Chapter 1274 The Dragons Gather in the Land of Right and Wrong
More than fifty days of Terraday are nothing to interstellar travel.
The people on the Buzhoushan are in good spirits. The delegates were even a little overjoyed. Lately they've gotten hooked on 'exploring' games, wandering around, and Kane knows that there might be a reason for the tasks assigned by their respective bosses, but he goes with them.
Except for the limited private cabins, the rest of the ship can be visited, including the life and training facilities of the wizards of order, as well as the MA maintenance warehouse.
As a fortress ship, the combat system of the Buzhoushan is divided into three parts.
First of all, there are all kinds of shipborne weapons, from light spears to laser arrays, from missiles to space torpedoes, from electromagnetic railguns to ion guns.
The second is the carrier-based weapon, but unlike the aircraft carrier, the main carrier-based weapon of the Buzhoushan is the MA, which is a mobile fortress that is more suitable for performing various complex tasks than a heavy fighter.
There are also boat-class aircraft, reconnaissance boats, medical boats, and shuttles in place of shuttles.
Buzhoushan is too large, and entering and exiting the atmosphere is a great burden and laborious for its keel and attitude control system, so it generally does not land on the surface of the planet, but acts as a synchronous satellite in high orbit.
That's why shuttles are necessary. It has more military characteristics than ordinary shuttles, with thicker armor, more pulling, better performance, and safer, but slightly uglier and larger.
The third part is the Interstellar Marine Corps.
The Sorcerer of Order, that's it.
In addition to them, there are also ghost special forces.
Ghost special forces are two different things from ghost agents, they are more like special forces soldiers who use ghost energy in the SC universe, good at lurking, infiltrating, reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, and are also marksmen.
There is also a section called the Starship Paratroopers. Just listen to the name, you know, it's the stalk of {Star Troopers}, Kane even deliberately named it 'Hard Bone Company', and the external image is also relatively similar, but it's just similar in appearance, after all, if it's really a group of big-headed soldiers wearing modular armor, it doesn't match the other units of the Interstellar Marine Corps at all, and it's completely cumbersome.
Therefore, Kane's starship paratroopers, who are not considered human beings at all, are all fierce.
In addition to the combat part, the Buzhoushan also carried a non-combat team, including maintenance, construction, communications, and other logistics parts, which could be realized through this organization called the engineering regiment.
Xinxiangxing's artificial moon, heavy industry base, and other projects were completed by the engineering team, and its ability can be seen.
Coupled with the crew of the Buzhoushan itself, there are all kinds of people, and the number of people exceeds 7,000.
However, for the Buzhoushan, which has a total length of more than 12 kilometers, even if there are 7,000 people living in it, the interior still seems very empty, and except for some specific areas, there are basically no people in sight.
The tranquil life on board ends with the arrival of the destination.
All are preparing.
Do a big job.
Gradius, whose name was given to the Ultramarines known as the Romans of space, means fighting sword, a glabrato commonly found in gladiatorial arenas.
It was named because of the abundance of content on this planet.
From tundra to desert, from tropical jungle to lava Gobi, there are all kinds of environments.
From the Katachan Devil to the Krut Hound, from the Soul Eater to the Soul Reaper, from the Chaos Fanatic to the Gene Stealer Hybrid, there is a variety of species.
Illuminated by the light of the stars, Gradius looks like a large colorful bead from space, due to its extremely complex topography.
To Kane's senses, this is a planet full of restless life.
The reason for the restlessness is mainly that the path of derivation is too eager, and before the first stage is completed, it has entered the second stage.
Kane naturally knew the reason behind this, the space undead.
The Space Marines, who are known for their well-informed, feel that this is a rotten place and do not want to stay for long.
Of course, they didn't know enough about the place at that time, and they just followed the advice of the priests and think tanks in the warband.
Another reason why they didn't use this as a home world or a recruiting ground was because they were an extreme warrior regiment, and they already had five hundred worlds, which was not bad for cultivating reserves in such a harsh natural environment.
But they still reported the matter to the empire in accordance with the charter.
Then, the ignorant and fearless + unbelieving Empire pioneers came, and of course the Imperial Guard.
This happened 300,000 years later. At that time the empire of mankind was filled with strange restlessness, because of one man, Saint Balius.
Balius emerged as a highly influential figure in the redemptive state purge of the Age of Redemption.
He commanded the 'purification' force, which consisted of the Astarte Monks, to purge those he deemed heretical or unclean.
In the year 321 of the 37th millennium, he judged thirty Astarte monks to lack faith, and the punishment for this was to let them enter the battle of the Eye of Fear.
This is the most famous expedition to the abyss in the history of the empire.
In the early 38th millennium, the leader of the Piercing Sword Warband, one of the thirty warbands involved in the expedition to the Abyss, Conwak Rann, led the survivors of the expedition out of the Eye of Fear.
According to its statements, the expeditionary force purified at least 400 worlds.
What's even more amazing is that he has enough evidence to prove that Balius is actually a Cultist of Chaos!
At that time, Balius had been dead for many years.
It is the special nature of the Space Marines, as well as the special nature of subspace, that allows many people in the expeditionary force to return after more than seven hundred years.
As a result of Ran's final accusation, Balius's remarks and statements during his lifetime were all considered heretical. The followers of the faction he had founded were slaughtered, and the remains and relics of Balius himself were loaded onto a cargo ship, which ended in a star.
The empire's pioneers came to Gradius from far and wide to colonize, and the connection with Balius is that it was Balius who proposed "purification" and the concept of "exhilarating" to restore the glory of the emperor in his heyday, starting with the courage to explore and take risks.
This can be said to be a pure disregard for the objective fact that the empire's technology and even civilization are regressing, so that the empire can use its already stretched strength to open up new and unknown territories. To put it bluntly, it's hard to die.
Because of this, there is the development of a world like Gradius, which is outside the scope of the star's torch.
To say that it is not too far from the range of the star torch, it is not too far, less than a hundred light years.
However, in fact, since this 100 light years cannot be navigated in subspace, it will only be possible to reach it in years at the normal cruising speed of an Imperial ship.
It can be said that if something goes wrong, even if Gradius's colonists are slaughtered, the reinforcements are likely to be on the way.
But the pioneers of the empire still came.
Not only because of the ill-intentioned orders, but also because the human beings of the empire are really the head iron.
To be fair, the external image of the human empire is really ordinary, and it can be simply summed up as greedy, domineering, and death-loving.
And the imperial officials are also slow to respond to the tricks of the pioneers, and they are to be ignored.
1 Because there are so many people in the empire.
2 is long past the early stage of cautious interstellar colonization.
3. It is the decay and dereliction of duty of the official institutions.
In such a context, it is natural that it is easy to go wrong.
But the empire is not afraid, there are defense forces.
What is the concept of the Imperial Defense Force? The annual conscription of all branches of the armed forces is calculated in tens of billions.
It's so much that it's jaw-dropping.
Therefore, before the appearance of the Tyranid Zerg, when the Milky Way talked about defeating the enemy by quantity, it generally referred to humans.
Even the mushroom fields of the Orcs are no match for humans.
After all, from the mode of reproduction to the scale, there is a clear gap between the orcs who like to fight and war, and the humans who like farming.
It is precisely because of this that the Gothic War is more famous in history, because it is relatively rare, and human beings win more with less.
It was precisely because of the sheer number of massacres that massacres became commonplace, and the systematic and senseless sacrifices of the Imperial Defence Army were repeated, and more often than not, they were thrown into unwinnable battles.
Therefore, the rulers of the Warhammer 40K Human Empire have authority beyond the human rulers of other worlds, and the lives of ordinary people are lighter than mustard is not an adjective but an objective statement.
Even the well-informed Kane is a little unaccustomed to this kind of wanton squandering of human life, it stands to reason that he is the creator who destroyed a universe with his own hands, but there are some things that he really can't learn.
Representatives of the various institutions of the empire also gradually noticed this characteristic of Kane. So he paid special attention when he spoke, and no longer showed the attitude of contempt for human life.
And inside, they don't understand this characteristic of Kane very well. Because Kane didn't show any mercy when he killed people. In particular, there is no mercy in the slaughter of the educated, statused, and capable social elites. This is particularly scary, after all, they themselves can also be classified in this category.
In the cognition of these representatives, the social elite is the backbone that supports a population and a high level of civilization. Moreover, compared with the vast number of sentient beings, the elite always seems too few, and they deserve to be treated preferentially, and even cherished, even if they make mistakes, they should be given the opportunity to make amends.
This kind of practice, even in the long history of the empire, is extremely rare, and those who have done similar things have basically been nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
However, in Kane's eyes, history was written by the literati, and the literati ...... How to say it, in this world, there are several things that can be compared, the love words of the cousin, the promise of the addict, and the style of the literati.
As for why he favored the untouchables, Kane felt that there was a misunderstanding here.
The point of misunderstanding is that in the eyes of many social elites or upper-class people, most of the living beings are untouchables.
Stupidity, short-sightedness, greed, and petty burghers or peasants of treachery and ferocity.
These are the people who evaluate the untouchables, and they basically pay attention to this.
Kane's perspective is a bit peculiar, and he's looking out for the other two.
1. Production. Whether it's digging in the soil, working in a factory, or running a small business, it counts.
2. Work diligently. For survival, for the sake of the family, for the sake of a good life, for the dream of so-and-so...... The reason is not particularly important, the important thing is hard work, and conscientiousness.
If you meet these two rules, you are a good citizen, not a pariah.
And he has experienced so many worlds and found a phenomenon, that is, the most vulnerable people, it is precisely such good people, but the real untouchables, opportunistic people, who believe in the "those who make money do not suffer, and those who suffer do not make money", have a very high adaptability, can always avoid disasters through various methods, or reduce losses, and it will not be long before they can change their faces and make a comeback.
He even believes that this kind of so-called 'brainy-minded' opportunists in the eyes of some people are precisely the main source of chaotic believers and cultists.
It is precisely because of this that he has been ruthless to such people, and even cultists and the like, to those involved in the underworld.
Although the underworld is a bastard, it talks about rules, and most opportunists don't talk about any rules!
Kane knows this well.
After all, most reincarnators are opportunists. He was also one of them back then, but he was still guarding some bottom lines, but he had seen too many peers who didn't recognize all his relatives from style to pace.
And the Gradius people in front of him, although they are unruly, but in his eyes, they are good people.
"Myras, I noticed your hands, with large joints and calluses, and fingers that were visibly deformed. I also noticed your rough and oily face, skin, and hair. ”
Kane looked at the back of his eyes unconsciously a little rickety, and covered the panicked old man in his heart with an expression of a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, his voice was calm and his tone was light.
"These traits of yours remind me of what my father was like in my memory. Therefore, I know that you are not the kind of leader who directs others to do the work with his waist, but the kind that takes people with them and sometimes does more than others. ”
"Also, during the slow landing of the shuttle, I noticed some details about the town. I know that behind the seemingly good thing here is the hard work. There are no idlers, no enjoyment, everyone has to work, and careful work is the norm. ”
"What I have observed is the evidence of what you have just said, and it is the main reason why I am willing to forgive you for your pretense of rudeness. Again, I have not come to collect the tithes that you owe for many years, but to give, and though I have not come specifically for this purpose, it must be said that my presence will bring you many benefits. For example, safety!"
As he spoke, Kane stretched out his hand, as if there was some kind of suction, and one of the entourage behind the mayor stumbled and fell into Kane's hands.
With just one hand, Kane locked one of the opponent's arms.
The man was caught off guard, let out a strange high-pitched roar, and struggled with all his might.
His strength is also beyond imagination.
As the saying goes, power is born from the ground. If you want to make a sudden impact, you often need to start by stepping on the ground.
And this person exerted his strength, and he directly shattered the stone slab on the ground.
You must know that the stone slabs used in the town are rough and heavy, and even the Astarte monks may not be able to trample them apart without wearing power armor.
Of course, even then, it is impossible to break free from Kane's shackles.
Kane was like a stake tethered to a behemoth, unmoving.
And this person couldn't break free, and at the same time realized that his performance was not a person, and immediately changed into a different appearance, showing anger, panic and grievances that matched his appearance, pouting and asking the mayor for help: "Uncle......"
The mayor didn't know what Kane was doing all of a sudden, he was stunned at first, and then he was about to speak angrily, when he saw Kane's free hand, just a relaxed pinch, and a pull, he tore off the young man's chin in his hand, along with the front of his neck, and part of his chest.
It feels as if the young man in his hands is papier-mâché!
But even if people are papier-mâché, what about clothes?
The very sturdy leather hunting suit was ripped off at the same time, which was very inconsistent.
Of course, the people at the scene were more attracted by Kane's brutal operation and didn't have time to delve into this weirdness.
The young man's front flesh was torn off such a large piece, which was naturally abnormal pain, and he struggled instinctively, but because he was locked too firmly, he could only make convulsive movements.
It is precisely because of this that everyone who watches it feels worried and hurts for each other.
In addition, there was not much blood spatter.
Some people with common sense know that the human body is a semi-liquid skin, and once it is broken, the blood gushes out very violently.
But in front of me, it seems that the blood has been basically drained in advance, and the torn red muscles and white tendons are real, very fresh, and the broken blood vessels can also be seen, but there is not much blood.
Kane, on the other hand, showed the casual delegates in a public way, and explained: "It's already the fourth generation of hybrids, referred to as F4, and it's not easy to distinguish them from their appearance, but there are still some characteristics." Notice that one is pale skin, and the other is an overdeveloped forehead. Although it is rare among human beings, there are also similar ones. Therefore, when you see such characteristics, you can only say that you are suspicious, but you can't completely confirm them. ”
"In addition, pay attention to their skin, see no, there is a little bit of pigskin feeling, thicker and tougher, because of the dense texture, the pores are not developed enough, so they generally have less hair, and there are a lot of bald heads. ”
"But if you want to confirm it, you have to look at the body structure. Look at this bone, normal people's ribs are not so wide and dense, this is already a bone plate, which can better protect the organs, but the attached muscles are not visible......"
Kane just gave a live lecture.
And the theme of the lecture was greeted by the delegates in advance, the joking title of chicken thief and gene thief.
Although the title is joking, the matter is definitely worth paying attention to.
Although the Gene Thief is only one type of the Tyranid, they are good at infiltrating behind enemy lines.
They often spend hundreds of years infiltrating and infiltrating, developing secret cults and stealthily wielding authority. It is not necessarily a high-ranking official, most of them are front-line real positions, just for the sake of being able to cooperate with the outside when the 'Wang Shi' arrives.
This is a tactful and blasphemous enemy, and the favorite is the world of the nest.
If you were to write several identification tags for the 41st millennium of the Human Empire, the chicken thief would be one of them. The damage they have caused to the human empire, and the harm they have caused, is enormous.
What Kane wants to tell the bigwigs of various departments of the empire is that with the operation habits of chicken thieves, this time period has begun to lurk, and then it will only exert force hundreds of years later, and once it is clear, it is often incurable.
However, there is no basis for his words, and it just so happened that he knew that Gradius had such a thing, so he let the deputies by the way, and let the bigwigs see it for a long time through the live broadcast.
In front of him, this is a sleepy pillow, and this chicken thief is also bold, not only mixed in with the human group, but also dares to follow the local officials to welcome the people of the empire. This is obviously treating this world as a bag, and other forces cannot be touched.