Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 395

  Chapter 395 Expedition Road: We will all find our way home

Reina had already forgotten how long she hadn't seen the starry sky, the real starry sky, not the artificial night sky in the webway, but now Reina can be sure that the starlight she is bathing in is the real star, a piece of real universe.

The captain raised her head and looked up at the bright Milky Way above her head and sighed for a long time. She could feel the warm starlight in the Milky Way, and the memory flooded in like a tide. Everything in the past, she thought she had forgotten All the memories were recalled, and they were re-discovered from every corner of his mind.

The memories of sailing under the starry sky seem to be just yesterday. When she was in the webway, she mistakenly thought it was a long dream several times, but now, the dream has reflected reality, and all the memories in the webway, It seemed to be just a long dream, but now she still woke up.

  Leina let out a long breath, opened her eyes and pressed on the communication interface at hand, "Astropath, have you confirmed our location? Can the Emperor's light bathe us?"

  "The light of hope flickers like a candle in the wind, and the storm swallows all the light, darkness! Only darkness exists in the night sky, and we have become blind travelers!"

"Speak Gothic, Astropath." Reina said speechlessly. Every time she talked with an Astropath, she felt dizzy. The emperor personally selected, and received the training of the beloved emperor, why do they always speak so strangely?

It seems that Reina doesn't know. In fact, this may be part of the Emperor's training. After all, you know, the Emperor himself is also a riddler who never speaks when he can speak human words, and insists on giving you all kinds of metaphors. Vito's words are a magic stick that pretends to be a ghost.

The part of the communication channel was silent for a while, but then quickly re-speak, "We are trying our best to find any available information, Captain, but the storm is shrouded in the void, and the star torch light is flickering, so we cannot accurately judge our situation. The only thing my astropaths and I can determine is that we have returned to the empire."

   "This is enough, continue to collect all the information you can find, and, next time, speak human words."

  Leina turned off the communicator at once, she frowned, and looked up at the beautiful but extremely deadly Milky Way night sky outside. The subspace has not subsided after 10,000 years? This is not good news.

   "Is subspace navigation dangerous?" Lena immediately asked again, she must immediately grasp the current information in the universe as soon as possible, and update the ancient route data that has expired for thousands of years.

Captain Niaobu stared at the screen in front of him, and quickly slid his finger on it to unlock the information. A light flashed on the long mechanical prosthetic eye of Niaobuchang. She turned around and looked at the captain above. respond.

  "The navigator has surveyed the subspace situation and praised the beloved emperor. Although the storm still exists, Geller's position can still guarantee our safety in it, and we can jump."

   "Very good, try all methods to determine our position, try the star map to analyze the starry sky, and determine the position." "Follow orders, Captain."

Reina's order was immediately carried out, and Chief Bird turned around to start working. The data screen in front of him quickly skipped a large section of parameters, and Reina also waved her finger in front of her. Immediately, a holographic projection screen was projected.

The captain looked at the large star charts that kept flashing in front of him, those star charts were constantly matching with the starry sky outside the window, but none of them were tangent, Lena looked annoyed at the star charts in front of her that were constantly turning red and emitting a low warning sound He held his chin, but this is not surprising, after all, ten thousand years have passed, and the star map on the ship has long expired.

   It seems that there is one more problem to continue to solve. After finding the starport of the empire or any friendly ships, Reina must ask the mechanical priest to update these outdated data as soon as possible.

   But just as Reina was thinking about this question, a star map without any mistakes suddenly flashed in front of her. The holographic starry sky overlapped with the night sky outside, and a pleasing green spectrum flashed on it.

  Reina was startled and immediately leaned forward on the armrest, and she looked down at the bird leader below, "The star map matches, identify it immediately!"

"Of course, Captain, the meditator is scanning." Captain Niaobu said, and he tapped the screen quickly with his long modified mechanical fingers, and his head also jumped between multiple complex display windows. The attached data cable is constantly shaking in the air as the head turns.

Niao Buchang's eyes flickered again, and he looked at the screen in front of him and answered, "The system has been identified. According to the calculation of the navigation system, we are in the northern border of Terra, a galaxy called Cadia. .”

"Cadia?" Reina frowned slightly. She pondered for a moment and searched for information about Cadia in her mind. If she remembered correctly, Cadia should be an unknown border galaxy during the Great Expedition. Near the Eye of Terror at the northernmost tip of the Milky Way, only a stable route remains due to the nearby abnormal celestial phenomena and subspace interference.

This caused the empire to have little interest in the dangerous star field that may be cut off by the storm at any time, resulting in isolation from the empire's mainland. This place is inaccessible all year round, and only a few scientific research ships will shuttle here to study those abnormal star phenomena, but all of this is also in vain. It was stopped by the Emperor himself after the Mikaia meeting, and since then it has been completely reduced to a no-man's land with no information.

Reina held her chin, thought for a while, then raised her head to look at the perilous night sky outside, "The Eye of Terror is approaching here. According to what the marshal said, although the rebellion has long since ended, the traitors hiding in it and Their Chaos allies have not stopped invading the Empire."

"Fire control officer, put all weapons into standby mode, recharge the shields at any time, and keep the whole ship on alert and ready for battle at any time!" Lena turned her head to look at the side of the bridge and clenched her fists and ordered loudly. In the middle of the fire control team, the fire control officer wearing a military cap nodded immediately, and then explained to the subordinates on both sides.

Along with their work, Lena saw a flashing shield outside the window, and the shield surface was faintly flickering to protect the entire battleship, which made Lena feel a lot easier, at least now this giant The ship is ready to fight, just like it was thousands of years ago.

   "Chief Bird, we need supplies and rest, look for any recognizable imperial units, starports, planets or any signals nearby, and find the loyalists."

"Yes, Captain, let's do it." Captain Niaobu said as he turned his head full of cables, and began to control the system with his own thoughts. The echoes of the sonar were the same, echoing below Reina again and again.

The captain raised his head and looked around at the night sky, and Yeta leaned up beside him. She held a cup of coffee in her hand and handed it to the captain, who also took a sip naturally. Surrounded by surprise, he looked around at the night sky around him.

"Just like what my dad said, this place is really beautiful, even more beautiful than I imagined." "Don't just look at the beauty on the surface, there are many dangers hidden underneath. This night sky was full of dangers in the past, and even more so after the rebellion Turned into a seafaring hell."

Reina was talking and drinking coffee, let the caffeine stimulate her brain and wake her up again, but Yeta didn't feel any tension at all. She leaned on the armrest and looked out of the window with joy. shining night sky.

"Then let the flames of war come, we are all ready, after decades of training, we will use a war to test us." Yeta said confidently, and Reina behind her glanced at her slightly Laughing, but suddenly the two of them were interrupted as a scarlet siren went off above their heads.

  Reina immediately put the coffee cup on the armrest, and he strode to the armrest to look at the source of the alarm below, "Report the situation, immediately."

Sitting with his head raised, he issued a shrill alarm from the loudspeaker on his belly, Captain Bird, who was next to the servant, looked at the screen in front of him with a face illuminated by the warning red light, "We have received a signal from the Imperial Navy, although The opponent's ship information is not within the scope of our identification of friend or foe, but the communication specifications and internal information are completely consistent with ours, and the identity of friendly forces can be determined."

Reina frowned, he and Yeta beside him looked at each other, the latter nodded immediately and strode down the steps of the bridge and returned to the bottom, Reina took a deep breath and affirmed to Captain Bird nod.

   "Come in." "Yes, Captain."

Following the bird's long and light keyboard, a trembling audio signal immediately jumped out in front of Reina, but the identification mark rotating on it was undoubtedly the Imperial Navy's, and what came from it was not the voice of the machine servant's soulless broadcast, but A voice of leadership as strong as steel.

"I am the Gothic Fleet under the Emperor's command, the captain of the Retribution-class battleship "Emperor's Wrath", and Admiral Speyer, the commander of the Gothic Fleet, and my fleet is fighting with the Chaos Black Crusade invasion fleet , I, the admiral under the emperor's command, in the name of the emperor, summon all the imperial fleets that hear the news to respond, no matter what faction you belong to, we will smash and destroy the enemy's spearhead side by side!"

   "Assembly location 114889/0234, all ships come here to meet, for the empire, for the imperial navy!"

With that cry, Speyer's voice ended in the communication frequency band. Reina looked at the disappearing audio, her eyes looked down, and everyone in the bridge below heard the call sound, turned to look at their captain and waited for the order.

   "Fire controller, charge the weapon array, light up the void shield, and sound the battle alarm."

   "Yes, Captain!"

   "Captain Bird, lock the signal source, raise the Geller stand shield, and the whole ship is ready to jump into the battlefield."

   "Got it, Captain."

Reina stood up, looked up at the communication frequency band beside her, she slid her finger on it, and the Mechanicus logo appeared on it, "Priest, make sure the machine soul is stable, and prepare to step into the battlefield .”

   "We will unleash the wrath of Ome Messiah, and we are performing the awakening process."

   After saying that, Reina walked past the holographic communication channel, leaning on the handrail and roaring to everyone below, "Get ready for battle!"

   As soon as Reina finished speaking, there was a burst of alarm sounding all around. He looked at the holographic interface on the side under the flashing red light. The captain reached out and pressed on it, and clicked on the logo of the lightning eagle.

The lower hangar deck of the Emperor Phantasm is sparsely populated. There is a large space here that is not inferior to any deck, but it is extraordinarily deserted. There are only a few active soulless machine servants on the entire wide plane, walking around with stiff steps. Clean and maintain equipment.

They were silently working diligently, not paying any attention to the burly giant walking behind them. Magnus walked on the deck. He looked around the open deck and stared at the silent Soulless worker.

If it were mortals, they must have already made a fuss because of their appearance, and the sound of their reactions would quickly attract all the thinking people in the surrounding decks, corridors and stairs, so Magnus's little plan to leave quietly Just went bankrupt.

But now, apart from the servants who can't think, let alone understand, and can only silently complete all the set tasks, there is only one person here to see Magnus off, and they walk through the wide hangar deck together .

"Are you sure you want to leave now? Or leave quietly." The person walking beside Magnus asked, the red Cyclops nodded slightly, and he and the person walked together under the spotlight. On the bright deck, he took big steps towards the distant deck position.

There was a lone Thunderhawk docked there. The huge warplane used by the space fighters stood silently under the light. There was a flash of reflection on the entire huge fuselage, and huge shadows came from the wings and the sides of the fuselage. One side is moved out, which makes it even more huge.

In Leiying, there were two or three servitors who were filling fuel for it. They dragged the thick oil pipeline with their stiff elbows. He didn't pay attention to Magnusu and the people around him.

   "I think it's best for me to leave now, Vito, before the people on board find out that I'm a traitor and cause trouble for you, just disappear quietly like this."

   Magnus said with a self-deprecating smile, he turned his head and looked at the large exit deck on the side of Raikage, where the heavy hatch had been lifted, revealing a shining starry sky, a real starry sky.

   "And we still returned to the physical universe, and soon you will meet people from the empire, so it would be even more inappropriate for me to be here, and you know how much trouble it will usher in."

As Magnus said, the people around him also stopped. He lowered his head and smiled with his hands on his waist. He took a few steps forward and stood still, "Traitors, heretics, demons, the most shameless Betrayer, am I missing something?"

   "The **** who betrayed the emperor." Magnus walked to the hatch that Thunderhawk lowered, and while standing there looking in, he seemed to laugh at himself.

"That's all." Vito muttered with a smile, then raised his eyes and glanced at the servants who had finished refueling and pulled out the fuel pipe. They held the fuel pipe and took a stiff step. He walked to the side step by step, and the automatic fuel transport vehicle parked on the side also turned on the headlights, turned backwards and left the scene.

Soon there were only the two of them left here. Vito sighed a long time, raised his eyes and looked at the person at the door of the cabin, "Magnus, do you really want to go back? Back to the subspace? You can left."

"No, Vito, there is no place for me in the current empire. I am a traitor to everyone, and I will not try to change their minds." Magnus said as he walked to the door of the cabin, he Slightly bent down and stood at the door to light up the smart control window on one side, checking the fuel data on it, although he didn't need to fly back to the Eye of Terror, just find a nearby planet to land, open the portal and go back. All right.

But Magnus was still watching. The clicks of his thick fingers on the screen seemed very uncoordinated and seemed meaningless. Vito looked at the meaningless movement, slightly frowning and looked up. Eye Magnus.

He also glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, and then seemingly casually pointed to the Milky Way outside the window. Vito also looked over, and he immediately saw the flickering star in the night sky that tore the background of the Milky Way. Eye.

Vito knows what Magnus means, he has returned to the physical universe now, Tzeentch has noticed him, and the evil **** controls his other half of the soul, and can monitor his thoughts and words at any time, so what he can do now Everything you do can only be a metaphor and allusion.

Magnus nodded slightly to Vito, and then walked into the cabin. Outside the cabin door, Vito stood under the light and looked at Magnus, "If you find your place one day, remember, I You are always welcome back, and no matter how much hostility and prejudice you have to face, I will be here waiting for you."

"If you need help, you know where to find me." Vito said, putting his hands on his chest seemingly unintentionally, and then patted his heart seemingly casually. Magnus watched the movement Expressionless, but responded to Vito with a wink and a lowered look.

Magnus pressed the button on the side door of the cabin, he turned and walked into the depths of the cabin, the door at the back was slowly lifted and quickly closed at the upper locking anchor point, with a soft sigh The hatch is closed.

Vito looked at the Thunderhawk that was ignited. The vector jet was burning violently and sprayed raging flames on the ground before flying up. The strong propeller airflow blew Vito's clothes. After the landing gear was slowly retracted into the fuselage, the nose turned to the fighter plane in the direction of the hatch.

  The Thunderhawk accelerated instantly, spewed out a huge tongue of flame and flew out of the deck. It got into the dark galaxy and roared towards the curtain of the Eye of Terror.

Vito walked to the hatch door of the deck. He stood at the edge of the cliff connected to the icy void and watched the leaving fighter plane. Behind him, Lilith quietly appeared from nowhere. Footsteps without any sound came to Vito's side.

   "He's gone." "Yes, it's obvious, isn't it? It will take a long, long time for the Thunderhawk to fly back to Terra." "Hmm, the question is, has he already flown that route?"

  Lilith glanced at Vito with a smile on her face, and a smile appeared on the corner of Vito's mouth, "I think so, we have all found our way home, and he is almost there."

  Lilith looked at Vito and snorted softly. She stood beside Vito with her arms around her arms, but at the same time that he was also smiling, scarlet alarm lights flashed on the entire deck.

He was stunned and turned his head to look at the machine servants who were walking towards the periphery of the deck in the flickering red light. They walked towards the gate as fast as possible with their stiff bodies. A faster fuel transport vehicle had already driven in. In it, escape into the long corridor amidst the flickering alarm.

   "The whole ship is ready for battle, repeat, all parts of the whole ship are ready for battle."

During the broadcast, the icy servant announcer repeated that sentence mechanically in a stiff voice without temperature. Vito raised his head and looked in the direction of the broadcasting speaker above his head, but soon, his attention was drawn closer The voice attracted.

  Vito raised his arm and clicked on the flashing red light on his wrist, then Reina's holographic bust flashed on the holographic image, and she nodded to Vito.

"Marshal, we have received a signal for help. The Gothic fleet of the Imperial Navy is engaged in a fierce battle with Chaos. Admiral Speyer, the commander of the fleet, is calling for all the imperial units around to go to support. I have ordered the entire ship to prepare to jump into the field. Come to the ship bridge, my lord."

  Vito turned his head and glanced at the Milky Way outside the window with a smile, then turned his head to look at Reina with a joking smile, "Welcome back, Captain, the Empire welcomes you."

  (end of this chapter)

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