Su Yue took his colleague to the hospital; his colleague had fainted from the heat.
"A little Huoxiang Zhengqi Water will do the trick. He just has mild heatstroke."
"Thank you, Su Yue." His colleague looked at him gratefully.
Su Yue smiled and didn't seem to care. The work environment was making him feel a bit suffocated, so he subconsciously picked up a cigarette and started smoking.
When did I become addicted to smoking?
Just as they were pondering this, a series of soft sounds suddenly rang out outside the treatment department of the large hospital in Cloud City, initially from the puzzled discussions of the crowd.
The next moment, Su Yue heard those whispers turn into screams.
Then, I heard a wail and the sound of someone collapsing to the ground in pain.
"!!!"
"Bombing! It's enemy airships bombing!!"
"Quickly hide! Hospitals, schools, and large facilities are all targets of their bombing and attacks."
"boom!!!"
Huge bursts of fireworks and smoke erupted not far from Su Yue, and the nurses and colleagues who had just been chatting and laughing with him were all shrouded in ruins.
In the hospital corridor, corpses lay supine, some with arms flying off, others with thighs dangling from the medical equipment at the nurses' station.
Su Yue even clearly saw a man being hit in the eyes by flying pebbles, who immediately closed his eyes and howled in pain. Both of his eyes were hit, which meant he would be completely blind and lose the ability to see the outside world.
The man stumbled around aimlessly, and as the crowd fled towards Su Yue, the blind man shouted in the opposite direction, "Help me... help me!!"
Nobody paid him any attention.
Su Yue felt no fear whatsoever. Once he thought about it deeply, he would feel an indescribable sense of dread, but his experience as a lord of the Turin World made him take these situations for granted.
He had already experienced the cruelty of the battlefield. The collapsed hospital and the smoke of gunpowder, the fleeing people rushed for seven or eight seconds before Su Yue remembered.
"Should I run too?"
He slowly stood up amidst the chaotic crowd, quietly packing his briefcase, breathing in the smell of gunpowder.
One of them lost his lower body.
The man, only his upper body, clutched his intestines and crawled toward Su Yue, leaving a trail of blood as he crawled.
His eyes still seemed to be shining, still calling for help.
Su Yue said, "You're hopeless."
"..."
Sure enough, in no time, the man's eyes lost their light, and he became motionless.
Su Yue recalled a rumor that after a person dies, their nails and hair continue to grow for a period of time until they become completely stiff. Then, their skin is devoured by flies and insects that decompose naturally, and everything returns to dust.
A man with his ear blown off is running around aimlessly.
Like a headless fly.
Su Yue understood that he must have lost his hearing. A human who has lost his sensory system is no different from a bee flying around in a flower garden; the only difference is that the bee can accurately collect nectar, while the human can only fly around randomly.
"war!!!"
"An enemy country has launched a war against us... Why would they attack a hospital?"
A security guard, driven mad by pain, clutched his bloody wound and was having a bandage applied.
Su Yue quietly followed the flow of people down to the hospital building. The crowd had turned into a black sea, but at the main entrance, the sound of gunfire suddenly rang out.
"There are enemies..."
The scorching flames devoured life.
Su Yue smiled strangely.
Hospitals are supposed to be places for saving lives, but at this time, they are filled with ruins, smoke, and wounded people, yet they continue to operate stubbornly.
Su Yue hid behind a pillar.
Watching the gunfight erupt on the barricades was different from the medieval lord conflicts in Turin.
In Cloud City, the people of Dukar all use guns.
A young man was running when he suddenly knelt down.
Su Yue clearly saw a burst of blood five centimeters above his knee on his thigh.
The young man crawled forward while raising his head.
His eyes were filled with tension and fear as he looked at Su Yue, who was hiding behind the wall, and cried out for help.
Su Yue took a deep breath, glanced quickly to the side, placed the hat next to the pillar, and after confirming that no one was attacking it, he quickly ran over, squatted down, and dragged the young man back.
The dragging process was extremely strenuous for him.
Ruins and ashes filled the ground beneath our feet.
The young man said, trembling, "Thank you... thank you."
At that moment, a man with a pipe in his mouth and a face as black as if he had been smothered by coal smoke roared, "Descendants of the attackers, the Duval people!!"
"...No, I have nothing to do with this attack!!"
"Step back, sir, this is none of your business."
The middle-aged man, holding a pistol, pushed Su Yue aside and walked towards the young man.
Su Yue stared at the scene in astonishment.
The young man's pleading eyes still reflected the joy of being rescued and the pain of his wounds, but then he was murdered.
It's like life crowding the edge of a cliff.
Everyone hopes to get one step closer to survival, so those squeezed to the very edge of the cliff can only die.
The tsunami swallowed the cliff, and the people huddled together in fear.
Every minute, every second, people are being pushed into the sea.
Do you smoke?
When the chaos ended and order was suppressed, the ravaged streets were littered with bullet holes and corpses.
"Thanks."
The officer asked, "Do you have congenital emotional detachment, or do you suffer from some kind of mental illness?"
"No, I'm a normal person."
Do you have a family? How many children do you have?
"two."
Su Yue looked at his shoulder insignia; the other person was an officer from the recruitment department…
"...Want to join the army? Go to the front lines? Right now, the people of Duval and Duval in Cloud City are in conflict with those devils from the West, and they are desperately short of soldiers..."
Who bombed this building?
"An enemy country's airship."
"...I need to think about it."
The officer smiled and said, "This is my business card. Call me anytime you've made up your mind. I'll give you the bonus when I get back to my office this time."
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At night, Su Yue returned home with heavy steps. His company was gone... He was unemployed. Su Yue wanted to go to a small hotel to drown his sorrows or find a woman to relieve his inner turmoil.
In Ducal, a city teeming with prostitutes, he spent his days pondering with his colleagues which taverns and restaurants had more entertainment at night and which had prettier foreign women.
When he went back.
They discovered that the entire company had been bombed.
The supervisor who had previously made things difficult for him was now buried in the rubble. A woman was weeping beside the ruins; Su Yue recognized her as his supervisor's sister.
The fine rubble, sand, and gravel, along with the reinforced concrete structure, could not withstand the impact of the high-intensity explosion. Those who had been chatting and laughing with him during the day, exploring the world of women, were now turned into blackened flesh and blood residue, piled up like meat patties and adhesive inside the ruins.
Su Yue wondered if he could use a soup spoon to scrape back the former supervisor's body little by little, like scraping jam, and return it to his family and relatives.
"..."
As Su Yue was lost in thought, he heard the gentle sound of Elisa lifting her shoes coming from the entrance hall.
"Honey, I'm home."
"ah."
Just as he was wondering how to start the conversation, Eliz said, "You scared me to death today... I just saw the news that your company was bombed into ruins. Are you alright?"
Looking at his stunningly beautiful wife, whose face was flushed with excitement, Su Yue said, "No...it's nothing."
"What about work? We bought all the building materials for the house ourselves... loan... loan... it seems like we won't have enough this month."
Su Yue said, "I'll go find another job."
Elisa looked somewhat downcast. The children were playing inside. The world of childhood and the world of adults are two distinct rivers, completely different from each other.
Neither of them can step into the other's river.
Unless Su Yue and Elisa die, they do not want the other to enter the adult world.
The world of childhood is filled with beauty and joy.
Reality, however, is incredibly cruel.
During his seven-day rest at home, Su Yue interviewed with countless companies. However, due to the attack on Dukar in Cloud City and the impending war, many business owners were packing their belongings and fleeing. No construction company was willing to continue investing in the urban development of Cloud City and Dukar.
No one wanted to create "targets" for the enemy in a city area that was about to be bombed.
Workers are unemployed.
The construction industry is in a slump, with some construction companies' stocks plummeting, and most of the architects at Dukael in Cloud City losing their jobs.
Su Yue walked aimlessly down the street, like a ghost.
I have no job.
But they still need to repay loans and raise two children.
This is a cruel truth for any family that only has a father and mother, but no grandparents, no less brutal than war.
Su Yue picked up the business card of the civil servant at the recruitment office, Karen, thought for a moment, and dialed the number. "Hello?"
"Hello, are you still short-handed on the front lines?"
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