I was about to catch up when a message rang out in my head, "Son, come over here." ”

It's Avtron, the old shaman of the Silent Blade. And looking at Eddie's expression earlier, it was obvious that he had also received a similar message.

Following the guidance of telepathy, we came to a remote cabin. Waiting here is not only Avtron, but also Velheim and Avy. What amazed me wasn't that all of us were gathered here, but that there were no mortals here - there were quite a few people stationed in the corridors leading to here, including two of Velheim's guards, a small squad of Silent Blade warriors, and a squad of Stormtroopers, who seemed intent on keeping other mortals out of here.

It made it look like a secret meeting, which made me a little uncomfortable, even though everyone here was loyal and trustworthy.

"Alright, we're all here." The old shaman scanned us with his cloudy eyes, which had no pupils, and at the same time telepathized with me, "Don't be so nervous, child. ”

"Not long ago, while this side was still fighting, there was a small battle on the side of the Hall of Silence, and the specific process ......"

Psychic communication between psykers was so fast that it took almost no time, and in a split second, a message was shoehorned into my head, and I was stunned for a moment as if it were a psychic shock. It is a little slower to comprehend and digest these messages. The message was simple, the two ships broke away from the subspace, and the Silent Blade sent an inquiry, but there was no answer for two consecutive times, but the frigate began to accelerate to make an attack stance, so the Hall of Silence immediately opened fire, and with a single salvo, the small battleship of unknown origin was beaten into cosmic dust. The other transport-style ship surrendered immediately. This news is not new to me, I saw those two ships when I fought with that demon prince in space.

Compared to the long and complicated battle here, the Hall of Silence seemed monotonous and boring, as if a sturdy adult had a-a child to the ground and frightened another. In fact, it is much more dangerous, and if the frigate carries a torpedo, it is equivalent to a child with a sharp and highly poisonous dagger, which is a real threat.

The battle itself was lackluster, but the transport ship was a bit more interesting. The people on board claimed to be wandering merchants who were forced to engage in some illegal transportation business due to the threat of the forces of Chaos, so when the Empire showed their thunderous fury in front of them, they immediately showed their loyalty as humans, killing the Chaos Space Marines who were monitoring them on the ship as soon as possible, and welcoming the Space Marines to inspect and control their ships. The Silent Blade soldiers who boarded the ship sent back a message saying that the cargo on the ship was nothing more than ordinary steel materials, and that the corpses of the two Chaos Space Marines had a paint and insignia that had not yet been determined, and that they should belong to a relatively inconspicuous warband—thanks to the cannibalistic Celestials within Chaos, the so-called warbands of the Chaos Marines were far less than the size of the loyal Canon Warband, and often not even the size of a Canon Company, and there were often dozens or even a dozen people who could become a warband. Warhammer: Dark Millennium, 173

That's all the news of the battle, but the information behind it is very intriguing. The universe is so big, the chance of encountering other ships during the voyage is very small, since we can meet the ships of chaos here, then it means that the spaceship we are in is not aimless in the subspace voyage in a desperate situation, there must be a base of red pirates near here.

"Where are we now?" Add asked first.

"It used to have a name, but now it only has a numeric coordinates. The colony, once located here, has ...... Scrapped ......," Avtron replied.

That's a very euphemistic answer. The Empire will never give up its colonies lightly, and sometimes even millions of casualties will be paid to keep the colonies, and the so-called abandonment is likely to be like the former Melved world, where the entire planet was shattered to pieces by the destroyed Mièig's artillery fire.

"So, this is a desolate area that deviates from the Empire's main trade and naval patrol routes? Looks like a great habitat for pirates. Ah Wei said.

"No, pirates' habitats aren't far from busy shipping routes. At most, a few small supply points can be built on an uninhabited planet, and if a large, fully functional, well-equipped base is not enough to maintain its operation by relying only on supplies brought from afar by transport ships, or the cost of operation is beyond imagination, it must have at least one planet with a large population to provide material support. A small fortress like our Hall of Silence requires manpower, food, and industrial supplies from three worlds. ”

As he spoke, Aftron pulled out a small three-dimensional projector and revealed in front of us a miniature planetary system with a central star and four planets. Judging by the brightness of the star, only the second planet is in a moderate position, and the others are either too close or too far away from the star. But the second planet had an ominous dark red color, reminding me of the landform formed by the cooling of lava, and I intuitively judged that it didn't look like it had a biosphere, and that the amount of foreign material needed to establish a colony in such an environment was also astronomical.

"Extinction Order ......" Ah Wei suddenly opened her mouth to break the silence in the cabin, spitting out a high Gothic word that was unfamiliar to me...... No, it's not completely unfamiliar, I'm sure I've seen it somewhere, otherwise I wouldn't have understood what it meant, the word is so cold. She discovered her gaffe and hurriedly switched back to the mode of psychic communication, "The world after the extinction order is another reason for the existence of chaos." ”

Avtron nodded, and continued to communicate in silence with a telepath, "As you can see, we have scanned the entire galaxy with a long-range probe for the past few hours, and the result is that this place is completely unequipped with the environmental conditions for a large settlement, and we have not found any signs of human habitation. ”

"Either we're here for nothing, and there's no big base here, or maybe it's just a small supply point," Velheim said, "or ......."

Either the enemy is hiding in a place we can't scan, such as deep underground. But now we're looking for a pirate base that can supply warships, and warships can't get too close to the planet's gravitational sphere, and this kind of base can only be used like a space fortress. It may be difficult for others to hide something as large as a space fortress from under our noses, but the opponent is Chaos, and it should be easy for them to hide in subspace.

"Also, just now, we received a message from the Imperial Observatory here, ordering us to leave this field immediately, on the grounds that due to frequent subspace storms, this place has been designated as a forbidden area by the Empire, and all those who come near it will be censored as potential Chaos Infected, under the name of Vañores, Inquisitor Lord of the Inquisition. Judging by the distance between us and each other, the other party sent this message since we had just left the subspace and appeared here. ”

Avtron measured the projection with his hand, marking our location with the observatory, the outer reaches of the galaxy and the orbit of the second planet. Although the exact scale is not well known, distances at this scale can easily make the radio signal travel for several hours.

"Ha, it's even more suspicious, I can almost see the enemy's tail." Velheim scoffed, "There are really few in the galaxy that can order us to leave from the enemy's presence. Inquisitor Lord Vañores, where did it come from? ”

The attitude of the Space Wolf Rune Priest made everyone feel excited immediately. Obviously, apart from the wolf, the two probationary inquisitors present and the think tank curator of a small wargroup like the Silent Blade did not have the courage to confront a judge lord. Warhammer: Dark Millennium, 173

"Mistress Vanolres, I've heard of him, he's an older Inquisitor than my mentor qualifications......" Eddie still seemed a little undecided, after all, the wolf could ignore the threat of the Inquisition, and he was a novice in the system completely different. After hesitating for a long time, Eddie suddenly had a big decision, "The other party only used radio communication, does it mean that they are not equipped with Star Whisperers?" In such a remote place, it doesn't look like there's a need for a star-whisperer......"

It looks like he's going to play his plan to cut down the grass and leave no future troubles behind.

"Don't be stupid, young inquisitor, no matter how remote it is, after all, the observatory is observing the danger that may be nearby, how can it not have the means to send long-range communication? But I'd love to go to the Observatory and see what kind of people dare to stop our space wolves. I'm sure we'll find some answers there. Velheim said.

"Speaking of answers, I once wanted to find the key person on this ship to get the answer, but I suffered a little setback in the process, and the other party's spiritual power was not below me at all." Add showed the pile of loot he had wrapped in his robes, "He died at the hands of our Greymane Major, and I think his head will be of some use to us." But I'm only good at mind reading, not psychics. ”

Truth be told, I'm afraid that no one among the legitimate Imperial psionics would claim to be good at psychic. Every psyker can more or less always hear some voices from ghosts, which are mostly hallucinations that psychics often have, sometimes it is the ** whisper of the subspace itself, and sometimes it is really the echo of the will of the dead from the subspace, and the difference between these situations is not much if you compare them in detail. Psychic is an ordinary psionic phenomenon, but no one will work it, for the Empire, psionic energy is only allowed to exist in the five major areas that are allowed to exist on the surface, and the study of actively communicating with the dead is regarded as outright witchcraft and heresy.

What's more, the heretical soul of a strict zhònguo-luo is to be communicated here, and the main part of this soul has been turned into a demon, even if it is only a few remaining fragments, it is still extremely poisonous and polluted to those of us who are loyal.

"Psychic? No, it's too dangerous. Ah Wei objected first, "This person has just died, and his brain is still alive. As far as I know, extracting memories from the brain is also possible with the Cult of the Mechanicus. ”

"But that would need to go to the stronghold of the Cult of the Mechanicus like Mars, and we don't have the time." Eddie said.

On the one hand, I am almost not qualified to speak on such occasions, and on the other hand, if I can't come up with a clever enough opinion, I can be more intelligent by keeping silent, and I can't tell them directly, I used to be a shaman, and channeling was actually one of my jobs......

Aftron waved his hand to stop their argument, "The most important thing for us now is to find out the location of the enemy base, and we don't really need to use such a dangerous means as psychics for this. I'm a pretty good soothsayer, and I can do a more detailed scan of this galaxy. ”

After a pause, he continued: "I brought everyone together to concentrate everyone's strength and turn this hidden nest of chaos out. It doesn't matter if it's hidden under the planet's surface or in subspace. ”

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Due to the failure of the blind date again, the originally planned marriage plot is not in the mood to write it down for the time being, so let's continue to take the route of loveless war.

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