Chapter 268 04.0267: "The blood feud has been sown"

In the Anglican Church, the young saint finally reached the pinnacle of public attention.

"Fellow citizens of the Empire, we live in a dark age, but darkness cannot destroy our fighting spirit!"

The audio recorded in advance by Horatio was played from the sound array system behind the Saint. Louise performed the pre-rehearsed speech movements. The movements designed according to popular psychology and speech studies were grand and touching.

"We are the Imperial Navy! The Empire never wavers in fulfilling its duty! We will fight our enemies in the void! And we will fight them wherever they harm us! We are His Holy Navy, and we will never waver!"

Louise waved her hand forward, and the Anglican believers below burst into thunderous cheers!
"Gothic Fleet! Gothic Fleet! Gothic Fleet!"

As the majestic bell on top of the church rang thirteen times.

The old monsignor who had served faithfully on the Indefatigable for hundreds of years came forward with dozens of priests to put the holy garments on the saint.

The saint drew his sword from his waist and raised it high into the sky, then turned and kissed the blade of the sword towards the sculpture of the Angel of Death, symbolizing loyal service and fighting for the God-Emperor.
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"Farida? Why are you here after all...Sergeant Major Valina!" Military Supervisor Melina looked at Farida who walked out of a transport plane, and then looked at Sergeant Major Storm beside her with dissatisfaction.

"I'm sorry, Military Supervisor, please don't blame the Sergeant. I deceived her and claimed that I was ordered to carry out a search mission."

Military Supervisor Melina sighed. She really had no way to deal with this girl who was so eager for revenge.

"Listen carefully, this mission is very dangerous. You are not allowed to leave my side without my order. Do you hear me?"

"Yes!"

"Adjutant, what happened up ahead?" Military Supervisor Melina looked at the congested starport. The crowd was so huge and the crowded environment prevented the military supervisor from even entering the port from the entrance.

"It has been confirmed that it is a demonstration, Commissioner."

“What are these people asking for?”

"Demand a reduction in the cost of survival, and also demand that the Guild Alliance withdraw the Hive City Police Riot Squad."

Military Supervisor Melina got off the special car and looked at the sea of ​​people in front of her. They had already poured into the inner layer and blocked the door of the void elevator, holding up banners.

They continued to chant protest slogans, and the crowd grew larger and larger, approaching the Marine infantry's defense line.

The outermost line of defense was a group of fully armed naval loyalists. These men and women held riot shields and blocked the influx of protesters.

The second row was a bayonet forest of naval infantry, with swords and bayonets resting on shields, looking quite terrifying.

"Tell them to clear a path for us to pass! Quickly!"
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In the maintenance room of the First Battalion of the Hell Soldier in Zhongsi Academy.

"What? There was a gunfight in the middle nest?" The news from underground quickly reached Horatio who was preparing for a raid.

"Yes, and it is said that the military and police of the Guild Alliance first launched an attack on the Citizen Army. Now the Citizen Army has occupied a building of a security fortress and is fighting desperately." Archie reported.

"Where's Yin Shuyao? I remember she seemed to be nearby."

"According to the communication device, she is in the besieged fortress."

"Send a Valkyrie transport plane. We need to bring her out. Right now, the higher-ups haven't officially decided to take armed action against the Guild Alliance, so we can't take the initiative."

"But this may lead to accountability and questioning later. After all, these nobles paid enough tithes."

"We can slowly fight the verbal battle later, but we need to rescue our people immediately."

A Valkyrie with the Imperial Navy emblem took off from the airport and soared into the air.

From the open hatch at the rear, Horatio saw that the streets in every block of Vegas were filled with people fleeing in panic, and barricades blocked the main roads.

Batches of Hive Police, deployed as reinforcements from other areas, were fully armed and chasing the crowds around the streets with riot batons in hand.

Some civilians whose circumstances are unknown are still working at their workstations day after day.

Just because some fleeing civilians ran in, the Hive Marshals who followed them waved sticks and indiscriminately knocked down everyone in the factory, triggering a new wave of people fleeing.

In the sky, Horatio saw the atrocities below clearly through the analyzer on his helmet.

Several boys and girls dressed in student uniforms, walking together, looked at the crowd fleeing in panic in front of them, confused as to what was going on. The triumphal parade they had agreed to watch was not like this.

They huddled together on both sides of the street, looking very frightened.

The guild alliance military and police who were chasing after them saw these students.

One of them waved a stick at them, and seven or eight Hive City marshals nearby rushed over waving riot batons.

The students screamed and started to run away, but they could not outrun these professionally trained armed men.

Boys and girls were knocked to the ground one after another. The military police kicked them mercilessly and then hit the fallen students hard with sticks.

A girl was knocked down and curled up on the ground with her hands on her head, crying.

Her female classmate tried to pull her away from under the military boots, but she was hit by a stick and fell to the ground.

Four or five people rushed up and beat and kicked the thin girl. Soon her face was covered in blood and her hair was pulled all over the floor. In the end, her body became silent and motionless, and the light in her bloodshot eyes had gone.

As a time traveler, Horatio had long heard that the planetary governors of the empire did not value human life, treated civilians as grass, and had no respect for human rights at all.

But when this naked and indiscriminate brutality against innocent people appeared before his eyes, Horatio still felt his body trembling with anger.

His eyes were filled with murderous intent, and finally he couldn't help himself and snatched the hot-fire carbine from Archie's hand, aiming at the abuser below.

"Horatio, calm down! Calm down!" Archie grabbed him.

Without authorization, he opened fire on the riot control forces of the planet's legitimate government. Given his familiarity with the imperial regulations, if anything went wrong, Horatio would be held responsible.

The Empire doesn't care how many civilians the planetary governor kills in order to suppress riots. As long as the Empire is stable and pays tithes on time, nothing else matters.

When the time comes, the planetary governor will bite back, saying that the Imperial Navy's armed intervention in the planet's riot suppression is a mistake. From any angle, their navy is in the wrong.

But suddenly, Archie and everyone around him received a notice from Colonel Lord Elphinstone, the head of the Fleet Security Committee.

"Telegram to all Imperial Navy armed forces: Due to the indiscriminate suppression of riots by the Guild Alliance Military Supervisor, naval officers and soldiers have been killed.

Admiral Venuska Kataria has ordered that a special operation to disarm the guild alliance's military and police forces will now begin. Anyone who resists will be killed without mercy. Repeat..."

"What's going on?" Archie, who was still stopping Horatio, was a little confused.
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Twenty minutes ago, Starport.

The guild alliance troops who assisted in the defense based on the territorial principle started to forcibly disperse the protesting crowd with steel-coated rubber sticks and shields.

The crowd in front immediately began to run backwards, and those who were caught up by the guild alliance police only had time to let out a scream.

This was not because the protesters were hit with only one stick, but seven or eight sticks at the same time, and they only had time to scream before passing out.

Many people fell to the ground with blood on their heads, but the riot police continued to punch and kick them and hit them on the head with stun batons until they were motionless.

"What the hell are these idiots doing? They can't even tell the difference between clearing the road and forced eviction?" Military Supervisor Melina looked at the chaos nearby. They were blocking the way of the fleeing crowd. Farida was hit several times by the crowd who were eager to escape, and finally hit the hovercraft. Even her hat was knocked to the ground.

The forced eviction by the Guild Alliance military and police caused strong dissatisfaction among civilians near the star port. Seeing the miserable state of the protesters with blood on their heads, the crowds in other areas began to push and shove more aggressively.

The situation below the star port is about to get out of control. Under the violent handling of the guild alliance military and police, the conflict is becoming more and more intensified, and there is the possibility of order collapsing at any time.

boom!
A Molotov cocktail hit the Navy's shield wall.

"Fire hydrant! Fire hydrant! Someone's on fire!"

A naval cadet Zhongji was hit directly by a Molotov cocktail and her body and shield were on fire. She quickly dropped her shield and tried to put out the fire on her body, but the promethium flame could not be extinguished in this simple way.

Finally, he had to fall to the ground and roll around, and was dragged behind the shield wall by other comrades, who covered him with fire-extinguishing foam sprayed from fire-fighting equipment. The fire was extinguished only after oxygen was blocked.

The crowd squeezed in through the gap that suddenly appeared, broke through the shield wall of the Navy's loyal soldiers, and started an unlimited fight with the troops guarding the star port and the guild alliance military and police.

People were constantly being beaten and falling to the ground with blood all over their heads.

Seeing that the angry people holding Molotov cocktails were about to rush forward, the guild alliance soldiers and police who were operating the logging guns on top of the armored vehicles pulled the bolts in panic.

Kaka!

Bang bang bang!
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50-caliber bullets ripped the human body apart in an instant.

Bullets ricocheted off the ceramic steel floor of the starport and flew everywhere, injuring people continuously.

"Go to hell, you untouchable!!!"

Perhaps they were too panicked. Faced with chaos on all sides, these planetary third-line armed personnel affiliated with the Guild Alliance had not received good riot control and stability maintenance training. Faced with such intense pressure, they were unable to handle it calmly. They held the firing devices tightly and fired at the crowd.

The machine gun operator of a double-barreled heavy logging gun vehicle saw an angry civilian coming from the side with a Molotov cocktail in his hand. He subconsciously held down the trigger and turned 90 degrees, drawing a line of fire and killing the man.

When the machine gun operator breathed a sigh of relief, he was surprised to find that the people of the Imperial Navy were looking at him in shock.

The small chaos in front of him stopped in an instant.

When the machine gun operator looked closely, he saw that the three Tadashi marines who had been shot in the back were lying motionless on the ground, blood oozing out of the large bullet holes in their carapaces.

Before the operator could come to his senses.

boom!
With a gunshot, his entire head instantly turned into blood and stuck to the wall.

Farida, who had her hat knocked off and looked a little embarrassed, had smoke coming out of the muzzle of the grenade in her hand.

In an instant, everyone stopped what they were doing, and the starport, which had been restless, suddenly became silent.

"In the name of the Emperor, I will perform my duties as the Imperial Military Supervisor. Now, I want to see order restored here within five minutes!" Farida shouted in a shocking voice.

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