The confinement cell was pitch-black and silent. In the darkness, time passed quickly—especially for a knight. Two days were almost gone in the blink of an eye...
Darkness drove away the light; silence shut out the clamor. Within that darkness and silence, the images in a person's mind only grew sharper.
The burning corpses of Hua Clan civilians...
A mother who had died clutching her child...
Countless wails of agony...
The endless blood west of the Wei River, soaked into the earth, seemed about to overflow from beneath the floor of the confinement cell, submerging Zhang Tie's feet and slowly rising higher, nearly suffocating him.
What shattered that suffocation was the string of remote-sensing communication rings Zhang Tie carried on him like a necklace. At some point, the remote-sensing crystals within those rings began to tremble. First one, then two, then three—and then, nearly every remote-sensing communication ring capable of contacting Zhang Tie began to vibrate. Messages kept arriving from the other rings, again and again, tirelessly trying to reach him...
It was the first time Zhang Tie had encountered such a situation. The urgent vibrations from countless remote-sensing communication rings shattered the images in his mind, pulling him out of that sea of blood in the darkness and back into the real world.
Zhang Tie knew something must have happened—and something important at that. Otherwise, this would never have occurred.
In such circumstances, Zhang Tie always contacted his family first.
"Big Brother, what is it...?"
"Who are you?"
"It's Zhang Tie. Big Brother, what's wrong with you...?"
"Where are you?"
"I'm in Peace Province!"
"Are you all right?"
"I'm fine. Better than fine..."
"I just heard that you were ambushed and killed by a Sky Knight of the Devil Race while inspecting Anxi City, Apricot Forest Commandery, in Military