Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 264: Abyss Fire 10

Lin Muqing and Zhou Bai exchanged glances, and Zhou Bai said, "Shall we go take a look then? I believe in Jing Xiu."

Lin Muqing frowned slightly, "Time is tight, I want to report back to them first."

Zhou Bai nodded, "Then I’ll go with Jing Xiu. Whatever the outcome on your end, don’t forget to let me know."

So Zhou Bai followed Jing Xiu, leaving the Dao School, and continuously descended along the aerial corridor, from 1500 meters of the Dao School area down to 1000 meters…500 meters…ground level.

Looking at the somewhat dated large residential buildings in front of him, Zhou Bai said, "This is the civilian area?"

"Yes, this is the factory employee family residential area, and also my home," Jing Xiu, carrying a backpack, walked briskly, "Let’s go to my home first. I have some things to deliver there."

Therefore, Zhou Bai followed Jing Xiu to an apartment building, followed her up to the fifth floor, and watched Jing Xiu open the somewhat worn door to enter the apartment.

Jing Xiu walked to the table and saw a large package tied tightly on the table, with a note on top.

Zhou Bai glanced at it, and it seemed to read, "Jing Xiu, this is the welfare distributed by the factory this month. Take it to the school to eat, and remember to share some with your classmates. Mom and Dad are old and useless now, this is the only way we can help you..."

Jing Xiu pinched the note, turned to Zhou Bai, and said, "Brother Zhou, could you not casually look at other people’s things?"

Zhou Bai nodded, smiled apologetically, and turned to leave, "Then I’ll wait outside for you."

Jing Xiu carefully opened the backpack and took out bottle after bottle, jar after jar, placing them on the table, each labeled with notes specifying when and how much to eat each day.

These were health elixirs that Jing Xiu had concocted for her parents, hoping to improve their health.

After finishing this, Jing Xiu looked towards a black-and-white photograph on the cabinet; in the photo was a young man with a cheerful smile, bearing a slight resemblance to Jing Xiu.

Jing Xiu smiled at the photo, "Brother, rest assured, everyone is doing well. I will take care of Mom and Dad."

Then Jing Xiu came out and led Zhou Bai towards the streets beside the residential area.

Zhou Bai said, "Jing Xiu, where exactly do you want to take me?"

Jing Xiu replied, "Brother Zhou, you’ve been in Donghuacheng for so long, have you ever strolled through the streets on the surface?"

Zhou Bai thought about his past visits to the abandoned hospital, the uninhabited regions, the sewers, and realized he’d rarely been to places where people actually stayed, so he shook his head.

Jing Xiu laughed, "Then let me show you. The life of ordinary people in Donghuacheng, we’ll be right on time for the end of their shift."

As they walked on the streets, they could see crowds of ordinary people in a hurry, rushing to their respective workplaces. Due to it being the working hours, the entire street seemed rather deserted.

Not until the end of the shift did the crowd surge and flood the streets like torrents released from a gate, filled with noise, chatter, and shouts everywhere...

Zhou Bai followed Jing Xiu into a canteen, which was filled with people seated at every table, all with their food served, eating and talking, the whole canteen bustling with activity.

Jing Xiu explained on the side, "Everyone is busy and tired from work every day, it’s only during meal times that they relax the most." She found an empty spot and sat down with Zhou Bai.

Zhou Bai watched the civilians beside him who were eating heartily and discussing animatedly, and couldn’t help but think of what they would be like if they all turned into Heavenly Demons.

Jing Xiu said, "Brother Zhou, you said everyone in Donghuacheng is willing to surrender to the Heavenly Demon. Do you think these ordinary people, the lowest strata living on the ground, would be willing?"

Zhou Bai looked at Jing Xiu in surprise, only to see Jing Xiu turn to a middle-aged man nearby and ask, "Hello, what do you think of the recent situation?"

The middle-aged man glanced at Jing Xiu and Zhou Bai, and casually said, "Certainly not so good, those Heavenly Demon brats keep attacking us, I’ve heard that even inside Donghuacheng has begun to be targeted."

The short man next to the middle-aged man said, "I heard that the students of Dao School were all attacked. These guys are really useless; how did they let the Heavenly Demons break in?"

A middle-aged woman couldn’t help but complain, "We work our tails off every day just hoping that these monks can beat the Heavenly Demons, but they ended up letting them in."

Zhou Bai sighed, feeling at a loss for words.

Jing Xiu interjected, "What if the Heavenly Demons really break in?"

The middle-aged man replied, "Then we fight them, of course!"

The young man on the side said, "Fight to the last drop of blood. My family has prepared three alloy knives, we’ll kill them when the time comes."

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Someone shouted, "I think fighting the Heavenly Demons is better than being worked to death like this every day."

A middle-aged woman declared, "They’ll never capture Donghua City!"

Zhou Bai looked at them and said, "The Heavenly Demons are formidable, you’ll all be killed."

The middle-aged man glared at Zhou Bai, "What’s with you and being afraid of death? So what if we die? How many of us have died? Which family here hasn’t lost someone?"

The short man said, "The Heavenly Demons want to wipe us out, what’s the use of being afraid? We should fight them. The gods and the monks above are just too afraid to die, hiding in the city all day, what’s the use?"

Zhou Bai couldn’t help but chuckle, "I heard that the Heavenly Demons are accepting human surrenders now. If you join them, maybe you might not die like the Heavenly Demons..."

Bang! The middle-aged man slammed his hand on the table, staring at Zhou Bai, "What are you saying? How can we surrender to the Heavenly Demons?!"

"How many people have the Heavenly Demons killed?"

"We’d rather die than surrender!"

"Absolutely no surrender!"

"Fight to the death!"

People around started shouting, and some pointed fingers at Zhou Bai. Guards appeared to be heading in their direction from not far away.

Zhou Bai grabbed Jing Xiu, and in an instant, they vanished like a breeze from before everyone’s eyes.

Arriving in a deserted spot, Jing Xiu looked at Zhou Bai somewhat embarrassedly, "Big Brother Zhou, I know that they might have said those things because of the government’s propaganda or because they don’t understand how terrible the Heavenly Demons are.

When the knife cuts into their flesh, when the Heavenly Demons truly appear before them, many people will back down. But I want to say that in Donghua City, not everyone is willing to surrender; there are many people who want to fight to the death against the Heavenly Demons."

Jing Xiu thought for a moment before continuing, "But what if they change their minds only when threatened by force, when attacked by the Heavenly Demons? It’s perfectly normal for ordinary people to be coerced by a force as powerful as the Heavenly Demons.

Isn’t it the role of us human warriors to ensure they aren’t coerced by force, that they aren’t oppressed by violence, that they can resist the Heavenly Demons on their own terms?"

"Big Brother Zhou, I don’t know if the surrender of the upper echelons to the Heavenly Demons that you and Teacher Lin mentioned is true. But if it is true..."

Jing Xiu clenched her fists, gazing at the artificial sky slowly, "Those in the upper echelons, those powerful monks, maybe they can gain some benefits after surrendering, maybe they can save their own lives? Maybe they can hide and scrape by... but that’s with the lives of other humans as the price."

"The technology of the Heavenly Demons is great, immortality is great, undying is also great, but we should be the ones to defeat the Heavenly Demons and take it from them, not to surrender and then beg them to bestow it upon us."

Zhou Bai looked at Jing Xiu in surprise, then nodded with a mix of surprise and relief, "Jing Xiu, you’re right. I understand what I must do now."

Christina said, "Zhou Bai, you’re not planning to fight them in Donghua City, are you? You can’t win. Don’t listen to this young girl, she’s talking nonsense; this is going to get people killed."

Zhou Bai replied, "I have a plan."