Chapter 350, Shoot him and bring his head back
After hearing Hood's subversive speech at the banquet, and then revealing his attitude and keeping him for a long talk all night, wanting the mayor of Yancheng to have more power to supervise the city's preparations for war, Gu Hang thought that the mayor might be in danger.
Those powerful people will not let him go.
So, when Hood left, Gu Hang sent his guards to follow him.
It was originally just a precautionary measure, but it actually came in handy.
It was obvious that without the timely arrival of the Governor's Guards from the 10th Brigade, the ambushers would have almost succeeded.
They sent snipers to ambush Hood on his way home, and there was a second measure. If the sniper failed to kill him, a large group of gang members recruited as black gloves would rush out immediately to ensure Hood's death.
But unfortunately, all these methods failed in front of the Governor's Guards.
Although the Governor's Guards only had eight people, they still used long-range firepower to suppress the sniper and forced him to retreat. In order to prevent the tiger from leaving the mountain, they did not adopt a pursuit strategy, but just stayed where they were and killed the local gangs. After leaving dozens of bodies in a few minutes, the gang ran away crying.
The sniper was a very good expert, and he almost killed Hood with one shot from a long distance, which was indeed an accident. However, according to the latest situation, Hood only broke a leg, and the injury was not fatal overall.
This made Gu Hang feel much more at ease.
But then, there was a huge rage.
Sure, I'll just be in case. You really dare to do it, right?
Soon, officials from Yancheng's legal and security departments appeared in the Governor's Mansion.
Gu Hang, who was checking the subspace situation closely, had no time to deal with them personally. He came to Korojia, not alone. In addition to the governor's guards of several hundred people, he also had a confidential secretary team of about a hundred people.
These secretaries conveyed the Governor's anger. One of the psychics even intervened directly in the investigation and found the gang leader on the same day.
In the meantime, a series of things happened, including a protector within the security bureau, the gang boss refusing to reveal the mastermind behind the scenes, and a scapegoat being thrown out to appease the governor's anger.
But the Governor expressed a tough attitude towards these matters.
I don't have time to mess around with you guys, playing games like decryption and finding evidence.
I just need a list.
Coincidentally, the first batch of people that Gu Hang had recruited from the alliance had arrived.
Gu Hang confidently left this matter to Lambert Hodgson.
Gu Hang’s instructions were very simple: contact a few more trustworthy local officials, together with officials from the security department, to get the list together.
If officials from the security and legal departments do not cooperate, then put them on the list as well.
Cut the Gordian knot.
As for injustice?
If all the officials on Koroja were executed, there might be some innocent ones. If we execute every one of them, there would definitely be a lot of people who slip through the net.
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"Boss, someone has broken into the house."
"I understand." Manus nodded, still feeling a little scared.
He is the director of the Logistics and Equipment Management Department of the planetary government.
He was the one who arranged and ordered the assassination of Ezra Hood.
He admitted that this behavior was a bit reckless, but when he was named in the meeting, in front of countless people, in front of the new governor, and was ready to flee Mingyan City, he was already furious.
I wouldn't be very angry if someone accused me of something I didn't do; but if I really did it and someone pointed it out publicly, that would be the most annoying thing.
There are many bugs in the Koroja government, but bugs like him are rare.
Despicable people will often laugh at those who are even more despicable more fiercely than ordinary people.
In the face of the crisis of destruction, most people actually have one concept: they cannot run, they must fight hard.
Otherwise, two nests have already been destroyed, and if Mingyan City is destroyed, the activated city formed by the evil plague will no longer be able to resist. In the end, when the entire planet is destroyed, where can we hide?
After all, at that point, only a few people will be able to escape from this planet.
It turns out there's a traitor among us!
Now, Manus is in this embarrassing situation.
How could he not hate Hood, the man who caused this incident?
So he took action.
At the same time, he also thought that this would incur the wrath of the new governor.
But this Governor had just arrived in this world and was facing a great crisis. He did not have a strong backing like Fachs. It was said that the two worlds originally controlled by this new Governor had a combined population of only 500 million, which was equivalent to the smallest hive city on Koroja.
The new governor has so much to do, how can he have the time to pay attention to me?
When tracing back to the gang, the first person they found was the scapegoat he had thrown out.
At this point, there is finally an explanation.
What he wants is not just to get away with it.
I didn't believe that Governor Gu could solve the problem in the first place, and I had originally planned to buy more time to find ways to leave Korojia after escaping.
It's just a matter of running earlier.
It’s a pity that the large amount of weapons and equipment that he had originally intended to take away, whether they were new equipment produced by the Mingyancheng Arsenal or military aid sent by the empire, were all managed by him.
We had originally planned to take out a few train cars, but now our plans have been disrupted and we can’t take so much, so we can only take less.
What a pity.
The goods that can be carried have been arranged and will be sent out by train soon.
He himself, with a convoy of bodyguards, had already left the city through the checkpoint at the Hive Pass where they had given notice.
However, at this moment, a whistling sound came from behind.
He turned his head and saw several vehicles with the logo of the Planetary Law Department chasing after them at high speed.
He immediately felt something was wrong.
"Drive faster! Drive faster!"
"Take out the cars behind me!"
At his command, his bodyguards began to attack violently backwards.
He was an official in the Equipment Management Department, so he certainly had the ability to get a group of loyal bodyguards from the military. Even the five vehicles he took on his escape were all converted from military armored vehicles.
Some vehicles even had automatic turrets that rose to the top of the vehicles and turned to aim behind them.
However, the battery failed to successfully fire.
Suddenly, there was a loud explosion from the left rear wheel of the car, and the whole car was overturned to the side of the road.
At this moment, the doors of the vehicles with the Ministry of Justice logo opened wide, and several people jumped out of the speeding cars.
Ordinary people would inevitably be seriously injured if they jumped out of the car like this, but it was different for these people wearing exoskeletons. They just paused for a moment, and continued to run forward with inertia. They took out all kinds of weapons in their hands and fired at the armored vehicles.
The leader among them was even wearing a set of power armor.
She is relatively small, like a lady, and you can tell at first glance that she is not a Space Marine; and she is dressed in silver and black, so she is definitely not the green and white Sister Lily of Mercy.
She didn't pull out the grenade launcher from the gun bag on the side of her thigh, but instead pulled out a sword and pointed it at another armored vehicle in front of her. Her eyes flashed with a deep blue light, and in an instant, a strange power emerged from the tip of the sword. The next moment, one of the wheels of the armored vehicle suddenly exploded and fell to the ground.
During this process, she never stopped running, running faster than a vehicle in short bursts.
Following the same method, she overturned all the target vehicles.
The exoskeleton warriors beside her will then carry out the aftermath work.
The car just flipped over, but didn't explode, so there were still many survivors inside. All of these guys were pulled out, and those who dared to resist were shot.
In fact, not many people are that stupid.
It's over, why bother.
And the most important target was brought to the lady in silver-black power armor.
She took off the helmet of her power armor, revealing her beautiful face.
This is none other than the Alliance Demon Hunter - Miria de Jong.
The Alliance has produced quite a few sets of feedback power armor over the years. These power armors have been used by many people, including officers in the army, the Alliance Police, the Security Bureau, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and demon hunters.
De Jong put on one.
She is now the captain of the Demon Hunters. This time, she came to this planet with Chief Justice Lambert. Hunting down the traitor Manus is her first mission.
Her most important weapon, besides the power armor she wears, is her awakened psychic power.
When she was just trained as a demon hunter, she mastered the basic use of psychic power; later, she entered the Storm Mage Academy for further studies for half a year and officially mastered psychic power.
The means she used to overturn those armored vehicles just now were her psychic powers.
After carefully observing the face of the man kneeling on the ground, she said softly, "It has been confirmed that it is the imperial traitor Manus. Shoot him and cut off his head and take it back. Chief Justice Lambert doesn't have time to hold a public trial. He wants to just put enough heads in his office and then talk to the rest. The effect should be quite good."
Manus already felt something was wrong, and after hearing this he began to tremble with fear.
He quickly said, "Madam! Madam! Please listen to me! I am still useful, I know a lot of things..."
"No, your life is more useful."
"No, no, no! The defenders of Mingyan City are going to rebel! Their commander has a good relationship with me, I can..."
"Tsk, do I need you to tell me? Someone has already gone there." When she said this, Millia's face still looked a little ugly, as if she was unhappy for not being able to participate in the big operation over there.
As he was speaking, another demon hunter walked up behind Manus and put the muzzle of his gun against his back.
“No, no…”
“Bang!”
"Well……"
With a gunshot, Manus, who was shot through the back, fell forward to the ground. Blood flowed out from his broken chest, staining his face red, which was still full of fear and disbelief.
…
Named Yancheng, the middle-level area, the headquarters of the Chaodu Guard.
Lieutenant General Thadius entered Admiral Johnson's office under the protection of a team of Governor's guards.
His hair is completely gray, but his face is still tough. He sits behind his desk, looking quite intimidating without even getting angry.
He looked up and saw Thadius, who had the rank of lieutenant general but wore a completely different uniform from his own. He asked, "You'd better give me an explanation. It's not time for me to see you yet."
Thadius showed Johnson a piece of parchment with some words written on it, and the most important thing was the wax seal signed and stamped by the governor.
"Admiral Johnson, from this moment on, you are relieved of all command authority over the Mingyan City garrison. From now on, the defense and military construction of Mingyan City will be fully taken over by me."
"Bullshit!" Johnson slammed the table and stood up. "I am the planetary admiral! You want to fire me with a document out of thin air? You are dreaming!"
"This is the Governor's order. Your rank of Admiral and commander position are only appointed within the Planetary Defense Force system. The Governor has full authority to remove you from your post and strip you of your rank."
"How many divisions does the Governor have in Mingyan City?" Johnson said with a hint of threat, "I have been guarding Mingyan City for twenty years. Every officer here was either promoted by me or has fought with me. They respect me and love me. If I am not in this position, I am afraid the army will not be at peace. The Governor does not want the defenders of Mingyan City to be in chaos in times of crisis, right?"
Hearing this, Thadius's expression did not change.
He placed the dismissal document signed by the Governor on Admiral Johnson's desk, and then took out a booklet.
"The commander of the 31st Division of the Yancheng Garrison Army, Mateus, the commander of the 37th Division, Laurent, the commander of the 49th Division, Andre, and the commander of the 71st Division, Potowski..."
With each of these names, Johnson's expression became more gloomy.
These are almost all the generals whom he trusts and is most confident in in the army.
After reading out nearly twenty names, Thadius stopped and gave his final verdict: "They will all be dismissed."
"Impossible!" Johnson glared at Thadius, "They are all under the protection of their respective troops. How is it possible!..."
Just as he said this, a phone in his office suddenly rang.
There are several phones on the desk, and the one that rings is the least used, but also the most important. When it rings, it means something extremely urgent has happened.
Thaddeus made a gesture of invitation.
Johnson picked up the phone: "This is Johnson, please tell me what's going on..."
Then, his expression became increasingly ugly.
Until finally, the microphone fell from his hands.
He looked at Thaddeus in disbelief: "How...how is it possible? A few hours? Nineteen division commanders, you broke into the army and killed them all?"
"This is the fate of an imperial traitor. At the same time, the military court has already pronounced your treasonous behavior..."
"Wait! When was the military court on Koroja?"
"Korojia doesn't have it, but the Alliance does. Korojia is already a member of the Alliance."
“But there is no trial process!”
"I am the chief political commissar of the alliance. The highest judgment of the trial process is made by me."
"What was the outcome of the trial?"
Thaddeus pulled out a pistol and pointed it at Admiral Johnson's forehead.
"Wait! Wait! I have made contributions to the planet and shed blood for Yancheng. You can't treat me like this. I want to see the governor! I..."
“Bang!”
"...death penalty." Thadius read out the sentence softly.
Admiral Johnson, with a hole in his forehead, fell on his back.
(End of this chapter)
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