Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 223

  Chapter 223 Rise of the Primarch: The Endless Museum

The bright lights in the passage trestle are flashing one by one. Those bright spotlights illuminate the entire gray trestle, illuminating the ground, walls, overhead pipelines and connecting equipment on both sides, but only Except for the black steel wall ahead.

  It was a wall made of pitch-black steel. Those black metals seemed to completely devour all the light, without reflections, outlines, or flashes. All the light shining on the black surface seemed to be swallowed up.

They walked to the end of the connecting trestle of the Infinite Frontier, and came to this long black steel wall. Bell looked at the wall that was almost completely sealed without any gaps, but the wall closed with their arrival. Suddenly there was a change.

As Vito and Bell approached, the sealed black wall began to change as they approached the wall. On the plane with no gaps at all, there began to appear a gap in the door with green light, and the wall was divided into several parts. The edges and corners of the block polygon shrink and open to the surroundings, and its operation method is not like a machine at all, but like a living body with thinking.

Living metal, Bell is sure that's what it's called. The necromancers will use these metals that can grow, heal and self-evolve, which the empire can't understand at all, to create weapons, armor, buildings and ships, and its variability is now being fully displayed in Bell. in front of you.

As the black wall opened, Bell stopped involuntarily, almost subconsciously. He looked vigilantly at the dark space after the entrance, which was the inside of the giant tomb ship of the Necrons. Te would instinctively prepare for a fight, even if Vito had clearly told him that he was not here for a fight.

  Bell stood in front of the entrance under the helmet, frowning tightly. Vito patted his leg easily and walked in, as if he was just visiting an old friend's house.

  Bell hesitated for a moment as he watched Vito walk through the gap in the black wall, but quickly regained his composure and let go of his hand holding the bolt gun to follow.

   The Ultramarine walked through the gap and entered the interior of the giant tomb ship. He looked around vigilantly through the display window of the warrior's helmet. The scarlet glass of the Ultramarine's helmet stared directly at the surrounding building structures.

The huge black stone pillars are arranged on both sides, propping up the space with its towering and burly physique, surrounded by pitch-black steel without any reflection at all, extending from the ground to the dome are those black steel, only passing through the surrounding from time to time Only the flowing green light beam lines can give a glimpse of the size of the outline here.

  Bell looked around vigilantly, while Vito stood on the dark ground with his hands on his hips and looked around, "Where's the tin bastard? He didn't come out to pick us up either."

  Before Vito's voice fell, Bell caught a burst of footsteps inside his helmet, and the Ultramarines immediately looked in that direction according to the instructions on the tactical display interface.

Undead warriors walked out from behind the black stone pillars, and they were not ordinary warriors. These overlord guards with silver-gray cockscomb structures on their heads and green crystal-cut blades walked out of the shadows. The blade, from which green disintegrating lightning flashed.

  Bell looked at them and frowned, and suddenly an alarm started inside his tactical helmet, and the Ultramarine immediately saw the red dot captured by the individual radar from the corner of his eye, and that thing was on his head.

At the same time, a burly black shadow suddenly fell from above and hit the ground. The razor-like steel legs supported the centipede-like steel body. On the top of its layered iron armor was a shining eye. There is also a pair of iron pincers opening and closing under the red eyes.

Reaper, Bell pulled out the bolter the moment he recognized the enemy, and he aimed his gun at the raised steel-legged centipede in an instant, and the gunfire was about to explode almost instantly, but before he Vito stopped him the instant he pulled the trigger.

   "Bell! Put away your weapons!" Vito shouted, looking at the overlord guards who were slowly approaching ahead, it was obvious that these words were not very convincing.

   "Marshal, this is a trap!"

   "Listen to me put the gun away! This is an order!"

Vito's words came into Bell's mind, he hesitated for a moment, although he was extremely reluctant, he obeyed the order, he put down the bolter facing the terrifying steel monster, even though his sense of crisis as an Astartes was sharpening Calling the police, but Bell is also familiar with the scriptures, knowing that obeying orders must overcome his own chaotic emotions.

  Vito heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this, and almost at the same time a person walked out from behind a stone pillar with a smile. Both Bell and Vito watched the crooked silver body walk from between the overlord guards to the front.

   "Your surprise is not very fun, Traasin." Vito said with a wry smile, while the Necromancer in front of him laughed and raised his fingers, and he looked up at Bell.

  "I have to make sure that the followers you bring will obey your orders, and have enough restraint to not shoot me when they see me like other religious lunatics."

Tarasin said and looked at Bell with twinkling eyes, he stretched out a hand towards Bell, "I believe you are Bell Brutus, Vito has mentioned many things about you to me, it is an honor to meet you you."

  Bell hesitated for a moment, he knew he shouldn't shake hands with the alien, but for some reason he instinctively took Tralassin's hand, so much so that he was shocked when he discovered this gesture.

   "Do you know the marshal?" Bell asked, and after shaking hands, Talasin let go of him, laughing and holding the staff that was floating beside him.

   "Yes, we've known each other for a long time, longer than all the people you know combined."

Bell was stunned for a moment and turned his head to look at Vito silently. He obviously had a lot of questions in his mind. If it were someone else, he would have shouted "Heretic!" or "Traitor!" and shot Vito directly. You know, and How does alien cooperation generally end up in Empire.

  Vito knew what Bell was thinking and smiled jokingly. He pointed to Traasin in front of him, "Not all aliens are hostile to humans, Bell, and the same is true among the undead."

"Maybe it's beyond your expectations, Ultramarines, but not every dynasty in the various Necromancer dynasties holds irreparable and deep hostility towards you, or all flesh and blood life." Traasin opened his mouth to explain, this question He obviously had the most say.

"We are all kinds of people with different personalities just like you human beings. Some of them are indeed incorrigible and unreasonable lunatics, but there are also dead spirits like me, the astrologer, who are willing to communicate with you, and even cooperate. .”

  Bell looked at Trazyn hesitantly, but after confirming that Vito had no hostility towards Trazyn, he still nodded to show that he understood Tracyn's words and would not have any unfriendly thoughts towards him.

  Tarasin smiled in satisfaction, and looked down at Vito, "What do you want me to interpret?"

"Here." Vito said and took the box from Bell. Vito put the house on the ground and opened it, took the old man out of the air cushion on the screen, and took out the Eldar bomb at the same time. .

Vito dropped the bomb jokingly, and caught it dangerously like he was playing acrobatics. He pointed a part of the bomb at Trasim and smiled, "I brought a bomb for the people on board to see, I hope you do not mind."

   "Of course I don't mind. Besides, if you want to fight me to death, you don't need such fancy things." Traasin said with a smile, and Vito also stood up and threw the bomb to Bell.

   "And I also know that even if I blow it up, you won't die. You Tin King knows how many substitutes you have."

   "I call it a suitable risk protection mechanism. You know that my collection work is very dangerous." Traasin said and took the old jade from Vito's hand.

  The Infinity looked at the Necromancer Artifact in his hand, the self-rotating structure shimmered in front of his eyes, Traasin looked at it, "Come with me, you will know what it is."

  Tarasin waved his hand to signal the two to follow. Vito followed naturally like a walk. Bell also held the bomb in his hand after a short hesitation and followed the two to the distance.

  Bell has never fought a springboard battle with a necromancer ship since he joined the battle group, but this is the first time that he has entered with the necromantic overlord for a visit. This also allows Bell to observe everything around him in a more detailed manner without rushing.

Bell was surprised to find that the surface of the living metal has been undergoing changes at the molecular level, like a water surface that is forever changing. He obsessively observed the moving molecules through the molecular microscope of the tactical helmet, and wondered what kind of metal this metal is. How it was made, and whether the Empire could replicate it.

  Bell couldn't believe that if living metals could be produced by the empire, how many breakthroughs could be brought about in the fields of military, civilian and scientific research.

  Being curious about the surrounding technology, Bell followed Traasin and Vito through the labyrinthine corridors, walked up the long stairs in a wide hall, and passed through the arc-shaped gate on the top floor.

Bell looked at the green light flashing on the edge, which seemed to be trembling and changing the relationship between the spatial structure. He hesitated at first whether to go through it, but after Vito followed Trasim through the gate without hesitation, Bell also walked in. .

  Bell felt a brief sense of dizziness when he walked into the gate, as if everything around him was twisting and changing, but after a short moment, the discomfort was over, replaced by surprise, shock and amazement.

  Bell looked around at the exhibits, those endless collections arranged in the distance, countless precious cultural relics, scientific and technological creations and technological crystallizations are displayed here, spreading to the boundless distance like a sea of ​​rare treasures.

  Tarasin raised his arms proudly, "Welcome to the Endless Museum."

  They walked along the long corridor between the endless rare treasures, Bell looked at the surrounding things excitedly, and he even took off his helmet after walking a certain distance to let himself see more clearly.

"It must have taken you a lot of time to collect so many precious treasures, right?" He asked, looking at the huge Titan beside him, Bell recognized that it was a warrior-level Titan, and the weapon model on it It is the standard model of the Great Crusade era.

Not to mention the other collections around. Its various categories include the crystallization of civilizations of all races in the entire galaxy, especially the specimen of the Tyranid Tyrant displayed not far away. It is restrained by an exquisite position and still maintains its posture before being captured , Bell had never observed the tyrant so closely.

Traasin walked along the exhibition area with a smile, "It did take a lot of hard work. I spent tens of thousands of years collecting these treasures. I believe that knowledge, culture and all precious creations created by it should be preserved, so as to avoid the current dark galaxy. devastated by the raging flames of war.”

"I think... I can understand what you're doing." Bell said silently after looking at the exhibits around him and thinking about it. He really didn't expect that he would say this to an alien, but he could indeed understand Trasim's Behavior.

"I'm glad you understand, I think we have a lot in common, my friend." Traasin said and came to a circular round table, Vito walked around him and stood on the other side of the table, Bell in the opposite position.

  Bell looked at the round table, then raised his head to watch Traasin click on the tabletop, and as a small green light lit up, the table began to operate, and its surface quickly decomposed into several rings that floated up.

Traasin put the jade of old age into the surrounding ring, and the artifact was suspended in it and rotated by itself. Traasin tapped the surface of the artifact lightly, and with a flick of his finger, the artifact stopped rotating, and its surface Those flashing necromancer characters were projected three-dimensionally and suspended in the air.

  Vito looked at the words floating in front of his eyes, the nearest of which almost hit him, and he wanted to take a small step back to make room, and Traasin also began to operate.

  He quickly clicked the text to break it into countless data fragments, those fragments swirled around like stars and shone with light, and Traasin's eyes watched them and quickly understood everything.

   "Here's a key."

   "Key?" Vito asked in surprise, Traasin nodded.

   "This is a key that can be used to restart the lighthouse array, ah, I forgot that you don't know what that thing is called." Traasin said, turning his head to look at Vito, and also glanced at Bell.

"In your human cognition, you generally call that thing the Sosa Beacon. It is located on the planet Sosa in the Extreme Star Field. Liman used it to pierce warp storms and point the way to the lost fleet."

  Bell was startled, of course he knew what it was, and he was sure that Vito knew it too, the latter frowned slightly and looked at Trasim in front of him.

   "The Beacon of Sotha was overloaded and destroyed by the loyal Iron Warrior Dantioch during the attack of the Night Lords."

   "No, my friend, those Mechanic Cult believers with backward technology may think it is destroyed, but in fact it just triggered the protection mechanism after overloading and locked the system switch."

  Tarasin held the artifact as he spoke, and he handed the small pyramid structure to Vito, "And this key can restart the system and make the lighthouse work again."

   "I believe you already know about the crisis situation in Macragge, right? Edalad told you." Talassin said but it made Bell nervous, and he strode forward to ask hurriedly.

   "Macragge? What happened there?"

  Tarasin looked at him, "Marauder, Warmaster Abaddon sent one of the main forces of his destruction army to Macragge, and now the five hundred worlds are under siege."

"Dark Apostle Erebus slaughtered several galaxies around Macragge, and summoned a storm of destruction with the souls of tens of billions of people to cover Macragge, and now it is cut off from the outside world, just like It was the same as during the Great Rebellion, and you can also activate the lighthouse on Sosa to guide the reinforcements as you did back then."

  Tarassin explained, while Bell looked at Vito emotionally. He stepped forward and glanced at the old jade, "We must go to Macragge immediately! Marshal, my brothers need us!"

  Vito nodded and took the jade of old age. He looked at Trasin and signaled solemnly, "Take us away, time is running out."

   "No, my friend, the time has come for me to take you to someone."

"Who?"

"follow me."

After talking, Traasin walked in one direction, and Vito and Bell followed after looking at each other. They followed Traasin through a small corner of the Endless Museum, and came to a row of warriors in exquisite positions. exhibition area.

   There are many warriors here, including human, green skin, Eldar, and Tyrannosaurus, etc. In addition, there are almost all warriors with civilizations, even those that have been destroyed.

Vito and Bell followed Traasin to a warrior. It was a warrior sitting on a silver-white throne. He was sleeping with his eyes closed. The aquamarine armor on his body was still as new. His chest The amber gemstone eye is even more shining.

  Bell looked at his armor and was puzzled by the sleeping warrior with short blond hair. He didn't recognize the armor painting and style of this warrior, but he was shocked when he saw the legion number marked on his shoulder.

   "Marshal, he is the son of Horus!" Bell shouted, but Vito was far more surprised than him, and he stared blankly at the sleeping warrior in front of him.

   "Loken?" Vito said almost dully, while Traasin on one side raised his scepter.

"His fate is at hand, and now it's time for him to return to the present world." Traasin said as he tapped the ground with his scepter, and with the green arc light driven by the crisp sound, the exquisite position flickered and disappeared instantly. .

  As the green fluorescence on the edge of the booth disappeared, Loken's eyes slowly opened. He supported the throne to stand up but fell off the throne due to weakness and dizziness. He knelt down on the ground and rubbed his head.

   "Where am I?" Loken said confusedly, seeing Vito who immediately knelt down to support him and looked at him in confusion.

   "Vito?"

   "Loken."

   Vito said with a sob, tears rolled in his eyes but he still didn't cry, he looked at his old friend who unexpectedly reunited after ten thousand years and smiled.

   "Where am I? What time is it?" Loken asked confusedly.

   "M41K.999, welcome back, Captain Garviel Loken." Traasin said.

  (end of this chapter)

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