Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 257

  Chapter 257 Rise of the Primarch: City of Tears

The sound of crying echoed on the street, tears flowed from the eyes like a collapsed barrier lake, the whole city was once again shrouded in haze, the streets were full of people who were crying, they were not crying because of their genes Primarch Roboute Guilliman weeps as he leaves.

They cry because of the hateful plague, the plague of tears, which is what the people of the five hundred worlds now call it. When you are infected with this mysterious plague, you will cry involuntarily, and the cry will be like echoing in the Like the echo in the dark street, one after another.

Vito was walking on the streets of Keha. He had been observing here for two days. As Vito expected, this **** disease was definitely going to fight guerrillas with them again. Guilliman had just left for three days. The disease came back again, and it appeared suddenly, without warning.

Many people may have relapsed from old diseases, and the sound of crying filled the city overnight. The mode of transmission of this disease is still a mystery, and Vito has not yet got any answers. He walked on the street, wearing a gas mask on his face, carefully Shuttle around.

On the streets of Keha, there are these crying people everywhere. Their voices echo in every corner of Keha city, passing through the cliff space between the cities, just like the legendary female ghost in the fog. ghost crying.

  Vito looked at these people, and a pale-eyed man who had been blinded by crying was sitting slumped on the side of the road, but even so, his tears kept falling from the corners of his eyes, and the whimpering sound echoed softly at the end.

Those fanatical believers walked the streets, whipping themselves or each other to seek the protection of the Emperor and Guilliman. They were at the front of the line, and the whips were constantly being raised and the crackling sound of the whips on the skin.

  Vito looked at them in confusion, looking at the scars, redness and scars left on their bodies. It was difficult for him to understand how this way of thinking logic was born. Why did they think that whipping themselves could be redeemed? What do they think the Emperor is? Shake S?

   And even if they really shake S, such as Vito's dear Lilith, they probably won't bless them, but like watching a wonderful performance, expecting them to beat themselves harder.

  All yes, these methods don't work. Although there is currently no cure for the plague of tears, Vito's investigations and visits these days have made it clear that the fatality rate of this plague is not high.

   Except for those who can't bear it, people who commit suicide because of depression or other reasons, this epidemic does not cause serious casualties, I mean, even if you are blind, you can't kill yourself, right? You can still eat, drink and sleep, yes, sleep.

This is Vito's surprising discovery. Even if you cry into tears, you can still fall asleep. This method is probably similar to that of a child who will fall asleep when tired of crying. For most Nurgle viruses, this plague It looks very, odd, more like a joke or a game.

Vito walked on the street, he emerged from the narrow alleys full of weeping, and walked aimlessly on the avenue on the edge of Korha's city, where a large number of weepers gathered. into a long river, their destination is the cathedral at the end.

   But apart from these monks, most people wandered meaninglessly, crying and wailing, chanting words in their mouths, chanting words of blessing and words from the Emperor's Holy Word.

Vito could see that most of them didn't believe in religion at ordinary times, and those sentences stuttered, and they needed to glance at the pamphlet in their hands from time to time to know the next sentence, but that's how human beings are. When disaster strikes, you will involuntarily seek faith, a stronger faith that you can rely on.

But not everyone is like this. Vito stands under the huge obelisk on the side of the street and looks forward. On the street, teams of law enforcement officers from the Ministry of Justice are leading the defense forces to maintain order. Each piece of airtight military coat, the cuffs, neckline and trouser legs are all tied up, a gas mask is worn on the face, and a steel helmet is worn on the top of the head.

From an onlooker's point of view, they looked like the Krieger Death Army had sent troops here. Although Vito felt that it was useless for the Kriegers to come, after all, those warriors who were not afraid of death couldn't handle it. A mysterious disease.

The soldiers of the Defense Forces wore gas masks, and the sound of deep breathing sounded from the exhalation valve from time to time. Laser guns were held in their hands. These soldiers in military boots walked on the street, led by law enforcement officers from time to time To disperse and arrest fanatics who riot in the streets.

Vito witnessed such an arrest. He looked towards the high platform not far away. On the steps beside the fountain stood a monk. He was wearing a white robe and held up a holy book in his hand. He cried out with the sound of crying.

"It's all your fault! You believed in the Lord of Macragge, but not the Emperor! You relied too much on his glory to reject faith! Now that Macragge has left, you are punished, Emperor Emperor's punishment!"

  "This plague is his spur, spurring us to believe in him and obey him. He is the only **** in the galaxy. Only by believing in him can we be saved."

The monk shouted, and the fanatics watching under him shouted. They were crying and praying and praising loudly. The fanatic monk pointed to the statue of Guilliman not far away in the middle of the avenue, where the Lord of Macragge stood On a carriage, pulled by dozens of horses, it rose into the air like the king of the gods.

The fanatical monk waved the holy words in his hand, his pupils were bloodshot, and he shouted in a hysterical voice, "Only the icon of the emperor is salvation, destroy him! Destroy his statue, let the only true **** stand Yukha, we can be saved!"

The believers were instigated to rush towards the statue of Guilliman in a frenzy. They tried every means to destroy him. It's ironic. The day before yesterday they were still praising Guilliman's salvation and coming, but now it seems that Guilliman is a heretic like.

Vito looked at them with a wry smile. Those stupid guys were like nooses. Hammers and everything they could find on the side of the road destroyed the statues. The broken stone statues poured down a lot of rubble. Guilliman in the car was also put on a noose and was ready to be pulled down.

The siren sounded on the street, and Vito turned his head to look at the law enforcement officers and defense soldiers rushing from the other side. Dozens of soldiers and special service officers from the Ministry of Justice rushed into the crowd with batons and electric shock batons. Law enforcement officers in coats rushed into the crowd. The zealots banish and thrash the foolish zealots.

The guard soldiers knocked the man who was pulling the rope to the ground, and several people immediately went up and handcuffed him to the ground. The crowd was in chaos, and batons flickering with electric arcs were waving among the crowd, while the whipped man screamed. There was a scream of pain.

  But the fanatics were still in high spirits. The monk behind them held up the holy book and continued to encourage the crowd. He shouted loudly, praising the great achievements of the emperor.

"Why do you stop us, you hypocritical arbitrators, we are for the glory of the Emperor, only in this way can we be redeemed! Remove the statue! Devout believers, remove the statue!" His hysterical shout encouraged the crowd Fighting with the guards for a day, those crying fanatics fought with the soldiers, batons and various simple weapons collided with each other.

The fanatics relied on their numerical superiority to overwhelm the guards. The soldiers fell to the ground and beat and kicked. On the other side, the law enforcement officer managed to break out of the encirclement. The marshal ran to the newly arrived guards at the other end of the street.

I saw that person yelling something to the officer on the Chimera personnel carrier, the guard officer wearing a tank cap immediately raised his arms and shouted forward, the Chimera armored vehicle turned and drove towards the chaotic believers, one of them The worshiper climbed up the statue and was about to break Guilliman's head with a crowbar.

But before he could do anything, he was shot, and the guard soldier sitting on the Chimera personnel carrier shot him with a laser gun, and the man was immediately pierced by the red light bullet and fell to the ground. Into a **** massacre.

A large number of guard soldiers with live ammunition jumped out of the Chimera, and a platoon of guards followed behind the armored car immediately deployed. The soldiers formed a long straight line on the street. As they advanced, they aimed their laser guns to aim and shoot. The fiery red light shot mercilessly at the fanatics who kicked the fallen soldiers.

A large number of zealots were shot to the ground by laser guns, and their bodies were riddled with holes and steaming. The soldiers of the guards advanced along with the Chimera, their tracks ran over the street, and they were killed by the continuous flashing of laser beams on both sides. and dispersed the pilgrims.

Vito watched the fanatical monk being beaten into a hornet's nest by dozens of guns. He fell to the ground, and the Holy Word in his hand fell into the smoking corpse. It seemed that the Emperor he was thinking of did not help him, probably I think he is too stupid, after all, he looks like an idiot.

Guard soldiers walked into the pile of corpses with laser guns, some of them went to pull up the comrades who fell on the ground, and they helped the wounded soldiers to the direction of the Chimera personnel carrier, while others held guns and stepped over the corpses. Corpses shot the twitching mob to make sure they were really dead this time.

This **** massacre led to the blockade of the streets. Vito admired the superb local response speed. It took them less than three minutes to block the streets and alleys. Three or four Chimera personnel carriers were parked on the avenue leading to the port. , and there were quite a few troop trucks. The guards blocked the streets under the instructions of the officers, and set up cordons and roadblocks for control.

Vito leaned against the obelisk and looked at the blockade in distress. He looked at the soldiers with live ammunition and showed confusion. But at the same time Vito showed distress, a man wearing the captain's coat of the airship Appeared beside him, the guy with a gold tooth in his mouth smiled and looked ahead.

   "It seems that the situation is not good. Some idiots caused the streets to be blocked." The captain grinned and said, while Vito shrugged and showed some helplessness.

"Indeed, the guards have blocked the street, and it looks like we and others are trapped here, Captain." Vito sighed helplessly, while the captain laughed with his hands on his hips, "I don't think you want to be trapped here, do you? You want to get out of here, get out of this **** place like everybody else."

"You may be right, Captain, I guess you are also preparing to leave, right? The captain of the airship will not stay on the ground all the time." Vito said with a smile leaning on the stone pillar, the captain also laughed, and he patted Smiling on his cuff.

   "That's right, I'm going to leave too, I guess you're right too?" The captain showed his gold teeth and looked at Vito jokingly. There was something in his words that Vito could hear, and he probably knew what this guy wanted to say.

  Vito decided to follow suit. He shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands slightly, "Indeed, I'm also a businessman, a rogue." "Ah, yes, I can tell that your accent is not from the local area. Where did you come from?"

"A place far, far away, the solar star field." Vito said naturally, this sentence is indeed true in a certain sense, after all, Vito was indeed born in Terra, and flew from Terra to the Milky Way. This is not a lie.

   "Haha, then you have come far enough, you have flown more than half of the Milky Way, I guess it must be a big deal, the same as what I want to do." The captain laughed, and Vito also nodded politely in response.

   "It's a big deal, I made a good fortune, but have to ship the goods back to make another one, but alas, it looks like we're stuck here."

Vito pretended to sigh regretfully, as he expected, the captain immediately giggled with his hands on his hips, the gold teeth in his mouth glistened in the sun, making his face look so confident, "Not really, I think there is a way we can leave, now, but it will cost you a... small price."

Vito smiled and spread his hands, "I hope the price is not too high, and there is a reasonable explanation, Captain." "Of course, of course, we are all businessmen, and we don't want to play with empty heads, I will tell you yours."

The captain pointed to the blockade line in the distance. An officer was walking in front of the guards to give a lecture. He held a laser gun and yelled for a group of people to put the sandbags right away. Vito looked at the brash officer. He looked like They are classic local aristocratic officers, the kind that are very annoying, but also because this kind of family is prominent, so the guards are not easy to deal with them, and they can only turn a blind eye to the bad things they do. Eye.

"That guy's name is Principe Claudius, the second son of the old Earl of Stufield, my old acquaintance, I have transported a lot of things for their family. Not very worthy of the table, especially Principe, he owes me A favor."

  The captain gestured around with a smile, "If he recognizes me, plus my promise, my dear wanderer friend, we can leave."

   "Well, it sounds good, what's the price?" Vito asked with his hands in his arms, and the captain also smiled shamelessly. He raised three fingers, "Not much, not much, three thousand Skyhawk coins."

"You don't call it a lot? Three thousand Skyhawk coins, the Emperor, that's enough to buy an entire town in some feudal world." Vito said angrily, while the captain shrugged and smiled, "What is this little money compared to the money you earned by shipping back the goods? We all understand the principle of spending a small amount of money to make a lot of money, don't we?"

  Vito was amused by the shameless captain, he smiled and nodded slightly in approval, "Okay, captain, I admit that what you said makes sense, deal, but you have to promise to take me there."

"I promise, and besides, I also have goods to transport, and those monks who live in the poisonous river valley paid a lot of money to hire me." The captain rubbed his hands and walked towards the blockade with a smile. After hearing what he said, Vito also agreed Knocking his eyebrows, he smiled slightly and felt tricky, but he still decided to follow the captain first.

  They came to the young Keha noble officer, and the captain began to say hello after a distance. He smiled and waved, "Good morning, Commander Claudius, how are you doing today?"

Chief Claudius was instructing his subordinates to drive a Chimera to the street, but he turned around when he heard the captain's voice, and looked at the approaching boat with his hands in his arms, pretending to be serious, " Captain Stolypin, why are you here?"

"Unlucky, I just finished my work in the city, and I encountered such a bad situation after picking up the goods." The captain pointed back, and his fingertips signaled the soldiers who were carrying the corpses, "It seems that the situation It's not good, can't you stay in the city?”

Facing Captain Stolypin's businessman-like smile, Claudius smiled jokingly, "Indeed, if all this hadn't happened too quickly, I would have found a way to transfer, and now I have to talk to Stay with these lunatics and God knows when I'll get sick too."

Vito looked at Claudius in front of him. He was also wearing a gas mask, and everything seemed normal. The spread of the plague of tears seemed to follow a certain pattern. In each area, it would always only infect one of them. Some people, and then leave the other part, which can cause chaos and disorder without easily destroying order itself, like a child who doesn't want to end the game so quickly.

But this is actually more troublesome, because if the planet is completely out of order, the empire can suppress it without any worries, but if half of the population is still loyal to the emperor and order, then you will not be able to suppress indiscriminately, which will lead to The increase in investment resources and time, in short, is quite troublesome.

"That's right, we want to leave too, why don't you let us go first?" Stolypin laughed jokingly, his voice in a gas mask rang out in the breathing valve, but that was also Can be heard clearly.

"The order I received is that no one is allowed to leave the city of Keha, Stolypin. The order is very clear." Claudius said seriously, but Stolypin kept laughing and nodded slightly. He waved his hand pretending to be serious.

"Of course, we're all law-abiding citizens of the Empire, how can we break the law? But you see, the cordon has just been raised, and there's such chaos here, suppose, I mean, if two lucky gentlemen happen to Did you slip past before that?"

  Claudio raised his eyebrows slightly, while Stolypin continued to laugh jokingly, making gestures with his hands while talking, reminding Vito of the Italians in Terra before.

   "Of course, I won't let you work in vain. The kind you liked before, powder, I will bring you some back. How about giving you a 50% discount this time?"

Facing Stolypin's "extremely convincing" words, Chief Claudius waved his hands impatiently, "Okay, okay, let's go before my superior arrives, I think it will be here soon It's turned into a pot of porridge."

  Claude Qiu turned around and waved to the corporal behind him, "Open the roadblock and let them pass." "Of order, Captain."

"Thank you very much. See you next time, Commander Claudius." Stolypin continued with that laugh, but Claudius cut impatiently. He waved his hand with one arm on his hip, "Hurry up, before the port is blocked, you can go."

Stolypin walked past Claudius with a smile, and Vito also walked with him. Stolypin looked at Vito at the side. He thought Vito looked familiar, but because Vito was wearing a Gas mask with half face, so he didn't recognize who Vito was.

"Who are you, sir, why do you know Stolypin?" Claudius asked from behind, Vito turned and looked at him and nodded politely. The noble heir, which made Claudius subconsciously maintain a good impression of Vito.

   "Business partner, we are talking about business in the city, you know, business between businessmen." "Well, I understand, I hear your accent is not from Keha, if I were you, sir, I would get there as soon as possible."

  Vito smiled and nodded to Claudius, "I will leave as soon as possible after I finish everything. I wish you good luck, Sir Claudius." "You too."

Vito followed Stolypin who was waiting in the distance and walked away. Claudius watched them silent for a moment, then pulled out his laser gun and turned to the front of the road. Fanatical believers gathered again. It seems that here today It's going to be a river of blood.

   It's really interesting to say that the epidemic didn't kill anyone, but humans were killing each other efficiently as always. I don't know when all this is over, will it be the virus that killed more people or the laser gun?

But this is not important to Vito and Captain Stolypin. They arrived at the pier soon after crossing the blockade. This star port built on the edge of the cliff city is now overcrowded, and the radio keeps playing all kinds of information.

   "Starship A3-9917 heading to Macragge is preparing to leave the port. Passengers who have not boarded the ship are requested to board the ship in time. The starship will depart on time in five minutes."

Vito looked at the passengers around him, most of them were planet dignitaries, nobles, merchants and officials gathered here, and they were all scrambling to board the evacuation ship. It is really ironic that the local Planetary Defense Force is still holding on. posts, but their superiors still started a great escape.

And they seem to think that Macragge is safer. After all, there is not a single case of the plague of tears. In addition, Guilliman's "miracle" after he came here made the nobles here firmly believe that , as long as he escapes to Macragge, he will be safe.

In the chaotic square outside Starport, Stolypin stopped. He looked at the extended Starport hall and turned to face Vito with a smile, "Dear friend, I have done what I should do. is you."

"You're really in a hurry, why, are you running away?" Vito said, taking out a card from Macragge National Bank from his pocket and handing it to Stolypin. The money in the card was prepared by Vito in advance. Okay, I still have a few of them on me, you know, this kind of task often requires money.

Stolypin accepted the card with a playful smile. He patted the card and smiled, "I believe you are an honest man, my friend. I will not check the number. Anyway, let's leave it alone, I wish you You have a good trip." "And you, Captain."

Vito and Stolypin shook hands hypocritically, and then Stolypin walked towards the warehouse alley outside the starport. Vito watched him from a distance, and after making sure that the captain had walked into it, he followed quietly. go up.

  Vito followed behind the captain like a black shadow. He followed silently behind him quietly. The captain was actually very cautious. He carefully observed everything around him along the way, turning his head from time to time to see if there was anyone following behind him.

But all of this is of course meaningless. After all, he was followed by the Chief Assassin Master of the Court of Assassins. The Court of Assassins itself was established by Vito, so the captain did not find Vito, and the latter followed him quietly to the pier. An old location on the edge away from the main dock.

There are many warehouses here that no one knows how many years have been renovated, suspension bridges and gray walls. It is not easy to get here, you need to go through many complicated and secret corridors, hanging ladders and corners, but when you come to After here, Vito can be sure that the troublesome way to get there is worth it.

This mooring point is very secret, in the corner of a bunch of long-forgotten docks, behind those rusty and yellowed machinery and buildings, Stolypin's airship is hovering quietly in the air, in the gray On the side of the hull, sealed cans with obvious danger signs are being transported into the cargo hold.

Vito leaned against the gantry crane base in the distance, he looked forward in the shadows, he saw the guards with live ammunition, they seemed to be very careful, every crew member was armed, and some people were standing around with guns Watch out, and I can assure you, what they're shipping will never be very interesting.

The captain stepped forward to chat with a bald guard. Vito quietly climbed onto the gantry crane. He nimbly reached the low steel beam and swiftly ran across the narrow beam surface without a sound. The captain and the guards bent over their heads, listening to their conversation quietly.

"Is everything loaded on the ship?" the captain asked looking at the jars being transported, and the guard also looked behind him and nodded slightly, "Basically everything is loaded on the ship, we can set off." Crazy monks don't like being late."

The captain patted the guard on the shoulder as he spoke, and the bald guard followed the captain from the deck to the cargo ship with a loud yell. After entering, the deck was slowly retracted and closed.

Vito looked at the injector at the end of the floating ship from the top, and the faint blue fire began to push the gray hull out of the dock. Vito immediately turned and ran forward along the gantry crane. It moved quickly, and jumped down at the end, onto the top of the cargo ship.

With a thumping sound, Vito's legs stepped on the gray hull. He stood on the back half of the cargo ship and looked at the clouds and mist ahead. On the pier, clouds and mist began to fill the surrounding area.

The blue plasma propulsion flashed behind him, Vito smiled and slid sideways down the side of the airship, the curved hull made him slide down like a skateboard, but Vito did not fall Instead of the hull, it deftly stood on the auxiliary sails on the flanks.

Vito walked on the sail, the strong wind blew his black hair up on his face, and the windbreaker fluttered in the air. Vito came to the entrance of the maintenance pipeline at the corner of the sidesail. The small door is for the ship's engine maintenance workers.

Vito snapped his fingers lightly, the golden lightning struck the door and it was automatically locked. Almost instantly the lock was burned through with black smoke, he gently pushed the small door inward and got in. .

  After getting into it, Vito closed the door smoothly, which is really good, and now, he has sneaked into this transport ship, and this ship is also heading for the blue cloud on the ground below the cliff of Nakha Star.

  (end of this chapter)

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