639 The Hammer of Order (1/2)
No humans wanted to die.
Slaves were no exception.
Donggang was inhabited before. Shortly after the building of the wall, it became a plantation for mutated fruits. Later on, it became a plantation worked on by slaves.
There were criminals, people captured by raiders, poor people, or people purely in debt working there. They could withstand the plantation work, and they could withstand supervisors cursing and hitting them as long as they weren't slaves of mutated humans. Once they worked their time, they could obtain their freedom and become free.
But recently, a rumor spread among the slaves.
Mutated humans were being murdered in Empire.
Empire planned to use the heads of slaves to calm the anger of mutated humans.
No one believed this at first since it was completely absurd. While they were the slaves of Empire, they were still citizens of Empire. Empire had the right to exploit them, but it had no right to take their lives away.
That was their boundary, the only boundary they had since being exploited.
But one night, some people came from the capital with the plan of taking away 154 slaves.
Needless to say, the people executing the orders didn't have a brain. Everyone in the territory knew of the rumors everywhere concerning violence against the 154 mutated humans.
Combined with the ”rumor” from before, the intention of taking away 154 slaves now was obvious.
The plantation workers were completely enraged.
No one wanted to die because of this absurd reason.
Therefore, the glorious uprising started.
The supervisors and guards had guns while the slaves only had hoes and shovels, but that was fine. This was the apocalypse.
The insurgents were divided into two groups - one group blew up the wall of the plantation, and another group used hoes and shovels to ambush the patrol route.
Survivors on the wasteland learned how horrific zombies could be at night. Even Death Claws had to fear the zombies - they would chew away any living creature.
When the zombies broke through the wall, the group paid a price of ten lives to break through the guards' chests. They picked up their guns and attacked the armory according to plan.
The plantation was in complete chaos.
The guards rushed to the collapsed wall and used barbed wire to create a line of defense. They used rifles to kill the zombies swarming inside the plantation. Inside this chaotic environment, no one noticed the patrolling guards being killed, and no one noticed the slaves with guns breaking into the armory.
The mobilized slaves flooded the armory. They went from barehanded rioters to fully equipped insurgents and began attacking the Empire army.
The hundreds of guards and supervisors were just a boat in the middle of a hurricane in the face of the anger of ten thousand slaves. They were quickly flooded by bullets from the insurgents and the claws of zombies. After a bloodbath and paying a price of five hundred lives, the insurgents used barbed wires and trucks to block the hole in the wall and cleared out the zombies that invaded the plantation.
431 heads were cut off, including the official sent from Empire.
The flag of Empire was burnt and converted into the survivors' own flag.
Just like a spark, the riot at Donggang Plantation ignited the flame of separation.
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Below the steel airship, the electromagnetic cannon named ”The Hammer of Order” lowered slightly and aimed directly at the mutated humans' zone of control.
Suddenly, blue electric arcs jumped between the tracks. Like a bright light, it illuminated the darkness. The mutated humans inside the bunkers gazed at the unnatural light source with confusion. At the same time, the NAC soldiers hidden in the bunkers silently reloaded their clips and opened tactical images on their helmets.
”Firing coordinate is adjusted.”