Chapter 11 Return

Chapter 11 Return

Dragging a half-length giant, and avoiding too rough roads on the road to prevent the Wokuotai in the trailer from being knocked up, so the return journey took more time than the outbound journey.

By the time Fu Qihai and others rushed back to the colonial stronghold, it was already noon on the third day.

The arrival of the three caused a stir in the colonial stronghold.

Originally, this small stronghold of thousands of people usually didn't have any big things, and the trivial things could become the talk of the residents after dinner.

Now, two orphans who don't have a strong sense of existence in the stronghold have dragged back a space warrior.

Strictly speaking, half a Space Marine.

It's like the stars are coming out from the south.

The residents put down their work one after another and came to watch.

"Isn't this Little Locke and Faye, my God, this is a big deal."

You don't think I captured a space warrior... Fu Qinghai thought to himself.

"Ever since I was a child, I thought this kid was promising!"

Who are you, I didn't know you when I was a child... Fu Qihai was speechless.

"Give way, folks, make way." Fu Qihai, who was sitting in the back row of the jet motorcycle, waved his hand to let the melon-eaters in front of him get out of the way.

Sitting in the trailer behind, Wo Kuotai looked at the surrounding residents who were talking about him, feeling a little aggrieved.

As a veteran who has served for more than 200 years, it is not that he has not participated in the emperor's parade, victory parade and other publicity activities to show the ordinary people of the empire the mighty and majestic image of the Astartes and the strict discipline of the imperial army.

But it was the first time for him to be dragged away in a rotten trailer like this, and then surrounded by a group of country bumpkins from the hive capital.

During the period of the Great Crusade, the human empire has always pursued the first-military doctrine. Space warriors are the backbone and elite of the imperial army. Every space warrior not only possesses superb combat skills, but also has the tactical literacy to command a small battle. Therefore, Even an ordinary interstellar warrior is equivalent to an officer for most grassroots mortal auxiliaries, and can directly take over the command of mortal troops on a battlefield where the command system has collapsed.

What's more, Wo Kuotai is also a middle-level officer in the formation sequence of space fighters.

For ordinary people of the empire, it can be said to be a superior existence.

Therefore, Wo Kuotai inevitably has a sense of desolation in Pingyang.

Fu Qihai probably understood his emotions, so he didn't waste any time and went straight to the small villa of Calvin, the chief executive of the colonial stronghold.

Although the surrounding residents were talking a lot, they still didn't dare to point fingers at a space warrior. Wo Kuotai's armor covered with mottled bullet marks and his stalwart body that was different from ordinary people all silently demonstrated his strength. People looked at Wo Kuotai There was awe and curiosity in Kuotai's eyes.

Fu Qihai and others came to the door of Calvin's small villa.

Calvin, who received the news, had already gone out to check the situation. When he saw Wo Kuotai sitting on the trailer, his expression was a little confused for a while, and he subconsciously arranged his administrative uniform with his hands.

Fai stopped the jet motorcycle, and Fu Qihai introduced to Calvin: "My lord, this is Ogotai Nayan Khan, a star warrior of the Fifth Legion I rescued from the wreckage of the battleship."

"Ah... this, uh... very good." Calvin didn't know what to say for a while.

Wo Kuotai in the rotten trailer looked at Calvin, and said calmly in a hoarse voice:

"I am Ogodei Mannut, the captain of the Falcon Brotherhood under the White Scars of the Fifth Legion. I now announce that the colonial base on planet 17-974 has entered the state of military control by the imperial army. Management is handed over to me."

Calvin bowed his head obediently: "My honor, sir."

Calvin was originally the grass-roots administrative official who stayed on the colonial planet to contact the follow-up colonial fleet. Because the follow-up colonial fleet never came, he, the current highest-ranking official, was put on the shelf.

Wo Kuotai asked him to hand over the management rights, and he was willing.

Fu Qihai even felt that after handing over the management rights to Wo Kuotai, Calvin changed from the panic and depression in the past and became full of energy.

When Wo Kuotai asked him to organize the residents of the colonial stronghold to bring vehicles and equipment to the wreckage of the warship to excavate and retrieve available resources, Calvin organized a large team very efficiently.

Before organizing people to go to the wreckage of the battleship, Wo Kuotai and Calvin had a secret conversation in the small villa, exchanging the information they both knew. The main thing was that Wo Kuotai conveyed to Calvin what the current situation facing the human empire was. ——Warmaster Horus rebelled, half of the Astartes Legion defected, and the subspace storm ravaged the galaxy, cutting off the communication and transportation links between the empire and the central Terra, and the white scars chose loyalty and stood The emperor's camp here.

This news can be said to have shocked Calvin for a whole year.

Warmaster Horus rebelled, and half of the legions turned against each other... The meaning behind this was far more confusing than seeing two groups of space fighters fighting. Fortunately, someone who can make the decision has come.

At present, Wo Kuotai still doesn't know that the sudden outbreak of the subspace storm originated from the manipulation of the four evil gods of the subspace, let alone the connection between this and the rebellion of Warmaster Horus, and even an officer of Wo Kuotai's level knows Not knowing the existence of the subspace evil god is a problem.

Not to mention that Wo Kuotai is not the Legion think tank Storm Prophet of the White Scars, and even many Astartes Legion think tanks, these military psykers who can manipulate the ether, now think that the subspace is just a purely physical space, There is no life in it, nor does it have its own ideas and consciousness, but the laws of energy and matter inside cannot be understood by humans in the main space for the time being.

Calvin, on the other hand, mainly conveyed the situation of the current colonial stronghold to Wo Kuotai.

There is nothing to convey, a few thousand civilians, a spaceship with low fuel, a small stronghold with no defenses, that's all.

If facing a warship with orbital strike capability, only one shelling is needed, and Cheslatan's colonial stronghold can be destroyed, and no more shots are needed.

Fu Qihai was also at the scene of this secret conversation, and Wo Kuotai allowed him to appear, and Calvin also tacitly agreed that he could appear beside him.

Calvin even felt that compared to himself, the administrator of the 17th expedition fleet, a serious imperial civil servant, Wo Kuotai seemed to trust Locke, a poor boy from the nest, a little more.

Of course, in the face of the wreckage of the spaceship and the infighting in the Astartes, Calvin chose to watch silently and wait passively, while Fu Qihai chose to take the initiative to investigate the situation, and even saved Wo Kuotai's life. Wo Kuotai doesn't know how long he can live by eating corpses.

Fu Qihai did not explain the truth of the subspace storm to Wo Kuotai, and it was useless to talk about it. Why should Wo Kuotai believe in the views of a lair with no spiritual talent on the subspace.

The most urgent task now is to contact the White Scar battleship in outer space.

Seeing Calvin leading Wo Kuotai to the communication cabin of the colony spacecraft, Fu Qihai had many questions in his mind.

Are there warships with White Scars in outer space?

Then why didn't they send people to the surface to check the situation?

Which side did the downed battleship belong to?

Neither the White Scars nor the Sons of Horus seemed to have any follow-up support forces. A single frigate crashed in Cheslatan. Where did their respective fleets go?

Wo Kuotai didn't explain these questions to Calvin, and Calvin didn't ask, and went to carry out Wo Kuotai's order honestly.

Although his mind was full of questions, Fu Qihai still didn't ask. He pursed his lips and watched Wo Kuotai's back enter the communication cabin.

Wo Kuotai got rid of that rotten trailer and is currently sitting in a modified wheelchair. He looked at the communication equipment in front of him with a bit of sadness in his eyes.

The captain of the colony spacecraft was also stranded in Cheslatan. This is a bearded man. He introduced to Wo Kuotai:

"Sir, this is the communication equipment that is farthest away from us so far. It is farther than the equipment in the stronghold. It can send messages to neighboring planets. We have maintained smooth communication, but have not received any news."

Wo Kuotai frowned. There were no astronomical speakers in the entire colonial base, not to mention that the astronomical communication depended on the stability of the subspace, and the ultra-long-distance astronomical communication was not considered.

As for the civilian communication equipment on the spacecraft, this distance is the limit.

Fu Qihai also followed in, staring at the device in front of him and thinking, but this time the sea of ​​consciousness of the electronic soul did not make any more ripples.

Iron Man isn't omnipotent either.

Wo Kuotai pressed the button, adjusted the broadcast signal of the spacecraft to a military frequency band, bent down, and said to the microphone of the colony spacecraft:

"Short Sword, I am Ogedai Mannut, I am on the surface of the planet, please answer if you receive it, I am on the surface of the planet, please answer if you receive it."

Then he turned to the captain and said, "Keep this broadcast on loop until we return from the wreck."

The captain agreed, "Yes, sir."

The broadcast signal of the colony spacecraft can be sent to the outer space of Cheslatan. Although it is a military frequency band, it will also be heard by the enemy. If you are unlucky, it may attract enemy warships to land on Cheslatan, but this is also There was no other way, Fu Qihai guessed that Wo Kuotai had other missions and goals, otherwise he would not have made such a bad move.

The next day, the residents of Cheslatan's colonial stronghold drove all kinds of strange vehicles towards the wreckage of the battleship.

Whether it is industrial production or agricultural planting, a complete industrial chain is required. On an isolated colonial planet, every piece of iron sheet is a resource, let alone a warship.

And Wo Kuotai also needs military communication equipment, bird divination instruments, etc. from the frigate.

Fu Qihai was also in the team of excavating the wreckage.

He has now figured out two problems.

First of all, there is indeed a warship with white scars in outer space, named "Dagger", otherwise Wo Kuotai's broadcast would not be able to start.

Secondly, the frigate that fell came from the Sons of Horus, a warship belonging to the Sixteenth Legion. The coat of arms and emblems on the wreck of the battleship have already explained this point.

The excavation and recovery of resources started from the outside. The automatic defense weapons still operating inside the battleship had been eliminated one by one by Fu Qihai pushing Wo Kuotai's wheelchair.

The residents were working hard. After all, the excavated materials and supplies belonged to the colonial stronghold, and only weapons and military equipment needed to be handed over to Wo Kuotai.

But Wo Kuotai, who was supervising at the side, frowned and looked sad.

Two days passed, and the colony ship's radio signal went unanswered.

"One, two, three, up! One, two, three, up!"

People were chanting, and with the joint efforts of cutting machines, mechanical servants, and humans, a half-buried cabin door was pulled out, revealing the dark cabin inside.

A person put his head in and took a look, then retracted immediately.

"My lord." The leading man shouted towards Wo Kuotai, "It seems to be a communication cabin."

Wo Kuotai straightened up in an instant, turned his head to look at Fu Qihai beside him, and said, "Come with me."

Fu Qinghai pushed the wheelchair and rushed over.

Wo Kuotai grabbed the upper edge of the cabin door with one hand, and lifted his entire upper body in. Fu Qihai followed closely behind, lowered his head and got in, and turned on the flashlight.

The light source illuminates the cabin, and there are dense equipment buttons and black screens in front of you, and the corpse of a crew member in a gray-green uniform lying on the side.

Wo Kuotai pushed the crew's corpse away casually, and looked at the communication facilities in front of him. This is not a bridge, not the command center of the battleship, but there are communication equipment.

Wo Kuotai casually pressed the button on the device twice, but there was no response from the screen. He couldn't help but "tsk" and frowned.

"Let me try it." Fu Qihai drilled in front of Wo Kuotai and said.

Fu Qihai fiddled with several pieces of equipment that were still in good condition.

This is his first contact with the communication equipment of the Warhammer 40K Universe Human Empire, but he is extremely proficient. Fu Qihai asked Wo Kuotai while groping, and Wo Kuotai could tell that this was the first time he had seen this thing. , because Fu Qihai didn't even know the meaning of many common-sense button symbols.

Fu Qihai disassembled the box of the instrument, leaned half of his body in, followed the guidance of the thoughts in his mind, and flexibly moved between a piece of cable and various integrated circuits with his hands.

After a while, the disheveled Fu Qihai came out of the box, clapped his hands, looked at the still dark and motionless screen, and wondered: "It shouldn't be, I think I've already done it."

Do you think... Wo Kuotai doesn't know how to comment upon hearing these three words.

Fu Qihai squinted his eyes while looking at this instrument, thinking: What's the matter, can Iron Man not be able to repair you?

Suddenly Fu Qihai raised his foot and kicked the communication device hard, and the box made a "bang" sound.

Wo Kuotai was taken aback.

"Bah..." A snowflake suddenly flashed across the pitch-black screen, and then, the fluorescent lights of the three screens lit up at the same time.

Looking at the flashing text on the screen in front of him, Fu Qihai turned his head and asked:

"This is the famous thinker system?"

"You boy has never let me down." Wo Kuotai looked at Fu Qihai with approval, and said: "Is Levante a casting world with advanced technology comparable to Mars, why have I never heard of it before? "

Even a low nester has the ability to repair military communication equipment.

The hives of the Levante are terrifying!

"Talent, talent." Fu Qihai explained a few sentences with a smile.

Time was running out, and Wo Kuotai didn't continue to ask the bottom line. He picked up the earphones that had fallen on the floor, put them on, and operated the communication equipment. It is also very skilled.

Okuotai pressed a button, took a deep breath, leaned down and said to the instrument: "Dagger, Dagger, I am Okuotai Mangnut, please reply if you receive it, please reply if you receive it .”

After finishing speaking, Wo Kuotai leaned back against the bulkhead.

...

The communication cabin was quiet, except for the soft beeping of the equipment, there was no sound at all.

In the dark cabin, Wo Kuotai and Fu Qihai stared at each other, and the atmosphere was awkward for a while.

"呵啦..." An electric noise broke the quiet and awkward atmosphere, and a pleasantly surprised voice sounded:

"Wo Kuotai!? Are you still alive?"

Wo Kuotai heaved a sigh of relief, and couldn't help laughing: "Of course, Talar, you idiot, I'm very lucky."

The voice from the instrument was a little hurried, saying: "How is your situation? Why did you use the Son of Horus signal to talk to us? What about Chi and them?"

"My situation..." Wo Kuotai glanced down at his empty lower body, sighed, and said, "It's very bad, I was on the Griffin, the battleship crashed into the atmosphere, China and the others died in battle. "

"Only I live."

The voice over there was silent for a while, "Okay, I understand, I will arrange the landing craft to come to the surface to pick you up."

Wo Kuotai said: "You track the position of this signal to locate the surface, and you can see the wreckage of the battleship when you descend to a certain height."

"receive."

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PS: The IP history of Warhammer 40K is too long. There are too many rule books, original novels, related PC games, etc. of board games and war chess. Due to the situation of the version, I will use the setting of the official original novel as the main setting basis for this book. Because it is inconvenient to use the setting values ​​​​of the rule book and the game directly in the novel, I try to fit the original as much as possible. Settings, where I think the original setting is unreasonable, I will also directly modify it according to my ideas (especially when it comes to the messy math part of GW), please don't get entangled in the details, but it is too outrageous or I don't understand the typo You can also point it out directly.