Chapter 14: The War Ends
I was just an ordinary villager a month ago, living a sunrise and sunset life like the other villagers, and by the way, there used to be a fool tax collector who asked us to work before dawn, but because of the high lighting and abnormal losses, the fool has been fired, and now he is mining in the mine to pay off his debts.
It wasn't a good time, it wasn't so much about being taxed as it was about being squeezed by Taros. The wilderness we have pioneered, the prey we hunt, and the land we cultivate do not belong to us, and every time the man who collects taxes in the name of a tax collector comes into our presence, he basically takes the whole year's harvest with him.
Once one of us went to the Empire to complain, but he didn't come back, but once one of us fled back and continued to flee out, saying that they were killed as rioting evolutions. As for the man who escaped, we saw his body at the head of the village a few days later, as well as the bodies of his family.
"The evolution tried to genetically modify his family, and his wife was unwilling to accept it and intended to report it to the government, and he found out and killed, and the empire has now arrested him and sentenced him to death after a week of intensive investigation." That's what the notice says.
We can't resist, even if life is very bad now, but it's still much better than dying. But that thought ended when the four weird guys came here.
We are denied the right to have children.
This is a very unbelievable fact, but from the establishment of the village to the present, as well as the situation in the surrounding villages, it is indeed a fact, and it is a fact that cannot be concealed by the lies made up by the Empire.
So, we decided to overthrow the empire, for the sake of the successors below.
A little regret now, though? No, I can't talk about regret, the time of regret has passed, but I don't feel as angry as I did when I first knew the truth, and I feel that the old days were okay, but now, I should be able to get better days in the future.
On the 7th, it was sunny. Today we were all called on a hasty march, and the fat man in the lead did not tell us where we were going, but taught us in his language to recite some words that we did not know the meaning of, but the words were incomprehensible, but they were coherent and easy to remember.
8th, fine. Yesterday was really hard, it was a long, long run, and it was a terrible battle, much more terrible than before. We charged towards the city under the leadership of the fat man, and each time, many acquaintances fell to the ground and could not get up again, or were stuck to their bodies with strange-smelling juices, and their whole skin and flesh festered.
9th, cloudy. There were no nightmares at night, so today nightmares appear in reality. The fat man is still the thin man next to him, the two of them are desperately training us, and it is also a very rigid drill, dividing us into what left and right 123, each team is only in the designated position, I really don't know what they think.
Also, there is a very strange thing today, we won the previous battle and most of the soldiers were captured, but those two guys did not kill them, nor did they let us take care of them, which is really strange. And today I saw those people, they were doing their work according to orders, and there was no sign of any damage to carry weapons or food, which was so strange.
On the 10th, it was fine. It seems that yesterday's drill had some effect, and in the middle of today's drill, the alarm of the enemy attack sounded, and our minds went blank, and when we knew what we were doing, the thin man's order came in our ears, and I was acting in accordance with that order.
Also, tonight we were attacked, and I was assigned to the city, and I was resting when I was woken up by a loud noise, and it was really terrible, and I immediately found a place to lie down and try to hide. However, this attack did not seem to be very good, except that it was impossible to sleep, and according to other people, they were taken to the tower and lit up the sky, and then they won. I don't know what he's talking about.
On the 11th, it rained. Terrible, terrible, I never knew that war was such a terrible thing, Luffy is dead, Kargs is dead, Merrill is dead, who else is dead? I don't know, am I still alive?
On the 13th, many more people died, and our people, their people, were turned into stinking corpses, but I was still alive.
On the 15th, it was fine. The men below attacked again, and I have to admit that they were really amazing, even though they had the kind of weapons that sounded terrible to support, but it was unbelievable that they continued to attack after so many deaths.
16th, overcast. I remembered, I wrote something less, in fact, there have been enemy attacks on flying monsters in the sky these days, although the two leaders, one fat and one thin, made arrangements to block most of the attacks, but there were still many victims, on the 11th, Luffy was caught from behind the bunker of the city wall, dropped from a high altitude and fell to his death.
On the 20th, fine. The enemy's attack has weakened, this is not an illusion, but a reality. The soldiers underground, sprinting slower, and squeezing themselves under the ladder. And the guys who used to jump behind them didn't show up this time, it seemed that something had happened.
Maybe the war is coming to an end, and we're going to win.
On the 23rd, it was fine. I was wrong, the war has just begun, and today a new enemy has arrived, and it looks even more terrible than the previous one, and even now I feel horror when I see them.
On the 24th, fine. It's a really good weather today, and hopefully tomorrow will be just as good, after all, I should be dead tomorrow. After a day of continuous artillery fire, our walls finally collapsed untenably, if it weren't for the fact that it was already midnight at that time, and a group of people led by the fat man rushed to the gap to resist it, we would have been finished, but that would only delay the time of our finish.
25th, cloudy. I don't know how many people died yesterday, the captain strictly forbade us to pass this kind of news to each other, in fact, it doesn't matter if he asked us to pass it on, I heard that even the people who collected the bodies don't know how many died, and the group of people who rushed out to block the road were basically blown to pieces by artillery fire along with those who rushed from the opposite side.
In addition, we are not finished yet, I don't know what Boss Hua Feng and Boss Pang Zhi did, the city wall we saw today has actually been restored, and it has not been penetrated from the opponent's attack for a day, obviously there is no problem with the current city wall defense.
On the 27th, heavy rain. It's strange that I've survived until now, my neighbors and friends are basically dead, and my squad has been reorganized, and the previous captain and vice captain have all become corpses, and now I'm the new vice captain.
On the 29th, it was fine. The captain died.
30th, cloudy. I became the new captain, but I basically don't know the soldiers under my command, in yesterday's battle, the place where we were was broken through the defense line by a group of pterodactyls, more than 20 fell, more than what, well, according to Boss Pang Zhi, it was a bomb, and my last squad was killed.
2nd, fine. Almost died, the defense of the sky is getting worse and worse, those pterodactyls will attack us from all over the place, according to Boss Hua Feng, they have learned smartly, but I don't agree, there are 8 dead on our side, and it is not clear how many casualties there are in the other squads, but it should be a lot.
We should chop off the wings of those flying guys, and the barbecue grill is where they should be.
On the 14th, fine. It's a nice day, I like it the most, whether it's shooting at the guys down there or guarding against the big bats in the sky, but the most important thing is that you can smoke now, the sun is strong enough on a sunny day that the light of the cigarette butt is not obvious at all, and you don't have to worry about smoking a cigarette and killing yourself.
On the 17th, it was fine. The two bosses said that the war is over, I don't understand, although it seems that the group of guys below is just doing useless work, but their numbers are there, and after a month or two, we will definitely be dead. I was curious to ask them, and they said.
The outcome of a war is always decided outside of the war.