Chapter 168 Nest City Ecology
Mona, the name on this card.
Fu Qinghai was reminded of many things at once.
Schwerin Hive.
Throughout the milestone events of the space hulk stage, the name of the black hand who was hiding behind the scenes would appear vaguely from time to time.
Chen Xinlu and a group of reincarnations from the Horus camp descended on the Schwerin Hive. After some exploration and relying on their own magical power, they decided to overthrow the rule of the Planetary Governor, and then sent a message to the Warmaster's army. Welcome the arrival of the rebel fleet.
As a result, they overestimated themselves and underestimated the Empire's standing military strength. Even a military force like the Imperial Guard cannot be overthrown by a group of illegal psykers. They were suppressed by the Planetary Governor alone, and the rebellion ended in failure. .
The final facts proved that Chen Xinlu, a group of reincarnations with extra-dimensional self-confidence, was just used as a gunman by the local natives of the hive city, and finally became an abandoned child randomly arranged by Tzeentch - a space hulk. bait to attract enslavers.
Fu Qinghai looked at the drug remnants here and thought to himself that the group of reincarnations that Chen Xinlu had worked so hard to pull together in the hive city were really pulling them together.
Entering the world of reincarnation to take drugs?
What rubbish.
Fu Qinghai recalled the mess in that cabin after he entered it. Looking back now, he could see that it was probably a group of drug addicts who gathered together to take drugs. No wonder after he brutally killed two people, the rest were thrown away in a rush. Dispersed.
But then again, with Chen Xinlu's sickly look at that time, who knows whether she took medicine or not. After all, reflective tablets and necromancy medicine, these things that are related to subspace, are not suitable for psykers. Say, it's not just a drug, it should be some kind of magic potion.
The pink fear demon who transformed into a little girl to deceive Chen Xinlu's trust - Meng Na, a low-level Tzeentch demon, has been killed by Chen Xue with the sacred sword of Emperor Weishan. There is nothing to say.
But there is one person's name that still remains in Fu Qinghai's mind.
"Baron Zedo..."
Fu Qinghai stood up and whispered to himself.
According to the information provided by the space ape Slan, it was captured by the Baron Zeddu family in the Schwerin Hive and kept in captivity for decades before being sent to the space hulk to be responsible for the construction of the gravity siphon device.
At that time, Fu Qinghai judged based on the situation described by Shi Lan that the family of Baron Zedu was probably a family of cultists who secretly served the evil god Tzeentch.
The fact that Chen Xinlu and others were able to escape the pursuit of the Planetary Governor's troops and escape to the space hulk was probably due to Baron Zedu's work.
A hive noble who secretly serves the evil god and is involved in a conspiracy against the Space Marine fleet.
"The grudges have not been repaid, and the lingering feelings have not been resolved..."
Fu Qinghai clicked his tongue and smiled, a bit evil and cruel.
Suddenly, he changed his mind:
"This...can't be another Tzeentch conspiracy, right?"
The smile on Fu Qinghai's face disappeared.
Be cautious, you still have to be cautious.
Fu Qinghai secretly reminded himself, opened his palm and pointed it at the garbage on the ground. The hexagonal armor plate in the middle of his palm slid open, and a blazing white light beam shot out. The arc pulse cannon burned away all the drug residues such as the reflective sheet. .
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Carrying a huge jetpack and a pile of weapons hanging from his waist, Fu Qinghai trudged among the ruins of the bottom nest.
The scattered black puddles were bottomless. Whenever Fu Qinghai encountered a puddle blocking his way, he would start the turbofan and jump over it.
Who knows how deep the water is, who knows what is in the water at the bottom of the nest.
At least this armor is not good at underwater combat.
Fu Qinghai suspected that this should be a hive city close to the ocean. The bottom hive was located at an unknown depth below the sea level. The engineer's intuition told Fu Qinghai that it was a huge and thick pressure-bearing wall and a complex and ancient drainage system. This prevented this dark land from being annexed by the sea. Even so, hundreds of thousands of tons of seawater still poured in from the long-disrepaired fissures day after day, forming a sea of water in low-lying areas with poor drainage. A small piece of sea.
Fu Qinghai quietly came to the back of the man-made building on the ruins. It was the dim light that he had seen from a distance before. It looked like a shack made of rubbish. When a space warrior decided not to make a sound, the heavy armor could not reveal his whereabouts. Fu Qinghai walked slowly to the light.
It was an iron promethium lamp hanging on the shore, emitting a dim yellow light.
Next to the rusty chandelier, a figure wearing a hood and tattered robes sat quietly.
Fu Qinghai put his hand on his thin shoulder and whispered:
"Hello."
The tattered robe shook, and the person sitting on the shore was startled. He turned around, and the face exposed under the hood also startled Fu Qinghai:
A twisted face with seven eyes of different sizes.
Mutants!
Fu Qinghai raised his eyebrows and understood.
"You...who are you and why are you here?"
The mutant looked up at the tall and ferocious little armored giant behind him, his thin body trembling and his tone full of fear.
Di Chao's cruel survival instinct told her that a guy with this appearance would definitely not be easy to mess with.
The bottom layer of the hive city, which is filled with thousands of years of garbage, poisonous radiation and evil evil ways, has always been a breeding ground for heretics. It is not surprising that cultists and mutants appear.
You can't even tell whether it's because humans mutated and were driven to the bottom of the nest, or whether they mutated because they were driven to live in the bottom of the nest.
Listening to the mutant's voice, she should still be a young girl, but this face full of eyeballs really made it impossible for Fu Qinghai to correspond to a "young girl".
Fu Qinghai retracted his arm and said calmly:
"You don't have to worry about who I am. I'm hungry. Do you have anything to eat here?"
The mutant girl opened up the tattered robe she was wearing, revealing her thin chest with protruding ribs. Except for two pitiful little spots, no female features could be seen at all. She said:
"As you can see, I'm hungry too."
Fu Qinghai was silent.
In addition to being as thin as a skeleton, the mutant girl's skin has nothing to do with the word "young". It may have been destroyed by radiation, or it may have been corroded by toxic air and water. In short, it is dark and wrinkled. Ugly stains.
Fu Qinghai turned his head and looked at the promethium iron lamp on the shore. The light reflected on the dark water. The water rippled, as if there were living things swimming underneath.
"what is that?"
Fu Qinghai pointed to the water and asked.
“The bottom nest houses groupers.”
The mutant girl answered honestly.
Fu Qinghai asked:
"Why don't you eat it?"
The mutant girl shook her head:
"It will eat me first."
Fu Qinghai looked at the promethium lamp, then at the water surface, and said:
"It has phototaxis?"
The mutant girl thought for a moment before she figured out what "phototaxis" meant and nodded.
Fu Qinghai walked to the water's edge, leaned out half of his body, stretched out an arm, and pointed his palm at the water. A blazing white light lit up in the middle...
"Wow!"
There was a loud noise, and a huge creature jumped out of the water with splashes. It opened its huge mouth and bit Fu Qinghai's arm. Fu Qinghai did not flinch, and allowed the giant mouth of the strange fish to dig up his entire arm. engulf.
"Crack!"
The fine teeth struck the ceramic steel of the shoulder armor and broke.
Fu Qinghai squeezed hard with his palm, and penetrated the internal wall of the strange fish. He felt something was grasped in his palm, and immediately squeezed hard, "pia ji", which had a unique feeling like a balloon water bag bursting.
Fu Qinghai twisted his waist, raised his arms, and swung the two-meter-long giant fish to the shore.
The internal organs were crushed by Fu Qinghai and were still flapping. The dorsal fin, pectoral fin and tail fin opened and closed, and long hollow spikes were exposed in the air. Fu Qinghai walked over and raised his knees to face the fish. Stomping on the head.
"Snapped!"
There was a crisp sound and the strange fish became silent.
The mutant girl was stunned.
He didn't even pull out a weapon of any kind.
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The two-meter-long bottom-dwelling grouper was laid out entirely on the table in the shack.
All resources in the bottom nest are limited. The mutant girl has no cooking utensils and fuel to cook this huge strange fish. Fu Qinghai can only use the arc pulse cannon built in the palm of his hand to grill sashimi with Japanese food. The edge of the high-temperature laser is on the fish. Scratch the surface of the body and heat it slightly.
The fish skin is very gluey, like the Eastern Star Spot, and the fish meat is white and firm, and tastes good. However, if you put a Geiger counter next to the fish meat, the instrument will sound an alarm.
There is radiation in fish flesh.
Fukushima grouper is clean and hygienic.
Fu Qinghai only ate the fattest belly and middle portion, and didn't eat the rest.
He sat quietly, watching the mutant girl bury her head in the belly of the fish and feast on it. She even pulled out the half-cooked fish intestines and stuffed them into her mouth. He wanted to smash the fish bones to pieces and suck out the marrow.
It seems that a whole fish can be stuffed into its small body. Mutants are indeed not to be underestimated.
"Why did you light that lamp?"
Fu Qinghai was a little curious. Since the resources were limited and the strange fish couldn't be caught, lighting the lamp was just a waste of fuel.
"Show my parents the way."
The mutant girl said vaguely.
"How long have you been waiting on the shore?"
"Fourteen days."
Sure enough, what unfolds is another tragic story from the bottom of the nest.
Her parents are most likely dead.
But what does it have to do with me?
Fu Qinghai sat on the construction waste and thought to himself.
Fu Qinghai asked again:
"I want to go to the upper levels. Do you have any methods or connections?"
In a huge and complex hive city that reaches as high as the stratosphere in the clouds and as low as the mantle of the deep sea, achieving a leap from one level to another cannot be achieved by flying up with a jetpack at full speed. It must be There are guides or maps, or special transportation.
The mutant girl raised her head from the open fish belly, blinked her seven eyes, and said:
"I don't, but I know someone who might."
Fu Qinghai picked up the helmet on the table and put it on:
"Take me to her."
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The Empire believes in and promotes pure humanity, as evidenced by the ubiquitous skull symbols.
However, the empire's attitude towards mutants is not the same as its treatment of illegal psychics, who must kill them all if they are caught. Mutants are discriminated against in the imperial society, but strictly speaking they are not illegal citizens. The approach taken by the imperial government is often Expelled, or sent to do hard work in the mines, some war-prone galaxies will even form a redemption force composed entirely of mutant criminals to serve as cannon fodder death squads.
Fu Qinghai is a space warrior, not a hive bailiff. The problem of mutants is not for him to deal with. Now he just wants to rush to the upper levels of the hive as soon as possible to see what is going on in the Schwerin hive, and by the way, he can contact the loyalists. The fleet is even better.
Become a wild space warrior and dominate the mountain? That was the choice of the desperate fallen angel. Fu Qinghai was a loyal white scar with a strong foundation and had to return to Terra as soon as possible to recover his life.
Fu Qinghai followed the mutant girl and came to a secret place where there were only mountains of ancient construction debris and countless floor slabs, highways and bridges sunk here. In the "in"-shaped space supported by two broken bridges, Fu Qinghai saw the woman.
A yellow afro, clumps of hair wrapped in gel like hedgehogs reaching the sky, heavy smoky makeup, rippled red tattoos covering her cheeks, and shiny metal armor that only covered her chest. , thighs and arms, with some kind of fur vest draped over the shoulders, and decorated with chains, rivets, belts and skulls.
One hand held a long laser gun, and the other held a guarded saber.
The light under the broken bridge was very dim, and Fu Qinghai's superhuman vision locked onto the woman before she noticed him.
She is like the lead singer of a hard-core heavy metal rock band in the 1970s, but she is holding a weapon instead of an electric guitar. In terms of body shape, the woman's body is plump, sexy and hot, but the aesthetic style of the women in Chaodu really makes Fu Qinghai a little bit I can't accept it. She is a very typical female member of the lower nest gang, the so-called "goth punk".
She stood on a pile of cement waste with an arrogant face, one foot on the stone pier, and looked in the direction of the person with her chin raised. But when the woman gradually saw clearly the little armored giant who walked slowly in from outside the broken bridge, Especially when you see those scarlet goggles clearly...
She was so frightened that she almost lost her grip on the saber in her hand.
"A...Astartes..."
"Hello."
Still the same fixed opening statement, Fu Qinghai's tone was flat.
There was a promethium lamp on the ground. When the tall and burly Fu Qinghai stood in front of the woman, the dim light illuminated his front. He looked at the clear metal relief of the Lightning Eagle Wings emblem on the breastplate and the shoulder armor. Rusty red gears and skulls... The woman's eyes opened wider and wider.
The famous Mars Red.
Space Marines + Adeptus Mechanicus =…
The gang woman understood what these elements represented. She quickly retracted her foot from the stone pier, lowered her head and did not dare to look at Fu Qinghai's faceplate. She lowered her shoulders and whispered timidly:
"Dear...Dear Lord Astartes, I,... salute you."
Unlike the Marvel comic universe where fame is achieved through fists, in the Warhammer 40K universe, Fu Qinghai's tall and muscular physique, the power armor he wears, and the symbols on the armor are symbols of strength and status.
The woman lowered her head and saw the mutant girl following Fu Qinghai. She couldn't help but glare at her and cursed in a low voice:
"You didn't say you were a Space Marine earlier..."
The mutant girl blinked her seven eyes under the hood and said innocently:
"What is a Space Marine, sister Hulda?"
"I……"
Gangster girl Hulda was so angry that she wanted to beat her to death. Fu Qinghai stretched out his hand and interrupted:
"alright."
"I want to go to the top of the hive. Is there anything you can do?"
Fu Qinghai put forward his request straightforwardly.
The gang woman raised her head and said carefully:
"I can only lead you to the upper level. At most, you can only go from the bottom nest to the lower nest. The passage leading to the upper level is guarded by the noble's private troops and the nest bailiffs. If you want to pass, you may need to take care of something. two……"
When Hulda said this, he suddenly stopped talking.
The woman secretly cursed herself for being so stupid. A gang member like her needs bribes to deal with her. She is a Space Marine of the Imperial Army. What should a Space Marine do?
It seems that with the skills of this gang woman, she can only lead herself to the next nest. Fu Qinghai understood.
He nodded and said:
"Then please take me to the upper level first. By the way, what reward do you need?"
Hulda quickly shook his head like a drum:
"No, no, I don't need any reward. It's my honor to be your guide."
Hulda thought to himself: If I refuse, I'm afraid losing my life will be the only reward I can gain.
Fu Qinghai was also very satisfied with the fact that the woman was so discerning.
When it comes to remunerating a woman, Fu Qinghai really has nothing to give her. The weapons and equipment he wears are all assimilated through hard work in the previous reincarnation world. The seizures in the tomb world are also the advanced technology of the Necron. Then They are all Fu Qinghai's darlings.
The gang members who sneaked into the nest are not the mutant girls who can't even eat a mouthful of food. They can be killed with a grouper living in the nest. Looking at her plump body, you can tell that at least she is full. Don't worry.
In this way, this gang member will serve as a guide to lead Fu Qinghai from the bottom nest to the next nest.
Before leaving, the mutant girl waved her hand and said to the grimacing Hulda:
"Don't worry, sister Hulda, this stranger is a good person."
Fu Qinghai smiled, turned his head to look at the ugly mutant girl, and asked:
"How do you know I'm a foreigner?"
The mutant girl said seriously:
"No one will say 'hello' in the bottom nest, and no one will say 'hello' to a mutant in the hive city."
Fu Qinghai nodded, turned around and left the broken bridge with the gang woman.
If you want to say that this mutant girl is ignorant, she really doesn't have much knowledge. She was born and raised in the Undernest, and she doesn't even know the famous Space Marines.
You may say she is stupid, but she is not stupid. She can tell Fu Qing's overseas identity from one detail. Perhaps this is the survival wisdom of the residents of the bottom nest.
As for saying I'm a good person?
Fu Qinghai shook his head and laughed.
I say "hello" because I'm polite, and whether I'm a good person or not...only God knows.
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Thanks to Mi Shii Ihe and Nang Ji, two book friends for their tips.
Warhammer 40K is generally translated as "mutants". I'm worried that it will be confused with Marvel and will be called "mutants" from now on.
Can a Space Marine survive by eating rocks? I really don’t know where this setting comes from. It’s too ridiculous. How do you eat inorganic things? Tyranids can’t eat stones, but Space Marines can eat them? I don't think so.