Chapter 186 Reunion of old friends
The White Scars' temporary base is located in the Hall of Judgment.
The Hall of Judgment, once the headquarters of the Adeptus Arbitraire, was transformed by the Imperial Fists into a defensive command center during the Siege of Terra. It is not far from the Eternal Gate Avenue that leads to the Royal Palace of Terra.
Fu Qinghai returned to the Falcon Brotherhood to which he belonged.
The sudden return of a long-lost Space Marine was, in the 41K era, a matter worthy of celebration for the Chapter, and a matter worthy of investigation for the Inquisition.
But for the chaotic time just after the Horus Heresy, it did not attract much attention.
In a huge room in the Judgment Hall, Fu Qinghai looked at Wo Kuotai who was stuffed into the fearless mecha with complicated eyes and asked:
"So, what happened, Khan?"
Just seeing that everyone on the Gladius frigate was still alive, Fu Qinghai knew that they definitely did not go to Mars, or did not arrive at Mars as planned.
Before Ogedei could speak, Talal took the lead in explaining:
"After you disappeared during the psyker riot on the lower deck of the Sossaran, we followed your suggestion and consulted Master Quinto. Master Quinto also believed that if the Foundry Commander Kalbor Hal had If you rebel, going to Mars is tantamount to death."
"So we changed our route. Instead of continuing with the Sossaran, we went to a forge world designated by Master Quinto."
Fu Qinghai asked quickly:
"Where have you been? Underworld No. 8? Griffin No. 4? Steel Ball? Lucius? Or Reza?"
Talal shook his head and said:
"No, these famous forging worlds have their own power structure. It doesn't make any sense for us to go there. It was Master Quinto who provided us with a choice - the moon of Graf's Hive World, the Moon of Gravia."
Gravia? What is that place?
Fu Qinghai had never heard of this forging world.
Talal saw Fu Qinghai's doubts and introduced him:
"This is a very fringe forging world in the Mechanicus. It belongs to a secretive and niche, even somewhat heretical branch of the sect - the Micro-Ohm Messianic Order. They study a technology called nano-mechanical dendrites. . When Master Quinto was still a mechanic apprentice, one of his classmates and colleagues later worked in the Moon of Gravia, and he had some connections, so we went to the forging world of Gravia."
The Cult of Mechanicus, which specializes in nanotechnology... is indeed quite niche.
Fu Qinghai probably understood that Master Kuntuo, Wo Kuotai and others deliberately found a marginal casting world that was not too powerful to facilitate their actions.
"What happened next?" Fu Qinghai asked.
"We arrived at the Moon of Gravia successfully. It was peaceful there, and everyone expressed their loyalty to the Emperor. But soon, a Night Lords warband that was defeated by the Dark Angels fled here, and they demanded the Moon of Gravia. Submitting to Chaos and providing them with the necessary supplies to travel to the Eye of Terror, we naturally fought with the Night Lords for the right to own the Moon of Gravia."
Have the Night Lords split into countless warbands so quickly?
Fu Qinghai knew that during the entire Horus Heresy, the Night Haunter Konrad Curze was basically in a state of self-destruction and self-pity, and did not care much about the Space Marines below. The Eighth Legion was not as powerful as it was. The first legion of many relic technologies, the Primarch was in a trance and chattering all day long. The Night Lords fought on their own, and were quickly defeated by the Dark Angel.
"We are too few in number, and the technical priests of Gravia Moon are not proficient in combat. Their nano-silicon implants are very fragile in combat... I really don't know what the use of their research on this thing is."
Talal complained smoothly and then said:
"The battle was very intense. It happened that there was a leftover Leviathan siege Dreadnought on the Moon of Gravia. In order to enhance our combat effectiveness, Ogodei asked Master Quinto to stuff it in."
Fu Qinghai raised his head and glanced at Wo Kuotai. The strong man with a rich head was expressionless.
Fu Qinghai had heard in his previous life that the White Scars warriors disliked the Dreadnought because of its slow movement speed. There was only one Dreadnought in the entire White Scars Army.
Unexpectedly, this fearless mecha is Wokuotai...
Wokuotai is really ruthless. He performed an on-the-spot amputation surgery on Fu Qinghai when they first met, and now he has cut off his own arms to temporarily enhance his combat effectiveness.
"What are you looking at!"
Wo Kuotai rolled his eyes at Fu Qinghai angrily and snorted.
Fu Qinghai withdrew his gaze and did not want to offend his old boss. He looked at Talal and asked:
"And after that?"
Talal said:
"We set up a trap on the Gladius. We hid the Dreadnought, deliberately acted like we were invincible, closed the void shield, and attracted the Night Lord's people to teleport to join our battleship, and then led them to the bottom cabin. In the laboratory, the void shield was reactivated. Master Quinto's intelligent robots and armed servitors were in front, and Ogodei's Leviathan siege Dreadnought was behind. The two attacked from the front and back, wiping out the Night Lords war gang. Yes, and a Scimitar-class frigate was captured.”
Very classic White Scar tactical style.
Fu Qinghai commented in his heart.
For the White Scars, feigning defeat is a common tactical move. Anyone should think twice before deciding to pursue the White Scars.
Fu Qinghai remembered that at the door of Master Quinto's bilge laboratory, there were two Castellan intelligent control robots, commonly known as "Dabai". They were very powerful and proficient in biochemical modification technology. An armed servitor created by a biological sage, Master Quinto himself is also a combat force that cannot be underestimated.
Almost none of these great sages of the Mechanicum are pure scientific researchers, and they are all ruthless in fighting.
As for Talal complaining about the uselessness of the nano-mechanical dendrite technology of the Micro-Ohm Messianic Order, it can only be said that Talal is a pure warrior. He only considers problems from the perspective of combat. As a scientific researcher, Fu Qinghai , he fully understands the great significance of nanotechnology.
This is just like 3D printing. Whether it can be realized is one thing. Whether the strength of the material can be guaranteed after it is realized is another matter. At this stage, the nano-creations of the Mechanicum are very fragile and cannot withstand explosive bombs. Hot melt is even less resistant to plasma, but that doesn't mean that nanotechnology is useless and can be of great use in other places.
"Finally, we received word of the Emperor's victory on the Moon of Gravia, and we set off on our own back to Terra without waiting for the Great Khan to summon us."
Talal concluded.
Fu Qinghai nodded to express his understanding, raised his head to look at Wokuotai, and said with a smile:
"How's it going, boss, do you feel good staying in there?"
Wo Kuotai snorted in his nose and said:
"It feels like being swallowed into the stomach by an orc warlord. Do you want to try it?"
Fu Qinghai shook his head and said he didn't want to.
It was okay during non-war times, but the Dreadnought Mecha was even more uncomfortable during combat. The strong electrical signal stimulation was no better than an electric oven, and sometimes the driver would be scorched alive.
Fu Qinghai said seriously to Wo Kuotai:
"Boss, leave it to me, I will find a way."
Wokuotai said disdainfully:
"It's just pain. When have I ever been afraid?"
According to the rules of the tribe and brotherhood in the White Scars, Fu Qinghai should call Ogedai "Ogedai Nayanhan", but Fu Qinghai is not a Chogris, so he just likes to call him "Boss", and Ogedai is too lazy to do so. Correct him.
Wokuotai had no choice but to be put into the Dreadnought sarcophagus, but as a reincarnationist, Fu Qinghai had many ways to make him more comfortable, and it was not impossible to even drag him out of the Dreadnought mecha.
Fu Qinghai summarized the experience of the Dirk.
In general, Ogodai and others were very clear-headed at the critical moment, and knew that their primary purpose was also an important task entrusted to them by the Great Khan, which was to protect a precious high-level loyalist technology like Master Quinto. Priest, instead of insisting on using weak troops to deliver food to the meat grinder of the siege of Terra.
Although they were not afraid to take part in the Siege of Terra.
You must know that in the era before the Great Crusade, the Emperor once had a conflict with the Forge Commander of Mars due to the dispute with the Mechanicum over the ownership of a biological magus.
The importance of Master Quinto is evident.
Wokuotai asked:
"What about you, Qingshan, what have you experienced? I read the investigation report Vlahos sent me. There are many doubts about the so-called psyker riot. Albus Lang and Aaron told me after they came back, One of the female psychics is acquainted with you, what’s going on?”
"Hey..."
Fu Qinghai showed a speechless expression:
"How should I put it? That was the Narrator on the Sossalan. She was actually an illegal psyker, but she was loyal and was blinded by Chaos. I don't want to defend her, but in the space hulk battle It was indeed inseparable from her help... I was later teleported to a hive world and stayed there for a long time. I happened to encounter a detachment of the Space Wolves before I could return to Terra."
Wokuotai asked again:
"What happened to your power armor? I remember I gave you a set of MK4 extreme power armor. How did it become like this? Where is your mechanical servo arm?"
Fu Qinghai said:
"The MK4 extreme power armor and mechanical servo arm have been damaged. This is the power armor I built myself. I call it 'Blue Shell'."
"You can even build your own powered armor..."
Wo Kuotai narrowed his eyes, his gaze was too deep to be understood.
The three of them reminisced about old times and discussed the current situation.
Wo Kuotai's face, huddled in the Dreadnought Mecha's cabin, suddenly revealed a familiar smirk that made Fu Qinghai feel familiar, and said:
"Congratulations, Qingshan, my decision to promote you to captain has been approved by the Great Khan and the Ministry of Military Affairs. Now you are an official Astartes Captain."
Fu Qinghai was slightly startled.
It's a good thing that he has become the company commander. Why does Wokuotai have such an expression?
Before Fu Qinghai led the team to join the Space Hulk, Ogedai temporarily promoted Fu Qinghai to captain to facilitate the command of the tactical team. The captain rank of Astartes corresponds to the position of company commander, so Humar was half-open at that time Fu Qinghai was playfully called "Qingshan Nayanhan".
It is also because of this that Fu Qinghai painted the captain's rank logo on the shoulder armor of the Blue Shell Power Armor, so Saroyan Skarson will call him "Captain Qingshan" after seeing it.
But Fu Qinghai was actually a fake company commander with a military rank but no real one. This "captain rank" had not been certified by the Primarch and the Ministry of Military Affairs.
Sure enough, Wo Kuotai then said:
"The status we marked for you is alive, and the status reported by the Ultramarines for you is missing, but the status marked for you by the Ministry of Military Affairs... is death."
"That is to say." Ogedai said with a smirk, "In the database of the Ministry of Military Affairs, you are an Astartes Captain who has died gloriously in battle."
I see……
Fu Qinghai completely understood.
Fu Qinghai was surprised at first as to why his military rank promotion went so smoothly.
Although Fu Qinghai's record can be regarded as outstanding, his service life is too short, less than three years, which makes people doubt that his combat experience is enough to command a company of Space Marines.
Presumably, the Primarch and the Ministry of Military Affairs also considered Fu Qinghai's promotion of military rank somewhat "posthumously".
The dead are the most important.
Everyone is dead, why not make him a company commander?
The three of them were chatting when the sound of heavy footsteps came from outside the corridor.
A group of mortal officials wearing uniforms of the Ministry of Military Affairs rushed over in a hurry. When they saw Fu Qinghai, they matched his face with the photo on the electronic tablet in his hand, and said with a smile:
"Sorry, sorry, Captain Qingshan, we got your information wrong. This was a mistake and oversight in our work. We sincerely apologize to you. We will update your service status right now."
Fu Qinghai no longer cared about it, waved his hand and said:
"Okay, just re-label it."
However, Talal was very dissatisfied. He glanced sideways at these bureaucrats and said coldly:
"It is your fault to mark the service status of unconfirmed dead Space Marines as dead without authorization..."
The officials of the Ministry of Military Affairs could only apologize profusely and then left.
Fu Qinghai can also understand that the Horus Heresy was so chaotic that the entire galaxy was reduced to a mess. There is no such thing as "retired" in the service status of Space Marines. The Ministry of Military Affairs subconsciously believed that Fu Qinghai was dead, and so Very normal.
After the officials from the Ministry of Military Affairs left, Fu Qinghai asked: "Where are Aaron and Albus Lang?"
Talal explained:
"They are on battleships in orbit, participating in the defense of Terra."
The battle is far from over, and the Throne World still maintains the necessary vigilance.
Fu Qinghai nodded and asked again:
"What about Master Quinto?"
Talal said:
"He is with the Adeptus Mechanicus on Terra. He forgot to tell you that the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars is going to be reorganized into the Adeptus Mechanicus. With Master Quinto's level, his status in Mars is probably going to be even better."
The Emperor is tightening his control over the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Fu Qinghai understood clearly in his heart.
Unfortunately, even so, this control ultimately fell into the hands of the High Lords Council, and the Emperor, who sat on the Golden Throne, could no longer directly intervene in the management of the empire.
During the Horus Heresy, not only Mars was fighting a civil war, but also many forge worlds were fighting a civil war. Among the knight families and the Mechanicus in the Iron Ring, pig brains beat out dog brains.
The Dark Mechanicus fled to the Eye of Terror, and the Loyal Mechanicus suffered many casualties. Master Quinto, the only remaining biological sage, will also be a high-ranking figure on Mars in the future.
Fu Qinghai said goodbye to his old comrades and boss, and was going to talk to Master Quinto.
Fu Qinghai first returned to the residence arranged for him by the legion and put down the metal box he had been carrying.
This is the box that Koshvito prepared for him. Inside is Fu Qinghai’s various bits and pieces of trophies and personal belongings:
Hall Kemp's Servo Skull.
Qingzhihun artificial intelligence chip (Qingming).
Three super soldier serums.
Unknown authentication card.
E-11 blaster rifle.
211-V type plasma cutter.
Lady Viper's poison cocktail.
(PS: Cocktail poison is Mrs. Viper’s redemption item. I missed it when I was assimilating it earlier, but I have already added it, for those book friends who are chasing after me quickly.)
Feiyi's necklace has been hanging around her neck, and the steel sword Broken Heart has been inserted into the side of her thigh.
These two things have never left Fu Qinghai's side.
The former is used to remind oneself: There is still a girl waiting for him, while the latter is currently the only solution to subspace monsters and various psychic phenomena.
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There should be another chapter later