Below, a rain of red arrows has arrived.
The air in the town was thick with the scent of death.
The residents of that small town seemed to have resigned themselves to their fate.
Just as the rain of arrows was about to fall, threatening to destroy all life in the town at the last moment.
Li Yu's eyes narrowed, and she suddenly raised her hand!
In an instant, the rain of deadly arrows froze in mid-air.
A few seconds of silence.
Absolute silence.
Even the sound of rain seemed to have disappeared.
The residents, who closed their eyes and awaited death, did not experience the expected piercing pain.
They trembled, hesitated, and then opened their eyes.
Then I witnessed a scene I will never forget—
Arrows, gleaming with a cold light, hung eerily still above their heads.
"We're...we're saved?" someone murmured, their voice hoarse, unable to believe it.
"It really stopped!" The woman holding her child looked up blankly, tears mingling with the rain as they streamed down her face.
"A miracle...this is a miracle!"
Someone finally reacted and shouted, their voice filled with the ecstasy and disbelief of surviving a disaster.
Immediately afterwards.
"唳——!!!"
A clear and melodious phoenix cry pierced the sky!
It dispelled all the lingering shadows of death.
Everyone looked up and saw a blazing platinum fireball falling like a meteor.
Just as they were filled with terror, the fireball hovered lightly over the town and landed steadily.
The flames gradually subsided, like a lotus flower blooming.
Revealing the magnificent and extraordinary Flame Phoenix, and the figure standing proudly on the Phoenix's back.
The adults were still in a state of extreme shock and bewilderment, their minds blank, and they were slow to react.
Who is this person? And why did he save them?
But the children who made the plea instantly widened their eyes and recognized that familiar face.
"It's Li Yu!"
"It really is Li Yu, the hero!"
"Li Yu saved us!"
"I knew he was a great hero of Zhongzhou, he would definitely come!"
The children pointed at Li Yu, so excited they were incoherent, their faces flushed red, gesturing wildly.
The naive children shouted and boasted to the stunned adults around them, as if they had summoned this rescue.
The children's innocent and enthusiastic shouts were like sparks, instantly igniting the town's deathly silence.
The residents who survived the ordeal finally came to their senses upon hearing Li Yu's name.
"Li Yu? That hero of Central Plains, Li Yu?!"
"It's him! It must be him! Who else could withstand such an attack?!"
"That's amazing. Only Li Yu could have such a terrifying mount."
"The children are right!"
The adults were instantly convinced that the person in front of them must be Li Yu, the hero of Zhongzhou that the children had been talking about.
An overwhelming sense of ecstasy instantly engulfed the town.
Great! We're saved!
It's not an illusion, it's not a dream!
It was the living, breathing, legendary hero Li Yu from Zhongzhou who saved them from annihilation!
"Li Yu! Li Yu!"
All the residents were desperately calling out Li Yu's name, as if only in this way could they express their gratitude to Li Yu for saving the town.
As for who the 'prisoner' locked in that birdcage was, no one cared at the moment.
All eyes and minds were fixed on that figure surrounded by flames, appearing as if a god had descended to earth.
A faint golden light flowed along the silk thread into the golden pupil of the left eye.
Li Yu remained largely unmoved by the residents' cheers and gratitude; to him, it was nothing more than a trivial matter.
Compared to the pure power of faith in the children's hearts, the residents' gratitude was merely a violent emotional fluctuation.
Li Yu raised his hand and made a grasping motion, tearing open a spatial rift, then gently made a gesture.
The numerous arrows that had been frozen in mid-air suddenly changed direction and flew back, like rivers flowing into the sea, before disappearing into the spatial rift in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, space distorted slightly, and the crack disappeared.
With the crisis that threatened to destroy the town over, Li Yu had no intention of lingering.
His purpose in coming here was clear: to temporarily save people, simply because of the children's call filled with faith.
Just as Li Yu was about to leave, the children who had called his name first suddenly found the courage to run towards the phoenix.
Their little faces were dirty, but their eyes shone brightly, filled with admiration and gratitude, and an almost pilgrimage-like devotion.
Li Yu was familiar with that look in his eyes.
He often saw it in the ghostly realm beneath Kangcheng, and also in the eyes of the refugees who followed him.
But at this moment, I saw it in the eyes of these children I had never met before, who were barely clothed.
Their faith was no less than that of the refugees who followed them.
Li Yu's gaze swept over the children, then over the residents behind them who, though excited, could not hide their sallow and emaciated appearance, and were also dressed in rags. He couldn't help but frown.
The poverty of this small town in Zhongzhou was beyond his imagination; people there were even worse off than some struggling refugees. This was indeed beyond his expectations.
The houses were low and dilapidated, and many of the roofs leaked when it rained.
Most of the children were barefoot, and their clothes were patched upon patched, not waterproof and thin.
It's obvious at a glance that there's a severe food shortage here.
The refugees outside the border all wanted to enter Zhongzhou, but no one could have imagined that there was such a dilapidated place within Zhongzhou.
Seeing the pure gratitude and trust in the children's eyes, Li Yu hesitated slightly before leaving.
He didn't say much, but instead leaped down from the phoenix.
The children immediately crowded around excitedly, wanting to touch the legendary hero up close, but just before they were about to touch him, they shyly withdrew their thin little hands, afraid that their hands would dirty Li Yu.
Li Yu took a few more steps forward, then casually waved his hand, causing the space around him to ripple once more.
Then he took out several boxes of red algae sticks left over from Ma Yuanbai's previous replication from the jar and placed them on the ground.
Kangcheng is now gradually stabilizing, and with the abilities of Lin Han and Ma Yuanbai, everyone's lives have already improved.
In addition, there's the 'unlimited supply' from Prince Ao and the sea monsters.
These basic algae sticks, mostly used for emergency satiety boosting, are rarely consumed in large quantities anymore.
But for the residents of this impoverished town, this was undoubtedly a lifesaver.
Li Yu opened the box, revealing the red algae sticks inside.
"These are for you."
The residents were initially taken aback, but upon seeing the contents of the box, they erupted in an even more excited and fervent wave of gratitude:
"Food!"
"It's an algae plant!"
Li Yu's expression remained unchanged, and her voice was calm, giving no impression of a savior descending upon them.
But in the eyes of the town's residents, Li Yu's actions were nothing short of heroic savior.
They not only saved all the residents of their town at the most dangerous moment.
They even generously distributed food to them afterwards!
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