64: Chapter 64 The First Baturu

"What do you usually like to do?" Isari asked.

"Go into battle and kill enemies. How about you? Have you ever killed anyone?" Viscount Chengyu replied.

"I have. My family used to be pirates; I've killed dozens of enemies!"

Isari wasn't lying; her combat ability wasn't weak, otherwise she wouldn't be favored by her cousin.

"Not bad. In a day?" Viscount Chengyu finally got a little interested and began to look at Isari properly.

"No... so far. We are pirates; we want money, not serial killers."

The Cheng Yus Clones responsible for monitoring was speechless. He started wearing headphones to listen to Slaanesh ASMR, too lazy to listen to these two idiots talking.

"Oh... then do you like hunting?" Viscount Chengyu was slightly disappointed and began to settle for second best.

"I love hunting the most! I once shot and killed one hundred and thirty-five Ant-Cattle in one day! My cousin-in-law even said I am the First Baturu of the Ducalia Territory!"

Isari got excited. She really liked hunting. When Aria was too busy with official business, she was the one managing the hunting team.

"Heh, bragging, 'First Baturu' indeed!" Viscount Chengyu laughed and clapped his hands. Of course, he didn't believe it.

He had also purchased quite a few Ant-Cattle in his territory, preparing to farm them for profit later.

The physical fitness and reaction speed of this creature were stronger than the Xenomorphs in Predator. Viscount Chengyu usually couldn't even kill an Ant-Cattle with one glare, often needing two glares to do it.

"You don't believe me? Then let's go to the hunting ground and try!"

Isari also got a temper. When it came to hunting... she could draw a ten-stone strong bow, while the man in front of her... could draw a four-stone bow at most.

"Then let's go, you skinny little girl!"

The two stood up quickly and left. Because high heels were inconvenient for walking, Isari even stomped off the heels to use them as flat shoes.

And the Cheng Yus Clones responsible for monitoring had already fallen asleep, even starting to snore.

...

While Viscount Chengyu and Isari were hunting wild game in the snow-covered valleys of the Liu Fei Planet, a large-scale security crackdown was taking place on the Cheng Yu Planet.

Minister of Interior Iron Fist Cheng Yu ordered a double zero-tolerance attitude towards all gambling behaviors using legends of the three kingdoms... He had already declared zero tolerance once last month.

Iron Fist Cheng Yu was confident that within three days, he would clear out all gambling dens. The prime culprits running the gambling tables would be executed, accomplices would be exiled, and the gamblers would be sentenced to fixed-term hard labor.

For a time, there was wailing and misery throughout the Hive City, and many legitimate card rooms where people played normally were also caught in the crossfire.

The real experts who did big business had already received intelligence and avoided the limelight this time.

As for the small-time players, they basically paid fines to redeem themselves... There weren't enough prisons in the Hive City to hold all these Cheng Yus Clones.

The unluckiest ones were those in the middle, neither here nor there, who were struck head-on by the law enforcement Iron Fist of Iron Fist Cheng Yu.

Many of the casino thugs, Cheng Yus, were beaten over the head without question by the Security Officer Cheng Yus because they were carrying weapons.

A few gangs that dared to use thermal weapons to resist were even carpet-bombed by infrasonic weapons and incendiary bombs.

"We must purify the dark side of the Empire and beat down every socialite engaged in the gambling industry!"

The image of Iron Fist Cheng Yu's passionate speech was playing on all the LCD screens throughout the Hive City.

"Go to hell with your unit leadership!"

A gang member, Cheng Yu, threw an incendiary bomb at the LCD screen, and was quickly shot dead by a Security Forces sniper.

The raging flames unveiled the prelude to another Hive City riot.

"Fight, fight, fight... it's started!"

Cheng Yu had just come out of the bathhouse, still carrying a pot of tea in his hand.

As a result, his teapot was snatched by a rioter, Cheng Yu, and smashed directly onto the head of a Security Officer Cheng Yu. The sharp ceramic shards and scalding tea immediately left the other party bleeding profusely.

Cheng Yu ran away without a word... According to his experience, gunfire would start very soon.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

The Security Officer Cheng Yus lined up in two rows, the front row holding riot shields and the back row holding shotguns, and began spraying rubber bullets at the rioter Cheng Yus.

"They're killing people! They're killing people!"

Rubber bullets were lethal too. A rioter, Cheng Yu, who rushed too far forward was hit directly in the face by a rubber bullet and died on the spot.

"Kill them!!"

The rioter Cheng Yus threw Molotov cocktails and homemade explosives one after another, instantly blowing apart the formation of the Security Officer Cheng Yus.

"Switch to live ammunition! Switch to live ammunition!"

The leader of the Security Officer Cheng Yus waved his command flag, trying to reorganize the formation, but he was soon hit by a sniper shot from the shadows.

The conflict continued to escalate. Almost every Underhive in every Hive City was experiencing similar events, and armed conflicts in some Hive Cities had even spread to the Mid-Hive.

Many bad Cheng Yus Clones who were taking advantage of the chaos even started smashing open shops along the street to engage in "zero-dollar shopping."

The blue glimmer of infrasonic weapons activating and the sound of high-explosive detonations rose and fell... The Cheng Yus Clones were slaughtering each other.

Overachiever Cheng Yu and Seraphie were hugging each other tightly in their basement. The place where they lived was exactly the area where the conflict was most intense.

Both of them were terrified by the death that was so close at hand. It wasn't that they were afraid of dying, but they just felt that dying in such an affair was too stifling.

"Master, if we can survive this time, let's get married. I don't want to have regrets when I die."

"Mm, okay."

"Boom!" Another huge explosion occurred, shaking quite a bit of dust down from the basement ceiling.

...

Imperial Baron, Cheng Yu's Clone No. 3 was sitting steadily in his own bunker listening to an opera.

This riot had nothing to do with him. Although Clone No. 3 had also once been a gang member, he had long since transferred those grey industries.

Now he operated legal shop businesses, and his subordinates were all dressed gorgeously and decently, wearing ties and tie clips, with a very elegant temperament.

"Third Master, eat some fruit."

Clone No. 3's concubine, Victoria Dukaria, peeled a grape. This kind of expensive fruit wasn't even available in the Ducalia Territory; it required crossing several star systems to purchase.

"Victoria, what do you think of the play on stage?"

"This servant feels it is quite moving. The male and female leads went through hardships and finally got together. If performed in a theater... it should be very popular."

"No, no, no, Victoria, you don't understand... The dramas that truly go down in history are always tragedies."

Clone No. 3 turned his head and said to his subordinates:

"Tell that writer who has some twisted talent to change the script. Change it so the male lead commits suicide in front of the female lead's coffin, then the female lead wakes up and also commits suicide, and finally the two of them both turn into Nurglings, neither recognizing the other."

"Yes."