Beginning with the Ubume Bird-Chapter 301 - 27 The Bombing Begins (End)

Chapter 301: Chapter 27 The Bombing Begins (End)

“What on earth is going on? Speak clearly!”

Wei Dan was so angry his eyebrows were twitching.

After a long silence, the person on the line spoke, “Just do as I say, this is an order. I’ll send you the written document in a moment.”

After he finished speaking, the call was disconnected.

“…”

It took some time before Wei Dan stepped out of the communications room.

“What’s the situation?”

The old soldiers waiting for Kuang Zhuoma gathered around.

“Orders from above, telling everyone to hand over their weapons and place them where they can easily be seen.”

There was immediately an uproar.

“Do it.”

Wei Dan’s face was as cold as ice.

Despite the dissatisfaction on everyone’s faces, they still turned away and left. It wasn’t long before piles of rifles and ammo boxes accumulated outside the building.

Afafu stood at the edge of the crowd, the faces of the passing people somber. She too felt utterly bewildered when suddenly, Wei Dan walked past her, glancing at her with an inscrutable look.

Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

The sound of car tires grinding against sand and dust grew from a distance.

Wei Dan stood with her arms crossed, her favorite red-dot sniper rifle still clutched in her embrace. A toothpick dangled from her mouth, making her stand out amidst the burly men with fierce gazes.

A convoy of armored vehicles and military jeeps was drawing near.

“They’re here, they’re here,”

Wei Dan called out.

Suddenly, a strong and steady hand reached out the window, the muzzle pointed at the crowd, and spat out a dazzling flash of fire!

The aggressive jeep bore a black five-pointed star at its front!

…

Last night at 9:12 PM, in the area where zones B and I intersect, specifically B01 survival zone in the Dazi region, home to a private militia with over ten thousand members and the largest local arms dealer, the Raine Brothers headquarters was overrun, and the chairman, Leon Raine, was killed on the spot.

At exactly 10:00 PM, led by Danzuo Automobile, all organizations openly serving “Medicine Buddha” and their territories were subjected to a large-scale air raid. The Medicine Buddha Forces’ ground troops were completely crushed within ten minutes, and the Four Heavenly Kings air squadron, along with leader Ramu Jue and the remaining forces, fled towards the heavily radiated area.

At night, the Black Star armored vehicles of the fifth army, commencing from I15 unstaffed zone, entered B zone and consecutively defeated twelve local armed groups with military forces of 1,000 soldiers, which included Kuang Zhuoma and were in the form of parliaments, companies, and tribes. They essentially occupied two-thirds of the habitable land in B zone. The following early morning they issued a notice:

In solemn respect, the Black Star Armored Vehicles Combat Committee informs all the brethren of Asia Zone B survival area, that the situation has reached a point of no return. Blood will pay for blood, a tooth for a tooth.

…

In her hands, she held Tsampa barley dough; beside her, a copper butter tea container, and outside the window fluttered colorful wind horse flags.

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Looking at all this, Afafu felt somewhat dazed for a moment. She’d prayed countless times for the reinforcements of the Black Star armored vehicles to arrive like divine soldiers from heaven, for her husband to appear before her as he had wished. But now that the people from the Black Star really appeared, she realized the situation seemed to be quite different from what she had imagined.

However, life is full of surprises, and little did she expect that so soon she would have to take up the responsibility of protector…

Outside the building, the wooden sign previously engraved with English, Chinese characters, and Tibetan, adorned with roses and revolvers, was now riddled with bullets and barely recognizable.

The soldiers in black uniforms guarded all the entrances, their expressions cold and stern, radiating a chill in their mannerisms.

In the twisted building’s empty hall, a deadly silence reigned.

“Black Star armored vehicles, C Zone, Fifth Army, my rank is major, my name is Liang Wei.”

The man sat in a broad office chair, the table in front of him spotless, hosting only a neat deck of playing cards.

His military uniform was impeccably black, his shoulders adorned with the emblems of roaring cars and black five-pointed stars.

This emblem now also hung on the outside iron wire, swaying in the wind along with more than a dozen frozen, frost-covered corpses…

“So, can any of you tell me where the complete data for Great Demon Lake that Miss Zhuoma promised to gift to our side is?”

Silence.

Kuang Zhuoma’s people were all being pointed at with guns, hands on their heads, squatting on the ground, their faces bearing bruises to varying degrees.

Wei Dan’s wrists were wrapped with wire, sitting on the ground with his head bowed, blood dripping onto the ground.

Afafu, holding a child, stood in front of her, without any color of joy from being saved.

“Ah, you’re making things difficult for me by not cooperating,” the man who called himself Liang Wei said as he shuffled the deck of cards in his hand. He looked up at Afafu.

“Comrade Afafu, you don’t look so well. Is there a problem?”

Afafu kept her head down without saying a word, her fists clenched to the point of turning white.

She muttered hoarsely.

Liang Wei’s eyebrows raised: “Comrade, what did you just say? I didn’t hear you clear,”

Afafu took a deep breath: “What I just said was, General, your methods are too brutal. They are not the same as the Medicine Buddha’s fanatics, and from the beginning, they never planned to resist. Your savage actions are no different from those of the Medicine Buddha’s people.”

Liang Wei’s gaze darkened for a moment, then he suddenly laughed: “I apologize. I’m a soldier, and we are at war. Many times, my reactions can be a bit excessive.”

He turned to the people of Kuang Zhuoma squatting on the ground: “Now, who can tell me where the materials for Great Demon Lake are?”

Still silence.

“Haha, Comrade Afafu, your method isn’t working, eh?”

Liang Wei flashed four teeth.

“General Liang Wei, I hope you will take my opinion seriously.”

“I’m already taking your opinion very seriously. Otherwise, the girl behind you would be long dead,” he said, lifting his arm to show a hole in his clothing, exposing his skin.

“Investigating Great Demon Lake is a top-level order. Comrade Afafu, do not interfere with my work under any circumstances.”

“No problem, but just as you have your duties, I have mine.”

She pointed at Wei Dan: “This person possesses a lot of valuable research data, and I am going to take her to my room.”

“I have no objection, please do,” the young major general replied lightly.

Afafu turned around to untangle the wire on Wei Dan’s wrists.

“Afafu,” Liang Wei suddenly called out to her: “I’m good friends with Qiao Xing, if you need anything, don’t hesitate.”

“My husband indeed often mentions you,” Afafu replied.

“Oh? What does he say about me?” Liang Wei was surprised.

“My husband always says, ‘Those who do not share our values cannot plan with us.’

After she spoke, Afafu struggled to lift Wei Dan’s shoulder, and upon seeing this, a soldier bent down to help support her.

It wasn’t until Afafu left with Wei Dan that Liang Wei lifted his head to look at the soldiers around him and said with a smile, “Scholars have their temperaments, I understand.”

The sound of his playing cards shuffled again as he asked for the third time: “Who can tell me where the materials for Great Demon Lake are?”

Afafu, walking up the stairs, suddenly heard a gunshot behind her. Her body stiffened, and she glanced at Wei Dan’s bloodstained face, biting her lip, her voice trembling slightly: “I’m sorry.”

Wei Dan opened her eyes, then quickly closed them again: “You really do have the heart of a Buddha.”

“I thought I could repay you, but it seems I overestimated myself. Now, all I hope is that Li Yan, he won’t come to any harm at Great Demon Lake…”