On your wedding night, stay with your godbrother; the Empress is practically throwing herself at you

"When gods fight, mortals suffer; hasn't that always been the case?"

He also sighed.

Even though the Federation's control over martial artists has reached an appalling level.

All martial artists.

They want to receive benefits.

They can only register with the federal government and be subject to its jurisdiction.

But those top experts are truly terrifying. They are one of the rule-makers themselves, so naturally they are not subject to the suppression of the rules.

Can be imagined.

Today's battle.

Fortunately, Luo Gucheng chose a location outside the city.

If it were within the southern part of the city, the entire southern city would probably be completely destroyed.

The number of dead and injured was countless.

Both of them fell silent for a moment.

I don't know what she's thinking.

Just then, the cleaning lady who had been terrified by the snake rushed over, holding a cell phone in her hand, her face pale.

"Xiao Zhao, Xiao Lu, something's happened!"

"Something terrible has happened!"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Lei jumped up reflexively.

"What's wrong?"

"Another lion has escaped?"

"Or did the elephant escape?"

"It's not a zoo!"

The cleaning lady handed them her phone, her voice trembling.

"It was our kindergarten principal. The finance department just called to say that the commotion caused her to have a heart attack and she's been rushed to the hospital!"

"What?"

Zhao Lei's expression changed.

Is it serious?

"Which hospital were they taken to?"

"They were sent to the First Municipal Hospital. I heard they were just resuscitated and are still on oxygen."

Lu Chuan frowned and stood up.

"Let's go take a look."

The principal usually treats the staff very well, is very approachable, and even gives out red envelopes out of his own pocket during holidays.

Even just recently, the zoo director had approved Lu Chuan's decision to bring the little monkey home, despite the risks involved.

The two of them didn't delay.

I greeted the duty manager, hailed a taxi, and headed to the First Municipal Hospital.

In the car.

The driver was a chatterbox.

I was listening to the news on the radio while driving.

Are you two visiting someone in the hospital?

The driver glanced at them in the rearview mirror and shook his head.

"Luckily, your friend is staying at the First Affiliated Hospital, not the Central Hospital, otherwise it would have been a real problem."

"trouble???"

What happened at the Central Hospital?

Zhao Lei was puzzled.

The driver lowered his voice, his face filled with terror.

"Didn't you see the news?"

"Still not checking your WeChat Moments?"

"That Blood Slaughter Martial Saint, before he was killed outside the city, seemed to have gone to the Central Hospital."

Lu Chuan's pupils contracted slightly.

Xiao Jinhan went to the Central Hospital?

He suddenly recalled the scene he had witnessed on the street; indeed, Xiao Jinhan had ascended to heaven from the hospital rooftop in one step.

"I've heard..."

The driver swallowed hard, his voice even lower.

"Everyone in the city hospital's inpatient ward is dead."

"Whether they were doctors, nurses, or patients, they were all drained dry, without a single drop of blood left on their bodies. The scene was..."

"Tsk tsk, it's like hell."

boom.

For an instant.

Zhao Lei felt a chill run down his spine.

"Master...Master, don't scare me! Is it that scary?"

Why would I lie to you?

"The news has spread throughout the entire southern part of the city."

Lu Chuan quickly took out his phone, glanced at the local news, and immediately gasped.

really.

Many news reports also included photos from the scene.

The ground was littered with dried-up corpses.

The deceased's family members were crying their hearts out.

The scene was incredibly tragic and sorrowful.

"Why."

"That's terrible."

"Who could have imagined that our Nancheng, which has been peaceful for so many years, would suffer such a great calamity?"

The driver sighed again.

"In this world, the lives of ordinary people like us are nothing in the eyes of those high-level martial artists."

Lu Chuan remained silent in the back seat.

perhaps……

I already know what's going on.

Xiao Jinhan.

This was presumably to counter Luo Gucheng.

I don't know how it happened, but I ended up in the hospital, and then I casually drained the life out of an entire building as nourishment.

This is the way of the demonic path.

Lu Chuan's eyes turned cold.

……

We arrived at the First Affiliated Hospital.

It was also very messy inside.

Patients, doctors, and nurses were all busy.

After all, today's events have had a huge impact, and quite a few people have been hospitalized.

There was even a cordon at the entrance, and many law enforcement officers were going in and out.

It took the two of them a lot of effort to find out the principal's hospital room.

Push open the ward door.

The headmaster was lying in bed.

With an oxygen tube in his nose, his face was ashen, and he looked as if he had aged ten years in an instant.

"Director, are you alright?"

Zhao Lei rushed in, his eyes a little red.

The headmistress struggled to open her eyes, saw it was the two of them, and managed a bitter smile.

"Oh, it's Xiao Zhao and Xiao Lu... Please sit down, make yourself at home."

"Director, please stop talking and rest."

Lu Chuan also went over and took out the fruit he had bought on the way and placed it on the bedside table.

Upon seeing this, the headmaster waved his hand and said...

"I'm fine, I won't die. It's just..."

"For a moment just now, I felt that my life had been pretty meaningless."

The headmaster stared at the ceiling, his voice hoarse.

"I worked diligently my whole life for that zoo, and my hair turned white from exhaustion."

"And the result?"

"When some big shot roared from heaven, I almost met my maker."

"You heard about what happened at the Central Hospital, right?"

Zhao Lei nodded, not daring to speak.

"Hundreds of lives, gone in an instant."

The kindergarten director gave a bitter laugh.

"What are we in the eyes of those high and mighty martial artists?"

"They're not even as good as the monkeys in that cage."

"At least the monkeys are fed and protected, but what about us?"

"Death is just a number."

The ward was deathly silent.

This sense of powerlessness is like a huge boulder pressing on the heart of every ordinary person.

"I don't want to do this anymore."

The principal suddenly said,

"I'll submit my resignation after I'm discharged from the hospital."

"I'm going back to my rural hometown to farm. This city... is too dangerous. The countryside is much better."

Zhao Lei was stunned for a moment.

The kindergarten principal quit?

He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but found himself unable to say anything.

Lu Chuan also remained silent for a while.

"That's good. Going back to my hometown to recuperate and grow some flowers and plants is better than living in fear in the city."

I came out of the ward.

The two sat on the edge of a flower bed downstairs at the hospital.

Zhao Lei lit a cigarette, his hand trembling slightly. He took a puff and was choked, coughing violently.

"Brother Chuan."

Zhao Lei, his eyes red, looked up at Lu Chuan.

"Tell me, what is the point of all this striving to live?"

"The headmaster was such a good person, and he almost died."

"And those who died at the Central Hospital, some of them may have just come to see a doctor for a cold, and ended up losing their lives."

"Are we really just ants in the face of those powerful beings?"

Lu Chuan also looked up at the sky.

Looking up at the blazing sun overhead, everything was a crimson red, as if the entire southern city had been set ablaze.

After a long silence, he said softly,

"They are ants."

"If you're not strong enough, you'll always be an ant."

……