Chapter 303: Crystal Statue

The halls of the battleship Vengeance are inhabited by countless horrors, and the Black Legion has known for a long time. Knowing this, Cayan dared to lure the Parasitic Legion and the Black Templar Jumper, the flagship of the Legion, and he wanted to use the contents of the Vengeful Spirit to bury his enemies.

There are all sorts of bizarre mutations pervasive in the depths of the battleship, and they continue unnoticed and uncontrolled for many hours, sometimes even a generation. Lowly and lowly mutant clans or beastmen tribes may survive in these places, but the deepest decks often mean undue danger and hostility to ordinary mortals.

After all, the Glory Queen-class battleship is so big that it's not an exaggeration to say it's comparable to a city. Many areas of the ship were not under the actual control of the Black Legion, but were occupied by something indescribable, with the Black Legion's crew controlling only the core areas of the battleship, and some other areas being left unattended, forming a strange balance between the well and the river.

There have been squads and warbands assigned to cleanup and scout, but not all of them have returned safely. Those fortunate enough to return mention that an ecosystem of creatures and demons is thriving in the deepest areas, where the air has turned to a poisonous miasma and the walls have become wriggling caverns of undulating flesh and blood, sprouting crystals from the surface of human bones.

That's what Warhammer 40K Universe is all about.

A battleship is indeed your battleship.

But something in a battleship.

It's not entirely up to you.

The legionnaires of the Black Legion are fighting against the boarding force of Daravik in such a hall passage, and they are also fighting against the hall passage itself. After both sides were wounded and fell, the Space Marines were either devoured by the battleship itself or devoured by demons committed to the flexible skeleton of the battleship.

Strange mutated creatures that had lost all their genetic purity centuries ago emerged from the walls of the ship like ghosts, spraying smoking, black bile like cuttlefish at the interstellar marines on both sides of the war, and these psionic inks floated in the air like water to swell and corrode armor.

A horde of blind and lost, sun-blind species rose up against the parasitic legion of Space Marines, who were forced to slash down the dehydrated, shriveled husks as they stood in their way. The severed corpses, which were only partially flesh and skin, fell to the ground screaming and scratching at the iron boots of the Space Marines.

These mutated creatures are not powerful, but they have a supernatural tenacity that makes the Jumpers tired of them - but the most difficult thing to deal with is not the ordinary bilge mutants, but the Chaos Demons that occupy the bodies of the mutated creatures and the structures attached to the battleship.

These never-born monsters have built their own nests in this suffocating darkness. The chaotic thoughts they emanate oppress the nerves of the Space Marines, filling their perceptions with stupid hunger and morbid despair. The mere need to avoid being tainted by demonic primal impulses and focus on battle has left many Space Marines with a headache and sweat.

On the other side of the battlefield, on the port side of the Spirit of Vengeance, Fu Qinghai was also passing through these "obstacles". However, for him, after experiencing the baptism of the triple psionic plague of the father of the Great Demon Plague of Nurgle, these mutated creatures and Chaos demons hidden in the cabin of the Vengeful Spirit were really nothing—he really was swimming in the maggot pit and dung sea in the first place.

Fu Qinghai's jumping torpedo hit a bit unfortunately, as soon as he stepped into the passage, he fell into the encirclement of mutated creatures and Chaos demons, but compared to the difficulty of the Chaos Space Marine's action, these miscellaneous monsters could not cause him the slightest interference.

The elusive subspace creatures that hide inside the walls are nowhere to be found in the psionic eyepieces. Without waiting for them to suddenly appear to attack, Fu Qinghai directly raised his hand and grabbed it, and pulled the spirit out of the wall hard, holding the screaming and struggling spirit with his claws and putting it in his mouth and chewing it heavily.

Fu Qinghai walked while eating, destroying the withering and cutting melons and vegetables, and quickly cleared this area. Killing these mutated creatures, Chaos Demons, and Subspace creatures does not earn Assimilation Points - indicating that they are inside the Vengeful Spirits but are not part of the Black Legion. However, it can replenish the consumption of the Goblin Warframe in previous battles to a certain extent.

Due to disorderly modifications and psionic contamination, the Vengeful Spirit's passage structure has become comparably more complex than that of the Eternal Crusade. Fu Qinghai could only follow a general direction, he firmly believed that even if Abaddon was not on the bridge, the other key members of the Black Legion would definitely be there, and as long as he reached the bridge, he could kill the core leadership of the Black Legion.

After killing many mutated creatures and passing through several corridors, Fu Qinghai finally encountered the first group of Chaos Space Marines under a towering dome decorated entirely of warm white jade. As soon as the two sides met each other and didn't say a word, they started fighting directly, and the explosive bombs were dense like rain, and clusters of flames and shrapnel exploded on the shell of his battle armor, and Fu Qinghai quickly slaughtered this group of traitors.

However, it wasn't until the explosive bomb hit his shoulder armor and bounced to the top, and a pile of fragments fell in front of him, twisting up the debris to take a closer look, that Fu Qinghai suddenly realized that the "white jade dome" above his head was actually all made of dense human teeth - he didn't know what kind of desecration rituals and cruel torture the traitors had performed in this hall.

【You killed the Parasitic Legion Space Marines】

【Assimilation Point Reward ...... Calculating】

A series of cold prompts sounded.

The names of the enemy factions were somewhat unexpected to him.

"The Parasitic Legion has jumped to the gang too?"

Fu Qinghai opened the white suitcase and muttered to himself.

The silver-gray granular liquid gushed out along the mouth of the box again, quickly outlining the appearance of the power battle armor. Without Fu Qinghai's further orders, the Blue Shell Power Armor immediately transformed into an apothecary form, then crouched down on one knee, pierced into the bone diamond, and began to collect the genetic seeds in the corpses of each Chaos Space Marines one by one.

Collect the Gene Seeds.

Fu Qinghai continued to push forward.

He encounters countless Chaos Space Marines, he kills the World Eater and Alpha, kills the Children of a Thousand Sores and the Death Guard, and he kills the warriors of the Children of Horus - pinching his neck until his claws crush the neck armor into his throat, then smash his head on the deck. He killed the Midnight Lord, the Emperor's Son, and the Iron Warrior...... Each of the nine traitor legions has Space Marines turned into wailing ghosts under his claws.

Sometimes, like a rhinoceros on a rampage, he rushes into a narrow passage and slashes down all living creatures that move. Sometimes, like a patient lurking tarantula, he crawls quietly with the claws of his fingertips and the hooks of his bat's wings to cling to the cables and pipes of the ceiling, and then descends from the sky into the enemy's ranks.

A claw plunged into the mouth of a Space Marine in spiked armor, ripped off his entire jaw and visor with a single pull, turned and slashed another person into a stick, and the screams that came out of the traitor's throat as his jaw was ripped off his head.

There are many horror legends circulating in the Vengeful Spirit, but Aoyama Khan is even more terrifying than all the horror legends, enough to become a nightmare in this enchanted battleship.

[You killed the Black Legion Space Marine]

【Assimilation Point Reward ...... Calculating】

【You killed the Parasitic Legion Space Marines】

【Assimilation Point Reward ...... Calculating】

For Fu Qinghai, the biggest advantage of this gang jumping operation is that there is no need to distinguish between friend and foe, all living creatures seen in the spirit of revenge can be killed without screening, and the reincarnation world will almost give assimilation points rewards - at most, there is no reward but it will not be deducted. There doesn't seem to be a single person in this battleship who belongs to the human empire camp anymore.

There is no innocent person.

"Master, I have a discovery that needs to be reported."

Behind him, the power armor suddenly spoke.

"What discovery?"

Fu Qinghai stopped and gasped and turned his head to ask, with broken corpses piled up at his feet.

The Blue Shell Power Armor raised the medical needle in its arm, and a slightly dull voice came from the loudspeaker:

"A genetic seed has just been harvested, and according to the genetic comparison and matching data provided by Master Quintor for the Astarte Legion, it is confirmed that this genetic seed belongs to the Dark Angel Legion. I think there is something unusual about this sample, so it is necessary to report to you to remind you to pay attention, and the report is done. ”

Dark Angel's genetic seed?

How can there be dark angels here?

Fu Qinghai was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

Immediately, he reacted:

"Fallen Angel!"

Abaddon's Black Legion includes not only Space Marines from the Nine Renegade Legions, but also traitors from the Loyal Star Marine Legion! The most famous traitor in the Legion of Allegiance is the Little Secret of the First Legion, the Fallen Angels. This discovery is not surprising, the fallen angels can be said to be everywhere, they are behind all kinds of conspiracies, and it is normal to choose to join the Black Army.

Aoyama Khan still has a little bit of a bottom line and discipline, and he never collects the genetic seeds of friendly Space Marines during battle. Iron Float had fought alongside the two Legions of the Blood Angels, the Flesh Rippers and the Bloodthirsty, and had not collected their genetic seeds. After the death of the Black Templar, Fu Qinghai didn't touch their genetic seeds.

But this situation will not last long, as long as the Iron Float Warband sticks to the basic strategy of obtaining genetic seeds from traitors, sooner or later they will all collect the genetic seeds of the loyal Star Marine Legion - because traitors will have to use pure genetic seeds to create new Star Marines. And in the next 10,000 years, loyal Space Marines have also mutinied, bringing pure genetic seeds to Chaos.

It is said that some of the Chaos Warbands after the Alpha Legion split used the genetic seeds of the White Scars and the Raven Guard, which was a legacy of the Horus Rebellion. The most exaggerated are the Iron Warriors, who are said to have nearly a third of the Space Marines in their Legion using the genetic seeds of their most hated foe, the Imperial Fist, which is again a problem caused by the Battle of the Heart of Hydra.

Fu Qinghai never felt that there would be any problem with using the Traitor Legion Gene Seed. After Belisarius Kaul launched the Extreme Army, many of the original Star Marines companies or warbands were nominally sub-regiments of the Ultramarines or Imperial Fists, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that they must have used the genetic seeds of the Traitor Legion, and they looked different.

"Collect this genetic seed."

Fu Qinghai commanded to the battle armor.

"Understood, master."

The power armor stiffens and reverts.

The discovery of the genetic seed of this dark angel made Fu Qinghai recover slightly from the endless killing, and taking a respite, he also thought about what additional discoveries might be made in the legendary battleship of Vengeful Soul - St. Giles died on the Vengeful Spirit, and it is said that his body has been transformed into a crystal statue that will appear randomly in various locations in the battleship. Cayan's Psychic Field Sword was made from the sword fragments and statue fragments of St. Giles.

But Fu Qinghai had fought for so long along the way, traversing a large area of the Vengeful Spirit, and had never seen a single crystal statue, let alone the crystal statue of St. Giles. He didn't want to deliberately look for it, and killing the future Chaos Commander Abaddon was his main task of jumping the gang.

Fu Qinghai breathed for a moment and continued to move forward.

Walk through the bilge area to the lower deck.

Here Fu Qinghai saw the mortal crew of the Vengeful Spirit—a mortal crew of mutants, beastmen, and cultists. Just as the mortal crew of the Imperial Navy battleship will always form a family of grand guns, torpedoes, and engines, the same is true of the mortal crew of a Chaos battleship. It's just that they occupy more territory in the form of tribes and clans, and they are darker and more savage, and the vices of the Chaos Space Marines seem to be infecting them.

Fu Qinghai saw with his own eyes that after a beastman with a sheep's head was knocked unconscious by the shock of artillery fire, the surrounding people did not treat him, on the contrary, they all flocked to kill and dismember him with all kinds of rudimentary weapons, and then the strongest beastman seized the position and power of this beastman, and began to continue to control the macro cannon to aim.

Fu Qinghai knew very well that the beastmen, as one of the mutants, although they looked rough and primitive, they were not inherently barbarians without discipline and conscience. In the early days of the Human Empire, the Beastmen and Oglins were even allowed to join the Imperial Guard as part of the Subhuman Auxiliaries, just like the Lytlings.

However, with the outbreak of the rebellion, many of the bullied and oppressed beastmen finally chose to join Horus's camp to fight against the Empire, and after the defeat, they all fled into the Eye of Fear with the Chaos Space Marine Legion, and slowly multiplied to form the main part of the current servant army of the various Chaos Warbands.

Unlike treating the mortal slaves who were plundered, Fu Qinghai didn't have anything to say about these beastman crews, and it was a mess to go up directly. These bloodthirsty and ruthless accomplices of Chaos saw the intruder and grabbed their weapons to meet them. However, how could the beastman with a laser gun in disrepair and wearing tattered carapace armor be Fu Qinghai's opponent, and he was quickly killed and cried and fled in all directions.

Killing these crew members also grants Assimilation Points.

In line with the principle that no matter how small a mosquito is, it is also meat.

Fu Qinghai chased a beastman crew into the chaotic shacks and pipes next to the giant cannon, and Fu Qinghai swooped and clawed to kill the strong sheep-headed man whose height was comparable to that of an ordinary space marine, and the other party let out a miserable howl and fell in a pool of blood. Fu Qinghai raised his head and suddenly found that this narrow and crowded pipe was actually full of beastman women with big bellies and holding children.

Fu Qinghai slowly stood up.

He frowned at the mutants.

All of them are women, from childhood to old age. They have deformed, goat-like heads and white or variegated hairs on their skin. What they all have in common is that they all have bulging bellies, large or small, and not only that, but they also carry breastfeeding babies in their arms.

These beastmen and women huddled together, looking up at Fu Qinghai with frightened and evasive eyes. Malnutrition combined with successive pregnancies and childbirth left them with swelling and sallow lower limbs, and they seemed to have lost the ability to escape, sitting on a few tattered blankets covered with black oil stains soaked in dried blood and fishy amniotic fluid.

Waiting for the fate of the impending death.

Although Fu Qinghai was well aware that the Goldogold Purebred Handbook had removed the Beastmen from the ranks of humans. Although Fu Qinghai knew very well that they were all traitors in front of them, and the child they were carrying in their wombs was also a traitor. Although Fu Qinghai is well aware that they, as well as these offspring they are about to give birth, will cause harm to tens of millions of human beings in the future.

But in the end......

Fu Qinghai clenched his iron claws and released them.

In the end, he failed to target pregnant women and babies.

"Alas......"

Fu Qinghai let out a long sigh, slowly turned around and found a black ammunition box and bent down to sit down, he took off his helmet to reveal his tired face, took a deep breath of the foul and foul-smelling air here, did not look at the group of beastmen again, stared at the ground in front of him, and said hoarsely:

"Water, and food."

The beastmen and pregnant women looked at each other.

No one dared to make any moves.

"Don't tell me you don't understand Gothic."

Fu Qinghai added impatiently.

The beastmen made eye contact, and finally a young, thin, small-bellied goatman girl fell to her knees with her swollen thighs and moved into the dark pipes behind the shed. After a while, the sheep girl held an iron bowl and a jar, carefully knelt in front of Fu Qinghai, lowered her head, and then raised the items in her hand upward.

Fu Qinghai took the iron bowl and drank it all.

The water in the bowl smelled of disinfectant and rust from scrap iron pipes, but it was probably the cleanest water they could find. Fu Qinghai has a sense of taste and sense, and he is not worried that they will poison the water and food.

When he had finished drinking, he looked at the tin can, which contained a flocculent, white, cloudy liquid, almost a lump of moist cheese and a sour smell of fermentation. Fu Qinghai frowned and looked at the beastman pregnant woman, one of whom pointed to her sagging and collapsed breasts.

Fu Qinghai shook his head helplessly.

Or lift the can and swallow it.

Fu Qinghai was so hungry, tired, thirsty, and hungry that the food reserves in the white suitcase had already been eaten when he was crossing the subspace storm, and he had only eaten one meal before the war began—the prison meal in the bilge prison of the Eternal Crusade. Facing the legendary Four Gods Chaos Commander Abaddon, as well as his subordinates who have their own unique skills, Fu Qinghai must ensure that he is not in the worst condition.

After drinking the water, eating the milk.

Fu Qinghai got up and put on his helmet.

Ignoring the group of beastmen and pregnant women who were nervously looking at him, Fu Qinghai walked straight out of this messy shack area and continued the battle. However, as soon as he walked out of the shed, Fu Qinghai's nerves suddenly tensed, and his cold hair stood up, and he subconsciously raised his iron claws and took half a step back, assuming a defensive posture.

At this time, Fu Qinghai was in front of him.

Quietly towering a crystal statue.

The crystal clear statue of four meters to five meters high is so lifelike, and the figure shown in the statue is also very familiar to Fu Qinghai: a handsome and perfect face, long and smooth hair with a shawl in the middle, and a pair of huge white wings behind it, which are adorned with exquisite pearls and precious stones.

St. Giles!

Crystal statue of St. Giles.

Fu Qinghai stared up at the statue blankly.

He just entered through this passage, and now he also came out of the same passage, Fu Qinghai was very sure and convinced that there was no statue here just now, but within a few minutes of his entry, there was no abnormal noise outside, but there was an extra statue out of thin air.

That legend of the Spirit of Vengeance is true!

Contrary to what he had imagined, the crystal statue did not freeze the anger and pain of St. Giles before his death, but instead looked calmly into the distance, as if looking into the prophesied future.

The only regret is that the statue is not perfect, its left arm is completely broken and gone, and the sword held in the palm of its right arm is gone, leaving only an empty cylindrical cavity representing the hilt of the sword there.

What does this mean?

Fu Qinghai stood in place and froze.

What should I do now?

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(End of chapter)