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Looking down at the troops on duty and patrolling below, Dongyun knew that their actions were tantamount to starting a war with the US military.
"No, I..."
Gabriel shook her head, momentarily confused by the sudden question.
As an angel dedicated to guiding humanity towards happiness, she couldn't possibly kill, but... but... but...
“Let’s go rescue them.” Gabriel paused. “Let’s rescue them quietly.”
"and then?"
Dongyun asked calmly.
"Then... tell everyone, tell all the survivors in the building about the experiment, and tell everyone to escape, to escape westward."
"Not a single person will be killed?"
"Not a single person will be killed!"
Gabriel nodded emphatically.
"Are you dreaming?"
Shinonome leaned against the railing, gazing at the innocent Gabriel.
"Xiao Jia, you don't have much magic left, do you? You used your clairvoyance, how much magic do you have left? Can you sneak into the hospital silently and rescue everyone inside without a sound?"
“You said that there are not only survivors inside, but also orphans and homeless people who were tricked into coming from other cities. You not only have to sneak in and bring them out, but also prepare gas masks for the test subjects who are not guaranteed to be immune to the airborne virus.”
"Furthermore, you said you'd tell everyone in this building about the lab and then tell them to escape. How are they supposed to escape? How are the people who were rescued supposed to escape?"
“Some people were rescued by helicopter. Most of the survivors don’t have cars like we do when we try to leave the city. They don’t have cars, and they might not know how to drive. Even if they do know how to drive, the army will definitely intercept them.”
"They have helicopters, and the area outside the safe zone is teeming with zombies. It's nighttime now. Even if they can solve the problems of cars and driving, what about these other problems? Are you going to perform a miracle to save them all and lead them across the river? Can you do that? Does your magic allow it?"
Gabriel didn't know how to answer Shinonome's series of questions.
Gabriel shook her head, her right hand helplessly touching her chest, and looked at Dongyun with a confused and pitiful expression, saying, "I don't know."
If she is a demon, then she can kill without any scruples.
But she was an angel, albeit a lazy one, who had repeatedly declared her intention to destroy the world and urged humanity to perish. Yet, she was still an angel, and killing was something she simply couldn't bring herself to do.
She wasn't incapable of using magic to trap people without harming them; however, killing was easy, but trapping someone without causing harm was difficult. It required not only exquisite magical skills but also sufficient magical power to support and underpin the situation. The most crucial factor was still the issue of magical power.
Gabriel looked at Shinonome, biting her lip, unsure of what to do.
To be honest, let alone silently entering the hospital and rescuing the person, even if she were determined to kill someone, she might not have enough magic power to kill everyone in the hospital.
Her magic was drying up.
She had a cup of water left, but after using her clairvoyance which allowed her to hear sounds, her magic was completely drained, leaving only a few water droplets in the cup.
"Am I beyond saving by anyone?"
Gabriel sensed her magical power; if Xiaoyun didn't replenish her mana, they wouldn't be able to save others, let alone protect themselves.
"No, you can still save us." Dongyun touched the wound on his neck and smiled. "However, it's not impossible for you to try to save us all. I have a plan, a plan that can save as many of the others as possible. Would you like to hear it?"
"I don't want to hear it, just save us. The others... don't necessarily need to be saved."
Gabriel shook her head and hesitantly uttered words that didn't sound like those of an angel.
She knew what Dongyun was going to say. Seeing Dongyun touching her neck, she knew very well that whatever Dongyun's plan was, it couldn't be separated from her, from her now that she had regained enough magic power.
We can't let Xiaoyun donate blood anymore, and even if he does, we can't let him donate too much.
After donating blood last time, Xiaoyun seemed fine on the surface, but in reality, his steps were much unsteady than usual.
"I won't let you drain me dry. You can exchange blood packs at the store, and the hospital should also have blood packs. As long as I can replenish my blood in time, there shouldn't be a big problem."
Shinonome walked up to Gabriel and patted her head.
"Do you think I'm a child? It's not a swimming pool where you can just fill it up and then add water." Gabriel buried her head in Shinonome's chest, her voice muffled as she said, "Your body will definitely have problems. I'm begging you, please don't ruin your health like this."
"You're no different from a child in terms of height. Didn't you want to save everyone? You're an angel, it's your duty to save them. I'll be fine, trust me, okay?"
"do not want!"
Gabriel refused firmly.
She did want to save everyone, that's true, but even if it meant failing her duty as an angel, she couldn't sacrifice Xiaoyun.
"Don't get so agitated." Dongyun deliberately ruffled Gabriel's hair. "To be blunt, we can barely save ourselves. I don't really have any intention of saving others. I'd rather just let you suck a little blood, enough for us to leave Vikland City."
“But saving others is also saving ourselves. It’s just that if we leave the safe zone, the army will definitely search for us extensively. Telling everyone the truth and escaping with us will make it easier for us to leave Vikland.”
"Moreover, I can't accept it; I can't accept experiments in hospitals."
“Angel, you should save others, and you should judge others. I know you don’t want to kill, so you go and save everyone, and I’ll go and kill the beasts in the lab, okay?”
There are some things that Dongyun believes people cannot, or at least should not, do.
Even though he knew that it was right for them to leave quietly with Xiao Jia's help and ignore everyone else, he still found it hard to ignore what was happening in the hospital and what would happen in the future.
Ultimately, he couldn't be indifferent to everything, nor could he be absolutely cold-blooded.
There's no way around it; if he could do that, he wouldn't be considered human.
Chapter 45 Night of Pest Control
There were not many survivors in the apartment, no more than a hundred.
Dongyun didn't know the exact number, but they would find out soon.
At night, Shinonome, who had donated blood to Gabriel, was pale. He exchanged for blood packs and transfusion equipment and was undergoing a blood transfusion.
"This is too reckless."
Shima Rin stood beside Shinonome, listening with suspicion and uncertainty as Gabriel recounted Shinonome's plans.
"I know, but we can't just stand by and watch someone die."
Gabriel looked at Shinonome and thought about what happened last night, feeling very melancholy.
Last night, I didn't help the person who came to the motorcycle shop for help, just to prevent Xiaoyun from ending up like this, but in the end, she still ended up like this.
It's all the fault of that wretched army. If they had been even slightly slower, they could have broken through the blockade and escaped. If they were decent human beings, they wouldn't be making escape plans all night.
"Yes, we can't just stand by and watch someone die."
Shima Rin rubbed her sleepy eyes.
In the afternoon, she saw that among the rescued survivors were not only pregnant women, but also children and the elderly.
If they only tell you the truth and don't help, adult men might have a chance to escape, but the elderly, children, and women are less certain. Knowing the truth about the lab and failing to escape, the outcome is self-evident.
This is absolutely insane; they're even conducting human experiments.
"I'm so sleepy, Xiao Jia, are we going to run away?"
Kagamihara Nadeshiko, who had gone to bed early but was woken up, had heavy eyelids.
"Yes, we're going to escape. About three hours from now."
Dongyun checked the time and said.
Three hours later, it was almost dawn. The zombies seemed to be more active at night than during the day, and it was very dangerous to leave the city at night. It was best to leave the city at dawn.
As for the helicopter tracking issue, they can simply destroy the helicopters beforehand.
"Go spread the word. We'll talk to Uncle and Hongxia. The rest of the people are up to you, Xiaojia. Don't try too hard to convince them; we can't save those who don't believe us."
Dongyun exhaled a breath of stale air.
Everything will be alright as long as we can get out of the city.
"You should rest a bit more. We'll go talk to the uncle and the others."
When Shima Rin saw that Shinonome was about to stand up, he pressed down on his shoulder.
"It's okay, I'm much better now."
When the blood bag was empty, Dongyun pulled out the IV needle, looked at the concerned girl in front of her, and forced a smile.
"Ok."
Seeing that Shinonome insisted, Shima Rin didn't say anything more.
The three girls quickly left the room to tell the others about the laboratory.
"Knock knock knock!"
Gabriel knocked on the door of a survivor's house.
The person inside was probably not asleep. Soon the door opened, and a middle-aged white man with a wary expression appeared.
"Hello, sir, please allow me to take a moment of your time."
With a shimmering angelic halo above her head and a pair of glowing white wings behind her, Gabriel calmly looked at the man before her and began trying to save the survivors.