Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 246

Burning

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"This purple guy must die. I want him to die ugly and in public. I can't let his remarks continue to incite the untouchables. I want those untouchables to know the consequences of fighting against the company!"

Seeing Mengka's angry look, he planned to cheat and cause trouble.

"What's that guy's name?"

"No one knows his name. My people only heard that the believers called him the Archbishop." Johnny replied.

"Forget it if you don't know. He is about to die anyway. Johnny, I will give you the weapon support you want. There is also a mechanized battalion outside the city. They are well-equipped and well-trained. They will cooperate with you in your operations."

Mengka's eyes were filled with bloodthirsty light.

"I want you to burn down all that slum and find this purple guy. I want to see his burned, charred, and twisted body beyond recognition!"

"As you wish, Dr. Monka." Johnny replied with a smile. Monka thought that Johnny was smiling because he could defeat his powerful enemy, but Johnny was laughing because of Monka's end.

The Sleepless City where the Serpent Tower is located is an extremely prosperous city. High technology has made people's lives more convenient, making it both luxurious and comfortable. Within a hundred light years, this city is a well-deserved economic center.

Not only the Slarks, but also people of many other races have settled here. The City that Never Sleeps can also be regarded as a relatively prosperous lower-level market in the pan-galactic trade market.

The core population of the entire city is 500 million. If you include those living in satellite cities and slums, it is 1.5 billion.

The population of one city accounts for 75% of the total population of the planet, which is enough to illustrate its importance.

However, there is a reason for all this prosperity. Only 50 million of the 500 million people in the city that never sleeps can be considered to have a refined life, and only the first million within 50 million can be called upper class people. People like Dr. Mengka are the top 100 people among a million.

This is a class society, and all good things are based on oppression.

Half a billion other people work across the planet, providing food, minerals, and consumer goods for 1.5 billion people.

One billion people outside the city use the transported minerals and raw materials to manufacture various valuable industrial products, providing a more refined and comfortable life for 500 million people.

They bear the most taxes and military service, and they are also the group most vulnerable to market shocks and bankruptcy. They work hard and want to become city dwellers, but find that the invisible wall is too difficult to climb.

These people are the basis for gang existence.

The 450 million people in the city are all social animals alienated by capital. They serve capital and the powerful. They try their best to avoid falling down the class, and they are constantly involved in academic qualifications, skills and humiliation.

There is nothing much to say about the remaining people. They consume a lot of wealth and enjoy the best life. They are the most successful people in society.

Few of them broke away from their classes and wanted to promote the progress of the entire civilization and society. Unfortunately, they all failed in the end.

The population numbers outside the city and inside the city are not so accurate. There is a large gap between the two, which also accommodates a population of 100 to 200 million, and the number is increasing.

They are those who have been abandoned by society because of the war or the bankruptcy of their company, their lives are difficult, and their class has fallen.

The place where they live is called a slum, and now, the slum is burning, and the city and sky reflected by the red flames are particularly beautiful.

Five thousand well-equipped regular troops armed to the teeth and fifteen thousand murderous mercenaries in Johnny's hands, attacking a slum with only light weapons and some heavy weapons is a bit of a killing.

What ignited the slums was the simplest incendiary bomb. Added No. 3 catalyst made the incendiary bomb cheap and easy to use. The blue flame was hotter and could ignite rows of houses in an instant.

The regular soldiers and mercenaries sat in their cars, happily watching the slums turn into ashes. Many Slavs were turned into fiery snakes by incendiary bombs, twisting, climbing, roaring and rushing out of the sea of fire, and then fell down without escaping a few steps, and died miserably.

Seeing this tragic situation, some soldiers still couldn't bear it, but the mercenaries smiled even happier.

Many soldiers are recruited from civilians and still retain a trace of conscience, while those mercenaries have long been accustomed to these things in the dark side of society, and the money they earn is earned with blood and lives.

Either being eaten by others or eating people, this is the world that mercenaries come into contact with.

Some people in the slums organized themselves. They shouted slogans for freedom and human rights, and for the four-armed snake god, and began to attack regular troops and mercenaries.

Unfortunately, they only had some light weapons, and their heaviest firepower was only mortars. The regular army and mercenaries did not take action, and the peripheral combat robots took care of them.

A regular army battle camp of five thousand is usually equipped with twenty thousand combat robots. These cold war machines have no mercy. Their attacks are more accurate and their firepower is more powerful.

Johnny watched the robot shoot a dozen young Slarks to the ground without any pity in his heart. He just thought that the propaganda of the Serpent Enterprise was really funny.

Their laws stipulate that civilians can hold guns, and they can make money by buying and selling guns. Do the Slaks really think that guns can protect them? In front of the regular army, there is not much difference between those guns and sticks.

The mercenaries also saw this behavior as entertainment, and they joined the battle robots and together they began to slaughter those who attacked their slums.

The regular army has tanks, cannons, field shield generators, and automatic point defense systems. Perhaps calling people with light weapons primitive people holding wooden sticks is a bit overestimating their combat effectiveness.

"These poor guys are so funny. This can't even be called fighting. It's easier than hunting birds." A mercenary said in amusement.

"Yes, they are too ignorant. They are kings in the Serpent Star Company. How dare they go against the company." Another mercenary said and operated a robot to beat a row of Slark into a sieve.

This should have been a massacre without any suspense, but beyond the expectations of the mercenaries, an accident occurred.

Some Slarks wearing strange religious costumes appeared, and the mercenaries became serious. They were too familiar with these people. They were members of the Church of the Four-Armed Serpent God.

Although people in the slums can basically be considered believers of the church, only the more elite and powerful believers would wear such strange clothes.

Not only were they brave, but they were also well-trained and well-equipped. Soon they used the laser launchers and rockets they had to severely damage many combat robots.

The mercenaries who knew how powerful they were were immediately notified the regular army to join in resisting the attack of the Four-Armed Snake God Church.

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