The dozens of members of the Rock Battle Group were suddenly flustered as they watched the surging crowd.
Although they held machine guns and were dozens of times stronger than the refugees, they panicked in the face of the vast numbers.
"Shoot!" Suddenly, they heard their group leader's sharp voice.
Under this command, they subconsciously pulled the trigger.
"Da da da!"
The refugees who had just broken down the door fell in rows.
For a time, it became a living hell.
In less than thirty seconds, two to three hundred people had fallen.
Gunfire, wails, screams of terror, and cries for help intertwined, also scaring the crowds pushing forward behind them.
At this moment, two to three thousand people also rushed to Qin Shilei's side. These were the families of the Rock Battle Group members, who had come to help defend the community upon learning that someone was surrounding it.
Although these families were not strong, they were much stronger than the refugees.
Most of them were also holding various weapons.
This made the refugees even more desperate. They fled in all directions, crying and screaming.
A middle-aged man in a military uniform, observing this scene from a high-rise building in the distance with binoculars, said with a shudder, "Madman, he actually dared to open fire on refugees. Isn't he afraid of condemnation?"
Another person chimed in, "The world is already in an apocalypse. Who is afraid of condemnation anymore? Strength is the only criterion for survival."
The middle-aged man shook his head. "I heard this Qin fellow wants to become the city lord of Nanzhuang City by force. If he's too brutal, not many people will support him."
He paused and said, "Have you finished recording the video and uploaded it? We must let everyone in Great Xia recognize how cruel this Qin fellow is."
Another person nodded. "Alright, the refugees below have scattered. Should we also retreat?"
"After putting on such a good show, are you leaving?"
Just as the two were about to leave, a sharp voice suddenly rang out behind them.
The two suddenly felt as if they were being stared at by a fierce beast, and a chill rushed from their heels to the back of their heads.
"Speak, who sent you?" Qin Shilei's killing intent-filled voice rang out again.
The middle-aged man turned around with difficulty. "We are from the military. We saw too many refugees gathered here, so we came to check. We have no ill intentions."
"Is this your companion?"
Qin Shilei casually threw out a corpse. The corpse was also wearing a military uniform and holding a sniper rifle.
He had just ordered his subordinates to clear the battlefield when a sniper bullet shot towards his head.
If he hadn't dodged quickly, he would have wasted a precious substitute doll.
Qin Shilei had also traced the direction of the bullet and found the sniper, but he couldn't get any information. Instead, he was met with constant curses, and in a fit of anger, he killed the opponent.
He rode Xiao Qiang around the building once and happened to see the middle-aged man and the others. He then teleported in to intercept them.
The middle-aged man's pupils contracted, but he quickly concealed the shock in his eyes and shook his head, "Don't recognize him. I don't know if he's one of our military personnel."
However, Qin Shilei clearly saw the change in his expression.
"Why did you record what just happened and upload it to the national channel?" Qin Shilei asked calmly.
"This..." The middle-aged man's face turned very ugly. He wanted to argue but was caught red-handed and didn't know how to explain.
"If you dare to do it, are you afraid we'll put it on the national channel?" a young man beside him sneered.
"Hmph, if you had posted the whole incident truthfully and completely on the chat channel, I would have no objections. But to selectively edit it like this, is that the act of an upright soldier?"
Qin Shilei opened the national chat channel and flipped up two pages. There was the video the young man had posted.
The video began with the young man's words: Qin Shilei, the number one person on Blue Star, brutally massacred over a thousand elderly, weak, women, and children begging for food.
Then, he posted a video of Qin Shilei ordering the massacre.
Finally, he explained the course of events: Because they learned that Qin Shilei had thousands of tons of grain, a portion of the elderly, weak, women, and children in Nanzhuang City came to beg for grain to save their lives. Unexpectedly, Qin Shilei, who had no compassion, not only refused to spare half a grain of rice but also ordered the massacre of over a thousand refugees in front of his community.
While Qin Shilei was looking at the video, the chat channel had already been flooded with dozens of pages.
Most of them were condemnations of Qin Shilei.
Although Qin Shilei didn't care about the condemnations against him, being slandered in such a way made his anger surge.
Moreover, the whole incident seemed to be orchestrated.
Qin Shilei's killing intent rose towards the mastermind who dared to design such a trap for him.
The young man sneered, "What selective editing? Did you give the refugees grain, or do you not have grain, or did you not order the massacre of the refugees?"
Qin Shilei said calmly, "You don't even know that I've already distributed food to them once, yet you're so self-righteous. I wonder how blind you are."
"This..." The young man turned to his companion but did not receive a negative response.
He paused and said stubbornly, "Even if you distributed food to them, so what? Does that mean you can kill them all like crushing ants?"
"They were trying to rush into my territory and loot everything. If I didn't kill them, should I let these tens of thousands of people rush in and harm my Rock Battle Group families?"
Qin Shilei questioned coldly.
The young man was speechless for a moment.
Qin Shilei calmed his mood and asked calmly again, "Who sent you?"
The middle-aged man said sheepishly, "We are both from the Fiery Legion and came to investigate under the orders of the military."
He then turned to the young man and instructed, "Xiao Liu, you will immediately explain the truth of the matter again on the chat channel."
The young man looked at the grim-faced Qin Shilei, lowered his head, and posted another message on the chat channel.
However, his message was quickly drowned out by the flood of information and did not attract the attention of the trolls.
"Fiery Legion?" Qin Shilei asked coldly, "Did Shi Yutang send you or Kong Zhendong?"
Just as the middle-aged man was about to answer, Qin Shilei's heart stirred, and he quickly retreated backward.
Bang! Bang!
Two explosions sounded, and the middle-aged man and the young man were instantly blown into countless pieces by the bombs on their bodies.
Qin Shilei walked forward again and found half a military officer's certificate among the pile of flesh.
The photo on it was of the middle-aged man, and below it read, Deputy Section Chief of the Fiery Legion Intelligence Department.
"Shi Yutang and I have no enmity. In fact, our relationship is quite good. Why would he do this?"
A hint of doubt arose in Qin Shilei's mind.
Could it be Kong Zhendong's doing?
Is he really afraid of my growing power, afraid I'll snatch the military's position as city lord, and deliberately smear me among the public?
No, I just signed a non-aggression pact with him. There's no reason for him to provoke me like this.
Besides, I've never said I wanted to be the city lord of Nanzhuang City.
Why would a commander-in-chief be so unwise as to provoke me, the number one person on Blue Star?