225: Seeing injustice

"Damn it! What a time to pick!" The yellow-haired Wang Liu withdrew his hand sullenly, looking disappointed.

"Lock this chick in the room and keep a close watch! Follow me outside to meet these uninvited guests!"

In the open space outside, the atmosphere was tense and ready to explode.

Dozens of men holding standard assault rifles spread out, and a cavalry unit of over a dozen people was particularly eye-catching!

These cavalrymen and their horses were covered in metal armor, wielding knight lances. The warhorses were tall, majestic, and fierce-eyed, all powerful mutated horses.

They spread out in a fan shape, shielding a group of shivering ordinary villagers behind them, and stood in a standoff against the newly arrived party of Zhu Lingyun.

"Good heavens, did medieval cavalry time travel here?" Ma Tianfeng gripped his long saber, riding on his Gale Warhorse, looking at the armored cavalry opposite with a strange expression.

"Be careful, these people are not simple." Zhu Lingyun said in a low voice with a grave expression, "Most of these cavalrymen have fluctuations of Supernatural Ability, and several are at the 1st-Tier level."

He keenly sensed that while these people had uniform equipment, their demeanor was fierce and carried a heavy air of underworld banditry, definitely not the regular government army of Hongdu.

"What's the situation? What are you making a racket about?" Wang Liu, who had transformed into a wild boar warrior, covered in hard bristles and holding a ferocious mace, walked out swaggeringly.

His form caused the Demon Hunting Squad to cast sidelong glances.

"1st-Tier peak!" Wang Kai, with keen perception, immediately whispered to remind his companions, as he felt a strong aura from the opponent.

"Captain Wang Liu, this group of people suddenly broke in, and their origins are unknown." A cavalry squad leader reported.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Wang Liu asked loudly with his hands on his hips, but his triangular eyes uncontrollably scanned the female members of the Demon Hunting Squad, especially lingering on the elegant and refined Yang Yiyu and the heroic Li Xueli.

"Top-tier! Damn, they are all top-tier!" Wang Liu was overjoyed, looking at Yang Yiyu's delicate face and slender figure, his saliva almost flowing out.

He was even already calculating in his mind how to "distribute" these women.

"Damn it! Where are you looking with those dog eyes?" The hot-tempered Yan Xin was burning with rage from being looked at with such lewd gazes. She shouted, her flame longbow instantly pulled to its limit, and with a "whoosh," a flaming arrow left the string, flying straight toward Wang Liu's face!

A cavalryman next to Wang Liu reacted extremely quickly, fiercely squeezing his horse's belly to move forward, raising a thick knight's shield to block in front of Wang Liu!

"Boom!" The fire arrow hit the shield, bursting into a ball of flames before dissipating, leaving only a scorched dent on the shield's surface.

However, the impact force attached to the arrow still made the cavalryman and his horse slide back several meters, the horseshoes plowing deep furrows into the ground.

What was even more surprising was that the dent on the shield was slowly repairing and smoothing out at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Wang Liu was startled by this sudden arrow, quickly retracting his disgusting gaze, and shouted with fierce words but a weak heart: "We are the rescue team from the West Suburb Base! We are here to save people! Who exactly are you people? If you don't reveal your identities, don't blame us for being impolite!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the dozens of riflemen "clattered" as they all pulled their bolts, the sound of bullets chambering being crisp and cold.

The cavalrymen also lowered their lances and raised their shields, and the atmosphere instantly dropped to freezing point.

"Rescue team?" Zhu Lingyun's doubts deepened, but looking at those "protected" villagers, it seemed these people were indeed doing rescue work, but that leader's lewd gaze and behavior made it impossible to associate him with the word "rescue."

"We are the Demon Hunting Squad under the Red Alert Legion!" Zhu Lingyun steadied his mind and directly announced their name.

In Xijiang Province, the name of the Red Alert Legion was a gold-plated signboard, representing order and power.

"Red Alert Legion? What is that? Is it the military?" Wang Liu looked blank, "Are you from the Hongdu Military Region?"

"Where did this bumpkin come from? You don't even know the Red Alert Legion?" Niu Jinshui, riding on the back of a Rampaging Water Buffalo, said with a muffled mockery.

The buffalo beneath him let out a low roar, the sound waves rolling. However, the mutated warhorses opposite only uneasily pawed their hooves and did not show obvious fear, clearly all of them were not weak in strength.

"Speak clearly! What exactly is your background?" Wang Liu continued to ask, trying to figure out their background.

Even though Zhu Lingyun had a calm personality, he couldn't help but be a little impatient at this moment, saying in a deep voice: "Our Red Alert Legion is the strongest military force in Xijiang Province, with five or sixty thousand troops, thousands of Evolvers, and we have already liberated seven or eight cities! You actually haven't heard of us?"

"What?!" Wang Liu was shocked, his face changing slightly. Such a powerful force? The government army in Hongdu probably didn't have this kind of strength!

His eyes rolled, and he immediately put on a smiling face, "Misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding! Brothers, we are good people, sent by the West Suburb Base to rescue our compatriots! You can ask these folks; we are really saving people!"

He pointed to those villagers, trying to prove his "legitimacy."

"Captain Wang, you are too polite." Zhu Lingyun breathed a slight sigh of relief; the opponent's strength was not weak, so it was naturally best to avoid conflict.

However, just as the atmosphere seemed to ease— "Help—!!!"

A shrill and desperate cry came from the house that Wang Liu and his men had just come out of!

Immediately after, a figure stumbled out! It was the girl who had been bullied!

Her clothes were torn to shreds, large areas of snow-white skin exposed to the air, her hair disheveled, and her face covered in tear stains and clear slap marks, all of which silently told of the humiliation she had just suffered.

"Save my father! Please, save him!" Zheng Wanrou cried out as she ran to the crowd, collapsing to the ground from exhaustion. She struggled to lift her head, looking with teary eyes at the righteous members of the Demon Hunting Squad.

Zhu Lingyun rushed forward, crouched down to support the girl, "Miss, don't worry, speak slowly, what happened to your father?"

"It's them—!" Zheng Wanrou used all her strength to lift her trembling hand, pointing at Wang Liu and his group, whose faces instantly turned gloomy. Her voice was filled with blood and tears, "They beat my dad until he was covered in blood, unconscious... and they wanted to force me... My dad... My dad he..."

She grabbed Zhu Lingyun's arm, as if grasping the last straw, accusing them with tears and sobs.

"Cap—tain—Wang—!" The straightforward and hot-tempered Wang Kai slammed his long axe into the ground with a "thud," sending gravel flying. He glared at Wang Liu, his powerful aura as a Second-Tier Evolver released without reservation, pressing down on the opponent like a heavy mountain, "Is this how you, West Suburb Base, 'rescue' your compatriots?!"

This powerful momentum made Wang Liu and his subordinates turn pale, involuntarily taking half a step back, a hint of fear flashing in their eyes.

"Yiyi! Quick! Come in with me to save him!" Zhu Lingyun glared at Wang Liu with disgust, ignored him further, called Li Yiyi, who had healing abilities, and quickly rushed into the house.

Wang Liu stood in place, his face so gloomy it could drip water, his eyes flickering, but he did not stop them.

Until he watched all the members of the Demon Hunting Squad enter the house, he squeezed a cold voice through his teeth: "Block the door for me! Wait for them to come out... If they dare to meddle in other people's business, just open fire directly, leave none alive!"

"Captain! This... if the Commander finds out, he will skin us alive!" A slightly older-looking cavalryman gathered the courage to advise.

"Damn it! My words don't work anymore, right?" Wang Liu was furious, backhanding the cavalryman across the face with a slap so hard it split the man's mouth, blood flowing, "If you dare to talk nonsense again, next time we have a cleanup mission, I'll throw you to feed the zombies!"

The infantry members, seeing Wang Liu so barbaric, dared not disobey, quickly dispersed, surrounding the self-built house, with their guns pointed at the doors and windows.

The surrounding villagers, seeing this, were even more terrified, all lowering their heads, not daring to make any sound.