Chapter 156 This is no longer an ordinary worker
The weak and pitiful mortals actually united and punched the extraordinary people who had undergone prosthetic transformation.
This is something that has never happened in the history of Zaun, the Twin Cities, or even the entire Runeterra.
Even if ants huddle together, aren’t they still ants?
How did he evolve into a superman?
"Run!" The wind was howling in the factory.
The supervisors, factory guards, and even the small team of cybernetic warriors were all stunned by this bizarre scene.
Their instinct was to run away.
But the winds of change are already blowing.
"It's my grandma's!"
"Stop right there!"
Once the war really broke out, Baku and other leaders who came from the lower classes of Zaun would immediately show their true colors.
They didn't shout slogans or sing songs, but cursed profusely and roared as they led everyone forward:
"Don't run—your worker grandfather is here!!"
The slave workers' long-suppressed emotions finally erupted at this moment.
They remember the whips of the supervisors, the blood and sweat they shed, and the desperate looks of their companions as they were dragged onto trucks like pigs to be “optimized”…
They all remembered and endured until now:
"Takeda Saito, fuck you!"
The strong wind condensed into a terrifying whirlwind and turned into a tornado.
The tornado roared out under the concerted control of the wind leaders, devouring everything in its way with great ease.
Those were merely mortal supervisors and guards, and they didn't even have time to escape before they were mercilessly swallowed up by the tornado.
They flew into the sky out of control like pieces of paper, spun countless circles in the air, and then fell heavily to the ground from the sky.
Snap——
The supervisors' heads smashed to pieces on the ground like watermelons.
But the slave workers will have no sympathy.
As they passed by, they would even kick these broken and twisted corpses a few times in hatred.
Some cyborg warriors were unable to escape and were blown high up by the strong wind, falling to the ground in a daze.
But they were strong and could not be killed by the impact.
But the next second...
The slave laborers who usually feared them like tigers now overwhelmed them like a tide.
Some of them are leaders like Baku, who harness the power of wind gathered from everyone.
Some were slave laborers who had seized the weapons of the guards and opened fire crazily upon seeing these cybernetic warriors.
Others simply went bare-handed, and while the cyborg soldiers were suppressed by the strong wind, they rushed up irrationally and rode on them, attacking any part of their bodies that could be attacked with their fists and teeth.
“Ahhhhhh!!” screams echoed in the factory.
Those cybernetic warriors who possessed extraordinary powers were torn into pieces alive by the crazy slave laborers without any chance of fighting back.
At first glance, it seems that the slave workers are the cruel and bloodthirsty villains.
If the peaceful citizens of Piltover saw this scene, they would definitely shout that the people of Zaun are cruel and violent and accuse the Leader of being inhumane.
But where did they learn their cruelty and violence?
It is nothing more than the masters' tireless "teaching by words and deeds" for hundreds of years.
"We have shed enough blood, now-"
"It's your turn!"
…
Although Takeda Saito's name sounds very Ionian, due to the mixed blood of several generations of his ancestors, he is actually a standard Zaun with blond hair and a big beard, both in appearance and mentality.
So when he heard his men rushing to report that his port, shipyard, and even the smuggling warehouse near the port had been captured by the rioting slave workers, his first reaction was:
"Are you fucking kidding me?!"
Takeda Saito cursed in a series of Zuan dialect.
He used his own iron arm, which had also been transformed with prosthetics, to grab the subordinate who had hurried over to report the news.
"What did you say? Slave laborers, a bunch of slave laborers who are worse than dogs, do you think you can take over my shipyard?"
"I have deployed a team of cybernetic warriors at the shipyard!"
"Where did they die?!"
"No, I don't know..." the subordinate answered tremblingly.
The riot happened too quickly and too violently. The factory supervisors and cybernetic warriors didn't even have time to escape before they were torn .
"I... I was patrolling outside the shipyard, and I had no idea what was going on inside the shipyard... That group of slave workers with guns rushed out like mad dogs—"
"Not only do they have guns, they can also use wind spells!"
"Those cybernetic warriors are probably gone."
"What?!" Takeda Saito couldn't believe it.
The cybernetic soldiers were already the most elite troops under his command. If he was not even afraid of the cybernetic soldiers, these were no longer ordinary workers, but thugs sent by hostile forces!
Yes, it must be. Otherwise, how could any of these screwdrivers know magic?
"Asshole...who is it! Who is it!"
"Is it Hilco? Or that damn leader?"
Takeda Saito thought of his two main enemies at present. The latter seemed to be more in line with the characteristics of a "wind elemental mage".
But he didn't have time to think about it now.
After all, no matter who did this... the shipyards, warehouses, and ports are all important assets that he absolutely cannot lose.
The 12 armed merchant ships docked in the port were the wealth he had accumulated through years of hard work.
Not to mention, there was a steam ironclad ship docked in the shipyard that he had spent countless money and efforts to build, and had hired the best ship designers and engineers in Zaun.
He was counting on this ironclad ship to gain control of the sea and compete with the pirates in Bilgewater.
"No more hesitation, you must strike hard!"
"Whether they are slave laborers or leaders of some kind..." The war has already begun.
"Call all cybernetic warriors and kill these bastards!"
…
On the Siren, Sarah used a telescope to observe the situation at the shipyard from afar.
Seeing the slave workers rushing out of the factory in anger, the enemy was overwhelmed by the overwhelming crowd, and the riot gradually subsided in victory. Sarah couldn't help but murmured:
"They did it, surprisingly."
"I said it before." Levi's voice followed closely: "The masses are powerful. With the divine power returned by Goddess Janna, mass movements are no longer a fantasy in Runeterra."
Sarah thought for a while, but still expressed her objection: "No, I still don't agree with promoting this kind of 'mass movement'."
"President Levi, you should have observed that... they do have power, but it is relatively limited."
The stronger a person's spiritual power is, the stronger the divine power his soul can borrow, carry, and control.
Is it powerful if the divine power borrowed from hundreds of people is combined together?
She was strong, but weak... the divine power that Seraphine could carry alone was stronger than that of hundreds of them put together.
"They were able to succeed this time because their enemies were too weak."
"They just eliminated the guards of one factory, and they are already showing signs of dying down and not being able to continue."
Sarah observed that when the battle was almost over, the workers were no longer able to control the storm.
"But Takeda Saito's subordinates are more than just guards for this factory."
The workers' strength was only enough to defeat this small group of guards.
After a while, Takeda Saito's large army arrived, and they still had to die.
So Sarah does not approve of promoting this kind of mass movement.
This time, thanks to Levi's secret protection, the workers were able to win without any worries.
If ordinary people were to act so rashly in other places where Levi couldn't take care of them...then they would end up with a bloody head.
After all, the tough battles still have to be fought by extraordinary people like Levi.
The so-called power of the masses can only be regarded as an added bonus.
"No, Sarah," Levi said, "You think the power of the masses is limited. That's actually because what we are doing this time is just a small-scale experiment, not a real mass movement."
"Yes, the workers of one factory are only enough to deal with the guards of one factory."
"Takeda Saito has many factories and guards under his command, and he has not yet deployed his main force."
"But the problem is——"
"Takeda Saito hasn't sent a large army yet, so are we going to mobilize all the people who are oppressed by him?"
This time, the leader only mobilized the slave workers in one factory.
And under Takeda Saito, there are tens of thousands of grassroots workers who silently endure this pain.
If these tens of thousands of people could be truly mobilized, the storm they could create would not be the "weak breeze" that Sarah saw today that died out after a few minutes.
Even if Takeda Saito pulled out all his main forces at that time, who could he scare?
“So as the beliefs of the leaders spread, the mass movement needs to spread as well.”
"With the leadership and mobilization of the leader and the protection and help of the goddess Janna, the masses can burst out with power beyond everyone's imagination."
“They will succeed.”
"Even if there are a few failures, it doesn't matter—"
If you rise up in resistance and lose, does that mean nothing has really changed?
Of course not.
Whether it is the Alchemist Baron of Zaun or the chaebol family of Piltover, they are all businessmen.
All business people know how to calculate costs.
Originally, Takeda Saito only needed to send dozens of armed guards and a small team of cyborg warriors to firmly control nearly a thousand slave workers in the shipyard and port warehouses.
But now, the workers have the support of Goddess Janna and the ability to control the wind. The absolute strength gap between them and the extraordinary people has been eliminated unconsciously.
If the Alchemist Baron wants to suppress these workers again, he may need ten times as many fighters as before;
The security costs may be dozens of times higher than before.
Then the masters have to think about this in their minds... Are the profits they make from exploiting slave labor enough to cover such huge security costs?
Instead of spending a lot of money on strengthening security, shouldn’t we appropriately improve the workers’ treatment, give them a way out, and prevent them from causing trouble - which would also bring higher profits?
"The Ziben family is like a lazy fat pig. If you don't kick it hard on its butt a few times, it will never make progress on its own."
"Before, mortals didn't even have the ability to kick their asses."
“But now, everything has changed.”
“So, Sarah,” Levi told her proudly, “we don’t have to be afraid of the failure of mass movements.”
"From the moment the mortals of Runeterra have the energy to rise up and start a movement, we have already won."
