Chapter 37—The Weeper's Holiday (4)

Pastor Julio is not worried about the toxins in these foods -

Unless it is a strange poison from the dark spirits or a vicious "gift" from the Lord of the Plague, the special organs implanted in Astarte's transformation surgery, such as the pre-placed stomach, pebble, kidney sac, and neuroglottis, are enough to isolate most of the toxins and poisons from the body's systems.

He did not rush to eat, but was inspecting the mental condition of each soldier to make sure that nothing happened.

Lu Mingfei walked out carrying a heavy wine barrel, and he used up more than half of the red wine stored in the restaurant to make a hundred servings of "Kalash"; It is a custom handed down from the Mother Order of the Holy Blood Angels, mixed with blood and wine—

Although Lu Mingfei didn't know how the Elethia grapes from the Holy Blood Angel Mother Star Barr compared to the grapes in his hometown, the main thing about drinking Kalash was for the blood in it.

Glasses of bright red wine were distributed to the weepers by the waiters in the restaurant, and the warriors were immediately drawn to their gaze from the dazzling array of food on the table to the wine glasses, apparently the "curse" that had been passed down from their blood to their blood.

However, they showed no restraint, and the warriors raised their glasses, first to the newborn champion brother, for preparing such a sumptuous and delicious feast for them, and then to drink the blood wine from the cup in praise of the emperor and the holy reles.

The warriors' bodies soon changed, and their faces that had been pale and withered or sunken and wrinkled in their eyes became fuller, as if they had been nourished, and the face of Saint Leth, the father of genes, was re-embodied even from the aesthetic point of view of this world.

It's just that it's impossible to refill the cup, and the desire to resist and the curse of "blood thirst" itself belong to the penance of the weepers, and unless it is a battle that threatens the survival of the warband, the warband warriors will never easily indulge their thirst for blood.

Priest Julio was still the last to drink the "Kalash", and he took off the skull helmet after making sure the soldiers were in good condition, revealing the old faces that had been battered by the war.

He took a sip of the blood wine from his goblet, closing his eyes and savoring the taste. He was also a veteran of the Badab War, a witness to the dawn of the weepers' imminent rise, and a witness to the relentless crushing of the Minotaur Warband.

After learning that the warband had wrongly sided with the emperor, he and the Ividin priest chose to surrender unconditionally for the sake of the warband's continuation in the absence of the warband, in order to pray for the emperor's forgiveness; During the 100-year expedition to atonement, he kept his spirits tense, determined not to let the weepers bring shame on the emperor and the holy relieves again.

Now I can finally relax a little – even if it's just for a short time.

Lu Mingfei did not stay in the restaurant to dine with the fighting brothers, but packed the other portions of food and carried it to the car, and sent it to the Nibelungen where the Mother of Tears was located with Chu Zihang. With the priest brothers and Fingal present, and with the asceticism of the brothers, he was not worried about causing any other commotion in the college.

The Nibelungen had become much brighter, and the fog of chaos that had filled the space had dissipated and replaced it with a blue sky like a wash, and the dazzling sunlight shone on the two behemoths of the Bronze City and the Iron Battleship.

This should be the power of His Majesty the Emperor. Lu Mingfei thought to himself. He looked at the bronze city in the distance, the door had been closed since His Majesty the Emperor and the "Cursed Legion" entered, and he did not know what great plan the human will of the Lord of Humanity was preparing to save humanity.

He calmed down and turned his gaze back to the Mother of Tears, the huge white background of tears and red hearts painted on the left side of the battleship, which was quite eye-catching.

The Mother of Tears is an ancient and resilient warship that has accompanied the Weepers since their inception. Cast from Mars, the Empire's greatest and most sacred casting world, she has used battle barges forged by many powerful and even lost technologies, fought the Weepers in endless darkness with the courage of a warrior, embraced the will and heroic spirits of the fallen warriors like a mother, and used them to breed a new Weeper Astart.

But the shrewd and cautious spirit of the Mother of Tears didn't seem to recognize him, and Lu Mingfei could feel a "sight" from the Mother of Tears itself looking at him.

A company of armed slaves stationed at the gate of the ship saw Lu Mingfei's arrival, and immediately knelt down to praise the saint in the state religion.

The secret that he was the champion of the resurrected warband was confined to Astarte, and the mortal servants regarded Lu Mingfei as "the emperor saint who walked on earth"; If it weren't for the noble qualities they had learned from the weepers to restrain themselves, I am afraid they would have rushed forward and kissed Lu Mingfei's instep reverently in order to be protected by the emperor's glory.

Lu Mingfei gently rejected the guidance of the slaves, and he was not yet completely oblivious to the path inside the Mother of Tears. After sending the cart carrying food to the boarding gate, Chu Zihang, who had been silent, asked:

"You make a lot of food ready...... Is it for them? ”

"Yes," Lu Mingfei nodded, "these humans who serve the Weepers are also an indispensable and important force, because of their presence and service, the warriors can be more focused on fighting; At the same time, many of the Empire's subjects will be rescued from the enemy during each warband operation, but the subsequent material consumption is also a burden for the warband. ”

"The only thing I can do now is to replenish the living supplies for the warband as much as possible."

Lu Mingfei was still worried about the future of the warband—and he had a hunch that the future of that dark universe would become more turbulent and divisive, and that hope would become even slimmer.

Heavy footsteps interrupted his thoughts, and an armored Astarte warrior stepped forward with a hearty smile on his face: "Have you brought us a gift, newborn Katos 'little brother'?" ”

"It's not a gift, it's food." Lu Mingfei quickly recognized the warrior, "Brother Miyer of the Second Destruction Squad of the Fourth Company? ”

"It's the First Destroyer Squad of the Second Company," the warrior's smile became a little bitter, "There are many fighters in the Second Company who have returned to the Father of Genes with the battle leader, and the brothers of the Fourth Company and even the Third Company have been transferred to fill the vacancy. ”

The Weepers were one of the more respected and disciplined warbands, and the warriors believed that studying such a great and rigorous work covering military organization, Astarte strategy, tactics, and personal martial arts would help suppress the "blood thirst" and "black rage" - of course, they made small changes in private, such as the unique existence of the Holy Blood Sacrifice.

The Miel brothers offered to help them deliver food to the Astarte canteen, while Lu Mingfei took Chu Zihang to start a tour of the Mother of Tears under the lighting of a servo skull.

The dim, oppressive, cold corridors, the "people" in the corridors covered in nails of electronic components and wiring, and their arms cut off and converted into weapons—Lu Mingfei called them "automatic defense machine servants"; The religious atmosphere is extremely strong, and the parchment proverbs can be found almost everywhere......

Everything he witnessed was constantly shattering Chu Zihang's inner fantasy of the sense of future technology and technology, bright and spacious that should be inside the battleship, and he felt more like he had walked into the dark lair of some demon king's villain - although there were many artistic paintings and carvings of weeping warriors along the way.

Lu Mingfei noticed the emotional changes of the child next to him, but he just sighed lightly and didn't say anything more—if you want to explain the dark universe from the beginning, it will take at least dozens of lessons.

Then there is the transformation room, the starting point of the transformation from a mortal to a superhuman Astarte, where Lu Mingfei slept in a blood coffin, drank the holy blood of the Holy Les preserved by the Holy Blood Sacrifice, and underwent the transformation operation to become Katos. Huggins.

However, as an important place for the battle group, the door of the transformation room was closed, and the Contemplative Array did not test any genes related to the deceased champion Katos from Lu Mingfei, so he naturally refused to open the door and let him take Chu Zihang in to visit.

The Blood Sacrifice Elvedin is in the "Sleeping Chamber", and four of the more than twenty warriors who remain on the Mother of Tears are deeply affected by the Black Fury and are recuperating in the blood coffin. He kept a close eye on their spirits and prayed to Holy Leves that the warriors would be in a better state, or they might be completely engulfed by the Black Fury the next time a fierce battle broke out.

"Let them wake up and see the view. The peaceful scenery may calm their furious minds. Lu Mingfei put forward his own suggestions.

The sight of peace and beautiful nature only exists in the garden world, and the weepers have no right to go to that kind of place, and the chances of such a wild and beautiful planet that has not yet been colonized on the edge of the empire's borders are very low; After the appearance of the Tyranid Zerg, a filthy alien that is said to come from outside the galaxy, this illusion is even more shattered.

"That's a good offer," the Blood Priest looked a little tired, "I'll discuss it with Pastor Yurio when he returns." Also, are you going to check out the head of the regiment and your own Valhalla? ”

Lu Mingfei was stunned, and before he could refuse, Elvedin had already gotten up and patted him on the shoulder to signal him to follow.

The Mother of Tears' Valhalla is home to the Weepers' Genetic Seed Repository, a large room with statues and glass paintings of the Genetic Father, Holy Lies, and genetic seeds recovered from the bodies of fallen soldiers in containers and in the Blood Shrine prepared for them by the Band.

When the Shrine of Blood is activated, the storage device above it shoots out a holographic light curtain with the warrior's name and title on it.

"Praise the Emperor and Holy Leno, all the Xenomorphs on the Defran-III moon have been wiped out by the Holy Imperial Light so that I can successfully recover the genetic seeds of you and your guardian brothers."

Elvedin activated Valhalla's Ponderor Array and quickly entered the identification code, and five Blood Shrines slowly popped out of the walls, and five holographic light curtains lit up.

Tyris, Angell, Ferto, Bradley...... Lu Mingfei's eyes swept over the familiar names, these four warriors were once his champion guards, and they died with him on the battlefield against the Zerg aliens.

The last one is Katos. Huggins, whose name is at the bottom of a long list of honorary titles. Lu Mingfei suddenly had a different kind of touch in his heart, which was the true glorious proof of his struggle for the emperor, for the Holy Lies, and for the weeping warband in that world, rather than the illusory fantasy of a so-called "middle and second disease" patient in the eyes of others.

"Out of some blasphemous selfishness, I have left you and the Guardians with the original seeds instead of giving them to the Great Emperor," Elvedin said softly, "but for now, I give them to you, newborn Brother Champion. ”