Chapter 1021: Bringing Reinforcements?

The factory area was already in chaos.

Several figures surrounded a fallen worker, their haggard faces full of terror. They looked at the young man on the ground vomiting blood, at a loss for what to do.

Although he was a young man, his hair was almost entirely gone, and he radiated an aura of decay from the inside out. He lay on the ground, vomited blood a few more times, then rolled his eyes and collapsed stiffly...

Black, foul-smelling blood spread from beneath him, and within seconds, he had no breath left.

Wu Duo and Fang Liangye, who had just reached the warehouse window, witnessed his death.

"This..." Fang Liangye stood frozen.

"Old Li... is dead?" A worker stepped forward tremblingly to touch his nose, his face turning deathly pale.

"Last night he said he was tired and not feeling well, but he was dragged out in the middle of the night to work overtime in the workshop... We didn't pay attention for a moment, and he ended up like this..."

"It’s not just Old Li. Five people have already died in the workshop next door tonight..."

"Those people from the Silver Government are truly insane!!!"

"18 hours of work was already the limit, and now they don't even give us an hour of rest a day... If this continues, we’ll all die here sooner or later!!"

Commotion gradually rose from the crowd, and the next moment, a gunshot pierced the sky!

Bang—

The person with the most intense emotions had a flower of blood bloom on his forehead and fell heavily to the ground.

Gasps of shock came from the crowd. All the workers were startled and instinctively took several steps back, looking not far away... A group of Fire-Tamperers stood there holding weapons, watching the scene expressionlessly.

These Fire-Tamperers were not high-ranking, mostly only First or Second Rank, but standing there with weapons was enough to bring terrifying pressure to the workers, who were ordinary people.

"The Silver King has ordered an adjustment to the work schedule of all factories. You must complete all production targets within the next two days... Whoever causes trouble dies now."

The lead Fire-Tamperer said indifferently.

Everyone was silent.

Extremely oppressive gloom and despair hung over the hearts of all the workers in the Wuji Domain. Ever since Chen Ling’s failed attempt to overturn the Wuji Domain, their last hope had been extinguished... From that moment on, they all knew in their hearts that they and the future of this domain were finished.

In this domain, they were just tools for production, with no freedom and no human rights. All they could do was mechanically complete every task and then live on in misery.

Looking at Old Li’s corpse, they couldn't even muster anger or resentment; there was only despair and numbness.

"Go back and continue production!" the Fire-Tamperer said in a deep voice.

Immediately after, the people behind him each took out a list and began to stand at the entrance of each workshop to take roll call, ensuring everyone was at their assigned post.

"Han Zhaohua."

"Xiong Shangzhi."

"Hong Yuqiong."

"Lu Yu."

"Cao Jun..."

“……”

The workers whose names were called walked into the workshop one by one with their heads bowed. When it was Cao Jun’s turn, he silently clenched his fists, turned to look at the warehouse where Wu Duo and the others were hiding, and entered without a word.

The members of the Rat Party in the warehouse saw this, and anger rose in their eyes!

"The Silver King is simply insane!!" a Rat Party member gritted his teeth.

"He doesn't treat human lives as human lives at all."

"...What do we do?"

The few scattered Rat Party members looked at each other and, after a long silence, turned to look at Fang Liangye.

Dulan’s whereabouts were unknown, and the Rat Party currently had no one capable of making decisions. Having seen Fang Liangye’s methods before, they were naturally willing to trust his judgment.

"Those Fire-Tamperers outside are weak. We can easily kill them. Should we go for it?"

Fang Liangye opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

He was no longer the "Six of Hearts."

At this moment, without Chen Ling’s decisiveness to support him, he didn't dare to issue any orders, because any choice he made involved everyone’s lives. To him, everything about Chen Ling was like a dream; now that the dream had ended, Fang Liangye was still just Fang Liangye.

"No... no!" Wu Duo suddenly spoke. "If we fight them now, even if we can kill them, more Fire-Tamperers will come..."

"So we just do nothing?"

Wu Duo pondered for a moment. "The key now is to reduce the casualties of the workers... How about this: you stay here, and I’ll go find Mr. Fu."

"You’re going by yourself?"

"Yeah, too many people make the target too obvious."

After giving the others a few instructions, Wu Duo quietly left the warehouse, her figure disappearing into the gloom.

……

Time passed, day turned to night.

When the sun sank into the earth once more, three bedraggled figures finally stepped into the territory of the Tian-Shu Domain.

"How much time has passed... and we’re back again." Sun Bumian looked around, his face full of exhaustion. "I really don't want to walk through this crappy Gray Realm ever again..."

"If it weren't for Plum Blossom, we would have died hundreds of times already." Jian Changsheng patted Jiang Xiaohua on the shoulder. "Plum Blossom, thanks to you."

Jiang Xiaohua: "?"

Jiang Xiaohua looked down at his largely exposed body, not knowing what to say... He hadn't actually done anything; at most, he had taken off his clothes and walked through the Gray Realm.

"They’re going to execute Chen Ling tomorrow... Is it too late for us to bring reinforcements now?" Jian Changsheng couldn't help but ask.

"Although the truth is harsh, with our current strength, this is all we can do... Provoking the Fire-Tamperers head-on is definitely suicide." Sun Bumian shrugged. "Fortunately, the security in the Tian-Shu Domain has been lax these past two days, so we can take the Domain Train... If we can't get reinforcements in the Tian-Shu Domain, we’ll have to head to other domains."

"There’s still no news from Senior Bai Ye, and I don't know what the situation is..."

"Calculating the time, he should have arrived at the Opera Path Ancient Treasury by now. Could he have run into an accident on the way?"

"This is trouble..."

The three of them talked as they walked toward the Domain Train station.

Just as they were checking the schedule and preparing to leave the domain to find more members of the Dusk Society for help, a train roared and slowly drove in from the distance!

Clang—clang—clang...

As Jian Changsheng and the others stood on the platform, the train slowly stopped not far away. With the release of steam and a loud whistle, the carriage doors covered in incantations were opened one after another.

"The train is here, let’s go." Jian Changsheng was already anxious and was about to rush onto the train.

Just then, a hand suddenly grabbed his shoulder.

Jian Changsheng looked back and saw Sun Bumian staring blankly at the figures getting off the train, a look of seeing a ghost on his face...

"It seems... we don't need to go bring reinforcements."

A faint smile curled the corners of Sun Bumian’s mouth.