Tyrant
The airships of Blackwater City are scattered throughout the city, hovering above the buildings.
It looked like a group of man-eating sharks patrolling and wandering in the sky.
The elderly and infirm residents who remained in the city saw this and fled back home.
Some people took the elevator to the rooftop and stood on the edge of the rooftop, cursing at the airship.
On the rooftop of a building in District 9, an elderly man stood hunched over, holding a cane, and shouted, "Go back to your own continent!"
However, no sooner had he finished speaking than the machine gun beneath the airship opened fire, turning the old man into a cloud of blood mist.
A burst of laughter erupted from inside the airship.
On the ground, people were still holding banners to protest against the airships in the sky. As a result, the airships strafed the streets, leaving behind a pile of corpses.
In the history of the Roosevelt Kingdom's wars, before the Western Continent was covered by the Forbidden Forest and when the entire civilization was still in the wasteland era, massacring cities was a common occurrence.
Later, with the advent of slavery, the other side began to value its population, and the practice of massacring entire cities gradually decreased.
Now, they have arrived in completely unfamiliar land, looking at the Asians in City 18 who are yelling at them like monkeys, without any pity.
At this moment, two airships flew down from the Blackwater Sky Fortress and headed straight for the Li family's hillside manor, landing in front of Baopu Tower.
The hatch opened, and white soldiers, chewing gum, walked down the ladder. When they reached the ground, they casually spat out their gum and swaggered over to ask, "Where's Li Yunshou?"
The heartless copper bell on Baopu Tower rang out, its sound urgent and sharp.
The white soldier frowned: "What is that? Go and take it off me!"
Li Yunshou walked out of Baopu Tower: "I'm here."
An Asian man stepped off a blimp from Blackwater City. He was a translator sent by the Roosevelt Kingdom. He looked at Li Yunshou and asked, "The Duke of Blackwater asked me to ask you, is your Li family's urgent and forceful conscription, even taking women, in an attempt to protect them?"
Lee's conscription policy required all men and women aged 16 and above to join the army. However, in reality, Lee's conscription was even more outrageous. They would force mothers to take their children with them, so very young boys and girls were also sent to the mountains in the southwest to clear roads.
Millions of people are heading southwest, paving roads and building bridges wherever they encounter them.
This afternoon, an undercover reporter also released a photo showing a 9-year-old girl carrying stones to fill in the road so that Lee's armored vehicles could pass.
In the photo, the little girl is carrying a heavy stone, and her eyes have lost their light.
However, the Duke of Blackwater knew very well that the Li family had driven all these people into the mountains only to prevent the Roosevelt Kingdom soldiers from wantonly humiliating and abusing the residents of City 18 after their arrival.
The city is now only inhabited by some middle-aged and elderly people, or people with disabilities.
The Asian man sneered, “Do you think those residents you’ve conscripted will thank you? Aren’t they still scorning you online? If you still want to be a hero who endures humiliation, you’d better give up that idea. Since you cherish the residents under your rule so much, then gather all the women aged 15 to 30 from your Lee’s Hillside Manor and come with us to the Blackwater Sky Fortress.”
"What the hell are you dreaming about?" one of the young men on Li's side said. "Why don't you call your mother to the Half-Mountain Manor?"
Just then, shadows loomed over them as eight airships slowly floated over, their main cannons all aimed at the ground.
The translator from Blackwater City sneered, "Don't be too impulsive. Impulsiveness will not end well. Is it only by completely breaking your spines that you can be made to obey? Or should we just carve words on your faces?"
Now, the Roosevelt Kingdom is going to tattoo the word "slave" on everyone's faces, not much different from that period of history in the real world, all for the sake of complete conquest.
Li Yunshou raised his hand to stop the young man from speaking.
The young man shouted, "Master, they are deliberately insulting us! Why should we continue to compromise and back down?! We can't really offer up our women!"
Li Yunshou sighed and looked at Li Shu: "Take him away and have the garrison bring all the eligible women from the manor."
The young man's eyes welled up with tears of humiliation: "Master, you can't do this! My sister isn't married yet! Master, you can't do this!"
Many people believe that surrendering when war comes is a good option. However, the truth is that the moment you choose to surrender, your life, property, and family no longer belong to you.
However, Li Shu, with a cold face, gave the garrison troops an order without hesitation: "Execute the patriarch's orders."
The garrison members exchanged bewildered glances. Li Shu roared, "Does anyone else want to spend their entire life in Prison Number 18? Soldiers are duty-bound to obey orders. Are you all new to being soldiers?!"
Soon, the garrison troops subdued everyone in the manor who wanted to resist and brought all the women in the manor over, allowing the Blackwater City soldiers to select sixty of them to take aboard the airship.
The entire hillside estate was filled with wailing and cries, and many people fainted on the ground.
Li Yunshou watched silently.
Someone cursed him, saying, "Li Yunshou, you beast! How will you face your ancestors after you die?! I'll skin you alive and make you into a drum!"
Li Yunshou did not respond.
The translator from Blackwater City looked at Li Yunshou and said, "Please, come with us."
"What are you going to do?" Li Yunshou asked in return.
The translator sneered, "Didn't you prepare an ambush for us in this City 18? Duke Blackwater will let you see for yourself how utterly inept your Eastern Continent's methods are."
Li Yunshou was stunned for a moment. Before he could react, a white soldier shoved him toward the airship.
The Li clan members looked up in despair as the airship sped away. Li Shu murmured, "It's over..."
"Sir, what are we doing now?" someone asked.
Li Shu remained silent for a long time: "Extend the resistance fighters to Prison No. 18."
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In the never-ending bar.
Li Dongze glanced at the weather forecast pocket watch; it showed a clear sky, without a single cloud.
However, the next moment, he reached out and gently turned the dial, and the clear sky suddenly darkened, and it began to snow heavily.
The temperature in the entire city of 18 suddenly dropped by 40 degrees, as if we had entered an extremely cold world.
Many people only know that the contraindicated substance ACE-049 can show the weather forecast for the next 24 hours, but they don't know that it can also change the weather for the next 24 hours.
When I gave this pocket watch to Li Dongze in March, I said: "Look at it once a day and you can predict the weather. If you look at it once a day for 10 consecutive years, you will receive an unexpected surprise."
Li Dongze has known Sanyue for 16 years, from their early days to now. He has been looking at this pocket watch for ten years without realizing it.
At this very moment, heavy snow fell in midsummer, as if the entire city had been draped in a curtain.
The water on the ground began to freeze, and some of the airships in Blackwater City were caught off guard and did not turn on their preheating devices. Ice flowers formed on the windows, and the soldiers inside, wearing summer training uniforms, were shivering from the cold.
Even the temperature control system inside the airship can't keep up with the temperature changes!
Li Dongze looked at Zhang Tianzhen: "The Western Continent's army has arrived, and the visibility conditions have been reduced. Let's move out! Everyone, we are certain to die in this operation, but I need someone to operate each airship. Who will do it?"
"I'll do it!"
"I'll do it!"
“I’m divorced from my wife. She’s currently hiking to the southwest with our daughter. I have no ties, so this job suits me!”
Li Dongze took a deep breath, counted over five hundred people, and then solemnly said, "This time there will be no triumph, only annihilation. Everyone, see you in the next life."
The rough-and-tumble man from Hengshe laughed and said, "Boss, don't be so sentimental. In your next life, just have a daughter and marry her to me."
Li Dongze thought about it seriously: "That won't work."
The men burst into laughter, and a dark door opened, revealing Qing Ji suddenly appearing there: "Let's set off, I'll take you to the airport."
The men of Hengshe only realized at the last moment that the Qing family was behind this whole affair.
Someone suddenly asked, "Wait a minute, we've secretly gathered over five hundred civilian airships in the past few days, why hasn't the Li family paid any attention to us, instead turning a blind eye?"
Li Dongze did not answer.
The men waved their hands and said, "Let's go!"
However, at that moment, Li Dongze suddenly saw a woman dressed as a man with her hair tucked into a hat, walking into the Shadow Gate with the men.
He called out, "Jiang Xiaotang, where are you going?"
But the Shadow Gate closed, and no one answered him.
Zhang Tianzhen looked at Li Dongze: "I know you are a very loyal person, so I can't understand your decision now. If it were before, you might have personally piloted an airship into the sky, but you didn't."
Li Dongze straightened his collar: "Because my life is still useful, let's go, let's evacuate."
He led the remaining three thousand-plus members of the Heng Society out of the city.
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In the darkness, the deck of the Blackwater air fortress slowly opened, like a giant beast swallowing two airships.
The ice and snow fell like a waterfall, swept up by the wind and drifting through the sky.
The aerial fortress hovered at an altitude of 12,000 meters, refusing to land.
Blackwater City seemed to know something and had been on guard. At this altitude, surface-to-air missiles from either the Eastern or Western Continent would be largely ineffective.
Even if a missile flies right in front of you, the air fortress already has enough buffer space to calculate the trajectory and intercept it.
Even though the Fate Master had foreseen destiny, and even though the Eastern Continent was already shattered, Duke Blackwater did not let his guard down; he remained prepared to deal with any danger.
When Li Yunshou and the women of the Li family were pushed into the banquet hall, everyone saw a huge holographic projection erected at the front of the banquet hall.
White officers picked out their favorites from among the Li women, and amidst the women's cries, Li Yunshou stood alone amidst the white men's laughter.
Duke Blackwater, dressed in a robe, stood next to the holographic projection and said to Li Yunshou with a smile, "There weren't any entertainment activities planned for tonight, but you can provide some."
Suddenly, civilian airships in the holographic projection took off and crashed into the Blackwater City airships patrolling the city.
However, the airships of Blackwater City were prepared, and the airships in City 18 were shot down by Blackwater City as soon as they took off.
These Blackwater City fleets seemed to know from the beginning where the Li family would launch their counterattack, and they even knew how much power the Li family had prepared.
The reason they dared to patrol the city so brazenly was because they had seen 'destiny'.
The military-grade Class A airships were like adults beating children when facing the civilian airships of the Li family; they were completely powerless to fight back.
Those civilian airships were filled with members of the Heng Society, all prepared for suicide attacks.
However, it was all in vain.
Li Yunshou watched this scene silently, and the Duke of Blackwater asked, "You organized this, didn't you?"
Li Yunshou shook his head: "No, it was organized by them on their own initiative."
Duke Blackwater sneered: "There's no point in denying it now."
“This was definitely not organized by me,” Li Yunshou shook his head. “It was Heng Society, and the Central Plains Chamber of Commerce led by the knight messenger Su Xingzhi.”