As long as you die, you are invincible, but in 40K

Both of them were severely disabled. The father only had one right arm left. He had just used this hand to slap his son's head, but when Zhang Ge looked at him, he used this remaining hand to pull his son back a little. At the same time, he humbly... or rather, humbly pressed his forehead to the dirty ground and said timidly:

"Sir."

"What were you arguing about just now? Answer me the truth."

Zhang Ge didn't even try to intimidate him. The slightly aged father's face turned pale and he stammered for a long time. He didn't dare to look Zhang Ge in the eye. He just kept his mouth close to the ground and answered:

"Sir... I doubted those adults before, but my son kept believing them, which led to the argument... After meeting you, I realized I was wrong. It turns out you really wanted us to take refuge here temporarily. I am willing to accept any punishment."

Hearing this, Zhang Ge's eyes swept over the two of them several times before continuing:

"That's the opposite."

"Here, sir, I, I was awarded a medal in battle against the orcs. Sir, please take a look!"

Hearing Zhang Ge's words, the father spoke hurriedly, his only remaining hand shaking, and he even made several mistakes in the simple action of reaching into his pocket. In a panic, he finally took out a medal that was simply made but well-maintained.

Since it didn't get dirty even in this environment, it was obvious that the owner of the medal took this honor very seriously.

The nervousness he felt facing a person like Zhang Ge, coupled with his desire to protect his own offspring, caused all sorts of conflicting emotions to make his language extremely fragmented, and in the end he could only make sounds but could not speak.

"Alright, keep it. I don't mean to blame you, but I have a question I'd like answered: Even in this situation, do you still believe in the Empire? If you were to be drafted into battle again, would you be willing?"

"Of course! Emperor, there's a war going on right now. I know resources are scarce. He's the one who can care for us, the burden, and keep us alive. How can he expect anything else?"

"Okay, I see."

Before turning around and leaving, Zhang Ge paused again, turned back and said to them:

"The refuge will soon be over. Just hold on for a few more Terra hours."

Ending the man-made disaster should also be considered an end to the asylum. This lie still needs to continue for now. Whether it is trust in the Empire or belief in the Emperor, such spiritual support is now necessary to maintain their lives.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ge led a group of people through the crowds, and finally walked into the elevator under their gazes that were filled with countless emotions.

The poorly maintained elevator door slowly closed, isolating the space from the outside.

Inside the closed elevator, the floor numbers ticked in silence until they finally reached the 20th floor.

The door opened, and the two guards standing outside saluted, while the scene here came into view.

Compared to the suffering below, the environment here is more than ten times better. At least the rooms are still rooms and have not been demolished into a messy state, and the environment has maintained the standard of a normal residential building.

However, an atmosphere of confusion permeated every inch of the place.

In the corridors and by the doors, you can see girls sitting everywhere with confused or empty eyes. Most of them don't make any sound, not even the slightest movement. If it weren't for basic physiological activities such as breathing and heartbeat, they might be mistaken for corpses.

“Has it always been like this here?”

"No, we don't quite understand what happened."

Without wasting any time, Zhang Ge patted a female slave and asked her to find the clan leader and bring him to him.

After she nodded and walked into the room, soon a beautiful woman in a thin shirt followed the slave girl and finally came in front of Zhang Ge.

"What happened? Explain it simply."

"Are you...Colonel Zhang Ge?"

There was no confusion in her eyes, but mainly fatigue and worry.

"Yes, I have been invited here to solve the problems you are facing."

The other party sighed and said with some recklessness:

"To be honest, the biggest problem we face now is the destruction of our main family."

After saying this, she looked at Zhang Ge's expression. Seeing that he didn't look angry, she continued:

"Teachers, officials, guards, anyone connected to the master's family has been taken away. In this situation, what does our previous actions mean? What should we do next? Although I have tried my best, I still cannot stop this trend of suspicion from spreading..."

His voice was abruptly interrupted by a sudden sonic boom outside, and even the window sill trembled slightly under the sound wave.

Hearing the voice, Zhang Ge smiled, walked towards the window, and gestured for the other party to follow.

Looking out the window, one can see an eye-catching, luxurious, gold-rimmed shuttle slowly landing. Immediately, a group of nobles dressed in gorgeous attire hurriedly rushed out of the belly of the plane and ran all the way to the door.

However, as soon as they arrived at the city gate, they were stopped by the female slaves they had arranged. Gradually, a group of people could no longer maintain etiquette and acted as if they wanted to force their way in but did not dare to.

Listening to the communication request prompts constantly ringing in the sound array, Zhang Ge just stood by the window with his men watching them, with no intention of responding.

Chapter 209: Simple Changes and Unchanging Names

"It seems that losing the opportunity to serve the nobles won't necessarily ruin your future, right? They're not so important as to be irreplaceable."

After a moment, Zhang Ge looked at the woman beside him whose expression remained unchanged and said.

And what happens next could go two ways.

First, the other party has been completely alienated after being domesticated by the nobles for a long time. Although this cannot be blamed on her, for the sake of more people, Zhang Ge had to make some regrettable decisions.

Second, she is not beyond redemption.

The woman quickly responded, and fortunately for her, her next words suggested the latter:

"...Are you going to take us in?"

Although her long-term cognition still made her reluctant to comment on the nobles - she had learned a lot of words of praise, but in the current situation, it was obviously difficult to give a positive evaluation without pure flattery, so she simply skipped the topic.

"Have you received military training?"

"Some, from the age of six to eighteen, train for about two hours a day. If someone survives past eighteen, they'll train for longer, but most people... Sorry, I said too much."

"That's enough. Can you use a bolter?"

"Ah? Ah, I know how to use it."

The second half of Zhang Ge's question was a bit off-topic, which made the other party stunned for a moment, but she reacted quickly.

However, despite being prepared for the turn of events, what happened next was beyond her expectations.

Zhang Ge took off his grenade launcher and handed it to the woman.

"Find a target among those people and shoot."

boom.

As soon as the words fell, gunshots rang out.

The explosive bomb was fired from the upright gun body, flying downward with a tail flame, and drilled into the skull of a noble in a straight trajectory. The drill steel bullet easily smashed the hard skull, and finally crushed the noble's upper body in the explosion.

At this distance, a grenade launcher can basically hit whatever it points at. For someone who has received long-term training, even a female humanoid target with a small movement range can be easily hit.

Of course, both sides know that this is not just a question of whether or not they can hit the target.

However, no one said a word about this issue which should have been the key one.

The woman understood what Zhang Ge wanted them to do at the moment the gun was fired. With a simple gunshot, she completed the simple change without any sense of ceremony.

"Well, now it's my turn to prove that I can make you do what I want you to do."

After nodding to the woman, Zhang Ge casually dialed a communication request record stored in the sound array. Looking at the chaos at the city gate, he confirmed that the person on the other end of the communication was one of the nobles below, and then said:

"Don't move. Turn on the loudspeaker so that people around you can hear what I'm going to say next."

After these words were spoken without any emotional fluctuation, the noble seemed to realize something. Although he did turn on the loudspeaker according to Zhang Ge's instructions, he did not say a word. Only suffocating silence and slightly rapid breathing were left.

Zhang Ge confirmed that the nobles had gradually stopped rioting and were standing still before he continued:

"Although I don't know which family you come from, it doesn't affect my witnessing of what you've done. The crimes I witnessed were so grievous that I don't even want to describe them again. Yet, you've done nothing since taking over... Now, I offer you two options."

"First, if you believe I've misjudged the situation and wrongly accused you, then you can let me report this matter to the escalating authorities. I'll go through the formal investigation process and let the appropriate personnel make a decision based on the results."

"Second, acknowledge that this was a shameful dereliction of duty."

The silence continued, but at this moment, not responding became a response in itself.

"Very good, it seems we no longer need to cause each other any more trouble. With that, I will proceed with the execution procedure."

After closing the communication, Zhang Ge's expression did not change, as if they were just chatting about what to eat tomorrow afternoon. He turned to the woman and said:

"continue."

As the simple gunshots rang out again, blood and flesh gradually filled one side of the street. Countless corpses were mixed among the flowing internal organs, emitting a bloody smell that meant death.

Only when all the bullets in the magazine had been fired and the trigger was pulled several times with only crisp clicking sounds did the woman barely come out of her trance.

"What I ask you to do next will not make any difference. Find people like them and give me the information. If I decide to shoot, then I will shoot. It's simple, right?"

Zhang Ge made the decision to control such incidents, but he was only a colonel in the Star Army after all. Although he had slightly more military and political resources than an ordinary colonel, at least he believed that it should not have reached the point where they could act as recklessly as the founding group.

Therefore, he decided not to use the existing armed forces directly to do this, but to find another group that could take on this responsibility.

This group needs to have sufficient reasons to be hostile to the nobles, need to be relatively good at fighting, and at the same time need to be somewhere between conspicuous and outrageous, letting people know that they are commanded by Zhang Ge, but not as sensitive as directly sending out the Star Army.

The current clan is obviously a good candidate.

"At your service, Master...?"

As the woman spoke, she knelt down on her knees and was about to kiss Zhang Ge's feet, but she found herself suddenly hugged and straightened by a familiar face.

It was a female slave who was originally standing next to Zhang Ge. She lifted the woman up and whispered something quickly in her ear.

This saved Zhang Ge from an embarrassing situation. After all, it would have been fine if he had said that once or twice before, but if he had said it every day when encountering this situation, it would have felt a bit like a show.

But... if he didn't say it, he wouldn't feel comfortable. So, in this situation, having someone else do it for him was a good choice. The female slave was also very clear about this, so she did it without any special reminder.

After hearing what others were saying, the woman understood the whole story. However, although she changed her etiquette to just bow, she had no intention of changing the way she addressed him:

"Master, please allow us to continue addressing you this way. The current situation is special. If we had a clear target to serve, it would be much faster to integrate the clan's strength and complete the task you have assigned us."

After she finished speaking, she squinted her eyes and smiled, with a teardrop mole at the corner of her eye dotted on the side of her gaze that slightly revealed some special meaning.

Although I realize that the other party's purpose is probably not as simple as it seems, this statement does make the name easier to accept... In some ways, is the person in front of me really as obedient as he just appeared?

Zhang Ge, who agreed to the other party's request, suddenly felt a little sad.

Chapter 210: Solving the Missing and Combat Maid Problems

Of course, simply killing cannot solve the problem. The death of a few nobles will not improve the situation of others, and a pile of corpses cannot mobilize resources.

Fortunately, Zhang Ge is not an ordinary man. He can not only make the nobles bleed within five steps, but also after being intimidated by this, coupled with the actions that the clan will take later, the survivors who can keep their lives will surely make the right choice... It is not ruled out that some people will persist, but it is hard to say whether the Titan will "accidentally hit" them at that time.

After solving one of the problems with simple and crude means, Zhang Ge shifted his attention to another problem.

"By the way, has anyone in your clan gone missing before? Has this situation happened again after you came to the Upper Nest?"

"Yes, it is true. The nobles have sent people here several times before, but they have not found any results. Even now that we have moved here, people are still disappearing, but the frequency has decreased."

"What are the characteristics of the missing person?"

Hearing this, the woman's smile seemed to have a hint of self-mockery:

"Besides their age and appearance, the people in the clan have no other characteristics. Unfortunately, neither of these characteristics has become a pattern in their disappearances."

Seeing this, Zhang Ge, who could not get any more relevant information from her, had to give up asking and took Amelia and others to search the various floors where the clan lived.

But after wasting dozens of Terra minutes, they did not find any valuable clues except that Zhang Ge, as the leader, had witnessed the harmonious scenes of the female slaves in different rooms more than once.

There are no clues, no apparent purpose, and no pattern...where should I even begin to investigate?

Wait, that's not right.

Why bother playing with that attacker in the framework?

After figuring this out, Zhang Ge waved to the woman, and when she approached... wait, this was a little too close.

Zhang Ge pushed this person without a sense of boundaries a little further away with a frown on his face before he spoke:

"Move everyone to the street outside, and I'll send someone to transport you all to..."

Since they were a special force, they shouldn't be stationed together with his own troops. So he temporarily interrupted his sentence and asked Amelia:

"Amelia, is there any vacancy in the Battle Sisters' station?"

"Yes, and we can provide them with some guidance."

"Well, it doesn't have to go so...fast."