Chapter 203 The Mystery Case of the Mining Area (1)
Meetings were held in the Fortress Hall of the Ministry of Justice, which also served as a court when necessary, but today it is used as a reception room.
A huge black hardwood round table was placed in the center of the hall, surrounded by a circle of law enforcement officers wearing black carapace, their faces hidden under their helmets, as if their true faces would never be revealed.
The arbitrator of the local legal department stood behind the table without wearing a helmet. He was a leather-tough old soldier. He was only wearing a simple black uniform at this time, which highlighted the silver-plated artificial prostheses and other artificial limbs implanted in his body.
Organs, these devices injected amazing speed and power into his body.
Suddenly, the door was pushed open.
Soshyan led a group of soldiers into the hall with their heads held high, and their actions almost caused a whirlwind in the hall.
Finally, he stopped in front of the table and took off his helmet and placed it on the table, revealing his broad, strong chin and frowning cheeks.
"To make a long story short, I think everyone knows who we are."
Soshyan's opening remarks were very succinct. The arbitrator nodded and responded:
"I have read your report, but there are still many details worthy of discussion."
"We also have a lot of new information to report."
"Then you guys talk first."
The arbitrator recounted to Soshyan what happened after they left the underground mining area.
It turned out that they encountered several more waves of attacks after leaving the mining area. The enemy seemed to know their route of action very well and was always able to set up ambushes at key locations.
However, the ones ambushing were no longer purebreds from the underground, but hybrids that were closer to humanoids. They disguised themselves as local gangs and launched a sneak attack on the team of the Ministry of Justice.
Along the way, the team lost several people one after another. If the people left behind in the fortress hadn't noticed that their action took too long and sent a response, they might not have been able to come back.
Afterwards, a secret investigation into the administration of Safinius was launched.
Although the alien was well disguised, there were still some clues, and soon a shocking fact surfaced.
The genestealers on Safinius apparently found the Home Office to be an excellent hiding place. As one of the largest and most rigid organizations in the Empire, they could use the authority of the Home Office to evade less stringent scrutiny.
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As a result, the verification of the Ministry of Interior could not be carried out until the District Legal Director himself broke through all kinds of red tape and signed a formal authorization order.
But no one knows how long the Genestealers have been there.
The Ministry of Justice only discovered some suspicious persons who disappeared before the investigation, and no results were found on the remaining persons without exception.
Safinius is a fertile planet with several large hive cities of considerable size, but these have nothing to do with the poor miners. On the contrary, the guilds just try their best to squeeze them? Even because there is no interference from the Ministry of Interior
And became unscrupulous.
So? In addition to working to death in the mining areas, crime has become one of the few feasible ways to make a living in the local area.
Due to the interference of the Adeptus Mechanicus? The Ministry of Justice cannot send too many manpower? There are not enough resources to maintain the entire planet, and no leading force has emerged among the people to restore order.
It is not difficult to imagine the corruption that grew in the slums after the Genestealers came to Safinius? and infiltrated the local Ministry of the Interior.
Maybe the source of corruption lies in the local guild masters? This possibility is so terrifying yet so realistic.
Although the activities of the Genestealer Sect are very secretive, through the unremitting efforts of law enforcement officers, all the traced information was still connected to construct a vivid picture.
For example, the few Anglican churches on Safinius have been systematically looted one by one in the past fifty years, and all the sacred objects in them have been stolen.
Twenty years ago? A smuggling convoy was intercepted? A batch of stolen holy objects was seized.
At the time, it seemed that these were just violent crimes stolen by smugglers at best, but now it seems that the aliens are clearly using violence as a cover to seize these sacred objects in a planned way.
What's more? These details highlight the conspiracy -- their attempt to infiltrate local religion.
In fact, there have been murders and kidnappings all over the mining area for nearly a hundred years? Genestealers carry out their horrific plans with impunity.
They randomly select innocent people to attack, and let them disappear directly from the world? Or become the breeders of monsters.
And all this is almost never informed to the Ministry of Justice by the local guilds and the Ministry of the Interior? Most of the time, they let the Ministry of Justice deal with miscellaneous matters such as smuggling and miner riots? It is like deliberately distracting the attention of the Ministry of Justice.
Until the Ministry of Justice tracked down the investigation? And before possible alien corruption was discovered in the Ministry of Interior building, they may have been working hard for their master's return for decades, concocting lies to deceive the Empire's law enforcement and judicial agencies.
But although the investigation has revealed so much, it is still the tip of the iceberg.
Much of what the genestealers on Safinius were doing represented a slow and difficult-to-decipher plan.
To others, these clues would be clueless, but to the Arbitrator, the facts are unmistakable.
However, as the investigation deepened, small riots began to occur in the mining area and the nest city. The Ministry of Justice could only keep running between various riot sites, so the progress of the investigation immediately slowed down.
The Arbitrator did not fail to apply for the local security forces to join in the counter-insurgency, but strangely enough, once the local security forces joined the suppression operation, the riots escalated.
After questioning a number of captured riot leaders, the arbitrator found that they were all normal locals, many of whom were leaders of underground miner organizations. The reason for their riots was because there were rumors of monsters appearing underground, and the empire planned to
The mine blew up and everyone was buried underground.
The appearance of the local defense forces further proved the authenticity of this rumor, so the miners began to go on strike collectively and refused to enter the mines, resulting in large-scale riots.
Although this is indeed the style of the empire, the Arbitrator is keenly aware that this rumor appears at a very opportune time.
After realizing that the local defense forces were no longer reliable enough, he sent out a request for help.
In the end, the application came to the Ascetic Chapter, and then to the Astral Knight Chapter.
After listening to what the arbiter had to say, Soshyan nodded.
"Your work is very effective. A huge conspiracy is being revealed, but I still have a question."
Soshyan took out the report, which was still on the table.
"How did you come out of that hell down there alive?"
The arbitrator was stunned for a moment, then sighed, put his hands on the table, and said in a deep voice:
"Honestly, it's hard for me to answer this question. It's really too...unbelievable, so I didn't participate in the report."
"We've all seen such incredible things, you can name them."
"It was a group of people, a group of heretics who believed in the so-called Crow Lord. They repelled the gene thieves... No, I don't feel like that. They couldn't fight against the gene thieves. I feel like it's something else."