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Chapter 119 The Law Maker of the Imperial State!
Jiang Yueming heard the gunshot and immediately turned slightly to dodge the bullet, but he was still hit as he turned.
The red dot on his left arm quickly faded, and the pain from the bullet pressing on his muscles sent a signal to his brain. However, his expression only changed slightly, and he raised his hand and charged straight at the British soldier who had fired the shot.
The British soldiers, perhaps frightened, watched helplessly as a giant hand covered their faces, offering no resistance, before their bodies were lifted into the air and tumbled heavily to the ground.
His eyes revealed endless fear, and one could clearly feel a powerful force squeezing his entire facial bones.
"Speak! Where is Bo Mai!" Jiang Yueming gripped Ying Yi's face tightly with his hand, his voice filled with barely suppressed rage as he roared.
"I...I don't know what you're talking about!"
Jiang Yueming spoke Mandarin, which was understandable for a foreigner like Jiang Yueming, but in this situation, his words would only hasten his death.
Click!
"Ah!"
A sudden sound of a skull shattering echoed through the hall, followed by a heart-wrenching scream.
Na Yingyi's face was extremely pale. He gripped Jiang Yueming's arm tightly with both hands, and tears streamed down his face. The intense pain in his face almost made him faint.
"I'll ask again for the last time, where is Bomai!"
Jiang Yueming suddenly lowered her face, her nose almost touching Ying Yi's by a finger joint, her eyes filled with utter coldness and murderous intent.
"The commander is in the north of the city!"
Jiang Yueming got the answer he wanted, and suddenly brought his lips close to Ying Yi's ear, giving a cold smile: "OK, you can go down and be buried with the people and soldiers of the Celestial Empire!"
Click!
After saying that, he channeled his spiritual energy into his palm, and with a snap of his fingers, he crushed Yingyi's head to pieces. The brain matter and blood mingled together, and Yingyi didn't even have time to utter a sound before he died.
After dealing with the two British barbarians, Jiang Yueming slowly stood up, her eyes slightly brightening as if she had thought of something. She immediately took off her outer garment and turned around, only to be shocked by what she saw.
The body of a young scholar lay on the threshold of the main hall. Beside the body, a beautiful young woman who had just been humiliated bent down slightly, picked up the blade from the scholar's hand, and slowly brought it down to her fair neck.
"Hey! Wait a minute!"
Swish!
Without hesitation, the young girl brandished her weapon and slit her throat. A smear of blood splattered as she fell, and only when the weapon hit the ground with a clang did her body collapse into the young scholar's arms.
With her last breath, the girl stretched out a delicate hand, as if to touch the scholar's angry face. But before she could make contact, her hand fell to the ground.
Jiang Yueming watched this scene unfold, feeling a deep unease in her heart. She didn't know if it was disgust for the war, hatred for her own powerlessness, or both.
But then he suddenly understood something—some things as dark as those in his previous life.
War is too easy to create sorrow and lamentation, and in the end, it is often these innocent civilians who suffer the most.
What wrong have these people done?
If they were not at fault, why did they have to pay such a heavy price for this war?
Perhaps there is no right or wrong in war from the beginning. What is wrong is the greed and ambition of the aggressors, and the power-hungry and selfishness of the hegemons!
Ultimately, it was a power struggle among the upper nobility, and those who were looked down upon by the upper class as lowly crawling insects were nothing more than dispensable pawns of the upper class!
The external threat, the Yingquan Clan, is eyeing the Holy Dragon Empire with covetous intent. What is its connection to the three families of the Empire?
In the end, it's only the Holy Dragon Empire that gets destroyed and harmed.
As for the life and death of the people of the Holy Dragon Empire, that has never been a concern for the three families. To them, the lower-level worms are simply destined to die, since they were born to be enslaved!
Do these three families care about the survival of the royal family and the Holy Dragon Empire? No, they certainly don't!
On the contrary, I hope that the royal family and the foreign tribes will both suffer heavy losses, so that the three of them can fight each other like the snipe and the clam, and I can benefit from it!
Otherwise, given the prestige and resources of these three families, wouldn't they know what kind of situation the entire Imperial State would face if the Holy Dragon Empire were to perish?
They knew better than anyone else that this was why they suppressed the Holy Dragon Empire and the royal family at every turn. After all, as long as the royal family existed, the three families' pseudo-regimes would always have loopholes.
The three families were actually hoping that the foreign tribes would destroy the royal family, so that they could use the pretext of avenging the royal family to unite the people of the entire empire in resisting the Yingquan tribe.
At that time, a king will inevitably be chosen for the entire empire. Whoever can assume this throne will be the absolute ruler of the entire empire!
As for how many ordinary people died during this period, the upper echelons didn't care at all. As long as they could maintain their interests and preserve and expand their power, it didn't matter how many civilians died!
Moreover, the three factions are themselves vying for power, and next year's Martial God Tournament is far more important than the border war.
The lives of the soldiers and civilians on the border, and even the common people of the entire Holy Dragon Empire, are nothing more than insignificant pieces on a chessboard in the eyes of the three families. If they are gone, they are gone. What is there to regret?
Now, the three families are the ones wielding the knife, and the entire Holy Dragon Empire is like fish on a chopping board. Can the fish on the chopping board rebel against heaven?
This is the fate of those low-level crawlers, born to be cannon fodder pawns in the power struggles of the upper class!
And isn't Jiang Yueming himself just a pawn in the hands of the three parties?
The Zhang and Jiang families were willing to sacrifice him and Zhang Yuqian for the sake of their alliance. As for the Li family's so-called one-year agreement, in the end, wasn't it just using him to prevent the two families from forming an alliance?
But he was unwilling to be a pawn in their game, and even more unwilling to be regarded as a lowly crawler.
Why should we be divided into upper and lower classes when we are all human beings? Why can the upper class and the powerful arbitrarily exploit the lower class?
Why can they live in luxury mansions while we have to bear the pressure of housing and rely on a meager monthly income to maintain a tiny place to live!
Why can they drive luxury cars while we have to squeeze onto that damn subway every day, and sometimes even the shared bikes that start at two yuan are too expensive to afford!
Why can they frequent all sorts of high-end clubs and change female internet celebrities every day as wives, while we can only remain old bachelors and be penniless simps!
The injustices of the past life are the same in this life!
Huang Yuyuan's words were deeply etched in Jiang Yueming's heart: the expensive BMW and the luxurious residence would protect the person she wanted to protect from the hardships of life.
Clearly, he can't do it alone; this is the injustice of the world today!
Since the world is so unfair, then Jiang Yueming will become a part of the world!
He finally understood: the border crisis—no, the crisis of the entire Imperial State—was not on the front lines, but within the three families!
As long as these three families remain unresolved, the border will never be peaceful! The people of the Holy Dragon Empire continue to suffer terribly!
So it's time for the Holy Dragon Empire to establish a new order, but Jiang Yueming doesn't want to be a law enforcer under that order, nor does he want to be a law-abiding citizen in this game.
What he wants to do is be the only magician in the entire Imperial State!
Let those powerful and privileged individuals see how the lowly crawlers they call "lower-level worms" gradually surpass them—no, more than just surpass them!
Rather, they are above them!