Chapter 136 – With a Clear Conscience

Su Lifeng felt as if he had stood there quietly for a very long time. Only when another explosion rang beside his ear did he come back to himself.

With his ears buzzing, Su Lifeng turned his neck and looked toward the other end of the ruins.

Some fully armed soldiers had actually moved near this place during the “earthquake.” Looking at Su Lifeng standing alone atop the ruins, his whole body covered in blood and two pairs of Bone Wings spread behind him, shock filled all of their eyes.

After absorbing that Wisdom Species, although he had suffered extremely severe injuries, Su Lifeng’s body had already begun evolving.

Thin red lines extended from the veins of his Bone Wings, like wings formed by countless red rays of light, gradually covering his original Bone Wings.

But this process had only just begun, and it covered only one side of his Bone Wings.

Su Lifeng raised his head. Blood-soaked hair clung to his face, covering one of his eyes. In the other exposed eye, there seemed to be a complex feeling filled with grief.

One soldier’s finger trembled. Yet just as he was about to pull the trigger, someone beside him suddenly lifted the muzzle of his gun.

“Bang!”

The bullet shot into the sky.

“Look…” that person said, his eyes somewhat vacant. “Look at the ground.”

The road had split apart completely down the middle. The soil, stones, and pipes underneath were as if they had been smashed and then squeezed back together.

And now, in this area, aside from Su Lifeng still standing there, everything had returned to silence.

“He’s gone!” A soldier’s pupils contracted, and he suddenly cried out in alarm.

The soldier whose gun barrel had just been raised swallowed and muttered to himself, “Who is he?”

“Cough, cough…”

Beneath a building that had not completely collapsed but was already riddled with holes, Su Lifeng’s figure stopped moving.

“Ah!”

Su Lifeng raised his head and let out a roar, as if only this could free him from the scenes he had seen.

In the end, he was only one person…

“Who?!” At that moment, Su Lifeng abruptly looked toward a corner of the wall.

A figure moved in the corner. When he saw the other party extend a slender hand covered in dust, Su Lifeng stopped the step he had been about to take.

“Was… was it you who saved me just now?” The other party did not come out completely. She only asked in a trembling voice.

Su Lifeng did not speak. After the other party fell silent for a moment, her tone changed into certainty. “It… it should have been you. I remember your wings…”

The Bone Wings moved slightly, and Su Lifeng’s brow also furrowed, but his eyes were still somewhat dazed.

This time, the other party was silent for even longer, then said softly, “Thank you…” Before her words had finished, her voice already carried a sob.

“Thank you. Thank you…”

Amid this female survivor’s repeated thanks, Su Lifeng froze for a moment. Then he barely tugged at the corner of his mouth and smiled faintly.

“You’re welcome.”

The sky remained gloomy. Dark clouds seemed to press directly down overhead, and Su Lifeng’s mood was just as heavy.

But at this moment, he once again understood what he was able to do.

In the end, he was only an ordinary human.

Perhaps he could not turn the tide, but in the face of this disaster that could destroy the World, he had still done what he could, what he wanted to do…

He had a clear conscience!

When leaving Shencheng, Su Lifeng saw even more survivors along the way.

In the eyes of these people, Su Lifeng’s heavily injured appearance became very normal.

The only thing that made them unable to resist looking at him a little more was that someone injured like this could still walk, and at first glance, he did not even seem to be forcing it. Even his waist was straighter than that of many among them who were not injured.

“Um, where are you going?” Someone could not help stopping Su Lifeng. “The army’s medical team just came by. If you want to find them, I can point you in the right direction.”

“It’s fine. I’m going home,” Su Lifeng said.

“Home? Going home like that?” The person froze. His arm slowly lowered. “What home is there anymore? The house I spent my whole life paying off is just gone…”

Su Lifeng glanced at him. He knew that the news of Spatial Gates opening around the globe had not yet reached the ears of these ordinary people. In fact, even many higher-ups in Shencheng still did not know what exactly had happened. By the time this person learned that news, he would no longer sigh over losing a house.

Compared to the people in those cities, they were already fortunate enough.

“Mm. I made a promise with my family,” Su Lifeng said.

That person seemed to want to say something else, but in the end, he only waved his hand, then sighed and walked aside with a heavy heart.

Among the refugees who had nearly filled the square and the streets, Su Lifeng was only an inconspicuous figure…

“Why did it become like this…” In Ningnan, Lv Zifeng and the others were looking at images captured by satellite.

On the screen, dozens of Xenospecies over ten meters tall, extremely fast and possessing terrifying defense, were wreaking havoc through the city.

And the humans who had originally come to resist these monsters had instead become the best skins for the Xenospecies to occupy.

Just as Su Lifeng had predicted, this scene had already occurred one after another right after Shencheng’s disaster ended.

One screen… dozens of screens… each screen showed a different city and region, but what was happening was the same.

Many people stood in front of the screens, feeling only blankness in their minds.

Too fast… It had come too quickly, too suddenly.

At this time, they instead forgot to care about Shencheng, until Lv Zifeng stood up and said, “Everyone should think about what we ought to do.”

“We…” The officials in Ningnan’s management ranks all looked at one another blankly.

After the two incidents involving Deputy Director Wang and Mayor Zhang, almost every department in Ningnan had been cleaned out once. It could not be said that everyone left was working to save humanity, but at the very least, they would work hard to save themselves, and none of them had any connection to the Xenospecies.

But now, they were at a loss. If humanity was going to cease to exist, then what about the country? And under whose leadership would people like them work?

“Bang!” Lv Zifeng slammed the table heavily and said angrily, “Wake up! Just because we saw this, are we supposed to wait for death? If we don’t want to wait for death, then we have to do something! As long as there are still people alive, the human race is not finished! As long as there are still people in Huaxia, Huaxia is not finished! This is my belief as Lv Zifeng, as a person, and as a soldier! At the very least, you still have families to fight for, don’t you!”

When he spoke the last sentence, his voice trembled. The color in his face, originally rising with anger, slowly became complicated.

“Sometimes, living is the hardest thing.” Lv Zifeng seemed to be talking to himself. And he could also feel that Ningnan was not safe either…