A black and gray human merchant ship sails through the cold, dead silence of space, its eight thrusters spewing flames and sailing at an even speed in the void. Beneath it are five planets of different colors, and the merchant ship is sailing away from the system and heading towards the Solar Field, the center of the Empire.

"You mean...... You were able to drive this merchant ship because...... You please the soul of this ship? ”

"Please be careful in your words and deeds, the soul is everywhere."

“…… You...... Seriously, right. ”

"Yes."

"Give it to me...... Demonstrate, please. ”

The armed merchant ship Hopper is actually a spaceship under the Alien Inquisition, with a total length of five kilometers, which can transport 100,000 tons of cargo when fully loaded, or the elite soldiers of a regiment. Given that Inquisitors often need to disguise themselves (most commonly being Rogue Traders), the Hopper was requisitioned to serve these bigwigs.

The captain was a middle-aged man whose edges had been smoothed out by the years, and since Lord Progaste had already instructed this to be a distinguished guest, and to meet all her requirements within the scope of his authority, he had no choice but to put aside his anxiety and give a careful demonstration to the mechanical.

"First of all, it's a rune that represents energy. And what we have to do is to please the soul of the ship with a set of correct prayer rituals. After the cleansing and oiling rituals, the machine spirit is ready, and then we need to ...... Press down on the energy rune, which is engraved with the magical rune script. ”

The metal button, painted red, did have a carved symbol on it, and the girl leaned over to see it, almost choking on her own saliva.

"This rune...... It's an on......."

“…… And then. All crew members are to communicate harmoniously with the spirit. And the most important part of this is to follow the standard prayer ritual. Start by chanting a prayer in praise of the machine spirit. Complete the entire operational process at the same time. ”

The brown-haired girl crossed her arms and her big eyes gurgling. I don't know what Lu Dao is thinking.

"So, what about the ship's engines and weapons?"

"In addition to ordinary vector thrusters, there are the most important subspace engines. After the ship jumps into subspace, our navigators communicate with the torch via the torch on sacred Earth as a beacon, and then gain a path through the chaos - in a week, we will be in the solar system - and there may be some fluctuations in time, as time can also be disturbed in the chaotic subspace. ”

"Ah...... It's funny. The mechanic rubbed his temples.

"This ship is equipped with four relatively concealed light spear batteries. It is enough to face the average enemy. After all, there are no other enemies worth mentioning in this galaxy except for a few groups of green-skinned orcs who are almost annihilated. ”

"Uh, greenskinned orcs?"

"Yes, a bunch of stupid and uneducated barbarians." The captain didn't seem to want to talk about the topic too much, "If there are no problems, we are going to enter subspace." Your first class cabin has been shown to you, then, if there are no other problems......"

At that moment, a shrill siren sounded throughout the ship.

"Lookout!" The captain could no longer afford to talk to this distinguished guest, and quickly used the communicator to contact the chief in charge of the lookout post.

【…… The orc ship was spotted behind the side...... Boulder level. Enemy psykers obscured the ship's radiation. It's been sneaked to within a light second. 】

“…… Artillery Captain! And your people into position and fire back! Casillas, how long do we have to start the subspace engine? ”

[Twenty minutes, Your Excellency.] 】

The previously peaceful and orderly order on the bridge has begun to fluctuate. The navigator who is held to a seat by countless pipes has a third eye between his eyebrows, which is said to be a common problem of the Navigator family, a mutation that allows them to communicate with the subspace more easily.

"Then let's fight! The God Emperor is above. May His wrath burn these green skins! ”

Before the words fell, the entire ship shook wildly. The Hopper had already been hit by a shell.

The orc spaceship that was a light-second away from this ship was a huge space meteorite. This galaxy has an asteroid belt that provides the crazed orcs with the best raw materials for their ships. This shoddy space vehicle is hollowing out the interior of a large asteroid. Then they were fitted with a mess of thrusters and turrets, and at the end they were painted red with something that I don't know if it was paint or blood—very much in line with the usual aesthetic of the green-skinned orcs.

"These green ......scum of the evil sun," the captain scolded, the shield of this ship is not a high-grade cargo, and it will be pierced if it is smashed twice, "Are the PDFs (planetary defense forces) on the ground all-eating!" Actually let them develop to make this kind of thing! ”

Before he finished speaking, there was another big earthquake. The ship's protective layer flickered and crumbled.

"Damn it......" the captain sat down in his place, "these barbarians ......"

In the cold space, in addition to the huge solid shells that were flying, there was also a group of small crimson space fighters flying towards the Hopper, some of which were burned to ashes by the ship's laser burst guns as they approached, while others flew to the thrusters at the stern of the merchant ship. As several tin missiles were fired (one of which exploded at the press of a button), the big guys swirled into the thrusters and exploded.

The fatal blow destroyed the stern armor of the merchant ship, and the mechanics frantically rushed to repair it, but all they could do was plug the hole that leaked wildly with steel plates. Dozens of sailors have fallen victim to the vacuum, corpses floating among shattered chambers and passageways, waiting for the next explosion and destruction.

The fearless Greenskin Flying Team relied on rudimentary techniques to scrap the merchant ship's propulsion power. But the Hopper also launched a powerful counterattack, and the two light spear batteries fired a salvo that accurately hit the sneaking attack of the "Rolling Rock". However, the crust of the rock was too thick to accomplish anything other than to fix the shape of the Rolling Rock.

As the harbor passage on the back of the Rolling Rock opened, more small red assault ships with bombs and full of orc boys shot at the Hopper. The distance between the two ships is still rapidly approaching, and it is now visible to the naked eye. The spears of light continued to bombard, but these powerful energy weapons were no longer as durable as they were in the golden age, and a spear of light had to be turned off due to overheating, and the mechanical priest was quickly repairing it.

Gang Jump!

The orc boys blow open the ship's shell with a hot melt bomb captured from the Planetary Guard, and the guys immediately rush into the cabin wielding machetes and sledgehammers, and the most brutal and bloody gang fight begins. Thousands of sailors took their weapons out of their arsenals and engaged in fierce battles with the wild orcs. Lasers and ion beams flickered in the ship's cabins and passages, and explosions and gunfire echoed all around.

Orcs are born with unspeakably strong bodies and thick skin and muscles, and they are more of a mixture of creatures and fungi than living beings, multiplying on spores and absorbing light energy - which is why their skin is green.

They are a natural race of mechanical engineering, the technology of the entire race is written in the genes, their only joy is war and destruction, and this highly creative race happily destroys this dark universe with its unique philosophy - the pure joy of battle, in a sense, is no different from some players in the human race who are addicted to war games.

Right on the bridge of the Rolling Rock, the galaxy's largest orc warlord litters the garbage. Iron Skull is standing in the captain's seat in full armor, the five-meter-tall green monster holding an exaggerated gun in his left hand (its favorite gun "Boom Boom"), a power claw capable of tearing through a tank (its love claw "Pinch Puck"), and a chainsaw machete pinned to his waist (its love knife ...... "Slash Slash", I think you have guessed).

Garbage littering. Iron Skull stood majestically in place, wondering if he was handsome enough to intimidate the little shrimp on the other side. As an orc warlord who has swept across the planet, trash. Iron Skull is arguably the greenest, largest, worst, and smartest of the hundreds of thousands of greenskins (to be verified by time, but at the moment everything smarter than him has been pinched to death).

As a member of the Evil Sun Clan, garbage littering. Iron Skull, like its skill boys, has a pathological obsession with the big bikes that can roar. And in space, he's after bigger, faster ships. Although the ship on the other side was not the big ship he wanted, the engines and thrusters on it could still be removed and reused......

"Little! Listen to me! Which broke the ship's thrusters! I'll fill the furnace with it! ”

"But...... Garbage littering king, if the assault boys don't blast that thruster off, the little shrimp on the opposite side will run away! "Its deputy, the second smartest wrench in the entire tribe, smashed in the face. Cautiously leaning over, he gave a wise advice, "That's all right! Blow up all the thrusters on the opposite side first, and then pull all the assault boys to fill the furnace, and that's it! ”

"Wow! It's a fool's errand, and it makes sense! "Littering. The iron skull flew the blind drum fan out of the dozens of meters with one claw, "But such a genius idea, would you not think of it when you are the most brained iron skull king on the entire planet——?! Little ones, knock this ship down first! And then slowly rectify! ”

The battle on the Hopper was in a state of decay, and when the captain began to think about abandoning ship and escaping, he found that the temporary guest had disappeared at some point. (To be continued......)

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