Chapter 158: Let Aurora City... Hear Your Cries

After saying this, Chen Ling walked toward the next person. The woman holding the child sat there blankly, a flicker of hope seemingly awakened in her hollow eyes, and she began to tremble uncontrollably.

That’s right... as long as they could get into Aurora City, her child would definitely live!

Chen Ling's words were like a shot of adrenaline injected into the woman's body. Her eyes gradually regained their luster... or rather, a longing for Aurora City.

"Your husband died in the flames, but you are still alive," Chen Ling said, walking up to the next person.

It was a woman of twenty-eight or twenty-nine, half of her face burned by fire. She was curled up into a ball, motionless as if carved from stone.

"Did he know you were pregnant?"

Hearing this, she jerked her head up, her eyes staring at Chen Ling in astonishment.

"Me? No... that's not right, I'm not..."

"My eyes do not deceive me," Chen Ling replied faintly. "You carry his own flesh and blood. He is already dead, but you still carry the hope that belongs to both of you..."

After saying this, Chen Ling continued forward, leaving the woman sitting there blankly. Two lines of tears welled up in her eyes, and she covered her burned face with her hands, unsure if she was laughing or crying.

Chen Ling moved through the crowd just like that. His voice was calm, yet with just a few words, he could awaken a desperate victim. They were like exhausted drowning people who had already given up on everything, only to see hope once again... they began to struggle in the quagmire of despair!

This struggle was a hundred times more intense than when they first boarded the train. Only those who had once been trapped in the quagmire of despair could truly feel the preciousness of this moment of hope... The oppressive and desperate atmosphere in the carriage gradually dissipated, replaced by an unprecedented longing for life!

Chen Ling, wearing his blood-colored coat, stood among the crowd and asked the previous question once more:

"Tell me... do you want to live?"

"Yes!"

"Do you want to live?!!" Chen Ling roared.

"We want to live!! We want to live!!!"

Chen Ling's roar completely ignited the emotions of everyone in the carriage. The past oppression and despair turned into fuel at this moment, causing their thirst for life to burn fiercely. Their eyes were like torches!

Chen Ling's mouth curled up slightly, and he tossed the megaphone in his hand into the crowd.

He turned and walked toward the control room.

"Let Aurora City... hear your cries."

……

Aurora City, the city wall.

"Sir, that train still hasn't slowed down," the enforcer lowered his binoculars and turned to look at the Five-Strip Enforcer beside him.

The Five-Strip Enforcer's brow furrowed even tighter. He raised the amplification device and spoke again:

"This is your final warning... stop the train, or be destroyed."

Clang, clang, clang—

The train traveled across the icy wilderness, showing no signs of slowing down. The pitch-black locomotive was like a steel arrow, pointed straight at Aurora City!

The Five-Strip Enforcer narrowed his eyes and turned to look behind him. He saw that the other two Five-Strip Enforcers had also arrived. Three windbreakers flashing with five stripes fluttered on the city wall, like black-clad gods guarding this side of the gate.

The three of them exchanged glances and nodded slightly. Just as they were about to act, an abrupt voice rang out from the wind and snow in the distance.

"Don't... don't kill us..."

The moment this woman's voice rang out, everyone was stunned.

The enforcers looked at each other in astonishment, seeing the bewilderment in each other's eyes...

"That's not right, Chen Ling is a man, this isn't him... then who is speaking?"

"There are others on the train??"

Just as everyone was puzzled, the voice continued:

"Why... why must you abandon us?" The woman's voice trembled slightly. "We barely escaped from the hell of the Third District... My father was eaten by a Calamity, my husband was shot dead by you enforcers... I only have my child left..."

"You don't have to let me into the city, but I beg you, let my child in... He is still young, he doesn't understand anything, I just want him to survive!"

After the voice finished, there was a rustling sound, as if the device had been snatched by another person, who spoke hoarsely:

"Aurora City, you are listening, right?

I am a carpenter from the Third District. My father, my grandfather, our family has been carpenters for generations... We crafted wooden goods with our blood and sweat to send into Aurora City. We have dedicated all our youth to Aurora City for generations... Now I want to trade all of this for one chance... I want to enter Aurora City."

"I beg you... I beg you! I am carrying my husband's child in my womb, I don't want him to die with me in the mouth of a Calamity! Anything will do... I beg you to let me into the city..."

"We have a child here covered in burns. For the sake of the fact that we have all dedicated everything to Aurora City, please open the gates... I don't know what grievances or resentment you have toward the Seven Districts, but the child is innocent."

"It hurts... it really hurts... kill me! Just kill me!!"

"Daddy... are we going to die?"

“……”

Distinct voices came one after another from the speeding train. Some were old, some were children; they were angry, desperate, pleading, or rational... Their voices intertwined, becoming clearer and louder. It was the final, desperate sound of life knocking before it burned out!

Everyone was stunned. They hadn't expected that there were so many people inside that train... They hadn't expected that even though everything outside Aurora City had fallen into the dead land of the Gray Realm, so many survivors could still reach the gates of Aurora City.

What had they experienced?

What kind of despair had they seen?

No one in Aurora City knew, and no one dared to imagine... They had always stayed behind those city walls, never having seen the wind and snow that could kill.

Amidst the endless cries from the train, the enforcers and Enforcers on the city wall fell silent. They looked at each other in bewilderment, not knowing what to do for a moment...

Immediately afterward, they heard the clamor of a crowd coming from within Aurora City behind them. It seemed that people were starting to shout something in anger. That sound also grew increasingly intense; a riot was beginning to coalesce rapidly within the city!

At the same time,

In White Dove Square, on a wooden chair that no one noticed.

Gu Yuan, with his frost-white hair, frowned and looked toward the direction of the city wall, then, as if sensing something, looked toward his side...

There, a man in a black windbreaker was trembling slightly, like a furious person trying desperately to break free from the suppression of a mountain, slowly and stubbornly lifting his head bit by bit... His eyes were filled with scarlet bloodshot veins!

"Gu Yuan!!" Han Meng's voice was like a beast roaring. "I warn you... if Aurora City dares to touch them, I will surely revolt against Aurora City!!"