Chapter 409: No Risk, No Gain

"Your Majesty the Inquisitor! You finally replied!!"

After receiving Duanmuhuai's communication, Dardaniel suddenly looked like he was surviving a disaster, which made Duanmuhuai want to laugh.

"Okay, don't pretend in front of me, it's just a colony, you won't die even if it's lost."

"Ha ha ha ha………"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's words to break his disguise, Dardaniel also smiled sheepishly.

"Doesn't this show your importance and my admiration for you..."

"Stop talking nonsense and talk about the important points."

"yes……………"

Dardaniel also immediately stopped the smile on his face and became serious.

"Actually, it's like this... There are some things I didn't explain to you before... In fact, in one of the colonies, we found the remains of a battleship that seemed to come from an alien civilization."

"Haven't you seen those alien creatures?"

After hearing Dardaniel's report, Duanmu Huai asked curiously, while Dardaniel smiled bitterly.

"What do you mean, Mr. Inquisitor, I am also a businessman wandering in this desolate star area. If you want to talk about human civilization or alien creatures, I have seen it to some extent, but alien civilization... I still I really haven’t had much experience with them.”

"Okay, let's continue."

"Yes, my idea at the time was to send some people there to see if I could find anything good. So I first gave an order to my confidants there. He also secretly went there with some of his subordinates from the colony at that time. That warship, and then found some clay pots and something from it... He said he didn't know what they were, and said he wanted to take them back for analysis. I didn't think much about it at the time, but after that, the colony was gone again. There was no message sent to me anymore. I felt uneasy and took the initiative to contact the confidant, but he didn’t answer my call. "

"Hmm... I probably found something I shouldn't have been looking for."

Duanmu Huai was also quite calm about this. There were too many similar things.

"Yes, but at that time I also wanted to know the situation in the colony, so I sent another team there, and when they got there... they sent me this."

As he spoke, Dardaniel opened the screen, and then Duanmuhuai saw a dilapidated steel corridor. There are holes everywhere on it, and there are even traces of gunfire. It looks like it has experienced a great war.

"Then what?"

"there is none left."

Dardanelle shook his head.

"That's all, and then the team loses touch with me."

"So you sent a second team?"

"Yes………"

Dardaniel felt really bitter in his heart at this moment, although it was true that losing a colony, just like Duanmu Huai said, was not a big deal to a rogue like him. But the problem is that every penny he invests in it is his own!

If you want capitalists to lose money, that will be more painful than watching others make money.

"This time I asked them to keep in touch with me all the way, but...this time their spacecraft was destroyed before it even landed!"

"Um?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai's expression suddenly became serious.

"You mean the spaceship hasn't landed yet?"

"Yes, Lord Judge, this is why I came to you..."

Speaking of this, Dardaniel was really scared.

To be honest, if it just disappears on a planet, at most there is something wrong with the planet itself. If it doesn't work, just throw it away as a loss. But this time his warship was destroyed before it entered the atmosphere. It couldn't have been caused by local indigenous creatures, right?

If the opponent is a cosmic civilization, then Dardaniel will be blinded.

When he encountered space pirates before, he was so scared that he raised his hands and surrendered. If he really wanted to fight against a regular space fleet, he would be dead.

So Dardaniel had no choice but to turn to the Inquisition.

"Um………………"

After hearing Dardaniel's report, Duanmu Huai frowned and thought for a moment.

"Do you have any records of that time?"

"Yes, I have recorded images from that time."

As he spoke, Dardanelle opened it. Then Duanmu Huai watched the video in front of him. On the screen, a man dressed very smartly was making a report solemnly.

"Report, we are about to reach the target planet. Everything is normal so far. It has not been found yet..."

However, the man's report was not over yet. Suddenly, a loud noise interrupted his report, and then Duanmuhuai saw the battleship on the screen shaking violently, and the man fell directly to the ground. He hurriedly got up and shouted loudly.

"What happened!"

"Report, we are under attack!"

"Attack? Who is attacking us?"

"I don't know, they...gosh..."

Following another explosion, the image stopped here the next moment.

"Um……………"

Staring at the image in front of him, Duanmu Huai clicked his finger.

From the current point of view, the other party seemed to have suddenly appeared and launched a surprise attack, so that Dardanelle's people were wiped out before they could react. Of course, this is also related to the fact that his subordinates probably lack interstellar combat experience. Generally speaking, a transport ship like this will be escorted by a large group of warships, and according to Dardanelle, he only sent one transport ship to go there. At present, it is obviously regarded as a live target by the other party.

But what kind of civilization could it be?

They come and go without a trace... Could it be that damn black-skinned Eldar bastards!

Although this possibility is not great, it is not impossible.

After all, when talking about old coins in the universe, the first thing that comes to mind is this group of bastards, right?

"I know, I will go and see the situation."

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai also made a decision.

"By the way, send me the coordinates of that planet. What is its name?"

"LV426."

After that, Duanmu Huai took a short rest for a day, and then took a few teams of dark night guards on the road, riding a warship towards the direction of that planet.

Duanmu Huai did not bring other people this time, not because they were unwilling to come, but because Duanmu Huai was cautious. After all, the Dark Eldar can be regarded as the most notorious race in the Milky Way. Basically, if you see a Dark Eldar, whether it is one or a group, killing them is definitely to eliminate harm to the universe, and no one is wronged. This group of bastards not only run fast, but also are good at concealed raids, so this time Duanmu Huai did not bring a large army, but only brought a squadron of Night Guards. Even the battleship he chose was the Cobra-class missile destroyer, which is known for its speed. And put the fierce firepower Moon-class cruiser and other battleships behind.

After all, the hit-and-run tactics of that group of black-skinned bastards are really a headache.

Ordinary battleships can't catch up with them.

With the help of the webway, it is not difficult to go to the LV426 planet. Duanmu Huai didn't even finish a cup of coffee, and the planet had already appeared in front of him.

To be on the safe side, Duanmu Huai has sent several reconnaissance ships to patrol the surroundings, but no signs of any battleships were found. Of course, Duanmu Huai would not be blindly optimistic. Dardanelles did not know how insidious those black-skinned bastards were, but he did know. So Duanmu Huai ordered the warships to hide and patrol the surroundings at any time. At the same time, he also scanned the planet.

From the results of the scan, most of the planet is indeed barren and lifeless. But there is only one place with a lot of signs of life—and it is basically underground.

Well, I have to drill holes again this time.

"Well... This area seems to be at the location of the facilities of the colony mentioned by Dardanelles..."

Duanmu Huai compared the map and frowned.

Could it be that the people sent here before did not die?

In any case, you will know when you go there.

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai gave an order.

"Get ready to go, let's go and see what the hell is going on in this place... "

Soon, three Night Crow Black Star gunboats roared out of the warships and flew towards the planet in front of them.

The entire planet was wrapped in thick clouds, with lightning and thunder visible from time to time, and fierce air currents whistling towards us, making Night Crow Black Star rise and fall like a small boat in the rough waves. I remember Dardanelle said that he built an atmospheric transformation device on this planet, and now it seems that this is obviously part of the transformation.

Passing through the clouds, heavy rain came towards us, hitting the windows and making crackling sounds. Duanmu Huai skillfully turned on the wiper--well, it seems that no matter what era, this is an epoch-making invention.

It will not be outdated even if it is used for another 1,000 years.

Soon, Duanmu Huai found the colony area below. On the ground, there was a huge steel building like a volcano, and streams of white smoke spewed out from it and poured into the sky. And next to it, there were rows of steel-structured houses that looked similar to those on Pandora. However, at this moment, the outer walls of these houses have been closed by iron gates. If there were no lights around, Duanmu Huai would not have thought that there were people here.

But... there are lights... that is to say, the energy supply here has not been cut off? This is unexpected. Logically speaking, since there is energy, there should be no loss of communication. Or is there any unknown secret here?

Duanmu Huai drove the Night Crow Black Star and circled the entire colony. He did not see any traces of fierce fighting, and the entire building was intact.

At least it looked like this on the surface.

The bird divination instrument showed that those life signals were underground under these buildings.

It seems that now there is only a way out.