864 Chapter 864 Returning To The City
Chapter 864 Returning To The City
On the road to Lionheart City, many people had come out to welcome them.
These people looked at Sean with hope in their eyes.
However, their bright eyes did not match their attire.
Sean turned his head and saw a little boy. He was dressed in shabby linen clothes and had a hunched body. He was young, yet he looked like an old man.
The boy looked up at General Sean with tears in his eyes.
Sean couldn’t bear to watch any longer. He continued forward and saw more poor people. Without exception, they were all dressed in rags and were frail.
Sean felt his heart ache when he saw this.
He had been fighting outside for many years and had experienced many life-and-death situations. He knew that he did not have to fight this hard, but he felt that he was born with a mission, and that was to protect this country!
Although he was loyal to the royal family, he knew he was doing this to protect the people of this land!
He closed his eyes, unwilling to look at his surroundings.
These poor people had come out early to welcome him because, in their minds, the only people in the upper class of the Lionheart Empire who really cared about them were Sean and Elizabeth.
They hoped their lives would turn for the better once General Sean returned.
Lu Yu, who was in the crowd, sighed when he saw all the poor citizens around him. Lionheart City was the capital of the empire, but there were so many staying in the slums.
He had never seen so many poor people in the Freedom Federation or the Stellaris Autonomous Zone. After all, this was an era where productivity was well developed.
But in Lionheart City, it was frankly a miracle that there were so many poor people!
The people at the back of the troops had mixed feelings. As the loyal subordinates of General Sean, they naturally felt terrible when they saw General Sean being defeated by a young man.
However, their strength was way inferior to Lu Yu’s, so they naturally had nothing to say.
Soon, the troops advanced to the city gates. Before it, the royal knights stood in two rows and half-knelt in the direction of General Sean.
General Sean rode into the city.
Many poor people followed behind, but they were stopped outside the gates.
In the eyes of the knights, these poor people were not welcomed in the first place. They felt disgusted when they saw these poor people following General Sean like a group of flies.
General Sean and his men entered the city gate and came to Emperor’s Avenue.
Turning around, Sean found that the city gates had been closed.
He was immediately enraged. He pointed at a knight and asked, “Let me ask you, why did you close the gates? Don’t you know that there are still people outside the city?”
The knight was so frightened that he trembled. Offending General Sean was something he was terrified of!
“General Sean, we have specially prepared a celebration for your return. If those people come in, they will only dirty the celebration.”
“You. Are. Speaking. Nonsense! Open the gates!”
General Sean shouted angrily, and the man panicked as he quickly turned to open the gates.
The other knights also stood rooted to the ground, not even daring to breathe loudly.
After the city gates opened, the poor people poured in.
Sean turned around and continued to walk on Emperor’s Avenue toward the palace.
He clenched his fists and made up his mind to change this country!
He would only watch everything numbly if not for Lu Yu’s arrival. However, with Lu Yu’s strength, he had the motivation to change everything!
Walking down the street, they quickly made their way to the palace.
Soon, they reached the central square.
Sean stopped moving forward when they arrived, and many people gathered around him.
At that moment, he turned to look at his subordinates and said, “Take them all out.”
Thus, more than a dozen subordinates walked up one after another, each wearing a solemn expression.
Soon, they lined up in a row, each holding a box in their hands.
After they put the box down, they took a step back.
These boxes had different names engraved on them.
A few people went forward to identify it and recognized it at a glance. They rushed forward to pick up and open the box, showing a rotting arm inside!
Instantly, that person burst into tears and broke down.
Soon, more and more people rushed up and found the box that belonged to their family.
These were the corpses of soldiers who had died on the frontlines. Due to the chaos of the war, most were left without a complete corpse, and their buddies could only bring back a part of their body.
Many more dead soldiers couldn’t even make it back with a body part and were completely buried in the barren lands.
Seeing the people crying in front of him, Sean naturally felt terrible. After all, many of these soldiers had been with him all day and night. Even if they were not very familiar with each other, he would still feel sad to witness their deaths.
He looked down and saw that there were many poor people in the wailing crowd. They had sent their children to the battlefield, yet they could not even eat properly in the capital!
This just made Sean angrier.
“Give each of them a hundred thousand gold taels!!”
Sean commanded this toward his subordinate.
The subordinate looked at the crowd before him and was troubled.
“General, I’m afraid we don’t have that much gold…”
“If we don’t have enough, we’ll take it from the royal family. You guys pay it out of your own pockets first. Later, the national treasury will return it!”
After hearing this, his subordinates did not have any objections. They took out all the gold they had stored; some even took out equipment and weapons of similar value when they didn’t have enough gold.
These soldiers distributed them one after another, emptying most of their savings.
After handing out the death compensation, he led his troops and continued walking toward the palace.
Those people bowed and thanked Sean, as the compensation was enough for them to eat and drink for the rest of their lives.
Some poorer people living at the bottom of the hierarchy even knelt and kowtowed to Sean’s back.
Lu Yu followed the group, and soon, they were not far from the palace gates.
Lu Yu then put on a mask to cover his face.
Everyone in the royal family knew him, and he would be discovered if he swaggered in casually.
However, as long as he followed General Sean’s team and wore a mask, there would be no problem.
The royal family would not interrogate Sean’s men.
Soon, they arrived at the entrance.
The palace entrance looked very imposing, with white walls on both sides.
In front of the golden door was a red carpet with golden patterns.
Golden lions were placed on both sides of the door, looking mighty and domineering.
On both sides of the gate stood members of the royal family. They looked at Sean, eagerly waiting for his arrival.