After the Beast Tide was driven back, the city walls had to be repaired, the Mutant Beasts still inside Green City had to be cleared out, and their corpses had to be removed before they rotted and stank up the city.
A whole series of postwar repairs kept the entire Green City garrison—and even Mayor Lin Zhao—so busy they could barely catch their breath. The Yin and Yang Elders were helping, too.
As soon as the Beast Tide ended, Leng Yuanting ran off to fetch his precious daughter. For a while, no one came to bother Zhu Ping'an.
That suited Zhu Ping'an just fine. He happily left the city wall with a belly full of loot.
The soldiers along the way looked at him with reverence.
They all knew that if Zhu Ping'an hadn't fired that earth-shaking shot, it would still be anyone's guess whether humanity or the Mutant Beasts would have won the war.
Zhu Ping'an responded to them with a guilty look. Once he got down from the wall, he hurried home.
As soon as he got home and took the things out of his belly, those resources would go from belonging to Green City to belonging to him, Zhu Ping'an. What a sweet deal!
But when Zhu Ping'an reached his own front door, the sight before him left him frozen in place, unable to calm down for a long time.
The familiar building in his memories had become a desolate ruin, utterly lifeless. All that remained were broken bricks and rubble, and it looked as though it had been shelled.
Zhu Ping'an rushed to the ruins and dug frantically. Only after confirming that there was nothing resembling a human corpse beneath the rubble did he finally let out a huge sigh of relief.
His parents and younger