Chapter 135 Hatred
Karl didn’t answer, he raised his chin slightly, waved his hand and said, “Let’s go.”

However, when Zongfang opened the space black hole and was about to enter, he suddenly spoke:

"Karl, don't trust the Federation too much."

Karl looked back in confusion, and the two men looked at each other from a distance.

Zongfang's eyes were deep as he asked, "If one day you had to choose, would you stand on the side of the Federation or her side?"

Karl frowned: "What a lousy assumption, that day will never come."

Zong Fang sneered, raised the photo in his hand, and said: "For the sake of this time, I will give you a piece of advice: Don't trust the scavenger, you are just his black gloves."

After saying that, Zongfang no longer paid attention to the stunned Carl and walked away.

The red-haired man standing in front of the black hole was stunned for a moment, his brows lowered, and he fell into deep thought.
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At this time, the Alliance of Freedom.

The sunlight shines through the tall white marble columns, casting mottled shadows on the ground.

The square is surrounded by elegant buildings with towering colonnades and exquisite carvings. The roofs are decorated with delicate reliefs and animal totems. Every detail exudes mystery and solemnity.

At this time, Qiao Suisui was sitting quietly at a square in Kanbukun. Her eyes were a little dazed, and her thoughts seemed to still be on the past events narrated by the archbishop.

"At that time, I was a member of the federal elite force. We received an order from our superiors to go to a place called Dadligne to suppress reactionary forces. I felt very strange at the time, because usually when going on a mission, there will be a detailed report stating the number of targets, weapons, reasons, etc., and generally the entire team will not be dispatched. But that time, the superiors asked us all to go, and did not tell us any details, only one sentence: after arriving, annihilate all the enemies.

Our duty is to obey, so even though everyone felt that the mission was unclear, we still took action quickly.

The warship brought us to the sky above Dardligne. I looked down at the land and found that there was no smoke as expected, but a very peaceful village. The captain at the time, Dante Connor, wanted to land and conduct an investigation before taking action, but the voice of the superiors kept urging us in our headphones.

We followed orders and started strafing immediately after landing.

But when I saw the screaming children, the old men struggling in fear, and the men running around, an idea immediately came to my mind—these were the most common orcs, and they had no armed forces at all.”

At this point, the archbishop's voice began to show emotion, which showed that even though so much time had passed since the incident, he still hadn't gotten over it.

"I turned to look at the team members and found that they were also confused and reluctant. Some of them had even put down their guns. Connor confirmed with his superiors again and again whether to terminate the operation, but there was no sound in the headset. However, just as we were hesitating, a huge heat wave suddenly rushed from all directions, and explosions sounded. In just a few seconds, half of our people were killed, along with the local residents who were helpless.

I struggled to get up in the chaos, and in the dizziness and tinnitus, I saw the purgatory before my eyes.

Bloody corpses, blown-off limbs, flames everywhere, the ground beneath their feet mixed with blood and turned into mud. Black snow fell from the sky, and the surroundings were filled with a pungent smell of blood.

I kept calling my teammates through the comms, but only a few answered me. I turned over the bodies one by one, frantically searching for my companions. We came together, and we must leave together."

Sang Yan and Qiao Suisui both showed expressions of pity on their faces. She asked, "Who activated the bomb? Was it the local reactionary forces?" The archbishop suddenly laughed, and tears fell from the corners of his eyes. He shook his head and said, "There was no reactionary force at all. It was our own people who blew it up."

"Is it the Federation?" Sang Yan asked.

"That's right. There were 386 of us in this operation, and only 24 of us survived. We swam non-stop along the local waters and drifted on the sea for ten days and nights. When we reached the shore, there were only 14 people left. One of our brothers lost his legs because he was too close to the source of the explosion, so Connor tied him on his back and said he would take us home. We grabbed the driftwood and drifted. I lost consciousness in the end. My body had become hypothermic because I had been in the sea water for too long. At first, everyone would joke with each other and chat like usual, but later we encouraged each other, and then no one spoke. We fell into despair."

As Qiao Susu listened to the archbishop's weak and trembling words, her heart felt as if it was being gripped and her eyes turned red.

She suddenly remembered that Luka once mentioned that there were 13 rebels when they were rounded up, so what happened to the 14th person who came ashore?
Before she could ask, the archbishop slowly lifted up his white robe and knelt in front of the statue of the beast god. He put his palm against his chest, and his face was covered with tears.

"I confess to the Beast God that I have committed an unforgivable sin."

Sang Yan and Ge Meilun hurried to pull him up, but he refused to get up. The Archbishop's voice had completely lost the mercy he had when they first met. He choked up and said, like a child who had made a mistake and was waiting to be punished, "After we got ashore, everyone was exhausted, but we were excited because we had escaped death. After a short rest, everyone started looking for a way out, but it wasn't long before we fell into despair again, because this was an uninhabited desert island surrounded by the sea. Despair, hunger, anger, all the emotions surged in their hearts, and everyone became more and more irritable, and some even fought each other for the fruit.

Connor suggested that we use the wood on the island to make a raft and go out to sea again to find a way to survive. Some people objected, not wanting to drift aimlessly, while others agreed, thinking that they should give it a try, as they would just die here. But no one had the strength to stand up again. After a long silence, one person stood up, pounced on Alan, who was only breathing his last, and bit off a piece of meat from his abdomen. Connor tried to stop him, but it was too late. Everyone's eyes glowed red, and the orcs' nature was aroused, and they bit Alan's body one after another.

I... I couldn't stand the hunger, so I rushed forward too.

Only Connor did not move forward. That was his brother whom he had carried all the way with him. Even at the most desperate moment at sea, he did not give up on him. He remembered. He remembered his promise to bring us home."

The archbishop covered his face and broke down crying, his sobs filling the entire church.

Later, after eating their companions' bodies alive, they left the island on a raft. They thought they had finally survived the difficult and desperate situation, and when they were about to return to the Federation to report, they found that they had become wanted rebels overnight.

Sang Yan looked at Qiao Susu who was sitting in a daze in the square, then turned around and got a bubble machine from a little boy not far away.

Colorful transparent bubbles fell from above her head and burst with a "pop", bringing Qiao Susu back to her senses.

Sang Yan put away the bubble machine, walked over and sat down beside her, their knees touching each other, as if comforting each other.

"What do you want to do?" Sang Yan asked.

"I want to go to Dudligne." Qiao Susu said firmly.

She had to find out what happened there and why the Federation was willing to destroy an elite force.

Sang Yan was not surprised when he heard this, but his expression became a little serious. He said, "Dadlinie's current name is the Southern Battlefield."

　Zong Qiao, coming soon, understand?

　　(End of this chapter)