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Chapter 273 A Necessary Evil
Hearing this, the girl just tried her best to smile and looked calmly at the angel who saved her.

On the other side, as the cleanup work progressed, more and more civilians treated as living sacrifices by the Chaos wizards were released from their cells, just like the civilians in the small church.

The Astartes of the Ash Angels healed the wounds of those men and women who had been tortured and had blasphemous runes carved on their bodies, and delivered supplies to these poor people who had long lost their human form due to hunger, as if this was not a good thing in their eyes. It's not some strange behavior.

Soon after all the rescued civilians were gathered together, what surprised them was that unlike the grateful people in the church, a small number of these people in front of them seemed not to be very concerned about the arrival of the Astartes. interested.

They just huddled in the corner without saying a word, looking at the angel who was healing the wounded with strange eyes, as if they were shocked or fearful of something.

Although their intuition told them that these people seemed a little strange, after detailed inspection and interrogation, several Astartes could not find anything wrong with them.

Not long after, while Levin was still observing the scene and preparing to lead the team out of here before trouble came again, the technical sergeant in the team came to him at this moment.

"Levin? Why do you do this?"

The technical sergeant's voice sounded full of confusion. In his eyes, the lives and deaths of several mortals were obviously far less important than the mission they were about to perform.

"The enemy is likely to strengthen their defenses and our mission will become more difficult. Don't you understand this?"

As the captain, Levin certainly knew how stupid his choice just was. When faced with the sergeant's questioning, he just remained silent at first until the other person finished speaking.

The other party always had some unrealistic illusions about this in his heart, and the technical sergeant obviously saw this.

"It's not like you at all to let your impulses overcome your rationality."

"I know very well the consequences of doing this. I just can't bear it. I'm willing to accept any punishment after the mission is over."

"What about these people? Do you plan to take them with you?"

"But what we need to do now is to leave here as soon as possible. The enemy will soon notice the situation here. We must go to the next target location early."

Levin's tone sounded very calm, and he obviously did not regret his behavior just now.

While speaking, Levin once again raised the Gauss rifle in his hand and skillfully replaced it with a new capacitor chamber.

To this, Levin responded this way.

"We are not far from the airport. As long as we are fast enough, we can end the battle before the enemy reacts. Then we can call for reinforcements to take them down."

As the words fell, Levin took out a survival blanket with constant temperature function in extreme environments from the equipment storage belt around his waist, and wrapped it around the naked girl. "The Emperor originally created us to protect mortals. If we can't even do this, then what's the point of our existence? Besides, the Archangel once said that he would lead them with kindness. Shouldn’t we do this?”

But in response, the sergeant just shook his head helplessly.

"We live in a darker era. You and I, including all the brothers of the Ash Angels Chapter, are the same. We still know very little about this universe. In many cases, we must make some cruel choices. Only in this way can we Only then can more people be saved.”

When mentioning this, Techmarine also used Sanguinius as an example.

"Even our genetic father, even the Archangel, faced with his blood-thirsty descendants, had no choice but to prevent the Legion from being purged by the Emperor like the Second and Eleventh Legions. He decided to kill his own son with his own hands."

"Besides, these people have come into contact with those things. You can't save them in this situation. These people are different from us. You should know this."

The things mentioned by the sergeant refer to the unpredictable invisible power in the subspace. There is no doubt that these mortals have been more or less exposed to that blasphemous power in the ceremony just now. He even directly witnessed the existence of demons.

Long before leaving Haven, the priests and think tanks of the Blood Angels had mentioned to them more than once what the safest choice should be in this situation.
As he spoke, he once again cast his gaze on the girl. Perhaps due to the influence of the power of subspace, the traces of desecration left by the minions of Chaos on the girl's body did not completely disappear with the recovery of the wound. The situation couldn't help but cause the sergeant to worry.

"If the Lord of Ashes can save us from being contaminated by the blasphemous power of subspace, then He may have a way to save these people."

"These people are loyal subjects of the empire, and we have no reason to abandon them."

The other party's words caused the technical sergeant to fall into silence.
The freedom from contamination that Levin mentioned refers to the blessing ability possessed by the legendary Ash Lord. According to the Holy Blood Priest who is responsible for the custody of the Ash Angel Chapter's gene seed bank, every Ash Without exception, the seeds implanted in the angels' bodies have been personally blessed by the Lord of Ashes, and they also use the alliance's most mysterious genetic technology.

With the blessing of various special technologies, the gene seeds of the Ash Angels Chapter have unimaginable stability, and subsequent test results are enough to prove that even their recruits who have not undergone long-term mental training naturally possess the ability to resist Asia. Strong resistance in space.

Seeing how stubborn the opponent was, the technical sergeant just sighed helplessly.

"You're still too young, Levine."

"This kind of unnecessary mercy will only harm you or the people around you."

But even though he had spoken to this extent, Levin still could not make up his mind.

"That's it, I've made my decision."

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However, what the angels failed to notice was that just as they were leading the mortals present out of the hall.

But at this moment, a twisted and invisible mass of flesh and blood emerged from the gap between the ruins and rubble, and climbed up to the ankle of a man at the end of the team at an extremely fast speed.
(End of this chapter)