Chapter 697: Chapter 602: Heresy and Heresy
The Spear of Russ.
The name of this Space Wolves cruiser.
The two ships slowed down and moved closer to each other, and the Geller force field gradually merged together like two bubbles. The armed merchant ship, which was mainly composed of retired frigates, was like a child in front of this active strike cruiser.
Fu Qinghai, wearing a ghost armor and riding a jet motorcycle, slowly flew towards the hangar of the strike cruiser in front of him. The open boarding deck was wide and tall and brightly lit, with many ground crew members busy shuttling back and forth.
The familiar scene before him somewhat dispelled some of Fu Qinghai's doubts, but he still had some suspicions - so he decided to go to the battleship wearing the ghost armor.
Fu Qinghai could certainly hide the Ghost Armor in a pipe of the merchant ship, and then go alone wearing the Blue Shell. After all, the Ghost Armor couldn't even pass through the Geller force field.
But he didn't do it.
Anything can happen in the subspace.
Just in case, if he really encounters those strange witchcraft methods, only the ghost armor can save his life. The blue shell is very strong, but it is not as effective as the ghost armor against those demons in the subspace.
On the deck of the ship, the jet motorcycle slowly shut down and stopped. Fu Qinghai turned over and jumped off the motorcycle. In front of him, a team of Space Wolves Space Marines were already waiting for him.
They held bolters and chainswords in their hands, surrounding the ferocious black-armored warrior. The leader was a Space Marine with red hair and a red beard. His wolf-like sharp eyes slowly swept over the scales and thorns on the black-armored warrior's body, the huge skull-like beast-swallowing shoulder armor on the right, and the thick curved horns on both sides of the helmet. His eyes became increasingly cold.
The Space Wolf next to him was a white-haired veteran with three golden nails on his forehead. The old wolf narrowed his eyes and watched the mysterious black-armored warrior in front of him slowly jump off the jet motorcycle. He was not nervous at all because of being surrounded. He couldn't help but exhale a cloud of hot air from his nose. He sniffed hard, leaned close to the red-haired warrior and whispered:
"I smell the stench of the devil."
"certainly."
The red-haired warrior curled his lips and showed his canine teeth:
"You don't need to smell it to know."
"I have to say, you are very courageous."
The red-haired wolf warrior stepped forward and said loudly:
"This Chaos Space Marine, or Demon Prince, or something else... I don't know what you are. But I have to say, you are really bold. You dare to step onto my ship alone. I am curious about what kind of guy would do such an arrogant thing? Or..."
The red-haired warrior showed his fangs and smiled grimly:
"Are you ready to die?"
The black-armored warrior did not speak.
He simply turned his head and glanced at the Space Wolves.
This silent provocation undoubtedly angered the violent Space Wolves. They bared their teeth and raised their chainswords. They aimed their bolter crosshairs at the black-armored warriors, waiting for the red-haired warrior's order to pull the trigger.
At this moment, the black-armored warrior suddenly raised his hand and took off his helmet, revealing a face without any disease, horns, or any signs of Chaos corruption. When the red-haired warrior saw this face, his eyes widened instantly, and he blurted out in disbelief:
"Aoyama!?"
The black-armored warrior nodded slightly.
He looked at the red-haired warrior with complicated eyes.
"How could you? Why is it you? Why?"
The red-haired warrior was incoherent for a moment.
"It's me, Saroyan Skarsson."
Fu Qinghai revealed the other person's name.
He stared at the red-haired warrior and said:
"I'm also very surprised to see you here."
"Qingshan, what on earth happened to you..."
Saroyan said this and subconsciously took a step forward.
"Stop."
Fu Qinghai raised his hand to stop him.
Saroyan paused for a moment.
"how?"
The red-haired Space Wolf asked with a frown.
"I need to confirm whether you are real."
Fu Qinghai said with a serious expression.
"What?"
Saroyan didn't have time to ask.
Fu Qinghai had opened a white box and pulled out an ancient stone sculpture in the shape of an eye. Following the instructions given to him by Thor, he took the stone sculpture and pointed it at all the Space Wolves present, including the ground crew in the hangar. He silently chanted a spell, and the eyeball in the middle of the stone sculpture emitted a white light and quickly scanned the entire boarding deck.
"What are you doing?"
Saroyan calmed down his restless subordinates.
He asked with an unhappy look on his face.
"It's okay, just checking."
Fu Qinghai breathed a sigh of relief and put away the stone sculpture.
As soon as he stepped onto the boarding deck, he asked the eight demons in the armor whether these space warriors were human or ghosts. They were answered that they were all serious people, not illusions disguised as demons.
But Fu Qinghai was still worried.
He remembered that he still had the Warlock's Eye, an Asgardian magic artifact that was said to be able to see through all illusions. So he took out the Warlock's Eye and tried it again according to the instructions Thor taught him, but still did not find anything unusual.
"So, what are you doubting?"
Saroyan Skarsson narrowed his eyes and asked:
"What on earth have you been through, Qingshan?"
Not what I experienced, but what I read.
Fu Qinghai said silently in his heart.
Although he had not experienced it personally, he had read a novel in the original Warhammer 40K, which described the Thousand Sons warband led by Azak Ahriman, using illusions to completely disguise themselves as another fleet - a Tzeentch Chaos warband actually disguised itself as a black ship of the Sisters of Silence and mixed into the battlefield, and no one on either side of the war noticed anything unusual. At the same time, they could easily deceive the Eldar with illusions, and these naturally psychic races could not see through the illusions of Tzeentch's subordinates, and their magical attainments could be said to be very superb.
The key is that all this is too coincidental!
Fu Qinghai had just been trapped in the subspace storm and was worried about how to leave here and return to the real universe. Just then, a Space Wolf battleship appeared. It happened that the Space Marines in this Space Wolf battleship were his acquaintances - Saroyan Skarsson. All this was too coincidental.
It seems as if fate has its own plan.
Fu Qinghai now holds the "Map of the Webway of Infernal Affairs" in his hand. Azak Ahriman is searching the world for this map, so naturally, Fu Qinghai suspects that this Space Wolves battleship is actually a scam, and the Thousand Sons Wizard created this illusion in an attempt to seize his webway map.
No wonder he is suspicious.
Because the Thousand Sons Wizards do have this ability.
Those Thousand Sons wizards under Professor A.
"Okay, I'm sure you're Saroyan Skarsson, the idiot who has been defeated by me countless times."
Fu Qinghai waved his hand and said.
"But I haven't confirmed your identity yet."
Saroyan stared at him and said,
"What's wrong with this power armor you're wearing? I smell the breath of demons on it."
"You are right. Yes, there are demons sealed in this armor, and there is more than one demon, but... let me put it this way, without this armor, I can't stand in front of you alive, do you understand what I mean?"
Fu Qinghai spread out his hands and said.
"But..."
Saroyan's frown remained tight.
"I know what you want to ask."
Fu Qinghai interrupted him.
The front plates of the Ghost Armor suddenly opened outwards layer by layer, and Fu Qinghai walked out leisurely. He was only wearing a pair of black tight underwear, and his whole muscular body was exposed to the sight of the group of Space Wolves. There was no sign of Chaos corruption on his body, not even a tattoo could be seen.
The ghost armor closed again.
"As you can see, I am not controlled by this armor. On the contrary, I am controlling it, so you don't have to worry about what will happen to me... at least not for now."
Fu Qinghai said calmly.
Before he finished speaking, a stream of metallic liquid composed of gray particles suddenly emerged from the white box at his feet. It coiled around Fu Qinghai's ankles and calves like a silver snake and quickly covered his entire body. Then the gray particles quickly accumulated to form a specific shape, and a brand new set of black and gold power armor reappeared.
The wolf cubs were all stunned.
"how?"
Fu Qinghai turned and looked at Saroyan.
"Qingshan, you, you..."
Saroyan was so shocked that he was speechless.
…
Spear of Russ, captain's room.
The Space Wolves and the White Scars sat down facing each other.
The two most famous barbarian legions among the loyalists.
"I'm done, Aoyama."
Saroyan sighed and said to Fu Qinghai:
"That's the thing."
"I see. I understand."
Fu Qinghai nodded gently.
According to Saroyan Skarsson, the reason why this strike cruiser belonging to the Space Wolves appeared in the warp storm is actually very simple.
221.M31, Leman Russ disappears.
At a grand celebration banquet within the chapter, Leman Russ suddenly stood up and said to the wolves: "Until the end I will return, for the final battle, for the Hour of the Wolf." Then he left the Fang and entered the Eye of Terror accompanied by the Wolf Guards, leaving only Bjorn the Broken Hand as the alpha wolf leading the Sixth Chapter after the departure of the Primarch.
The only difference is that Saroyan Skarsson, as one of the Wolf King's personal guards, also led the Space Wolves' secret force, the Thunder Wolf Cavalry. On the night before the Wolf King decided to set off for the Eye of Terror, he was dismissed by the Wolf King. Russ asked Saroyan Skarsson to immediately quit the Wolf Guard and serve as the captain of the 10th Company of the Space Wolves.
From Fu Qinghai's perspective, this action shows that the Primarch may value Saroyan Skarsson more and value certain qualities in him. He does not want this young warrior to follow him into the Eye of Terror to die. He wants to leave a little spark for the chapter, so he temporarily removes him from his position and expel him from the Wolf Guard.
But in Saroyan's view, this was a complete insult - the Primarch went to the Eye of Terror without taking me? What did he mean? Did he think I was too weak? Am I afraid of death? Saroyan Skarsson did not understand the Wolf King's decision and was very angry about it.
After the disappearance of the Wolf King, the Space Wolves would organize a team-building activity every once in a while, called the "Great Hunt", where they searched for clues about their missing Primarch in every corner of the galaxy. Saroyan Skarsson and his company followed a clue and entered the warp.
The fact that the Wolf King had abandoned him and headed for the Eye of Terror had become a thorn in his side. During the Great Hunt, Saroyan Skarsson seemed to be possessed by a demon, and was unwilling to let go of any word or clue about Russ. For this reason, he even insisted on exploring the immaterial world despite the opposition of his subordinates.
In the end, things turned out like this. Saroyan Skarsson paid the price for his paranoia. The strike cruiser was trapped in the warp storm. Unable to see the light of the Astronomican, it didn't know where to go. It could only wander aimlessly, waiting for the day when its energy supply was completely exhausted, and it would be completely swallowed up by the surging malice in the Sea of Souls.
"Do you regret it?"
Fu Qinghai looked at Saroyan:
"Because of your wrong decision, because of a so-called 'clue' that was vague and might even be a lie and a scam, you have ruined an entire company and all the crew members of a battleship. Do you think it's worth it?"
"We never regret it."
Saroyan stared at Fu Qinghai and said word by word:
"Even now, we are trapped in this damn place, but we still have not regretted it in the slightest. Finding the Primarch is the mission of all Space Wolves. We cannot let go of any clues, even if we have to sacrifice our lives for it. You don't understand, Qingshan."
"All right."
Fu Qinghai shrugged and decided not to argue anymore.
It feels like Saroyan is indeed a little crazy.
"Let me tell you the truth, Qingshan."
Putting aside this serious topic, Saroyan Skarsson also relaxed. He leaned back in his chair, crossed his fingers, and returned to his carefree look when the two first met. He said with a smile:
"If we were not in the Warp, not in this cursed hellhole, but in the Empire, I would have bound you to the Wolf Fang and had the rune priests of the Chapter study you carefully to find out what kind of alien technology and chaos sorcery you used to turn your power armor into what it is now."
Saroyan Skarshen meant it very literally.
He did not accept Fu Qinghai's explanation, nor did he accept Fu Qinghai's behavior of sealing the demon in the power armor. It was just that the current situation forced them to be in the same boat. It was very likely that they would be chatting and laughing one second and be smashed to pieces by the psychic storm the next. Therefore, in the face of the primary issue of the subspace storm, Saroyan decided not to pursue Fu Qinghai's various heretical behaviors for the time being.
You have to know that the Space Wolves were once the most opposed to the deployment of think tanks. Of course, their own Rune Priests are a kind of think tank unit, but the stubborn and double-standard Leman Russ never admitted it.
"laugh..."
After listening to this, Fu Qinghai just laughed disdainfully.
He didn't take Saroyan's threat seriously at all.
"in addition..."
Saroyan sighed and continued,
"I am not qualified to judge your heresy now, because we are all the same now, alas..."
Saroyan said, rubbing his eyes.
"What's the meaning?"
Fu Qinghai looked up sharply and asked.
"Let me introduce someone to you."
Saroyan clapped his hands lazily:
"Bring the girl up."
Soon, two Space Wolves Marines led... or should I say, escorted a blind girl into the cabin. The girl stood dejectedly between the two Marines like a little chicken, not daring to look up at Saroyan Skarsson.
"Ahem, let me introduce you to Qingshan."
Saroyan cleared his throat and said:
"Ruth Aldin, an unregistered illegal psyker, a lousy prophet, claimed that she could lead me to find the Great Wolf, and then led us to get lost in the warp. Now she is the resident of Suite No. 1 in the bottom hold prison of the cruiser Spear of Russ, and is about to be swallowed up by this damned warp storm together with me..."
Saroyan smiled and looked at the blind girl:
"Yes, ma'am?"
"I, I…"
The blind girl raised her head and stammered.
Fu Qinghai frowned and stared at her face.
This girl...why does she look more and more familiar?
Saroyan was about to continue his taunting remarks.
"Blindsight?"
Fu Qinghai suddenly spoke out of the blue.
"Um?"
The blind girl was startled when she heard those two words.
"It's you, after all."
Fu Qinghai said in a deep voice.
He recognized this mutant reincarnation.
"You know her?"
Saroyan looked at Fu Qinghai in surprise.
"certainly."
Fu Qinghai smiled and replied.
Then his tone suddenly turned cold:
"What? Didn't you learn a lesson the last time you entered the Warhammer 40K universe? You still dare to act like a ghost here?"
Although the blind girl couldn't see the person who was speaking, she vaguely guessed who recognized her.
"I'm not playing tricks."
The girl said with a sad face:
"I really saw it."
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(End of this chapter