She asked in a daze, her outstretched hand quickly sweeping across the crowd, pointing at the guards, then at the officials, and finally at the carriage carrying the corpses.
Why did he apologize?
Who is he apologizing to this time?
The next moment, she ran toward the carriage. The guards were about to stop her, but Wolfgang stopped them.
Wolfgang looked at the madwoman with a complicated expression, feeling as if all his strength had been drained away, and he felt a deep sense of helplessness.
Hannah, who rushed to the carriage, frantically opened the body bags, spitting viciously at the corpses inside each one she opened.
No one knows whether she is crazy at this moment or just a normal person venting her anger.
Wolfgang sighed, knowing he couldn't let things go unchecked. He ordered the guards to leave, and personally went forward to try and restrain Hannah, arranging for someone to take her home.
But as soon as she reached the carriage, Hannah, with a strength she didn't know she possessed, managed to drag a body bag off the carriage.
When the body bag fell to the ground, the body fell out of the torn bag.
It was Von Palenna's already stiffening corpse, and when his horrifying face was revealed to the public, some of the people nearby even screamed.
Previously, they were too far from the execution platform, so although the sight was terrifying from a distance, they were at least prepared. But now, at a distance of less than a few dozen meters, they suddenly saw a corpse fall out of the body bag, which made them feel a sense of horror.
However, Hannah was not frightened at all, because she was already punching and kicking the corpse, cursing viciously in inaudible words.
Upon seeing this scene, Wolfgang immediately stepped forward and grabbed her arm:
"What's your name? Where do you live? I'll arrange for someone to take you home."
"He's already dead, you don't need to..."
Before she could finish speaking, Hannah suddenly turned her face, drool still dripping from the corner of her mouth, her expression utterly ferocious, and she screamed at Wolfgang again:
"Are you defending this murderer?!"
The moment that scream fell, Wolfgang involuntarily took a half step back. He stared at Hannah with a stiff expression, suddenly realizing that this woman didn't seem to have gone mad.
"Let her go!"
"Let her go!"
At this moment, the people who had not stepped forward raised their fists and shouted, seemingly regarding Hannah as their representative.
This poor woman lost all her loved ones. People sympathized with her because what happened to her was something most of the people present had also experienced; they all had loved ones who died in this brutal war.
The calls grew louder and louder, so loud that the guards dared not even utter a sound to stop them, as if just one person taking a violent action would cause the tragedy that had occurred last time to repeat itself.
So the guards, and even the officials, all turned their gazes to Wolfgang, as if to say with their eyes:
'Forget it, leave the corpses to these people...let them vent their anger...'
Wolfgang sensed the meaning behind those gazes, yet he could not bear to see von Palen's body mutilated any further. So, still clutching Hannah's arm, he spoke to her in an almost pleading tone:
"He has already paid for this with his life."
"The war is over."
"Go back...please go back..."
But as soon as she finished speaking, Hannah's previously ferocious face suddenly calmed down, and she turned around like a normal person to face Wolfgang.
Wolfgang, thinking he had persuaded her, added, "Everything is over, those who deserved punishment have been punished, and we..."
However, the next moment.
Hannah suddenly reached out and shoved Wolfgang in the chest, causing him to stumble back several steps.
After pushing Wolfgang away, Hannah pointed at Wolfgang's stiff face and said in an extremely calm, even indifferent tone:
"The war is over, will my family be able to come back?"
Wolfgang could not answer; he remained silent.
Hannah walked forward and then repeated:
"The war is over, will my family be able to come back?"
This made Wolfgang stiffen, his eyes darting away, unable to meet Hannah's gaze.
The shouts had subsided, replaced by continuous sobs.
As Hannah said, the war is over, but can the families who died for it ever come back?
An elderly man lost his son, a newlywed wife lost her husband, and an infant lost his father.
Perhaps the war will eventually end, but the dead will never return, and the survivors will never be reunited.
The sobs grew louder and louder, and some of the people had already knelt down and were wailing bitterly. If their hearts had been filled with grief and indignation before, now all that remained was deep-seated sorrow.
Seeing this scene, the officials present couldn't help but lower their heads, feeling deeply saddened.
Tears streamed down Hannah's cold face again; she seemed to have recovered from her madness.
She may have briefly regained her senses, but it was precisely this clarity that made her even more grief-stricken.
She rushed to Wolfgang, pounded her fist on his chest, and cried out:
“My husband trusted you, so when you sent him back to the army, he went back immediately. You said you needed more weapons, so my brother went to work in a military factory and hasn’t come home for two years.”
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