Chapter 25 The Dream of Subspace
Fu Qihai came to Wo Kuotai's personal weapon room again.
But this time he came with Wo Kuotai.
Wo Kuotai in the wheelchair stretched out his hand to caress the bone-white power armor, and there were many complicated things in his eyes.
The power armor has a cool, concise and bulky style unique to scientific and technological military equipment, and there are many gothic religious-style complex metal decorations on the edges of the armor, chest, shoulder armor and other details, organically integrating these two contradictory styles Together, this is the unique gothic punk aesthetic style of Warhammer 40K.
The same style can be seen in Warhammer 40,000 Empire of Man's ships, titans and structures.
Wo Kuotai turned his head to Fu Qihai, who was at the side, and said, "The only set of MK4 extreme power armor in the entire fraternity, are you ready?"
Fu Qihai nodded vigorously: "I'm ready!"
"I don't need to introduce its function, do I?"
"I've already learned it by heart."
Not bragging, although he has never worn power armor before, Fu Qinghai was taught and trained by Master Quinto according to the requirements of the casting master (a more senior technical sergeant). Signature equipment has been thoroughly researched.
"Very good," said Wo Kuotai, "follow me to the training cage."
In the training cage, a few machine servants surrounded the tall Fu Qihai in the middle.
Before wearing it, Fu Qihai had carefully polished and maintained the power armor, and painted the red Martian Mechanicus logo on the right shoulder armor-the gears surrounded the skull.
Identify yourself as a Tech Sergeant.
In fact, this logo is not the real symbol of a technical sergeant. Its real symbol should be the huge servo arm extending from both sides of the power pack.
Unfortunately, there is no Tech Sergeant-specific power armor on the Cutlass.
So Fu Qihai could only make do with it.
After all, Wo Kuotai had already given him the latest set of power armor on the Dagger.
On the left shoulder armor of the power armor is the lightning logo of the White Scars Legion. The specific description is that a red lightning strikes through the golden horizontal bar bordered with red.
Fu Qihai thinks this logo is somewhat similar to the logo of Thunder Shazam in the DC Universe.
I don't know if after putting on the power armor and raising one arm high to the sky and shouting "Shazam——", will there be a flash of lightning that will turn him into a muscular brother wearing a red tights and a white cape.
Fu Qihai took off the robe he was wearing, revealing his strong body in shorts.
On the skin of his chest, abdomen, and back, there are two iron-gray round metal joints inlaid respectively.
It added a hint of ferocity to his strong body.
These metal interfaces are the interfaces generated by the black carapace under the skin, and are used to link with the power armor.
With the assistance of the machine servants and the mechanical arm, Fu Qihai put on a full set of power armor.
Fu Qihai held the helmet with both hands, put it on slowly, and turned it gently, so that the helmet was tightly connected with the neck armor.
The scene seen through the goggles suddenly changed.
A small green arrow appeared above the heads of Wokuotai and the servants in front of them.
This is the function of the identification friend or foe system.
With a thought in Fu Qihai's mind, the scene in front of him changed again, the original clear image became blurred, and Wo Kuotai and the machine servants turned into dark red and yellow outlines again.
This is a thermal imaging view.
In addition, there are shooting assist systems, vehicle fire control systems and so on.
Fu Qihai stretched his arms and felt this set of "Second Skin of Space Warrior", and nodded with satisfaction.
As expected, it is specially tailored equipment for interstellar warriors. After Fu Qihai put it on, it was as good as the legend said, and it hardly required any time to adjust it.
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In the next few days, Fu Qihai challenged the other space fighters of the company one by one under the banner of learning from each other and exchanging feelings with his comrades.
Fu Qihai, who learned from Albus Lang, the number one cold weapon fighter of the Falcon Brotherhood, would occasionally lose at the beginning because he was not familiar with the opponent's skills and routines, and then he would be crushed by strength, picking out the invincible opponents of the Dagger.
The short sword frigate is not big, and there is no racing track inside for the white-scarred warriors to race. But when the frigate occasionally slows down due to passing through the asteroid belt, Fu Qihai can wear power armor and ride a jet motorcycle. The fun of racing in space, bending on the asteroid, that is a real three-dimensional racing experience.
Soon, a notification was broadcast on the ship, and everyone returned to their respective cabins and jobs.
Ready to enter the warp.
Fu Qihai returned to his rest cabin, washed up and sat beside the bed.
He couldn't see everything outside the frigate.
Suddenly, he felt a tremor in the floor, ceiling and surrounding fixed facilities.
Wo Kuotai told him that this is the performance of the battleship's core reactor fully outputting energy.
It often happens when the battleship needs to fire a full salvo, or sail at full speed at full speed.
The tremor came and went quickly, and the rest cabin immediately returned to calm.
Nothing happened.
Fu Qihai shrugged and fell asleep.
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Fu Qihai slowly woke up from his lethargy.
He frowned, muttered, and rubbed his face in a daze.
He had hardly felt this way since his ascension to Astartes.
This feeling of poor sleep quality.
His head was heavy and aching.
Fu Qihai shook his head, got up and went to the bathroom.
He took cups of cold water with both hands and rubbed his face.
Fu Qihai raised his head and looked at himself in the mirror. His eyes were bloodshot, with dark bags under the eyes, short stubble, and a tired face.
How is this going?
Fu Qihai was about to take a closer look at his facial skin.
Um?
The corner of his eye jumped.
Just now he noticed from the corner of his eye that the corner of the mirror seemed to blur suddenly.
Fu Qihai reached out and pressed the corner of the mirror, and his thumb was clearly reflected on the mirror.
no problem.
Then turn around and look behind.
Nothing.
It's weird... Fu Qihai muttered to himself, he had the impression that something flashed in the corner of the mirror just now, but he couldn't see it clearly, just like a 3A game played with an old-fashioned graphics card and an antique monitor, with an indescribable feeling. Mosaic blur.
Fu Qihai returned to the bedroom, and just as he walked to the bed, he suddenly heard a low voice calling from outside the cabin door.
Fu Qihai frowned, walked behind the door and listened carefully.
"Qihai... Hiss... Qinghai..."
At that moment, a vague sound flooded into his eardrums, far away and very close, as if someone was blowing against his ear.
Fu Qihai instantly opened the door.
For some reason, he didn't think about a question in his mind——
His name is "Loke" in Xiachao and Qisi Latan, and "Qingshan" after being promoted. No one here knows his real name is Fu Qihai.
Fu Qihai felt that his mind was a little muddled, but the conditioned reflex acquired from long-term training made him immediately open a box next to the bed and take out a bolter.
Quickly pull the bolt to load and aim at the hatch.
Holding the gun with one hand, he pressed the hatch opening button with the other.
The cabin door opened slowly, and the white corridor outside was empty.
A gust of wind blew in from the cabin door, and a layer of goosebumps appeared on Fu Chenghai's calf.
cold.
Although Fu Qihai is only wearing a pair of tight sports shorts all over his body now.
But this feeling still surprised him.
He hadn't felt cold for a long time since his promotion to Space Marine.
It seemed to be a...a chill from the depths of the soul.
Fu Qihai stepped out of the cabin door, followed by the muzzle of the gun and searched in the corridor.
On the left, a man in the uniform of the legion's white crew with red trim was walking slowly towards the distance with his back turned.
The close-fitting uniform outlines a graceful figure, and the short black hair hangs behind the ears.
Fu Qihai narrowed his eyes. There were not many female mortal crew members on the Dagger frigate. He didn't remember such a slender and tall crew member.
He pointed his gun at the back, and said:
"Stop, soldier."
The figure stopped.
"Turn around." Fu Qihai continued.
The figure in uniform was unmoved.
"I'm Space Warrior Qingshan, I order you, turn around, soldier!" Fu Qihai emphasized his tone.
The crew turned around slowly, showing a half-smile face.
Seeing that face, Fu Qihai's eyes widened for a moment.
It was a delicate Asian oval face, with a long and slender nose, long eyelashes...there were no pupils in the eyes.
She is Fu Qihai's ex-girlfriend from Earth's previous life.
The woman grinned, and with this smile, her face began to distort, and the whole face began to distort as if it was put into PS and pulled by various lasso tools.
"Outsider..." A low, hoarse, inhuman voice came from the woman's grinning mouth.
"Who are you?" Fu Qihai clenched the handle of the gun, forcing himself to calm down.
"Outsider..." The monster in front of him ignored Fu Qihai's question, and continued to speak to himself:
"I'm chewing your memory, your soul doesn't belong here..."
Hearing this, Fu Qihai stopped thinking about it and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
"Boom!"
Fu Qihai woke up suddenly from the bed.
He was sweating profusely, panting heavily.
Fu Qihai looked around, familiar beds and walls.
This was a dream... Before Fu Qihai could sort out his thoughts, there was a loud knock on the door.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The sound was as loud as a pile driver banging on the door.
Before Fu Qihai got up, the cabin door opened.
Wo Kuotai and Talar led in a young man with yellow hair and a white cloth wrapped around his forehead.
The three looked at Fu Qihai who was dripping with sweat on the bed, and Wo Kuotai asked:
"Fan Lier told me that I noticed a huge wave of psionic energy from your cabin. What happened, Qingshan?"
Fu Qihai looked bewildered, and said: "I just had a dream..."
"Dream? What kind of dream?" Talal asked.
"I dreamed of a woman, a strange-looking woman in a crew uniform with white scars, she said to me... said..." Fu Qihai got stuck while speaking, he really didn't know how to explain the following words.
Unlike the muddled nightmare in the dream, he immediately regained his ability to think when he woke up. Words such as "soul does not belong here" and "outsider" obviously meant that the monster in the dream knew his memory He is from Earth.
There are also two obvious proofs. The monster called him "Qi Hai", and the face that the monster turned into was the face of an ex-girlfriend in the previous life on Earth.
"……I forgot."
"Forgot?" Talal and Ogedei asked in unison.
"Yes, my head hurts so much now, and I can't remember anything." Fu Qinghai looked in pain and rubbed his head with both hands.
The two space warriors didn't know what to do, so they looked at Van Leer, who had been silent.
Fan Lier stared at Fu Qihai for a while, and said:
"Qingshan's body is no longer in harm's way. I didn't notice any spiritual energy fluctuations on his body. There is no smell of ether here anymore. Everything has disappeared."
Ogedei and Talal looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
In the end, Wokuotai could only say to Fu Qinghai: "You rest for a while and go to Master Kuntuo to check your physical condition."
just left.
After the three of them left, Fu Qinghai got up from the bed and came to the bathroom mirror "again".
In the mirror, except for the wet sweat stains on my face, I have no bags under my eyes, no red bloodshot eyes, and no stubble. I am clean and healthy.
Fu Qinghai put his hands on the sink and started thinking.
At present, the frigate is sailing in the subspace under the protection of Geller's position. As an alien visitor who has read the official novel of Warhammer 40K, he knows the inside story of the subspace better than Wo Kuotai and Talar.
The essence of subspace is the projection of the emotions and consciousness of various intelligent creatures in the universe.
There is not only endless violent energy here, but also consciousness, creatures, and even...gods.
The Eldar have their gods, and the Orks have their gods.
Humans... maybe too.
Until the Horus Heresy tore open the ferocious veil of the subspace, the human empire's understanding and utilization of the subspace remained at a relatively superficial level.
Limited to astronomical communication and subspace jumping.
But other races, the Aeldari, the Old Ones, the Orks and even the humans of the Golden Age (officially called the Dark Ages by the Empire) and certain human colonies lost in space, have a much deeper awareness of the Warp. Know.
Then Fu Qihai's own interpretation of the dream just now is: a powerful subspace existence noticed him, and forcibly passed through the shield of Geller's force field to talk to him.
The existence of that person should not have reached the level of the four evil gods of chaos, so he thinks highly of himself. Those four generally only pay attention to outstanding heroes among human beings, or extreme treacherous and evil people.
But it can't be ordinary subspace creatures, such as astral ghosts, psionic poisonous bees, etc. These low-level subspace creatures without intelligence basically cannot invade the Geller force field.
It should be a certain lord-level subspace boss.
With no clue, Fu Qinghai simply gave up thinking. Anyway, the frigate was about to sail out of subspace.
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In the battleship corridor, the three walked side by side.
Wokuotai asked the question again: "Van Leer, are you sure Qingshan doesn't have psychic talent?"
Van Leer nodded: "I'm pretty sure he didn't."
"Then how do you explain what happened just now?" Wo Kuotai asked immediately.
Van Leer was silent.
This blindfolded, slender, yellow-haired young man seemed to not know how to explain to Wo Kuotai, and seemed to be organizing his words.
After thinking for a while, he asked: "Do you believe in magic and witchcraft, Captain Ogedai?"
Wo Kuotai said bluntly: "You don't need to do this, Van Leer, there are plenty of White Scars think tanks, and the great Storm Prophet should be a so-called wizard in the eyes of ignorant mortals. Unlike some blind people, we clearly know the existence of the road to heaven and respect it."
Van Leer nodded and said slowly: "That's good. Then, Captain Wo Kuotai, do you think there are... any living things in the subspace?"
"This..." Wo Kuotai choked.
If it were Ogedai when he first participated in the Great Crusade, he would have scorned the notion that there were demons, gods, and monsters in the subspace.
However, following the outbreak of the Horus Rebellion, what Qin Xia and others saw on the surface of Prospero, and the astronomical fragments from the Battle of Signus, many rumors slowly fermented in the army.
Van Leer did not wait for Ogedai to think of his words, and said directly:
"When I was a child, I saw vague records about subspace demons in the ancient books kept in our Lear family library. I don't know if those records are true or not... But if you want to ask me the answer, I think that That's the answer."
After speaking, Van Leer turned around and returned to his cabin.
Only Ogedei and Talal were left there, smacking their lips at the meaning of these words.
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