Chapter 747: Interests of the nation are above everything else
Xu Cheng’s legs clamped onto Azure Dragon’s waist and mercilessly threw him, smashing him against the stone lion statue.
Azure Dragon spat out a large mouthful of blood.
He laid there on the ground, with his eyes looking at Xu Cheng in disbelief. His eyes were wide open as he asked weakly, “Incredible, what did you do to me?”
Sparks of electricity suddenly appeared in Xu Cheng’s hands.
“This is the core of the Deviant Mercenary Corp. I originally wanted to give the world a surprise, but you guys are too eager, so consider this a gift.”
Azure Dragon slowly crawled up and sat on the ground.
He suddenly laughed out loud, followed by him spitting a mouthful of blood onto the ground and looking noticeably weak.
“That felt good. I haven’t fought like this for a very long time.”
Xu Cheng looked at him from afar and said, “Are you still able to fight? I feel good too, but I haven’t fought enough.”
Azure Dragon hung his head and shook. “No, internal power is like this. Its biggest flaw is that it’s exhausting in a short amount of time compared to external power. Once the internal power reaches a certain point, the whole body will collapse. I have lost all my strength, and with my broken ribs and ruptured veins, I’m already as weak as a candle flickering in the wind.”
He raised his head as he looked at the skyscrapers outside the Forbidden city and smiled. “These years, we have always wanted to kill the remnants of the H Family who massacred us back then! Those descendants who left the country were pretty much all killed by us, and only the five of them were left. We really did want to kill them, but seeing how Huaxia developed until this day, we really endured it until today. Yes, they won, and they were right to overthrow the empire. That corrupt and enslaving dynasty could only become part of history, including us eunuchs. Back then, we were not willing to conform. Why was it that us eunuchs must be buried with history. The new era would simply not accept us, and our existence would only bring shame to the history of Huaxia. That’s why we were killed and expelled, but who’s there to say that we can’t resist our fate? We were not wrong either; whether we were aiding the enemies or not, we were just fighting to survive.
To be honest, Xu Cheng felt sympathy for them from listening to his words.
The turning of an era was a disgraceful history that the modern world people wanted to forget, and so the eunuchs must go extinct with that era. However, they weren’t wrong.
Xu Cheng empathized with him, because if one day he stood against the majority and were forced onto a path of no-return, what would his choice be?
Resist!
That was the natural response for everyone because there would be no more right or wrong by that time, only the desire to survive.
Xu Cheng looked at him and said, “Are you afraid of death?”
Azure Dragon let out a bitter smile. “If I was still able to fight, then I would kill you. The reason why I’ve said this much is because it may be my last words, so if you want to kill me then do it. We don’t belong to this era, and our existence will be a disgrace to Huaxia!”
Having said that, he closed his eyes. “Finish it. We came back because we wanted to die in this land.”
Xu Cheng shifted like a shadow and threw a punch at Azure Dragon’s face as a test to see if this old man was really not going to resist.
When the fist approached, the old man stayed still with his pale face, not even thinking about resisting.
Xu Cheng’s fist stopped three centimeters away from the old man’s face, but his white hair and beard were chopped off from the air flow that came with the attack.
Xu Cheng suddenly withdrew his fist and said: “I have a way to save you, so how about you serve your country? Make up for all the years you’ve been wrong.”
The old guy’s head hung down and smiled weakly. “Make up for it? Have I done anything wrong?”
He lifted his head, his eyes without the slightest emotion as he glanced at Xu Cheng, and he finally turned around and started crawling.
“You’re not going to kill me, right? Thanks a lot.”
He began to use his upper body as he crawled towards the steps of the Golden Palace.
Xu Cheng followed him as he said, “Do you think the country’s not going to accept you? That’s your own narrow-mindedness, not taking a step down, not willing to live as a loser in this country.”
Azure Dragon continued to crawl up, ignoring Xu Cheng.
Xu Cheng said, “I can let you live another twenty years!”
Azure Dragon still didn’t pay any attention to him.
Once he slowly crawled inside, Xu Cheng saw him dragging his body toward the center of the Golden Palace.
When he reached the bottom of the throne, he suddenly kneeled at it and said, “Your Majesty, your servant is back! I have returned on behalf of the 10 brothers who had left the imperial family behind, and have come to repent on behalf of the brothers!”
After he said that, he turned his head to look at Xu Cheng and said disdainfully, “My loyalty is to the emperor, not this country today! Let me end the feudal era once and for all today.”
With that, he raised his palm high and then smashed it down against his own head!
Xu Cheng widened his eyes but it was too late to stop him.
Azure Dragon had smashed his temple in an attempt to commit suicide.
Xu Cheng went up to search for a pulse and found that it was already close to a dying man’s.
Azure Dragon spat out a mouthful of blood as he laid there looking up the ceiling. He curled his lips and smiled. “We set up the Capital Society based on the H Family, but we didn’t think that it would become a capitalist beast. We once wanted to destroy it, but there is someone behind that organization, suppressing our actions. You must be wondering why we were acting like we were imprisoned, so if you have the opportunity, head to Great Britain. Perhaps you’ll know the answer once you understand the last remaining royal family in the world. I’m loyal to the Qing Empire, but I’ve also witnessed the prosperity of this era, and this is probably the only thing I can do for this era.”
With that, Azure Dragon’s eyelids closed and he laid there motionless on the ground.
Xu Cheng stood there and realized that the other two were also kneeling at the throne before they died. He sighed as he sat on the floor of the Golden Palace and blanked out at the sky outside.
Sometimes he wondered what exactly was right or wrong in this world.
In order to exterminate the four clans, for the benefit of the country, everyone including the women, elders, and children had to be killed.
There were so many miserable events nowadays because of the grudges from the previous generations. Although every new era would mean that some killings were inevitable, why did he have to be the one who faces these things?
Not long after, the five old Masters came into the hall and saw Xu Cheng there alone, dazing out on the floor. The five of them came in front of the three Imperial Guards’ corpses and bowed in unison.
Old Master Ye once said to Xu Cheng, “The interests of the nation are above all else!”
These three held grudges towards them in the past, but they’ve put that aside for the country; so that made them worthy of respect.