I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 508 - 506: Ideals on the Beach

Rebuilding the Red Nation is a very beautiful ideal for the people of Lucia.

The era of the former Red Empire was also the most glorious era for Lucia.

Although historically they had monarchs like Peter the Great and Empress Catherine the Great with grand strategies, and had an emperor like Alexander I, who was legendary throughout his life, there’s no doubt that the most glorious era in Lucia’s history was the Suyia era, recognized as one of the world’s two poles.

During that era of bipolar contention, the red flag was a threat to the entire world, and this threat was not only to its enemies but also to its allies.

This perhaps stems from the Lucians’ inherent desire for conquest and yearning for warm territories; since the era of Peter the Great, Lucia has been a country filled with the desire for expansion.

Empress Catherine the Great wished to see the entire Europe bow at her feet, Alexander I defeated the once unbeatable Emperor Napoleon, and even Tsar Nicholas II, during his reign of national and external turmoil, still actively expanded and participated in World War I...

This inevitably made the entire world wary of this Lucia steamroller, not to mention how aggressive the initial Red Empire was.

So, only a dead Suyia is a good Suyia; that Red Empire is best buried in the grave and engraved on a monument for people to remember and mourn. Anyone who wants to rebuild it will become the enemy of the entire world.

And this is the same for Flame Country.

No one hopes for a powerful neighbor by their side, especially not one that has looted and bullied you, trying to turn you into a subordinate follower.

Therefore, Vasily and his companions were destined to choose an impossible path.

At least, limited to Lucia before the disaster.

After the meteoric impact, which might have been suffering for the whole world, Vasily and his companions saw it as a good opportunity.

Because they believed that suffering could awaken the Lucian populace and remind them of the heroic ambition and ideals of their predecessors who braved thorns to build the nation, instead of drowning in despair in the ruins and ashes after the collapse of the Red Empire.

But although suffering had befallen, it did not awaken Lucia.

The current Lucia no longer possesses those truly great individuals, and neither are Vasily and his companions those revolutionary pragmatists of the past who dared to rob banks for ideals.

This once made Vasily and his companions feel desperate, thinking the nation was already hopeless and that their grand "revolution" ideals could not be realized, fearing the nation would die in the grip of hunger and cold.

But the unrest presented them with a "great" opportunity, a chance to realize their "ideals."

So they stood up, organizing the originally chaotic and disorderly rioters and stabilizing the chaotic order as much as possible, intending to use these rioters as a basis to overthrow the current Lucia authorities and then establish their dream New Suyia.

Initially, everything progressed relatively smoothly; they managed to gain the recognition of most rioters, organized them, and controlled the situation.

After all, they were all young people with "ideals," and discussions about ideals were always intense, so their eloquence was pretty good. Though they couldn’t command all with one word, rallying some rioters to follow their words was not a problem.

Plus, they themselves more or less had some capabilities and had done some planning on how to realize their "ideals," so the initial progress was indeed as they envisioned.

If nothing unexpected happened, they might indeed have had a chance to achieve their "ideals"; maybe rebuilding Suyia wasn’t out of reach.

However, what they feared most was a "but," and the reinforcement troops from Flame Country, sent to rescue the trapped aid teams, turned into a table-flipping presence.

Admittedly, this troop wasn’t there to suppress the unrest, but the rioters’ line was penetrated without obstruction by the other side, which was absolutely unacceptable for them.

This not only affected Vasily’s leadership over the rioters under him but also impacted the overall situation of the Lucia Capital.

Because the line battered by Flame Country’s reinforcements could become a breakthrough point for the Lucia troops to suppress the unrest.

Under such circumstances, even though Vasily knew that if he let the trapped people in the medical research institution go, the reinforcement troops would leave, he couldn’t do it.

If he really did this, the makeshift rioters under his command would collapse.

In fact, Vasily’s subordinates were already somewhat unstable, with repeated defensive failures and many being injured and captured. These rioters, who were just barely assembled, already had considerable grievances against Vasily.

If there were someone to replace him, Vasily might have already been ousted.

"We cannot let them pass! No matter what method is used, they must be stopped!" Vasily gritted his teeth, issuing a death command to his rioters.

While he wanted to organize effective defenses or, like the great patriots in the War of Resistance, bravely use flesh to block the enemy, unfortunately, Vasily’s subordinates were nothing more than a bunch of haphazardly organized rioters, not the revolutionaries of the past tested by blood and fire.

If they were those revolutionaries of the past, they could use flesh to stop the enemy, building victory with sacrifice and blood.

But these rioters, lacking ideals and will, even an organization, and a group of young idealists with "ideals" alone, facing a technologically advanced military, standing tall is nearly impossible.

Perhaps given the opportunity, after testing and training, these rioters and young idealists might turn into steadfast revolutionaries.

But unfortunately, they were not now.

So even though Vasily had sternly issued a death order and the rioters had done their utmost to set up obstacles, all they could bring to the reinforcement troops was very limited delay.

No matter how "sturdy" the defense, it couldn’t stop the advance of Titans and heavy mechas; the groups organized by rioters lacking ideals and conviction were merely castles built of sand, easily kicked over.

"We are soldiers of Flame Country, here to rescue you," the reinforcement troops said to the Lucian soldiers guarding the medical research institution after breaking through the last line of the rioters, causing them to retreat like a tide.