Chapter Seventy-One: The Prestige of Castle Mountain
"In the name of the fate of the Evil God and the Subspace, in the name of the Death of the False Emperor and the Dying Stars, we bring this gift to you, the Warlord Abaddon, the darling of Chaos, the spurned by all. For now is the end day when the final fire burns, the black fireworks that devour the galaxy, the subspace storm that drowns life, the final moment, and the dawn of the chaotic galaxy. We pledge our allegiance to the Chaos Gods and their messenger, Abaddon the Marauder, as a tribute to them in the hope that they will strike fear into the followers of the Corpse Emperor and make them see death in them. ”
- In the era of 41k, the Cult of the Mechanicus intercepted an encrypted message from the world of the Castronian mint.
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Fu Qinghai met with the casting agent in the captain's room.
The dark red burqa and hood, inlaid with gear-shaped moon white trim, underneath was an ordinary and young male face, but standing up straight was almost the same height as Fu Qinghai.
Like most technical priests, there are no flesh and bones left on their bodies. The four arms of this technical priest are all made of slender mechanical arthropods, and the four palms are different, pincer-shaped, clip-like, knuckle-shaped, and tentacle-shaped, and the whole person looks like a walking dentist's operating table.
Fu Qinghai quietly opened the perspective of the eyepiece and found that his abdomen had become a universal movable joint that could rotate 360 degrees, a rocket launch nest and a missile launch nest were hidden under his armpits, and a cutting laser emitter synchronized with vision was installed on top of his head...... This guy is simply a mechanical centipede full of weapons that stands up.
"Hello, Aoyama Khan."
The other party took the initiative to reach out his hand, with a smile on his face.
"Hello, Casting Agent."
Fu Qinghai shook hands with his mechanical tentacles.
"Are you here to assassinate me?"
After shaking hands, Fu Qinghai asked.
The technical priest was stunned for a moment, then explained with a smile:
"Haha, in that place in Karonia, the folk customs are a bit tough, and the security is not very good, so there are a little more weapons with me, I hope the Khan doesn't mind."
There are more than 100 million points...... Fu Qinghai was noncommittal.
The other man continued:
"Let me introduce myself, my name is Xiao Fei, Xiao from Shawshank, and Fei from Blind Kiba Fei. That's right, like you, Chinese, reincarnated. ”
I see.
There are not many players anchoring the Warhammer 40k universe, and almost all those who take the route of the interstellar marines have already entered Fu Qinghai's path, but it is the first time that Fu Qinghai has encountered the reincarnation of the Mechanic God Cult route to become a technocratic priest.
"As for how I found you, it's simple."
Xiao Fei took out a rocket-shaped glass bottle from his bosom, which contained a dark amber liquid, and said:
"A ronin merchant from the Hazy Star Domain gave me a bottle of this thing, and when I saw it, I knew that Aoyama Khan of the Marquez King District, the leader of the Battle Troupe of the Iron Floating Massacre, was a reincarnation."
Xiao Fei's clamp arm clamped the bottle body, and the clamp arm sensitively picked open the bottle cap, and with a "pop", a trace of white gas came out of the bottle mouth, approached the tip of his nose and took a deep breath, and said:
"Ahh
Fu Qinghai returned to his seat and sat down, pointed to the sofa in front of him, and said:
"So, Mr. Xiao Fei, the casting agent, has found my battle group thousands of miles away, what is the matter?"
Xiao Fei didn't need to turn around, inside the hem of the red robe, those black mechanical tentacles as dense as sea anemone tentacles began to "click" on the floor, supporting his body to move backwards, and then sat on the sofa.
"That's right, Aoyama...... It's okay for me to call you that, right? ”
Fu Qinghai raised his hand and motioned for him to continue.
"Do you know the world of Castrynia?"
Xiao Fei asked.
Fu Qinghai shook his head:
"I don't know."
It's not just that I don't know about it, it's that I haven't heard of it at all.
"And have you ever heard of the Punisher Titan?"
Xiao Fei then asked.
Punisher Titans?
Fu Qinghai fell into deep thought.
He had only heard of the War Dog Titan, the Marauder Titan, the Warlord Titan, the Warlord Titan, and the Emperor Titan...... There are different models under different levels, but none of them have heard of a ...... called the "Punisher Titan"
Wait a minute!
Fu Qinghai suddenly remembered a lex translation entry about Titan that he had accidentally glimpsed.
Fu Qinghai suddenly raised his head and said:
"The source of all the legendary Imperial Titans, the Ancient Relic Titan from the Age of Dark Technology!?"
Xiao Fei smiled and nodded: "That's right." ”
He pointed at Fu Qinghai and smiled:
"You're a veteran hammer, Aoyama!"
Fu Qinghai thought to himself, I'm not as senior as you.
Why Fu Qinghai hasn't seen a reincarnation who takes the route of the Mechanic God Cult, the reason is very simple, not every player can accept transforming himself into a half-human and half-mechanical cyber monster. Completely abandoning human aesthetics and completely throwing himself into the arms of the machine god is probably going to have to be a very hardcore Warhammer 40k enthusiast to make this determination.
Fu Qinghai's mind was full of thoughts, and he suddenly asked:
"So, that legendary 'Punisher' Titan is buried in the ground of the Castany Forge World?"
Xiao Fei nodded lightly.
There is an important reason why Fu Qinghai is so impressed by the "Punisher-class Titans" that he glimpses in the lex entry: the unique shape and aesthetic style of the Titan Legion of the Mechanicus Cult used to be very interesting to him.
The Titan is like the Warhammer 40K Gundam, in other sci-fi IPs, the Mecha Gundam is a simulated humanoid, and the Titan is also a simulated humanoid, but it is a rickety hunchbacked humanoid - the Titan's head is located in front of the fuselage, and the top of the head is level with the shoulders.
This is true from the smallest Titan, the Knight Titan, to the largest, the Emperor.
(The Knight-level Titan is actually a bit reluctant to count as a Titan unit, it is piloted by a single person, the size is not much larger than the Dreadnought Mech of the Space Marine, and it cannot be equipped with a Void Shield, so it is not impossible to count it as a mecha unit.) )
However, the appearance of the Punisher Titans is different from that of a standard Imperial Titan, with its head protruding from its chest and instead of its shoulders.
It is rumored to be a Titan created during the Dark Tech Age, the original Titan design, and all existing Titan models are nothing more than shattered results of attempts to replicate the Punisher-class Titan.
Of all known Titans, the Punisher Titan is not only unique in appearance, but also the only Titan that is completely controlled by artificial intelligence.
In other words, even GW officials have admitted that putting the head on the shoulders and holding the chest up instead of hunched back is the correct design concept for the Titan.
Fu Qinghai finally recalled the relevant information about this mysterious titan.
"So, you're here for me, for?"
Fu Qinghai looked at Xiao Fei and asked.
Xiao Fei didn't answer this question directly, but changed the topic and said:
"Let me tell you about the history and future of the Caston Forge World, Aoyama."
Xiao Fei coughed lightly, cleared the oil sticking to his throat, and said slowly:
"This is a forged world that has existed since the Dark Tech Age, so there are many technological relics on it, including this Punisher Titan."
"When I remembered its existence, I immediately applied for a transfer from Mars to Calonia, I learned Titan manufacturing technology on Mars, so I am very obsessed with this relic Titan."
"Since I kept bringing back some technology from other reincarnation worlds before, and claiming to be the 'relic technology' I found in archaeology, my promotion within the Cult of the Mechanicus is quite fast, but I don't dare to share my discovery of the Punisher-level Titan with anyone, an AI-controlled ancient relic Titan, is too heretical, and I'm afraid it will be taken away."
"Although the ascension speed is quite fast, I am still just a 'casting agent', I am not the casting director, and I do not have my own intelligent control corps and armed machine servant troops......"
"The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty. I wanted to study this Relic Titan alone until I had gathered enough power to protect it...... But that's been too long, I'm not a Space Marine, I'm just a technocracy, it took Belisarius Kaur 10,000 years to become the Grand Sage, how long does it take me to be an ordinary technocracy? ”
"But I can't wait! I have read lex translations and I know the future of Carbonia. One day in the future, it will be enveloped and engulfed by a sudden subspace rift, and fall into the hands of the Black Army, and the AI on the Titan will be corrupted by demons in their allegiance to Abaddon the Marauder. ”
"I don't know when this day will come, I only know that after a thousand years of being shrouded in the subspace rift, Caronia will return to the real universe."
"So I have to transfer the Punisher Titan out as soon as possible, but if I transfer it to another casting world, this relic Titan won't belong to me, so ......"
Xiao Fei looked up at Fu Qinghai.
"So you thought of me?"
Fu Qinghai asked.
"Yes." Xiao Fei nodded:
"You and I are both players, we can cooperate, you have guns and soldiers in your hands, you can protect the Relic Titan, so that I can continue my research with peace of mind without being disturbed by the outside world, and if there is progress in research, we will share the research results."
"What do you think?"
Xiao Fei asked with a sincere face.
"In the original book, this relic Titan fell into the hands of Abaddon? But I don't see a new type of Titan on the side of the Chaos forces, do I? ”
Fu Qinghai first raised the first question.
"Because this Punisher-level Titan was later destroyed by the Gray Knight, the Cult of the Dark Mechanics finally didn't have time to disassemble and study it."
Xiao Fei explained.
Cooperation, can be, but ......
Fu Qinghai then raised a second question:
"You don't even know who I am, so you revealed such important information to me, aren't you afraid that I will turn my face?"
肖飞 says:
"I inquired about you in Terra and knew that your name was Aoyama Khan, and I suspected that the 'Aoyama' in the Perfect Human Bounty Wanted was you, and then I saw what other players were saying about you on the Samsara forum, and those comments were ...... It's pretty high, so I wanted to try it. ”
"What other players say about me?"
Do I still have such a reputation?
Fu Qinghai was even more puzzled:
"What evaluation?"
Xiao Fei repeated the players' evaluations.
Fu Qinghai understood.
His armor image has been diffused by Perfect Human, and players who have dealt with him before have recognized him.
The fake princess on the Moradi Gang, the hostile players in the Shipwreck, and the hapless lich and super mutant from the Resident Evil Cinematic Universe......
They have left comments under the post of Perfect Humanity's bounty wanted warrant, which cannot be said to be a completely positive evaluation, but the caliber is still very uniform:
Aoyama is very greedy, but very trustworthy.
If he catches you, he will drain you of all your intelligence, equipment, and assimilation points, but if he promises to let you go, then he will really let you go, and he won't suddenly turn back and kill people.
Fu Qinghai thought back slightly, it seemed that this was really the case.
In fact, if he wanted to maximize profits, Fu Qinghai forced the information out, snatched all the equipment, and then extorted the assimilation points, he could kill the reincarnator in one fell swoop, so that he could earn another kill reward, but he finally chose to keep his promise.
He said, "As long as it is, I will not kill you".
If the other party cooperates, then it really didn't kill.
Now, the players who were let go by him have come out to evaluate his style of acting, and the words are generally positive and praised.
Keeping his promise became his label.
Is this what it is called...... Reputation?
Fu Qinghai shook his head and smiled.
He hadn't thought much of it at the time.
"Okay, I'm basically agreeing to your proposal."
Fu Qinghai said to Xiao Fei:
"I'll send a fleet to transport that Punisher Titan to the Phaeton Forge World."
He took a deep look at the technical priest:
"Hope we have a good time together?"
Xiao Fei nodded seriously:
"Of course."
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Suzheng, the combat conference room.
"How's the fleet doing?"
"The flagship of the warband, the battle barge Suzheng, the losses caused by the previous battle have all been repaired. The three strike cruisers, the Burning Horse, the Steed and the War Horse, have all been repaired and refitted, their broadside numbers and liveries have been replaced, and their crews are fully equipped and ready to go. ”
"Good."
In fact, there was also a frigate cruiser captured by the Midnight Lord from the Imperial Navy, but because the battleship was not equipped with two major facilities, the teleportation deck and the airborne launch port, it was considered ineligible for a strike cruiser, and Fu Qinghai gave it to Shi Weilin Nest as a space orbital defense force.
"Jostar, Tristan, and Camille, the three of you lead the first, second, and seventh companies of the Space Marines, as well as the Battle Barge, to escort an Imperial transport ship to the world of the Caronian Forge and bring back the Punisher-class Titans."
"Yes, Khan!"
Fu Qinghai ordered.
"Relic technology is a big deal, and we must be vigilant throughout the whole process, and there must be no mistakes."
Fu Qinghai admonished.
"Understood, Khan!"
"In addition, the Ministry of Military Affairs has recently issued several orders."
"There are traces of green-skinned pirates in the Kronos expansion area, and we are required to go to investigate, Lin Yu led the third company and a strike cruiser to see what the situation is."
"Yes, Khan."
"The subspace storm in Octarius has dissipated, and a hive world has returned to the Empire's vision, asking us to confirm if that hive has been corrupted by Chaos. Karamanda and Sutterfaran, with the 5th and 6th companies and a strike cruiser, went to check on the situation. ”
"Yes, Khan."
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One by one, orders were given.
That's what happens every day in the Astarte Warband.
There is almost never a time to be idle.
The human empire is always facing a variety of threats.
And, unlike the traditional mortal troops, I've never heard of Astarte thinking that a thousand soldiers are too little, and I've never heard of Astarte going to war on empty pay.
Astarte, a tool designed for warfare, certainly has seven emotions and six desires, but the way desires are displayed is different from that of mortals, and their adherence to loyalty and duty surpasses most armies in ancient, modern, and modern times.
Fu Qinghai's thinking is not the same as that of ordinary interstellar soldiers, but since he has the supplies of the Ministry of Military Affairs, he naturally has to obey the dispatch of the Ministry of Military Affairs, not to mention, it is the meaning of the existence of the interstellar marines to protect the survival of all mankind.
"Also, I'm here to announce a thing."
Fu Qinghai cleared his throat and said:
"After that, I will leave for a while, and during the time I leave, Qiao Shida will temporarily act as the head of the war regiment, Lin Yu will be his adjutant, and the others will be at their orders and dispatches."
Everyone present was stunned.
"Away for a while? What do you mean? ”
Joshida asked first, puzzled.
"It means to leave for a while."
Fu Qinghai waved his hand and said:
"You don't have to worry, I'll be back soon after I've dealt with things, just do as I say."
Fu Qinghai promised Zhang Yuning that the plan he wanted to accompany her to complete should now be put on the agenda.
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------Off topic------
Thanks, tz, love cocoa, boy, cow, joy, honest little white army for the reward.
The supernatural part won't be very long, and it should be over in a chapter or two, and seeing the Titan appear, book friends may be able to guess what the next volume is.