Chapter 18: I Step on Marina (2/2)
Duang~Duang~
The cultists began to pound the warehouse door again, this time stronger than ever, and the door was almost falling apart.
The people in the warehouse clenched their pickaxes tightly, their nerves tense, and their eyes glued to the door, ready to die with the cultists who rushed in.
But with a burst of gunfire, the pounding on the gate stopped, replaced by the wails of the cultists.
Miners, you look at me, I look at you, and gradually everyone gets excited.
"It's support coming! Hurry up and open the door, let's rush out and meet them! ”
"Wait! Could this be a conspiracy of cultists? Marcus, the thoughtful mine manager, reminded him.
"Marcus, they almost smashed the door open, why deceive us?"
"That's right, and even if they lie to us, we will fight with them after we open the door, and we won't be able to hold it anyway!"
After hearing the rebuttals of his co-workers, Marcus also felt that his suspicions were a little unnecessary. He walked behind the gate and prepared to open it himself.
"Ah~"
"Bang"
As soon as the gate was opened, the workers saw that the cultists who were still wailing were killed one by one by the soldiers, and when the soldiers saw that the gate suddenly opened, and there were so many people behind the door, they immediately turned their guns and pointed their guns at Marcus.
"The Emperor is above! We are loyal! ”
The workers saw these murderous soldiers and hurried to make their stand.
When the soldiers heard this, they were still wary, but they removed their guns from the workers.
The leader of the squad sent several soldiers to bring the workers to Sivir's side.
"Can you tell me all about what happened after the rebellion?" Looking at Thomas, the leader of these workers, Sivier asked.
"Praise the Emperor! I will tell you everything I know. ”
When Thomas saw Sivir, he burst into tears of excitement as the Emperor's angel finally came to save his devout followers.
"When the rebellion broke out, everyone was panicked, and no one knew if their colleagues who were working with them yesterday had betrayed the empire, and everyone spontaneously began to build fortifications in some factories and dormitories to resist the attacks of the cultists."
"But as I said just now, everyone doesn't know what the people around them are thinking, and many people have the inner ghosts of the cultists around them, and many people have been caught by the cultists in this way."
"Those who held out were starved to death or voluntarily surrendered after a long siege by the cultists. We were lucky enough to occupy a warehouse with food, which has allowed us to hold on until now. ”
Alas, Sivir felt a little uncomfortable when he heard this, although he had already known that the number of survivors might not be much, but he didn't expect it to be so rare, and the dozen or so people in front of him might be all the survivors of this underground city.
"Lord Sivir, we have cleared the city and found another group of survivors in a factory, they are in the thousands, and because of the large number of them, I have ordered the troops to supervise their surroundings and have not allowed them to come and meet you." Willard, commander of the 101st Regiment of the Holy Advent Crusader, came to report to Sivir.
Surprised to hear that thousands of people were alive, Sivir asked Willard to take him over to meet them.
Upon arriving at the scene, Sivir immediately understood why these people had survived, they were even luckier than Thomas, occupying a factory that produced "corpse starch".
Corpse starch, although the name has the word corpse, corpse can indeed be used as a raw material to make corpse starch, but the vast majority of corpse starch is made from the by-product of mining promethium. Generally, there is a large amount of output in the nest capital world with a large population or in the industrial and mineral world where it is not easy to produce food.
Maybe the cultists have captured some of the corpse starch processing factories in other cities, which may be the reason why they collected the corpses.
Forget it, Sivir shook his head, no matter what, after today, all the underground cities will be successfully recovered, and those cultists will have no chance to produce food.
"Thomas, would you like to be a glorious warrior in the service of the Emperor?" Siwell asked Thomas, the mine manager who was following him.
"I do, I have long sworn to give my life to the emperor." Thomas replied with a frenzied expression.
"What about you?" Sivir asked the survivors around him.
When the survivors heard that they could become soldiers, they nodded their heads in agreement. Some of the warriors who didn't want to agree looked at the surrounding soldiers, as well as the Sivir in front of them, and didn't dare to raise objections.
"Alright, Willard, assign these men to your Recon Company, and let them lead the Holy Presence Crusaders in the underground to rid them of the cultists. This is a real combat exercise, and I want you to train the soldiers into the elite of the elite. ”
"Yes, Sivir-sama." Willard felt like he had a heavy task on his shoulders, but that was exactly what every Coming crusader looked forward to. What an honor it is to serve the son of the emperor.
After arranging his mission to the underground city of Bobacca, Sivir returned to the surface.
Kingsley stayed in the camp at the mouth of the pit after Sivir went underground, waiting for Siwell's return. After seeing Siwell's figure, he hurriedly ran over to greet him.
"Lord Sivir, news has come from the Holy Coming Crusaders that all the underground cities have been taken over. The cultists were driven into the mines. Kingsley said as he followed behind Siwell.
Siwell nodded, letting Kingsley continue to guard the mouth of the pit while he returned to the Voyage.
After several days of underground fighting, Icarus should be almost there, and Icarus should be informed to go to the planet Philimon first.
Although the cathars brought by Icarus were firm in their beliefs and high morale, they came from the feudal world and were largely untrained in firearms.
Zach is also currently helping Marcus establish his authority on Philemon as a good planetary governor.
This group of cathars allows Zack to train, and due to the large number of casualties among the troops on Philimon, many surplus weapons and equipment can be used by the cathars.
Once Zach has given these cathars basic training, they can be brought to the planet Sara for actual combat. But it is difficult to say whether these cultists will be able to hold out until that time, and there is not much time left for the cathars.
With reinforcements from the Fire Barrier and the Bonebreaker Hammer Band, regardless of the training of the Cathars and the Crusaders of Holy Lin, they will be led by Sivir to other systems to wreak havoc on the traitors to the Empire.
If they don't undergo a metamorphosis on the planet Sara and become an armed force that can be trusted by Sivir, the traitors' artillery will help them grow, but at that time, they may have to pay a much higher "tuition" than they do now. ”