Chapter 72: A Chaotic World, Complex People
From the Underground Network to the Upper Hive City, chaotic crowds surged everywhere.
Refugees and routed soldiers surging up from the lower hive ran rampant, fighting over any scrap of food they could find. They did not even spare the sparse grass and leaves clinging to the artificial green belts.
They fought tooth and nail to scavenge as much sustenance as possible.
The terrifying Xenos and Chaos were undeniable threats, but in an unfathomably massive Hive City, the chances of encountering those horrors directly were actually quite slim. Instead, the starvation and madness born from the total collapse of order would be the first things to claim a life.
The Transmigrators surveyed this hellish landscape, their minds flashing back to the footage of the Genestealers right before they were exterminated.
Sincere cooperation and perfect order.
"The Imperium is always in dire straits, but do not ask why."
Witnessing this tragic scene, Karna, who was escorting the supply convoys alongside the Sororitas Squad toward the Ecclesiarchy Shrine, could not help but let out a heavy sigh.
The reason Genestealers spread like wildfire through the lowest dregs of humanity was simple: their initial integration process offered exactly what the suffering masses desperately needed.