Inside the city.
It was even more chaotic than the imperial palace.
The emperor was being escorted out of the city.
His eyes had gone from anger and fear to numbness.
Cries and explosions filled the city.
The Lei Zi from Xiang Prefecture swept through like locusts, rampaging through Kou Island's Capital City in small groups.
Wherever they passed, neither people nor livestock survived.
Corpses lay piled like mountains in the streets.
The bodies of Kou Island warriors hung from every streetlight.
Every person killed was missing their left eye.
A massacre.
No.
This was no longer a massacre. It was extermination.
The ruthlessness of the Xiang Prefecture Lei Zi had thoroughly cowed the emperor.
"Brother Zheng, should we try talking these Lei Zi down?"
The man beside Zhou Zheng offered the suggestion quietly.
The emperor immediately cast him a grateful look.
The next second, the man said angrily, "The Lei Zi are killing everyone! Who are we supposed to kill? I promised my mother I'd kill at least fifty Kou Island soldiers."
At the rate the Xiang Prefecture Lei Zi were going, in less than three days,
there wouldn't be a single breathing Kou Islander left in the Capital City.
"Ahem..." Zhou Zheng thought for a moment, then offered some frustrated reassurance. "Their Capital City's under attack. Their armies will come to reinforce it soon. There'll be plenty of people for you to take revenge on."
"I heard... Xiang Prefecture... sent fifty thousand Lei Zi."
That one remark from the squad leader beside Zhou Zheng instantly left the soldiers hungry for military merit looking ashen.
Fifty thousand Xiang Prefecture Lei Zi.
They were fucking here to wipe out the country.
"Report! Some bastard led a team to blow up the Kou Island National Bank!"
"Report! Some beast burned down