Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1734 Resurrection
Shangluo followed Wen Yuan back a few steps and saw Lu Huaiyang, who hadn't gone far down, dragging someone up from below. The person had a bruised and swollen face, and was barely breathing.

It looked extremely painful, half-dead.

"Sigh." Shang Luo sighed. Recalling the scene outside, he knew it was best to end his suffering as soon as possible.

After all, staying in this near-death state for too long could cause irreversible psychological damage.

Shangluo stepped forward and ended his life with a single stroke—however, Shangluo noticed that he did not show any relief before he died; instead, he became even more terrified.

Immediately afterwards, another scream came from the respawn point inside.

"Good heavens, how are you so fast?" Lu Huaiyang, who had just gone in to move people, saw this scene and sighed.

"What happened? Didn't the resurrection attempt fail?"

“No, it’s because the resurrection was too successful—and Shangluo, Victoria’s intuition is right, you really shouldn’t have gone. If you had gone, you probably wouldn’t have been able to eat dinner.”

What happened inside?

The screams came one after another, and they could be heard very clearly as we got closer.

"The respawn point is below, everyone respawns inside—but... take a look for yourself."

He stepped aside, and Shangluo peeked inside: it was a scene of hell.

People, all people, layer upon layer. The person at the very bottom, just like Shang Luo had seen earlier, was only breathing, not exhaling. The person at the very top was still responsive, but their cries were weak and feeble. Only the person at the very top still had the breath to call for help.

But their cries for help were in vain, because the door was hidden deep within the fortress, and no one could find it, which caused the crowd to grow larger and larger.

This number shouldn't have been so high; the respawn point was indeed designed with some leeway. However, the royal army used overwhelming firepower outside: directional mines and rocket launchers quickly wiped out hordes of Romans at close range, and the air assault troops that had just stormed the battlefield brought in a large number of more. In a very short time, eight hundred people flooded into this small room, directly overwhelming those who entered first. And when the last...

Eight hundred people were piled up at the bottom, and then the people at the very bottom were crushed to death. The dead would then rise again, and so on, with more and more people coming back to life.
The one Lu Huaiyang had just managed to pull out, Shang Luo sent back in.

The white light continued to flash, and every second someone was resurrected after being crushed to death. The latest resurrected people started to spawn directly in the crowd, some even clipping through the model.

"Ugh~~~" Shang Luo almost vomited.

“I told you not to go,” Victoria patted Shangluo on the back. “My intuition is usually very accurate.”

"I never expected even I to be so shocked." This was the first time he'd ever seen people clipping into each other's bodies. "So, speaking of which, how come your system can even have bugs?"

"You're asking me? Who should I ask? These things are all older than me. They were already this old when I was born."

These facilities were not built with the current density of warfare in mind—or perhaps they were simply poorly designed.

After all, hiding the respawn point is tactically valuable. However, the better it's hidden, the harder it is to get out. Finally, patching things up and using them until today has led to this mess; it's just a fateful ordeal.

"So what are they here for?" "They're here to take the respawn points," Victoria replied. "Although the Legion's respawn points are scattered, each one is crucial. If they don't take the respawn points when they rebel, we can just respawn directly in their camps."

"Tsk." Shang Luo shook his head. "Why bother? Why would they do that?"

None of this would have happened if they had laid down their arms and become Roman citizens. But their choice to resist led to their downfall.

[They might be in big trouble. Being repeatedly trampled and squeezed, then revived and squeezed again, then clipped through and revived again in a short period of time—this is nothing short of hellish torture.]

"Never mind, never mind." Shang Luo waved his hand. "I originally wanted to punish their rebellion. But now that I think about it..."

Looking back now, he couldn't imagine any punishment more painful than this.

"So, can this be opened from the top?"

Victoria nodded: "Okay. But once it's exposed to light, this 'teleportation point' will be useless. Just like how camera film can only be developed in a darkroom. You can also think of it as something like dry ice, which cannot exist at room temperature."

These "resurrection points" were designed with a highly compressed phlogiston environment in mind—in other words, these resurrection points would naturally disintegrate in the natural environment. Natural light and the low phlogiston environment in nature would render the Legion's resurrection points completely ineffective; only a solid underground environment can properly protect them.

"Then consider it a good deed on my part." Shangluo measured the distance with his steps, found the right spot, and made a mark.

A few minutes later, the Lianshan, which was overhead, fired a shot from its secondary guns. The force was precisely controlled to just rip open the soil and create a gap in the resurrection chamber below.

Shangluo tore open the ceiling with his bare hands, and like opening a shaken soda can, phlogiston gushed out. As the phlogiston concentration gradually decreased, the resurrection point began to collapse, and the endless stream of white resurrection light inside also stopped.

"Tsk tsk tsk." Shang Luo looked at the layers of people below and shook his head. "So, Victoria, were they forced or what?"

“Absolutely not,” Victoria replied. “They were all Roman citizens. In other words, no one could force them to obey orders; they themselves were the beneficiaries of the rebellion.”

"Then their suffering wasn't in vain—let's drag them out; this can be seen as a warning of rebellion."

Since the defending troops suffered no casualties, Shangluo did not intend to pursue the deaths of every single one of them, after all, they had already suffered the most severe torment in the land.

What Shangluo really wants to investigate is the mastermind behind the rebellion.

So, you're going to define this matter? Opposing you is considered rebellion?

“That’s right.” Shangluo nodded. “I am the imperial court, I am the law. Anyone who opposes me is a rebel—what else could it be but a rebellion against the King of Rome? They will pay the price for their ambitions as a warning to others.”

Wait, didn't you say you weren't going to hold them accountable?

"I just don't intend to pursue their deaths, that is, not to pursue their crimes to the death penalty. I didn't say I don't intend to pursue their responsibilities—Cebernia just happens to be short of a batch of NPCs, let's send them to do the hard labor of the Silent Workers. Sentencing them to imprisonment is already a very lenient treatment. I don't want to see them before the world is unified, so the imprisonment time should not be less than 5 years."

(End of this chapter)