Let all the evil in Ursus tremble! (Extra 23)
Since there were no suitable streetlights to use as a winch frame, Luo Chen simply had the two teams pull the winch rope.
One team grabbed one side of the rope and snapped Stuart's neck.
Under Luo Chen's command, the people pulling the ropes on both sides were only applying slight force.
Feeling suffocated and unable to breathe, Stuart woke up on the spot due to his physiological instincts.
"Upon seeing Lermontov's despicable face, Stuart immediately flew into a rage."
"Lermontov..."
Before Stuart could finish speaking, the immense force on his neck rendered him speechless.
Luo Chen then whispered a mocking remark in his ear:
"Go to hell and deliver a message to Lermontov for me. Your identity is very useful; I like it very much. Hehehe..."
"And also! Thank you for the report you edited for me."
Stuart's eyes twitched slightly, and the shock in his heart surged like a giant wave.
At that moment, he suddenly realized that the person in front of him was not the Lermontov he knew.
This discovery was like a bombshell, shattering his spirit and mind.
He looked around at the former imperial soldiers who had been brainwashed by Luo Chen into slaves of fairness and justice.
He knew he no longer had the chance to spread the news.
Stuart is dead.
Luo Chen did not stay in the village any longer.
He acted as if he had absolutely no interest in the grain and money hidden in the village, and after punishing the thugs, he led his team away.
Furthermore, they also took away the Infected corpses that were difficult to handle.
He is simply a model of a good person.
Even the most wary people in the village began to wonder: could this group really be trying to save the country and its people?
However, whatever their purpose may be.
The villagers' lives must go on.
And so, the villagers continued their lives as if nothing had happened.
The tax collector from Chernobog and the accompanying military police arrived the next day.
Twenty Imperial Gendarmerie dressed in black leather coats barged into the villagers' homes at will, ransacking the place and creating a commotion.
However, the tax collector standing at the village entrance was very dissatisfied.
Because these troublemakers are really good at hiding their true intentions.
This made his already busy work schedule even busier.
I don't know what's wrong with the bigwigs at the top lately; taxes used to be collected in the fall.
This time, however, the Summer Tax was levied ahead of schedule, and he was required to collect taxes from all the villages east of Chernobog within a month.
The timeframe is so tight, it's like they're making it seem like they won't be able to collect taxes by autumn.
"It seems there's no point in trying to reason with them. Lieutenant, go kill a few to teach them a lesson."
Chapter 145 Let all evil in Ursus tremble! (+23)
Upon receiving orders, the adjutant immediately led two military policemen into a villager's home.
The villager in the room immediately became extremely nervous, and he promptly handed over a basket of wild vegetables that he had dug up from the mountain a few days earlier.
"Sir, the grain stored from last year was harvested in the spring, but the autumn harvest hasn't been completed yet."
"We really have no food or money at home. This is what we've been eating for the past few days. I'm handing it all over to the Empire."
However, the adjutant only glanced at the wild vegetables in the basket before kicking it aside.
"Are you trying to fool me with trash that even homeless people wouldn't pick up?"
"I think you're really tired of living."
"You deserve to die for openly defying imperial taxes!"
"Drag him out and chop him up."
Upon receiving the adjutant's order, the two military police officers beside him showed no mercy.
He dragged the man out of the room, and after pulling him to the road in the village, he slit his throat with a single stroke.
The man lay on the ground, clutching his neck, looking helplessly at the imperial military police.
But the other party completely ignored him.
The adjutant then packed all the valuable household items from the man's home, such as oil lamps and salt, into bags.
We've finished cleaning up one house.
The adjutant then led the team to the next location.
It must be said that the Gendarmerie were much more efficient than Stuart.
In just a few minutes, they emptied three households.
Six or seven corpses were left exposed.
Because they were facing an armed group led by Stuart, the villagers knew to block the door and put up a stubborn resistance.
But when faced with tax officials, no one dared to shut their doors and stand up against them.
After all, an Ursus person knows from birth that defying His Majesty the Emperor is a grave act of treason.
But their submission to the empire hastened their demise.
By the time Luo Chen led his men over the neighboring mountain, the military police had already begun their attack on the fourth household.
The tax collector would be passing through this village today; Luo Chen had already known this from the Military Command headquarters.
Stuart originally wanted to leave them an empty village as a way to annoy the Ministry of Finance.
But what Stuart failed to do was unexpected.
These tax collectors and military police will do it for them.
Luo Chen's original plan was to lie in ambush outside the village.
He waited for those guys to persecute the villagers, then for concerned citizens to fire signal flares, and then he went down and cut off the military police's wallets.
But now it seems that if I had arrived any later, these villagers might not have witnessed fairness and justice.
The soldiers who had come with Luo Chen were also filled with rage when they saw the villagers being killed in the village.
But the other party was, after all, the Empire's military police, unlike those Infected who had already been discharged from the military yesterday.
They represent the absolute authority of the empire, and His Majesty the Emperor.
To ruthlessly kill them would mean a complete break with the Ursus Empire.
So.
Although they were angry at the scene before them, they still felt a sense of fear instinctively.
Luo Chen saw their hesitation as they wanted to go forward but couldn't bring themselves to leave.
A wicked smile crept across his lips.
He knew these people had reached a breaking point in their willpower.
They killed Stuart yesterday on their own orders, so they couldn't possibly laugh openly.
The killings were relatively civilized, each one resulting in a fatal blow.
But today, none of this will be a problem anymore.
They will truly confront their own inner selves.
With just a little effort, they would transform from slave warriors of the empire into believers in fairness and justice.
Inflict the most cruel torture on the evil elements.
"See that, family members?"
"These tax collectors are even worse than those thugs in Stuart's gang."
"Those were civilians of the empire, innocent children, who were killed by the very people who were supposed to protect them."
Don't you think our great motherland is sick now?
"These military police represent His Majesty the Emperor, yet they are doing things that bring shame upon him."
"Don't you think we should treat them?"
Luo Chen was like an angel who could see through people's hearts, gradually revealing the inner thoughts of these former imperial soldiers.
They laid out their confusion.
Then they found a specific root cause to explain their confusion and bewilderment.
Thinking is complex and extremely energy-consuming for humans, so when faced with difficult problems, humans instinctively avoid thinking.
Typical cults also exploit this physiological deficiency, injecting false ideas into people when they avoid thinking.
This leads them to believe in wrong values and ideas.
As a vanguard against cults, Luo Chen's task is to correct these erroneous notions.
"Killing them is not taking their lives, but healing them."
"Killing them is not fighting against the Empire, but saving the Empire."
"Killing them is not disobeying His Majesty the Emperor, but truly showing loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor."
"You are the doctors of Ursus! You are the hope of Ursus."
"You are saving this country, saving the future of Ursus."
Upon hearing Luo Chen's theory of saving the country, the veterans, who had previously felt somewhat fearful of the Imperial Gendarmerie, were now more at ease.
Their furrowed brows gradually relaxed, a hint of relief flashed in their eyes, followed by deep joy.
Luo Chen's words were like a spring breeze, sweeping away the gloom and entanglement in the veterans' hearts.
They had experienced countless hardships and tribulations, and held a deep reverence and fear for the authority of the Imperial Gendarmerie.
However, Luo Chen's theory of saving the country gave them new hope.
This will make them realize that perhaps there is a nobler and more righteous force that can lead them out of their predicament and restore the glory of the empire.
They wanted to rescue the poor emperor.
We must save our own country.
Seeing the confusion and fear disappear from everyone's faces, Luo Chen nodded in satisfaction.
He knew.
These soldiers, brainwashed by classical militarism, finally embarked on the right path.
From now on, I can confidently entrust them with the great task of saving the empire.
"Go, family."
"Go and kill those who have tarnished His Majesty the Emperor's name. Pull their guts out and strangle them. Let them see how pitiful the villagers are who died because of them."
"Break their limbs, let them bleed to death, and let them wash away their sins with their blood."
"Let them experience the most painful death on this land, let them understand the price they must pay for destroying our great motherland."
Finally, I want to emphasize one point.
At this point, Luo Chen clutched his chest and sincerely addressed each soldier:
"You must act according to your conscience during the treatment process."
"Feel the jubilation of your conscience, feel the joy of your conscience. This is the reward from Heaven and from the great Ursus."