Come up and try.

No one could understand just how profoundly shocked the citizens of the Freedom Nation were as they looked upon the orderly scene before them!

Just moments ago, those high-ranking officials of the Freedom Nation whom they trusted had simply boarded planes and fled right before their eyes!

Even when there were empty seats on those aircraft, they were not allowed to board.

Yet, these citizens of Great Xia...

They had all heard about Great Xia's formidable efforts in evacuating its overseas nationals. But previously, many of them simply did not believe it, dismissing it as mere boasting by Great Xia.

Yet now, gazing at this orderly scene—at a moment when disaster was about to descend, when the rising seas and monstrous sea beasts were about to arrive—their hearts were shaken to the core!

The cry of that Great Xia general still echoed in their ears.

Great Xia will never abandon a single son or daughter of Great Xia!

No matter how great the danger, no matter the cost, Great Xia will bring them home.

Because.

That land will forever be the home of every single person belonging to Great Xia!

"There are an estimated two minutes and thirty-two seconds remaining, everyone hurry up! Once everyone is aboard, we're going home!" shouted Bai Zhan, Grand Commander of the Chuanchzhou Military Region.

Only two minutes and thirty-two seconds left!

Two minutes and thirty-two seconds later, the ocean waters would surge forward, and the sea beasts would charge in with ferocious roars.

Everyone still lingering here would die!

Yet, at this tense juncture, those Great Xia citizens showed no panic whatsoever, patiently lining up to present their ID cards and passports before swiftly boarding the aircraft.

"Two minutes and thirty-two seconds..." The citizens of the Freedom Nation stared blankly at the scene before them, disbelief written all over their faces. "Has Great Xia lost its mind? They're still evacuating people at a time like this?"

"If it were me, I would have run away ages ago..."

"Good god, compared to those officials who told us not to trust Great Xia... the gap is just too vast! Those cowards ran away long ago!"

"Wait, is that General Bai Zhan of Chuanchzhou?" a white man suddenly cried out in astonishment. "I've seen his photo online, he's the Grand Commander of the Chuanchzhou Military Region! At a time like this, he came here personally to pick people up?"

Bai Zhan of Chuanchzhou!

The Grand Commander of the Chuanchzhou Military Region, wielding supreme authority over all military affairs in Chuanchzhou—and Chuanchzhou was the most formidable military region in all of Great Xia!

The reputation of the Chuan army was legendary.

In terms of status, Bai Zhan's power was even a notch higher than Elder Jin's. It would be no exaggeration to call him a pillar anchoring the nation; a single word from him would make even the Sovereign Leader deliberate with utmost caution.

Logically speaking, with such a status, it was impossible for him to personally venture into danger.

Yet, against all logic, he had come!

Moreover, he had volunteered to come, and during the emergency meeting, he had slammed his fist on the table demanding to personally oversee the departure of the very last batch of Great Xia citizens!

This was the determination of Great Xia!

The absolute determination to bring every single citizen of Great Xia back home!

Even with imminent peril approaching, the nation's pillar stood firm right here until the very end. Unless he died, every single citizen of Great Xia would return home!

"Good god, Grand Commander Bai Zhan of Chuanchzhou came here personally... Are the people of Great Xia truly not afraid of death?!"

"Our own high-ranking officials didn't even spare us a single glance before flying away..."

"If anything happens to him, Great Xia will suffer a catastrophic loss!"

Recognizing Bai Zhan's identity, the citizens of the Freedom Nation froze in their tracks.

They simply could not fathom the scene before them.

Could it be that in the eyes of Great Xia, the lives of a few hundred ordinary citizens were more precious than the life of a Military Region Grand Commander?

In Great Xia, were human lives not assigned a price tag?

In Great Xia, were the lives of important figures and ordinary citizens deemed equally valuable?

At that exact moment.

Someone within the silent crowd suddenly shouted, "Forget all that, charge! Rush in, and we'll survive!"

As soon as those words were spoken, the Freedom Nation citizens who had been frozen by the preceding spectacle snapped back to their senses.

"Yes, exactly!"

"This is our last hope!"

"Charge!"

"I refuse to believe they'll gun us down! Charge!"

The crowd instantly dissolved into chaos, roaring as they rushed toward the boarding stairs.

The neatly formed lines of Great Xia citizens were instantly shattered by the surging mob. Some white men even shoved aside the queuing citizens of Great Xia, desperately scrambling forward themselves!

These citizens of the Freedom Nation knew this was their final chance at survival!

In the face of death, politeness and civilization were thrown to the winds!

The instinct for self-preservation turned these Freedom Nation citizens into desperate animals stopping at nothing.

To be fair, they could hardly be blamed; they were merely ordinary people. If blame was to be assigned, it belonged entirely to those who had abandoned them.

Nevertheless, the originally orderly evacuation site was instantly thrown into utter chaos by the stampede of Freedom Nation citizens!

For a moment, the Great Xia soldiers maintaining order raised their rifles, yet facing those frenzied, screaming crowds surging forward, they found themselves utterly unable to pull the trigger!

When facing sea beasts, they would not hesitate for a second.

Yet these were human beings!

Even if they were not compatriots, even if their skin color was different, even if their language was foreign.

Even if these people might not even be considered human in the eyes of their own leaders.

Yet these people... in the eyes of Great Xia, were human beings as well!

"General!" A soldier looked over at Bai Zhan, asking, "What should we do..."

Bai Zhan gritted his teeth fiercely, steeling himself as he drew his sidearm.

He aimed the muzzle at the sky and pulled the trigger.

*Bang! Bang! Bang!*

The shattering cracks of gunfire instantly drowned out the frantic screams, acting like a basin of cold water splashed over these unhinged citizens of the Freedom Nation.

They fell silent for a split second, but immediately afterward, a white man yelled loudly, "See? They don't dare shoot us! Rush in!"

"These cowardly and foolish Great Xia people won't dare do anything to us!"

"Charge!"

The crowd instantly erupted into chaotic charges once more!

"Damn your mother, you're given a face yet refuse to take it!" Without a second thought, Bai Zhan raised his hand and directly pulled the trigger at the ringleader!

*Bang!*

With a single shot, the thigh of the ringleader instantly spurted gushing blood as he clutched his leg and wailed on the ground.

In an instant, the chaotic mob quieted down.

Bai Zhan swept his fierce gaze across the crowd, his martial aura radiating an involuntary dread.

As the Grand Commander of the Chuanchzhou Military Region, was Bai Zhan ever a pushover?

Merely standing there with a firearm, the killing intent honed from countless life-or-death battlefields cowed the Freedom Nation citizens into abandoning their reckless behavior.

"He... he actually dared to shoot..." a Freedom Nation citizen stammered, voice trembling. "He dared to shoot!"

"All Great Xia citizens, continue queuing and boarding!" Bai Zhan picked up an assault rifle, walked directly to the tail end of the line, and glared coldly at the retreating crowd. "Whoever dares to cause trouble again, don't blame me for showing no mercy!"

Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted loudly, "Great Xia General, you dare open fire on us? Do you know what this means?!"

"This is murder! This is an act of war! Our leaders will never let you get away with this!"

"We demand that you clear the way and let us in!"

"That's right, hurry up and move aside, or else those Great Xia people are going to take all the seats!"

With bloodshot eyes and hands trembling slightly on his rifle, Bai Zhan roared furiously, "Get lost, every last one of you!"

"Damn it, your own leaders abandoned you, why on earth should I give way to you! We in Great Xia explicitly warned you, we warned your leaders!"

"You're afraid my people will take all the seats? This was always a Great Xia evacuation operation to begin with!"

"It seems our usual benevolence has made you mistake our kindness for weakness!"

Bai Zhan pulled the bolt, fired a round skyward, and then aimed the barrel squarely at the crowd. "Whoever wants to die, step up and try. Today, I'll let you find out whether Great Xia has backbone or not!"