Chapter 604 Emperor Tarot
The endless psychic tide is still violently pulling on the hull. The Alva and the Spear of Russ are wrapped in an egg-shaped cavitation force field, floating on invisible waves, just like the tide of the ocean. of two floating objects.
Fu Qinghai and Saroyan walked side by side quickly towards the navigator spire of the strike cruiser. This place is one of the top buildings on the battleship and is only slightly shorter than the bridge. Soon they saw the navigator sitting in the center of the steeple.
The Navigator, completely unaware of the arrival of the two Space Marines, was still dutifully searching for the bright beacon of the Astronomican, gazing into the Warp with the eyes on his brow, as he had been doing for some time past.
However, it can be seen from his stern expression.
This move was ultimately in vain.
"Stop what you're doing, Shelly."
Saroyan Skasson spoke.
"Ah, Captain Skarson."
The navigator quickly broke away from his working state. His pale and sickly face was covered with beads of sweat, and wrinkles spread along the sagging flesh. He pulled down the exquisite silk that bound his withered hair to cover the strange eye, and then leaned slightly to salute Saroyan Skasson.
"Still nothing?"
Saroyan asked.
"Yes, my lord."
the navigator admitted bitterly.
"Then let's hear what he has to say."
Saroyan signaled to Fu Qinghai.
"Here, this place."
Of course, the navigator's spire has a star map, and Fu Qinghai didn't talk too much. He pointed directly to the blank area at the edge of the star field, and then asked the navigator who was in poor condition:
"As far as I know, there is a sizable subspace rift, and it is not far away from us in the real universe. I don't need you to see the star torch, but this place, this rift, can you see it? ?”
"Warp rift?"
The navigator was visibly shocked.
Then he reacted quickly:
"Do you want to return to the real universe through that rift? With all due respect, sir, you are an Astartes. It is understandable that your knowledge of the non-material world is not as professional as ours. To tell you the truth, you can penetrate the curtain of reality. The place where a permanently fixed warp rift is formed is itself equivalent to a more powerful warp storm. This idea is undoubtedly fanciful. There is no way we can pass through that storm. It will tear us apart first. , and then chew us up and spit them out from the crack!"
The navigator shook his head and said.
"Do we have any other choice now?"
Fu Qinghai asked calmly.
The navigator fell silent upon hearing this.
“We are already in the midst of a storm, why should we fear a stronger storm?”
Fu Qinghai looked at the terrifying scene outside the minaret and said.
The adventurous spirit in my heart emerged.
White Scars, Son of the Storm.
Warp storms are also storms.
"Just do as he says."
Saroyan gave the final orders.
…
Although the screaming vortex was very close to him, it was not easy to see another storm inside one storm. The pilot and his assistants began their intense and busy work, and the two ships were still drifting with the current in the turbulent storm.
Fu Qinghai provided a feasible idea.
But I don’t know when the direction will be determined.
However, at this moment.
What everyone on the ship lacks most is time.
The Geller force field is already crumbling and overwhelmed.
Fu Qinghai and Saroyan walked quickly in the swaying corridor. The deck of the Spear of Russ resonated in a certain way like a drumhead, making their teeth chatter. An auxiliary drive system in the battleship was damaged, which slowed their travel across the swampy galaxy and amplified the force of every bump and slide the unquiet abyss exerted on them.
"We don't have much time."
Saroyan said solemnly.
"Oh, thanks for reminding me."
Fu Qinghai responded lightly.
Saroyan turned to look at Fu Qinghai:
"Is there any other way you can do it?"
"Gone."
Fu Qinghai replied expressionlessly.
"But I have a solution."
Saroyan stopped and spoke.
Fu Qinghai also stopped and turned to look at him.
"You know what I want to say, Qingshan."
Saroyan looked directly at Fu Qinghai.
"How can I possibly know what you want to say."
Fu Qinghai curled his lips and said:
"I'm not a prophet."
"But we have a prophet on board."
Saroyan reminded with a serious look.
Fu Qinghai's answer was silence.
"You don't trust her, do you, Qingshan?"
Saroyan then asked.
Fu Qinghai thought, what should I tell you?
She is a player in the Parasitic Legion camp.
She is naturally on the opposite side of us.
I would be considered kind-hearted if I didn't kill her.
"Give her a chance, Qingshan."
Saroyan looked at Fu Qinghai and said seriously:
"She explained a lot to you. Although I didn't understand what she meant, and I don't think you believed her explanation, I still chose to believe her. Because I didn't smell any conspiracy in her. And the smell of lies makes that crappy prophet try again.”
"You don't smell... wow, that's a reason."
Fu Qinghai nodded and praised:
"What a fucking Space Wolf."
"I've always trusted my instincts."
Faced with the irony in Fu Qinghai's words.
Saroyan was not impressed at all.
"Okay, okay."
Fu Qinghai said helplessly:
"Let her try."
…
In the captain's room of the Spear of Russ.
Fu Qinghai, Saroyan, and Blindsight were sitting at the table.
Prepare for a true prophecy.
Based on the unique properties of subspace (the past and future can be glimpsed through the property of time distortion), the frequency of diviners and prophets in the Warhammer 40K universe is not low. Not every human psyker can awaken the gift of precognition, but for the Ark Eldar, prophets belong to the same path as Warfighter, Howling Banshee, and Shining Spear - which means they can be artificially cultivated and created. prophet.
Prophecy and divination are also divided into schools.
During the Great Crusade, Space Marines saw various schools of divination in many feudal worlds: using viscera for divination, using tortoise shells for divination, divination based on the stars... and even a little cyberpunk, using psychic machines. Divination, such as fortune-telling.
Fu Qinghai was very curious about how to perform divination with blind sight.
Or do you still rely on the kind of passive prophecy that comes out of nowhere?
Fu Qinghai actually has some scrutiny of blindness in his heart. It is true that this woman has the ability to predict, a talent given to her by the mutant Agreed - back then you had the same prophecy ability in the space hulk, but you were killed by me and Chen Xinxue until you were running away with your head covered.
Until Blind Eye took out a beautiful wooden box filled with jewels from his arms, opened the lid and took out a thick stack of crystal cards from the velvet lining.
"Emperor Tarot?"
Fu Qinghai said in surprise.
"That's right."
Blindsight nodded.
"What is this?"
Saroyan wondered.
Fu Qinghai did not expect that the divination method used by Blindsight was actually the Emperor's Tarot. No wonder Saroyan had never seen this thing, because in the era they lived in, the Emperor Tarot had not yet begun to become fully popular. To admit that the Emperor Tarot has a prophetic effect, you must first admit that the Emperor is a god.
Blindsight easily manipulated the tarot cards with his fingers, shuffling and cutting the cards with skillful skills, just like a blindfolded beautiful dealer. It can be seen that this is not the first time she has used the Emperor Tarot for divination. While speaking, she has already opened several of them to provide assistance for the next divination.
"Three pieces, Qingshan Khan."
Blindsight raised his hand and said.
Fu Qinghai leaned down and lightly traced all the cards one by one with his fingertips, suppressing his curiosity to use Force perception to explore the contents of the cards - even if he saw it, he didn't know what it meant, and finally selected one of them. Three. Blindsight uses one card to provoke the other two to flip over.
The two Space Marines came together.
They all stared at the three cards with interest.
Blindsight flicked the crystal pieces of the tarot cards with beautifully painted nails and placed the secondary instruction cards next to the main instruction cards. Fu Qinghai and Saroyan looked confused.
"Wand Guard."
Blindsight spoke softly.
She gently pushed out the first card.
"The wanderer."
She pointed to another card, which showed a huge ship that was shuttled out of the subspace:
"An uninvited guest brings opportunity and destruction."
"This card is about you, Qingshan."
Saroyan looked like I understand.
Fu Qinghai shook his head gently:
“Prophecy predicts the future, not the past.”
Saroyan's attention returned to the tarot cards.
"Eight of Swords."
Blindsight continued to read, and placed it next to a card engraved with a pale saint wearing gorgeous gold armor. The card was turned upside down and facing Fu Qinghai. He could clearly see a drop on the chest of the person in the painting. Blood and tears and a halo above his head.
"Sanguinius."
Blindsight said with a serious face:
"Reversed, represents premature fighting and sacrifice."
In the middle of the two cards, Blindsight revealed the card she had used to flip the previous two cards, placed it with the final instruction card, and spoke:
"The celestial girl and the galactic lens, the vast distance and the short time - this indicates that what is about to happen will change rapidly, and it may be far beyond your imagination."
Blindsight continued to divine in silence.
Fu Qinghai and Saroyan were already involved in a dispute.
"What the fuck is this for?"
Fu Qinghai spread his hands and asked.
"Is the result of this divination good or bad?"
Saroyan was lost in thought.
"I think my interpretation is correct, Qingshan."
"Your interpretation is bullshit."
Fu Qinghai dismissed the divination results.
In his view, Western tarot divination is just like Eastern lottery fortune-telling, both of which use vague and specious general descriptions and fragments of words to make people unconsciously follow the predictions. In psychology, this is called the Barnum effect. Blindly blindly seeing this prediction does not have any reference value.
"Let's be real, okay?"
Fu Qinghai waved his hand and complained:
"We need now..."
Before he finished speaking, the hatch suddenly slid open.
"Sir, the navigator said he saw it."
A Space Wolves Space Marine came in and said:
"He saw the 'screaming vortex' you called it!"
Fu Qinghai and Saroyan looked at each other.
"Then set off immediately!"
…
"I must return to the Alva."
Fu Qinghai said while putting on his armor:
"Then find a way to connect us together."
"why?"
Saroyan asked with a puzzled look:
"Why do you have to bring that merchant ship with you?"
In his opinion, it's already this time. Can't we just give up on a shabby armed merchant ship? Why do we have to go back and sail that merchant ship?
"You do not understand."
Fu Qinghai shook his head and did not explain:
"I entered this hellish place just for this merchant ship. I must take it out of here."
Number 56 was in the cabin of this merchant ship when he left the Warhammer 40K universe, so Fu Qinghai had to take it away. Although this approach felt a bit desperate, he couldn't think of a better way, so he could only do this. .
…
In the captain's room of the Spear of Russ.
Fu Qinghai and Saroyan are both gone.
Only Blindsight is left here.
Her Imperial Tarot divination has not yet been completed, but Fu Qinghai, the target of the divination, has already left, so logically speaking, she should not continue divination. But Blindsight was very curious, and even she didn't know whether this divination was a good or bad omen, so she turned over the last hole card in the deck, trying to find some information against the rules.
Blindsight reveals this trump card.
There is a golden pattern on the front of the card.
"The Golden Throne!"
Blindsight exclaimed softly.
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