Chapter 265 Wishing for World Peace
"Um……"
Wen Ni hesitated for a moment before finally saying, "Perhaps I've never been much of a material person. As long as I have enough to eat and wear, that's enough for me. So I don't really want anything special. My only wish is for world peace, so that there won't be so many homeless people anymore."
Her voice was soft and gentle as she spoke.
He lay flat beside her, listening quietly and attentively!
“Our country has protected us too well. You probably haven’t seen a battlefield abroad with your own eyes, so you will never know that human lives under artillery fire are like ants with nowhere to escape when a building is about to collapse. They can only watch helplessly as their wives die in the hail of bullets, and as shells fall and blow their own bodies to pieces. And their infant children also face endless slaughter sooner or later!”
"They knew everything that was going to happen, but they were powerless to fight back! Even the so-called international aid was only for the big countries. As for the displaced people of the fragmented small countries, as the losers, their only fate was death! Speaking of which, when I first participated in an aid mission abroad, I met a girl..."
As Wen Ni spoke, her eyes visibly dimmed.
"That girl was only a teenager. I clearly remember her emerald-like eyes; she was incredibly beautiful. Amidst the chaos of war and the ruins, her scarred hands clung tightly to my clothes as she cried and begged me to save her!"
"But she wasn't on our aid list! I pleaded hard, and finally, my superiors agreed that I could take her with me. But I forgot that behind her were hundreds, even thousands, of girls in the same situation, weeping and begging desperately! But enemy soldiers and warplanes had already arrived and begun indiscriminate attacks..."
At this moment, Wen Ni felt as if she were back in that day, experiencing it firsthand.
The sky over Balai seemed to be dyed black and red by gunpowder, charred corpses were everywhere, and the heart-wrenching wails of the elderly, women, and even children could be heard everywhere!
The young men of this small country have all died in battle, all to protect their homeland...
"Thousand Kills! We must retreat!"
"I'm taking Hallece with me!"
"You can take one Ares, but what about the others! Thousand Kill, you can't save everyone! Don't risk your life too! This time, we're only carrying out the aid missions on the list!"
"I can't care about the others, can't I just save her? She's just a child!"
At that time, Wen Ni was wearing the uniform of an international relief and peacekeeping force. She was covered in gunpowder dust from head to toe, and there were large and small wounds oozing blood, but she was completely unaware of it.
She grabbed Halley's hand, her hoarse voice straining to rise in pitch, trying to drown out the explosions and the din of bullets firing, "Haley, I'm taking you away! Quick, get on the helicopter with me!"
"Really! Thank you! Sister!" Halle's eyes, which had been filled with despair, suddenly welled up with tears of hope. She abruptly reached out and grabbed Wen Ni's other wrist. "What about my friends? Can they come with me too?"
“They…” Wen Ni looked up blankly at the crowd gathering behind Halle.
There were children as young as a few years old, teenagers, and countless men, women, and children of all ages. Their hazy eyes held a timid yet expectant glimmer—a yearning for life…
“I’m sorry, Hallece.” Wen Ni shook her head heavily. “The helicopter can’t hold so many people, and… we can’t send any more helicopters after we go back. Sabil’s artillery fire will soon be covering us, and it will become even more dangerous here!”
After hearing what she said, Hallece's eyes went blank and lost their light.
"Kill them all! Shabil's fighting force is here! We have to go!" the international peacekeeping team urged anxiously.
Dust and gunfire could be seen rising in the distance, indicating indiscriminate, sweeping bombing!
"My God! What are you doing without a plane?!" Inside the helicopter, those on the rescue list frantically shouted in a foreign language, "You're here to rescue us! To escort us! Don't get us mixed up!"
"I am the greatest engineer in the Mi Kingdom! If I die here, all of you will be sent to a war tribunal!"
"What is that Chinese woman doing? Is she trying to harm us? My God! All Chinese people are the same, weak and incompetent, only good at pitying these lowly ants like them!"
Their insults began.
Wen Ni retaliated by smashing the butt of her rifle into the face of the Mi Guo man. "Shut your dog mouth! I can rescue you, or I can throw you down and let the warplanes bomb you into pieces! The best engineer in Mi Guo, is that it? In the end, you'll just be a pile of rotten flesh!"
"You...you!" The Mi Guo man, his nose bleeding profusely from the blow, trembled with shock. "You're threatening me? I'm going to file a complaint against you! I'll sue you in China!"
"Before you sue me, I'll throw you out of the helicopter!" Wen Ni was equally furious. Back then, she was young and impulsive. "If it weren't for you bastards stirring things up, how could Balai have become like this!"
"Qian Sha, calm down! Don't talk nonsense!"
"Shut up, everyone. This isn't the time to cause a ruckus!"
They were in complete disarray when Hallece's weak voice rang out softly, freezing everyone in their tracks.
"Sister Wenni, I'm not leaving. You should leave now."
"What?"
Wen Ni's back stiffened, then she rushed to Hales in disbelief, gripping Hales' shoulders tightly, her eyes reddening. "The higher-ups have agreed to let me take you away, why won't you go? I'll take you back to China, where you can find the peaceful life you yearn for, free from war and chaos! You can live freely!"
"But that place is not my home."
Hallece smiled slightly, a string of tears sliding down her cheeks. She gently pushed away Wen Ni's hand, then stepped back, standing with her countrymen...
“My parents died in the gunfire, my brother was blown up by a shell, all I have left are them… Without them, my life has no meaning…” Hallece still smiled. “Sister, I’ve figured it out. With the country destroyed and my family gone, where can I go from here…”
"No, that's not how it is, Hallece!"
Wen Ni's outstretched hand was pulled back by her teammate.
The moment the helicopter door closed.
She saw Hales and her people fighting bare-handed against the charging Sabileans.
With each deafening gunshot, everything before Wen Ni's eyes turned blood red!
"I secretly went back later, but the entire country of Balai had been razed to the ground by artillery fire, and I never saw Hallece again. I think she must have gotten her wish and is with her people forever..."
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