Kill!

Li Qinwu had barely run into the Great Elevator when its doors rumbled shut, cutting off Lieutenant Rudosen's worried gaze.

The moment he entered the Great Elevator, Li Qinwu kept waving toward where Little Joel was.

"Joel! Joel! Look over here! Look at me!"

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

The family was now among the exiles. Little Joel sat in a wheelchair, his face ashen.

He had lost control of his legs. He could not even handle defecating or urinating on his own.

His parents looked just as bleak. His little brother kept crying. Though only a little over ten years old, he already understood what he was about to face.

As for Little Joel's sister, the family had apparently arranged for her to go somewhere else. At least, she had not been exiled to the Lower Hive with them, which counted as 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' encirclement, a spark of life returned to his deadened eyes.

"C-Commander!!"

Overjoyed, he tried to push his wheelchair 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 seized, the whole family had tasted the Arbites' shock batons. In the world of Warhammer 40,000, nobody cared about civilized law enforcement.

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

He could only stare at Li Qinwu through tears, not daring to say another word.

Li Qinwu narrowed his eyes and pulled out a cigarette, intending to go over and strike up a conversation with the Arbites.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But before he could even say anything after taking a single step closer, an Arbites pulled out a shock baton and viciously swung it at Li Qinwu's head.

Li Qinwu took a step back to dodge the baton. The Arbites then drew a Shock Gun and aimed it at him.

"Take one more step, and you die!!"

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

A few minutes later, the Great Elevator let out a sharp clack 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 looked at the prisoners surrounded by Arbites, Ceramite shackles locked around their wrists, and continuously whistled and hurled insults. Some even shouted that they would kill them and eat them as meat!

The prisoners cried and begged for mercy, but the Arbites only viciously struck them with their shock batons, prompting another burst of laughter from the Lower Hive rats.

The several hundred workers remained completely calm. They walked down from the side 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 viciously jabbed their shock batons into the prisoners' kidneys and sent them out of the Great Elevator.

It was an extremely chaotic process. Many prisoners were injured and fell to the ground twitching.

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

Li Qinwu rushed over the moment the Arbites shoved Little Joel's family out of the elevator. He kept slapping Little Joel's parents across the face, trying to wake them from the electric shock faster.

Once the Arbites had thrown all the prisoners out and taken the elevator back up, the Lower Hive rats' revelry would begin.

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

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

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

The tactic worked remarkably well. Little Joel's father quickly recovered from the paralysis of the electric shock and stared at Li Qinwu in bewilderment.

Li Qinwu could not be bothered to explain. 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 desperately pinched the pressure point beneath her nose, his fingernails nearly sinking in.

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

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

With a roar, he pulled out his PDF Automatic Gun and raised it, aiming at the crowd ahead as he squeezed the trigger. With one pull, he emptied all thirty large-caliber rounds, mowing down a swath of people before him!!

The PDF Automatic Gun had a large caliber and powerful penetration. At close range against a group of unarmored targets, every bullet could pass through at least three bodies!

The Lower Hive rats preparing to pounce and feast never imagined that this man would be so ruthless, suddenly opening fire on them with an automatic gun!

The thousand or so gathered rats instantly suffered grievous casualties. One magazine from Li Qinwu had killed at least sixty people!!

The rats were horrified. They had never expected this to happen and were stunned by Li Qinwu's ruthlessness.

Many rats retreated in unison, staring at Li Qinwu in terror. Without waiting even a moment, Li Qinwu swiftly loaded a new magazine into his autogun, aimed at the people ahead, and pulled the trigger again!

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

Another burst of gunfire erupted. The rats ahead were knocked down in droves again, wailing and screaming as the scene descended into chaos!

Why was Li Qinwu killing so viciously? Because the Great Elevator behind him had already closed, and the Arbites had taken it back to their civilized world. The Lower Hive rats' revelry would begin the very next moment!

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

If he did not want to die, he had to frighten the rats into submission from the very start!!

Li Qinwu loaded a third magazine into his autogun and 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, then fucking stay right behind me, goddamn it!!"

After shouting that, Li Qinwu clutched his gun and charged straight ahead!