Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 293

  Chapter 293 Rise of the Primarch: The Frozen Sea

The eternal storm is raging on the frozen sea of ​​Europa. The eternal howling low-temperature storm engulfs the entire surface of the planet with blizzards, and suddenly a light shines in the gray dark clouds above the thick ice in the strong wind. , the light rushed straight down from above the howling clouds of the blizzard.

From the dark clouds, the silver Skyhawk rushed out of the clouds, and the strong wind blew on its smooth surface. The smooth body shape like water droplets made the strong wind blowing along the various inclined surfaces, without opposing it. That fighter does not have any negative impact.

Skyhawk swooped down from the sky, its end vector jet slowly turned to one side, and the blue-white tail flame gradually turned orange-red, and the internal thermal air flow of the continuously opening and closing turbo blades also There is an external icy storm repeatedly hitting the inside and outside.

The orange-red flame illuminated the belly of the Skyhawk, and with the rotation of the nozzle, the Skyhawk flew out of the sky in a graceful arc, and the silver fighter jet roared over the planet's hard ice-covered sea. .

Vito sat in the cab and looked at the sealed ice outside. The thousands of miles of ice-covered sea stretched towards the end of the sea level. On the single-sided glass of the cockpit, the faint crackling sound was transmitted through the surrounding bulkheads.

Vito's eyes scanned the entire sea surface. He held the operating lever in front of him with one hand, and clicked on the CD placed on the operating surface with the other hand. Following Vito's click, Helen immediately appeared on it. .

  Her body was formed by countless light filaments in a very short time. The little artificial intelligence girl stood on the CD and looked at Vito, and Vito leaned on the orange driving chair and looked at Helen beside him.

"Help me find it. Where is the nearby city at the freezing point?" After Vito said, Helen closed her eyes, and she opened them a second later. An instruction route appeared on the cockpit glass, and the red line projected holographically on the cockpit glass pointed Vito in a certain direction ahead.

Vito didn't say much, he shook the control lever violently and rushed in that direction, holding the control lever with one hand, and resting the other hand on the engine power dial next to the driver's seat. The power index map projected holographically on the side of the seat quickly changed from yellow to light blue with the push of Vito's finger.

The Aquila rushed across the sea at high speed. Vito sat in the cockpit and followed the direction of the navigation chart with his eyes. The Skyhawk leaned over, and Vito slid slightly to one side.

But fortunately, Vito was locked with the safety lock on the seat. He might have been thrown out long ago. Compared with the Skyhawk, all Imperial fighter aircraft including the Thunderhawk are as slow as tractors. Born in the golden age, this excellent fighter that has followed Vito for tens of thousands of years has unimaginable maneuverability.

Vito slowly pushed the joystick, and the Aquila quickly roared and flew sideways to a big hole in the frozen sea. A huge building protruded from the icy sea. The sharp top The ice layer was smashed, and the broken ice floes floated on the surrounding sea surface, constantly rising and falling with the waves along with the strong wind.

The Aquila was almost completely turned sideways and flew around the ice-breaking sea. Vito raised his head and looked at the sea from behind the glass of the cockpit. After flying to the surface of the sea, the vector jet at the tail turned and aimed downward, which allowed the Skyhawk to slowly descend to the surface of the sea.

The flames ejected from the nozzle scorched the surface of the sea. As the hot air flow met the sponge, the hot and cold vortex created waves of waves surging around the entire sea surface. Vito held the operating lever and raised his head above his head. There are several switches on the continuous board.

"Helen, switch to the dive mode, we are ready to go down." Vito said and clicked on the numerical control interface at hand, while Helen beside him nodded slightly, following Helen's hand gently sliding from the glass However, countless icons flashed across the other holographic screens around Vito, and finally settled on an icon with rolling waves and downward shoulders.

As the icon flashed intermittently, the entire appearance of the Aquila began to change rapidly. Those smooth fighter planes with no gaps quickly cracked gaps on the surface, and the wings and abdominal airflow fans used for flight were inserted. Inside the machine body, the vector jet port at the rear also slid upwards, and was finally retracted inwards into the hatch.

With the income of the jet port, the entire Skyhawk lost power and hit the sea surface. It fell on the sea surface like a life raft lowered from the sky. As its silver surface collided with the sea water, a large wave of waves fell from the sky. The sides of the Eagle splashed, and the billowing waves rolled around.

The joystick in front of Vito also dropped into the plane, and with the disappearance of the flight joystick, soon the operating platform in front of Vito, which didn't look like it would open at all, slid away from the center, and a square steering wheel stretched out. Arriving in front of Vito, as its position arrived, the locking anchor at the end made a crisp sound.

Vito adjusted the angle of the seat. After thinking about it, he lay down slightly and held the steering wheel. With a wave of Vito's finger, a long vertical scale appeared beside his hand. He gently moved the arrow on the scale. Pulling it down, the Skyhawk outside quickly sank under the icy sponge.

The smooth silver surface was gradually submerged by sea water, and the churning sea water rose upward from its smooth body. Vito looked at the cockpit glass in front of him, and the surging sea water gradually engulfed his vision upwards, just like a pull-up Like a big curtain, as the curtain rose, the entire outside time was soon replaced by the dim sea water.

The Aquila sank slowly under the icy sponge, the small black aircraft descended below the water surface, bubbles and waves rose from both sides of its fuselage, and behind it was the ship that broke through the ice. The huge building, that majestic thing is completely shrouded in the cold sea water, only its huge outline can be vaguely seen under the cold sea water.

As the Aquila descended, Helen's fingers summoned a small floating plane in front of her. She clicked something on the data interface, and then pulled the horizontal data bar across at once, following the data bar The grid bumped at the end, and two turbofan propellers slid out of the Aquila's sides.

  The propeller fan used by the submarine protruded from the gap opened by the Skyhawk, and bursts of air bubbles rose from inside and outside the gap to the sea surface, but soon the instrument panel in the cockpit lit up with green lights.

   "The dive mode is activated." The prompt sounded in Vito's ear. He looked around the interface and slowly pulled down the dive scale, and the Aquila gradually descended below the surface of the sea.

As the Aquila gradually descended into the cold deep sea, and Vito clicked the light button at hand, the underwater strong lights on both sides of the window also turned on, and the pale strong light illuminated the scene in front of him. In the deep sea, the hazy light shines on the vast waters with no boundaries in the cold sea.

Vito pulled the dive data to an extremely deep water depth of 4,000 meters. As the Aquila sank steadily, Vito leaned forward and clicked the communication button on the data interface, and soon a spinning Imperial Navy The Skyhawk logo appeared in front of Vito's eyes.

   "Cole, how's the situation up there?"

   "Everything went well, the refugees were boarding the ship in an orderly manner, and we also started the transport ship from the space station. We were lucky, the hull was not damaged, and the pilot was still alive."

"But what are you going to do? What's in the ocean on Europa? It can give you the confidence to hold back the Chaos fleet." Cole's voice trembled with the frequency band on the audio interface, and Vito's eyes watched In the pitch-black deep sea, there was no light at all outside, and the searchlights above the Aquila couldn't catch anything, only bursts of tiny plankton slipping through the optical fibers.

"After all the refugees board the ship, set sail for Terra immediately. Don't worry about me. I will find a way to go back later. Remember, set sail immediately without any stops. If you find other refugees on the way, take them with you. Once on Terra, I'll stall the Chaos fleet to buy you time."

   "What do you mean? Don't care about you? Do you want to face chaos alone? Or is there something underwater that you want to take?" Cole's voice continued to tremble, and Vito looked at the audio band and was silent for a moment.

"Start sailing as soon as everyone boards the ship. Believe me, it's better for everyone if you haven't seen it." Vito said and held the steering wheel, and he slowly turned the steering wheel to steer the Aquila in the water. As the Aquila turned, the turbofans on both sides also blew bursts of air bubbles out of the cockpit.

   Cole's voice was silent for a moment, but he soon sighed, "Can you be careful yourself? We need living heroes, not dead ones."

"When do you think I will die?" Vito responded with a hippie smile, and Cole was also amused by him. The captain's laughter echoed in the cockpit, which was the only sound in the deep sea. .

  Vito looked at the gradually descending ruler at his hand, and his eyes turned to the abyss outside the window again, "Okay, I've reached the signal boundary, hang up, see you later."

"See you."

Cole's voice disappeared, and the communication interface disappeared soon after the voice disappeared, and when the voice disappeared, the whole world became completely silent, there was no sound, and everything seemed to be blocked by the window. The deep sea swallowed.

  Vito took a deep breath, leaning his head on the pillow of the seat, "Helen, turn on the sonar, we've arrived." "Of order, sir."

Following Helen's snap of his fingers, the sonar disc in Vitoce's hand was activated, and the sound waves spread out in an arc from the green grid disc shot into the abyss, and the ticking sound echoed in the abyss. The inside of the ship also seemed to echo directly in the abyss.

With the transmission of the sonar scanning band, the luminous outline of the surrounding seabed terrain appeared on the glass of the cockpit in real time. After the sonar swept over the solid objects shrouded in the dark abyss, the holographic glass of the cockpit The outlines of those invisible things are also shown.

Accompanied by bursts of sonar ticking, Vito held the rudder in front of him and gently pushed forward, and the turbofan propellers on both sides of the Aquila also rotated accordingly, and with the rotation of the large fan blades, The Aquila slowly sailed towards the dark sea ahead.

The turbofan blades of the Skyhawk rotated in the sea water, and the icy sea water was stirred and pulled backwards to form a long eddy current. The active radar shot forward with a burst of ticking sound, and the sound wave quickly clicked. Lighting up the huge mountain in front of him, Vito slightly raised his head to look at the sound waves spreading upwards on the glass.

That thing is too big, so big that the sonar carried by the Aquila can't detect its volume at all. It seems to be a huge wall with an infinite height at one point, and a wide width from left to right, but Vito knows, that It is a submarine mountain in the deep sea.

Many huge things can often be bred in these dark, deep oceans, and the deep-sea mountains are part of it. Each of these mountains can be compared with Mount Everest. It is almost impossible to bypass them, and Besides, the coordinates marked by Helen are also on the back side of the mountain range, so detour is not a good choice.

But Vito was lucky, he operated the Aquila and slowly approached the mountain range, Vito's eyes were fixed on a certain hazy shadow illuminated by the searchlight, that thing seemed to be a deep gap, Attached directly laterally to those towering mountains.

Vito looked at the thing and immediately reached out to switch the sonar emission mode. His finger clicked on the interface, and with a light swipe, he switched the terrain scanning mode to active sonar emission. With the switching of the sonar mode, Vito Thor lightly pulled the trigger on the rudder, and as the trigger was pressed, a burst of active sonar waves was emitted from the bow.

Accompanied by a dull ticking sound, the sound wave hit the mountain range, and a three-dimensional image appeared in front of Vito's eyes. He looked at the outline of the rift valley lit by blue light, and Vito looked at the Rift Valley glanced at the beacon that was flashing in the distance, then gently pushed down the rudder, and the Skyhawk immediately headed for the crack as wide as the Great Rift Valley.

The Skyhawk quickly approached the rift valley, and its searchlights illuminated the edge of the rift valley in the hazy dark water. Vito nimbly drilled through the uneven rift valley entrance while holding the rudder. Everything in the sea area is so dark, and everything in the rift seems to be swallowed up by darkness, as if it has been painted with a layer of non-reflective ink.

Even if the searchlight on the head of the Aquila was turned on to the maximum, it could not illuminate the surrounding main space at all. Only some of the closest rock walls appeared within the range of the light. Vito looked at the rock walls passing by. , he lightly turned down the sonar of the active radar, and soon the sound wave drilled forward along the long and narrow rift.

In front of Vito, the outline of the entire valley was irradiated by sound waves. The sound waves flew far away, weakened and disappeared in a rather distant abyss, like a flare thrown into the bottomless abyss, along the seawater Burning himself and finally sinking into the boundless abyss of darkness.

With the disappearance of the sonar, Vito immediately played a round, and the round after round of sonar assisted Vito to sail forward, and the winding rock walls of the entire rift were continuously illuminated by the sonar Appearing on the cockpit glass, Vito looked at the constantly flashing outline of the rock wall, and he turned the rudder slightly so that the Aquila could pass through it one by one.

Helena stood on the disc in Vito's hand, her eyes composed of light grains and data streams looked overhead, she looked through the curved glass at the top of the cockpit to the darkness that could not see the top, the light disappeared, The deepest darkness devoured everything, and the dark abyss spread upward along the rock wall of the Great Rift Valley, just like all locations here.

Helena's eyes shone brightly in the dark cockpit, and Vito's own face was illuminated by the surrounding holograms. Except for his face, most of his body was immersed in darkness, except for his arm. The location of is outlined by the faint indicator light.

Vito held the rudder and continued to drive forward. The sound waves of the sonar were emitted from the bottom of the Aquila. This time, the sound waves were emitted into the dark chasm and suddenly disappeared after flying for a certain distance. The rebound of the sound waves rushed into the into the boundless darkness, and then disappeared.

Vito looked at the edge of the sonic scanning image, there was a fault somewhere in the rift ahead, all the scanning outlines and images seemed to be cut off in the middle, he slightly pressed the rudder forward, and the Aquila Sailing through the rift towards the part of the image fracture.

The light of the spotlights was projected on the rock walls on both sides, and the hazy light shone on those exposed hard rocks. They slid back quickly along the sides of the driver's window, and suddenly they all disappeared at one point, The light shining on both sides of the rock wall suddenly lost its target, and the light shone into the boundless darkness of the abyss.

Vito let go of the rudder, and the forward-pressed rudder slowly bounced back to the standby position. The Aquila came to a stop, and the silver shuttle was suspended in the boundless dark sea. Swallowed by the darkness of the deep sea, it seems to be suspended in a soundless void.

  Helen looked at the darkness outside the window, and countless plankton in the sea were cruising through the spotlight. Helen closed her eyes and remained silent for a moment, then turned her head to look at Vito who was sitting in the darkness.

"Sir, it's just below us." Helen said softly, her voice echoed in the bulkhead like an echo in the dead cold sea water, Vito looked at her, suddenly raised his head, there was something A huge sound came from the deep sea in the distance.

It was a low-pitched sound that was suppressed in the high-pressure sea water to become thinner, low-pitched and ethereal, as if it was coming from all directions, but Vito could detect the source of the sound from the sonar in front of him, that ethereal call The sound came from directly in front of the hull, from the deep sea that was completely in darkness.

The voice seemed to be some kind of ancient song, some kind of ancient ballad from the ancient times, mysterious and creepy, the voice came from the silent sea, and the ethereal voice was infinitely amplified in the dead machine environment. There is almost a drowning-like feeling of suffocation after entering people's ears.

   "Sir, that is."

   "Oberon."

  Vito said affirmatively, his face was illuminated by dots of blue light in the darkness of the cockpit, and his blue light-reflecting eyes stared at the darkness ahead, where the sound came from.

   "Do you think it found us?" Helen also looked in that direction and asked in a low voice, as if she was afraid of attracting the attention of that thing.

   "Then you better start praying that it doesn't find us."

Vito said as he gently pulled down the dive pointer with his fingers. With Vito's pull, the Aquila trembled, and with a slight vibration, the shuttle began to dive. The propulsion turbofans on both sides Beginning to turn around and push the water overhead, they pushed the Aquila down slowly.

In the process of sinking, Vito kept looking out of the window, his eyes staring out of the window for a moment, in this deep sea, any sound can cause the tension of people's auditory nerves, and the sound will be infinitely amplified and captured , where small sounds can become large and ubiquitous.

The fear from the deep sea is fully displayed at this moment, you can't resist, you can't escape, in this high-pressure sea water and icy abyss, you can only stare around in the dark, hoping that nothing will suddenly emerge from the darkness Eat you, because you have nowhere to hide here.

The vast sea area enveloped the surrounding area, and the Aquila was so small compared to it, the light it shot into the sea water was as insignificant as the krill swimming in the deep sea, but the voice, the voice of the deep sea monster was insignificant. Echoing all around, the huge sound seemed as huge as the entire mountain range.

Vito looked at the darkness outside the window. The deep sea of ​​Europa gave birth to many things. Below this frozen planet is a sea that no one knows how deep it is, and the things that swim in it are more than 10,000 years old. Years, or even longer, are just as frightening.

   "Didi, Didi." The coordinate warning sound suddenly sounded in the dead silence, and Vito was startled for a moment, then turned to look at the dive data gauge at hand, 20,000 miles underwater, they arrived.

Vito's eyes turned to the driver's window ahead, the red coordinates flashed in the dark sea ahead, Vito took a deep breath and held the rudder again, he gently pressed the rudder forward, the rudder With the forward pressure, it also drives the Skyhawk to sail forward.

The Aquila sailed slowly through the abyss, and it was almost close to the seabed. The spotlights on the lower side of the Aquila shone on the sandy seabed below. The two turbofan engines passing above surged, and the large pieces of sand and dust moved slowly and thickly under the water pressure of the seabed.

The Skyhawk was driving towards that coordinate point on the dark seabed, and soon its bottom slid out from the edge of the seabed. Vito held the rudder and pressed it down heavily, and the horizontal axis of the Skyhawk immediately went down. Pressed down, the bow of the ship also moved towards the deeper abyssal bottom.

  Vito looked at the beacon that was close at hand. Its straight-line distance was only two kilometers away. He took a deep breath and glanced at Helen, "Start the terrain scanning sonar."

   "Yes, sir."

Before Helen finished speaking, the silent sonar restarted again. Tick, tick, the sound echoed in the cabin, and the sound wave spread out to the surroundings. The echo of the sound hit the surrounding entities, and quickly spread around Outlined a circle of unique outline.

There is a huge submarine mountain range in this deep sea, but these high mountains are different from the previous ones. They are all deeply buried in the seabed, embedded in rocks and hardened stone bodies, and only the steel surfaces are exposed. In the icy sea water, those steel bodies lay on the bottom of the sea, like the arms of a sleeping dragon exposed from the mud.

Soon, as the Aquila sank further, they got closer to the body of the huge object. The object that was inserted into the seabed and rushed straight into the abyss like a steel blade lay there quietly, lying on the ground. Between the two seabed peaks that have been piled up over the years and covered it after precipitation.

  Vito looked at the huge outline outlined by the sonar in front of him. It was so large that even the terrain scanning sonar could not detect its overall structure, and only a small part like the tip of the iceberg could be glimpsed.

But that was enough, Vito knew, this was what they were looking for, he let go of the rudder, the Aquila's propulsion engines stopped quickly, and the hull also stopped after sliding for a certain distance, exuding a The radiant Skyhawk hovered in the middle of the sea above the sea.

  Vito looked at the huge object in front of him, and his fingers clicked something on the screen, "Helen, can you find the landing deck? It's still open."

Helen nodded slightly, she closed her eyes, and her data consciousness was conveyed in this vast ocean with the ticking sound of sonar, her ears listened to everything in this ocean area through the sound capture system, the flow of ocean currents The sound of sand and stone pouring and rolling in the stream, and the ethereal singing of countless huge creatures in the deep sea.

  She opened her eyes, and Helen raised her head and pointed in a direction, "Where, the sonar can penetrate through that place, and that place is still open."

"Very good." Vito said as he turned the rudder and sailed in that direction. The Aquila's turbofan started to rotate again, and the sea water was squeezed and pushed backwards from between the symmetrical fan blades, and the Aquila sailed in the current direction. Helen pointed at the place.

Vito stared at the picture outside the window. The spotlight on the front quickly fully illuminated the outline of the steel gate. The sharp and smooth steel formed the outer wall of the deck and the gate. There were no cracks or corrosion marks on the surface. It has been immersed in this deep sea for thousands of years, and it is completely new.

Vito looked at the sign on the side of the gate leaning towards the steel wall, and the soaring eagle grabbed the sign of the earth at its feet. Looking at the sign, he closed his eyes and let out a long sigh, then slowly opened his eyes. He opened his eyes and looked at the eagle and smiled.

   "Hello, long time no see, my eldest girl."

  (end of this chapter)

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