Terra, Inquisition Headquarters.

Located beneath the ice caps of Antarctica, the Inquisition's headquarters is a massive and impregnable complex built in the infamous Inquisition stronghold, unmatched by any Inquisition stronghold in the Human Empire.

The shuttle landed on the tarmac, and Sid Nora got out of the cabin, shook off the snowflakes on her cloak, and walked into the slowly opening underpass gate with a chill air, the steel floor echoing with the clatter of heels.

Descending along the passage, several people came to a precision mechanical iron door. Sid Nora handed the cloak to the two acolytes who followed her, instructed them to stay outside the door and wait, no one could enter without her permission, and then walked into her personal office at the Inquisition's headquarters.

It's a large suite with lots of small cubicles. The few lights overhead caused the light in the room to appear dim and gloomy, so that the furniture here was shrouded in a dark shadow, which was very much in line with the painting style of the secret secret agency of the Inquisition.

Sid Norashran sat down.

Then he raised his hands and stretched.

She was familiar with the gloom and didn't make her feel uncomfortable. Her desk was piled with books and parchment scrolls, and Sid Nora casually unfolded a sealed envelope, which was a reply from the Torch Court, which told her that, according to the Torch Court's observations, the Marquez Wang Sector was still shrouded in a subspace storm and could not communicate with her for the time being.

Sid Nora sighed at this.

Because the Star Dome Order is also the same conclusion.

It's been a full decade since the warbands in that sector and the warbands in that sector have been completely lost.

In the past ten years, Sid Nora has risen through the ranks. She was a high-ranking Inquisitor five years ago, and now she is the Grand Instructor of the Holy Hammer Order, and she is in charge of the entire Holy Hammer Order alone. At this level, Sid Nora was almost impossible to rise, and if she wanted to go further, she had to choose to become the representative of the Inquisition, the agent and spokesperson of the entire Inquisition in the High Lords' Council.

And all this, of course, also has Sid Nora's own outstanding ability, but it is inseparable from the most crucial mystery, the secret that the Grand Instructor of the Inquisition has been carefully hiding - the diviner. Ten years ago, during the Second Battle of the Rings of Steel, this dark heretical technological artifact captured at the Jelas Space Station. Through this prophecy machine, Sid Nora was always able to know the movements of Chaos in advance, even before the demons invaded the real universe.

Using this soothsayer, Sid Nora thwarted numerous Chaos plots. The evil rituals of the Chaos Cultists are always destroyed by Sid Nora and his men before they begin, and as soon as the Chaos Demon breaks through the barrier and descends on the real universe, he will find that the Inquisitor has already taken the Grey Knight to fight outside......

And the price to pay for a prophecy is only eight souls. The soul of a prisoner, the soul of a traitor, the dungeon of the Inquisition. Sid Nora was quickly promoted, but she also became more and more dependent on the dark heretical technological creation.

It stands to reason that ten years have passed, and Sid Nora, as the Grand Mentor of the Inquisition, is so busy with his daily affairs, he should have put aside the exploration and pursuit of the Marquez King Region and the Iron Float Troop a long time ago, why did he suddenly remember to reconfirm the situation in that Star Region recently?

Or because of that soothsayer.

Not long ago, Sid Nora brutally sacrificed the souls of eight prisoners to perform a daily divination using this instrument, but she was surprised by the result - the diviner showed only a short sentence:

"The old man returns."

What is the "return of the deceased"?

Sid Nora didn't get it.

The Grand Instructor of the Inquisition has been a little restless these days, and has been thinking about this endless prophecy. Instinctively, she sent a letter to the Torch Court, asking for reconfirmation as to whether the region was still covered by a subspace storm.

The conclusion is still so disappointing.

"It's a shame......"

Sid Nora rubbed her forehead and sighed.

The loss of contact with Márquez King's Zone not only represents the complete dimming of the star by a rising genius in Astarte, but also represents the loss of an important source of equipment for the Inquisition - Sid Nora has always been obsessed with the anti-subspace tactical team created by Aoyama Khan, which has greatly lowered the threshold for fighting demons, and in the past, only psionics were qualified to deal with these subspace entities.

Sid Nora leaned back in her velvet chair and reached out and pressed hard against her lumbar spine to relieve the stiffness and soreness. Although she is a powerful beta-level psyker, she is also fifty years old, not yet to the point where she needs to undergo life-extension surgery, but her physical condition is not as good as before, and time is always so cruel.

Sid Nora was pressing.

Suddenly, she sensed something was wrong.

Sid Nora slowly turned to look behind her, the charcoal in the fireplace was glowing warmly, a ray of sparks drifting out, and behind the fireplace was a shadow, but the shadow was larger than the room in her impression, almost covering the entire wall next to the fireplace.

"Whoa......

There was a page-turning sound in the shadows.

"Who is it? Who's there! ”

Sid Nora suddenly stood up and shouted.

"Tut-tut......"

A laughing sigh sounded from within the shadows, and then the shadows squirmed, and after a flicker of light and shadow, a tall figure in power armor emerged from the shadows...... Fu Qinghai took off his helmet, looked at the stunned Grand Tutor of the Inquisition in front of him, and said with a slight emotion:

"Long time no see, Lady Sid Nora."

"Aoyama!?"

Sid Nora exclaimed.

She stared at the space soldier in front of her with wide eyes, and subconsciously took two steps forward, as if to confirm his authenticity, almost until the breastplate finally woke up suddenly, and then she remembered to activate psionic perception to confirm that the person in front of her was not some kind of demonic entity or illusion.

"Aoyama, it's really you."

Sid Nora still looked incredulous:

"It turns out that the 'return of the old man' refers to you."

"What 'the old man returns'?"

Fu Qinghai asked curiously, his eyes followed Sid Nora's gaze to a corner of the room, he walked over and tore off the black flannel covering the table, revealing the quiet precision instrument below, the corners of his mouth showed an unexpected smile, turned to look at Sid Nora and said:

"You're still using this dark heretical technological creation, Grand Mentor of the Inquisition, Sid Nora?"

Fu Qinghai looked up at the ceiling, his tone was full of playfulness and sarcasm, where a proverb was carved with plaster lines, and he could clearly see it when he raised his head:

"We are on guard at the last line of defense."

"This eternal watch cannot fail."

"We are the Holy Hammer!"

The motto of the Demon Inquisition.

"That's right."

Sid Nora graciously admitted:

"The use of the enemy's weapons against the enemy is extremely dangerous for a person's soul. Still, it's a satisfying thing. ”

"Well, okay."

Fu Qinghai nodded noncommittally, and there was nothing more to say about the well-known double standard of the trial court.

"So, Aoyama, what is all this ......?"

Sid Nora asked impatiently.

"There's no hurry."

Fu Qinghai raised his hand and pressed it down:

"Let me explain to you slowly...... It's rare for me to come to your place, can't I just stand and talk to you, right? Is there anything to drink, Grand Instructor of the Inquisition? ”

"I don't have any alcohol here, just Reka coffee."

Sid Nora turned to get the dispenser.

Sid Nora was a radical when it came to dark heretical technological creations, but she was like a Puritan when it came to her personal life.

……

Regarding what will happen in the future, Fu Qinghai picked out some relatively important points and points that can be revealed, and briefly chatted with Sid Nora. Seeing that the Grand Instructor of the Holy Hammer Order was still immersed in thinking about the future, Fu Qinghai leaned back in his chair and lifted Erlang's legs, lifted his coffee and took a sip, but began to think about some other questions in his heart.

Before he came to Antarctica to find Sid Nora, Fu Qinghai first went to the Central Office of the Ministry of Military Affairs to find another of his acquaintances, the white-scarred "Sizu", Lieutenant General Ilya Lavalre. But he pounced, and by checking the records of the Ministry of Military Affairs' office, Fu Qinghai finally learned that Ilya Ravare was not in Terra but in Chogris.

"So why did you come to me?"

Sid Nora asked, looking up.

"I'm going to get you out of here."

Fu Qinghai said lightly with his coffee.

"Take me away?"

Sid Nora asked, incredulously.

"That's right, take you back to my timeline, and you continue to be your Grand Mentor of the Inquisition."

Fu Qinghai put down the coffee cup and said:

"That's all I was going to do."

"You ......"

Sid Nora was stunned for a moment, and suddenly reacted.

After all, she is also an old spy leader who has been in politics for a long time, and she quickly understood Qingshan's intentions: she has a handle in Qingshan's hands, and Qingshan also has a handle in her own hands, and the two can be said to be grasshoppers on a rope. However, in comparison, the Inquisition is the overseer, and the Astarte Warband is the supervised, and it is relatively safe to play with these dark heretical technologies by themselves, while the Aoyama Aoyama need more political protection.

"You want me to help you in the future?"

Sid Nora asked earnestly.

"Yes."

Fu Qinghai nodded and admitted.

"This idea of yours is really very selfish, Aoyama. Have you ever thought that I am going to abandon all the achievements, all the power, all the position that I have worked so hard to achieve, and go with you to an uncertain future, and then I have to get up from the beginning...... All for your political security? ”

Sid Nora asked in a deep voice.

"Haha."

Fu Qinghai smiled, he put up a book he was reading just now, cleared his throat and read:

"The weak are always led by the strong. The strong find the goal and put it into action, but the weak will only blindly follow; The strong are not afraid of difficulties and resist fate, but the weak will only give in. There are many weak people in this world, and many are tempted by them. Hate these weak men, for they will fall at the feet of the devil and the traitors. Have no mercy on them, and ignore their innocent cries—it is better for a hundred innocent people to fall to the wrath of the Emperor than to kneel to the devil. ”

This passage is excerpted from the Book of Teachings: One.

An instructive book of the Demon Inquisition.

Fu Qinghai raised the book in his hand and said:

"Applying this passage to the two of us, I am the strong, you are the weak, and you should obey me. And I don't have to pay attention to all your whining and complaining, right? ”

"That's not right."

Sid Nora was not provoked.

Instead, he shook his head very calmly and said:

"You've misinterpreted the original meaning of the Teachings, and I don't think I'm the 'weakling.'"

"And how do you think I managed to sneak into the Inquisition headquarters without a trace? Haven't thought about this question? ”

Fu Qinghai spread out his hands and said with a smile:

"The entire base of mortal guards, armed servants, and servant skulls, all of them didn't notice my presence and let me in. You face me, just like those innocent mortals who face the inquisitors described in the "Collection of Teachings", for me, you are not much different from ordinary mortals, they are both weak, and they are all beings who can be killed with a wave of their hands. ”

As soon as Fu Qinghai's words fell, the lamps in the entire room suddenly turned on, and the originally dim and gloomy room suddenly became brightly lit. Fu Qinghai snapped his fingers again, and suddenly all the lights in the entire room went out.

Sid Nora's face was a little shocked for a moment, but she also knew in her heart that with her friendship with Aoyama, he would not really do anything to himself because of this matter, he was just showing off his threatening means.

"You have some prejudice against the Inquisition, Aoyama."

Sid Nora said with a sigh as he looked down.

"At least I'm not prejudiced against you."

Fu Qinghai put his hands behind his head and said:

"Think about it."

"I've thought it through."

Sid Nora shook his head firmly and said:

"I will not follow you into the future. You don't understand this, Aoyama, the Inquisition is very complicated, there are many factions within this large and bloated institution, and it is endowed with almost unlimited power, although I am the beneficiary of this power, although I also enjoy the process of controlling this power, but I have to say that this institution must be controlled by me personally to ensure that it is always on the right path. ”

Sid Nora said sincerely:

"I am not a power-hungry person, I choose to stay, because it is my duty and my obligation, to ensure that the largest religious order in the Holy Inquisition, the Demon Inquisition, is always on the right track. The fighting and strife within the Inquisition are very cruel, and I am the representative of the Occupant faction, and if I follow you, this faction will be bloodily suppressed by the group of purity inquisitors until it is completely wiped out. ”

Occupant?

Fu Qinghai had never heard of this faction.

Don't blame him, there are too many factions within the Gain Inquisition, which can usually be roughly divided into purity and radical, Fu Qinghai knows that Sid Nora belongs to the radical faction, but the radical faction can be subdivided into: Zansi faction, sacrificial faction, Horus faction, re-unity faction, and Istfan faction......

There are no factions in the party, and there are all kinds of strange things.

Each Inquisitor has his own unique opinion on how to revive the human empire. Sid Nora, now as the Grand Mentor of the Inquisition of the Order of the Holy Hammer, is somewhat of a party leader, and it is true that she cannot leave her post easily, otherwise the faction she represents will lose the struggle.

Sid Nora uttered a bunch of high-sounding words, and the last two sentences finally got to the point: she couldn't leave because of partisanship, and she was carrying the burden of factionalism.

"I understand the request that you want to install someone of your own in the Inquisition, this problem is easy to solve, and it doesn't necessarily require me to follow you into the future. I have a daughter who is also a Demon Inquisitor, and no one in the Inquisition knows about my relationship with her, but I will do my best to promote her and make sure she can be your help in the future, and of course, I very much hope that you and your warband will be her help. ”

Sid Nora proposes her solution.

"Wait...... Do you have a daughter? ”

Fu Qinghai looked at the Grand Instructor of the Inquisition Court in surprise.

"What's so strange about that?"

Sid Nora snorted and shrugged:

"I've been young, I've been pretty, and if I could be a decade or twenty younger, if you're not a Space Marine, I wouldn't mind having a strong relationship with a handsome man like you...... But now, I have given everything I have to the Emperor. ”

Look at what you say......

Fu Qinghai thought to himself:

How dare you conclude that Aoyama Khan doesn't like mature women?

"It's not...... That's not the point. ”

Fu Qinghai hurriedly waved his hand to put aside the messy thoughts in his mind, and said in a tone emphasizing Zhengse:

"Do you know what I mean by 'future'? I was carried by the turbulence of time in the storm seven hundred years later, and now I have traveled back seven hundred years - not ten years, not twenty years, but a full seven hundred years! Every timeline I discuss with you is based on '100 years' or even '1,000 years', how can your daughter live to a thousand years later, could it be that she is an eternal like Machado? ”

"No, she's not an eternal."

Sid Nora shook his head slowly and said:

"But I'm pretty sure she'll be your future help, and I'm sure she'll fully support your claims as much as I do, because you're all the same kind of people."

The same kind of people? What do you mean?

Fu Qinghai was pondering this sentence.

"You and she are both reincarnators."

Sid Nora has already solved the mystery.

"Poof......

Fu Qinghai squirted out a mouthful of coffee.

Sid Nora laughed.

It was only at this moment that she finally smiled heartily.

Since Fu Qinghai secretly infiltrated the headquarters of the trial court, this negotiation or game confrontation, Sid Nora has always been at a disadvantage. Because she didn't know how Aoyama sneaked in here quietly, and how he controlled the electronic instruments in the room as he wanted. But now, she finally pulled back a game, and a sentence broke Aoyama's true identity, making him show such an expression, Sid Nora was secretly proud.

"Do you think we're unaware? Do you think we don't know anything? Then you're underestimating the Inquisition, Aoyama. It's true that we don't have a good reputation, but we're not dry food. At this point in my position, many of the secrets are no longer classified to me. It's not the first time I've come into contact with a reincarnation, my dungeon has only been imprisoned for a while, and every once in a while his figure disappears, and after a while he returns to the dungeon. You are like fragments in the long river of time, and the Orderlies have long noticed you. ”

Sid Nora said with a smile spread her hands.

The Order of Time and Space is the Time Division of the Inquisition.

Similar to the Marvel Universe's Time Anomaly Administration.

It's just that the status and powers and responsibilities are far inferior to the latter.

"So your plan is ......"

Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes and wiped his mouth and asked.

"This universe is too cruel, and as a judge against immaterial existence, it is not a power but a danger. Take care of my daughter for me, Aoyama, and I beg of you, for the sake of the time we used to fight side by side. ”

Sid Nora spoke earnestly.

"Okay......"

Fu Qinghai nodded helplessly.

In the end, he was unable to convince Sid Nora to leave with him, but the Grand Mentor of the Inquisition offered her a solution, one that he did not expect.

The two looked at each other speechless for a moment.

At this moment, the iron door in the room, which was as thick and precise as a bank vault, suddenly heard a sound of mechanical turning, and the two of them turned their heads to look at it together, Fu Qinghai was especially surprised - because he did not order the green soul to open the iron door, indicating that the iron door was being opened from the outside.

"Click......

The steel gates slowly opened outward.

An acolyte bowed and walked in briskly.

"What are you doing? I've said no one can enter here without my permission! ”

Sid Nora immediately turned his head and shouted.

"Sid Nora-sama."

The acolyte's head was so low that he didn't even see the Space Marines sitting in front of Sid Nora, but raised one arm and pointed behind him, and said in a trembling voice:

"Yes...... is a Forbidden Army Captain. ”

Forbidden Army? Someone in the palace?

Aoyama Khan and Sid Nora were stunned at the same time, then they both stretched out their heads to look out, and then sure enough, they saw a tall figure with golden light standing in the passage outside the door. The golden helmet was topped with a red helmet like an ear of corn, and in his hand he held a power spear compounded with a blaster, and stood silently, without saying a word.

…………

(End of chapter)