Chapter 109 One fish and three meals
In the empty space, the black ship reached some kind of subtle confrontation with the two cruisers that arrived from the front and rear.
The people on the Foundry Cruiser lost their absolute force advantage after the appearance of the Gray Knight Cruiser and did not know how to continue to carry out their mission.
Do people still want it? Do you want STC? Now that everything is done, do you want to carry out the final cleaning process?
And if he insists on carrying out the cleanup process, he is still confident that he can handle a black ship and three squadrons of Astartes on it.
But what about adding a cruiser of equal firepower? Plus what about the possible Astartes on the cruiser?
When the advantage of force is no longer on one's own side, the passive foundry cruiser has lost control of the entire situation and initiative.
The people on the black ship cherish this delicate balance very much and dare not do anything that might upset the balance.
As for the Gray Knights strike cruisers that finally arrived, their condition was much simpler. Apart from recovering the Gray Knights team on the black ship, they have no other interests.
And that's exactly what a cast cruiser doesn't want to see.
The order it carried when setting out clearly required that in addition to recovering designated persons and items, all bystanders except informants should be cleared away.
But according to the current situation, if it really dares to try this, then according to the lowest risk estimate, it will at least have to resist the jump-binding operation of nearly half a company of Astartes under the siege of two Inquisition ships.
Or a mysterious Gray Knight whose fighting style and armaments are completely unknown!
The eyes of this messenger from Mars are currently performing high-speed analysis and calculation on his current situation, but no matter how he optimizes the plan, the final result of the deduction is that he will inevitably seriously injure more than half of the opponent's troops at the cost of total annihilation. And ended.
As for the mission, it must be a failure.
Since achieving all mission goals has proven to be completely unfeasible, what about prioritizing mission goals?
That's easy. The red light representing calculations in the messenger's mechanical eyes ended in high-frequency flashes.
He decided to complete the task according to the minimum completion standards. This was a rare compromise in his daily rigid and rigid style of work as a member of the Mechanicum. It was also his lowest bottom line.
Still connected to the communication signal on the black ship, after nearly a minute of silence, his voice came out again:
"Our ship has been ordered to recover specific materials. Father Constantine, please open the deck as soon as possible and complete the return procedure with the cooperation of our ship's personnel."
In the announcement again, the matter about Constantine and the STC on him was deliberately emphasized, and the other two parties present also understood the final statement of the foundry cruiser side:
Calvin and others can leave, and so can the black ship of the Inquisition, and Mars will not hold them accountable. But Constantine and his belongings must stay!
This is the bottom line. If you can talk, talk. If you can't talk, then even if you risk defeat, this foundry cruiser that comes with a mission to Mars will definitely go to war with them!
Calvin and Mawei, who were in the center of attention, stared at each other silently, waiting for the person who should make a statement to make a decision.
In the quiet atmosphere, Father Constantine raised his head, his quiet eyes coming from under his hood.
He first said to the envoy from Mars: "We will open the deck immediately and ask you to send out personnel."
Then he waved his hand to cut off the communication between the three parties, and apologized to Calvin and Mavey:
"I'm sorry to involve you two in this matter. The situation is like this, and I cannot continue to let you be implicated by me. This journey ends here."
He first looked deeply at the owner of the black ship, the alien judge Ma Wei, and then walked up to Calvin and handed Calvin a palm-sized gear holy symbol common in the Mechanicus. out.
"I don't know when we can return to Mars during this trip, but our deal is still valid. If I return to Mars first, then someone will naturally go to Saturn to fulfill our deal. And if you return first, you can use this as a token to Mars If you ask for remuneration, someone will naturally accept the price of the transaction.”
Under Mavey's gaze, Calvin took the token that Constantine took out in his hand.
"Understood, then have a safe journey." He said to Constantine, although both he and the other party knew very well that this trip would be really unlucky.
The priest did not respond to his blessing, but nodded towards him, then hunched over and walked towards the deck carrying the reliquary containing the STC.
The next thing went much smoother. Under the inspection of people from the foundry cruiser, the broken STC was carefully moved onto the transport boat. Father Constantine was also taken away by these people after his identity was verified. .
Calvin and his Gray Knights also completed the handover here, and after bidding farewell to Inquisitor Mavey, they returned to their long-lost ship on the Thunder Eagle sent by the Revenant Redeemer.
The three spaceships have now achieved their respective goals, and they no longer have any intention of confronting each other. They each move towards their own goals and eventually disappear into the vast universe.
Calvin, who returned to his battleship, moved quickly toward the bridge with the help of the automatic ramp.
The Gray Knights under his command have been properly placed in dedicated barracks, and he does not need to worry about it.
The current thing is to meet with Yule and ask him how he came in such time.
The place where Calvin boarded the ship was on the flight deck on the side, which was quite a distance from the bridge. While he was riding various tools to speed up his pace, he went over the previous events in his mind to check for omissions and think about the gains and losses.
"Wipe it!" He was deep in thought and suddenly slapped the big hand holding the handrail of the automatic gangway hard.
He just happened to catch the deep look in Constantine's eyes towards Mavey while he was replaying the film in his mind like a movie.
Calvin had doubts at that time, but the urgency of the situation did not allow him to dwell on it. He had no choice but to give up his in-depth thoughts.
But when he reviewed the entire process, a doubt that he had to ask appeared in his mind:
How did the foundry patrol ship from Mars find the moving Noble and Dirty ship so accurately in the vast universe?
How is this possible without a constant reminder to keep updated coordinates?
There's a mole!
So, apart from Calvin and Constantine, who is the only person on the ship who has the ability to be the mole?
Garrison Priest Deliza? Impossible, because since Constantine came to this black ship, all his functions have been handed over to the higher-level latter by default.
Judging from the terrifying internal control capabilities within the Mechanicum, Deliza, let alone having his own will to stab Constantine in the back, I am afraid that the core frequency in his mind is not his own!
Who else? Although he didn't want to admit it, combined with that meaningful look, Calvin finally turned his suspicious eyes to the alien judge who had no sense of existence from beginning to end.
This humble fat man is the most capable and most likely person to do this!
"Hey! Eat three things with one fish! What a good business!" Calvin thought as he chewed his teeth bitterly.
The blood pressure caused by shame and annoyance instantly surged up on Calvin's face. He was a man of two generations and had a high self-esteem. He could suffer such a big loss and only reacted after the fact.
So angry! He almost wanted to rush to the bridge and order the Redeemer of Souls to chase the fat man, but he could tell with his buttocks that the other party would never let him have the chance to seize the black ship at this time, and he was afraid that he would have fled to an unknown place long ago. .
This is shameful. It belongs to being manipulated in the whole process.
If he could see this guy again one day, Calvin would definitely ask for an explanation from this fat man who was only interested in profit.
The process of thinking made time go very quickly, and Calvin had reached the bridge of his own ship unknowingly.
Yule, who was already standing on the edge of the high platform waiting for him, noticed his strange mood from a distance.
But as the big brother, he didn't go into details. He just took Calvin's hand and said to him:
"You're back? It's good to be back. I heard that you earned another set of good things for your hometown? Thank you for your hard work!"
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