Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 378

  Chapter 378 Expedition Road: Iyanden's Kitten

The starry sky of the webway illuminates the dim light from between the colonnades, and the dim starlight lights up the quaint furniture that stands in the colonnade and is displayed along the side of the long corridor. The surface of the table was shiny, and every line, every dent was particularly conspicuous under the silver-sand-like light curtain.

On the table, there is a portrait hanging on the wall. The golden border at the edge of the photo frame flows with light paths under the light of the stars. The picture that climbs up along the photo frame and then turns to one side Silky, beautiful and dreamy.

The oil painting is hung on the wall, and its surface has already been sprinkled with a light curtain. The light spot on the surface of the painting scroll has already hardened and stuttered on the surface of the oil paint, as if illuminating a piece of silver sand on the coast. The whole painting seems to be glowing.

But soon, a round of shadows shrouded the shining oil painting, and the silver reflective gravel disappeared in an instant. It continued to shine, like a never-ending dream.

Vito's shadow constantly shrouded the side of the corridor, and the shadow covered all the furniture, even the picture scrolls placed against the wall with picture frames on it, or the oil paintings directly hung on the wall. Being covered by that shadow also allowed Vito to see them clearly in the hazy starlight.

Those oil paintings depict many natural scenery, mountains, rivers, forests and fjords. The magnificent natural scenes are vividly and vividly painted on the canvas, as if those places are really there, you just need to stretch out your hand As if you can touch it.

Vito was walking in the corridor behind the colonnade, his eyes followed the footsteps through the gallery on one side, he looked at the exquisite oil paintings, and soon found some unique places in them, among these exquisite oil paintings lined up on the side In the picture scroll, there are almost all parts of animals fighting each other in the natural scenery.

The brown bear besieged by wild wolves in the forest, the bison rushing towards the coyote on the prairie, and the tiger and lion who opened their **** mouths and waved their paws to fight each other, all the pictures are filled with Such primitive killing and wildness.

  This allows you to see at a glance, what kind of character is the painter leading the way, the owner of these furniture and oil paintings, his personality, style and dangers, etc.

Vito raised his head slightly, and looked at Sturling, who was holding a crow staff in front of him, guiding him through the long corridor. Sturling, who was wearing a coat with a unique high collar design, walked in the front. It almost covered the whole head, stood up high to the surroundings, and the edge of the coat was also slightly raised outwards.

From Vito's point of view, he looks like a huge bat walking under the night, and every time this walking bat uses its long stick to make a clicking sound on the ground, that The sound will echo throughout the hallway, just like the sound waves of bats.

Sturling walked through the long corridor of starlight, and the towering colonnade on the side cut off the light of the starry sky into countless shadows, which were projected from the outside and densely covered the ground, extending towards the end of the corridor, and Sturling , is walking through it.

  The long shadow between the stone pillars flashed across his body, which caused his body to continuously switch rapidly under the light and shadow, just like a slide, constantly switching, like a vague dream.

Vito followed behind him, and the spaced starlight also shone on his face, making Vito's face disappear and then reappear, but it was in this rapidly switching light and shadow that Vito came to In front of the door at the end of the corridor.

It was a black door. The huge door body was inlaid on the surrounding dark walls. Vito looked at the door curiously. The material on the door body seemed to be almost non-reflective. The surface of the entire door was almost There are no lines or carvings to be seen, only a dim stream of light flashes on the door from time to time, outlining its general outline, and also outlining the huge crow on it.

There is a crow on the door. The half body of the huge crow is embedded in the door. Only the beak of the upper body and the huge wings are exposed outside the door. The huge raptor spreads its wings, and the wings of the black feathers are shining in the starlight. There is a dim light shining under it, and only its outline can be seen.

Vito looked up at the bird's head facing him on the door. The crow's head drooped slightly, overlooking the visitors in front of the door. The dark eyes didn't reflect any light, only the huge beak under the light A dim streamer flows down.

"Welcome to my office, Mr. Constantine, please follow me now." Sturling turned his head, looked at Vito behind him and slightly raised his hand and said, but his words were quickly interrupted by the shadow from the side People who appeared were interrupted.

Sturling stopped abruptly, and Vito also looked at the shadow who interrupted the conversation. She walked out slowly from the dark corridor leading from one side of the gate to both sides, and her dim figure was also under the starlight , was illuminated and outlined bit by bit, and finally, as the artist drew bit by bit on the drawing board, a beautiful figure appeared under the light.

Her silver skirt was almost perfectly blended with the starlight, the entire light skirt glistened with pieces of light spots, and the light skirt fluttered gently with the footsteps, making the reflected light spots Like the Milky Way on Earth.

Vito looked at her face, it was a white and young face of an Eldar woman, so young that it was unexpected, like a snowflake that had just fallen from the sky, pure and flawless, Mei The red hair hangs down from the head, and there is a slightly raised wave on the top of the head on the right side of his face.

  Drawing an exquisite and small box in her hand, she quietly appeared from the shadows with the box in both hands, and then walked up to Sturling, lowered her head and gently handed the box up.

Vito paid attention to the girl, he found the collar shackles on the back of her neck exposed under the starlight, Vito frowned slightly, turned his eyes to look at Sturling in front of her, the latter reached out to open the box, and opened the box towards Chen in the red A unique piece of wood on the soft upholstery, exuding twisting space fluctuations, glanced at it.

The wood looks very special, with dark gold dots on the black body, the dark golden streamer crawls upwards along the wooden body, and at the tip of its soft top hanging on the cushion, there is a strange light shining. shine.

"Very good." Sturling said and closed the box. He looked up at Vito, probably because he wasn't going to explain what it was since Vito didn't ask. In fact, Vito didn't It might be better to know.

In fact, Vito really didn't care about that thing. After the box was closed, his eyes quickly locked on the young Eldar girl. She held the box and stood humbly beside Sturling, There was no light in the beautiful blue eyes, dim and dull.

Vito stared at her, looking at the beautiful but unglamorous face, and at the same time, Sturling in front of him raised the crow staff in his hand, and knocked on the gate with the crow handle of the staff , as the golden crow's beak collided with the crow's beak on the gate, the entire gate changed.

The winged crow on the door raised its head quickly, as if it had come alive suddenly, and its spread wings quickly folded inward and overlapped on its chest. The whole crow curled up, and following the movement of the wings After closing, the pitch-black door opened inward with a bang.

Sturling put down his cane, turned his head and gave Vito a slight nod to indicate his welcome. He took a step back to make way for Vito. After the latter also nodded politely in response, he walked up and walked in front of Sturling into the open door.

  The young girl in front of Sturling also hurriedly backed away with the box in her hand. She stood by the door and bowed to Vito very respectfully.

But when passing by, Vito turned his head and briefly looked at the young girl beside him. Her blue eyes slightly raised, and after a brief exchange of glances with Vito, she lowered her head again, and Vito followed suit. Walking through the gate, he walked into this luxurious office.

Vito is standing on the ground that is completely cut from expensive wood and then riveted, and other places in this office are all implementing his owner's pursuit and dedication to nature, from the walls to the ceiling. Made of solid wood, wide trees were cut by a monolithic machete and erected to create this luxurious office.

Vito walked into the inner part of the office. He looked at the indoor space that was rectangular as a whole and shrunk slightly towards the front. There was a huge floor-to-ceiling window in front of the office. Like here, the frame of the window is Made of steel, but cut from strips of wood.

This makes the window and the whole room maintain a unity, and the large black heart mahogany table and chairs in front of the window are undoubtedly the absolute core of the whole space. Vito stands in front of the table, gently stroking the On the polished and smooth table top, all the wood thorns and friction parts are all smoothed out, making the table look like a piece of smooth marble.

Vito looked at the furnishings on the table. There was an exquisite pen holder on it, and the feather pen and ink were placed in it. On the side of the pen holder, there was a small statue of a crow. The statue was placed on the table, facing the The direction of the leather wooden chair, the tabletop part in front of the same leather chair, is spread out with some kind of animal leather to form a place where the elbows can rest comfortably.

"How is it? Do you still like my office?" Sturling walked in. He walked into the office holding his cane, and the young Eldar girl behind him also followed in with a box. She lowered her head, He followed behind Sturling with dull eyes.

Vito pretended to turn around and look at the wall full of stuffed animal heads. On it were the heads of all kinds of beasts hanging on the exhibition board, and there was also a long and wide table below, with shelves and display cabinets on it. Chen put horns, claws and teeth and other trophies.

  Vito looked at the specimen area that was carefully crafted all over the wall and hung on the side of the desk for special display. His eyes were looking at the box in the girl's hand from the corner of his eye. Of course, there was also the silent beautiful girl.

"She is... your slave?" Vito asked softly, and Sturling smiled and looked at the girl behind him. He reached out and grabbed her face so that she could lift it up to face Vito, allowing the latter can be seen more clearly.

The girl was obviously very uncomfortable being done like that, but she didn't say anything in the end, she just looked at Vito with a sad expressionless face, and the latter also watched her narrow her eyes slightly, and Sturling also looked at the expressionless face. The girl with the expression frowned slightly, and he pinched her cheeks with his fingers, forcing the expression backlogged into a smile.

"Her name is Xia Tina, my slave and maid. Although she is not very polite, her appearance meets my requirements. She is also very young and can learn many things slowly, so I took her from the salesman. The slave list stayed."

As Sturling said, he shook Shantina's face away, her head was thrown to the side, and her hair was messily hanging in front of her eyes. Everything in this world is not worthy of her attention.

  Vito looked at the girl, Xia Tina? This name is very characteristic. In Vito's impression, only the Ark Spirit Race of Iyanden would take this kind of name with oriental charm. In addition, her hair is rose red, which matches Iyana's hair color. It's close, so Vito is almost sure she's an Iyanden Eldar.

The Ark Eldar has always been very popular in the slave market of the Dark Eldar. This group of tormentors prefer to take their own race, especially those "elegant" compatriots on the Ark as slaves, just like the slaves in the slave market of the Human Empire Like noble ladies, they have a unique sense of superiority.

  Stulling looked at Xia Tina, then raised his head and hummed softly, then raised his cane, pointed to the box in her hand, "Put it in the treasure room, talk, impolite girl."

Shantina didn't speak until she was hit **** the shoulder by Sturling with the cane in his hand, and she took several steps out at once, the off-shoulder part of the long dress was rosy. Bloody, with her head turned away from Sturling, Vito saw a fierce look of hatred in her eyes, that girl was not a docile kitten.

  After a while, she turned her head, looked up at Sturling and then lowered her head after a moment of silence, "Yes, sir." "It's the master," "It's the master."

Her voice was also very young, and Vito frowned slightly when he heard the voice. He turned his head and glanced at Sturling, who snorted softly and pressed his cane in front of him, "As I said, She still has a lot to learn, but I will train her until she learns how to be a maid."

"Mr. Constantine, please sit down whatever you want. I will come to talk with you later." Sturling is indeed a qualified businessman. When he looked away from Shatina and looked at Vito, he immediately It turned into a smile, and the latter looked at the hypocritical businessman and responded politely without smiling.

Then Vito continued to turn around and looked at the specimen wall on the side. His back was turned to Sturling, and the latter also looked at Vito and walked to the side wall. There were two chairs between them. There is also a tall round wooden table with a chess board with chess pieces on it.

Sturling walked up to the chessboard and stood there blocking the chessboard in front of him with his body. He glanced at Vito behind him from the corner of his eye. The latter was still standing in front of the specimen wall with his hands behind his back, carefully Looking carefully at the head specimen of a giant clawed bear on it.

Sturling turned his head and stared at Shantina who was following him from the corner of his eye. The latter immediately took a step back and lowered her head. Her eyes moved away from the direction of the chessboard table, and she didn't look at it at all. The direction of the table or Sturling's arm, the latter reached out to pick up some chess pieces on the chessboard in front of him after confirming that Xia Tina had moved his eyes away, and moved on it.

Hearing the sound of the chess piece colliding with the table, Vito turned his head slightly to look at Sturling behind him. His body blocked the table so that Vito could not see what happened there, but he glanced at the side Shantina, that girl peeped in the direction of the table from the corner of her eye.

Those eyes full of hatred stared at Sturling, but they were quickly buried because Sturling noticed the gaze and turned his head to observe it, while Vito, who was on the side, saw everything clearly. He looked at the girl and smiled.

At the same time, Sturling raised his hand from the table. He looked up at the wall in front of him, which was embedded inwards, and then slid to the back, where a door opened. A secret room, from Vito's perspective, he can see the treasures on one side of the long shelf behind the door.

Sturling fiddled with the chessboard again, then walked away from the table and walked towards the open secret room. Vito stood behind him and peeked at the direction of the chessboard sideways, but as expected, the All the chess pieces were reset, as if they hadn't been moved at all.

Vito raised his eyes and looked at Shantina who followed after Sturling waved his hand lightly. He saw the girl frowned slightly, then turned around with a smile and looked back at the specimen wall in front of him. .

It didn't take long for Sturling to walk out of the door of the secret room behind him. He walked to the chessboard and straightened the collar of his coat habitually. He turned his head slightly and saw Xia Tina also came out of the door. , then reached out and touched the prime minister's chess piece on the chessboard beside him.

As the black prime minister piece was gently touched by his fingers, the door to the secret room behind Sturling quickly closed. He retracted his fingers, grabbed the collar of the overcoat with both hands, and took it off his shoulders After getting down, she casually handed it to Xia Tina, who caught the coat and stepped back silently.

Vito watched as the girl hugged the baggy coat and walked to a hanger made of a giant moose head on the wall of the room. Lots of hats, scarves, etc., and now that coat.

Vito looked at the girl, who was standing on tiptoe, and after hanging up the coat, she turned her head and looked at Vito inadvertently. She looked into Vito's eyes, and the latter nodded silently to her, She rested her hands on her chest and straightened her shirt collar, but in that unintentional movement, Shantina saw a familiar gesture.

Vito's palms, which were straightening the collar, were suddenly opened to one side. The palms of the palms and the backs of the hands faced Shatina's direction one at a time. Combined with the palm-symmetric spread gesture, you can form a phoenix with wings.

And Yiyangden's symbol is the phoenix with wings spread. Xia Tina looked at the greeting gesture on the ark, and looked at Vito in front of her in surprise. The latter also nodded slightly to her, and then told her with his eyes. Xia Tina kept a low profile, then put down her hands, smiling and looking at Sturling to the side.

The latter held his cane, walked around the chessboard table and the sofa and coffee table in the corner, and walked straight to the desk from one side. He came and sat on the comfortable soft leather chair, and raised his hand to signal to the person on the opposite side of the desk. Chair, "Please take a seat, Mr. Constantine, let's start talking about cooperation."

Vito smiled at him, and then walked up from the specimen wall. He pulled away the chair and took off his black windbreaker, and was about to put it on the back of the chair. When Sturling saw this, he He waved his hand in Xia Tina's direction, "Put Mr. Constantine's windbreaker on the hanger, and then pour us some drinks."

Shantina nodded slightly, and then walked up from one side. She walked up to Vito lightly and caught the windbreaker that Vito handed over. The latter smiled and handed the windbreaker up with one hand, holding the collar The palms of his hands were gently folded outwards, and the edge of the coat on the side close to Shantina was folded outwards, exposing the pistol hanging in it.

Xia Tina looked at the pistol in a daze, then raised her head and looked at the man in front of her. The latter told her everything with his eyes, and then handed the coat to Xia Tina, who took the coat and put it on It was folded on the arm, bowed slightly to Vito, and then backed away.

Vito looked at the girl who was walking towards the deer head hanger, then turned around with a polite smile, pulled out a chair and sat at the wooden table, "Okay, let's talk about business, Mr. Sturling. "

   "It's my pleasure, Mr. Constantine." Sturling smiled and leaned back on the chair, and nodded to Vito who was across the table. He leaned on the back of the chair, put his hands on his belly and smiled.

"Let's talk about the amount of daily employment commission you give me, 2000 soul coins per month." Vito said with a smile. Then he laughed quickly and put his hands on the table, dragging his chin with his palms.

   "2000 soul coins? You have indeed proved your ability, Mr. Constantine, but do you know that this amount can already buy dozens of slaves?"

"Wow, we're here to negotiate, aren't we? This will give us a good start." Vito smiled slyly, leaning on the back of the chair and raising his hand slightly, and Sturling in front of him also rested his chin on the On the palm of his hand, a smile appeared on his slightly covered mouth.

   "Of course, it seems that you are a qualified businessman, sir, then, let us start communicating with each other as businessmen."

The negotiation started, and Vito offered Sturling a sky-high price for hiring him. As he expected, Sturling immediately began to bargain. When I was very young, I followed the bargaining that I learned as a businessman, and the boring game of raising my own value and then bargaining with the other party.

Of course, Vito didn't really bargain with him for the waste of money. After all, Vito didn't intend to be with him at all. , to gain enough time

When Vito and Sturling were discussing business and arguing deeply and heatedly about the commission, Shantina walked up to the huge antler, hung the windbreaker on the end of an antler, and raised her arm on tiptoe. Stretching upwards, she glanced at Sturling's direction from the corner of her eye. After ensuring that the latter was completely silent in the discussion without noticing herself, Xia Tina put her hand into the windbreaker and quietly put the pistol Pulled it out.

She gently pulled out the pistol, held it in her hand and stood down. At the same time, Sturling, who was annoyed by Vito in the bargaining, leaned back in the chair, and looked at the front of him with his arms folded. This cunning man, he is too good at businessmen, he talks in a different way.

Sturling looked in front of him. He was sitting across the table from Vito with a commercial smirk on his face. He smiled silently and then looked towards Shantina in the distance, "Don't just stand there in a daze! Give us some drinks Come on, this is going to be a very, very long negotiation."

Shantina was startled. She stood in front of the antlers and hid the hand holding the gun by her side. She blocked the small pistol with her dress and her body. She nodded to Sturling and walked towards After watching the girl pass by, Sturling also refocused his attention on Vito.

Shantina hung the pistol by her side, blocked the gun with her body, and walked not far away, just in the direction of the low cabinet on the other side of the office. A goblet with amber wine and several matching short stem glasses.

The young Eldar girl walked up to the low cabinet, she put the pistol gently on the cabinet, and then began to prepare the wine with both hands and put it on the tray taken out of the cabinet, she put the plate containing the wine He raised it up, and the pistol was hidden under the silver tray with his hand.

Xia Tina carried the plate and walked to the desk. When her petite figure walked up to Vito, she was barely taller than Vito who was sitting. After holding the glass, he looked at Shantina who was leaning slightly and bent over from the corner of her eye.

  The open chest of her veil skirt was just exposed in front of Vito, and the underdeveloped twin peaks were exposed in front of Vito because the dress was hanging down.

But Vito's eyes only glanced at the chest, and then he saw the silver tray below Xia Tina's body that was also hanging down because of her bending. The direction of Turin, and the side of Vito, just slightly tilted up to expose the hand holding the pistol underneath.

  He took the wine glass and looked at the pistol and smiled. He raised his eyes and winked at Shatina, "Good wine should be drunk at the right time, not too early or too late."

Vito looked at the little girl in front of him and said, the eyes exchanged looks with him, the blue eyes instantly became bright, and the owner of those eyes nodded slightly to Wei Wei in an unnoticeable way Indicate that you understand.

"Business should be negotiated at the right time. It can't be delayed, and it can't be early. It has to be just right." Vito smiled and raised his glass slightly, toasting Sturling opposite, who was cold Smiling coldly, he took a glass of wine from the tray handed by Shantina who walked around the table.

"She's very smart." Vito thought in her heart, she knew that if she passed the wine to herself just now, the lower half of the tray would be directly exposed to Sturling with her petite figure, so she used a very flattering Way, hand the tray directly to Sturling, and use the wide surface to cover the palm below.

Sturling took down the drink without noticing, and after the tray was immediately put away, he raised his glass and clinked glasses with Vito, "Of course, Constantine, in the right way, in the right way Time to settle the business, like, the issues we're arguing about."

"Oh, I believe we will reach a consensus, but before that, let me send you a little surprise." "Surprise?" "Yes, surprise, as I just said, not sooner or later , just a nice surprise."

  Vito took out the golden pocket watch from his chest while clinking glasses with Sturling slightly as he spoke. He looked at the ticking hands on it. At that time, the tip of the hand had almost reached the bottom, and the second hand was about to reach noon.

  Stulling looked at the time on the pocket watch, raised his head to look at Vito in front of him in surprise and bewilderment, "Surprise? I don't know, there is another surprise tonight."

"Ah, it's true that you don't know yet, but you'll know soon, now" Vito was about to say something with a smile on his face, but suddenly he got stuck. At noon, the minute hand had already reached the end of the pocket watch, showing a surprised and embarrassed smile.

  Stulling raised his head and looked in surprise at Vito who straightened up from the chair and leaned sideways on the table in front of him. That action combined with his awkward smile now made him look extra funny.

  He turned his head to look at Sturling with an awkward smile, and then glanced at Shantina behind him, "Wow, it looks like they are late, but I believe they will be soon"

   Again, Vito was interrupted before finishing his sentence, but this time it was not the click of pocket watch hands, but a louder sound.

A huge explosion suddenly sounded from outside Sturling's office, and the soaring fire cloud surged from the glass in an instant, projecting the shining fire light into the office. Sturling turned his back to the window, but except for his chair and body The covered part, the entire tabletop is instantly illuminated by fire.

Sturling turned his office chair abruptly and looked back. He saw explosions coming one after another outside. Explosions rose from the floating building, and raging flames mixed with each other at close range, flooding the glass of the office in the blink of an eye. The fort area below.

"What happened outside?!" Sturling pressed down on the surface of the desk, which seemed to be smooth and had nothing on it, but the moment his finger pressed down, there suddenly appeared a flickering light on the desktop. The projection button is also floating a few inches away from the desktop.

  The communication interface of the audio channel was shaking, and there was an explosion sound, which instantly raised the audio wave to the top of the display window, and the loud shouts of pirates came from the ear-piercing explosion sound.

   "That silver-haired bitch! And that red monster of hers! They use psychic power, they blow up our control room and substation! The captive holding area is out of control, and we're trying to stop her. Wait, don't come!"

  The pirate roared loudly, and then there was a burst of gunshots in the background, and suddenly the gunshots turned into screams in the background, and finally stopped abruptly.

Everything fell silent, gunshots, explosions, and screams disappeared, and the audio band instantly flattened into a straight line. Sturling widened his eyes when he saw the line, but suddenly, the wave came again. It shook slightly, and a pleasant female voice sounded from it.

   "Do you still like this surprise?"

   "I love it so much."

Sturling turned his head abruptly and looked at Vito who was sitting on the chair smiling. man.

"I mean you will like this surprise, so, are you ready to accept the next one?" Vito clapped his hands with a smile, and suddenly Sturling heard the sound of a bullet being loaded behind his head, and he turned his head slowly She saw Shantina holding the tray by her side with one hand and holding a gun with the other, aiming the muzzle at her head.

The young girl was staring at herself fiercely, her raised arm exposed the bruise on her shoulder, the muscle movement when the arm was raised was enough to cause a tingling pain there, and her micro-expression slightly twitched, But the kitten still raised the gun without thinking, and finally showed her own teeth and claws. Sturling was stunned for a moment, then turned to look back at Vito in front of him, "Who the **** are you?"

   "Then let me introduce myself again." Vito stood up while supporting the table. He stood up slowly, put one hand behind his back, and bowed to Sturling in a gentlemanly manner.

   "Vito Constantine, here to serve you."

  (end of this chapter)

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