Worker Militia

A band of brigands appeared near Tarnowskie Góry.

They were said to be made up of Carpathians and Bulgarian mercenaries exiled to Austria, and had already committed several crimes in places such as Chebinya Town.

Well, the news had been published by the Little Poland News. As for whether such things had really happened, people generally preferred to believe they had rather than risk believing they had not.

Thus, nearly half the residents of Kraków were gripped by anxiety, shutting their doors and staying indoors before night had even fallen.

Umyan Mining Company initially paid it no mind, until three French technicians from the company were robbed and murdered on their way back to their quarters.

Company Manager Xianluoweiqi hurriedly led men to the scene, only to find several large pools of blood and the three technicians' empty wallets—their names embroidered on them.

This was an extremely serious matter. There were only fifteen French technicians in the entire silver mine; if even one was missing, the mine's Steam Engines might become unusable due to malfunctions.

Of course, only Captain Libel knew that the three men had merely been secretly sent back to France by his subordinates, and that the blood on the ground was nothing but chicken blood.

After that, the brigands grew ever more brazen, openly committing robberies almost every day. They even attacked one of Umyan Mining Company's Warehouses, looted its valuables, and then set it ablaze.

At a meeting of the company's senior management, Xianluoweiqi, his face dark, roared at the tall man standing before him, "Mr. Makavsky, those bandits burned down Ursucha's Warehouse and swaggered away! The guards at the Warehouse did not even put up any resistance!"

Makavsky lowered his head, looking deeply aggrieved. "General Manager, there were fully sixty or seventy bandits that day,