Chapter 64: Acvetia
I heard the voice first, and followed the sound to look over before I saw the familiar figure, the figure of Awei.
A black figure, wearing the same black trench coat as Add, tight light carapace armor, a black bowler hat, and a sword with a sheath hanging from his waist. Twenty years seem to have left no trace on her face, and she still retains the same appearance as when we were separated.
It's just that the temperament is very different, and the figure has changed a lot.
I could see her there, but I couldn't see her projection in subspace, it was abnormal, even ordinary people had a little projection the size of a candlelight, and psionics were much clearer and brighter. Before that, I thought that only the untouchable would have no projection, but if Ah Wei was an untouchable, she would definitely be recruited by the Silent Sisters, instead of being locked up in the prison of the Black Ship with us. And I'm pretty sure it's empty. How did she come about? When teleporting, I didn't feel the fluctuations in the subspace. So is it a hidden effect like optical camouflage? At such a close distance, even optical camouflage cannot be hidden so well......
In short, just the first time we met, Ah Wei left an unfathomable impression on my heart. Those who can enter the court are really not weak, and their strength is not comparable to that of a psychic person from an academy like me.
Reason told me that I had better make a respectful gesture, but as the fragments of memories from twenty years ago flooded back to my mind, I replied with a ghostly thought: "I haven't seen you all these years, Awei, you seem to be shorter than before." ”
As the ridiculous words came out, my mind went back to the dark and oppressive cell twenty years ago.
At that time, Ah Wei was only thirteen years old, but she was taller and stronger than me at fifteen, with the same wildness as me, and the temperament of a soldier who was a little strange to me at that time, but now very familiar. She also confessed that she was born in a military family, but did not say which world it was. She was very competitive and never called me big brother like Eddie, but stubbornly demanded that I call her my sister, and we agreed to call each other by name after a few rounds of fist debate. But apart from certain small things, she was very easy-going, and sometimes the three of us went to fight together for food, and if we grabbed too much to eat at once, she would not store it carefully like I did, but would return it to those who had been beaten down by us.
Twenty years have passed, and I have gotten a lot taller, and looking at Ah Wei, who hasn't gotten taller at all, I feel that I'm really qualified to be her big brother now—of course, from the first time we met, I broke off that idea.
Compared with Eddie, who seems to be approachable, Ah Wei at this time seems to have more of the momentum of a superior. She kept a cold face, her eyes and expression did not show the slightest emotion, and the whole person was like a piece of ice, as if she would get frostbite at a glance.
But the soldiers under Ah Wei's command turned a blind eye to this cold majesty. With a wave of her hand, the veterans who had just been lined up in a neat line under my order immediately disbanded and went to rest on the spot, sitting or lying down. I couldn't help but feel relieved when I saw this, no matter how cold she looked on the outside, she was still a very easy-going person.
"Acvetia, Probationary Inquisitor of the Demon Inquisition." Surprisingly, she didn't refute my teasing, but introduced herself like a stranger she had just met.
So I had to answer in a decent way: "Ilshan, lieutenant colonel of the Imperial Defense Forces." ”
Then she took off one of her gloves and held out her hand to me. Although I wasn't used to shaking hands in the army, I had to go on - she wouldn't want me to kiss my hand......
The moment my hands clasped each other, my palms suddenly burned violently, as if I had grasped the barrel of a gun that had just turned red after thousands of bullets. …,
It turned out to be the same tricks as when I was a child, but at that time, no one could use psionic energy, and could only use fists in a dark cell, and it was completely impossible to hide as much as now. I immediately fought back, using psionic power to squeeze the barrel of the gun in my hand, but my hand suddenly became confused, and her hand disappeared from my hand as if it had turned into air.
Evil Gate, lost a game, and I don't know how I lost yet. How inscrutable is the psionic technology at the disposal of the Inquisition? Why can't psionic academies teach some of these techniques?
Before I could figure out what to do next, I heard Add's voice coming from the communicator on Awei's collar: "Found the enemy's movements." ”
"Huh? Didn't you say that the enemy was well hidden and couldn't be found? Ignoring me, Awei turned around and cocked her collar to start talking to Eddie.
"Daddy Lem's people have met with strong resistance, and that should be it. Anyway, you go to the location of this psionic beacon first. Take your eldest brother with you, I'm afraid you won't be able to cope with it yourself. Hurry up, it's too late to bring the soldiers, the enemy is afraid to flee, and I feel the instability of the subspace. Eddie said.
Immediately after, I clearly felt a psionic beacon flickering not far away, presumably the psionic beacon cast by Add. Now I also have some admiration for Add's skills, the simple trick of psionic beacons can be learned in less than a year after entering the psionic academy, but I can only use it where I can see it. It's a little strange to me that someone like Eddie is on the other end of the battleship and has a beacon nearly a kilometer away.
With the beacon, I can safely teleport through it without worrying about getting stuck in a wall or falling into a dangerous area. However, what if you are directly teleported to the place where the enemy is and are besieged?
In my hesitation, Ah Wei had already disappeared in place, only bringing with him a very slight fluctuation of spiritual energy, which I couldn't feel at all when I wasn't around. I couldn't hesitate any longer, look for the mark, teleport.
After a moment of dizziness at the moment of teleportation, my ears were filled with the sound of gunfire, more distant than shotguns, presumably from the crew, and closer with small-caliber gunpowder guns, pagan standard weapons—indeed teleporting to the enemy.
Later, I regained my vision in this gloomy environment, surrounded by a crowd of figures, a few red lights a little farther away, surrounded by some people, and I immediately recognized that it was a group of infidels performing evil worship rituals, and farther away, a group of huge figures standing there, Chaos Space Marines, roughly thirty or so. On the other side, hundreds of infidels were forming an arc around the hatch of the chamber, their weapons aimed at the hatch as if they were guarding the hatch from outsiders. From time to time, several grenades flew outside the door, killing and wounding the infidels in pieces. Whenever there were casualties, some of the infidels in my vicinity would break away from the ranks of worship and fill in the places of the dead and wounded.
Something is wrong! The current chaotic state of affairs is definitely not enough to defend Cheng Dù. Although I don't know how many people there are outside, it can be inferred from the density of their firepower that the terrain over there must not be as wide as here, and no matter how many people can't deploy, they can only attack in small batches, which is the most taboo tactic to add fuel to the army. And this environment is the favorite of elite troops like Space Marine, as long as ten Chaos Space Marines go out, even a hundred people outside will have to collapse.
And once the crew breaks through the hatch and pours into the chamber, they can fully deploy their forces and firepower in the wide room, and then chaos is really over.
As Eddie said earlier, the subspace here is very unstable, and the cultists' rituals are channeling the chaotic and violent energy to disrupt the real world, faintly driven to tear the space apart. Once they succeed, a large portal will be opened here. Either something comes out, or someone here escapes through the portal, which is something we don't want to face. …,
While they were preoccupied with the ritual and didn't notice me, I hurried to think of a countermeasure. Although I boast that I already have the combat strength of a regiment, I am really stressed on thirty Chaos Space Marines in this small space - ten is almost my limit.
"I thought you wouldn't dare come along." Ah Wei approached me from behind and whispered.
"You dare to come here, why don't I dare." Once again, I was taken aback by her elusiveness.
"The heretics are trying to open portals so that the Emperor's sons can escape. Do you have any plans? She asked.
"This ......," I muttered, "kill the guards at the door first, so that the crew can get in, and then join forces to kill the rest of the enemy." ”
This should be the simplest and most appropriate tactic.
"Fool, have you become so timid after all these years of fighting in the Wehrmacht?" Ah Wei rebuked disdainfully, "Death will speed up the process of the ritual, and it will be impossible to prevent the enemy's main force from escaping." And our primary goal is to completely annihilate the enemy's main force, and the remaining infidels have nothing to worry about. Forget it, I didn't count on you in the first place. ”
"Don't be brutal!" I grabbed her arm and tried to stop her from doing the next thing. When she was still on the black ship, she liked to rush out alone to fight a group of people, and if I hadn't knocked down the besieging people from behind one by one every time, she would never have been able to hold out until the final victory.
But she doesn't just have one hand. She walked around me to confront the infidels and Chaos Space Marines, and raised her other hand.
"I am the Blade of the Empire! I carry the hatred of humanity! I unleash the Emperor's wrath! ”
Her announcement echoed in the cabin, and the sound of hundreds of guns firing at the same time was silenced. With this deafening sound, the attention of all the Chaos cultists was drawn to this side.
Immediately afterward, a ball of fireball condensed and formed in her raised hand, and was then tossed by her, incinerating the infidels in her path before exploding in the ranks of the Chaos Space Marines.
Where the flames hit, steel melted, flesh and blood turned to ashes!