Chapter 21: The Empire's Frontier: The Plan Begins

Mal Hammer was in a very bad mood, very bad. He had already lost three factories in just two months. Even for the emperor's sake, this was ridiculous.

The boss of the Hammer Gang was just walking on the pedestrian street above the abandoned mine. There was no one here. The large and once prosperous mine had long been deserted.

This was once one of Victoria's main sources of uranium.

At that time, Lownest was not yet called Lownest, but was simply part of Hive Victoria, a monument to the planet's development and prosperity.

But as centuries passed, and the resources here were exhausted, this meritorious mine was abandoned and forgotten, like a low nest.

Of course, Marr is not here to be sentimental. No one in the empire today cares about such sentimental issues.

I'm here for an appointment, a strange "date"

Mal Hammer walked along the winding road once used by the mine's heavy-duty trucks.

Centuries later, the road still bears traces of the heavy-duty trucks of yesteryear.

But all these ancient relics cannot compare with this beauty.

Behind an observation deck at the end of the road, Silver Snake stood there silently, holding on to the handrail and looking down at the huge pit that descended layer by layer.

"Miss Silver Snake, the date place you chose is not very good. You might as well come to my bar."

Mal smiled, holding the mohawk head with a crude smile. He walked to the silver snake and leaned the strong mechanical arm of his right arm on the armrest.

"I'm very confident that my wine collection is no worse than yours. You'll want to have a couple of drinks and then we'll chat." Mal said with a smile.

But Silver Snake chuckled softly, then took two steps back and said, "I'm disturbing your mood. She is dating me."

The sound made Mal turn his head very differently, and then he saw the guy, the man whom he hated so much that his teeth trembled during this period.

"You!" Mal cursed and raised his mechanical arm, his palms quickly flicked to both sides, and a laser gun stretched out, aiming at his head.

The bastard smiled calmly. He calmly opened his coat, revealing the empty holster underneath.

Mal would not believe this. He had either arranged an ambush around him, or he was a weapon himself, equipped with bionic prosthetics like the rich people who went to the nest.

Because of this, Mal did not lower his wrist, still aiming at Vito, with veins popping out on his face just like Ragnar did every time he was angered by Lancelot's jokes.

"I asked Miss Silver Snake to arrange this meeting, not for a fight, Mr. Marr." "Fart! I didn't even know I was meeting with a bastard like you! I knew I would bring a melta gun and kill you like a dog. The sun is melting!”

Vito smiled, walked calmly to Mal and leaned on the armrest, not caring at all about the muzzle of the gun that was almost against his head.

Vito took a bottle from his arms and took a sip, then handed it to Mal.

"Drink it, it's not poisonous, I don't plan to kill you yet."

Mal fell silent while looking at the bottle. He did not go to get the wine, but continued to look at the idiot in front of him with murderous intent, who had caused him heavy losses.

Silver Snake sighed helplessly, walked forward and grabbed the bottle, which was different from when he was drinking in a bar.

When Silver Snake drinks, she usually removes the strange breathing mask from her face.

At least for a brief moment while drinking, but here, Silver Snake lifted a corner of the mask and immediately covered it again after taking a sip of wine.

It was like an Astra Militarum who was squatting in a trench and wanted to drink some wine to relieve his boredom while the poison gas of Nurgle demons was still floating on his head.

Vito looked at Silver Snake, who gave the bottle to Mal, who held the bottle with his other hand and looked at Silver Snake. He looked at the gray-green eyes and sighed, then took a sip of wine. .

Mal closed the weapon, and the dangerous mechanical arm reclosed into a palm.

"For Silver Snake's sake, Vito Constantine, I'll give you a chance to speak, but you'd better say something interesting to me before my patience runs out."

Mal said, walking up to Vito, who was a head taller than Vito, "And my patience is not right, and it wears out very quickly."

Vito smiled, "Then I'll tell you directly, I will help you get rid of the scarlet pigment threat."

Mal was stunned. He looked at the man in front of him hesitantly, "Are you on drugs?" "Scarletin? No, no, and that thing has no effect on me."

Vito said and shrugged slightly, "You heard it right, Mal Hammer, I will help you get rid of Mosley, and I will also destroy the scarlet pigment processing plant in Victoria, just like you thought." "Why? I do not believe you."

Vito smiled jokingly and looked at Mal with his arms folded, "Moxley has threatened me, or in other words, he is a stumbling block on my way to the next level, even Henry. I plan to kill them both."

"And the scarlet pigment factory is not under my control. Guess where it will be rebuilt after it explodes?" "You seized three of my factories." "No, it's the hammer factory."

Before he finished speaking, Mal's veins popped out and he grabbed Vito's neck, and his powerful robotic arm grabbed Vito's throat.

"I will kill you right here! You stole my sentries and now you want to steal my most important factory?! In the name of the Emperor, I will kill you!"

"Calm down, Mal, calm down." Vito patted his arm, "The lady is still here, don't rush to kill."

Mal glanced at the indifferent Silver Snake, who was standing aside with her hands on her hips.

Vito stood up and straightened his messy collar, "Seizing the Hammer Factory is the beginning of the plan, a step I will take to get rid of Mosley, and a starting point for the subsequent plan."

Mal folded his arms, and the mechanical arm clicked in front of his chest, "Then you'd better give me a reason, a suitable reason for me not to kill you."

Vito smiled and put one hand behind his back, "Let me tell you the truth. In three days, your peripheral factories will be attacked in a series of attacks, but the real purpose is to have a riot in the Hammer Factory. Mosley will incite and lead your workers who smoke scarlet pigment and are preached by him to riot, and my people will use sentinels to attack from the periphery, and seize the factory from the inside and outside."

"And in the factory, Mosley is alone, or rather, he will be alone, I have stimulated He, my friend, in order to prove his ability, will be eager to send all his men out to try to seize as many areas of the factory as possible before me. "

"But he won't go, because he has another mission. I told him that he needs to open an abandoned tunnel gate from underground. I guess he originally planned to taunt and show off to me that he has seized most of the factory, and I just entered. "

Vito smiled sarcastically, "His arrogance and arrogance made him walk into a trap, and I will be there to fire the first shot of hunting. "

Mar fell silent and looked at the man in front of him. After a moment, he shrugged slightly, "You still haven't told me, Vito Constantine, why should I let you take my factory? Especially after you have told me. "

"First, the factory is inevitably seized. Even without me, the Pious Society will eventually take it down. I plan to give you a chance to withdraw all important equipment, items and personnel to avoid losses."

"Second, I need a chance. You see, the factory is in chaos. A few days ago, someone leaked secrets to Silver Snake, causing a scarlet ship to be robbed by our unfriendly friends. What if the spy also passed on Mosley's whereabouts and information to Silver Snake again in the factory, and finally Mal. Hammer learned about it?"

Vito smiled jokingly, looking at the hammer in front of him, "That's too bad. After the war, we sadly found that the Mosley brothers disappeared."

Vito shook his head hypocritically, turned around and looked at the big hole below, "And the scene is full of, because of the factory in the war Inside and outside the venue, the large-scale killing weapons we newly obtained caused a large number of bloody and fleshy remains, or simply burned to ashes, so we can only believe that the Mosley brothers have unfortunately passed away. "

The corners of his mouth showed a cunning smile, and he turned to look at Mal, "Involved are several missionaries around Mosley, and we have decided at the meeting that we will not use scarlet pigment to influence and preach without missionaries, so the scarlet pigment attack on the Hammer Gang was forced to suspend. "

"What's worse, the Mosley brothers seem to know the location of the scarlet pigment factory, so the angry Mal. Hammer tortured and interrogated the Mosley brothers, and finally used some unknown means to force the Mosley brothers to tell the location of the scarlet pigment processing factory, and then destroyed it. "

Mal listened, listening quietly and patiently, Vito walked up to him with a smile, "And in the end, the scarlet pigment factory needed to be rebuilt, and its site was chosen in the existing largest and ready-made Hammer Factory, and the managers of the Hammer Factory hesitated because of the unfortunate death of the Mosley brothers, so it became."

"You." Mal said, Vito nodded slightly with a smile on his face.

"Why should I believe that you will reach an agreement with me? You mean that you will kill Henry at some point, and then become the leader of the Pious Society in the lower nest, and then truce with me and draw borders, and why should I believe that you will not take the opportunity to add insult to injury?"

Vito clapped his hands, with a gratified smile on his face, "You are a smart man, Mr. Mal, you should really ask this question. "

Vito nodded to Silver Snake, who pulled out a recorder from somewhere on his waist.

The pretty female bartender handed it to Mal, who took the recorder with an almost shocked expression.

He looked at Vito with great confusion, while the latter was still smiling. Mal looked at the recorder in his hand, "You gave me a big killer, Vito, a handle that is enough to kill you, why don't you worry that I will give it to Henry?"

"Because I am the only one who is willing to cooperate with you, Mr. Mal, so what will you choose?" Vito said with a smile.

Mal looked at the recorder in silence for a moment, then put it in his arms and turned away.

After walking a long distance, he spoke loudly, "I will do my job well, and now do your job well! Vito Constantine!"

Silver Snake looked at Mal jokingly with his hands on his waist, and then glanced at Vito, "Today's date was very successful." "You made a big gamble, Vito. "

The latter smiled, put one hand around Silver Snake's waist, and looked into her eyes, "Luckily, I haven't lost a bet yet, and I have a date. Are you interested?"

"Where?" Silver Snake unexpectedly did not break free from Vito, but took a long breath and asked back.

"How is the Hammer Factory?"

Silver Snake smiled and shrugged slightly, "A very special date place. Yeah, okay." "Great, but there's someone else going with us this time. Don't look at me like that, and don't be jealous. That person is not a woman. Well, I don't even know if she can be considered a human being."

Vito raised his arm, and the communicator on his wrist lit up, "Omega, I need you to come down and keep a low profile." "Understood." The ecstatic electronic music replied.