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Chapter 355 - 283: Meng Ting’s Persistence (2nd Update)

Chapter 355: Chapter 283: Meng Ting’s Persistence (2nd Update)

These three Level Five warriors were like ticking bombs, at least for now, only Su Yu could completely suppress them. For a short time, Meng Ting couldn’t trust them.

Su Yu was still injured, so he sat down on a wooden chair brought by Zhou Birong and started to chat with these three Level Five powerhouses, letting them introduce themselves first.

Among these three Level Five powerhouses, two were male and one was female. Su Yu somewhat remembered the long-haired woman because she was one of the six Level Five fighters who had attacked Freedom Village along with Zhang Zi. He had thrown her off her Horned Demon Horse, which scared her quite a bit at that time.

Listening to their introductions, Su Yu learned that the long-haired woman was named Ruan Minghong, and the two Level Five men were Murong Dingyuan and Li Lingsheng. As for the Level Five powerhouse from Loyalty Village, they knew him too. His name was Zhou Zexun. Compared to these three Level Five powerhouses, Meng Ting trusted Zhou Zexun more, so she gave him the responsibility of transporting resources to Loyalty Village.

With the addition of these four Level Five powerhouses, there was now one Sixth-order Powerhouse and six Level Five powerhouses in Freedom Village. Its strength was comparable to the former Wangdi Village, making it the strongest force in the area.

Meng Ting instructions aside, she took Meng Jun and headed to a hillside about a mile away. She had previously instructed Shang Qi to fire a powerful shell when the time was right, but they hadn’t heard anything from him. Now that everything was settled, Meng Ting wanted to check on Shang Qi’s situation. This was something Su Yu shouldn’t know about.

Su Yu sat on the wooden chair, looking at the three Level Five powerhouses in front of him who were somewhat uneasy in his presence.

Seeing this, Su Yu said with a smile, "Sit down. From now on, we all belong to the same village, so we must work together to make Freedom Village stronger."

"We will," replied Ruan Minghong, Murong Dingyuan, and Li Lingsheng quietly. They stood in front of Su Yu with their heads down, like children who had done something wrong.

Seeing their nervousness, Su Yu paused for a moment then slowly stood up, asking, "Where do you usually bury the deceased from Wangdi Village?"

The trio was surprised by Su Yu’s sudden question. Ruan Minghong finally pointed to a place and said, "Over there."

"Oh, I see...." Su Yu bent down, with his own hands, he picked up the virtually unattended corpse of Wang Di, "Wang Di’s character may have not been suited for a leader... just like me. However, he was still a respectable powerhouse. Let’s bury him together. I think... he would want to rest there, amongst those who sacrificed themselves for his village."

The trio was stunned, staring at Su Yu as if in a daze. His gentleness under the soft sunlight made them feel somewhat dreamy.

"Yes, sure." After a while, they came back to reality. They quickly accompanied Su Yu to the other side where many people from Wangdi Village were buried. Su Yu personally held Wang Di’s body and walked over.

The remaining people from Wangdi Village were touched as they saw Su Yu bury Wang Di with his own hands.

The impression Wang Di left on them was fear, while Su Yu’s simple action earned him a bit of their respect, a result that even Su Yu himself didn’t expect.

He simply wanted to bury Wang Di, and reassure Ruan Minghong and the others about their uneasiness. However, when the former residents of Wangdi Village saw his action, they admired Su Yu more.

Being able to bury his enemies with his own hands and treat their bodies kindly even after death made people think that he would treat his companions and subordinates even better.

These people suddenly felt that their decision to join Freedom Village was the right one.

Under Su Yu’s instructions, Ruan Minghong, Murong Dingyuan, and Li Lingsheng dug a hole. Su Yu then placed the decaying corpse of Wang Di solemnly into the hole and began to sprinkle dirt over him.

As they buried their former leader, Ruan Minghong and the others couldn’t help but feel a strange sensation, yet their unease had also largely dissipated. Su Yu’s small decision resonated with their trust in his benevolent nature.

As for the valuable and treasures on Wang Di’s body, they had already been collected under the direction of Meng Ting. These are all spoils of war, and in such a world, they must not be wasted.

After burying Wang Di, Su Yu sighed, "Wang Di may not have been truly wicked. The real villains are those who exploited his name to commit atrocities. Wang Di’s mistake was allowing his subordinates to act as they wished. It seems managing a village is not easy. To prevent the tragedy of ’Wangdi Village’ from repeating, one has to restrain others. Tolerance only leads to destruction."

Su Yu’s words made the three Level Five warriors shudder, not daring to respond. They too had bullied other villages under the name of Wang Di, so Su Yu’s words frightened them. Their faces changed, afraid that Su Yu was warning them.

Meng Ting, with Meng Jun, rushed towards a small hill outside ’Wangdi Village’. She wondered why Shang Qi had not sent any signal. According to their agreement, Shang Qi should have fired the shell by now. Could something have gone wrong?

Although Su Yu had won in the end, Meng Ting worried about Shang Qi. Shang Qi was a core member of their Freedom Village, and his abilities were crucial to the village.

When Meng Ting and Meng Jun reached the hill, they stood frozen. The metal frame that could fire powerful shells was still there, and Shang Qi was lying motionless on one side, as if he had fainted. Sitting on a rock next to Shang Qi was someone, seemingly waiting for them.

"Ziye?" Meng Ting was stunned, and then everything became clear.

She had assigned two close female aides to watch over the unconscious Ma Ziye in ’Freedom Village’. Unknown to Meng Ting, Ma Ziye had managed to escape and reached this place, subduing Shang Qi. Hence, the shell, which should have been fired, was never launched, even after the battle between Su Yu and Wang Di ended.

"You’re here." Ma Ziye stood up from the rock, looking at Meng Ting without any sign of surprise.

Meng Ting also quickly recovered and managed a wry smile. Looking at the prone Shang Qi, she said, "Uncle Shang is okay, right?"

"He’s fine. I just knocked him out. Like you did to me last night..." Ma Ziye smiled slightly, calm without the slightest hint of abnormality on her face.

Meng Ting became somewhat awkward, and after some thought, asked, "Ziye, are you angry with me?"

"No... I just wanted to say that Su Yu won. I believed in Su Yu from the start. I knew he would win," Ma Ziye shook her head and said.

Meng Ting sighed deeply and said, "Yes, Su Yu won. Wang Di is dead. Ziye, your intuition was right.... Actually, I too believed that Su Yu would win..."

At this point, she slowly turned around to gaze at Wangdi Village in the distance and said, "But if we were to do this all over again, I would still make the same choice. Ziye, do you understand?"

Ma Ziye frowned slightly and said, "I don’t understand. I don’t understand why you keep doing this even though you believe Su Yu will win."

"Because... I need to consider not only my personal thoughts, but also ’Freedom Village’ and its people... Even if Su Yu had a 100 percent chance of defeating Wang Di, I would still make the same choice. Ensuring nothing can go wrong, I will not allow any accidents. In life... to gain something, we must lose something else..."

Meng Ting gave a bitter smile and then looked at Ma Ziye, "If you want to blame, you can blame me. You can even hit me... But as a leader of ’Freedom Village’, I have to consider the village’s future, and we can’t afford any mistakes."

Ma Ziye gazed at her and then shook her head, she asked, "Meng Ting, is ’Freedom Village’ really so important to you? So important that you can sacrifice everything else?"

"Yes, from the moment I arrived in this world and fought to get here, so many companions who had settled in ’Freedom Village’ to achieve our common dreams had died. Their unfinished dreams... I have to fulfill them for them. I can’t fall, I can’t let ’Freedom Village’ disband. Here... it carries... the hope and dreams of so many companions. Ziye, I can’t give up, do you understand?"

Ma Ziye was stunned, completely unprepared for how much ’Freedom Village’ meant to Meng Ting. Meng Jun spoke up, "Miss Ma, we hope you can understand Miss’s feelings. She... has borne too many dreams of the living or deceased companions. The weight of these dreams is already heavy enough... Maybe to you, ’Freedom Village’ is just an ordinary village, which can be abandoned or left anytime. But for us, ’Freedom Village’ is our home in this world... the only place we can depend on... the root of our souls..."

Meng Jun’s words left Ma Ziye somewhat shocked. They had always interpreted Meng Ting and others’ thoughts with their own understanding. Meng Jun was right. To them, ’Freedom Village’ was just a temporary home, an ordinary village. But to Meng Ting and rest, it was not so. This place held much more for them. (To be Continued. For further updates, please visit www.qidian.com. More Chapters are available, support the author, support genuine reading!)