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Chapter 1832 The boiling point begins (I’ve been rolling around lately)

It must be said that the atmosphere was somewhat awkward after that. Looking at Mary who was walking in front of him in silence, Duanmu Huai didn't know what to say. Although Mary knew the relationship between her and the other girls, but...

"Mary... that is..."

"Please rest assured, Mr. Duanmu."

Mary's voice didn't even pause.

"I am just your secretary, Mr. Duanmu. I will only record everything you have experienced truthfully. This kind of thing is inevitable. I will write this paragraph in the next book and say that you are very efficient and ended the battle in just three minutes..."

"No, no, no, it should be at least twenty minutes. You can't just write it randomly."

Duanmu Huai suddenly felt why the ancient emperors could not raise their heads in front of the historians. Just kidding, if Mary really wanted to write in the book that he surrendered within three minutes, Duanmu Huai felt that it would be better to fight another hundred years of war with the Four Gods of Chaos.

You can eat whatever you want, but you can’t say whatever you want.

"Humph."

Mary snorted and didn't answer, and Duanmu Huai didn't know what to say, so he could only walk beside Mary. On the contrary, Mianmu Satori looked like she didn't care at all (she really didn't care much), jumping and skipping behind the two of them, humming a song easily, as if nothing had happened just now.

Fortunately, Mary did not dwell on this issue anymore. Instead, she took Duanmu Huai to the wall. Duanmu Huai looked at the wall carefully, then took out the divination instrument to investigate.

"Should there be a dark room at the back... an empty cave? It doesn't look like it, maybe it's some kind of secret passage."

Duanmu Huai clenched his fists while speaking, and Mary immediately reached out to cover her ears. Then, with a deafening crash, the thick metal wall that could be used to make Titan armor was directly punched through by Duanmu Huai. Then Duanmu Huai reached out his hand and tore a big crack in it like tearing brown paper, and looked inside.

"Well, it's just as I expected. A secret elevator. I don't know where it leads to... Anyway..."

Duanmu Huai poked the servo skull next to him, which he found in this mechanical shrine. After activating it, Duanmu Huai let Lumiaire control it, so that Lumiaire could assist him in this way.

"Where does this thing lead to? Can you activate it?"

"let me see."

Following Lumiel's voice, the Servo Skull flew to the elevator console and extended its mechanical tentacles.

"Well...it's specially encrypted, but it can be decrypted."

"Where does this thing lead to?"

"The 563rd lower nest area."

"By the way, why didn't I see any guards coming?"

Duanmu Huai withdrew his gaze and glanced at the still silent passage outside. He had already informed Lumiel of the situation here, and the latter should immediately inform the governor to send someone to deal with the aftermath. Although the big soldiers of the planetary defense force have always been relatively incompetent, they are not so incompetent.

"I was just about to report this to you."

Lumiel's voice was calm.

"There has been a riot in the lower hive area. The Governor has already transferred most of the guards to guard the gates and passages to prevent the riot from spreading upwards."

"Riot? What's the reason?"

"Um……………"

Lumiaire investigated.

"The apparent reason is that the tax on incense and candles has increased by 5 percent."

"Tax on incense and candles?"

Mary blinked, while Duanmu Huai shrugged and pointed to the side.

“See those candles?”

"I saw it."

These candles can be seen everywhere, especially in various religious places, and even ordinary people use them for lighting. To be honest, the whole nest looks like a big candle to Duanmu Huai, with hundreds of millions of candles burning on each floor... These candles are not only used for lighting, but also have religious significance.

"These things are subject to tax. Oh, not consumption tax, but they need to be paid separately."

"…………………"

Mary was stunned for a moment, then sighed silently.

"Oh, I see, I understand..."

"Can you understand?"

"Well, my country used to have similar taxes."

Mary recalled and explained to Duanmu Huai. "It's called the window tax. The standard of collection is determined by the number of windows in the house. If there are less than ten windows, you need to pay two shillings, if there are ten to twenty windows, you need to pay six shillings, and if there are more than twenty windows, you need to pay ten shillings... Of course, this is something that happened in the past and has been abolished now. I just didn't expect that there would be something similar in this world..."

"No matter what era, civilization, or country, exorbitant taxes are the same. In the final analysis, they are just something the higher-ups came up with to make money. If I weren't an inquisitor, I would also want to kill these idiot bureaucrats right here... Well, strictly speaking, I can kill them right now. I can find out who came up with this stupid plan, and then label them heretics for deliberately disrupting the internal order of the empire, and then burn them to death."

After Duanmu Huai finished complaining, he changed the topic back.

"Speaking of which, it's just a riot. Do we need to mobilize the guards of the upper nest area?"

In Duanmu Huai's impression, the governor basically didn't care about the lower nest area. He didn't even care if all the people in the lower nest area died... The worst that could happen was that he could just find some more people over.

"Because the scale is huge, and they also have automatic weapons of the Empire standard. Judging from the scale... it should be about the same as the missing part in the planned production."

"That would be very interesting."

Duanmu Huai chuckled.

This is indeed very interesting. In general areas, the Mechanicus are responsible for weapons production, but the weapons production efficiency of this hive city has not met expectations. And now not only have the Mechanicus here invaded the Governor's Thinkers, they have also attacked themselves, and there is even an elevator in their shrine that leads directly to the riot hive area... Well, what do these Mechanicus want to do?

Duanmu Huai thought about it and decided not to think about it anymore. No matter what those oil men wanted to do, the only thing he had to do as a judge was to destroy their jobs.

"Let's get in the elevator."

Duanmu Huai made a decision and then walked up to the elevator, followed by Mary and Mianmu Satori, and then the servo skull controlled by Lumiel. Then the elevator started quickly and fell down at a very fast speed - well, it was basically the same as falling.

However, even a flying person would stay in the air for more than ten seconds, so Duanmu Huai was not worried about this, but continued to communicate with Lumiaire.

"Now that it seems like it, how likely do you think it is that the Oil Man started this riot?"

"Very big."

Lumière's answer was quick.

"I intercepted some data flow records. Not long after we eliminated the electronic demon, a large amount of data was transmitted from the shrine to the lower nest area. I think they should have started the evacuation plan at that time, leaving only a part of the people as disguise."

"What a surprise."

Duanmuhuai snorted coldly.

"I thought these guys would use a more technical approach to attack."

"They did use it. In fact, this elevator is connected to the power system of the shrine. Once it is started, it will immediately overload the power center and blow the fuse, and then the entire shrine will be blown up. Even if we investigate, we will only find that the relay is faulty, and the sudden high power breaks through the sacred protection of the relay..."

"………………That really seems like their method. After all, they will definitely attribute it to an accident."

Duanmu Huai didn't need to ask why the oil man's trick didn't work. It would be strange if this trick worked in front of Lumiel. It must be said that the oil man had a good idea. If Duanmu Huai hadn't found the hidden elevator, then they could have made up a lot of excuses to bully others who couldn't understand their neurotic binary language.

If Duanmu Huai finds out, destroy him along with the shrine.

But unfortunately, the Oil Man's control over the machine is still far inferior to that of the Electronic Fairy.

Lumière is the expert.

"Will the communication be interrupted?"

"Don't worry, I'm using their encrypted channel."

"Brilliant."

Duanmu Huai gave a thumbs up. Indeed, the enemy might cut off the communication channel of the hive city, but they would always keep one for their own use. And this thing was completely secret in front of Lumiel.

Just then, another brisk and lively voice sounded.

"The Governor is giving a speech."

Lingnu joined the channel with a smile. Perhaps the group of enemies had no idea that their communication network had now become a tool for Duanmu Huai and others to brag and gossip.

"What did he say?"

"It's just some clichés, like asking people to stay calm, stay at home, wait for the riots to subside..."

"Keep an eye on him and his deputy. Report any unusual behavior to me immediately."

According to Duanmu Huai's experience, it is not difficult for a governor of a nest city to be corrupted. Even if he himself will not be corrupted, it does not mean that his deputy is clean. In other words, according to experience, they are generally absolutely not clean.

Soon, the elevator began to slow down, and the sound of explosions and gunfire could be heard faintly outside. Duanmu Huai silently picked up the chainsaw sword and signaled Mianmu Sanatori and Mary to prepare for battle. After all, this was the passage the oil men used to enter and exit their secret base. Considering that they even wanted to blow up the entire shrine to destroy the bodies, it can be imagined that this place is definitely not simple.

Finally, the elevator stopped and the door slowly opened.

Duanmu Huai activated the chainsaw sword and shook his head.

"Okay, let's go."