Chapter 218 210. The first person no one expected
The clouds were dim and exuded a pungent chemical smell. On the turbid earth, dirty buildings like termite nests were bloated and crowded together, reaching into the sky.
Standing on the desolate to barren plain and looking out, the black nest city in the distance is like a series of mountains, majestic and dirty.
Hades blinked hesitantly, then tried to take off his helmet and took a deep breath -
well, it was poisonous.
Hades smiled bitterly and put on his helmet again. The Death Guard was on a collision course with the poison gas.
To become a hive planet, the first thing that must be sacrificed is the ecological environment.
The waste gas produced by the factory is continuously discharged into the sky, forming the hazy atmosphere of Galaspa all year round. The waste water is discharged into the river. Now any water source on this planet is highly acidic.
Humans will not try to control the environment. It is too wasteful and unnecessary. The interior of the hive city has its own unique ecological environment, and many people will never step out of the hive city in their lifetime. Naturally, there is no need to control the environment outside the hive city. to manage deadly environments.
After a few generations, it will be even less necessary. For them, this is the normal sky and normal earth of Galaspa.
Hades lowered his eyes and glanced at the dirty and barren land under his feet. The heavy metal content exceeded the standard and even contained radioactivity.
Hades thought silently in his heart that if he could transform Garaspa, the conclusion would be unrealistic.
Barbarus can still get a lot of investment by relying on the political identity of the original body's home planet. Coupled with the star ring that was vigorously built when the empire first arrived, Barbarus's construction can be done with half the effort.
And the small population of Barbarus makes relocation and large-scale environmental modification a feasible thing.
If it's a bit difficult to transform Galaspa, let him think again.
Moreover, the transformation must also pay attention to efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Currently, the most cost-effective solution is to maintain the original state and then directly allow Galaspa to enter its previous full power production state.
Unlike Barbarus, Galaspa's transformation may be lengthy.
Hades sighed deeply. He looked at Gallo in front of him and motioned for Gallo to take him into the main nest.
If the hive city looks like a mountain of garbage from a distance, then when you walk into its bottom floor, you will be surprised to find that it is actually a mountain of garbage.
Except for the important factory area and the upper nest, the rest of the place is a mess. Dark construction waste materials are piled randomly in the corners of the endless shacks. The smell of rotting excrement flows along the corners, and There were a mixed number of crudely built shacks and holes dug in the walls. Looks of panic and respect emerged from inside, but they lowered their heads tremblingly.
Those are the inhabitants of Lownest, they live and die here.
Under the helmet, Hades frowned. He had seen the barrenness of Barbarus. It was a kind of desolation in the wilderness, the struggle between man and nature, and the struggle for survival.
Galaspa presents another kind of bloated hardship. People are crowded together, living becomes non-consumption, stagnating for survival, and slowly entering death.
Although Galaspa, which has a large population, is a geomantic treasure for the empire, and the numerous nests mean a steady flow of population, it may not be a good thing for the locals.
Hades thought silently in his heart. The first step is to reduce the population density. Druun can move a large number of people, and Barbarus can also accommodate a group of people. Barbarus's casting satellite Mitt is also short of people, and The expansion of the legion can also share part of the population pressure.
As for the legion that may not absorb many people?
When fighting begins, there is no such concern.
The second step is to simply improve the environment near the hive city and migrate the population of the hive city to the surrounding plains to further slow down the process.
The third step is to cooperate with the Mechanicus to further modify the hive city and install water purification devices and garbage disposal areas.
In the previous transformation of Galaspar, the Mechanicus gave priority to restoring the factory area that had been shut down due to the Death Guard attack - these oil guys did not care about the living area unless the population was so poor that it affected the production progress.
The fourth step is to build a hive city system, fill in the hive city relationship system, and establish a balanced hive city ecology, both in terms of environment and humanities.
As he moved forward in the nest city, Hades also roughly figured out what needed to be done in Galaspa. Although these were only a drop in the bucket, they could at least relieve some of the pressure of survival.
[Commander Hades, here we are. 】
Jialuo's voice came from the channel, and they arrived on a cliff in the nest.
This is a recruiting location for the Death Guard in Galaspa. The recruits need to start from the Sour River on the edge of the hive, trek along the Sour River, cross the garbage dump, and finally climb up the cliff.
The time limit is three days. Bring your own dry food and equipment. Although the Death Guard is more relaxed in terms of equipment, this trial may be longer than the selection on Barbarus.
Moreover, there is a high probability that the current hive people will not be able to obtain any decent equipment.
There are two pharmacists in the middle of the journey. They are within walking distance of one-day and two-day treks. If you participate in the treatment, you will automatically abstain by default. There are also pharmacists at the end, but they are for the treatment of those who advance. Due to the large number of people, other places There is no pharmacist.
To be fair, Hades felt that Garaspa's trial might be more stringent, but facing the Garaspans whose numbers far exceeded Barbarus, he could only do this.
Even though there has been a large expansion of enrollment in Galaspa, from a proportional point of view, more Galaspa people still have to be screened out.
Hades sighed as he thought of bad things.
The place where he is standing now is the trial selection location. If the trial selection process is feasible, then the thirty-seven recruitment points set up in the Galaspa galaxy will start the selection simultaneously.
The trial selection route is the longest and most difficult, but the Death Guard also promises that these successful candidates will get more opportunities within the legion, which leads to many people participating in the preliminary selection.
The Death Guard has not registered for this. It is free to participate, as long as healthy males of appropriate age are required. There are too many people, but the Death Guard will distribute rations to each participant for at least a week.
Garaspa's recruitment was more chaotic than Barbarus's.
Hades sighed again. Compared to Barbarus, who had a good crowd base, Galaspa still had to go through a relatively chaotic stage.
【here we go. ]
Jia Luo's voice came from the channel. Hades turned around in place, sighed, and chose to sit on the edge of the cliff, half-cupping his chin, waiting for the first arrival with wide eyes.
What no one expected was that the first arrival was a woman.
Hades opened his mouth in disbelief. He saw the swaying, thin figure staggering through the garbage mountain. Half of the man's left calf was gone, and yellow and white pus was still dripping from the broken leg. water.
Could this be a follower of Nurgle?
This was Hades's first reaction. He tentatively diluted the black area and reached over. He was surprised to find that although the man's soul was so small that it was about to be extinguished, it was extremely bright and uncontaminated.
【How is this going? 】
Jialuo's voice sounded, and Hades swallowed. Under the penetrating light of the helmet, they could clearly see the organs, complete ovaries and uterus in the dirty man's body. That was a female.
[Did you mention men when recruiting? ]
[I said it, emphasized it very clearly. 】
Then. Then what does she want to do?
The person staggered, almost falling to the ground, but she still walked to the edge of the cliff. She tied the severed limbs with tattered cloth strips, and then casually scratched up the dried lumps of garbage on the ground. In hand.
She was increasing the friction on her hands.
The man began to try to climb. Hades watched her climb in fear. What on earth was she doing?
Hades waved his hand to stop Gallo from scolding the woman. As the first person in the selection, Hades could at least give her some respect.
The filthy hand stretched out from the edge of the cliff. Hades stood up and stepped back, waiting for the first person to be selected.
This is a woman with gray hair. Not only does her gender not match her, but her age does not match her. She is obviously too old for a teenager.
Some leprosy spots corroded by chemicals are scattered on her face, which makes her facial features blurred. She may be very beautiful.
After seeing Hades, the man began to cry on his knees, wiping the tears on his face with his hands, choking and burping.
Hades stood there, waiting patiently.
Finally, she seemed to calm down, choking with sobs and preparing to kneel down.
"No kneeling."
Hades said this calmly, and then he saw the woman trembling and starting to cry again. She was breathing heavily.
"Our selection is not for women this time, and you are over age."
Hades continued,
"Sir, I know, my lord."
She seemed to subconsciously want to kowtow, but Hades stopped her and could only tremble in embarrassment. She sat on the ground, covering her face with her hands out of fear, leaving only her eyes exposed. The blood from her severed limbs had accumulated a small pool of pus on the ground.
"I just want to thank you for saving us. Me."
"Sir, please take me away. I don't want to stay here. You have brought liberation. I don't want to be a slave anymore." "
Thank you for the liberation . .Praise you, Lord, take me away”
Hades choked.
He was not the one who liberated Galaspa, nor did he approve of its liberation.
This woman appeared in the original work Galaspari and was named by Mortarion, but she has not appeared again in other works of the Death Guard.
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