Chapter 966, Eleven Kills
"…responsible for overseeing the inventory and transfer of former Dark Eldar assets, coordinating the Eldar's cooperation with municipal reconstruction, and ensuring that the Veil Spirit Gate system meets Alliance standards…"
"...Today we need to inspect the two Soul Box Repositories and establish records; we also need to oversee the progress of the Haemolecton Laboratory's takeover..."
"...Most of the assigned department officials haven't arrived yet. I need to meet them first to see what their level is like before I start arranging their work..."
Shang Yanwen had many things on his mind, but he didn't feel a headache, he just felt excited.
There was a lot to do on my first day in office.
He is a supervisor. Logically speaking, unless it is a particularly important task that he needs to handle personally, otherwise, under normal circumstances, he should focus more on management work, such as formulating strategies, arranging work, conducting research, reading reports, etc.
Otherwise, no matter how capable he is, he cannot handle each specific matter by himself.
However, the current problem lies in the low rate of official attendance. The Comoros Special Region holds a very high status and is crucial to the overall strategy of the alliance. The entire administrative structure is a team drawn from the best personnel from all over the alliance.
This was true for Shang Yanwen, as well as his leader, Governor Xia Xingze. This man, having moved from the position of Chairman of the Qianjin Realm to Director of the Alliance Central Commerce Department, could be considered one of the Alliance's most important officials. If he continues on this path, he could even become a permanent member of the Alliance Cabinet, the highest authority in the Alliance.
In fact, if Xia Xingze does well in his position as Governor of Comoros, he will be a strong contender in the next cabinet re-election.
This is true not only for those who hold leadership positions, but also for those who work below them.
However, many government officials and administrative officers had to come from all over the universe. Some of them were so far away that even if they went to the nearest Veil Spirit Gate, it would still take a long time.
Before the staff were in place, Shang Yanwen naturally had to do a lot of work himself.
In fact, it is a good thing to some extent.
He was used to personally completing specific tasks when taking on a job. Without frontline work experience, it would be difficult to be a leader.
Then let’s deal with today’s affairs one by one.
The first thing is to check and liquidate the two soul box warehouses.
…
The Dark Eldar's Soul Box is the secret to their immortality.
That is like an archive of their souls. They will place the soul's primer there and then put the soul into a body that is compatible with their soul.
When they died outside, their souls would be drawn back into the Soul Box. After a short recovery, as long as they had a new body, their souls could be taken out again and placed into the new body, thus completing a resurrection.
The Dark Eldar can do this, resurrecting thousands of times and achieving theoretical immortality.
Of course, there's always a day of true death. After all, their technology isn't perfect. Not to mention the soul damage every time they die, or the long period of weakness each new body needs to adapt to. Just to put it simply—if they're cut off from the soul box at the time of death, the box won't be able to draw their soul back.
For the Dark Eldar who cannot return, their souls have only one place left to go: the realm of Slaanesh.
From this perspective, the Soul Box of the Dark Eldar is very important to them.
Now, for the Eldar resistance in Comoros and the fleeing Eldar, the most important thing they take with them when they run away may not even be their own lives, but their soul boxes.
As for those Eldar who surrendered to the Alliance, the actual manifestation of surrender was naturally handing over the Soul Box to the Alliance for management.
As the third-in-command, Shang Yanwen's primary responsibility was to oversee the surrendered Dark Eldar. Naturally, managing their Soul Boxes was a top priority. He had a department under him called the Resurrection Administration, specifically responsible for preparing for the future resurrection of the Dark Eldar.
If the "loyal" Dark Eldar want to be resurrected in the future, they must submit an application to the Alliance and obtain approval from the Alliance government.
These soul boxes were currently under the control of the Alliance Army. Whenever a family's soul box storage hall was filled with soul boxes, there would often be a unit of Alliance Army stationed there.
Now, Shang Yanwen had to count these and then, under the protection of the army, transport the Soul Boxes to a unified management center for storage. After storage, they would be registered. Only those Dark Eldar who had completed the Soul Box registration would have "basic human rights" in the Alliance.
It is the basic right not to be easily killed if you don't make mistakes, just like the four female slaves who cleaned the floor when he just stepped into the door of the government building.
However, something went wrong with his first job.
When he led his men to complete the preliminary inventory of the Mindala family's soul box library and prepared to ship the information and soul boxes away, a painful scream came from the ventilation duct!
Shang Yanwen was pinned down behind an alloy counter by his security chief, Vikas, captain of the Angels of Execution. Three poison-laced arrows pierced the spot where he had been standing, corroding the ground with a hissing sound.
Twelve Eldar in shadow camouflage broke through the stained glass window and jumped in. Their sharp blades split the chests of the two clerks, and hot blood splattered on the data screen.
"For Victor!" The resistance leader's battle cry was cut short by the roar of his chainswords. Four Executioner Angels slammed into their formation, casually firing explosives, blasting the attackers' upper bodies into a bloody mist, while their chainswords chopped each attacker into pieces.
Shang Yanwen saw that the Eldar holding the flag of the other side seemed to be a young man, who was nailed to the sacrificial pillar by a power sword, and his struggling feet scratched bloody marks on the silver pillar; he also saw that the bravest female warrior among the enemies used a scimitar to cut off the arm armor of the Space Marine, and the next second her cervical vertebra was crushed by a backhand.
The battle ended in a very short time, and there were three captives left, who were captured by the angels of execution.
After a brief interrogation, Vikas gave the order: "Execute."
His voice was chilling through the holes in his visor. As the chainsaw sword pierced the Eldar's body, it pulled out blue-purple organs, and the dull sound of the saw teeth crushing spines mixed with the scorching smell of burning flesh.
This is not just physical annihilation.
The weapons of the Angels of Execution are equipped with special devices created by the Inquisition and the Mechanicus. At close range, any Dark Eldar killed by their weapons will gain complete 'freedom'.
While wiping the blood off his power armor, Vikas explained to Shang Yanwen: "These aliens blew up the pipelines in the East District, rendering our newly drawn pipeline map ineffective. They may have sneaked in through those pipelines."
Shang Yanwen stood up, but his expression didn't change much.
He thought for a moment and shook his head slightly.
After a whole team of human soldiers hurried over, he demanded that all members of the small family of Mindala be brought over.
The family's regent, Insel, groveled before Shang Yanwen.
But at this moment, the civilian official seemed extremely ruthless: "I believe this attack is inseparable from you. This is your territory. I suspect there are sympathizers of the rebels among you."
"Absolutely impossible!" Insel's body trembled. "You have no evidence to..."
"I only ask you to hand over the murderer." Shang Yanwen raised a finger.
"I..." Insel understood what he meant and said with a pale face, "I will give you a satisfactory answer and find the murderer for you."
"Not one." Shang Yanwen said, "It's one hundred."
Insel's expression turned even paler.
His family has a total of no more than 900 people.
"I did it!" Insel's son stood up, "It has nothing to do with anyone else..."
"Muir!" Insel shouted, but was interrupted by the sound of a bomb exploding.
It was Vikas who opened fire.
He had received Shang Yanwen's advance order and shot Insel's son without any hesitation.
Shang Yanwen continued to say to Insel: "There are still ninety-nine to go."
Insel clenched his fists, but eventually loosened them weakly.
Although he himself had a vague suspicion that his son might have been connected to the resistance, providing intelligence and lurking opportunities, and taking advantage of the arrival of Shang Yanwen, a high-ranking official of the Alliance, to carry out the assassination, he was also prepared to hand the son over if he couldn't handle it, but he had no choice but to save his family at this cost.
But his son has already stepped forward and accepted death, so is it still necessary to do this?
What does Shang Yanwen mean by this?
Eleven draws?!
But... killing them in a flash is better than killing them all.
…
Sitting in the car on the way back, Shang Yanwen looked calm, but in fact, he was still a little frightened.
If Vikas had been a little slower, he would have really died.
But he killed people not just to avenge himself.
Bloody examples must be presented.
This time, in addition to the soul boxes of all the living people in the Mindala family, all their members will be brought back by the human army and preserved together.
He had lunch on a terrace overlooking the ruins of a theater. As Shang Yanwen chewed his synthetic steak, the Mindala family's surrender ceremony was underway in the square below. Over eight hundred people formed a circle, watching ninety-nine of their own kind kneel on the ground. Their soul boxes had been selected and placed before them, to be crushed one by one by an angel of execution.
Every time one was crushed, a kneeling Eldar would fall silently to the ground.
Their weapons and equipment had long been confiscated, and they were unable to resist at all.
In such a desperate atmosphere,
A young Eldar suddenly pounced on the Angel of Execution, but his head was kicked in pieces with just one kick.
Shang Yanwen saw all of this. His face, with its deep wrinkles, was reflected on the clean metal cutlery.
The young man who was searching for food in the garbage dump a hundred years ago now controls the fate of countless dark elves.
(End of this chapter)
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