Chapter 681 A Small Civil War

Relying on past experience, officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs calculated that the population of Stromak would return to an acceptable production level within seven generations and to full production within ten generations. The tithe tax they should pay would not increase by a cent, but would not decrease by a cent either.

After browsing the document indifferently, he dipped the quill pen into the ink bottle installed on the servant's head and marked the Stromak incident as a minor loss.

It would be a fantasy to submit this document to the desk of the governor of the star region, let alone to the distant Terra.

The war in the Lord Cloud World did not reduce production, and both governors knew the bottom line of the empire.

Once the tax was cut off, the punitive fleet would come to the door, and then the political game of the two governors would be completely over.

Those in high positions would not look twice at the dirty and dim ground. There was no passage connecting the bottom of the hive city and the noble spire, and the governor would never see the miserable situation of the bottom in his life.

Even if he saw it, what would happen? The governor and his servants would not regard the poor living in the stinking ditch as their own people.

Ugh. Those yellow-green mosses, the dogs of my servants don't eat them, but you say they eat them with relish? I think they are no longer human.

War needs soldiers and more weapons. If the production equipment is not upgraded, we can only try our best to squeeze cheap manpower.

People die every day in the hive, and the most deaths are in the factory.

The family guarding the shabby shed is on the edge of the middle and bottom layers of the hive. Upward is a relatively normal life, and downward is a pit of despair that cannot be climbed out.

If the war had not broken out, the life of this family could barely be maintained.

My father was captured by the conscription officer and died in the trench. My mother huddled on the cold iron bed and coughed. She worked in the factory. When she returned home, she only had the fatigue of working for 18 hours and the cold nutrition bar in her arms.

My mother's snoring was like a dying cough. My younger sister ate half of the nutrition bar. She licked her lips with satisfaction, blinked at you, smiled and said that she was full.

Pain grows in your heart. You cover your face and go out, just wanting to find some medicine for your mother and food to fill your stomach.

Desperate, you kneel on the ground and pray. You don't know what to say, just pray blindly. After a long time, something in the void responds to you. He points you to an entrance to the underground blood fist, making your arms stronger.

You know that there is no free lunch in the world, but the existence of the void does not ask you for anything substantial.

"I just want victory and the blood of the loser."

It is normal for the underground blood fist to kill people, and it is an exception for those who don't die. You fight more and more bravely, and kill everyone else.

Your fist is embedded in another person's face. When you retract your fist, you only see the bone spurs protruding from the skin and large streams of blood.

This person may also bear the responsibility of supporting a family, but you are also unable to care about the life and death of others.

You are famous in the underground blood fist. Every time you tear a person's neck with your hands, the audience in the stands will cheer for you.

Standing among the corpses, you are bathed in blood. You have earned a lot of money and opened up connections for your mother. Now she doesn't have to work 18 hours a day, and your young sister can finally have enough food.

Another game is over, and you begin to feel that the fighting in the ring is too boring. The boss of the arena happily puts the money in your hand. You look at his smiling face silently and ask for more rewards.

The boss sneered in response, and the insults were unbearable to hear. He ordered the modified armed slaves to drive you away.

You don't want money at all, you just want to find a reason to fight. Looking at the armed slaves getting closer and closer to you, you pulled out an excited smile.

The fleet carrying the vaccine came to the Lord Cloud System. They traveled half of the way in the subspace and half of the way in the webway.

The Eldar are not unwilling to guide the fleet to sail in the webway, but the current situation of the webway is not optimistic.

Victor sacrificed the entire Gomor to start the War Ark.

The cracks caused by the destruction are slowly spreading, just like a whole piece of glass being hit hard by a hammer. The cracks extend from the impact point. It did not break into pieces, but it also left ugly glass cracks.

These cracks are displayed in the webway as large areas of space abyss.

Even after the transformation of Odmeier, human ships are still too heavy and rough compared to the Eldar cruise ships. The vibrations caused by the engine make the cracks of the webway tremble, and space debris and the edges of the ships rub against each other.

Not only that, there are more demons and monsters wandering in the webway, and they are constantly pouring in from the gaps of the destruction of Gomo.

The previous webway was a water pipe that had been in disrepair for a long time, and the seawater of the subspace slowly seeped in from the tiny holes of rust.

The current webway is a cross pipe that has been removed, and the seawater rushes into the four gaps, gradually spreading to the entire webway system.

Can the gap of Gomo be repaired? Lin Fan also asked the Eldar prophets, and they said they would first see the situation of Gomo.

Slaanesh took the prophet's soul and took a walk. When he came back, the prophet shook his head in dismay, saying that they were powerless to close the gap in Gomorro.

The webway is still usable in general, but it needs to be more careful. The Eldar cruise ships need to be vigilant and avoid the monsters crowded together. The ships of the humans and the Tau need to leave the webway every time they sail for a period of time to stabilize the trembling webway space again.

But the speed is still far faster than any traditional fleet equipped with a warp engine in the empire. According to past experience, even if the warp is very stable, it will take a year on the road.

And their fleet arrived at the edge of the Lord Cloud System in just two weeks.

Odemeier was not disappointed when she learned about the bad situation of the webway. She had never counted on the webway in her plan.

Of course, it would be better to have it, but it would not be a loss if she didn't have it. Odemeier would never put all her eggs in one basket, especially since this basket was not made by her own hands.

"In this case, we can subdivide the trade fleet, just like the train system on the ancient Earth, with regular trains, express trains, and high-speed trains. The Eldar ships that sink into the Webway are high-speed trains, responsible for transporting the most urgently needed materials and strategic intelligence. The combined fleet that is half-sunk in the Webway and half-in the Warp is the express train, responsible for the defense of the star zone and the circulation of military supplies. The Tau trade fleet that only uses the Warp to navigate is the regular train, responsible for the circulation of bulky materials, connecting various star systems in a cycle of 20 or 50 years."

Although it is still a bit crude, it is a leap forward compared to the empire that relies solely on the merchant fleet to maintain trade.

The situation of the Webway and the current navigation method