Chapter 8: Tortoiseshell Burning and Omen of Great Evil

Phaeton casts the world.

The Storm Knights stayed here to complete the armor and weapon replacements for all Space Marines, as well as the upgrade and maintenance of the Band's five ships. The Iron Float Regiment left only a company of recruits and a cruiser to guard the star area, while the rest of the company came out on a battleship full of munitions and ammunition.

Target: Yashan Star Zone.

Mandeville point outside the phaeton galaxy.

One after another, the battleships disappeared into the real universe.

……

Somewhere in subspace.

The mighty ship sailed steadily.

Suzheng, Captain's Office.

An intimate meeting is taking place.

"It's been about two and a half weeks since the plot line event began, aren't you in a hurry at all, Khan?"

Tristan asked, taking a sip of tea.

"There's no hurry. If I'm not mistaken, this time the plot line event won't end in a very short time. Now that we know the final answer, there is no point in intervening now, we will only lose troops in vain and increase the difficulty, we just follow the correct answer step by step and copy the homework. ”

Fu Qinghai rubbed his wine glass and said confidently.

As the Chief Priest said, it's been two and a half weeks since the plot line event began, but Aoyama Khan has no intention of intervening at this moment. The warband fleet is still making a continuous jump towards the Yashan Star Region in the Extreme Star Field, which can be said to be completely different from the direction in which the war may break out.

Fu Qinghai said while pouring wine:

"Although I have told my white scar comrades that I may not return until a hundred or even a thousand years later. Though we all made a vow on the steppe of Chogris, swore to keep our connection to one another forever...... However, no matter how firm the promise is, there will be a day when it will be forgotten, and no matter how strong the oath is, there will be a day when it will be loosened. Time is cruel and unforgiving. ”

Fu Qinghai shook the wine in his glass.

The eyes are fixed on the wine, but the heart drifts into the distance.

"We must participate in this Kuriltai conference, otherwise all my original layout will be meaningless, this is a longer-term planning layout. In a sense, it is even more important and much more important than the major events of the plot line. ”

Everyone in the audience was thoughtful when they heard this.

"And."

Fu Qinghai put down the wine glass and turned his head and said:

"This is not contradictory to participating in the major events of the plot line, we must first confirm my leadership position at the Kurultai Conference, and then we can call on all the sub-regiments of the Fifth Army to follow my orders. This is a war of great scale, and our forces alone are absolutely not enough. ”

"What are you going to do?"

Lin Yu raised his head and asked.

This is a very direct question. The Tiefutu Wargroup was the main initiator of the agreement and the party, but after all, more than a thousand years have passed, and it is unknown how many of the Khan kings who participated in the oath are still alive. The Iron Float Regiments are not the parent group, the mother group is a white scar.

Of course, everyone will be reunited according to their vows.

But...... Why should I listen to you?

"Envy and power."

Fu Qinghai has been prepared for this question for a long time.

"On the one hand, we have to make them understand that with us there is meat to eat. On the other hand, we also need to make them realize that the Iron Floating Slaughter is the strongest of all the White Scars, and it was, is, and will be in the future...... Even the white scars of the mother group are not as good as ours.

Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes and said lightly:

"In this way, the entire legion can be gathered."

"Then our plan is: first to participate in the Kuriltai Conference, to appear in front of the Enwei and Shiren, then to reorganize the Fifth Legion, and finally to blast the orcs, right?"

Lin Yu summed up with excitement on his face.

"That's not right."

Fu Qinghai shook his head and said:

"We'll have to wait for a moment."

"When?"

Lin Yu asked puzzled.

"How can I say it......"

Fu Qinghai smacked his lips and said:

"In my imagination... Or the perfect scenario I could expect would not be to intervene in the war and defeat the enemy as soon as we are ready, but to intervene at the right time, when the enemy is on the verge of subverting Terra. ”

met Lin Yu's puzzled gaze.

Fu Qinghai gestured with his hands and explained:

"The human empire, at some point, is like a sick person, a cancer patient. Cancerous cells are mixed with normal cells, and the immune system can't tell them apart. At this time, if he is poisoned, the toxin will kill the normal cells as well as the cancerous cells. But unless you're a terminally ill person, the number of normal cells always outnumber the cancerous cells, right? And we can do it at the moment when the cancer cells are almost killed...... Remove toxins. ”

Fu Qinghai spread his hands and said:

"It's called chemotherapy."

Lin Yu fell into deep thought when he heard this.

Fu Qinghai took a sip of his wine glass:

"We have to see two sides of things. A crisis and a catastrophe are accompanied by a new life. Arsenic can also be used in medicine, and war may not bring good results. ”

"You want to give the empire a chemotherapy treatment?"

Tristan understood what the warlord meant.

"But, Khan. As you may be aware of the side effects of chemotherapy, this plan will inevitably lead to the death of a large number of normal cells...... How innocent are they? ”

The Chief Pastor reminded meaningfully.

Fu Qinghai fell into a brief silence when he heard this.

Then he raised his glass, took a sip, sighed, and said:

"It's an inevitable price. Although we think of ourselves as the 'immune system', if we destroy the cancerous cells by our own hands, the body will recognize them as 'toxins'. After all, it's only been more than a thousand years since this body's immune system last had a disorder. ”

Tristan was silent when he heard this.

As a paladin among the Whisperers, Tristan believed in the righteous forces represented by the Holy Light from the bottom of his heart, so he had deep concerns and worries about Fu Qinghai's "chemotherapy plan". Is it worth worrying about losing so many lives at such a cost? Why were they sacrificed?

But he couldn't think of anything to refute it.

"I have a question."

Lin Yu thought about it for a long time.

Suddenly he raised his hand and said:

"According to your idea, boss, we need to cut into the battlefield at the most opportune time. However, we are now tens of thousands of light-years away from there, and we don't have spies from the orcs, so how do we know how far the war is going? How can we cut into the fray when you call 'on the verge of subverting Terra'? Wouldn't it be self-defeating? ”

Lin Yu's words are not unreasonable. Not to mention that the intelligence sphere of influence of the Iron Float Regiments only spreads to the Kalysis Star Region next door at most, and after this thousand years have passed, the intelligence network of the Kalisis Star Zone also needs to be reorganized. Besides, no matter how awesome Fifty-Six is, it is impossible for him to plant a spy inside the orcs.

"You're right."

Fu Qinghai nodded in approval:

"So, I found someone before I came."

Fu Qinghai pointed to the corner of the captain's room.

All the Space Marines turned their heads in unison.

A blind girl sat alone.

"Uh......"

Blind Sight stood up a little helplessly.

"Come, prophet, show your worth."

Fu Qinghai beckoned and said:

"Tell me where the war is now?"

……

In front of a room full of space marines, Blind took a deep breath, straightened the hem of his robe, and then walked to the drinking table where the Terracotta giants gathered.

"What do you want to divination, my lord?"

The blind girl cleared her throat and asked.

Fu Qinghai glanced at his blind eyes appreciatively.

This woman is very sensible this time.

She had made it clear that she wanted to join Fu Qinghai's reincarnation society, and Fu Qinghai gave her a chance to return to the Warhammer 40K universe in her next reincarnation. This woman is very good at seizing opportunities and can quickly put herself in the right position.

When Fu Qinghai's order was issued, the woman did not bargain as she did at the beginning, and asked Fu Qinghai and Saloyan to explain the stakes to her before she was willing to activate the prophetic ability, but directly asked her boss what she wanted.

That's the attitude of a job seeker.

"I have Emperor Tarot, rune tortoise shells, air-dried offal...... Which do you prefer? ”

Blind Sight "jingle and purr" took out a bunch of strange small objects from his robe and placed them on the table.

"Of course, if you have higher requirements for the accuracy and directivity of the divination results...... "Blind Vision took out a small snuffbox-like bottle with turquoise microcrystalline powder in it, "I also have hallucinogens like necromancy, but not too often." ”

"It's not...... Khan. ”

Qiao Shida couldn't help but interrupt:

"Do you really rely on this way to get battlefield intelligence and strategic information? Sorcery? Prophecy? ”

The expressions on the Moon Wolf Warrior's face were almost contorted. It's not that magic is rejected, but Qiao Shida thinks that this method is very unreliable, and the information obtained is ambiguous, and it has to rely on various analysis and interpretation. And war is serious, and this ambiguity cannot be accepted.

So when Jostar knew that he was going to pick up a fortune teller, he didn't give Blind a good look at that time. He felt that it must have been this beautiful girl who bewitched the commander of the war group - after all, it was not the first time that Aoyama Khan had been bewitched by a woman, which made Khan start to believe in such a thing as divination.

"What's the difference between this and the group of traitors of the Thousand Sons?"

Joshida said excitedly waving his hands.

"Ahem......"

Hearing this, Danjur couldn't help coughing twice:

"That, though, but, there is one thing to say, during the Great Expedition, the Thousand Sons Legion relied on prophecy spells to obtain battlefield intelligence, and the success rate and accuracy rate were still quite high."

"You've got to get used to it, old Joe."

Fu Qinghai patted Qiao Shida on the shoulder and said.

After all, Joshida was a warrior in the 30K period, and in that era, except for the Thousand Sons Legion, few people obtained battlefield information through prophecy spells. However, in the 40K era, it was very common to use divination prophecy to assist in warfare, but all Astarte warbands with think tanks would use divination, and the Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy would occasionally use divination prophecy.

It's a trend that doesn't just go out of style.

"But I don't need prophecy."

However, Fu Qinghai changed his words and said:

"I don't need you to make predictions about the future, I want the latest news from afar, I want to know the news before the Star Message is delivered, do you understand?"

"In a sense, it's a prophecy."

Blind nodded in understanding:

"You know the news from afar earlier than you actually do, you know in advance the information that has happened but has not yet been transmitted here, which is also divination for the future."

Fu Qinghai didn't argue with her about the definition.

"Fist of the Empire."

Fu Qinghai gently spit out a key word.

"Okay."

The blind woman nodded.

Blind knew that Fu Qinghai didn't like Emperor Tarot's too ambiguous prophecy method, so she directly chose tortoiseshell burning. I saw that she lit a delicate and small copper furnace, and began to burn a few pieces of tortoise shell back and forth above the flame, and with a small "click" sound, the warm jade-like carapace gradually cracked in the flames.

Blindness, breathing is slightly rapid.

Tengjur narrowed his eyes slightly.

He smelled the scent of the aether, a strange smell or tactile sensation of coldness and spiciness, from the subspaceβ€”it wasn't an ordinary ritual, whether the woman was divining or not, at least she was actually performing a psionic ritual, communicating the immaterial realm through these carapaces.

After a few moments, the blindness stopped burning.

She pinched the tortoise shells, which she couldn't see, but her white and delicate fingers gently ran over the still hot nails, and her fingers stroked back and forth along the cracks, just like she touched herself when playing mahjong, feeling the complex and disordered yellow-brown lines...... Then gently open your lips and begin to spell out the words:

"Ahh Ada... Adamantua. ”

"Kill, I kill, beast."

"Fierce, a great omen."

Sure enough, it's the "Beast War"!

Until this moment, Fu Qinghai was finally confirmed.

The plot line event turned out to be as he expected.

"Star Map!"

Fu Qinghai turned his head to look at the female secretary Qing Ming.

Qing Ming, who had been standing behind him, stepped forward and activated the holographic projection built into the table, and the bright stars outlined by green light appeared in front of everyone's eyes. Qing Ming's fingers quickly flicked and rotated the projection screen, and said at the same time in his mouth:

"Searching for the keyword 'Adamantua', there are three places: Adamantua, Adamantua, and the Adamantua. This galaxy is about a six-week jump voyage from Terra. ”

The holographic projection freezes on a galaxy.

Fu Qinghai stared at the projection map in front of him.

Squinting slightly, fingers rubbing chin.

It matched his memory.

Fu Qinghai knew that "Beast War", a famous plot line event in the Warhammer 40K universe, even the fragments that the emperor passed to him vaguely remembered also had some flashback clips in them. But in his previous life, he had only seen some simple video synopses, and he didn't know every specific detail of the Beast War, what happened at every point in time.

"I'm probably... Got it. ”

Fu Qinghai combed through his memories:

"The orcs haven't arrived in Terra yet, and we still have time. Travel to Chogris as planned. ”

"Understood, Khan!"

Everyone in the room nodded yes.

At the same time, Fu Qinghai was also quietly sighing in his heart: the key word he gave for divination was "Fist of the Empire", and the result of blind divination was "Great Omen...... The Fists of the Empire, a fledgling warband, may be close to extinction at this time.

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