Chapter 409, Who will judge? Governor Gu!
There was one thing that Blevins and his men were not sure of.
What would Martins think if he knew that they were not dead and had been wandering around for so many years, and even became pirates?
They couldn't believe it even more about the alliance.
Hence, there has been a series of recent activities.
Of course, Blevins didn't want to make the situation like this at the beginning. The best result would be to sneak into the Wrathful Star and secretly meet Martins.
But obviously, they didn't have that chance.
The current Wrathful Owl Star has a well-developed observatory, with specialized psychics on duty, a defense zone with a fortress starport as the core, and numerous armed space stations and firepower platforms as auxiliary. The surface is also equipped with anti-orbital firepower that can cover the entire planet, and there is also an alliance fleet cruising outside...
Given their current conditions, there was really no way they could sneak in.
They could only move around on the periphery, and as time went by, the situation became what it is now.
It’s not impossible.
…
Martins arrived much faster than expected.
Moreover, the movements are much sharper.
Blevins didn't want to be ambushed, and he didn't want the two sides to start fighting before he could even say a word. He didn't want to see a few people die on either side.
However, Martins obviously would not be polite to him.
Blevins and his men did not leave any clues. For them, the best result was to avoid being discovered, and then they could take the initiative and contact Martins.
However, their idea soon failed.
Martins's level is certainly not worse than theirs. Moreover, Martins has a large number of troops under his command, not to mention the reliable soldiers of the Angry Bear Legion. Even those Saturnians, even if the governor is dead, will be under the banner of the Empire and under the coercion of the Alliance Army, driven by the real Emperor Angels. They are locals and have a better understanding of the local situation.
Martins quickly found the abandoned landing spacecraft, and then based on the time of abandonment, the surrounding terrain, and his understanding of Blevins, he quickly locked on some possible locations.
There are actually many possibilities of this kind, but it doesn’t matter. Martins has enough manpower to mobilize and explore and block every place.
Until someone witnessed the sentry that Blevins had set out.
The witnesses did not launch an attack. The order they received was just to conduct reconnaissance. If they saw something, they just had to report the intelligence back.
The traitors did not take the initiative to attack, because it was meaningless. What would happen if they killed the witnesses? If there was a battle, death, or even just disappearance, their hiding place would undoubtedly be exposed.
Run away quickly!
The entire team quickly began to move.
However, they found themselves surrounded.
The team’s first decision was to fight their way out of the encirclement.
But this is not easy.
Even in their eyes, the Angry Bear Legion was considered a strong Star Army unit. Breaking out of their encirclement was not as difficult as the planetary defense army they had destroyed before.
In the battle of the Red Arrow Galaxy, they were able to do this mainly because they caught the Alliance troops off guard. At that time, the Alliance Marines had no idea what kind of opponent they were facing, and they still fought with the mentality of fighting regular pirates.
Even if there were some elite mortals wearing feedback power armor, when they were quickly broken through, they had no positions, lacked anti-armor weapons, and could not open the cans, so they naturally escaped smoothly.
But now, the Alliance forces that had arrived had a pretty good idea of what they might be facing.
This group of Angry Bear Legion already has traces of melta weapons, plasma weapons, and heavy bolters in their hands. They are also generally equipped with some armored vehicles. The most powerful one is naturally the Lion tank.
These things are all capable of threatening the Space Marines. Any one of them, if it hits them, will be fatal.
The damage they can cause is relatively limited. It's okay to hit ordinary soldiers, but the Lion tank is not an ordinary tank made by some worlds. They currently lack weapons to fight against this heavy Astra Militarum armor. The Lion's armor cannot be penetrated by bolters or cut by chainswords, but they can kill a Space Marine with one shot.
In the past thirty years, they have basically avoided such opponents.
Right now, if they really fight, breaking through is not completely impossible, but they may have to sacrifice the lives of some soldiers.
There are only eight of them. Who would fight against such an armed imperial regular army?
Seeing that the Star Army had no intention of shrinking the encirclement and was only strengthening the blockade further, they roughly understood what the other party meant.
Just waiting for Martins to arrive.
To be honest, they were very uneasy.
Their original initiative was lost, and now they are lambs to be slaughtered.
It was fine now, and they could even choose to break out, even if half of them had to die, at least they had a chance. When Martins arrived with a bunch of new Phoenixes, they wouldn't even have a chance to run.
However, after careful consideration, they gave up this first reaction.
Forget it, just stay here and wait for Martins to come.
Even if they choose to break out now, with half of their men dead, how can they escape Martins' pursuit in this desert?
Amid the anxious wait, Martins arrived.
Of course he did not come alone, there were fifty new Phoenix warriors accompanying him.
In addition to the Phoenix, there were also a group of elite warriors. Although these people were just normal people in terms of body size, not as visually oppressive as the big guys who were over 2.2 meters tall, they were definitely not easy to deal with. They all wore feedback power armor with the logo of the Alliance.
There are hundreds of such people.
When this group of people, led by Martins in the Terminator, began to tighten the encirclement and approached their hiding place, every defector knew clearly that there was no need to fight.
Their next orders will all depend on the outcome of the trial.
But despite this, they did not relax too much.
They set up a small defensive position at the entrance of the sand cave where they were hiding.
When Martins and his men approached this place, a gun fired and a bomb hit the open space on the route of Martins and his men, which was a full warning.
Martins did not stop for a moment.
His roar penetrated the defense line through the breathing mask of his helmet.
"Blevins! I know you're in there! Get out and see me!"
The eight traitors were silenced.
It’s not that this shout is so scary, it’s just... Brother, there are so many outsiders around, won’t they know everything if you shout?
Blevins himself was a little caught off guard.
Am I not a stain on the phoenix?
Why are you so loud?
Are you afraid that others don’t know?
Before they could react from their daze, Martins spoke again: "You have betrayed the Empire, betrayed the Chapter, and betrayed all the brothers who sacrificed their lives in the Atonement Crusade! You traitors! Deserters! How dare you appear before me! Get out here and die!"
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One of the traitors said to Blevins next to him, "Why don't you get out of here right away? If he continues to shout like that, the regiment will lose face."
After saying this, he felt a little embarrassed, as if it was Martins who betrayed.
Blevins hadn't expected that either.
Even just now, he imagined that Martins only brought the Phoenix Space Marines to the cave entrance, and then just had a secret talk inside the regiment. No matter whether the result of the talk was life or death, at least the matter was resolved within the regiment.
How could he have imagined that he, a traitor, was still thinking about not making the family's dirty laundry public, while Martins was howling all over the world!
He had no choice but to walk out.
No weapons, because it makes no difference.
Under Martins' gaze, he stepped forward and made a friendly gesture: "I want to talk to you..."
But what greeted him was Martins' fist!
The power armor deliberately made the ground bang, and Martins quickly walked up to him and punched him in the face.
The output of the Terminator power armor was so great that it directly hit him so hard that his head became dizzy. When he came to his senses, he was already lying on the ground, with Martins' foot on his chest.
He reached his hands behind Blevins' head, pressed a clip on the back of his head and on both sides, and then pulled it upward with force to take off Blevins' helmet, revealing the face underneath.
It was a weathered face.
Martins also took off the mask of the Terminator armor, and the two finally looked at each other face to face.
There was a complex expression in his eyes, but it was soon replaced by anger:
"Blevins, it's you..." Martins lowered his head, and the two of them moved closer together: "Why didn't you die in Carlocaster?"
Blevins laughed: "Death? Why?"
"You, and those cowardly traitors in the cave, are a disgrace to the Chapter if you live!"
"Yes, we are a disgrace. But are we the ones who should be ashamed? The Expedition of Atonement! The Expedition of Atonement! They want us all to die! Why? Why? Hasn't the Phoenix made enough contributions in these countless years?! Why should we be labeled as one faction just because of the Bauhinia Rebellion?"
"Besides, is Bauhinia wrong? Are we wrong? Isn't it Iron Armor who is wrong?"
"Why are we wrong? Because we lost the fight? Losing means we are wrong, right?"
Blevins roared these words, making Martins even angrier.
He punched again.
Blevins's head was immediately broken and bleeding.
But this was Martins saving his strength.
Otherwise, the naked head would be smashed into a rotten watermelon under the Terminator's heavy punch, even if the Space Marine's skull was much harder than that of an ordinary person.
After silencing Blevins with a punch, Martins said, "There's no point in quibbling, Blevins. I'm not here to talk to you about the past. I'm here to cleanse the shame of the Chapter and bring justice to you damned traitors!"
"Whatever you say, winning is right, and now you win."
Blevins spoke with blood all over his face, but after a moment, his expression turned hesitant, even with a hint of pleading: "You can do whatever you want to me. You can judge me and I will accept any verdict. All sins are mine, but the others... let them go. They were all bewitched by me in the first place. Now they can return to the regiment. They are all the best warriors..."
"When did you learn to daydream?" Martins said, "Phoenix is always the most loyal hero. We accepted the judgment of the Empire, we went through the Atonement Crusade, we endured every test given to us by the Emperor, and paid countless prices for it. Now we have cleared everything, and you cowards who became deserters in the Atonement Crusade, gave up your honor, and betrayed your blood relatives, actually dare to dream of continuing to associate with us? It's ridiculous!"
"Heh..." Blevins sneered, but he couldn't say anything else on this matter.
However, he has not forgotten the most important thing about this meeting.
"But I still have to warn you, we're not the only ones who are alive."
"What's the meaning?"
Blevins lowered his voice so that only the two of them could hear, and said, "Zhong Jihua and the others are still alive. They believed in Chaos and integrated and accepted other traitors. Now, they call themselves the 'Ashes of the Dead'..."
Hearing this, Martins was shocked.
"The dead in Ashes...are they from Zhong Jihua's group?"
"Yes."
It took Martins a while to digest this information.
He said to Blevins sarcastically, "It seems that there is some difference among you traitors, right?"
Blevins turned his head and spat out a mouthful of blood: "Whatever you say."
Martins pulled him up by the top of his breastplate, then turned around and shouted towards the cave entrance: "The rest of you, come out! Put down your weapons, take off your armor, and surrender unconditionally. I will take all of you back to the monastery of the regiment."
"You will be interrogated there, and you must truthfully confess every crime you have committed after your shameful betrayal of the Empire and the Chapter. Then, you will receive a fair verdict and pay the due price for the thirty years of atonement expedition you missed, for your desertion, and for all the new crimes you committed after leaving the Chapter."
Blevins spoke with difficulty, "Don't be so pretentious. You are the Chapter Master now. Just tell me what you want to say. Otherwise, who else is qualified to judge all this?"
"Governor Gu."
"……ah?"
Blevins was confused.
(End of this chapter)
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