Chapter 185 Holy Terra
Three months later.
Solar sector, solar sector, solar system.
Fu Qinghai stood in front of the porthole, looking at the devastated ancient planet in the vast space. Through the ruins on the surface, he might be able to imagine how glorious it once was.
Terra, also known as "Holy Terra" or according to ancient records - "Earth", is not only the throne world, political center and economic center of the human empire, but also the birthplace of mankind in the entire universe.
"Is this your first time on Terra?"
Saroyan Skasson did not know when he stood next to Fu Qinghai.
"Yes."
Fu Qinghai nodded.
"Me too."
The red-haired warrior's tone was full of emotion:
“It’s a bit difficult to imagine the glory of its past through this place filled with trenches, craters and debris.”
The layers of defense built by the Imperial Fists around the Imperial Palace of Terra, as well as the huge craters created by orbital bombardment, are still vaguely discernible even when viewed from space.
"Then you are really a Fenrisian bumpkin."
Fu Qinghai said.
"Haha, how can you be so good as a Chogris barbarian?"
The red-haired warrior put his hands on his hips and laughed.
It was typical of Saroyan Skasson that the scar healed and he forgot the pain, or maybe he knew that the separation was coming and he didn't have to worry about Fu Qinghai beating him again.
Fu Qinghai didn't bother to explain to him that he was not a Chogris. He looked at Saroyan Skasson's smiling and optimistic look, which was completely different from that of many Space Marines with bitter and grudged faces. If it weren't for time, The lines couldn't be matched, and Fu Qinghai even suspected that this guy was the most famous liar of the Wolf Group - Lucas the Bloodclaw.
Fu Qinghai turned his head, stared at the huge space station that was slowly approaching in the distance, and murmured to himself in a low voice:
"Lions Gate Spaceport..."
Lion's Gate is the largest of Terra's many spaceports. It has an orbital elevator that leads directly to the surface. The main body of the building runs through low-Earth orbit, the stratosphere, the mesosphere and the troposphere.
During the siege of Terra, countless battles took place on this famous spaceport. Loyalists and rebels fought repeatedly around this vital bridge between heaven and earth. The Sons of Horus were once defended by the Imperial Fists. The spaceport was captured by Jaghatai Khan in a surprise attack led by the White Scars. Mortarion led the Death Guard to fight for it again, but failed.
Three Cobra-class destroyers docked at the space port. Fu Qinghai followed the Space Wolf warriors off the battleship. Officials from the Ministry of Military Affairs had been waiting for a long time.
"Lord Skarson, Lord Russ and your legion are already waiting at the legion station. Please come with me."
"Wait a moment."
Fu Qinghai stretched out his hand to stop the officials from the Ministry of Military Affairs.
"Send one person out and take me to the White Scar's station."
The officials of the Ministry of Military Affairs looked surprised. They did not expect that there was a White Scar warrior among the Space Wolves' fleet.
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Terra is the first hive world of the Human Empire, and it is also the largest hive world. Its soil has long lost nutrients, and its atmosphere has turned into a heavily polluted mist. It is like a maze of giant buildings. Filled the entire planet.
The Earth's oceans were evaporated dry in ancient times due to the enormous heat generated by the squeezing of a massive population onto a single planet. In order to meet the needs of the people, all liquid water would need to be melted and distributed to the population after cargo ships carrying icy comets from the outer solar system entered Terra's orbit.
Most of the mountains have been flattened, and only the Himalayas still stand tall - it is said that it is because of the existence of a giant laboratory under the mountains. After the Unification War, the Emperor created twenty genes in this laboratory. The Primarch and the first Space Marine.
Although Terra had already experienced devastation in the earlier era of technological barbarian warlords, and after the Unification War and the Siege of Terra during the Horus Heresy, Terra was ravaged again, but it was still a place where humans One of the most densely populated planets in the Empire. In the dark world beneath the countless buildings at the bottom of the hive city, there are ancient secrets buried that are completely different from those on the surface.
Sitting in the shuttle, Fu Qinghai gazed far into the distance through the glass window, looking at the towering snow-capped peaks and the glittering golden palace buildings covering the peaks.
In Fu Qinghai's heart, there was no awe like a believer's pilgrimage, only sighs and looks up to this legendary place.
The shuttle landed in a temporarily flattened square. The ruins around the square were still not cleaned up. Numerous workers and servitors were busy around the square. The dust raised by the shuttle seemed to cause a few workers to shout loudly. Cursing, but when they saw a Space Marine walking out of the dust, they immediately lowered their heads and shut their mouths.
Fu Qinghai saw fear in their eyes.
The Astartes were once legendary heroes and the patron saint of the empire. But now, after the civil war, the people of the Throne World only have fear of the Astartes, fear regardless of camp.
Fu Qinghai sighed in his heart and followed the Military Affairs Ministry official who led the way towards the white scarred legion's garrison.
In the dry wind and sand, there is still a vague smell of radioactive dust and scorched corpses. Technical priests in red robes are directing mortal laborers and machine slaves to dismantle bunkers built during the war and repair buildings on the surface, like A group of ants clinging to an anthill.
Restoring Terra is a huge project. The driving engines of towering machinery are roaring. The entire war-torn Throne World has turned into a huge construction site. There are also some field hospitals dotted in the gaps between the construction sites. Take in and treat people with scars all over their bodies.
The aftermath of the Horus Heresy has not yet subsided, and the screening and strangulation of sporadic traitors continues. People's faces are full of numbness and pain, and under the supervision of administrative officials, they repeat the work they are doing like walking zombies.
Pass through toppled tall buildings and walk along cracked roads.
Fu Qinghai looked away, raised his head, and suddenly saw a space warrior wearing MK3 steel-type power armor standing in the distance waiting for him.
He took off his helmet, revealing a weather-beaten bronze face that Fu Qinghai was very familiar with.
"Talal!"
Fu Qinghai pointed at the soldiers in the distance and couldn't help shouting. He pulled off his helmet and stared at his eyes that were red with excitement. He stood there and looked at his old friend in the distance.
"Hahahahaha."
A happy and relieved smile appeared on Talal's old face with crisscrossed ravines. He pointed at Fu Qinghai and sighed:
"You're still alive, Qingshan, I knew you were still alive..."
"Boom, boom, boom, boom."
Heavy footsteps sounded, and a huge, square bipedal mecha with a white body and red trim slowly walked out from behind a building.
Leviathan Siege Dreadnought.
In the cockpit in the middle of the fearless mecha, the face of a strong man with a fat head was revealed. He looked down at Fu Qinghai, and in a hoarse broken gong voice, he laughed loudly:
"Hahahaha, little bastard, I knew you wouldn't die that easily!"
Fu Qinghai opened his hands and looked at the two people in front of him. Tears were shining in his red eyes. His mouth was half-opened and his voice was trembling, full of sincere emotions:
"Wo Kuotai!"
"You are still alive, you are all alive, so good, so good..."
"Your Majesty, this is so damn good!"
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Thanks to the popular sage of the moon, the great sage ruled by Mars, the southern house and the northern constellation, and the rewards of several book friends.