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A scarlet figure descended from the sky.
The power sword drew a blazing arc, severing Tzeentch's demonic tentacles at the root.
Deus Krieger personally led the Space Marines Dalian to the battlefield.
Amidst the roar of explosive guns, the Khorne cultists roared with excitement: "The Blood God has bestowed upon us a formidable foe!"
But their fervor soon turned into despair.
These Space Marines may not be seasoned veterans, but this time they are a whole company, consisting of the 1000 most powerful Space Marines out of 1.
When they stormed into the crowd of ordinary Khorne believers, the battle became almost one-sided.
The Space Marines crushed the rebels like wheat being harvested.
The power gauntlets shattered skulls, the heat gun vaporized flesh, and even the most powerful Chaos Egg was torn to shreds in seconds.
The Chaos cultists were beginning to falter against the attacks launched by the Space Marines in conjunction with PDF.
The combined infantry-tank and infantry-tank tactics continued to advance towards the block.
To be honest, when the PDFs received orders to suppress the rebellion, their anger was no less than that of the general.
The planetary defense forces on Zhou Qing's side need to receive sufficient education.
Therefore, they are knowledgeable and understand how hard-won their current life is.
They also know they should protect their world and planet.
Like the governor, the ordinary planetary defense forces knew what kind of lives and days existed in other worlds outside the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield, in the dark side of the Empire.
Not having enough to eat is the most common thing; the most terrifying thing is not knowing whether you'll live or die.
After death, they will be taken away by the Chaos God, and their souls will suffer eternal torment. They will be unable to return to the Golden Throne and will only become playthings of demons. This is the most terrifying thing.
They had no way to survive outside, but Zhou Qing brought them a way to survive here. Zhou Qing brought them hope to live, and they lived like human beings here.
In other Imperial armies, canned fruit is a monthly ration reserved for officers, or even political commissars, of the Astronautical Army.
Here, everyone gets to eat canned fruit every day, and they don't eat protein bars, they eat real food.
Their families are now eating real food, their families have found jobs, and their lives are improving. They absolutely do not want their wonderful lives to be disturbed or interrupted.
PDF's fighting spirit far exceeded the Space Marines' expectations.
Logically, the Space Marines should be in front, followed by the PDFs fighting behind them.
But what they were seeing now was far beyond their expectations.
None of the PDFs wanted to lag behind; instead, they marched in squads ahead of the Space Marines, relentlessly picking off any cultists who might appear at any moment, venting their fury on these traitors.
Traitors must be executed with white phosphorus; they must die to atone for their crimes.
Even if they were to die ten thousand times, it wouldn't be enough to atone for the crimes they've committed.
By dawn, the riots had been suppressed.
The streets were littered with charred corpses, and fire trucks were extinguishing the last embers. Surviving civilians were gathered at temporary shelters to undergo purification checks by psychics.
Although the PDFs were furious and wished they could kill all the traitors, the residents were ultimately innocent, so they still chose to rescue them.
The rebellion in the streets has been successfully suppressed, but the corpses of those corrupted by chaos have not been directly purified.
Instead, with the help of several psionicists, it was sealed away and began to be paraded throughout the entire hive city.
These people must be paraded through the streets so that others know what they have done and so that other hive residents can learn from their mistakes and avoid being corrupted and eroded by Chaos.
This is also a disgrace to Narrus!
Everyone in Narrus must remember this disgrace: someone among them actually chose to betray them!
The Space Marines suffered no losses in this battle, so they quickly returned to their respective posts, while PDF gathered up the bodies of his comrades.
During the night's suppression of the rebellion, 60 cultists were killed, but in the process, more than 2000 soldiers of the pdf also sacrificed their lives for the Grand Marshal and the God Emperor.
The battlefield chaplain offered them a final prayer, while their souls were collected again by Zhou Qing's soul-collecting device to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Chaos Demon.
They can continue their lives within the soul-collecting device until their souls completely dissipate and their lives come to an end.
Each soul containment facility is a world where they can continue to live again.
Chapter 129 The Alluring Gaia World
The rebellion in the hive was successfully suppressed. Although the cultists caused some losses to Narrus, these losses were still acceptable.
To prevent such an incident from happening again, PDF has strengthened patrols in the lower and middle nest areas, and is making every effort to patrol these locations to avoid a recurrence of chaos contamination.
While the loss is acceptable, accepting this loss is equivalent to the complete destruction of an entire neighborhood's industry.
The district that was destroyed this time was used to produce Lemanrus components. Because of the destruction of this district, the production of Lemanrus will inevitably be reduced.
These cultists from Chaos are quite insidious.
They not only want to cause trouble for the human empire, but also to reduce the output of this industrial world so that damage can be minimized when Khorne's army arrives.
In addition, the act of parading through the streets did indeed bring some benefits.
With the patient persuasion of PDF officers and government officials, the people of the empire also came to realize the harm and problems of cults.
This naturally makes it more difficult for cultists to recruit followers, but the reduction in rations is a real phenomenon.
The citizens of the human empire, especially those who descended to the hive, were mostly from the lowest rungs of society, and they truly possessed little intelligence.
Although the state religion also constantly promotes the emperor and the grand marshal, these chaotic beings are also promoting the emperor and the grand marshal when they are deceiving people.
Therefore, they will still be deceived when they are supposed to be deceived, which leads to the fact that sometimes the fighting between the lower and middle nests still exists.
This alone demonstrates that Zhou Qingtai treated these human citizens as human beings.
He was, after all, from the Federation of Humans, so he regarded the citizens of the Human Empire as human beings as well.
The problem is that he can only do this if things are going smoothly and without any unexpected events, and only if he can raise their awareness.
But now, when faced with war, these people who have gained petty advantages are unwilling to sacrifice their own interests, and many still want to continue to retain their own interests.
With a population of over 1600 billion, all sorts of people will exist, so there are naturally quite a few who think this way. Even if they only account for one-thousandth, that's still hundreds of millions of people who can be incited by cultists.
Besides, how could that be? How could such people only make up one in a thousand?
Even if we take the most lenient approach, there must be at least 1% of people, which is billions of people.
Therefore, while the World Eater fleet was advancing toward this industrial world, the Planetary Defense Forces were constantly busy, working with local police to suppress cult rebellions in various hive cities.
However, it can still be controlled to some extent, since ordinary people don't have much fighting power.
The equipment in PDF is indeed quite good; both Lemanrus and the Petrified Lizard are equipped with the Imperial Poison Blade.
With such good equipment, they shouldn't be unable to defeat some misled cultists.
As the fleet of the World Eater Legion gradually approaches the planet, the real battle is about to begin.
At the very center of the Devourer Chapter's combined fleet, atop their flagship, the Bloodlands battleship, stood ten Chaos Lords from the Devourer Chapter.
The Bloodstained Land, the flagship of this Chaos Fleet, was originally an Emperor-class battleship that underwent Chaos modification after the Devourers betrayed the Empire.
It has now become the most powerful warship among the 10 warbands.
"Caruso, make our fleet go faster! I feel the call of the evil god is beckoning me from ahead, and I want to be the first to offer up my slaughter for the evil god!!"
A Chaos Lord stood beside the commander of the ten warbands who had united and offered his opinion.
However, the chaos was not a peaceful place to coexist. When he foolishly walked right up to Caruso, Caruso stretched out his big hand and slapped him hard across the face.
With a crisp sound, the Chaos Lord who dared to stand next to him and urge him on was slapped away.
This scene explains why he became the commander of these 10 Chaos Battle Squads, and not someone else—it's simply because his combat power was strong enough to subdue the others.
"Since when did it become your place to speak to me? I said you can only go when it's okay, understand? Otherwise, you can just die."
The Chaos Lord, who had been swatted away, barely managed to get up, then nodded and bowed repeatedly in agreement.
"Yes Yes."
Caruso didn't even look at the coward next to him who was easily subdued with a slap; instead, he looked through the warship at the planet in front of him.
The green planet seemed so beautiful to him; he felt as if some kind of magic was calling to him, and he was certain it was an extremely habitable planet.
Although Nairrus was not a planet directly under Zhou Qing's command, it was, after all, the renowned Misty Starfield 108 World, so it still received some improvements and enhancements.
Due to resource constraints, it has not yet been completely transformed into the Gaia world.
However, it was still part of the transformation, and this part alone was enough for the Devourers to feel that the planet was habitable. This was a planet suitable for everyone to live on.
Let alone these Chaos Space Marines, even Chaos Demons would find this planet extremely habitable.
All species would be perfectly suited to live on this planet; that is the power of Gaia.
"This planet is truly beautiful. If only we could take it over and use it as our base."
The habitability of Gaia was so compelling that it even overshadowed his faith in Khorne and his plans to pledge allegiance to him and commit acts of violence.
Theoretically, someone should be scoffing at his statement now, but that's not actually the case.
When he uttered those words as if no one else was around, the other Chaos Lords also turned their gazes toward the planet.
With just one glance, their gazes were completely drawn to this planet; its powerful characteristics, making it suitable for all species to live on, deeply attracted them as well.
The sound of swallowing echoed in the ears of all the Chaos Lords. They looked at each other and saw each other swallowing.
The allure of Gaia was simply too great. They exchanged glances and then turned their attention to Caruso.
The meaning couldn't be clearer: they were obviously asking, "Why don't we just abandon this so-called corruption and bring this planet under the rule of a few Chaos Warbands?"
Even the so-called chaotic planets are not as habitable as this one. If they could live on such a planet, it would be incredibly enjoyable.
Chapter 130 They had never seen the light, but you gave them the light.
Caruso naturally felt the gazes of the others. To be honest, he was now very hesitant about whether to carry out the so-called Chaos Ritual or preserve the planet.
Honestly, this planet looks really nice, and he really doesn't want to hurt it.
For no apparent reason, the World Eater's fleet suddenly stopped advancing at that moment.
They stood there, stunned, pondering whether to bring this planet under their rule. It's so tempting!
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