Stompa!

After that, things became simple. Once Inquisitor Thraxol hinted at why he had come, the remaining Imperial Cult personnel promptly took care of everything.

Lieutenant Colonel Noah and more than six hundred imprisoned soldiers were released. They walked out of the Imperial Cult Spire and regained their freedom.

In the Spire, Lieutenant Colonel Noah stood in the street in prison clothes and glanced back at the Imperial Cult Spire, her thoughts churning.

At that moment, Li Qinwu offered her a cigarette and asked, "Do you hate them?"

Lieutenant Colonel Noah accepted it and put it between her lips.

"This is my hometown. No matter what she does to me, I won't hate her. In this universe, those who have a home are already countless times happier than everyone else."

Li Qinwu shook his head. If this had happened to him, he absolutely would not have been able to endure it.

From Inquisitor Thraxol, he had learned some of the details.

Most of these captured soldiers, including Major Noah, had previously fought in the military.

The Imperial Cult was not a military organization. It was very difficult for them to send people into the Astra Militarum to arrest anyone.

They had only been captured because the planetary governor's people had cooperated, deliberately throwing them to the Imperial Cult to vent its anger and stabilize it.

To put it bluntly, the planetary governor and his upper ranks had deliberately abandoned these six hundred-plus people. They had proactively handed them over to the Imperial Cult to stabilize its manpower system.

That was why Li Qinwu wanted to become a Rogue Trader. The Imperium of Man as a regime no longer possessed any idealism whatsoever, nor the slightest respect for individuals.

Whenever interests clashed, abandoning people had become standard procedure. Whenever someone made a