Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 263

  Chapter 263 Primarch Rise: Thunderfire (Part 1)

All the factories of the human empire and their ancillary facilities are under the management of the Mechanic Church, at least that is what is written in the empire's code and the Mechanic Cult's creed. According to the sacred “Olympia” agreement and the agreement between the Mechanic Order and the Empire, All mechanical creations born of the great power of the Ohm Messiah in the galaxy should belong to the Mechanicum.

Factories, oil refineries, processing bases and even many mines are under the jurisdiction of the agreement, which also includes all scientific and technological creations, knowledge, exploration and research links. Link management and leadership.

But in practice, this is often not the case. You see, the empire is very large, and it is ridiculously large in the literal sense. Hundreds of billions of planets and hundreds of trillions of people cannot be managed by a single agreement, let alone It is questionable whether many worlds are still recorded by the Imperium today.

In addition, there are extremely chaotic bureaucratic management problems, political games in various star regions, technological confrontation within the Mechanicum, and the endless production capacity needs of the empire, which can never be filled, which leads to the actual operation of the empire. Factories are strictly speaking, "belonging exclusively to Mechanics".

In fact, the foundry lines of a considerable part of the entire empire are not completely managed by the Mechanicus, but are set up and managed by the governments of various star regions, the governors and merchants who cooperate with the Astral Army. The Mechanicus only sets production standards for these factories. , regularly dispatch priests to supervise, guide and eliminate technological heresy.

   It's not surprising, is it? After all, in those vast seas of stars where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, you can't ask for everything to be perfect and conform to the complicated rules of the empire, can you?

   Among them, there are some factories that have huge problems even under the "loose" management of the empire today, such as this one.

  In the magnificent primeval forest, this huge factory stands tall, and its incompatibility with the surrounding environment makes people unable to move their eyes away.

Steel, concrete and high chimneys filled the forest glade. The forest was pushed down and flattened to accommodate these insatiable mechanical bodies. In the high walls of the factory, countless mechanical roars echoed one after another. , The roaring steel structure crushed, shattered and reorganized this underground natural core, turning it into nutrients for the endless war machine of the empire.

  Rolling thick smoke is emitted from several chimneys of the factory. Outside the high wall, there is a circle of barbed wire walls. The man-made walls that coil the barbed wire and sharp blades separate the border between the factory and the forest.

   Tall and straight sentry towers stand behind the high walls, and guards walk on those towers with flashing red lights and searchlights. Their brutal existence divides steel and nature into two worlds.

  Although the night has already descended on the forest, the proud creations of mankind will not let the darkness cover this place. Searchlights and spotlights completely illuminate the forest road, and there are also bright lights shining in the forest among the forests.

They were fully enclosed armored transport vehicles. The tall vehicles rolled forward under the operation of huge wheels. These chariots that shuttled through the forest were like steel beasts. They drove from the forest to the factory. door.

The guard with the gun in front of the iron gate of the factory illuminated by lights waved his arms backwards. He and the armed guards standing on the road retreated off the road one after another. Pass between the gates.

The bright headlights completely illuminated the space between the factory and the high wall. The armored transport vehicles quickly parked beside the wall, and the armed guards inside the factory wall quickly stepped forward and turned the door handle, opening the thick armored iron door towards yelled inside.

With the continuous roaring, shouting and urging, the newly arrived visitors in the car jumped out of the car, and they ran around the armored car with their bags, and the guards with guns on both sides loudly instructed them to stand in front of the factory garage door. gather.

"Hurry up! Get down here! You are not here for sightseeing!" The guard with the laser gun roared loudly. He watched young people jump out of the carriage, and the guard grabbed a man and pushed him down. A guard, who will tell them where to stand.

The guard at the car door looked at these recruits and smiled contemptuously. He turned his head and looked at the next person who walked out of the car. He was wearing a black jacket, with two laser pistols on his waist, and a unique gun around his neck. Silver-tone pendant.

Vito stood at the door of the car and looked at the huge factory in front of him. His eyes looked up along the high wall of the factory. Billows of black smoke were coming out of the chimney. He pulled it down, and just as he was about to push Vito, he was slapped open by the latter.

"Bring your dirty hands, idiot, I can go by myself." Vito said forcefully. After tidying up his clothes that were messed up by the guards, he walked towards the assembly point. The guards looked at Vito and hesitated to speak. Then cursed under his breath and scratched his head, he walked past the edge of the assembled line with a gun in hand.

He hopped on one of the sandbags and stood next to a heavy laser cannon erected by the factory garage door and yelled, "Everyone! You rednecks, show me your eyes! Get your weapons in the garage, listen to your superiors. Do you understand the order? We will turn you into real soldiers!"

"Move now, move your lazy ass!" The guard said roughly, jumped off the sandbag, and kicked a local man's **** without saying a word, and the guards around him also started yelling to let him go. The new guys walk into the garage, their outrageous behavior like shepherding a herd of sheep.

  Vito mixed among these complaining young people, he walked forward with the crowd, and had time to observe the surrounding environment.

I have to say that the defense of this factory is well done. The heavy laser cannon is erected behind the sandbags, and the anti-tank infantry gun is on the other side. There is even a bolter machine gun on the sentry tower of the searchlight, and the long ammunition chain hangs down on the sandbag.

  Vito raised his eyebrows jokingly. It seems that the big boss of the factory spent a lot of money on defense. It's really interesting. Whose attack are they going to deal with so that they need these weapons? Anyway, it's definitely not the beasts of the woods, or the natives of those settlements.

Vito followed the crowd into the garage, where they were led by the roaring guards to collect their weapons. Everyone said hello to Gillette and went to the window of the weapon warehouse to get their weapons and ammunition. It didn't take long. It's Vito's turn.

He walked forward, and the guard behind the weapon window took a bolt gun from one side. He pushed the red gun and several magazines to Vito, who grabbed the weapon in surprise and looked at the Aquilbranded bolter.

"The kind used by the battle nuns? That's interesting, where did you get it?" Vito's question made the guard very impatient. He slammed the table and raised his hands, "Where the **** do I know? These days Money can't get anything”

The guard waved his hands repeatedly to signal Vito to go away, and he was immediately dragged away by another guard beside him. He pushed Vito and signaled him to go aside. The shotgun went to the assembly point, where the guards who had finished receiving their guns gathered there.

  A guard with bare arms and scars on his thick arms stood on the garage terrace. He stared fiercely at the young people below, "Quiet me! Shut up!"

His voice was so loud that even Vito was surprised, but it was really useful. All the young people fell silent and looked at the guards on the stage. After Vito walked into the crowd, he also looked up at the guy. Each young man nodded and pushed aside.

"Miss Teresia wants to talk to you, listen to me! Also, hold your hands!" The strong man said and stepped aside. Vito's eyes were still locked on the strong man at first, and he paid attention to the strong man. There are a few tubes inserted in Han's arm, and the liquid that glows with purple light seems to be some kind of hormone.

But before Vito could identify what the hormone was, he was interrupted by a burst of exclamation from the newcomers around him. He followed the eyes of the young people around him and looked at the table. The tall woman came up, and she stood in front of the strong man with one hand on her hips and looked at everyone.

Her charming smile fascinated everyone, not including Vito, of course, he looked at the woman, she was beautiful in every sense, with black and purple waist-length hair, like a black and kind The waterfall, the purple eyes are like a pair of gemstones dotted on the porcelain-white face.

  Vito looked at the charming woman named Teresia, who gave Vito a familiar feeling, an aggressive beauty without any reality.

  Teresia smiled and looked at the newcomers under the steps one by one. Her eyes paused as they swept past Vito. She narrowed her eyes slightly and looked at Vito with a smile.

   She found herself? Vito couldn't be sure, Teresia's eyes moved away quickly, and several guards as burly as a strong man walked out of the corridor behind her. They all wore masks that could not see their faces, only a pair of ominous black Their red eyes were exposed, and they stood behind Theresia like iron walls.

"Welcome everyone. I believe that all gentlemen will fulfill their responsibilities perfectly. On behalf of the refinery and my partners, I welcome you all." Her voice was melodious like a canary singing, and the young people were all fascinated by her Yes, everyone involuntarily showed a smirk.

  Vito squinted his eyes and looked at Theresia. She had a feeling Vito was familiar with, a feeling of manipulation and deceit. He often saw it in Lilith, so he could recognize that familiar feeling at a glance.

  She is a Slaanesh succubus? Vito thought to himself, but before he had time to take a closer look at Teresia, he took a few steps back. She smiled and motioned to the strong man beside her, "This is your boss, Major Bardock, listen to him arrangement, we will have a pleasant time together.”

Teresia raised a finger to her lips with a seductive smile, and she slightly lowered her eyes with a smile, "The only thing please remember, don't enter the factory without permission, otherwise you will It's a pity that something happened."

"But I trust you all, so, have a good night." Teresia said and turned away, her **** shaking from side to side for everyone's attention. Those young people stared intently, but soon their The pleasant time was interrupted because the strong and strong supervisor stepped forward to block Teresia's back.

"Put away your idiotic eyes! Assign positions now, and I say turn your eyes back!" Major Bardock shouted and stopped these young people who had never seen the time. They looked at the strong man with a sharp edge With a horned face, the latter immediately began to assign and order posts.

This process didn't last long, Vito can be sure that his title of colonel is not a nickname, he must have been a colonel commander of the Star Militia Army, his wording is concise and clear, obviously he was very used to it a long time ago Yelled at a group of recruits.

Vito was assigned to the guard team of the outer wall. This is a very boring position. You need to stand under the high wire wall for hours, holding a bolt gun against the dark forest to observe everything in it. Most of the time there will be nothing there.

He stayed here for an hour or two, during which Vito found out the frequency of guard patrols, and of course, more importantly, whether the strong colonel would come to check, and Vito was very satisfied with the result, the colonel only Came here an hour ago and never came again.

   This does make sense. Seriously, who would want to come to this boring post located in the southwest corner of the factory, under a separate and lonely guard tower? This place is almost unimportant, and even if someone launches an attack, it will not become a key area.

   This satisfied Vito, which means that if he leaves, no one will notice immediately, and he can sneak into the factory quietly, but there is still a small problem that Vito needs to solve, that is, he is not alone on guard.

Vito turned his head to look at the "companion" beside him. It was a young local Orion boy. He was placed in a group with Vito with a bolt gun, probably to let the guards monitor each other. Routine, let everyone spy on each other to report heretics and traitors, and now if Vito is going to leave, he has to go unnoticed, or that he can't cause any trouble.

"Your name is Kabbah, right? I'm going to the bathroom, you can watch it for me." Vito smiled and said that he was about to leave with his bolt gun, but Kabbah grabbed him from behind. Nodding, "Let's settle it here, we can't leave the post casually."

"I said, it's not good to defecate anywhere, right? We're all civilized people, aren't we?" Vito said with a wry smile. Kabbah obviously didn't think there was any problem. Now that Vito realized his stupidity, he had forgotten all about it. The boy is a hunter. Hunters hunting in the forest have no sense of civilization.

   Sure enough, Kabbah immediately shook his head, his seriousness was even admirable, "We have an order, we can't leave the post at will, if that big guy finds out after you leave, you and I will be unlucky."

  Vito pursed his lips, and looked at the guy in front of him with an embarrassed smile. To be honest, Vito admired his responsible attitude, but if he wasn't hindering himself, Vito might admire him even more.

He smiled wryly, then turned around and pressed the young man's shoulder, he nodded slightly and then suddenly raised his eyes to look behind him, "Ah, the big guy is here, I think you and I can report this matter. "

   Kabbah was stunned and turned his head to look behind him, but of course he saw nothing, not a single ghost in the empty space outside the wall. He turned his head and looked back at Vito in confusion, "Is he coming? Why didn't I look?"

He didn't finish his sentence, and the words came to an abrupt end with a punch. Vito's mechanical arm iron fist slammed into his face, and the punch like a cannonball knocked Kabbah down instantly. , He flew up on the spot, fell to the ground and passed out.

  Vito looked at him and rubbed his fists with a playful smile, "Sorry buddy, I'm short on time tonight, but I promise you will be fine, except that you will have a headache when you wake up."

  Vito looked around with a smile and then left. He slung the red bolter on his back and walked in the shadows under the high wall of the factory.

He crossed the factory wall for a short distance and came to the edge of the wire wall, where a small door opened, and under the wire wall was a running stream, well, it was actually a sewage drain from the factory, but at least Looks like a brook doesn't it? But remember not to drink the water here, it's best not to touch it, God knows how many chemical components can kill people on the spot.

Vito strode forward and leaned against the exposed wall behind the barbed wire. His eyes peeped out from the small door. At the exit of the sewage pipe stood two guards. on the ground.

Seeing them, Vito snorted softly. He stood up in the shadows and walked out of the wire door directly. He slid down the ramp at the edge of the sewage drain and walked directly to the sewage outlet. He didn't dodge, evade, or pretend. Go straight to that place.

  The two guards immediately spotted Vito, and they immediately pointed their guns at Vito. The red laser sight shone on Vito's chest, and the guard with the gun yelled loudly.

"Who's there?! Don't move! Or we'll shoot!" he shouted, and the eyes of the two men stared at the approaching black shadow through the scope, but the black shadow didn't have any dodge or retreat at all. Meaning, he just slowly raised a hand.

Suddenly the two guards felt out of breath. They hung down their guns weakly and scratched their necks. The sobs suddenly rose, and they struggled messily in the air, holding their necks and limbs.

"You should have fired first, and you were warning, but now, you have lost your only chance." Vito said as he walked between the two floating in the air, his clenched fingers suddenly clenched, and the sound of his neck breaking With a crisp sound, the two guards fell to the ground as Vito let go of his hands.

Vito didn't care about the two corpses, he looked at the iron fence window of the sewage pipe, and made a slight gesture of pulling his palm back, and the fence door seemed to be caught by something, and the fixing screw began to Holes were shot out one by one, and the bent and deformed iron rods made a clear cracking sound along with the twisted door frame.

The grille door that was squeezed into scrap iron crashed to the ground. Vito looked at the open sewage pipe and kicked it up. He jumped into the inside of the sewage pipe nimbly, stepping into the gleaming hole with black studded boots. In the unusually shiny waste water, Vito looked down at his boots and complained in a low voice in disgust.

"Guilliman, you should really be grateful for what I've done now." Vito said as he waded into the depths of the pipe. He walked forward along the dark pipe, and the muddy waste water flowed from both sides of his legs. Flowing through, the pungent smell is unbearable, it's like drilling in a domestic sewage pipe in a hive city.

Believe me, Vito has been there, you don't want to try it, the same is true for this duct, but luckily Vito didn't have to endure the bad smell for long, he found a vent to the inside of the factory pipeline.

  Vito used spiritual energy to destroy the ventilation fan with a tap of his finger. The shattered fan blades collapsed into countless fragments and scattered inside and outside the duct. Vito took advantage of the opportunity and got into the narrow ventilation duct.

He also passed through those complicated pipelines, and he searched for the faint psychic signal in the dark space. It was the wind of destruction blowing from the subspace, and Vito could sense it when he was still outside the factory. He saw the fluctuation of the spiritual energy, and as he went deeper into the factory, the response of the spiritual energy became clearer and stronger.

Vito followed the wave of psychic energy through the complex network structure. He passed over the heads of the surging machines in the factory, and sneaked past the patrolling guards silently. In the darkness, he was able to pass through all Blocking and defending, he finally arrived at his destination, the place where all the power came from.

Vito sat down in the narrow duct. He leaned against the duct wall and looked down. He looked at the two guards standing in front of the explosion-proof gate through the ventilation grille on the lower side of the duct. They held guns. , standing there wearing a full set of armor similar to a stormtrooper, silently guarding his post.

Vito silently opened the grille window, he suddenly jumped down and landed between two guards, they were taken aback by the sudden appearance of the enemy, Vito slapped a backhand, and powerful spiritual energy bombarded one of them Knocking it out, he hit the wall and crashed to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Vito deflected the muzzle of the guard behind him with his backhand. He rushed forward and punched him on the chin. The guard backed back dizzily again and again. When he finally stood still When he picked up the muzzle of his gun, what he saw was a pair of combat boots galloping towards him.

With one kick, Vito raised his leg as high as a dancer's, and kicked the guard in the face with swift force. He was kicked out and hit his head **** the concrete wall. The helmet cracked due to the impact, and the impact force was instantly transmitted to the guard's brain, causing him to faint instantly.

After standing still, Vito turned around and walked to the gate. He looked at the thick explosion-proof gate in front of him. Vito squinted slightly and then walked to the control panel on the side. The data interface popped up from the mechanical arm of his right hand. Inserted into the card slot of the data panel, the entire interface was distorted almost instantly.

  The short interruption didn't last long, as the distorted picture flickered away, Helen appeared on the screen, she turned her eyes to look at Vito in front of her, and the latter raised her head slightly.

"Helen, hack into the system, open this explosion-proof door, and turn off all alarm procedures." Vito briefly ordered, and Helen closed her eyes slightly, and her closed eyes only lasted for a moment before it ended, and it was at this moment , Helen had already breached the firewall of the entire factory.

   "Break through, sir." Before Helen finished speaking, the thick explosion-proof door slowly opened, and the heavy mechanical transmission shaft moved the iron door away.

"Very well, close all the explosion-proof doors around. I don't want anyone to disturb me." Vito said and walked into the gate. The sound of the heavy iron door opening attracted the attention of the guards in the corridor and the rooms on both sides. Notice that they all looked back and saw Vito standing at the gate.

"You shouldn't have come here, raise your hands and surrender immediately!" Colonel Bardock stepped out from the guards, he shouted and raised his gun, aiming his bolter at Vito, following his voice , all the guards raised their guns and pointed in the direction of Vito, while the latter stood at the door, and the blast door behind him was closed again.

   The guards looked at each other. They obviously didn't understand that this man was going crazy. Since he locked himself with them, did he lose his mind? In an instant, he would be beaten into a hornet's nest by dozens of guns.

"Surrender! Constantine, before we beat you into a sieve, surrender immediately, this is your last chance!" The colonel shouted, and many guards behind him raised their guns, and with a crackling sound of loading, Bolters and laser beams aimed at the body of the man at the end of the corridor.

  But the man had no fear at all. He slightly raised his head to look at the guards at the end of the corridor, "You made three mistakes, Colonel."

   "First, you think that the Astartes cannot pass through the narrow ventilation ducts, and you are completely negligent in guarding against those that extend in all directions, which will bring you ruin."

   "Second." Vito said and raised a hand, golden lightning flashed in his eyes, "Since you think you can defeat me."

As soon as Vito finished speaking, countless golden lightning bolts leaped from his body, and the lightning that never shone on him illuminated the entire corridor, "Third, it is you who should surrender, I give you this A chance, I give you who have been deceived a chance to choose, resist and die, or obey and live."

The colonel stared at Vito and roared, he raised the bolt gun in his hand and pointed at Vito's head and growled like a bear, "We will never betray Ms. Teresia, the Queen of Phantom will give us strength, and she will protect us victory!"

Colonel Bardock pulled the trigger, and the explosive bomb shot at Vito, the laser beam was deflected by an invisible force almost instantly, and the laser beam suddenly bounced from Vito's face to the wall, followed by the light of the explosive bomb explosion. Brightening Vito's face, he also raised his arms filled with endless thunder and lightning.

"Very well, you have already made your choice." Vito looked at the captain with his lightning eyes, he squinted slightly and the lightning instantly engulfed half of the corridor, and his body seemed to be melted into nothingness under the endless lightning. Part of it, the guards behind the captain looked at Vito in horror, and everyone was holding the trigger tightly in fear.

   "You have chosen death." Said the roaring thunder.

  (end of this chapter)

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