Thousands of sparks

Chapter 61 The Treasure House
The huge reserve of 400 bolt-action rifles, 120 million rounds of ammunition, [-] five heavy guns, and [-] rounds of shells discovered by Finn is the most insignificant part of a costly combat preparation project of the Imperial Army.

How many reserves of the same size or larger are in the whole of New Saal... Even Olin's Imperial War Department itself does not know.They have only one purpose for such a large-scale munitions reserve—after those waste navies have lost all their ships, they can still organize a strong enough counterattack force on the ground.

The Ministry of War issued a large number of orders to the garrison troops of the colonial planets to build and store military supplies, but decades ago, the army was abolished three times by the Privy Council of Olin.The current size of the Imperial Army is only 700 million, and it is mainly concentrated on a few planets that have frequent firefights with the alliance and cannot even fully control them.

The army garrison in Newsail is currently only about 8000 people.Even if everyone from the general to the soldiers guards a combat arsenal...it is difficult for them to guarantee that each arsenal can be assigned a guard.In order to ensure that these arsenals would not be damaged and stolen, the Army decided to use large-scale civil engineering to directly bury the warehouse doors.

After years of wind and rain and a storm, the escaped war criminal Finn discovered this "treasure" that had been buried underground for an unknown number of years.

However, after struggling to open the warehouse and find the inventory list, the rest of the village was disappointed.

In this warehouse, there is no food or fuel.There are not even clothes and shoes for them to use.There is nothing here but guns.

But Finn felt that this was a huge treasure trove.

"It's filled with weapons." He said enthusiastically to the poor people who saved their lives, "With weapons, we can even go to Bosenk! They have warehouses and robbed them of food and Fuel, don't we have it?"

The villagers got together to discuss and agreed that Finn was too idle, and the gears in his head were suffocated.

"We people don't even have the strength to pick up a gun." The village head is the oldest person in the village - 51 years old.He patted Finn's arm and said, "In the future, you can be the village chief, but don't try to snatch Boysenk, as long as we are alive, we will be fine."

"Anyway, I'm almost at the age of death, you come to be the village chief and find something for yourself to do."

The first thing Finn did when he became the village head was to gather all the people in the village who could hold guns.A total of 120 people were found before and after - ranging from 40-year-old women to 11-year-old boys.

"The purpose of training you to use weapons is to let you master the power to protect yourself." Finn decided to hand over all the skills he knew to the people in the village. "There are bandits near the village. Although they don't come to the village to rob us because they think we are too poor, they still pose a huge threat to us."

"But, Chief Finn." A child raised his hand as Professor Finn said, and asked without waiting for permission, "Those people from the camp came, and they just took some turtles. Good lords, don't take all the fish."

Finn looked at the child, and asked after a while, "They just took the fish you bought with blood—won't you be angry?"

The child seemed to have encountered a problem. He thought for a while before asking, "What is anger? However, if the fish is taken away, you will be hungry. I don't like to be hungry. It will be very sad to be hungry."

Finn squatted down and stroked his dry hair with trembling hands.

"So we have to protect ourselves... In the future, we won't be hungry again!"

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Looking at Dusande lying face down on the ground in front of him, Finn felt conflicted.

Emotion told him that the young man was a postman for the Office of Arms, and probably a nobleman.He is a part of the imperial ruling organization, that is, one of the chief culprits who caused the hardships of the villagers.

Neither of the two most valuable targets was captured, but the minor noble may also fetch a large ransom.This ransom is enough for the entire village to survive this winter safely.

But reason told him that it was unrealistic to ask for a ransom.He could not judge whether the life of a minor noble was of value.

The contempt of the empire for human life made Finn feel unbelievable.The life of the poor is a straw in front of the people in the city - this is what Finn has seen firsthand.

On the streets of Bosenk, the leather shoes of a "gentleman" who came out of a magnificent office were soiled by a begging child.

The "gentleman" with gray temples directly kicked the begging child on the head with all his strength, like kicking a football.Then cursed and left.

Finn used almost all of his restraint to order himself to let go of his right hand that was holding the pistol in his pants pocket.Two patrolmen walked across the street, and they saw everything that passed, but nothing happened.When passing by the child, they just took one look and then left.

By the time Finn got to the kid, he was dead.

And the people in the village don't seem to care about their own lives.They can accept all the misfortunes that happen to them very calmly. If they feel tired, they can find a place a little far away from the village to end their lives.

People in the village don't care about a villager who suddenly disappeared. After a long time, no one will even remember him.

Finn didn't know whether the contempt for life was due to the poor or to the imperial culture.Imperials can easily take the lives of others, or simply give up their own lives.This confused him, and at the same time, Finn was getting more and more angry.

Right now, there is a noble in front of him—a beast who parasitizes and dominates these poor people, and at the same time doesn't even bother to treat them as human beings.

He reached into his trouser pocket several times to take out his gun, but in the end he let go.

This little noble... At least he is not the same as the "gentleman" who kicked the beggar to death.When the other party persuaded himself to tell the truth, the words and eyes he said did not seem to be deceiving.Especially when he said the phrase "All people are equal", Finn was sure that this young nobleman really thought so in his heart.

A nobleman who cherishes the lives of the poor is extremely rare even in the alliance.

He was silent for a while, then pushed aside the fence in front of him.

"Wake up." Finn said to Dusand, "Where are the winter supplies you mentioned to distribute to the poor...?"

(End of this chapter)