542. Rebellion 10

Chapter 542 – Rebellion 10
The streets of Huxin Town were all of a sudden filled with the sound of clamor.

“Quickly! One-two-one, one-two-one, one-two-one!”

Amidst the loud trumpets, team after team of militia members trotted through one street after another with neat steps.

The various entrances and exits of Lakeheart Town that passed through with the outside world, two in the east and west and three in the south, all suddenly appeared with a large number of militiamen, who set up barricades under the command of the officers sent by the RTO, blocking off the city’s transportation with the outside world.

In the police station of Lakewood, located in the new town of South Shore, Captain Bilel McReynolds walked into the compound with a grim expression, wearing a straight police uniform.

The entire police force of the second detachment was already lined up in the courtyard waiting for him.

This police unit was supposed to be on nighttime street patrol duty today, but he quietly informed his men to gather back at the station at this hour.

Looking at the familiar faces in front of him, they stood neatly and looked at him with awe, Bilel McReynolds couldn’t help but feel a great deal of emotion in his inner heart, it’s not easy for him to climb up to this position.

He recalled that he was wounded because of the army transferred to the police force when the scene, he thought he did nothing more than errand boy and so on, but really become a member of the police force, in the face of the Lord Paul Gleeman set a large number of rules and regulations, feel quite at a loss.

But other people face the police this newborn profession is also the same confused, and fortunately he has the strong support of the family behind, and finally in the police force step by step to rise high, to the position of the detachment commander.

Now, it was time for him to make his own contribution to the family.

Bilel McReynolds knew very well that this was a gamble, and a big one at that. If he won the gamble, the family would gain huge benefits, and he himself would be further promoted, becoming a pivotal member of Alda’s military and political system. But once the gamble was lost, he didn’t dare to imagine what kind of scenario that would be.

Cheer up, Bilel, the future of the McReynolds family is in your hands-he repeatedly cheered himself up like this.

“Ahem!” Bilair cleared his throat heavily.

“Brethren, I’m sure you must be very puzzled by now as to why there are squad after squad of militia running around in the streets. I learned something not too long ago that should answer your doubts.”

Bilair had a very pensive look on his face.

“Just a short while ago, several guards who returned to Lakewood in a hurry brought a terrible, terrible news! Our honorable lord–Lord Earl Paul Gleiman–was attacked by a group of thugs while hunting, and now it is estimated …… that he is already in a bad way. ”

Ah ！！！！

As expected of Bilair, except for those who were arranged by his minders, all of them one by one opened their eyes wide with a shocked look on their faces.

“At the same time a secret report from the intelligence department shows that there is a small group of conspirators in this city who are taking advantage of this opportunity to try to steal control of Arda, that’s right, they must be in cahoots with that mob that deserves to be cursed 10,000 times, cooperating with the rebellion one mile at a time.”

Bilair’s face changed to another expression of immense concern.

“Very unluckily, the garrison of Lakewood has gone on field dragoons at this juncture, and we don’t even know where they’ve marched to at this point. This unexpectedly means – we have lost the greatest reliance on which we rely to maintain order, and if no one else comes to stop them, the insurgents will carry out their plots unhindered.”

“So the Operations and Training Division of the Staff Department, which remains in Lakewood and directs the militia in their training, has taken it upon itself to step forward and assume responsibility for maintaining order and stopping the conspiracy, and I’ve just been officially notified that Lakewood has officially entered a state of military administration as of 00:00 AM. And our police force was assigned the task of cooperating with the militia to maintain good order. The other detachments will also be assigned tasks after they go to work at dawn.”

“Is everyone clear?”

The loud response of several people immediately rang out from the team in front of them, “Hear me clearly, Captain!”

Someone took the lead, and the others responded, “Hear me clearly!”

Bilair looked towards the few people he had placed in the group, an approving gaze in his eyes.

“That …… Captain McReynolds ……” Someone raised their hand as if they had something to say.

“Oh? Lucas, what’s your problem? Speak quickly, we’re running out of time now.”

A flash of displeasure crossed Bilal’s face. Damn guy, what a lot of shit, wouldn’t it be better to just follow orders honestly.

The man who raised his hand was a young guy named Lucas, who had just passed his exams to join the police force in the first half of the year, a rookie.

“Isn’t it a bit wrong for us to take orders directly from the army, shouldn’t it be Lord Superintendent Ruth Hayden of the Department of Public Safety giving us orders?”

The moment the youngster’s words came out, many people in the team appeared puzzled.

“Ahem!” Bilel cleared his throat loudly, but in his heart, he cursed Lucas. What a crossroads, what kind of mess are you adding.

Now he could only dispel the crowd’s doubts through lies again.

“Militarized management is a unanimous decision made by the lords of the Council of State, from now on the command of all armed forces is temporarily handed over to the military until the rebel plot is crushed and a new lord succeeds to the throne.”

Bilair didn’t show the slightest expression of weakness, if you have the ability to be a small grassroots police officer to go to Ruth Hayden who is the supervisor himself to ask for a clarification, humph!

Lucas, right? I’ll remember you, just wait for me.

……

Bourgain paced anxiously around his office, glancing from time to time at the floor clock that sat in the corner.

The militia had been dispatched, the various key locations were already under his control, and the cell towers around Lakewood should be under the control of his associates out there by now at this hour – if those out there acted well.

Now all that remains is to gather all the bigwigs in Lakewood together, announce to them the sad news of Paul Greiman, and arrange for the heir, whom the lord personally “appointed” before his death, to take the throne.

Luckily, the Earl of Myron Garnard had returned to Bairdings; if he had been in Lakewood, he would have been in a lot of trouble with his position.

“Report!” “Come in!” Before the words of the visitor fell, Bourgain let him in.

“My lord.” The visitor hurriedly pushed the door in.

“How are things progressing?”

“All the lords have been notified, Lord Ford, Lord Hansel, and Lord Cecil …… will all gather at the lord’s mansion for a meeting at two o’clock, except for ……”

“Except what?” Bourgain’s heart skipped a beat and a bad feeling came over him.

“Chief of Staff Schroeder …… he …… is not at home.”

“What?”

Bourgain was dumbfounded for a moment.

(End of chapter)