Chapter 555 73 Dark Expedition (VII, Eldar and Monkeys)

Chapter 555 73. Dark Crusade (7, Eldar and Monkeys)

Kaspius looked warily at the pointed ears wandering not far away, and at the same time made every effort to persuade the captain he was loyal to - well, the current captain - to calm down.

Just ten minutes ago, the previous captain died of a heart attack due to excessive fright. The suddenness of the incident shocked even the pointed ears. They discussed this for a while, and the crew became even more frightened.

They thought it was these aliens who killed the captain, but Kaspius knew that the truth was not the case. The truth was his captain. No, his former captain had always been a coward and always insisted on living and drinking.

If his family hadn't made a living on this boat for generations, he would definitely not be the captain. In fact, there were many times when he tried to sell the ship and find a suitable planet to enjoy his life, but Kaspius stopped him every time.

"You must calm down, Hilde," Kaspius said sternly. "Don't let others see your weakness or fear. This will expose your weakness, not to mention that the enemies we are facing now are aliens. Calm down and then negotiate with them."

His words were met with a scream.

"The throne is upon you!" Hilde, the current captain of the Moose and the current patriarch of Harrockstowe, cried and fell into his arms. "Why don't you just kill me, Guard Captain! How can I bargain with these things?!"

Kaspius wordlessly let go of his hand, letting Hilde fall to the ground. Then he knelt down and slapped her without hesitation.

He didn't use much force, but it was enough to temporarily calm down the young man who was so well protected by her father.

Kaspius was good at it, in fact, he had developed his skills by slapping her father like this.

"Because you must go," said Kaspius.

He looked very seriously at Hilde, whose face was already swollen, and said in a slightly slower tone: "As the captain, you must be responsible for all the crew members of the Moose."

"Your father was a terrible bastard when he was alive. He could even let someone like your mother die of grief, but he still fulfilled his duties as a captain."

"And you must also shoulder this responsibility, Hilde. This is the sacred oath made by the family to the emperor. Even if we are in decline now, the oath is an oath."

The young man stared at him blankly, covering his face and saying nothing.

Kaspius sighed, pulled her up, and whispered: "You can say whatever I say next."

He pushed Hilde, who was at a loss, towards the so-called Eldar who were wandering not far away. They are tall and surprisingly human-like in appearance - probably too much, in fact.

Kaspius felt that only the 'pets' in the feudal world could have this kind of beauty, while everyone in the Eldar race probably had it. But then again, they are annoyingly arrogant.

"Monkey." A pointed ear looked at them contemptuously, spitting out such a scornful name in High Gothic with a strange accent that could be called terrifying.

Caspius felt a surge of rage in his heart, knowing that the creature had done this on purpose, its accent

He pulled Hilde behind him.

"Take it back, damn alien."

The one who spoke pointed ears smiled and turned to look at his companion: "A monkey is threatening me."

His companion uttered a string of words in a language that Kaspius could not understand without interest, which only made him even more angry.

Don't get me wrong, he is not a stupid person. If another Eldar spoke like this in front of him, Kaspius would immediately choose to die together to avoid possible torture in the future, although he may only be able to Let yourself be shattered to pieces.

But the Eldar he is facing now are obviously not the ones he has seen the most, and most of them have already evacuated through some kind of shining door, and their footsteps are so hurried that they seem to be avoiding some kind of terrifying. beast.

Kaspius keenly sensed something hidden in it.

He decided to retaliate.

"The monkey in your mouth has killed a thousand aliens like you." Kaspius raised his chin provocatively. "Did you hear that, Pointy Ears?"

His words caused the smile on the alien's face to disappear, and instead, his uninterested companion became full of smiles. He crossed his arms and began to wait expectantly.

Kaspius glanced at him, but still didn't find anything that could be called a weapon on the guard - which was one of the reasons why he made this move.

All the pointed ears he could see now were unarmed, which violated a certain iron law in the galaxy.

"I won't argue with the likes of you," the alien said coldly, the strange accent he had deliberately imitated before disappearing.

Kaspius looked at it with a sneer, without further stimulation. He seemed to have everything in mind, but in fact his back was completely wet with cold sweat.

The captain he was sworn to protect stayed silent behind him, holding Kaspius's left forearm tightly with both hands, so hard that one almost wondered whether she had a prosthetic leg.

The captain of the guards endured this torture and the stares of the aliens, trying to make himself look more valuable - he still couldn't guess what the remaining pointed ears wanted to do, but he had to try his best.

Sitting and waiting to die was the most stupid thing. If he still had weapons, he would have taken the lead in resisting, but all their weapons had been completely confiscated.

With bare hands, Caspius didn't think he could defeat a pointed-eared alien.

His sneer soon took effect.

The Eldar frowned unbearably, and its strange and handsome face showed a mixture of disgust and boredom, then it rolled its eyes and shook its head as if it finally couldn't stand it anymore.

"Don't make such fearless but stupid attempts again, human." It lowered its head slightly and said so, and the tone became very sarcastic, and the High Gothic accent now sounded even as elegant as an aristocrat.

"I can see what you are doing, but, as we promised at the beginning, as long as you cooperate, no one will bleed."

"So you do know who you have offended." Caspius said, his heart, which had been beating rapidly just now, has now slowed down.

"We didn't offend-" the Eldar sighed, as if he was talking to an idiot. "-I beg you, human, return to your team, I don't have time to train your intelligence so that you can communicate with us."

"Go to hell." Caspius cursed vulgarly. "You are using us as a chip on the scale, do you think I am so stupid that I can't see it? Don't think that your race is much nobler or superior than us. Do you know how disgusting your fallen kin are?"

The Eldar seemed to be stimulated, and he retracted his gaze, but still answered his last sentence: "Yes, I know."

He turned around with his companion and no longer paid any attention to Caspius. Just like that, the captain of the guards' attempt ended in failure. With a gloomy face, he pulled his new captain back to the crew.

They subconsciously moved away from them, as if they were afraid of the quarrel just now, worried about being affected by the anger of the Eldar. Caspius didn't even bother to laugh at their stupidity.

The fleet outside the porthole was slowly approaching, and the golden sky eagle and the powerful artillery array were so obvious that it almost blinded people's eyes.

The Eldar had already evacuated first, leaving only a few people on the lower deck or in the hangar to guard them, even without weapons.

Such a good opportunity for riot, if he could stay with his brothers, he would definitely not let it go, but now he is with a group of stupid people.

However, he swore to protect them.

"What should we do now, Caspius?"

The captain of the guard raised his head and looked at his new captain who was still trembling. From that too young face, he read a kind of worry mixed with fear.

He felt warm in his heart. The young Hilde was worried about him. Realizing this made his rigid mind temporarily withdraw from those imaginations and regained his patience.

"We can only wait." Caspius said. "And pray that these aliens will not betray and kill us all at the last moment. They often do this, Hilde. All aliens are shameful betrayers."

His words made the young captain cry, and then fell into a fantasy of fear. Caspius did not disturb her again because he had something to think about.

He didn't understand why Hilde's father died of a heart attack. He was a man who cherished his life and asked the doctor on the ship to check him every month.

This man who likes to enjoy has a healthy and strong body, partly due to genes and partly from his own exercise.

Although he was timid, he had experienced decades of ups and downs with Caspius. This was not the first time they were robbed by the Eldar.

In theory, he could die in many ways. Being attacked by fear and dying of cardiac arrest was the most unlikely way to die, but this was what Caspius saw with his own eyes.

He was thinking with worry, but his skin suddenly got goose bumps because of the attack of cold air. Caspius turned his head and found that the two Eldar closest to them were clumsily operating the lift door of the hangar in manual mode.

He turned his head sharply and found that the outer armor plate had been lowered, and the coldness came from that.

A streamlined advanced shuttle quickly slid into the outer layer of the hangar. It had the iconic blue and gold color scheme, and the U-shaped emblem of the Ultramarines shone like a star under the Skyhawk.

Caspius stood up straight, not understanding what was going on at all. Would the Eldar let the Ultramarines board the ship so easily? And the Ultramarines only came with so few people?

Emperor, what happened today?

First, the Eldar came without killing, torturing, or even wearing weapons. Then, an Ultramarines shuttle boarded the ship inexplicably and easily. Not only did the Eldar not stop it, they even personally operated and opened the door of the outer hangar.

Caspius frowned deeply, staring at the shuttle through the observation window in confusion. He watched it stop, turn off the engine, open the hatch, and then a cloaked man walked out.

No Ultramarines, only him.

What the hell——? ! He almost yelled out loud, but there was a sudden tug behind him and Hilde screamed: "What are you doing? Let him go!"

Caspius staggered and fell to the ground, and saw two slender figures passing by him. Who else could it be if not the Eldar guarding them? Their previous arrogance had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a shocking humility.

The crowd shrank or made comments because of their arrival, but the two men did not pay any attention to them. They just knelt on one knee and bowed their heads deeply, showing extreme humility.

The deck vibrated, the armor plates on the outside of the hangar were being lowered, the air pressure began to recover rapidly, the temperature rose, and the machinery started to operate.

Soon, the only barrier between them and the man who came down from the shuttle began to slowly separate from the middle. The jagged steel split the darkness, and the cloaked man came to the Moose amid the heavy sound of mechanical operation.

Caspius saw his eyes, which were as dark as a falling star or a silent black hole.

"Welcome." The alien who spoke to Caspius spoke in a very gentle tone. "We have been waiting for a long time, Great Dark."

The cloaked man glanced at him, said nothing, and walked past the two men. He showed an incomprehensible arrogance, and the crew was completely stunned, not understanding what was going on.

Caspius could still think, but he was completely confused about the current situation-until the cloaked man walked in front of a corpse.

The corpse was Hilde's father, Bell Harloxt. His cheeks were swollen and his eyes were bloodshot.

"Show yourself," the cloaked man said, his tone almost commanding.

"We offer you our sincere cooperation, Lord of Darkness." The alien shouted loudly with its back to him. "We offer this lurking demon shadow to you as a sacrifice!"

"Silence." The cloaked man ordered without turning his head, his tone was extremely flat, as if he was talking to two clouds of dust.

At the same time, Haroksto's body began to swell and made a tooth-grinding sound of change. Amid the crew's screams of fear, Caspius saw that the body of his best friend had turned into a tall bird monster.

The thing suddenly knelt down.