Ever since he was sent to the Hades Hive, Yarrick's life has been very difficult.
The changes in the war situation in the distance are worrying, and the situation in the hive city is even more desperate.
The garrison here is more suitable to be called security than an army. Most of the time they are either gambling in the military camp or doing other things to kill time. Some even take their servitors to hunt in the wild.
In order to rectify discipline, Yarick had to use very violent methods——
Eleven kills!
Relying on the support of the local Mechanicus, he publicly executed almost one-tenth of the garrison with strong methods, and then asked others to draw lots in class units. The people who were drawn would be killed with bayonets by others, and everyone was killed.
It must be stabbed.
Worse still, those dead would eventually become fodder for the Adeptus Mechanicus' war servitors.
With almost brutal measures, he quickly suppressed the loose atmosphere in the camp.
But this alone was not enough, because his methods were too harsh, which resulted in a very tense atmosphere among the officers and soldiers in the military camp, and even several mutinies occurred.
In order to let the soldiers truly understand the cruelty of the upcoming battle, Yarick specially found a few defeated soldiers who had escaped from the battlefield and let everyone see what they looked like - the tragic situation of those people deeply shocked the soldiers.
They, especially after learning that they would be killed if they escaped.
Afterwards, Yarick announced that all material restrictions would be lifted, and the daily rations of all soldiers would be doubled, while the supply of tobacco and alcohol would also be doubled, and death compensation would be tripled.
Under this strategy of using a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, the morale and discipline of the guards in Hades's nest have been greatly improved.
But this is still not enough. The number of guards in the Hades hive is only 300,000 at full strength. It is obviously not enough to defend such a huge hive. Yarrick must seek new strength.
It happened that he met a friend in this place——
"I've been dreaming lately."
A one-eyed man with dark skin and tattoos all over his arms was leaning on a beach chair. Next to him was Yaric, who was in casual clothes. They were sitting on a balcony with an awning.
Above their heads, the hive's unique artificial sun was burning brightly.
“I dreamed about a bunch of green monsters without buttholes messing up my house.”
As he spoke, the one-eyed man pinched a ball of white powder from the golden box hanging around his neck, then put it under his nose and inhaled, while Alex held a clay pot and poured wine into the cup.
"Oh? I thought you were fearless?"
"I didn't say I was afraid, that's your own idea."
"And after that?"
Alex asked, leaning on the lounge chair and sipping his wine.
"Those dirty, ugly farts started doing a striptease on my table, and I fucked them one by one."
After finishing speaking, the one-eyed man laughed.
Alex looked at him for a while, then suddenly changed into a serious expression.
"Meck, I need your help."
The man named Meck did not reply, but took out some more powder from the box and sucked it twice hard.
After his body trembled slightly for a few times, the man shrugged.
"You know, you are a political commissar wearing a glorious uniform, and we are all marginalized people. The glory of the God Emperor has never shone even for a moment on scum like us. We are spurned and forgotten, and can only live in a dark nest.
They are all just living at the bottom."
Mek, also known as One-Eyed Mek, is the leader of the Bloodhook Gang, the five major gangs in Hades' Hive.
Violent gangs are not a specialty of low-level hives, but they are almost always rooted in low-level hives, because only such a harsh environment can give birth to these bloodthirsty people who despise life and death.
The lower level hive is the last refuge and burial ground for the desperate people in the hive. It is also the place of exile for countless fringe characters. This area is no longer under the jurisdiction of the empire or any functional department of the planet in name and in fact.
The Ministry of Justice and the Inquisition will enter this area heavily armed to investigate cases, resist genestealer infiltration, or capture wild psykers.
Due to being separated from the control of the empire, the area has almost no official infrastructure support. All the oxygen, fuel, pure water, food and various supplies needed to survive in a giant artificial city like the hive cannot be provided by the official.
Compared to the Second Nest, which has high electricity bills but at least has water (circulated water or chemically purified water) and electricity, everything here is maintained by various unofficial forces, and these forces are called gangs.
In the Hades Hive, there are many reasons for a person to join a gang, be it debt, desire, or simply survival.
But no matter what the reason is, in the end, if they want to survive, they can only fight each other for limited resources. All kinds of domestic garbage in the upper hive will flow down from high places through pipes, slide rails or simply the outline of old ruins.
These endless "garbage streams" slope to the lowest level of the hive city like a long black river, and residents along the way will set up various collection tools like fishing nets to screen out valuable things, including metals and synthetic polymer materials.
, leftovers, electronic waste.
It is not easy to obtain these resources, and it is even more difficult to protect these resources. Many gangs are formed just to protect a section of the "river".
But there are also some people with great foresight. They are not limited to making a living by collecting garbage. They look further and realize that there are more profitable jobs in the low-level hives without law.
For example, smuggling contraband, including alien creations, illegal drugs, illegally modified servitors, etc.——
The main business of the Blood Hook Gang is to smuggle illegal drugs, so they often appear in middle-level and even upper-level hives.
Yarick also met this man by chance. Although he usually didn't like this drug leader, now he also needed this man's connections - Meck's business was connected to almost all large gangs.
"What's going on now has nothing to do with identity or status."
Alex put down his glass.
"Those are aliens. There is only one voice in their heads, kill, kill everything that is not green-skinned. No one will be spared."
"Maybe we could try painting the skin green?"
Meck shrugged, then smiled:
"Of course, I'm joking."
"Meck, time is very tight. I can provide you with weapons. I only need you to provide the most fierce warriors. I don't care what his previous identity was, whether he is a murderer or a heretic. As long as he can fight against the greenskins, I guarantee
, let bygones be bygones."
According to Yarick's estimation, at least three million troops are needed to complete the defense deployment of the entire hive city, and these three million troops cannot be the kind of soldiers who are temporarily pulled onto the battlefield and tremble after firing two shots. They must be
The kind of soldier who has seen blood and is ruthless.
Originally, according to his character, even if he worked hard and spent time training ordinary citizens, he would not want the scum at the bottom of the hive city, but now time is indeed too tight - according to the report of the reconnaissance team, the green-skinned vanguard has already approached the hive city.
kilometers.
With no other choice, he could only seek help from the hive capital gangs, hoping that these people would understand the truth that eggs are never left intact when a nest is overturned.