Since Tu Baguo confirmed that using the Revival Divine Water on Liu Erwa would not pose any problems, and Judge Yan and the others did not raise any objections, Haoyun had no choice but to trust Tu Baguo's expertise. Although Liu Erwa was extremely afraid of the dangers mentioned by Tu Baguo, he knew he had no other options. So, under Tu Baguo's guidance, he reluctantly closed his eyes, pinched his nose, and swallowed a mouthful of the Revival Divine Water from the small bottle cap.
After Liu Erwa drank the Revival Divine Water, Tu Baguo began to busy himself beside him. First, he connected two wires to Liu Erwa's temples and the retro film projector, then, when Liu Erwa stood motionless in place, his gaze lost and confused, Tu Baguo immediately started the projector and snapped his fingers. As the light in the hall dimmed, the white light emitted from the projector projected onto a screen that appeared out of nowhere.
Watching Tu Baguo's busy figure, Haoyun quietly asked Old Dao in confusion, "Old Dao, don't each priest have a dedicated system in their consciousness? Why doesn't Tu Baguo directly use the system to play the footage? Why does he insist on using an antique projector?"
Old Dao disdainfully glanced at the smug Judge Yan and said, "That's what Old Yan calls 'sense of ceremony.' Hmph, but in reality, this guy just wants to show off in front of us!"
"Dada—dada—" Accompanied by the crisp sound of the machine turning, the footage finally started playing on the screen from Liu Erwa's perspective.
From the perspective of the footage played here, which matched Liu Erwa's previous account, Liu Erwa had indeed told the truth. However, when the scenes narrated by Liu Erwa were vividly reproduced from his first-person perspective, Haoyun personally experienced the shock and brutality of the battle at that time.
From Liu Erwa's point of view, gunfire, explosions, shouting, screaming, and wailing mingled together with dense smoke, filling the entire scene with a strong sense of oppression. Liu Erwa, protected by his father's body, could clearly see the semi-automatic rifle in his father's hands, madly firing at the approaching enemies.
Due to the sturdy cover chosen by Liu Erwa's father, the enemies in front found it difficult to approach. The enemies repeatedly attempted to launch assaults on the trench where Liu Erwa's father was located, only to be repelled time and time again by the defensive firepower of Liu Erwa's father and his comrades. Any enemy daring to expose themselves to Liu Erwa's father's gunfire would soon be turned into a hornet's nest amid the splattering of blood.
Although from the current scene, the enemies were passively trapped in the village unable to break through the defense line of the platoon, the content of the loud conversations among Liu Erwa's father and his comrades indicated that the situation of this platoon was not optimistic. Because the platoon was now completely surrounded by the enemy. With the main forces unable to arrive in a short time and the enemy constantly receiving reinforcements, this platoon had actually lost the possibility of breaking out.
After all, the platoon supporting Liu Erwa's parents, whether in terms of troops or ammunition, was very limited. So in the time to come, facing the more numerous enemies with better weapons and ammunition attacking, everyone was very clear that it would be difficult for them to leave here alive today. However, even so, none of the soldiers in the platoon showed any signs of backing down. Every one of them had a look of farewell on their faces, and they continued to calmly resist the enemy's onslaught.
Suddenly, a fierce artillery fire erupted around Liu Erwa's field of vision, and the huge explosion sound made the entire scene tremble continuously. After the explosion passed, the first thing Liu Erwa saw was his father's face, which had already been skewed by the explosion's shrapnel. According to Liu Erwa's previous description, this was the scene of his father being killed on the spot by shrapnel from the explosion.
Soon, everyone heard an anxious and painful roar from Liu Erwa's perspective. Then, Liu Erwa was carried out from under his dead father's body by a woman with a bloodstain on her head. This woman was Liu Erwa's mother.
After confirming quickly that Liu Erwa was not injured, the mother didn't even have time to cry for her husband who had just died in battle. Because, the sudden shelling of the village just now came from the enemy's newly reinforced light mortar team. Under the successive attacks of this mortar, the defensive positions established by the platoon around the village had all been destroyed to varying degrees.
As the outer defense line of the platoon was destroyed under the mortar attack, the enemy once again launched an assault on the village. Facing the imminent invasion of the enemy into the village, the soldiers of the platoon could only abandon their original defensive positions and further retract their defense lines into the village, preparing to continue resisting the enemy while dragging them out to buy more time for the main forces on the way, so that the main forces could eventually annihilate all these enemies and avenge them.
As the platoon suffered heavy losses under the mortar attack, the enemy launched attacks on the village with even more confidence. Since death was inevitable anyway, many remaining soldiers of the platoon simply gave up their defense and rushed out of the trenches to confront the enemy entering the village head-on. Some of them fired wildly with dual pistols at the oncoming enemy; others simply carried bombs with the safety pins already pulled, suddenly jumping into the passing enemy formation from the shadows, exploding themselves to take the enemy down with them. The scene of the battle was so fierce that Haoyun had to look away frequently to avoid watching those bloody and extremely heroic scenes of killing the enemy.
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The soldiers of both sides were engaged in an incredibly fierce hand-to-hand combat in the village. The mother had to hold Liu Erwa while looking for a relatively safe cover. At this moment, as Liu Erwa anxiously scanned the surroundings, two enemies suddenly appeared in the distance. Liu Erwa immediately warned his mother to be careful. Then, amidst a fierce gunfire, Liu Erwa's field of vision began to rotate rapidly, finally fixing on a collapsed earth wall.
The gunfire soon ceased, and Liu Erwa's mother's figure appeared again in his field of vision. Her expression was twisted with extreme pain, and tears streamed down her cheeks almost to the point of washing away the bloodstains and dirt on her face. She screamed loudly, but Liu Erwa's gaze remained fixed straight ahead, rapidly becoming blurred. Haoyun knew that according to Liu Erwa's account, at this moment, his body had been pierced by enemy bullets, and his life was rapidly slipping away.
War, such was war. It was ruthless and cruel.
Because the country Haoyun belonged to had also suffered from invaders' atrocities in history, many regions were devastated by the invaders' heinous deeds. Therefore, even though Haoyun was an ordinary young man who grew up in peacetime, it did not prevent him from empathizing with Liu Erwa's eyes and feeling a strong urge to punish those invaders.
Seeing this, Old Dao stepped forward and gently patted Haoyun's back, comforting him, "Haoyun, try to slow down your breathing and stay calm. You must understand, such cruel struggles are constantly present in the lower realms. However, most of these conflicts arise from the misfortune inherent in worlds below the three-star level. Regardless of the scale or the intensity of these conflicts, they are all part of the natural development of the lower realms."
"So, for such conflicts, we priests can only stand aside and watch, without the right to interfere. Because any intervention we make could potentially affect the stability of the timeline. In this way, although it may seem like we are helping those victims alleviate their suffering, we are actually putting them in serious jeopardy."
Although Haoyun found it difficult to accept, he had to admit that Old Dao's words made a lot of sense. After all, Haoyun was now a priest himself. So, even though what he saw made him angry, he had to learn to look at these catastrophes that occurred in the lower realms from a higher perspective and with a more peaceful mindset. Thus, Haoyun could only clench his fists tightly, suppress his anger, and reluctantly let out a heavy sigh to relieve his overwhelming emotions.
As the images on the screen blurred into darkness and all surrounding sounds disappeared, it signaled the complete end of Liu Erwa's previous life. Tu Baguo pressed the stop button on the projector and snapped his fingers in front of Liu Erwa's vacant eyes. Then, a hint of life seemed to return to Liu Erwa's hollow eye sockets, and his entire body gradually relaxed from its rigid state.
"Relax. Feeling a bit dizzy after returning from memory is quite normal," Tu Baguo said as he waved his hand in front of Liu Erwa's eyes.
After confirming that Liu Erwa was fine, Tu Baguo turned around and began operating on the large holographic screen in front of everyone. He said to himself, "The segment of the footage just now took place in the Earth's N31 timeline within the 13th district of the Geist Realm. The time of the event was 12:12, and the location was—. Alright, based on the information just obtained from Liu Erwa, I have retrieved all the information of everyone present at that time."
With that, Tu Baguo tapped on the holographic screen, and suddenly, bursts of light erupted from it. These lights dispersed into over two hundred dots in the air, then transformed into over two hundred small holographic screens. They lined up in the air of the hall and displayed the information panels of individuals on each screen. Haoyun glanced at them and saw Liu Erwa's and his parents' avatars among them.
"Through the system's data identification, I have excluded the perspectives of all personnel belonging to that platoon, including Liu Erwa. What remains are the attackers who assaulted the village at that time," Tu Baguo said, tapping on the holographic screen again. Several dozen screens displaying information about Liu Erwa and his parents disappeared into thin air, leaving behind over a hundred screens with red borders.
"Liu Erwa, to ensure preparedness, I need to confirm your parents' names again. What are their names?" Tu Baguo turned and asked.
"My father's name is Liu Fucai, and my mother's name is Hu Guizhen," Liu Erwa replied with a tone full of resentment.
"Liu Fucai, Hu Guizhen—" Tu Baguo repeated the names of Liu Erwa's parents and tapped on the holographic screen again.
After Tu Baguo tapped on the screen, it took less than half a second for the system to immediately emit a "ding" sound. Then, all the small holographic screens in the air disappeared. The central large main screen displayed the image of a sinister-looking man.
"Found him! Huh? Why is there only one person? So, the culprit who killed Liu Erwa's parents and indirectly led to his mother's suicide by throwing herself down the well is this guy!" Tu Baguo confirmed the personal record of the man named Wang Kemin appearing on the screen.
"Uncle Wang? It's him! It's actually him?!" Liu Erwa exclaimed in shock upon seeing Wang Kemin.
Since he had just answered Tu Baguo's question, Liu Erwa had not had a chance to carefully examine the appearance of the enemies among the over one hundred small screens. Therefore, when he saw Wang Kemin's avatar appear on the main screen, he was extremely surprised.
Liu Erwa incredulously wiped his empty eye sockets and exclaimed, "It's him! It's actually him?!"
Clearly, from Liu Erwa's tone, he knew the man named Wang Kemin.
"Do you know this person?" Haoyun hurriedly asked.
Liu Erwa nodded and said with a resentful tone, "Yes, Master. I know him. He was my parents' comrade-in-arms."
"Comrade-in-arms?!" Haoyun exclaimed in disbelief.
"That's right. My father said that Uncle Wang was his good friend for many years. Not only that, my parents became a couple because of Uncle Wang. Uncle Wang used to be a soldier in the local defense force a long time ago, and later became an excellent scout after the enemy invaded. Under his influence, my parents decided to become intelligence gatherers and joined the intelligence team he was in after their homeland was destroyed by the enemy," Liu Erwa said, his tone becoming increasingly cold with anger.
"Every time my parents went out on a mission, Uncle Wang would take care of me. Plus, because of his relationship with my parents, Uncle Wang became my godfather. The most trusted person by my parents was Uncle Wang. But I never expected, Uncle Wang, Wang Kemin, you bastard! You are actually the one who killed my parents!"