Chapter 354: Warhammer: What Do You Mean You Conquered the Zerg

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

After thinking for a moment, he straightened his collar and took a deep breath.

Then he turned around and walked back toward the banquet hall.

When Lin En returned to the banquet hall, Dominic was standing on a table, holding a huge wine barrel, shouting at the officers around him.

"Drink! All of you drink! No one leaves until drunk!"

Seeing Lin En return, Dominic immediately jumped down from the table, took big strides to Lin En's front, and patted his shoulder.

"Kaili, where did you run off to? I looked for you for ages and couldn't find you!" Dominic said in a carefree manner.

"Were you secretly hiding to drink?"

"How could that be, Dominic Adult." Lin En smiled and gave a casual excuse.

"The captain of the Peak Black Radiance sent me a communication earlier about some trivial fleet supply matters; I handled them and came back."

"Hey, such a small matter, just let the people below handle it!" Dominic said, waving his hand nonchalantly.

"Today is a victory banquet, no talk of work! Come, drink!"

Saying this, Dominic stuffed a cup full of wine into Lin En's hand.

"Bottoms up!"

Lin En smiled helplessly, raised his cup, clinked it with Dominic's, and downed it in one gulp.

"Good!" Dominic laughed heartily, then turned to drink with the other officers.

Lin En watched Dominic's cheerful back, and the smile at the corner of his mouth gradually faded.

"So much trouble..."

Early the next morning, before dawn, the fleet was already fully prepared.

According to plan, the Tithe Fleet and the main force of the Brevis Expedition Fleet would return to Brevis.

Only a few cruisers and escort ships were left, stationed respectively at Dolido Planet and Kal II Space Station, responsible for alert and patrol.

"Depart!"

With a single order from Dominic, dozens of Imperial warships started their engines simultaneously.

The massive fleet formed neat formations, quickly left the orbit of Dolido Planet, and headed toward Brevis.

This return journey was unusually smooth, encountering no remaining Green Skin forces and suffering no Chaos attacks.

Three days later, the fleet finally arrived at the Brevis Star System.

When that huge Nest Planet of Brevis appeared outside the porthole, the entire fleet boiled over.

Countless nobles spontaneously gathered around the starport, waving Imperial flags and fresh flowers, welcoming the triumphant heroes.

Along the roads of Upper City of Brevis Main Hive, crowds of cheering people were packed.

They scattered petals and shouted Lin En and Dominic's names loudly.

"Long live Governor Kerry!"

"Long live Major General Dominic!"

"Long live the Emperor!"

Passionate cheers shook the clouds.

Dominic sat in an open-top gravity car, looking at the enthusiastic crowd along the roadside, his face full of spring breeze.

He kept waving to the crowd, his face beaming with a brilliant smile.

Dominic said somewhat excitedly to Lin En beside him.

"This is the people's adoration; to fight for the Empire, to fight for the Emperor, is the greatest glory of a warrior!"

Lin En smiled and nodded, also waving to the crowd.

But his gaze inadvertently swept across the corner of the street.

There, several pale-faced, dull-eyed commoners stood silently in the shadows, watching the celebrating crowd.

Lin En's gaze turned cold.

The plague had already begun to spread.

This grand celebration ceremony was nothing but the calm before the storm.

To thank Dominic, this "heaven-sent savior," Lin En specially ordered that a life-sized bronze statue of Dominic be built at the west gate of the Upper City Square of Brevis Main Hive.

When Lin En told Dominic this news, Dominic quickly waved his hand and said with feigned humility:

"Oh, Governor Kerry, you're too polite; this small matter doesn't deserve such a big fuss!"

But his sparkling eyes betrayed his true inner thoughts.

From the day the statue construction began, Dominic would sneak to the square whenever he had free time, watching his statue take shape bit by bit.

Sometimes he would point at the craftsmen, saying this needed changing and that needed fixing, striving for perfection.

Seeing Dominic's smug look, Lin En couldn't help but find it amusing.

This Navy Rear Admiral, though sometimes reckless and fond of showing off, was essentially a pure Imperial soldier.

Without him, the Green Skin problem on Dolido would absolutely not have been resolved so smoothly.

Erecting a statue for him could be considered an affirmation of his achievements.

However, beneath this city-wide celebratory facade, a corrupt plague was quietly surging.

Lin En stood before the window of the Governor's Mansion, looking at the brightly lit city below, and let out a light sigh.

Brevis, truly beset by calamities.

First the Green Skin Invasion, then the Chaos assault, and now a plague has broken out.

When will true peace finally arrive?

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Indeed, just as Lin En Expected.

One week after the Fleet returned in triumph, news of the Lower Hive plague could no longer be covered up.

Even with the Butcher and the Gene Thief Sect controlling things in the dark, the plague was still spreading at an astonishing speed.

In just one week, tens of millions in the Lower Hive had turned into mindless Waa'gh.

Countless infected wandered the streets of the Lower Hive, attacking every Missing Person they saw.

To prevent the plague from spreading beyond the Lower Hive, the Governor's Mansion had no choice but to order the blockade of all passages leading to the Middle Hive and Upper City.

The Lower Hive had thoroughly become an isolated island.

Blazing fires burned in every Corner of the Lower Hive; those were the Epidemic Prevention Force burning the corpses of the infected and Contaminated buildings.

Rolling Black Smoke enveloped the chaotic Lower Hive, Despair spreading like a Tide.

The entire City had fallen into Panic.

Residents of the Middle Hive and Upper City also began hoarding food and water one after another, worried that the Lower Hive's situation would eventually spread upward.

The Operation of the entire Brevis was affected.

News of the plague quickly reached Dominic's ears.

In fact, Dominic originally did not want to meddle in other people's business.

In His View, no matter how many people died in the Lower Hive, it had nothing to do with him.

His main Quest was still to collect the Tithe.

However, this plague might threaten the Soldier Source quality of the Tithe.

Brevis must transport thirty billion Recruits to the Navy this time.

Before these thirty billion Recruits are assigned to various Battlefields, they will be densely crammed onto transport ships.

If Incubation Period infected are mixed among these Recruits, the Consequence is unthinkable.

Perhaps only a few infected would be enough to ruin millions of Soldier Source on a single ship.

And the Virus might be brought to other Planets of the Empire, triggering an even greater disaster.

Thinking of this, Dominic could no longer sit still.

He immediately sent someone to summon Lin En to his Temporary Residence.

When Lin En arrived, Dominic was irritably pacing back and forth in the Room.

His Eyebrow was tightly Locked, his face gloomy.

"Kaili, what exactly is going on?" Seeing Lin En enter, Dominic immediately stopped his Footsteps and asked.

"How did the Lower Hive plague happen? Why is it so severe?"

Lin En's face also revealed an expression of Fatigue and Headache.

He rubbed his temples and said helplessly: "Dominic Adult, I also did not know things would become like this."

"At first, we thought it was just an ordinary epidemic and did not pay too much attention."

"But Unexpectedly, this Virus turned out to be so troublesome."

"You also know the Lower Hive's Environment — dense population, extremely poor sanitation, and chaotic management."

"Some minor troubles are normal; by the time we Discovered something was wrong, it was already too late."

"You know, trying to Conduct epidemic prevention work there is simply as difficult as ascending to heaven."

In fact, Lin En had already described things very lightly, for a place like the Lower Hive.

The Terrifying degree of the Nurgle Plague far exceeds Imagination; if not for the Lena Swarm discovering it early and Striking to intervene.

The current number of infected in the Lower Hive could possibly be ten times higher.