65: cos corpse

However, just as Gaul officially signed the surrender document, a Messenger ran in, his expression panicked and his steps hurried.

"Your Majesty, this is terrible! Some nobles are inciting the populace to protest outside the royal palace, vehemently refusing to surrender!"

The Messenger said, panting.

Upon hearing this, Gaul's face instantly became extremely grim, and Xia Feng's brow furrowed slightly.

The surrender document has already been signed, and they're still protesting… But why does this feel so familiar? Isn't this exactly like what happened in our Blue Star before?

Thinking of this, Xia Feng turned his gaze to Gaul, wanting to see how he planned to handle this thorny issue.

If he couldn't act personally, he could certainly help out, as he already had experience dealing with such situations.

Seeing Xia Feng looking at him, Gaul immediately panicked and quickly said, "This… I really didn't expect this; those nobles have always been resentful and unwilling to lose their power."

"That's normal. I just want to ask how you plan to deal with this next? Or do you need our assistance?"

Xia Feng nodded slightly, indicating that he understood Gaul's explanation.

"Help? I've actually long disliked these nobles in the city. If your side is willing to help solve this, that would be a huge help, nothing could be better."

Seeing Xia Feng willing to help, Gaul immediately broke into a wide smile, eagerly responding, as the effect of him acting personally would certainly not be as good as the Blue Star Troops acting.

"Do you have a map of the royal capital?" Xia Feng asked with a serious expression.

"Yes, yes, yes, I'll have someone fetch it right away." Gaul responded without delay.

In a short while, a detailed map of the entire Chaos Empire royal capital was respectfully handed to Xia Feng.

Xia Feng opened the map and examined it carefully, noting that the entire royal capital was dotted with over a dozen noble mansions. It seemed this would undoubtedly be a rather arduous undertaking… "Notify the troops to prepare for action!"

After a brief period of thought and planning the route of action, Xia Feng made a decisive decision and quickly left with the Soldiers, leaving Gaul standing still, dumbfounded.

"Phew… Surrender is surrender, at least my life will be spared, and since I'm the first to surrender, maybe this whole world will be handed over to me to manage… Hehehe."

Gaul chuckled to himself, muttering.

After all, from what Xia Feng had described about the Xili Empire, after occupying a planet, which was the world he was in, they would also choose someone to manage the entire planet. Perhaps he would be that chosen lucky one… On the other side, Xia Feng had just led the troops out of the royal palace when he saw a group of emotional people gathered outside, waving various weapons and protesting loudly.

"Reject surrender!"

"Down with the Blue Star Troops!"

Seeing them shouting slogans so energetically and happily, Xia Feng couldn't help but smile.

As for why he smiled? It was because these people wouldn't be smiling in a moment; just thinking about it made Xia Feng unable to stop smiling.

"Everyone! Prepare!"

As soon as Xia Feng's order was given, all the Soldiers immediately sprang into action, quickly raising their weapons, their muzzles slowly and steadily aimed at the protesting Chaos Empire humanoid residents (not humans). The weapon systems on the armored vehicle and tank also slowly rotated to target them.

As for the cannon barrels, they definitely couldn't be used, as this was currently a busy urban area. Killing these protesting Chaos Empire humanoid residents was fine, but accidentally injuring other civilians would be bad, especially since the Chaos Empire had already surrendered.

"Fire!"

With Xia Feng's command, as soon as his voice fell, a barrage of bullets, like a torrential rain, fiercely assaulted the Chaos Empire humanoid residents.

Instantly, bullets struck one Chaos Empire humanoid resident after another, blood splattering.

"Run! They're killing people!"

Many of them were ordinary residents who had been deceived and lured by the nobles. Seeing the Blue Star Soldiers act so brazenly and recklessly, they immediately panicked and desperately ran outwards.

The entire crowd instantly became incredibly noisy and chaotic, with scenes of people crushing and trampling each other everywhere.

In just a few minutes, the entire protesting crowd was empty. Those with good luck had scrambled away, while those with bad luck… well, they were lying on the ground, cosplaying as corpses. Their cosplay was 100% accurate, though.

"Advance!"

Seeing that the protesting crowd had been cleared, Xia Feng immediately gave the order to continue advancing, heading straight for the first noble mansion.

Along the way, everyone who saw this troop was terrified and quickly found places to hide, fearing that they would be offered "peanuts" (a euphemism for bullets), as these "peanuts" were not to be eaten, for consuming them would mean losing one's life.

In a short while, the troop arrived in front of the first noble mansion.

"Stop! Who are you people? This is the Duke's mansion, now quickly leave!" The guards at the gate were stern-faced and glared angrily, completely failing to recognize the severe situation at hand.

Seeing this, Xia Feng was amused by the dullness of these few guards.

"Fire!"

Xia Feng gave the order without hesitation.

This was no longer a densely populated urban area. The tank cannon barrel was aimed directly at the main gate, and a powerful high-explosive shell shot out, directly smashing into the mansion's heavy gate.

As for those few guards… they naturally also cosplayed as corpses… No, they had all been reduced to minced meat and couldn't even cosplay as corpses.

The main gate was blasted open, and Blue Star Soldiers surged in like a tide, mercilessly clearing out the people inside.

Gunshots rang out one after another. Even if there were powerful cultivators of the ninth rank, as long as they dared to show their heads, various shells and bullets would pour down like a storm. Never mind one ninth-ranker, even if a few more came, it would still be a dead end.

After more than ten minutes, the Blue Star Soldiers slowly began to emerge. The nobles inside the mansion had been completely cleared out.

"Next target, move out!"

After clearing this mansion, the Blue Star Troops pressed on without delay, steadfastly advancing towards another mansion.