Kill!

The moment Li Qinwu ran into the Great Elevator, its doors rumbled shut, cutting off Second Lieutenant Rudosen's worried gaze.

As soon as Li Qinwu entered the Great Elevator, he kept waving toward where Little Joel was.

"Joel! Joel! Over here! Look at me!"

Little Joel's family had five members: his father and mother, Little Joel as the eldest son, then his younger sister, and finally his younger brother.

At that moment, the family stood among the exiles. Little Joel sat in a wheelchair, his face ashen.

He had lost control of both legs. He could not even handle his own bowel movements or urination.

His parents looked equally defeated, while his little brother cried nonstop. Though he was only a little over ten, he already understood what awaited him.

As for Little Joel's sister, the family had apparently arranged for her to go somewhere else. It seemed she had not been exiled to the Lower Hive with the rest of them, which was at least some good news.

Hearing a familiar voice calling him, Little Joel slowly raised his head. When he saw Li Qinwu waving at him from outside the Arbites' cordon, a glimmer of life returned to his deadened eyes.

"C-Commander!!"

Overjoyed, he tried to wheel himself closer to Li Qinwu, but his father grabbed him.

"Don't! The Arbites might beat you!"

His father warned him in a terrified voice. When their home had been raided, the whole family had tasted the Arbites' shock batons. In Warhammer 40,000, civilized law enforcement was not exactly a priority.

Only then did Little Joel notice that his shout had drawn an Arbites' attention. The Arbites raised his shock baton high, but when he saw Little Joel shut up, he snorted and lowered it again.

Little Joel could only stare at Li Qinwu through streaming tears, not daring to say a word.

Li Qinwu narrowed his eyes, pulled out a cigarette, and tried to approach the Arbites to make small talk.

He wanted to get Little Joel out of the exiled criminals. Then he could take Little Joel's family down with the Lower Hive workers, which would be much safer.

The immense interior of the Great Elevator could be divided into two sections, one of which was reserved for workers headed into the Lower Hive.

They occupied a small area near the Great Elevator doors. Once the doors opened, they would calmly walk out and head to their jobs.

Only after they had left would the Arbites release the exiled criminals.

The Lower Hive rats did not dare attack workers, so they would quietly wait until the workers had all gone before attacking the exiled criminals.

Li Qinwu wanted the Arbites to release Little Joel's family so he could lead them out alongside the workers. That way, they would not be attacked by the Lower Hive rats.

But the moment he took a step closer, before he could say anything, an Arbites pulled out a shock baton and viciously swung it at Li Qinwu's head.

Li Qinwu took a step back and dodged the blow. The Arbites then drew a Shock Gun and aimed it at him.

"Take one more step and die!!"

Seeing how utterly unreasonable these Arbites were, Li Qinwu's face darkened. He could only step back and stand near the workers, waiting quietly.

A few minutes later, the Great Elevator gave a sharp click as its descent stopped, and the loudspeakers began to announce:

"The Great Elevator is about to arrive at ground level. The Machine Spirit is stable. All personnel, prepare to disembark. Praise the God-Emperor."

The Great Elevator's doors slowly opened, revealing the greedy eyes of thousands of Lower Hive rats.

They stared at the prisoners surrounded by Arbites, Ceramite shackles fastened around their wrists, and endlessly whistled and cursed. Some even shouted that they would kill them and eat them as meat!

The prisoners cried and begged for mercy, but the Arbites merely savagely struck them with shock batons, drawing another round of laughter from the Lower Hive rats.

Several hundred workers remained utterly calm. They stepped down from the edge of the Great Elevator and headed straight for the official shops in the safe zone. Not a single rat dared stop them.

Once the workers had all left, the Arbites unlocked the prisoners' shackles one by one, then jabbed them hard in the kidneys with shock batons and sent them stumbling out of the Great Elevator.

It was an extremely chaotic process. Quite a few prisoners were injured and collapsed to the ground, twitching.

Little Joel's family did not escape that fate either. Every one of them took a shock-baton strike and lay on the ground convulsing.

The instant the Arbites shoved Little Joel's family out of the elevator, Li Qinwu rushed over and repeatedly slapped Little Joel's parents across the face, trying to wake them from the electric shock.

Once the Arbites threw all the prisoners out and rode the elevator back up, the Lower Hive rats would begin their celebration.

"Get up! Get the hell up! If you don't want to die, get up now!"

Li Qinwu slapped Little Joel's father again and again, occasionally digging his fingernails into the pressure point beneath his nose.

The method worked remarkably well. Little Joel's father quickly recovered from the paralysis caused by the shock and stared at Li Qinwu in bewilderment.

Li Qinwu could not be bothered explaining. He pointed at Little Joel in the wheelchair.

"When the time comes, push your son and follow behind me. If you don't want to die, don't fall behind!!"

Without caring whether the man understood, he rushed to Little Joel's mother and viciously pinched the pressure point beneath her nose, his fingernails nearly sinking into her skin.

Through the intense pain, Little Joel's mother also recovered from the electric shock. Li Qinwu picked up Little Joel's little brother and stuffed him into her arms.

"If you don't want to die, stay right on my heels!!"

He roared, drew his PDF Automatic Gun, and aimed it at the crowd ahead before pulling the trigger. With one squeeze, he emptied all thirty large-caliber rounds, cutting down a swath of people before him!!

The PDF Automatic Gun had a large caliber and tremendous penetrating power. At close range against a crowd of unarmored targets, every bullet could punch through at least three bodies!

The Lower Hive rats preparing to pounce and feast never imagined that the man before them would be so ruthless, suddenly unleashing automatic fire on them!

Of the thousand or so rats gathered there, casualties instantly became catastrophic. One magazine from Li Qinwu killed at least sixty people!!

The rats were horrified. They had never expected this, and Li Qinwu's brutality stunned them.

Many rats retreated in unison, staring at Li Qinwu in terror. Without waiting for even a second, Li Qinwu reloaded the Autogun at incredible speed, aimed at the people ahead, and pulled the trigger again!

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!!

Another burst of gunfire erupted, and another swath of rats ahead was cut down by bullets. They wailed and screamed without end as the scene descended into chaos!

Why was Li Qinwu killing so ruthlessly? Because the Great Elevator behind him had already closed, and the Arbites had returned to their civilized world. The next moment would be the Lower Hive rats' celebration!

They would swarm forward and tear apart the prisoners pushed down from the Great Elevator!

If he did not want to die, he had to intimidate the rats from the very beginning!!

Li Qinwu loaded a third magazine into the Autogun, then turned to look at Little Joel's terrified parents.

"Fuck!! If you fucking want to die, then stand there and do nothing! If you don't want to die, then fucking stay right behind me, goddammit!!"

After shouting that, Li Qinwu hugged the gun to his chest and charged straight ahead!