"Clop-clop, clop-clop, clop-clop..."
Amid the urgent clatter of hooves, Xu Taiping and his three companions swept like a gale into the streets of Hongling Town, where flames blazed and thick smoke billowed.
"Mother, Mother, where are you? Mother!"
"You damned bastards! We never wronged you! Why did you kill my parents and carry off my wife and children?"
"Someone save my child! He's trapped inside the house and can't get out!"
Listening to the cries for help around him, Gu Yu grew somewhat dazed, as though he had returned to the day Red Carp Academy caught fire.
In his daze, the horse beneath him nearly charged into a burning shop.
Seeing this, Xu Taiping immediately shouted:
"Gu Yu, do you want to see that scene from the fire back then all over again?"
Gu Yu froze for a moment, then shook his head hard and said:
"Not even if I die!"
In an instant, the dazed look in Gu Yu's eyes abruptly gave way to renewed resolve.
Just then, a horse suddenly neighed.
Xuanzhi, who had been riding at the very front, suddenly pulled on his reins and stopped.
Then he turned to Xu Taiping and said:
"Brother Taiping, I cannot stand by and ignore the people on these streets!"
Dongfang Yuejian stopped as well, frowning.
"The Battle Merit Ledger just issued a bounty too."
As she spoke, she opened the Battle Merit Ledger in her hands.
A new line of text stood out starkly on the Battle Merit Ledger-
"Effective immediately, for every additional civilian who dies because of you, one hundred battle merit points will be deducted. Conversely, for every additional civilian saved because of you, ten battle merit points will be awarded."
Xu Taiping frowned and said:
"A hundred deducted for one death, but only ten awarded