"But isn't this too unfair to the villagers of Wenshui Village?" Chen Yu asked with a bitter expression.
"At least this way they can survive," Li Liguo said calmly.
Everyone fell silent upon hearing this. Clearly, they all tacitly accepted Li Liguo's plan, even though it was full of deception and betrayal. However, in the current apocalyptic environment, there seemed to be no other choice.
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That night, around 3 a.m., as planned, after a series of operations, Li Liguo successfully took advantage of the chaos and left Wenshui Village under the snow.
However, the very next day, all the villagers of Wenshui Village were brutally slaughtered by the "Fire Seed Warriors" and others from the base, turning the village into a dead village.
The hot springs that the villagers depended on for their livelihood became spoils of war for the Fire Seed Base.
What's even more hateful is that Li Liguo and his top henchman Xiang Shaogang also joined in the slaughter of the villagers, and they killed even more ruthlessly and with greater gusto than the Fire Seed Warriors.
They had long forgotten the villagers' kindness in saving their lives and taking them in; in their eyes, those villagers were nothing more than war merits.
That's right, Li Liguo deceived Chen Yu and the others. He never intended to make the villagers of Wenshui Village submit.
After all, how could the credit for persuading a village to submit compare to "risking one's life to outwit and outmaneuver the unruly villagers, and finally escaping back to the base to report the news with a narrow escape? How could it compare to fighting a bloody battle to seize resources for the base?"
In his previous life, Li Liguo was recognized as a model hero by the base for his "heroic" achievements, which earned him the appreciation of the higher-ups and made him a middle-level manager at the Fire Seed Base.
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