Chapter 38

"...Big E, the price you mentioned is not something like the King of Black Crown, right?"

"Where are you thinking? The Black Crown King is the most direct way a certain company stirs up the subspace. It easily breaks the balance of the chaotic power in the subspace, causing those four guys to be in an unconscious state. The logic of their behavior has changed below - just to tell a joke, the blue mollusk is still thinking about some problems that cannot be connected before and after - the price I said is that if I do this, then I need to change a lot of things. Most of the energy is spent on moving the timeline. Your descendants must all be from the Imperial faction, and the chess pieces each of you can take with you can only be from the Imperial faction, and there is a certain limit on the number."

"In other words, we will be sent before the extermination order is activated?"

"That's it - if you are willing to go to that galaxy, I plan to send you to the time when the Inquisitor and his fleet entered that galaxy - this is the farthest past that I can deploy."

"But, Big E, according to the operating style of the empire, isn't the world that can eat the extermination order generally too chaotic to end with conventional methods? Then the inquisitor should be there to evaluate the problem, right? Just move forward like this A short period of time should have little effect?”

“This is what’s strange, so I hope you can go back to the time of prayer and start investigating.”

After saying this, Big E paused.

"That galaxy and that planet, at least when the Inquisitor first arrived, in my eyes, there was nothing that was too far-fetched for the empire."

2. The hammermen who dispatched troops and generals

Minot planetary system.

This is a lonely small planetary system located in a hazy galaxy. It has a small star named Minoite, which although it is still in the main sequence star stage, does not radiate much heat. There is a small and medium-sized rocky planet that is too close to Minot and has an amazing temperature difference between day and night, and one that is too far away from the star itself and has become an icy world, surrounded by three frozen moons. It is a large planet with turbulent liquid on its surface, and the distance from the star is acceptable. Although most of the area is covered by yellow sand and rocks, the thickness of the atmosphere is not good, and the ecological environment is thin. It is possible to step on it anytime and anywhere during the empire's assessment. After that final step, it became a Delta type planet, a medium-sized planet with the number of Minot 1.

Before the Great Crusade, this system had no trace of life. After the system was discovered by the Empire during the Great Crusade, the Minoids' liquid planet and its moons were found to be rich in promethium. Therefore, the Minoids were Naturally, a hive city was built on the star to support it. A large number of Imperial residents were moved to this planetary system and became part of the Empire's equipment to squeeze the resources of this galaxy - until the promethium on these planets was It was basically developed, and most of the empire's residents were relocated again to another star system.

However, not everyone left Minot - a small number of people, perhaps because they were not summoned, perhaps because they overslept, or perhaps for other more bizarre reasons, chose or involuntarily stayed in this desolate place. The galaxy world in the world has survived tenaciously by relying on the construction equipment and resources that the empire has not dismantled or taken away - and the empire has made this irrelevant to the empire due to a series of completely unintentional reasons. The data of the galaxy was lost in the darkness - thus, this planetary system and the people left in this planetary system slowly returned to the wilderness as time went by...

However, today, when this galaxy has been forgotten for thousands of years, a tattered strike cruiser jumped out of the Mandeville Point of the Minoit system without any warning, and quietly turned its bow towards the Minoit system. direction of the star - when the crew on the ship confirmed that they had successfully returned to the physical universe, they all

Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

"Brother Daken, can you determine how long we have been wandering in the subspace? Can you determine which star field of the empire we are in?"

Although the strike cruiser Stalker, used as the base monastery of the "Sword of Hatred" chapter, has had a large number of systems offline or lost functions due to subspace wandering, the technical sergeants on the ship have been conducting emergency repairs on key areas. , Therefore, the most important functional group of the strike cruiser still operates stably.

"From the star map, our current location is in the Obscure Star Field, but since we don't seem to be able to return to the real universe near a functioning empire world, I can't yet determine how much we have wandered in the subspace. Year."

The technical sergeant who was summoned by his chapter leader fiddled with the control panel in front of him a few times, although it had several cracks, but was still reliable. After confirming the parameters on it, he answered his question with a voice that was hoarse due to lack of water. Captain - They have been wandering in the subspace for too long, so that the number of mortal auxiliaries on their ship has dropped to a bad value. Therefore, now on the huge strike cruiser, Asta of the Sword of Hatred Special agents have become the main force in maintaining the operation of this ship in all aspects...

"Can you determine the data parameters of the planetary system in front of you?"

After hearing the answer from his technical sergeant, the leader of the Sword of Hate Chapter - Agost frowned slightly, secretly saying that he was not lucky - now their strike cruiser will definitely need a series of repairs before it can operate safely again. Navigating through subspace, but if there are no functioning empire worlds nearby, then we can only gamble that there are remaining resources on these worlds that can be used by their war group.

"There is no information about this planetary system in the battleship's database, Chapter Leader. The only thing I can confirm at the moment is that this planetary system has a rocky star that is relatively far away from the star of the galaxy."

"Brother Daken, start the engine, let's go take a look inside the planetary system."

Although he still didn't get the answer he was expecting, Igust still issued the order to enter the Minot system. He knew very well that this move contained a considerable degree of gambling. However, rather than the certain death option of directly driving the current shabby strike cruiser and sneaking into the subspace again, gambling on finding something on or near the rocky planet is the only chance to continue his war group. opportunity.

"yes."

The engine of the old battleship was ignited, and the Stalker slowly left Mandeville Point under the influence of thrust, heading towards the unknown future - well, although, even though, these space warriors had no idea that their ship had already Falling into the sight of something beyond the highest heaven, beyond the upper limit of their imagination...

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"That ship looks like an Astartes strike cruiser?"

In the battle hall of Queen Yu Rongguang, Liang Feifan was sorting out the chess pieces of all his imperial factions in his army box and determining the types of units to go down in the first round, while looking at the big screen with the corner of his eye. The warship that was easily locked by the hammer guys because it made too much noise when it jumped out of Mandeville Point - after hanging out with Big E for so long, the hammer guys can generally recognize some empires with realistic paintings. What is the big thing? Well, although, even though, this battleship looks in tatters.

"It's the Astartes' strike cruiser. It may have become like this because it has been wandering in the subspace for too long."

As the political commissar sister spoke, she calmly took out the Forbidden Army units from her army box and placed them on the combat preparation table - after confirming to Big E that although the number of chess pieces they descended each time was limited, they did not Without limiting the number of chess pieces they could carry, the Hammers stuffed all the Imperial units they had on hand into military boxes - therefore, the Hammers not only brought a large number of conventional Astra Militarum troops, but also regular Astra units for this mission. The classic units of the empire such as Tate and the Grenadier also carry the Inquisition, the Custodes, the Gray Knights, the Assassin's Court, and a bunch of other things that can make those who know what the arrival of these existences mean tremble into a vibrating screen - and , due to the improvement of Big E's ability, the restrictions on the descendants of the hammer guys have been further relaxed - in addition to the main descendant body they selected, other chess pieces can also serve as descendants for the hammer guys, although, Using non-main chess pieces will make it impossible for the Hammers to control them like an arm. However, this gives the Hammers more possibilities.

"It's hard to tell whether there is any problem with the Astartes on this kind of ship. Is the Inquisitor here after these Astartes?"

A certain Jingjing picked up an Inquisitor chess piece in his hand, looked at it, hesitated, and stuffed a Callidus assassin into his starting unit.

"It's hard to say. Judging from the information Big E gave us, this galaxy has been abandoned for a long time. There is no Mandeville Point in this place in the Imperial Route. Unless the Inquisition gets the information in advance, there is no way it would be possible to emerge from the subspace on the back foot in such a timely manner. Come out, I am more inclined to think that the Inquisition is also lost - who can tell about the subspace? "

Abathur, who was playing with his white-scarred veteran, shrugged.

"So it happened by accident - here it comes, here it comes!"

I just dug out my own blood from the army box

Crow Chessman's God's Chosen pointed at the big screen. On the screen, although it was small in size, it was extremely well-equipped and equipped with the emblem of the Tribunal. It was slowly approaching Mandeville Point in the Minot system. After the mid-jump into reality, and comparing it with the information provided by Big E, the Hammers all determined that this was the Tribunal they were looking for!

"What should I say? Directly join the assassins of the Gray Knight Tribunal of the Forbidden Army to join a gang? Exchange feelings with the Inquisitor?"

A certain egg is gearing up.

"No, this group is afraid that if they jump to join the world, there will be not one but three worlds that are subject to the Extinction Order - and it is very strange to throw the Extinction Order at a desolate world, even the Astartes on the broken ship. It's strange even for traitors. There must be something in that world worthy of the Inquisitor's attention - Big E said that he didn't feel there was a problem with this galaxy before the extermination order. In other words, we can make a story that this galaxy may have something. A bit of good reasoning?”

Seeing the God's Chosen, Abathur and the hammer guys were eager to try. Gu, who had just used his Vindicare Assassins and Chulisas Assassins to form an Assassin Court team, quickly spoke to stop them - high-level people appeared in the deserted star area at the same time. The Inquisitor, a bunch of forbidden troops, a group of assassins, and various SM veterans. According to the suspicious character of the Inquisition, if you tell him that your group is just here to hang out, he will feel that this place is not afraid of being distracted. !

"That's true, so we have to wait for the Inquisitor to take action before we follow?"

"Well, once the ship of the Tribunal enters and the Inquisitor lands, we will follow closely and start delivering units - by the way, pay attention, our anchor point for this wave is on this Inquisitor, delivery If you want to, stay as far away from him as possible and don’t let him notice!”

"No problem, Big E has given us a wide range of delivery, look at me directly————"

Before Gu finished speaking, the assassin team in front of him disappeared on the delivery platform. At this time, he realized that he had accidentally triggered the delivery and uttered the second half of the sentence.

"You can send my assassin units to the bottom of the Inquisitor's flagship..."

3. The judge who enters the galaxy

Orogan, who belongs to the Holy Hammer Order of the Inquisition system, is a high-level inquisitor who has been on the path of an inquisitor for more than two hundred years and is on his way to a life span of three hundred years. As a mortal who has been 'dealing' with Chaos all year round, this achievement is not great - because it is a 'well-known' secret to a certain Inquisitor who has reached a certain level. The Imperial Guardian who was a thing that could cause trouble, because of his pursuit of efficiency or other things, ended up becoming the target of being eliminated by his own duties, and in the end he was killed unjustly by his own descendants, which can be said to be the majority of the Inquisitors. The end result - the Holy Hammer Order summons demons, the Rebellion Order births heretics, the Foreign Order colludes with aliens, that's all.

But now, as Orogan, who always doubts everything, he has a vague feeling that he is very close to stepping on that line - no, maybe he has already stepped on that line without realizing it - -After all, he has also seen many inquisitors who stepped on that line and were dealt with. None of them felt that they had crossed the line. Therefore, how could he feel that he was crawling in this darkness? After fighting for so many years and using so many necessary but questionable means, why didn't I turn into something that should have been eliminated by my own responsibilities?

So, in order to at least end his life in a cause that is valuable to the empire, and in order to minimize the damage caused to the empire when he crosses the line, Judge Orogan, who learned some information, left. Due to a complicated relationship, I went to a galaxy where the empire's control was weak, where I met a master fortune teller who was said to have accurate predictions, and got a series of unexplained hints from him - the high-ranking inquisitor was convinced that these words What is tumbling in the middle is the place where I have my final battle, where I can realize my final value as a judge. As long as I can finish my life there, I will die a 'meaningful' death!

After getting these hints, Judge Orogan immediately returned to his lair, closed the door and refused to visit, studied these words with his most trusted people for decades, and slowly pieced together a bunch of fragmented information - Yu One late night with dark clouds surging, the high-ranking inquisitor walked out of the room and announced to his subordinates that he had found his destined place, where he would burn the enemies of the empire. Then, Orogan grabbed the chance. Before the other inquisitors who were monitoring this high-level inquisitor who looked wrong took action, they took their trusted people on several battleships and jumped into the subspace without hesitation——

Sailing towards the ‘destined place’ he saw in his prophecy.

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"The Minoite Galaxy, is this the place pointed to by the prophecy? However, this galaxy was abandoned thousands of years ago." 69.493.6135

In the bridge of his flagship ship, Orogan was sitting on a seat decorated with a series of luxurious styles exclusive to the Imperial Inquisitors. He leaned gently on the back of the chair and slowly tapped the armrests of the seat with his fingers. A red prosthetic eye flickered as he looked at a series of messages about this that were refreshed on the light screen floating in front of him.

Galaxy intelligence, the other unmodified eye also wrinkled into a ball because of thinking - it is true that as a high-level judge, he knows that heresy, rebellion, aliens and other things are typical "heroes are not If you ask about the source, it may appear in any corner of any planet in any area of ​​the empire. As inquisitors, dragging out and burning even the enemies of the empire hidden in the most corner is their role as servants of the emperor. The most sacred duty - is there any need to be 'choosy' about heretical, alien and rebellious gadgets?

However, the place where he ended his battle turned out to be such a place that was not only located on the edge of the empire, but also far away from most galaxies, and was even an abandoned area. Orogan couldn't help but murmur in his heart - there really is something here. A rebellious existence that could threaten the empire? Did you really not interpret the prophecy wrong? If I did not interpret the prophecy incorrectly, then of the two abandoned planets in this galaxy and one planet that has not been developed at all, which planet is problematic?

"Master, we have confirmed the surrounding intelligence. The instruments show that a subspace jump occurred at this Mandeville Point before we entered this galaxy."

Just when Orogan was thinking hard about how to move forward and how to go, a new report lit up on the light screen in front of him. After quickly browsing the report, the inquisitor thought in his heart There is calculation.

"Fleet, start the engines."

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"Hiss—the Empire is full of weird things on any ship, right?"

In the bottom area of ​​the Inquisitor's flagship, which was slowly starting the engine, Gu, who was currently treating the Vindicare Assassin as his descendant, lightly walked around a pile of objects in front of him that had been flattened to the ground by his own Iverson Assassin. God knows what kind of thing it is, while shaking the head of his descended body to determine if there are any other enemies that need attention in the direction ahead. Behind him, the Assassin of Chulisas and the Assassin of Callidus are silently vigilant. , be wary of enemies that may come out of the darkness at any time, and enemies that Gu may have overlooked.

"Some strange things may grow on even the new ships of the Empire, let alone old ships like this. By the way, Gu, what are you going to do now?"

On the Queen of Glory, the other hammer guys who gathered around Gu were eating melons and watching the show.

"What else can I do except go shopping first to try to figure out the structure of this ship? There is no way I can drive these chess pieces to see the inquisitor now. Assassins from four factions appeared together. I think the inquisitor will press the self-destruct button immediately. ”

Thinking of the chess pieces he was carrying now, Gu felt a slight toothache - to the Inquisitor, it didn't matter that a small team of Astartes made them look bad, but all the assassins of the four series came to his ship and named them by name. Falling in love with myself...

Presumably, normal inquisitors will definitely feel that they are heretics - well, although in most cases, the probability of inquisitors being heretics is really high, but now the hammer guys can't be sure about Asta who first entered the galaxy. Under certain circumstances, it would not be a good idea to scare the Inquisition into a panic - after all, their current anchor point is still the Inquisitor!

"Let your Callidus approach you in disguise?"

"There must be a chance - well, I found an interface that I can probably hack into - yo, the latest news, this inquisitor also discovered that other ships have visited this galaxy, and he is letting the fleet go into the galaxy. Woolen cloth."

"It seems that the cause of the problem in this galaxy is very likely to be that the Inquisition collided with the Astartes who entered at the beginning, and then the two sides engaged in a gradually escalating war and finally attracted the power of the subspace to invade. It is not I don’t know which one of them has a problem - judging from the situation of the judge’s last prayer, there is a high probability that he has no problem at least in terms of his faith. "

Egg began to think.

"It is possible that there is no problem, but there is a problem with the coincidence - the relationship between the Inquisition and the Astartes is a bad debt. In the eyes of the more extreme Inquisition, the Astartes are not human. To put it harshly, a certain In this sense, Abaddon has to send the banner to the Inquisition."

Liang Feifan shrugged his shoulders and gave another possibility.

"There is another possibility that the two of them encountered other problems together. In the end, the Inquisitor, who was running out of ammunition and food, had to end with an extermination order - forget it, there is no use in guessing here, the top priority is to determine who entered this galaxy. What is Start's identity? We have the same interests as the Inquisitor. Gu, how about you continue to stay on the Inquisitor's ship and get more information about them? "

"Okay, at this stage I think this is all I can do."

4. The Sword of Hatred in Scavenging

The yellow sand is long and the sun is scorching.

In this endless desert, even though it has been abandoned by its creators for thousands of years, the towering remaining hive buildings still use silent words to tell any member of the empire who sees them this. The lost magnificence of the world——

Forest-like building ruins stand in the wind and sand, with blurred sunlight reflected between the broken metal or glass pieces. Maybe it’s because the roads are covered with sand and dust, and the bustling traffic scene of the past has long since disappeared. The wind blew through the ruins, bringing up whirlwinds of sand and dust. They shone with golden light under the sunlight, like thousands of

A tiny gem danced in the air. Occasionally, you can see a few pillars with a trace of uniqueness that are still standing among the ruins. They have become old and firm under the baptism of time. A little deeper, abandoned statues and fountains. Still standing, mottled and damaged, they are like watchers, watching over this ruins and watching over the past that is absolutely impossible to return to.

But today, some unexpected people, some warriors who theoretically should not be on this abandoned world, visited this ancient ruins, and what these Emperor's angels of death asked for was just... yes.....

"By the Emperor's blessing, there are still many useful things in this hive."

In an area that was obviously a closed factory, Daken, the most accomplished technical sergeant of the Sword of Hate on the Path of the Om Messiah, was leading several of his battle brothers, holding various tools, carefully dismantling a large part that had been mostly swallowed by the dust, but in fact the overall structure was still intact, preparing to transport it back to the Thunderhawk gunship - about a Terran day ago, their strike cruiser arrived above this rocky planet. Although the members of the Sword of Hate were frustrated to find that this world was dead, their situation still forced them to descend to this world and try to find some useful supplies from the ruins - and now, the members of the Sword of Hate are satisfied that the harvest is not bad?

"The Imperial residents in this hive should have been evacuated in an orderly manner, so there are so many equipment and facilities that can still be used here."

After completing his dismantling task, another technical sergeant who was busy beside Deacon carefully collected some useful pipes and spoke with a slightly fortunate tone - under normal circumstances, although their unknown war group in the Empire with no father was short of supplies, they didn't have to value these things. However, now squatting in such a wasteland in God knows where in the corner of the Empire, Abandoned galaxies, everything that can be used is a treasure...

"But this is not good news - brother, I think you know what I mean."

Hearing what his battle brother said, Daken showed a bitter smile on his face hidden under the helmet - of course, being able to touch so many useful things is a good thing for the Sword of Hatred, which is now short of everything, but the abandonment of this world also means that they can't get more hard goods needed by the Sword of Hatred, such as food blocks for Astartes, such as ammunition, such as some more important things.

"At least we have the possibility of repairing our ship - now we can only take it one step at a time."

The technical sergeant who understood what Daken meant also had a hint of helplessness in his tone.

"We can still go, that's good - wait, something's going on!"

Just when Daken was about to say a few words to liven up the atmosphere, some unusual sounds came into his ears. Instinctively, the Astartes Brother quickly entered a state of combat readiness, and quickly moved to hide behind a large machine that had been dismantled of most of the things they needed. The other battle brothers around him also quickly put down the things that had nothing to do with the battle, and hid in the combat points that they had locked when they entered the area. It took only a short yawn for the area to become "calm".

"Direction of the sound...approximate number...estimated volume...you two, stand by here, others, follow me!"

Since the visitors in the direction of the sound did not cover their tracks at all, Deacon easily determined a series of intelligence about the existence of the sound. After quickly considering the tactics in his mind for a while, the technical sergeant decided to take the initiative to attack - although the complex sources of the sound clearly indicated that there were a large number of them, and some of them were operations of a certain size, but in Daken's view, this actually showed that the existence of the sound was probably not a powerful thing, and it might even be...

"Understood."

The order was accepted, and the Astartes quickly took action. In a flash, except for the two Astartes named by Daken who were still squatting in their battle positions without moving, the other Astartes followed Daken with impeccable tactical movements and sneaked towards the direction where the sound came from - at the same time, Daken also roughly described his guess in the communication channel. Now, these Astartes are a little excited.

————After all, the value of the abandoned hive world to the war group is really two different things, whether it is inhabited or not!

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While the Astartes of the Sword of Hate were busy looking for all kinds of useful things on Minoit I, the fleet of the Orogan Inquisitor that entered the galaxy also quietly parked in an abandoned space station on the outer orbit of Minoit I, and the Orogan Inquisitor also took a spacecraft to Minoit I - and the most direct effect of his action was that the Hammermen who had been following the Inquisitor could finally send their chess pieces to Minoit I - so, in order to ensure that there would be no unexpected big problems, the Hammermen

started a heated discussion.

"Can't I send an assassin down to explore the way first?"

After looking for a long time, he felt that it was a bit unsightly not to use some special starting units. Silence rubbed the Callidus Assassin in his hand, as if he wanted to put it down.

"No, it's forbidden to use Assassins, Grey Knights, and Imperial Guards. This kind of units means that they have a lot of life when they land. Except for the one that Gu accidentally lost."

In order to prevent things from getting out of hand at the beginning, the political commissar sister decisively suppressed it.

"Is it okay for Blood Crow to bring a few chemical dogs?"

After sorting out the chess pieces he brought for a while, the God of Choice pieced together a combination that was probably okay.

"Although this combination is strange, it should be fine..."

Gu commented sharply on this.

"My other units are a bit difficult to take down. How about I take down the Inquisitor first?"

Since most of the units he carried were live-action units, Liang Feifan, who originally wanted to make a super handsome appearance, was so distressed that he withdrew his Gray Knights and Assassin units aside, leaving only a lonely Inquisitor. .

"Hmm...Okay, you and my White Scar will work together, so that if you are asked about something that has a founding group platform, it will be easier to fool."

The number of imperial chess pieces on hand was average, so Abathur brought basically normal stuff this time. He patted Liang Feifan on the shoulder and signaled this wave of cooperation.

"Then I still have the same team of oil guys here - do you need my delivery area to be closer to you? In this case, we can deal with most problems by taking care of each other."

After placing the chess pieces he had selected in the preparation area, Wannian Oil Controller's Egg looked at the holographic projection of Minot No. 1 floating in the center of the combat hall. On it, there was a quite large area. There is a flashing halo, and this area represents the place where the Hammers can place their chess pieces.

"Don't worry, the information is completely unknown now. The first batch of chess pieces must all be used as pathfinding units. Investigating clues everywhere is our first goal now - as long as we can figure out why this abandoned world feels like it is not good to feed the Tyranids. It will develop to the point of taking the Extermination Order, and it won’t matter if all the first batch of chess pieces are destroyed.”

After thinking for a while, the political commissar sister put forward her own opinion.

"Then disperse first? That's okay - in this case, whose chess piece is best placed near the Astartes battle group? Let me make it clear first, my assassin will definitely follow the Inquisitor all the way shopping, so it is impossible for me ”

Gu, who was hiding on Judge Orogan's shuttle with three other Assassin chess pieces, calmly continued to eavesdrop on Judge Orogan's communications, while raising another question, and at the same time assigned himself a task. After hearing this question, the hammer guys all began to think.

After about half a minute, Silence spoke.