53. Political fighting
【Terra】
With parchment in his hands almost above his head, William hurried through the clerical hall, through the narrow corridor, where a noisy noise could be heard behind the private office of the head of the Interior Ministry.
The red-haired middle-aged man stopped, his blue-green eyes like starry skies, and looked at the guards guarding the door with help.
The guard's mechanical eyes swept over him,
"Hereditary Secretary to the Governor, William, the interview application has been sent."
The shouting inside the door stopped, "Application approved, welcome, Hereditary Secretary of the Governor, William." The guard bowed, and the door opened automatically.
"Come in!"
The panting Imperial Interior Administrator was sitting in his ornate big chair, the papers on the desk were swept to the ground, and William glanced at it without a trace, and the boy who usually served the nobles was already frightened and hiding.
Huron sneered in his heart, he didn't think that the so-called primordial body, the so-called gods, how much was worthy of praise, and those interstellar marines who borrowed the name of the primordial body were angry?
Anglon disappeared directly, and Killiman was pulled off his horse by mortals, not to mention Magnus and Alpha who were hiding in subspace...... The original is nothing more than that.
According to Huron, Motarian is the true hero of humanity.
The steward walked around William, stepping on the paper all over the floor, and William coldly watched as the distress documents of the three planets were printed with footprints.
"I thought!"
"You think I don't fucking know?! Pull the relationship to your master?! The Pope of the Underworld begged me fucking back then!! It's not like fucking cocking your tail and putting on a stinky face at the lords' meeting every day! ”
Hades laughed.
He asked jokingly, but Blake, who was leading him, only glanced sideways at him,
"The regiment is poor, so it saves electricity."
Hades wanted to talk to Calga again, but after learning that Killiman wasn't dead, the Ultramarines Legion Commander himself wasn't in good shape lately - at least Hades could see that it would take a long time for him to recover.
"My lord," William said suddenly, "how do I reply to the Astral Army?" ”
"Your Excellency, Gui'an."
William nodded, "My uncle." ”
"Macullag - he went to Macullag, fuck the Makurag gang who want to rebel and we're not happy with us!"
Huron gritted his teeth and said that he had determined that his skills were not as good as the other side, and he was completely crushed, and the other side was beating him, just to make sure that he obediently followed the other side,
"Here we are."
Hades whispered, snapping his fingers and turning off the lights.
The steward laughed,
It was black, and with a feeling of vomiting, Huron couldn't see what Hades looked like.
Hades asked rhetorically, "Huron, I'll give you a hint, I'm going to enter Terra to seize power, why do you think that?" ”
"Remember to provoke them," said the Steward, "release the Duty Team and lead the Psykers to the Archives...... And then you know what to do. ”
Personally confront Terra, eat the Storm Star Domain alive, and operate it, and then lay down more subspace territories.
But what is even more hateful is that it is only a few words...... Larger platform ...... Enter Terra ...... It almost hit Huron's soul, and he had been trembling for decades, wasn't that what it was for......
Sitting reclining on the throne, Hades silently stared at the son of Hades standing guard in front of him.
The Star Whisperer, the Navigator, and the Hall of the Star Torch, for these three departments, the sword hanging over their heads is finally about to fall.
Hades' words interrupted his thoughts,
"Snipe and clam fight, fisherman profits, Huron, you are a good fisherman, when you come to me, I will ask Bouzdo to communicate with you, he also likes to fish."
The door closed behind him, and Huron's eyes widened, trying to gauge the massive being seated on the throne.
"No reply," said the steward, who was as angry as a gossamer, but his tone was firm, "Drag, we'll drag whoever comes, and now we'll start destroying the evidence...... Burn half of it, leave half of it as a scapegoat, prepare a sedan chair, call the minotaur warband to come and accompany you, and when a madman like a psyker comes to me, I will already confess my guilt in the secret room of the Cathedral of the Underworld. ”
William was silent,
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The food was eaten, and the rest was put in the storage room.
The stakes are clear, the nepotism is also very clear, and hesitation is a big taboo.
Huron mocked in his heart, but he still felt his heart beating faster, although he looked down on most people, including the Rausch Hades who popped out of the horns, but Huron knew that Hades was sheltered by the death guards...... It is not an exaggeration to call the eldest son of the Death Guard.
"Your Excellency, you know how greedy the sages are."
Isn't it just getting off the horse?
"Rutfu Huron," the lazily seated being on the throne directly ignored his careful thoughts, and the Immortal said unhurriedly, "the black-hearted king of the maelstrom, who has long admired the great name. ”
"You're coming to see the jokes, too? Oh dear, I see you've got a little dirt on your sleeves, is it the oil - the oil guys or those line-fillers? ”
A sneer sounded above his head, and a moody voice rang out,
"Hades—I've heard of you since I was born, and I'm curious that the dead sculptures in the church will one day stand alive in front of me and speak."
Procrastination, the best move for internal government affairs, the manager is the master of procrastination.
Under extreme high pressure, Huron suddenly sneered,
"It's useless! It's fucking useless! ”
But the smell told him that it was me.
If Huron had any hero to admire, it would be Motarian who was at the top of the list.
Hearing this, the king sighed, and the giant straightened up and looked at Huron,
"I won't let you go, it's for you."
The steward's tone changed and became gentle again, "I know what I've done, William, and you know what you've done......"
Hades also repeatedly confirmed with Vaux that Mortarian does not need support for the time being, but Hades can start catching the Spirit Clan in advance.
"You might as well make it clearer," said Huron coldly, "or do you like to humiliate people?" ”
There was a buzz, as if the power system had stopped, and the living room was darkened, and a faint cold light flashed in the eyes of the wolves.
The diluted Kuroshio rolled lazily, and Hades felt the strange soul being brought to the deck...... It's a bit heretical, but it doesn't hurt.
Huron's smile just got stuck, and the feeling of being toyed with made him angry, why—
Huron swallowed his saliva, and the feeling of vomiting under the forced pressure, as well as the sense of surrender, he stood straight, even rudely, opposite the Hades,
"I've heard that the Underworld Sect doesn't kneel,"
There was an abrupt silence, then a whisper, a maniacal laugh, the mopping of chairs, footsteps,
"William, William," said the steward, "I sometimes really wonder if you are a disgrace to the family, why is it that the William family has such a retarded mind as you?" Would you like to believe that the biggest head of the soulless would forgive the psionics? ”
How can God exist? It's just something fabricated to fool the people into suffering—something that pretends to be a god, why should I be afraid? ”
"Coincidentally," said the Immortal, "I don't know what you're thinking, Huron, to fight against Terra in the name of hunting down Faos, and then luring the tax collection team sent by Tyra to the mine planet of Faos?" ”
Huron clouded for a moment, then quickly began to think.
Compared to the turbidity of Vaux's soul, this is already very pure.
He looked at the majesty of the Underworld, and he couldn't connect him with the Underworld who was spinning in the sky a few days ago.
"yes, yes," he said, clasping his palm, "it's just a pretend." ”
Huron was walking on the promenade for a moment,
"What, we're not welcome?"
So straightforward?
In addition, Hades has received many gifts that Hades has prepared spontaneously in the past few days - he seems to know where the funds for these gifts come from.
Huron's voice softened, as if he was softening,
Squeak - bang!
It was the red light of his left eye, which stared at Huron calmly.
For a moment, countless cobalt blue warships left their posts, and the warriors who fought for order and glory put on their helmets, and the blue sea rolled up, surging to keep up with the footsteps of the dark tide.
"You're too nervous," the Hades said calmly, "Huron, the whole five hundred worlds are my logistics, and I don't care about your private property except for the high lords—"
He had known that calling him over was a matter of talking, otherwise Faos would have started a war with the Claws of the Stars, but Huron estimated that he was just being taken in as a dog, exactly like Terra's face.
The High Lords were nothing more than a bunch of fools, who only knew how to collect their taxes in their easy chairs every day, fantasizing about the taxes growing from the ship's holds.
William was silent, his face calm.
The door opened, the cold air brushed across his face, and the hall was pitch black, and Huron paused, stepping in without looking back.
The man's shrill voice laughed angrily, "Are they going to welcome him in a military parade, or are they going to try to hit a stone with an egg?" ”
"Do gods really exist? So why do They allow so much suffering and sin? We are already standing at the feet of the Emperor of God, can't He see all these things? Does the fact that He did not punish us mean that He forgave us? ”
Huron gritted his teeth, damn old thing, if it weren't for the ......
Due to the social death and embarrassment, Hades directly gave up the possibility of mentioning the "so-called" warband tradition to Hades.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was silent for a moment, and then he became calm,
Most of them were food, and some were books, with some air-dried enemy heads......
"You can try to apologize."
Pity...... Huron glanced contemptuously at the son of Hades standing guard in front of the door, compared to the tough guys of the death guards, the son of Hades can be called a family misfortune.
Huron pulled out a smile, hoping that the corners of his mouth twitched into a mocking smile.
William thought for a moment,
"Perhaps...... As long as they prove their innocence, the deceased will not embarrass them. ”
"It's the Astral Army, my lord," William said respectfully, "and they want to know the truth of this in order to confirm the size of the assembled army. ”
For the first time, he felt so remorse—regretted that the Death Guards had failed to stop the Dead.
To use an inappropriate analogy, children eat outside, and adults are quite embarrassed.
But...... Expressing my meaning so quickly...... Huron licked the corners of his chapped mouth, did these egotistical guys really think that everyone would obey them?
The steward muttered to himself,
He doesn't think that gods exist, and even if gods exist, it has nothing to do with him, and he has lived for so long, and the gods have never bothered with him.
Oh no
Huron thought with some dark humor that now the gods themselves had come to take care of him.
So......
"It's a fact that I want you to do things, and so is your little hobby of fishing, how can it be called humiliation to state the facts, Huron? Or do you also think that you have been doing all these years...... It's not quite right. ”
Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, and finally, standing in front of the relief of the gods, the steward stopped, his face pale.
He likes to talk to smart people.
"The deceased may not value these things," William continued, "and this position requires us to do so. ”
The idol looked at him calmly.
After discussing with Kirkland and Buzz, they agreed that against someone like Huron, a dismount was clearly the best start.
Hades said, the darkness slowly dissipated, "Rutfu Huron, the leader of the Star Claw War who has established his own power in the star zone of the two major forces, I have seen your ambition and ability, and now I formally invite you, you have a chance to step onto a bigger stage." ”
And the Death Guard...... under the leadership of Motarian.
The Ultramarines have already begun to mobilize, and it seems that after the meeting, they all agreed that it would be a good option to go to Terra with Hades for a shot.
Blood flowed from William's head, "Ultramarines are not ...... Reckless, we have time to find scapegoats. ”
"You want to revitalize the Terrans?"
Huron took a deep breath and knelt down in salute,
"What if I can't cross the human line?"
No hurry...... Let him in Terra first!
Because they were going to the Mamtrol, the Sons of Hades took the first step and went to dock with Huron, the Claw of the Stars, and Faos in the Maelstrom.
"My lord," said William, sullenly, "open the door and welcome the deceased back." ”
After a long time,
"I remember...... There's a priest in your family? ”
The inky table slammed into William, who muffled and didn't speak,
Then he is not polite, pretending to show goodwill, and what he will plot in the future, Huron is already familiar with it,
"I do," said Huron, "but I don't know what your intentions are?" ”
"Of course," Huron smiled and raised his hand, making a reluctant gesture of surrender, "we will give you the savings we have saved over the past few decades with our own hands, without your urging." ”
Huron asked rhetorically, smiling angrily, "If you don't let us go, and you don't want money, if you want to die, you can come now!" ”
Humron's memories of his youthful years, he had hoped to be a ruler at first, if nothing else, because he thought that he could govern better than the pot-bellied nobles, that he could build more stable sectors, that he could lay down more territory......
"If so, then Rutfu Huron is willing to follow Hades."
For greater power? As a god, naturally you can't stay at the feet of mortals, and naturally you can't look at the faces of those garbage people, which is simply a great shame.
The chief manager looked up and looked at the relief carved high on the wall behind his desk, with the God Emperor and the Hades King occupying one end each, and did not speak,
"How can this be true?"
Give him a dismount?
"My lord, you want us to spit it out? Blame had to let the Claws of the Stars go...... I'm still thinking, according to your size, I'm afraid you didn't just release our little fish - your fishing net hole is so small? Don't even let go of a small marginal down-and-out warband? ”
"Gather troops?!"
"But only if—"
"It's useless," he said, "that gang of sub-psionics will pull me into the water even if I want to, they're pure mad dogs now." ”
"Then why did you summon me? Is it just a humiliation? ”
Huron thought of this answer almost immediately, but his thumping veins told him that the answer was not right, and he gritted his teeth, since Hades wanted to recruit him, but he wanted to beat him, then it meant that he himself had done right, met Hades' standards, and did wrong, and Hades did not want to see.
But unwilling to return, Huron is not a brainless stunned young man, he has long passed the years when the space soldiers shouted for the emperor and charged towards the battlefield.
Hades paused for a moment, and then a slightly smiling voice sounded,
"That's a real fate...... Since you are destined, would you like to come to work with me? ”
Holding the pile of papers, William knelt respectfully, bowed his head, and without the order of the chief, he was not in a hurry to get up,
The first to know about the return of the Deceased were the Assassin Court and the Inquisition, and since the Ministry of the Interior was closely connected to these two parts, the Governor also knew about it.
This answer really choked Huron, he was sure that he was a little annoyed, he had seen arrogant mortal nobles, and he had seen brainless space marines, but what the hell was this?
The voice above him fell silent, except for the grinding of papers, and William heard the rapid breathing of the boy somewhere in the large room,
"Buz," Hades said, with a somewhat sly smile, "tell the Faos sages to put their weapons down—no more around the Claws of the Stars." ”
Even none of them knew the true style of Hades.
Hades stopped, silent, he stared at Huron silently, until Huron began to sweat, clenched his teeth and asked him what it was,
"What do you think?"
"Helpless," Huron whispered, his tone now like that of a barking dog, "caught between two equal forces, this is the only way to do it...... Why be a dog for the Tyrans of the powerful? Add a little stability to their Simmons dreams? Give me these wasted resources, and I can save more planets, and the ...... on the other side of Faos"
William shook his right hand, which had been dragged before, but he was sure it hadn't left any stains,
"Well," said Hades, thoughtfully, "but I don't think the sages are as greedy as you, Huron...... I'm afraid you've eaten a lot, right? ”
Hades stood up, walked over and pulled up Huron,
"You don't have to kneel,"
Hades said quietly, "Welcome." Also, get ready to work overtime. ”
(End of chapter)