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He was too tired and needed rest.
With their minds clear, the others came closer to Bendis and discussed the damn Commorros and the damn Blood Orc who exploited Bendis.
"This potion cannot completely heal my spine. I will be a cripple who needs to crawl around in two days."
"Yes, but that potion can make you look younger, so that you won't be found dead in a corner one day."
"Damn it! We shouldn't have agreed to that Haemonculi and come to Commorragh with him!"
"Li Sun saved us and sheltered us when we came out of the warp. We can't just watch her be tortured to death by those dark cousins of the Ada bastards."
"Wouldn't it be better if we died together?"
"You, an old guy, should die fighting, but that little guy is still young and shouldn't die with us."
"..."
Bendis listened to the conversation of the old men without saying a word.
As the youngest person here, just going to the arena to fight for his life is already tiring, and he really doesn't have the energy to chat with these old guys.
Bendis silently took out a device from the small locker above his head.
It was a psychic communication device that Li Sun gave to Bendis when he and Li Sun parted ways.
“This is something that will allow us to connect.”
"Hold on, I'll bring you out one day."
Bendis still remembers what Li Sun said back then.
He held the communication device under his ear.
As with every attempt over the past few hundred years, the device seemed broken and nothing could be heard.
Maybe the device isn't damaged.
Perhaps Li Sun communicated.
Bendis guessed that maybe he didn't hear it because he sometimes fell asleep while waiting.
But no matter what the reason was, Bendis didn't want to think that Li Sun was dead, so he couldn't contact him.
This is very possible.
"We should never have left Terra."
"Whether the emperor wants to kill us, send us to die, or send us to die, we should accept that fate."
"It's all my fault, I brought you out."
Bendis heard the officer with crippled legs telling him about his mistakes.
Others expressed it differently.
Some people say that the damn tyrant wants to kill the donkey, so do we have to wait to die?
Some people said that the emperor definitely wanted to kill everyone. If he didn't leave quickly, would he want to die in humiliation at the hands of his own people?
Some people complain that the damn subspace has put us many years in the future.
Among these Thunder Warriors, only Bendis knows the truth.
The Thunder Warrior was not killed by his own people, nor died in the emperor's cold gaze.
Bendis heard something from a human slave in the arena.
A long time ago, there were a few Thunder Warriors who were still alive on Terra, but so much time has passed, and they are now dead of old age.
But Bendis, who knew this, didn't want to tell the truth, because it would collapse these old guys who were working hard to survive.
"Being sent to die by the emperor is not an honorable death. It is for us to challenge the enemy and die in battle surrounded by thousands of troops."
Chapter 618 The Dream of Unification
"No matter what, I regret bringing you out. We might as well die under the tyrant's knife now."
The old chief of Bendis kept complaining, although the potion given by the Haemonculus made him a little younger...
But it was precisely because he became a little younger that he had the strength to complain here, otherwise he would have been lying there with no air coming out.
The truth was about to blurt out from Bendis's lips, but he didn't want the old officer to collapse and go crazy after learning the truth and realizing that his suspicions were completely unnecessary.
So forget it.
"Can you all calm down for a moment?" Bendis pressed the communication device given by Li Sun to his ear. "In two days I will have to kill people in the arena to keep you alive. I have to rest."
"I didn't ask you to save me! I'm a cripple now. You should have let me die in the arena for you!"
"Yes, yes, okay, okay."
"People like me have no reason to live at all! Why can't you insert the medicine you gave me into your own neck, and then squat there and watch me, a cripple, die!"
Hearing these words, Bendis slowly turned his head, staring at his old commander with two hollow eyes in his sunken eye sockets.
"I don't have the qualifications or desire to live, but you were the one who dragged me away after my head was penetrated by a laser."
"You won't let me die, and in retaliation, I won't let you die either."
Bendis's two words were like two sharp arrows, instantly silencing the old officer.
The other old guys also fell silent. They found some warm things to cover Bendis in the shabby shack, and then kept quiet so as not to disturb Bendis' rest.
In his sleep, Bendis dreamed of many things.
About the Terran Unification War.
About Thunder Warriors.
About the symbol worn by the Emperor at that time - lightning.
About what the Emperor was called before he became the Emperor - Lord of Lightning and Thunder.
After these dreams that almost woke Bendis from his sleep gradually dissipated, he dreamed of a peaceful and peaceful scene.
A group of people are mining mineral deposits in a desolate wasteland.
This scene was peaceful enough on Terra.
There are only a group of workers sweating, cheering and encouraging each other, and women and children delivering water and food to the workers.
There were no explosions of fire, no murderous and bloodthirsty shouts, and no terrifying marauders sent by the great warlords.
Bendis just stood there and watched.
That was the first time that the ten-year-old him saw such a peaceful and peaceful scene.
Then Bendis' father, Bendis Sr., arrived.
He called on all workers to put down what they were doing, gather around him, and listen to himself.
Bendis discovered that there was a tall and handsome man standing next to his father.
The handsome man made Bendis sigh in his heart. If he were a woman, she would be willing to be a servant next to this man, as long as she could serve him.
"We are going to select some of the best young men to fight with the Lord of Lightning and Thunder!"
"Who wants to be a Thunder Warrior?"
Listening to his father's call, Bendis looked at the Lord of Lightning and Thunder: "Sir, what is a Thunder Warrior?"
Bendis saw the man squatting down and looking at him. The people around him didn't seem to see his movements, otherwise his father would have rushed up to him, grabbed his ears and beat him violently.
"A group of biochemically modified people, just like the picture in the book you read, tall, strong, powerful in combat, and tenacious in vitality."
"Sir...how do you know that I have seen..."
Bendis was curious, as he and the Lords of Lightning and Thunder had only met twice.
Once he came here and convinced his father with his charm and methods, so that the resource city-state ruled by his father joined his command.
The second time is now.
How did this man know that he had read the Cyborg comics?
"In exchange for great power," the man confessed to Bendis, "they will live a short life, become crazy, and their transformation surgery will be defective."
"No, no, no... stop talking, sir!" Bendis did not dare to continue listening. He was afraid that he would be silenced for knowing the secrets of those Thunder Warriors.
The man easily understood Bendis's thinking: "You don't need to worry, they all know their flaws."
"Then... then why do they still become Thunder Warriors? Who wants to become a defective defective product?" Bendis was puzzled.
The man stood up and looked ahead.
For some reason, in Bandis's eyes, the workers did not gather around his father, but were still working there.
"For everyone on Terra to be able to enjoy order and safety like you, for..."
The man's voice was deep and powerful, and every syllable was charming.
"For unity."
Bendis realized a lot at this moment.
Terra has endured many, many years of chaos, with warlords fighting each other and civilians eking out an existence under war and oppression.
The wealth consumed by the warlords in raising a dog can feed thousands of people, but they are just not willing to give even a little bit of anything to let people at least have a bite or two to maintain vital signs.
They even took away the sea water.
If Terra is not unified and the warlords are not eliminated, this tragedy will continue forever.
Therefore, the purpose of the Lord of Lightning and Thunder is to unify.
The Thunder Warriors, this powerful special force, were also born for unification.
The dream changed.
Bendis lies on the operating table.
"As a noble, you can know the flaws of the Thunder Warriors."
"If you are unwilling to join the Thunder Warriors after knowing it, then you can serve the Lord of Thunder in another way."
"You are a noble, you are always useful, you always have privileges."