Chapter 395: Chapter 202: The Terrifying Union of Xin and War

After a long time, the battle was won.

The mining slaves who were escorted burst into loud cheers, shouting excitedly, waving their arms and legs, greedily feeling the freedom, feeling the Power bestowed by the Lord, as if their whole lives were filled with new hope.

Everyone’s eyes turned to the Lord of Light and Shadow floating in the high sky, their eyes showing sincere anticipation, hoping the Lord would give them a new direction.

Then, the [Lord of Light and Shadow] raised a hand pointing towards the direction of the North Mountain Mine.

The mining slaves were puzzled, unsure of what deeper meaning the Lord intended.

But soon, one young man suddenly realized and exclaimed, "I understand, the Lord means there are still many compatriots in the mine who have not been liberated! We must use our own Power to liberate as many compatriots as possible, using our Power and Will to gain freedom! Freedom! Freedom!"

"Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!"

"Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!"

....

A shout like mountains and seas rose, wave upon wave, as these successfully liberated mining slaves uniformly marched towards the North Mountain Mine, eyes filled with hope and dreams, as if the future of a new world was in their hands.

While high above, the figure of the Lord of Light and Shadow quietly departed, returning to the former mountaintop, shedding disguise, revealing its original appearance.

Zi Yu looked at Ye Mingqiu, who had a smiling face, feeling frightened, his Adam’s apple moved as he asked, "What have you done to them?"

"I am helping them."

"But I feel something is very wrong, their state is very abnormal, extremely abnormal."

"Oh?"

Ye Mingqiu raised an eyebrow and said, "Then let me ask you, were they not dying a while ago, didn’t they need someone to help them?"

"Yes."

"Didn’t I actively come forward, giving them healing Power, giving them the Power to resist?"

"Yes."

"After gaining Power, they felt grateful to me, is that a problem?"

"....Seems not."

"This gratitude was interrupted, so they felt very angry, thus they killed those who enslaved them, gaining freedom with their own hands, isn’t that a good thing?" Ye Mingqiu continued to ask.

"Seems....so."

Zi Yu’s voice trembled a bit, speaking also somewhat uncertainly, because according to Ye Mingqiu’s logic, this indeed seemed to be an indisputably good thing, yet he just felt something was wrong, felt something seemed to still be hidden.

He was briefly silent, then said, "Their performance is too positive and optimistic, it’s entirely different from how normal people should behave, it’s very wrong..."

"Ridiculous!"

Ye Mingqiu directly interrupted, stood beside Zi Yu at an extremely close distance staring into him, asked in a deep voice, "In your eyes, should ordinary people be discouraged? In your eyes, are they not qualified to show a positive smile, face life with hope?"

"This....this is different."

"What’s the difference? I let them find hope in despair, let them gain Power, experience unprecedented joy, let them feel the excitement and happiness of gaining freedom with their own hands, what’s wrong with that?"

"..."

Zi Yu was stumped by the question, unskilled in argument and debate, he indeed didn’t know how to respond at this moment, he watched those mining slaves charging towards the North Mountain Mine, just had a sense of an unsettling dissonance or premonition.

He didn’t know how to describe it, but he just felt something was very wrong, quite out of place.

"Alas!"

Ye Mingqiu sighed, then showed a disappointed look, saying, "You’re just double standard."

"You simply can’t illustrate the problem, just feel that a Divine Race saving human beings tarnishes the essence of the word freedom."

"No!"

"Then let me ask you, if the one who appeared to heal and save them a while ago was a Human Race, would you still have this suspicion? Don’t think, just answer me directly." Ye Mingqiu asked again loudly.

"This..."

Zi Yu fell into terrifying self-doubt because he could feel that if those rescuing people were indeed humans rather than the transformed Blood Erosion Tyrant, he might really not feel there’s a problem.

Right...right, isn’t it? This is wrong...

It seems it’s not wrong either...

Can’t distinguish! I really can’t tell!

"Sigh!"

Ye Mingqiu sighed longingly to the sky, gently patted Zi Yu’s shoulder, saying, "Come with me, next, let you see, how they bring light and change to this world through their own Power."

"...Okay."

Zi Yu slowly nodded.

Although unable to refute the other party, he also felt uneasy about those people, if he could go alongside observing, preventing potential crises, this might also be a good thing.

...

North Mountain Mine

The huge city gate stood towering, with steel and hardwood forming the giant gate, having slight unnatural dents, and stains of blood, vaguely as if seeing the ghostly images of mining slaves desperately pounding the gate trying to escape.

Blood had dried and solidified, turning into a barely noticeable small mark on the city gate, and there were many of such marks, this city gate seemed like a giant beast, devouring people’s hope and Will.

"Clop! Clop! Clop..."

Orderly footsteps came from afar, those were the footsteps of the mining slaves, though without any systematic training, there’s inexplicably some uniform coordination, even each breath and each step could synchronize.

On the city wall, soldiers in charge of guarding soon noticed the anomaly.

On the highest observation tower, soldiers in charge of reconnaissance frowned tightly, saying to the soldiers below, "Not far outside the mine, there’s a group suspected to be mining slaves heading towards the mine, but I haven’t found those responsible for escorting them, the situation might be anomalous."