189: Dong Family

The people of Mosa City were neither blind nor deaf.

They had witnessed the great battle that took place above the Wulong Hotel, which had even claimed many lives as collateral damage.

Furthermore, the black tide outside the city right now looked like trouble... As long as one stood on higher ground, they could see it clearly.

As a result, many were fleeing, and the city fell into chaos. Even more people seized this 'god-given opportunity' to start looting, smashing, and burning, doing things to property and people that they had never dared to do before.

Feng Zhao flew at high speeds. Everywhere he passed, the heads of those 'celebrating' in the streets below exploded without exception.

Of course, he only did this in passing, executing those he happened to see; he had no time to specifically hunt down those he couldn't see... The scar-faced youth followed behind him, oblivious to the chaos below, and asked worriedly, "Captain, can we really not help?"

"Even Guo Ming's fate is unknown; what could you possibly help with?" Feng Zhao shook his head.

"What about Dong Yibai?"

"Sister Yibai... she's at home..."

"At home? What's going on?"

"Captain, you'll understand once you see..." The scar-faced youth's expression was somewhat dejected.

Before the Captain went to investigate the Nightmare Pupils, he had given him a task: monitor the actions of the other team members.

Initially, he was very confused and felt the Captain's order was inexplicable, but later he found out... it wasn't just Dong Yibai; several other veteran members were also in contact with the other three Commanders!

How could they do this?

The Captain had always treated them well. How could they... how could they be so ungrateful and betray him?

Just because the Captain placed constraints on them and wouldn't let them reach their hands into places they shouldn't?

Feng Zhao soon saw Dong Yibai... at her home, or rather... within her Family.

In the open space of the manor, a large group of people had gathered, dressed in luxury and possessing elegant temperaments.

Some had brought their partners, all of whom were exceptionally good-looking and pleasing to the eye... However, at this moment, most of these people, who clearly weren't commoners, had expressions of terror and confusion.

They looked up at the sky, where a small figure hovered... It was none other than the source of the Dong Family's prosperity: Dong Yibai!

"Grandmother... if you have any instructions, please just say them?" a young man with slicked-back hair asked cautiously.

Dong Yibai simply stood there silently in the air, not even casting a glance downward... Even so, they didn't dare move. The corpses at the manor gate already demonstrated the consequences of moving!

Those corpses were also blood relatives of Dong Yibai, including one of her favorite great-great-granddaughters... who, because she arrived a few minutes late, was executed at the gate without even stepping inside... Feng Zhao arrived before Dong Yibai and saw the look in her eyes.

They were filled with fear, despair, and pain... Feng Zhao sighed, "If you had known it would come to this, why did you do it..."

The crowd below saw Feng Zhao's arrival and immediately became restless.

A man looked up and shouted, "Commander Feng! Our Yibai... what's wrong with her?"

The speaker was Dong Yibai's father. Feng Zhao had once attended a Dong Family banquet and shared wine with him.

But now, Feng Zhao had no intention of responding to him at all, looking at Dong Yibai with eyes full of sorrow... Dong Yibai's lips trembled, and an extremely faint voice came from her mouth: "Captain... save me..."

The scar-faced youth spoke up before Feng Zhao could: "Now you know to beg the Captain!? Why don't you ask Li Wei to save you!?"

"I... was... wrong..."

Her body trembled, and it seemed that every word she spoke caused her immense pain!

A unique rune was etched onto her Soul. Whenever she made an 'unauthorized' move, it would scrape against Dong Yibai's Soul like a steel knife, cruel and relentless!

"It's my fault; I shouldn't have indulged you all..." Feng Zhao gently stroked Dong Yibai's hair and said in a low voice, "When we retired from the Outer Heaven Battlefield, I thought everyone had worked hard for so long, so if some things were done a bit out of line... then so be it.

But I didn't expect your appetites to grow larger and larger... Yibai, people change, don't they?"

"Wu~..."

"In Mosa City alone, hundreds of people die at the hands of your Dong Family every year, many of whom are slaughtered just for fun... I know, you might say they aren't citizens of Great Qin.

But they are also of the Human Race; they aren't an alien race!

In time, when facing Great Qin citizens, would the Dong Family also feel that they are just people with different hair colors than those on the Western Continent, and that killing them is no big deal..."

"No... they wouldn't..."

"You say they wouldn't, of course, but if a junior you liked, or even your parents... killed someone and came to you for protection;

Would you really not shield them?" Feng Zhao spoke earnestly, like a very patient elder. "You definitely would shield them, and then the Dong Family's audacity would grow. They would think that they have you behind them... So even after the garrison duty ends and we return to Great Qin, they would be as unscrupulous as they are here.

It would be nothing more than... history repeating itself in another place."

"You have great talent. You've been following me since the Fourth Realm and have experienced countless battles, large and small.

In the Outer Heaven Battlefield, everyone only thought about how to complete the mission and how to survive... so you weren't exposed to many messy things. To put it bluntly, you're like a nouveau riche.

You feel that since you worked hard and risked your life, you should give the best to your Family.

There's nothing inherently wrong with this thought... but have you ever considered that if all the powerful experts did the same, would the current you even exist?

No matter how great your talent, you would only be reduced to someone's Family slave.

Otherwise, you would have no martial resources and would only be able to perform high-risk, low-reward missions, never being able to realize your martial talent..."

"Do you think the Noble Family Prohibition is targeted at you? But what is there to target in a small fry like you?

It's merely to nip things in the bud and deter those who come after.

Because people like you and families like the Dong Family will never be in short supply..." Feng Zhao's gaze was distant. "I didn't teach you these principles before; that was my oversight..."

Dong Yibai's eyes were already filled with tears.

"You are lucky that someone happened to cross paths with us.

I can give you one chance. You will die, but you can designate ten people to be spared from the liquidation..."

"I... am willing!" Dong Yibai spoke.

In the next moment, she sensed the rune on her Soul fade away, and she regained the ability to move!

Feng Zhao handed over a Medicinal Pill.

"Eat it."