novelraw Chapter 616 - 275: Him? Just a Bootlicker. (Part 2)
Chapter 616 - 275: Him? Just a Bootlicker. (Part 2)
Pfft!
Jiang Hongyuan felt as if he had been hit heavily, suddenly spitting out a mouthful of blood, and collapsed on the ground, his gaze scattered, lips trembling, unable to utter a single word.
The fear that penetrated to the bone and the immense shock of having his secret thoroughly exposed left him completely speechless.
Jiang Ying straightened up, no longer looking at Jiang Hongyuan, who was lying on the ground like a heap of mud.
Instead, she slowly turned around, casting her gaze toward the figure still standing firmly at the frontline, covered in blood.
Jiang Chengyue, and the dozens of equally battle-scarred comrades behind him.
The ice on her face instantly melted, turning into a warmth and sincere approval.
"Well done."
The voice was gentle, yet it entered the ears of every warrior who had survived the bloodshed, clearly.
Jiang Chengyue and his brothers, seeing the gentle gaze of the Family Head, were filled with mixed emotions.
Excitement, grievance, relief...
Various emotions surged within them.
They opened their mouths, but couldn’t make a sound due to their injuries and overwhelming emotions.
At this time.
Jiang Ying’s gaze lightly swept across their feet, and she softly said, "Come out."
As soon as the words were spoken.
Buzz!
On the plaza, beneath Jiang Chengyue and every blood-soaked warrior behind him...
Their elongated, blood-stained shadows...
Suddenly, as if infused with life, as if pulled by an invisible hand from a two-dimensional plane into a three-dimensional entity!
Figures wearing Jiang Family’s standard cloud-patterned attire, with an aura deep and restrained, stood silently like phantoms, emerging from those shadows.
In an instant!
Dozens of powerful Yunhua Envoys, at least at Tier Two Peak, appeared as if from thin air, silently surrounding Jiang Chengyue and others.
They radiated a faint shadow aura, seemingly capable of devouring light, evidently proficient in the arts of stealth and concealment.
"Yunhua Envoy?!"
"When..."
Jiang Chengyue and the warriors behind him instantly widened their eyes, faces filled with utmost astonishment.
Looking at these newly appeared Divine Chosen of the same lineage, feeling the opponent’s deliberately restrained yet still powerful aura, and recalling their miraculous survival despite severe injuries...
A thought struck like lightning into their minds.
No wonder!
No wonder they, a hastily gathered group, could withstand the fierce battle against the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ elite, even forcing them into significant losses.
It wasn’t that they were impossibly strong, nor that the opponents held back.
It was the Family Head!
The Family Head had long arranged for the most elite Yunhua Envoys, like the most loyal shadows, hidden within each of their shadows...
It was these silent shadows that pulled them back from the brink time and again.
An indescribable warmth and shock instantly swept through the exhausted minds and bodies of Jiang Chengyue and others.
They weren’t fighting alone...
The Family Head had never abandoned them either.
Jiang Ying observed the expressions of everyone shifting from astonishment to realization to being moved, a subtle yet genuine smile curled on her lips.
Old Master Hong’s words, she felt, were still very sensible.
In this world, there are not many stages. Only life and death.
This time, besides training Fang Qingyu and his group of young people...
For their own young men... was it not also a trial by blood and fire?
Jiang Ying’s gentle expression rapidly gathered back, turning again into a cold, murderous calm.
She turned, at some unknown point, a black thin book had appeared in her hand.
She walked slowly, barefoot, across the blood-stained crystal stone ground, toward the plaza center.
With her steps, the cold and dignified voice echoed clearly across the skies of Glazed Light City:
"Seventeenth generation heir of the Jiang Family, Jiang Taixuan."
"Crime one, possessing the Gluttonous Stomach, establishing an illegal ’Blood Source’ base beneath the City Lord’s Mansion, imprisoning and torturing Federation Martial Artists for a long time, extracting their Qi Blood to prolong his own life."
"Crime two: fabricating mission reports to cover the crime, framing the loyal, secretly executing dozens of Garrison Army and Ministry of Internal Affairs members who refused to collude and attempted to reveal the truth as traitors of the Federation."
"Crime three: abusing his position to illegally embezzle, misappropriate city defense materials and Federation funds, causing significant delays in multiple defense node repairs, disregarding the safety of frontline soldiers."
Jiang Ying’s voice was cold and monotonic, like a machine reading out a verdict, striking the heart of every resident in Glazed Light City.
With each crime declared.
The uproar of the city gradually turned into a kind of oppressed anger and chilling coldness.
When the last one was read, Jiang Ying had just stopped before Jiang Hongyuan, whose face was ashen and slouched on the ground. She slightly looked down at him, her voice suddenly sharp:
"Crime four: collaborating with the Life Ghost alien race! Treason against the Human Race!!"
"Collaborating with Life Ghost?!"
"My heavens!!"
"Beast! Beast!!"
"Kill him!!!"
The last crime was like setting fire to a powder keg.
The entire city erupted into an outcry like a tidal wave.
Especially those who had relatives killed on the icy plains, their eyes nearly burst, wishing to devour him alive.
Collaborating with Life Ghosts and harming their kin is a betrayal more unforgivable than falling to become a demon.
Jiang Ying seemed to be oblivious to the entire city’s roar.
She merely looked calmly at the trembling Jiang Hongyuan beneath her feet, her voice wasn’t loud but clearly reached his ears:
"Did you know your ancestor did all this?"
Jiang Hongyuan’s body suddenly stiffened, burying his head lower, a terrified whimper emerged from his throat, yet he didn’t dare to answer a single word.