Thunder Eel slowly closed his eyes and leaned against the wall, pretending to sleep. "You said the same thing last time."
No one could understand Wu De's anxiety at this moment. With bloodshot eyes, he roared, "Go take a look at the Inner City! Listen! There's a commotion in the Inner City. White Lord is being besieged by the people there!"
Thunder Eel still did not open his eyes. "It's just some newly arrived wandering souls who accidentally entered the Inner City. Nothing unusual."
"I'm telling the truth! Why won't you go take a look?!" Wu De howled at Thunder Eel and the people around him, his voice filled with grief.
Yet not a single person stood up.
Despair and collapse washed over him like a tide.
The numb could not hear him, and those who heard him did not believe him.
"I'm not crazy! Everything I said is true! Why don't you believe me? Why?!"
Wu De collapsed to his knees, tears streaming from his reddened eyes.
The wind passed through the empty streets, carrying only dead silence.
The entire Outer City seemed to contain only one living person, repeating the same words again and again.
"White Lord... really came back."
After a long while, Thunder Eel finally grew sick of hearing him babble and opened his eyes. "Go howl somewhere else! Every day, it's White Lord this, White Lord that. You really are his most loyal dog. Even after going mad, you still think he can come back?"
"Hmph! What good is your loyalty? You still have to starve here!"
Wu De's deranged muttering came to an abrupt halt. He suddenly raised his head, and unprecedented light burst from his bloodshot eyes!
"Loyalty... starving..."
The two words linked together in his mind like lightning.
He swiftly climbed to