Chapter 629 Meeting

Chapter 629 Meeting

"Qingshan Khan?"

The Imperial Guard soldier spoke.

His voice was calm yet powerful.

In line with people's imagination of the Emperor's Guards.

"it's me."

Fu Qinghai stood up slowly and said.

Sid Nora stood up unconsciously.

"follow me."

After speaking, the Imperial Guard turned around and walked out.

Fu Qinghai and Sid Nora looked at each other.

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The two of them followed the Forbidden Army soldier to the surface of the fortress. During the process, they passed a control panel in the passage. Fu Qinghai raised his hand and touched it seemingly casually. A stream of purple gelatin liquid poured out from the gap and sank into his palm. .

The steel gates opened to both sides, and the gloomy light outside the fortress shone into the dark passage. Along with the light came the howling cold wind mixed with ice slag and wrapped in snowflakes. The three of them stepped onto the surface, and an Orion gunboat painted in dark gold and crimson was already waiting quietly on the tarmac.

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Orion gunboats roared across the sky.

Fu Qinghai sat by the window overlooking the scenery below.

The Forbidden Forces transport gunboat flew very fast, and it did not take long to reach the Himalayas from the Antarctic continent. Fu Qinghai looked at the city walls from a distance, their outlines half-hidden and half-revealed in the hazy morning, and the sharp domes towering into the clouds shining brilliantly golden light amidst the snow-capped cover.

The parapet is more than fifty kilometers away, but still dominates the northern horizon, as majestic as the mountains that now serve as its foundation. In the east, the morning sun has risen, and its dim rays are trying to penetrate the drifting smoke clouds, casting faint and dirty spots on steel and fine gold.

Fu Qinghai had never looked at the palace from this position. Even when he looked at this holy land from such a distance, the epic grandeur still made him feel a little dizzy.

The rising light of Terra illuminates the smog that pollutes the atmosphere in colorful colors. Those onion spiers towering into the clouds are not only landscape decorations declaring grandeur, but also serve as signal control centers. There are also missile launchers for interception installed on the multi-layered observation deck outside. Anti-explosion shields are also erected between the classical Gothic-style buttresses and battlements.

These are the fortifications left behind when the Imperial Fists fortified the Imperial Palace of Terra, and they have still not been completely dismantled. The combination of these cold military facilities and the gorgeous decoration of the palace reminded Fu Qinghai that not much time had passed since the tragic siege of Terra.

Right now it's 090.M31.

The Royal Palace is the largest building on the surface of Terra. It is not so much a single building as an alternative hive city, covering most of the northern hemisphere. Some people call it "composed of forbidden technology and underground tunnels deep into the surface." Hive of Endless Darkness". As the administrative center of the empire, the Emperor's Sanctuary, which houses the Golden Throne, is located here. The entire palace is divided into an outer hall and an inner hall. It is said that just maintaining the normal operation of the outer hall area requires billions of Terran government personnel.

Fu Qinghai has never entered the Terra Palace.

Not to mention, the inner sanctum area of ​​Terra Palace.

The Orion gunship landed steadily on the square in front of the Eternal Gate. The Eternal Gate is the largest entrance to the Royal Palace. In front of this towering majestic gate is a mile-long broad avenue. On both sides of the avenue stand heroes who have made great contributions to the empire. The gunship cannot land directly in the inner sanctum area and can only park outside the Eternal Gate.

The three of them stepped off the gunship's engine room one by one.

At regular intervals on both sides of the avenue, there is a golden-armored Imperial Guard guard standing with a spear. Their polished golden armor shines in the early morning light, which is definitely different from the matte color of the Space Marine's ceramic armor. Extremely high-profile. Fu Qinghai didn't know how many people were left in the Ten Thousand Fu Regiment. Judging from the scale in front of the Eternal Gate, it was quite a lot.

"This way, Qingshan Khan."

The leader of the Forbidden Army raised his hand to signal.

His tone couldn't be called friendly, but it didn't contain any other emotions. To put it simply, it was indifferent. He kept silent about anything Fu Qinghai asked him along the way, and it was difficult for Fu Qinghai to infer from his tone of voice what the purpose of this trip was and who was calling him in the palace.

Fu Qinghai followed the imperial army forward.

In fact, the answer is already there, right?

There are only two people in the entire universe who can command the Custodes.

One man is the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard.

Someone else……

The one who sits on the golden throne.

Fu Qinghai looked up while walking and glanced at the giant and complicated relief on the Gate of Eternity: a golden-armored giant with a white halo behind his head, holding a spear and piercing a scaly dragon. I wonder if that is the legendary Star God Void Dragon?

At the same time, I was silently analyzing in my mind: I don’t know the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard, so there is only one answer... But the question is, hasn’t the Emperor turned into a rotting corpse? Why can we still issue orders to the outside world? How did Lao Deng know about me?

Crystal Statue of Sanguinius...

Fu Qinghai seemed to have guessed the answer.

He traveled back from seven hundred years later because of the statue that was resurrected in the subspace. Now someone suddenly summoned him in the palace, and it probably had something to do with the crystal statue... Could it really be the soul of Sanguinius? ?

The more Fu Qinghai thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

Sid Nora wanted to follow Fu Qinghai, but was stopped when he approached the Gate of Eternity. The captain of the Forbidden Army who was leading the way turned around and raised a palm to block Sid Nora's face, speaking with indifference and indifference. He said in a questioning tone:

"Stop, Grand Master of the Inquisition."

"You are not among those allowed."

Sid Nora's face was suffocated, but he didn't say much and stood silently in front of the Gate of Eternity. She looked at Qingshan's back, and he seemed to be immersed in his thoughts. He lowered his head and walked forward without paying attention to what was behind him.

Fu Qinghai followed the captain of the imperial army around the palace, passed through layers of security and complex agencies, and finally arrived at a mysterious area - the Emperor's Sanctuary, which is the heart of the throne room and the entire palace. This huge room houses the Emperor's body and the Golden Throne. Three hundred carefully selected Imperial Guards are responsible for guarding this place.

Fu Qinghai raised his head and subconsciously wanted to look for the Golden Throne and the rotting corpse on it. However, a taller golden-armored figure blocked his view - the golden armor on this Forbidden Army had more complex features than other Forbidden Army. With carved patterns, he was half a head taller than Fu Qinghai, who had undergone a completely new transformation. He looked down at Fu Qinghai indifferently from a high position.

Fu Qinghai stopped.

The forbidden soldier slowly took off his long helmet and hugged it to his waist, and then took off his golden human face visor, revealing an old face. There were gray beards around his lips and on both sides of his cheeks, and there was something in his indifferent eyes. Undisguised scrutiny.

"I am Ixion Hale."

The tall forbidden soldier spoke:

"The current commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army."

Fu Qinghai looked up at him.

"Hello, Marshal Ixion Hale, I am Qingshan Nayanhan, the Chapter Master of the Iron Buddha Chapter."

Fu Qinghai also introduced himself.

Fu Qinghai only knew two commanders of the Imperial Army. One is Constantine Waldo, the first commander of the Imperial Guard during the 30K period. It is said that he disappeared after the rebellion ended. The other one is Trajan Valoris, the 17th commander of the imperial army during the 40K period, who is also a high lord. As for the commander of the Imperial Army in front of him, Ixion Hale.

He hadn't heard of it and didn't know it.

"I don't know why he summoned you."

The commander of the imperial army said calmly.

"I'd also like to know."

Fu Qinghai said that he was also confused.

"But I don't see a trace of awe in your eyes...Those who have been to the Royal Palace of Terra, whether they are judges, legal officers, archbishops or even high lords, no matter what they have in their hearts The ghost fetus, at least when they look at the palace and the gate of eternity, there is always a hint of fear and reverence from the heart in their eyes."

Ixion Hale's tone suddenly became serious:

"With the exception of you."

"perhaps……"

Fu Qinghai looked to the left and right.

Then he spread his hands as if innocent:

"Is this why I was summoned?"

"snort!"

A cold snort burst out from the commander of the imperial army.

"You are a little presumptuous, Qingshan Khan."

Ixion Hale curled his lips and said:

"Just like your primarch."

The sentence "just like your Primarch" directly lowered Fu Qinghai's seniority by one level - a fact that many people would ignore: the Emperor created the Custodes first, and then created the Primarch. If we really want to talk about ethical seniority, every Primarch has to call "uncle" when he sees the first commander of the Custodes, Constantine Valdor. The commander of the Imperial Army in front of him obviously knew Fu Qinghai's Primarch Chagatai Khan.

"Please, Qingshan Khan."

Ixion Hale stopped being sarcastic, but stepped aside, raised his hand and pointed forward.

Fu Qinghai took a deep breath, then stepped forward and looked up at the throne.

Before looking up at the Golden Throne, Fu Qinghai had countless messy thoughts flashing through his mind - it is said that in the eyes of different people, the emperor has completely different images.

Most chroniclers of the Great Crusade describe the Emperor as a giant, wearing golden armor, with long brown hair, a square jaw, and a stern demeanor. He often has an angelic golden halo on his head.

In Belisarius Cawl's eyes, the Emperor was a scientist wearing a lab coat, with brown hair and brown eyes, neither tall nor short, thin but not weak, with a handsome face but not outrageously handsome, and an old temperament. And young.

In the eyes of Lion King Leon Jonson, the Emperor is a mysterious figure wearing a hood and wearing emerald, gold and silver armor. And the Lion King firmly believed that only what he saw was real, and what the other brother primarchs saw were all illusions.

During the Webway War, when the Emperor appeared on the battlefield, the human coalition in the Webway described his image as a "barbarian born in ancient Eurasia" and his skin was "a mixture of bronze and burnt." Tan," with black eyes and hair, and armed with a bolter and a power sword.

Perhaps the closest of these is the Sister of Silence, who is unable to see the psychic energy emanating from the Emperor due to her soulless force field. At the end of the Webway War, Sister Kaelia Kaslin of Silence saw the Emperor's true form:

He is just an ordinary middle-aged man, sitting on the golden throne and remaining in pain forever. He opened his mouth and let out a silent scream, his ageless face seeming to age as he struggled to endure the pain. He does not have unparalleled majesty, nor does he have any halo behind his head.

Finally, put aside all the distracting thoughts in your mind.

Fu Qinghai looked intently at the throne.

Yes, just as he imagined.

It was just a rotting corpse lying in the middle of the throne.

Sunken eye sockets, shriveled eyeballs, withered white hair, and an empty mouth... There are not many muscles left in the whole body, and the leathery skin is tightly attached to the bones. His body even looks a little too shriveled. Thin and small, but black meridian-like veins are still bulging under the skin. Countless mechanical pipes of different sizes and thicknesses were inserted into his body, and these pipes were connected to the golden throne beneath him.

Fu Qinghai did not wear the ghost vision goggles of the ghost armor, otherwise he would have seen countless psychic energy flowing into the carrion along these pipes. But even without seeing it, he knew how many psykers the Human Empire needed to sacrifice every day in order to keep this strange device running.

"call……"

Until this moment, Fu Qinghai finally exhaled the breath he had just breathed in. He fixed his gaze on the golden throne, then slowly knelt down on one knee. The armor made a crisp "thud" sound when it touched the cold floor. Fu Qinghai lowered himself deeply, his forehead almost touching the ground.

"Hail, Lord of Mankind."

Fu Qinghai said silently in his heart.

Tribute to all the suffering you have endured for humanity.

Suddenly a voice sounded in his mind:

"You have the genetic sequence of No. 5 in your body."

Number five? Who is number five?

Fu Qinghai didn't react for a while.

Then he slowly raised his head.

Could it be... Chagatai Khan?

So that's what the Emperor called his heir.

Primarch No. 5, Chagatai Khan?

Primarch No. 18, Vulkan Volkan?

Fu Qinghai recalled the novel he had read in his previous life. In "Dark Empire", Robert Guilliman went to Terra to meet the Emperor after waking up. According to his recollections, the living Emperor was a cunning being, as adept at hiding his thoughts as he was at reading the minds of others. The "remnant" of the Emperor on the throne was so powerful that even Robert Guilliman could not understand it, but it lacked the subtlety that he possessed when he walked on earth.

While the Emperor walked the earth, he masked his methods with love. The Emperor had asked his Primarch to call him father, and he had asked the Primarch to call himself his son, but the Emperor himself rarely spoke these words. It was then that Robert Guilliman realized that the Emperor was not sincere when he said these words. Faced with the impact of all the psychic power that the Emperor no longer concealed, the layer that originally covered Robert Guilliman's eyes The veil was also torn away, and everything was finally revealed.

The Emperor actually had no love for the Primarch at all.

The Primarch was merely his weapon.

This is the whole truth.

Robert Guilliman described the Emperor's joy and welcome when he saw him: not like a father greeting his son, but like a craftsman retrieving a useful tool he once thought lost. It was a prisoner locked in a cage who was handed an iron file.

Guilliman was not the one who brought the iron file.

He is the iron file itself.

Fu Qinghai now feels the same way as Guilliman.

But unlike Gene Primarch No. 13, who was disarmed and sad when faced with the truth, Fu Qinghai had no ethical and familial expectations for the Emperor, so when faced with the Emperor's strange way of communicating, he still Be more adaptable.

Still, he was in a lot of pain.

The Emperor's will and spiritual energy were so powerful that talking to the Emperor was like talking to a star, using the language of fire and light, every word burning him.

The Emperor, a locked prisoner, discovered a jailbreak tool ten thousand years in advance. But unlike Robert Guilliman, this tool was not the very familiar Primarch he created himself, but Something else. Fu Qinghai could vaguely feel that his "iron file" made him feel a little confused on the throne - the emperor was not sure how useful his tool could be.

"I see."

The voice finally left these words.

Fu Qinghai stood up in confusion, his mind still filled with roaring echoes and searing pain. Under the personal escort of Ixion Hale, the commander of the Forbidden Army, he walked out of the palace and arrived outside the Gate of Eternity. Until he saw Sid Nora who had been guarding the gate of eternity.

Fu Qinghai finally woke up.

The golden-armored Imperial Guards lined up outside the door disappeared.

The towering door behind him slowly closed.

Fu Qinghai looked at Sid Nora blankly.

Sid Nora was also looking at Fu Qinghai.

"So, he spoke?"

The Grand Master of the Inquisition finally couldn't help but ask:

"He can talk to the outside world, right?"

Sid Nora's voice was filled with urgency.

"he?"

Fu Qinghai repeated this sentence.

"Could it be 'him'?"

Sid Nora immediately spoke:

"The state religion thinks he is a god, but I don't think so. What exactly did you see, Qingshan?"

Fu Qinghai recalled the experience just now.

He frowned and slowly shook his head and said:

"To be honest, I'm not sure what the corpse on the throne is..."

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