Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 688

  Chapter 688 The Last Autumn: The Promised Man

Vito looked at the book in his hand. He was sitting on the edge of a cliff, but it is not accurate to say that it is a cliff. This is actually the heat exhaust pipe of the No. 4 reactor of the Infinite Frontier. The reactor is conveniently under this deep rift. A surging boiler, from which boiling water flows into pipes and flows in a circulatory system.

This makes it a natural warm place. Gradually, leisure and entertainment places have gradually developed around these deep valleys. The sailors have given full play to the amazing wisdom of the working people, turning the once dark and boring corners into A brightly lit paradise.

In principle, the navy's regulations do not allow this, but you know, this is the ship of the Inquisition, in short, Vito's ship, so under his unruly decision, this place became a place of deep space. little paradise.

And Vito is sitting here right now, blowing the warm wind from below, flipping through the book in his hand, it is a book recording the era of the Double Emperors, Vito actually participated in that Hongda The counterinsurgency war, but he only found out a few days after today's meeting that he actually forgot about it, so he came here to make up for it.

There are many books on the table in front of him, of various types, but most of them are illustrated books of war history and imperial chronicle. I can't remember many things clearly, and even the impression of some places is completely wrong.

After a long time, he realized that since his memory had become more and more confused, many things he thought had happened were actually false, and the false things had happened instead. When he closed his eyes and tried to figure it out, he could only see A hazy purple light could be seen, as if separating him from that end.

Vito has forgotten a lot of things, those things he thought he remembered, but he can't remember them clearly, and there are many memories that shouldn't belong to him, they are interspersed in Vito's mind, like a volume of old, Films that are fused together are small.

A huge silver tree, a petal grows in the endless sea of ​​flowers. When the flower blooms instantly, a huge gap is torn in the sky. A person stands up from the flower. Vito sees his face, which is familiar and It was strange again, the black hair turned into silver hair when she raised her head, and the memory was quickly cut off, cut off and disappeared, as if it had never existed.

"Three "persons", but only one soul, two worlds, but there will be one throne, this is the choice of destiny." "The one who protects the balance, recreates, the eternal one." Said the voice at the earliest moment of time, it is formless and has no body, straddling the most distant and the nearest position of the long river of time.

  Amidst the sound emerged a golden throne, which was located in the center of the huge rift, and a crown with flames on both sides rose from the rift.

   "Everything will return to unity, King of Eternity."

Vito opened his eyes suddenly, his memory was broken by a burst of laughter, the low but hearty laughter pierced his memory, and dragged Vito back, but he didn't feel disgusted at all, instead he burst into joy , he closed the book, got up and left the cliff.

Vito walked along the bookshelf, looking for the laughter from the corner of the semi-open coffee shop. At the end of the laughter, when he walked out of the bookshelf, he found the Astartes here. The four of them sat Here, among the tall bookshelves, Bell sat on a chair that had obviously arrived specially, Olaf sat cross-legged at his feet, and Lancelot sat on the table with a sword in one hand and a book in the other, The source of the laughter was Ragnar, who was sitting on a high bookshelf, laughing like a wolf howling into the sky.

"Fuck, this story is so funny, Lancelot, take a look here, you idiot, hahaha!" "Looks like you found a good joke for them?" Vito appeared beside Bell, standing on the interstellar The space between the warriors is as small as the furniture here, and this place has almost become the courtyard of the giants.

But some people have this talent, and when he wants you to notice him, you will notice anyway, Bell sighed, and closed the book in his hand, "That's not a joke, but obviously, Rag Na thinks so."

"Of course it is, shit, why are you philosophers so weird? Because of one of your own promises, and then you are really stupid, go back when the enemy has already let you go, and put your head under the knife Say you cut it off, remember to make a picture of my head?"

"What are you doing here?" Vito asked, Lancelot ignored Ragnar who was kicking him, and looked at his sword, "The study meeting held by Bell, he said, we should still fight Learn, so that you don't become ignorant, and the inner emptiness is easily permeated by chaos."

"So, you bring them to see a joke? When you prepare for Chaos to sneak into your heart, laugh them to death?" Vito also said jokingly, Ragnar burst into laughter, and even the old wolf showed a faint smile, he When Bell helped his forehead helplessly, he came out to smooth things over, "It's not a joke, Bell is leading us to read this book."

"Kambu meeting?" "Kambu meeting?" "There's a group of guys in cockscomb helmets, with swords and shields, going across the sea to fight another group of guys riding elephants." "You're talking about the first time Bouigne War."

Vito corrected Ragnar, took a book and read it himself, and Ragnar patted the illustration on it and smiled, "Look at these guys, they wear the same clothes as Bell, no wonder he likes it so much. They, a bunch of little Ultramarines."

"They are Romans, Ragnar." "Mule and horses?" "It's Rome! This book is about the war between the Roman Republic and Carthage during the First Bunes War. Let me show you this book. , is to let you learn the indomitable spirit of the Romans, the spirit of repeated defeats, even if they are not good at naval battles, they still have the spirit of victory after many failures and setbacks."

Bell said, and Ragnar waved his hand impatiently, "Come on, I look like a bunch of idiots, foolish enough to insist on what they are not good at, and in the end they won by tricks, but obviously It was all trickery and their leader turned out to be an idiot."

  “After being captured, he was sent back by the Carthaginians. He promised that he would make peace with Rome. If he couldn't do it, he would come back and let the Carthaginians cut him off. What happened? He really went back.”

"You sound like you're scoffing at that, Ragnar, do promises mean nothing to you?" Vito asked as he flipped through the book, while Ragnar shrugged, "Of course it matters, I'm a Fenrisian Don't forget, commitment means honor, honor above all else, without honor we are nothing."

"But you sneered at the Roman general, because he kept his promise." "Don't try to change the concept, use it to deal with our enemies, Vito." Ragnar folded his arms, "What I despise is His stupidity, knowing that he can't do it, the Romans can't make peace but still promised, he is either in exchange for freedom, groveling like a coward, it's me, I would rather kill myself than accept the mercy of the enemy."

   "And he was even more outrageous. He was released by tricks, but he ran back and was killed in the end. For what? For his honor that did not exist long ago?"

"Maybe it's just because he promised? Even if he doesn't know what he promised." Vito replied inadvertently while flipping through the book, like a subconscious answer, Ragnar raised his eyebrows differently, "What do you mean? I don't know yet." Promise, isn't this stupid?"

"It's nothing." Vito closed the book and said with some emotion, "But people, how can you be alive if you don't do something stupid? We are like this. Sometimes we don't know if we can do it, but we still promise. Go down, and then do more stupid things and cause more trouble for it."

Vito caressed the thick cover of the book. It was already very old. It was stuffed here from the market on that planet, and it had been sitting on the shelf for many years. It was only seen as a joke today. A group of people found.

How many stories, the stories that people in the past didn't know will survive, will be treated in various ways after ten thousand years, such as Bell's longing, Ragnar's jokes, and Lancelot's ignorance, the masters of those stories, When they made a promise, did they really know what they promised?

   "In a sense, I admire him quite a bit. He did what he said, without the slightest hesitation. He knew it was impossible but he did it anyway, even if it would be death."

Vito fell silent, looking at the book with a self-deprecating smile, Olaf on the side put his hand on his shoulder, "What's the matter? Vito, you seem to be preoccupied. I've never seen you so preoccupied. anxiety."

"Yeah, you are usually crazier than me, even if you shoot the barrel of Planet Killer in your face, you won't change your face." Ragnar said with a smile, shrugging his shoulders with his hands in his arms, "Why? Did you break up with whom? Listen to me, women are nothing, and you still have buddies."

"I'm not interested in men, but thanks to you idiot." Vito threw the book aside, "But don't worry about my love life, never separate Like I promised, don't suddenly bring me up How about it? Old wolf, do you think you will learn anything from this study?"

"This time? It's hard to say, the thoughts are precipitated, and it will take many years for me to discover what I have learned at this moment, but I did learn some principles before, philosophy, I never thought about it, but they can indeed Refining my mind is very helpful for my mastery of power."

"And you, Lancelot." "Me? Well, I'm not very smart, as my mother used to say, smarter than serious smarter." "But smarter is also a product of smarter, so well done, you What? Ragnar, have you learned anything besides laughing?" "Jokes?" "Hmph, well, jokes are quite useful here, better than the rigid orders of the empire."

   "This place?" Bell asked differently. Vito smiled and pointed to the top of his head. Everyone looked at the armored window that was gradually opening above his head, and a starry sky appeared outside the window.

   "Welcome to Taiping Starfield."

  (end of this chapter)

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