Chapter 623 - City at War (Part One)

Chapter 623: City at War (Part One) The five of them: Luo Yi, Li Wei, Diesel, Vala, and Benjamin (the captain who detonated the bomb and tried to die with Murong Fu) woke up.
The sun was setting, and the metallic scent of blood hit them as they walked out of the treatment area.
Lin Dong was pouring wine onto the ground, which was a Huaxia ritual of paying respect to the dead.
After seeing them all wake up one after another, he burned the firewood as he asked,
Are you feeling okay?

The five of them nodded as they looked at one another.
Is everything okay?

Lin Dong nodded.
It’s fine, Teacher woke up and took Mario and the others over to kill them.

Diesel quickly stood up,
Then let’s hurry over there as well.

Suddenly, Luo Yi also saw how Lin Dong was paying respect to the dead, and after a slight hesitation, he asked,
Who… died?

The others were stunned.
Lin Dong smiled bitterly.
You five, plus Mario, Zhang Xiu, Chekhov, and Dulson are the only ones alive. The rest were all dead!

Their pupils contracted.
What did you say!

Lin Dong confirmed.
The other brothers are dead! Teacher said that there was nothing he could do to save them. He woke up too late, so he saved the four of you, whose abilities have awakened and are physically strong. As for the other brothers, they’re all dead!

Li Wei narrowed his eyes.
How did they die?

Lin Dong stared at him with a complex look and turned away,
They all died of gunshot wounds.

Vala was busy asking.
Where’s Kurt?

Lin Dong met his gaze and didn’t say anything, but Vala looked at the unspoken look in his eyes as he then took a few steps back in disbelief.
Lin Dong didn’t want them to spend this time in sorrow and quickly said,
Teacher said that the reshuffling of the Land of Mercenaries will be turbulent, you need to make sure you regain your strength before you can fight again.

Diesel showed his claws, and Vala’s spikes appeared without affecting his overall strength.
Benjamin was the one who missed not becoming a true Deviant, and he was stunned to see it on the spot.
Diesel was an old comrade of his, so he said,
You’d better pretend you didn’t see anything.

Benjamin nodded.
I’m grateful that you still saved me. In fact, most of the brothers who walked out regretted it, but I’m probably the only one who came back and survived.

Lin Dong:
If you hadn’t made that last comment about you belonging to the Deviant Corp, maybe we wouldn’t have wanted to save you.

Benjamin:
I know what I’m saying is useless right now, but I will say that the Deviant Corp is the last one I’ll ever call home.


Come on, it’s time for us to fight back to kill them. With all these dead brothers, I want to kill those bastards!
Diesel and Vala both got up angrily and went to find the car.
After getting in the car, Li Wei suddenly asked Vala,
How did you pass out?

Vala said,
There was a huge surge of electricity, and then I was knocked unconscious.


So did I. I wondered what went wrong,
Diesel said.
Li Wei’s eyes suddenly turned red.
Luo Yi also seemed to understand something, and he looked at Lin Dong, who sighed and continued to drive.
Li Wei suddenly smashed his fist on the car seat, a grown man like him was actually crying as he looked out the car window at the setting sun.

I didn’t know it was going to be like that.
He suddenly sobbed.
I just wanted to protect this place, protect everyone, even at the expense of myself. I didn’t think that I would survive acting as a conduit for that huge lightning bolt, I just thought I could kill those hundreds of people at the cost of my life, and then the chances of us successfully defending this place would be greater! I didn’t think that so many of my brothers would die because of me.

Diesel and Vala finally realized that their dead brothers were not killed by gunshots.
Vala patted Li Wei’s shoulder.
Don’t be sad, didn’t Little Dong just say that? It’s not because of you.

Chapter 623: City at War (Part Two)

I know it’s because of me!
Li Wei was very agitated and even growled out,
If it was a gunshot wound, Big Brother Cheng would have been able to save them. There could only have been one reason that they were left in an unsavable state, and that’s because they were fried by the lightning bolt that I attracted. Even those of you who were capable were not spared, imagine those other brothers who still hadn’t awakened yet. I thought that lightning bolt might only hit a small area, I… I…
Li Wei sobbed at the end. He wasn’t an idiot, if even pros like Diesel and the others were knocked unconscious by the electricity, then the others definitely wouldn’t be able to survive it.
Luo Yi patted him on the shoulder.
Lin Dong then spoke up,
Teacher said, if you feel guilty, then just slaughter more of our enemies. People can’t come back to life, and everyone knows that you wanted to sacrifice your life to fight those people. It’s just fate, I don’t blame you, Brother Wei.

Diesel and Vala nodded.
Li Wei, look on the bright side. Although we don’t know how to word it nicely, you can’t kill yourself out of guilt, right?


I’d like to die right now if I could!
Li Wei said.

What silly nonsense.
Diesel glared at him.
You think of your brothers as people who are afraid of death? Who’s afraid to die? Everyone was determined to die from the start, and if they were given another chance, including those of us who were stunned by lightning, if we could trade that lightning for the lives of over 300 enemies; we would’ve still chosen to let you do that! Without your lightning, I don’t even know if we would have been able to hold on, and then more brothers would have died, or maybe the Deviant Corp would have been completely wiped out!


Don’t say that.
Li Wei would never be able to forgive himself for the twenty or so brothers he had wrongly killed because of his lapse in judgement. He looked out of the window and remained silent the whole way without speaking.
It took Xu Cheng, Mario, and the four others two days to arrive at the base camp of the Continental Mercenaries, and from afar, they could hear the sound of gunfire in the sky.
They didn’t see anyone yet, but the smoke from the battle was already in the air.
When their car got closer, they could finally hear the sounds of fierce fighting and gunfire.
The two valleys from the gate of the Continental Mercenary Corps were already covered with corpses.
Xu Cheng and others got out of the car and walked over to the corpses, finding that there was no clean spot of soil to step on.
The base camp of the Continental Mercenary Corps was the most prosperous city in the Land of Mercenaries, but at this time, the entire city was in a mess with smoke rising into the air.
Everywhere Xu Cheng and the others went, they stabbed or shot those who were close to dying, taking their lives away.
They went straight to the downtown area of the former local government building, which was the base camp of the Continental Mercenary Corps, and the scene at this time was just as if the rebels had surrounded the palace to kill the emperor.
The buildings had holes everywhere from the crossfires with the three mercenary clans, and many of the Continental Mercenary soldiers had fled the buildings to fight guerrilla warfare.
But they had no way out, because once they left here and the king of the city changed hands, the Continental Mercenary Corps would be removed from the position of the top mercenary corps. There have been several generations of kings and several generations of the government that have taken over, and generation after generation of dictators have once been on top here. This city was a representation of power in the Land of Mercenaries, and since they had occupied it for this long, they were stubborn to keep it theirs. Therefore, the continental mercenaries were putting up a bloodthirsty fight.