Chapter 171 Warning Star Asks for Help (Please subscribe)

Terra's oceans have long since disappeared.

Early in the Great Crusade, Terra's seas were drained by a surrendered warlord from the Ortan Plains.

Of course, this warlord also paid the price with his life.

Waldor, the first commander of the Custodes, personally executed the warlord, announcing to the world that every inch of Terra's land and water was extremely precious, and anyone who tried to steal Terra's soil and water would be executed.

The Emperor once had the idea to restore Terra's oceans and reshape Terra's landscape.

Let Terra become that beautiful world again.

However, at that time, there were too many more important things than this.

In addition to the Great Crusade, there was also the matter of the Webway Project, and the heavy workload left the Emperor with no time to take care of it.

We can only postpone it and do other more important economic matters.

I originally thought that everything would settle down and wait until humanity is unified and the empire is stabilized.

Then set out to restore Terra's landscape.

It's a pity that the Horus Heresy ruined all plans.

When the Heresy was over, the Primarchs departed, and the Emperor fell into a deep sleep.

The empire's successors never mentioned it again.

They don't care much about the existence of the ocean.

After all, the solar system is not just Terra.

If you want to see the sea, just go to places like Io.

The sea there is even more spectacular.

Because of Jupiter's terrifying tidal force, the ocean on Io can often set off huge waves of thousands of meters. It is a popular tourist attraction among the wealthy class of the empire.

It would be a waste to waste the Empire's precious wealth on such a project to restore Terra's oceans.

In this way, the sacred homeland of mankind no longer has the ocean.

The launch of the Reshape the Ocean plan makes everyone excited, and it represents some completely new changes.

When this plan was announced, the people of Terra's empire expressed their approval.

As the sacred home of mankind, it is indeed time to protect the environment of Terra.

A filthy sacred home will disappoint pilgrims who come from afar to some extent.

Penny used her power to endorse the plan and quickly passed the review of various departments.

Guilliman is not on Terra, so she has the greatest power.

This is one of the benefits of centralized dictatorship. You don't have to waste a lot of time in meaningless quarrels.

Able to make important decisions quickly.

Kunbis learned the news from the holographic screens all over the streets.

The world is constantly getting better.

Humanity has ushered in unprecedented changes.

Those dead hopes will also reappear.

What a beautiful thing this is.

There are voices praising Guilliman everywhere, and everyone says that he is the true savior of mankind.

At least in the area where Zi Kunbis is located, that's what everyone said.

Whenever people talk about Guilliman, the Lord of Ultramar, their tone is always one of piety and awe.

They feared that their blasphemous tone would cause the divine Savior to leave and abandon them, who were struggling to survive in despair.

"He is a god, a true god who belongs to mankind, and brings us hope just like his father."

Pastors who walk among people always say something like this.

Even if Guilliman reiterates the fact that he is not a god on important occasions several times.

But no one cared, people just regarded him as a god.

If one person can command thousands of battleships, he can sweep away all enemies.

It can save people from the abyss and can easily expel demons and monsters.

Anyone would regard that person as a god.

Guilliman's denial only strengthened the belief in his divinity.

"Perhaps, I should also do something to prevent such cancer from tarnishing the reform achievements of the Holy Primarch."

Standing in the darkness, Kunbis touched the dagger ground from scrap steel in his arms.

After many inquiries, he learned that the law enforcement officer who had humiliated him, injured the little girl and made her deaf was a member of the Escher family.

This family is very old.

It is said that during the Beast Wars, Terra suffered heavy casualties, and the High Lords Council at that time deployed some people from other planets to fill Terra's vacancies.

The Escher family was sent to Terra at that time.

This family has been serving the Terran government for thousands of years, before the great, holy Imperial Regents came to Terra.

They have inherited the position of law enforcers from generation to generation and consider themselves to be nobler than the lowly Xia Chao Lao.

This family is very special. They know themselves very well. They never think about climbing up, but think about how to consolidate their position in the lower nest city.

Before understanding this family, you must understand the once complex power structure of the hive city.

To protect humanity from Terra's harsh environment.

The Mechanicus used plastic steel, hardened steel, and concrete to create artificial mountains that continued to grow over tens of thousands of years.

It's like an enlarged version of a termite nest.

This is the origin and evolution history of the hive city.

The population of the hive city is very large, with at least billions of people. The interior of the hive city is highly industrialized and has a complete industrial system.

A hive city is equivalent to the ancient industrial world compressed into a city. You can imagine how terrifying the population density and industrial density are.

Some hive cities even span thousands of kilometers and are home to tens of billions of people.

With so many people living in the hive city, it naturally brings about a large number of problems.

The phenomenon of human beings' struggle for power and gain is extremely serious.

The hierarchical structure of the hive also fully demonstrates people's status and power.

At the top are the nobility, then the workers, and at the bottom are the scum, the rubbish of society.

Even under the watchful eye of the Holy Emperor, this condition was extremely severe, becoming even more deformed and dark.

The underhive of Terra has become a brutal place dominated by gangs and low-level families.

Only the most vicious and cunning people can live here.

The high-ranking Lords of Terra are not willing to waste time on these issues.

They use a very simple but effective method to control the hive.

That is, scavenging families that use gangs and wild dogs, that is, families that pick up garbage and do all kinds of dirty things, are like low-level microorganisms that complexly process carrion in the natural ecology.

These families are called scavenger families.

In addition to gangs and scavenger families, Terra's nobles also use the brutal Advocate system to control the lower hive.

For Xiachao City, unrest is violent suppression, and illegal gatherings are also violent suppression.

No matter what problems arise, everything is suppressed violently.

The nobles have one requirement: no resistance to the rule is allowed.

No matter what the reason is, even if the nobles exploit people into bones, they are not allowed to resist. To resist is to be guilty and to suppress.

Such a simple, crude and cruel approach will naturally not yield any good results.

A small chaos every three years and a big chaos every five years have become the norm.

Frequent turmoil also led to the rise of some families with cruel methods, becoming the favorite tool of the nobles.

The Escher family is a typical example.

They are law enforcers and gangsters.

With the acquiescence of Lord Terra, they used their dual identities to complete their stability maintenance tasks.

Violence and intimidation are the most common tactics used by this family.

The lords only need the Escher family to maintain order in the areas they rule, and it doesn't matter what means they use.
To be continued...