Chapter 346: Expedition Road: City of Graves

There is no concept of time in the webway. It is sandwiched between the physical universe and the subspace. It is meaningless to find a real concept of time in this twisted timeline. This could be the distant past or the distant future, so I don’t know how long this city has been here.

Magnus didn’t know either. His red-gold eye stared at the exquisite statue passing by. It was a statue of an Eldar woman. Her graceful body curves were almost like a real person. Her elegant gauze skirt was as clear as a shadow in a dream. She looked so flawless, with only one flaw: her head was missing.

In fact, everything here is like this. The entire once gorgeous and prosperous city has long become a broken wall. Everything here has collapsed, and all that remains is a piece of rubble, ruins and sighs.

Magnus walked on the street, his one eye looking around. The shops on both sides of the street were empty, broken glass and collapsed walls were everywhere, some of which still had some ancient Eldar crafts. Exquisite bracelets and pendants were vaguely exposed between the rubble and white fragments of spirit bones, like a decoration on a cake that was smashed to the ground and mushed into a ball.

When Magnus walked past the door of the shop, he caught a glimpse of the Eldar corpse buried in the rubble. The corpse had long since turned into a mummy, and the once handsome or beautiful appearance had turned into wrinkles, and the dry and yellow skin was attached to the skull.

He fell in the ruins, with only part of his upper body and a hand stretched out, struggling to grab something exposed, and the rest of his body was buried under the rubble.

Not only this corpse, but as Magnus walked along the only relatively clean road in the ruins, he kept scanning the Eldar corpses lying on both sides. There were men and women, and even rare Eldar children. Magnus rarely saw Eldar children, and their tribe rarely saw newborns now.

They all fell on both sides, wearing gorgeous clothes that were very different from the current Eldar clothing style, scattered or concentrated in various corners of the street, but without exception, they all worked hard to move towards something at the end of the front, rushing to that place.

He walked through the empty streets, everything here was shrouded in dead silence and darkness, compared to here, even the subspace was so vibrant and brilliant.

Magnus followed Vito and walked past a collapsed fountain. On the silver fountain stood an Eldar female hunter wearing tight clothes, a robe on her shoulders, and holding a bow and arrow. She stood on the central platform of the long-dried fountain, and two huge stone statues collapsed on both sides.

The stone statues that fell to the ground blocked the direction of the road and directly killed the Eldar who were huddled there at the time. Corpses were piled up under the boulders like foundations, and collapsed between the stones and the milky white dust, one on top of another.

Vito walked over, he stepped on the stones beside the pile of corpses and climbed over the roadblock. Magnus also climbed over after looking at a screaming Eldar corpse lying at his feet. He was taller than Vito, so climbing over the ruined roadblock was more like crossing a small earth slope for him.

After Magnus passed the ruins, he looked up at Vito in front of him. He was walking along the huge avenue by himself. After the two fallen giants, there was a square that seemed to be cleared. Vito, wearing golden power armor, walked down from the Eldar corpses on both sides of the stairs with heavy steps.

It was so quiet here that Vito's footsteps became much duller than normal in this dead silence. The rumble echoed throughout the ruins, and was constantly amplified through repeated echoes.

Magnus also walked onto the square. His tall body stood at the top of the stairs, which allowed him to see everything in the square. In front of him, in the center of the square was a huge statue. The statue of an Eldar warrior stood on a huge stone platform in the center with a sword, and around it were a large number of corpses.

More Eldar corpses gathered here. They seemed to have gathered from all directions of the city, but in the end, everyone died here. Thousands of Eldar turned into a mass grave here. It is better to say that this city is a huge cemetery.

Magnus saw Vito walking through the corpses in the center of the square. He stepped over the mummies in different clothes without even looking at them. Magnus frowned slightly. He stared at the dozen bullet holes on the back of a corpse and suddenly seemed to understand something.

He walked down the stairs. The tall red giant followed Vito's footsteps across the square. More traces that confirmed his inference appeared one by one. A large number of Eldar corpses had bullet holes and traces of explosions on their bodies. His footsteps also kept passing through areas full of bullet holes and traces of burnt fire.

When passing behind the statue, Magnus saw a large pile of Eldar corpses burned by fire. Their charred bones were all piled together, like a mass grave.

He raised his head and looked at Vito who was walking to a magnificent gate at the end of the square. He stood on the steps in front of the gate and looked up at the tall door frame in front of him. The doorway above was carved with a large number of exquisite patterns and murals, but without exception, the reliefs were all full of bullet holes and explosion gaps.

"Vito, didn't these Eldar die in the Great Fall?" Magnus stopped at the bottom of the steps behind Vito and asked. Vito, who was on the top, tilted his head and glanced at him.

"Why do you think so?" "The cry of Slaanesh when it was born will not affect the Webway. This is why the Dark Eldar can hide in Gomori and survive. The Eldar here are all dead. They died in an escape, in order to escape a massacre."

Magnus tilted his head and looked at a fallen Eldar woman. She fell to the ground with a baby in her arms. Of course, the baby was dead too. The mother and child turned into corpses and fell on the stairs together, but their cause of death was also easy to judge. There were several large bullet holes on her back.

"You recognized this city at a glance, and you are very familiar with it. You participated in this massacre, right?" Magnus tilted his head and asked. Vito, who was standing on the top of the stairs, slowly turned around and looked at Magnus in front of him. He looked around at the corpses around him and was silent for a while.

"During the Human-Eldar War, the fleet under my command came here to destroy the Webway and this city. The ground forces were responsible for clearing the city, thoroughly, completely."

"This is a massacre, Vito. The Emperor never told us what happened here, this massacre, and many other killings that he concealed, a massacre to eradicate the roots."

Magnus walked up the steps, he stood beside Vito and looked at him, "You tried to conceal the history of the past, delete the truth and selectively forget some things, and make humans pure victims."

"It was the Eldar who started it, Magnus, they started the war first."

"What's the difference? Did the Eldar have a conflict with humans out of thin air? If I remember correctly, humans in the Golden Age once occupied half of the galaxy, so they bordered the Eldar in the other half. , and then the war broke out. The rebellion of the human servant races in the later period of the Iron Man Rebellion was also because they themselves were oppressed as second-class citizens by the humans who were once as arrogant as the Eldar. "

"And I am sure that before the border, you and the Emperor, as well as the humans at that time, had already done the same thing to more than one race, just like the current Empire, one after another concealed ethnic cleansing, and then packaged themselves as victims, and found all kinds of high-sounding reasons for themselves, just to satisfy the unlimited desire for expansion, the truth was concealed, and lies became facts. "

Vito folded his arms and looked at Magnus on the side. He looked up at the one-eyed tall giant, "Are you sympathizing with these Eldar? I don't think I need to tell you that there has never been such a thing as mercy in this dark galaxy. If you don't shoot them today, tomorrow They will most likely give you a volley of bullets one day. "

"Sympathy? No, I don't sympathize with these aliens, but, Vito, how much have you and the Emperor, Malcador, concealed? How many unknown secrets of mankind have you hidden and pretended that they don't exist? Just like pretending that the evil gods of the warp didn't exist. "

"You think that if you forget and ignore, those things will disappear, but no, Vito, they will never disappear. They will always exist in the shadows, waiting for those who discover them, and when the truth comes to light, the lies made up by the Emperor will collapse like a sandbank in front of the truth. "

"Magnus said as he walked forward. He left Vito standing on the steps in front of the gate, but he was stopped by Vito just after he took a few steps, "Do you know why we have to hide it? You are busy criticizing us, and have you ever thought about why ? "

Magnus stopped, he turned his head slightly and looked at Vito behind him without saying a word, the latter turned around and folded his arms, "Yes, I know what you are thinking, the Emperor and I are both assholes, in fact, it is true, he is the biggest asshole in the history of mankind, and I am the second biggest after him. "

"We have done many, many things, too many shameful, no, it is beautified to say so, it should be said that it is a fucking asshole thing, but we do that so that you don't have to do that. "

Vito said and walked towards Magnus, and the latter stood there and looked at Vito who was coming, "Concealment and deception are to prevent you, the people of the future, from having to bear the same burden as us. Believe me, in order for humans to survive in this dark galaxy, someone has to do those things that are condemned by thousands of people, and not everyone can do it. "

"Then did you succeed? Vito, tell me, is this human empire what you want now? How much effect did your concealment and deception have? "Magnus sarcastically mocked the so-called great deeds mercilessly.

He turned to face Vito who was walking over, "How many people betrayed because of the Emperor's deception and concealment? You claim to be truth and reason, but you are against reason. You refuse to tell people all the truth and knowledge, and selectively tell people that the "facts" that the Emperor wants people to know are not that we don't deserve to know those truths? "

"Imperial truth, the so-called truth is built on lies, deception and burial. It is not the truth, Vito, it is just a lie made up by the Emperor. "

"Is this the reason for your betrayal? Magnus, why did you turn to Tzeentch? Or is it because of Prospero?" Vito walked up to Magnus and asked, the latter overlooking Vito in front of him, the tall red giant stared at Vito in front of him with red-gold eyes, and he and his eyes looked into each other's.

Magnus was silent for a moment before slowly speaking, "All right, you have deceived us. The Emperor has sworn to all his brothers that he has never concealed anything from us, but the fact is that he has concealed something from us. Yes, a lot of things.”

"Isn't this also a betrayal of us? How can we trust him? When the Great Crusade ends, rumors spread that the Primarchs and all Astartes will be purged like the Thunder Warriors. How should we believe him? How should we choose to die for another lie that may be his, or to fight to the death for our own truth? "

"You can just ask the question." Vito stood in front of Magnus with his arms folded and said with a smile, but the latter showed a contemptuous smile.

"Asking directly? To the Emperor? And then being driven to pieces by Nuth and his wolves? No, Vito, I won't do that."

"Who told you to ask the emperor? Just ask me. Come on, since you think I'm hiding a lot of things, let me tell you one thing. Follow me."

Vito said and walked towards the grand door ahead. He walked under the door. Magnus looked at Vito from behind and was confused for a moment, but finally chose to follow.

The red Cyclops stepped through the door with long strides. He walked into a huge hall. This was a huge closed hall. The towering dome formed a huge dome above, and in it Below, there are statues of giant divine soldiers standing on the surrounding walls.

It was a huge ring, with statues of the Eldar gods sitting on the disk. Those lifelike gods stood on the round platform, holding their own magical weapons or instruments, and there were several circular arches around it. A large carving of a snake coiled around the doorpost.

Magnus looked up at the several arches in front of him. Those were portals, at least when they were activated, but now the gate was silent, with solid walls behind it instead of passages.

He looked at walking in the arc-shaped hall. Magnus walked to the edge of the platform near the door. He leaned on the handrail on that side and looked at the long bridge extending from one side of the hall.

The huge bridge deck is located in the void, as if it is suspended above. There are many fragments floating at the end of the bridge. Those fragments are like the fragments of the webway gate that Magnus saw before, twinkling. Points of light floated in the void, like a swarm of fireflies.

"This is the teleportation hall of the Eldar. The teleportation hall over there was used for ship teleportation. It was destroyed as a priority at that time. But here, there is a small teleportation gate. Because it cannot teleport large troops or any heavy units, it was prioritized at that time. The level is not high, and when the Eldar reinforcement fleet arrived, the attack was selectively abandoned. "

As Vito spoke, he walked to an Eldar terminal under the steps of the door. He walked up to the instrument with a smile and put his finger close to the surface of the spirit bone. With the tip of Vito's power claw releasing a small golden arc, Soon the terminal restarted.

The display window of the entire instrument lit up, and a large number of weird Eldar characters below it also lit up one by one. The instrument, which looked more like some kind of magic device, was re-injected with psychic energy and activated. I have to say it was pretty good. convenient.

"We use the terminal to activate the teleportation hall, and then use the teleportation gate here to take us back to the physical universe and get out of this hellish place." Vito said as he clicked twice on the screen in front of him, and a large number of weird Eldar symbols immediately appeared. Magic words flickered and pulsed, and Magnus walked down behind him in surprise.

"Do you know how to use the Eldar operating system?" "I don't know."

Vito's answer was both brief and quite confident. Facing his answer, Magnus didn't know what to say. He was stunned for a long time before he rubbed his forehead and said, "Then bring us here." What are you doing? Looking at the Eldar characters and guessing?"

"Just because I don't know how, it doesn't mean that no one here can." "Is there a third person here?" "Of course there is."

Vito smiled and took out a CD from the bag on his waist. He rotated it a few times between his fingers and then spread it out in his hand. As Vito's fingers gently touched the edge, the CD Then it lit up, and a woman with short hair was quickly woven with light and shadow.

Magnus frowned immediately when he looked at the woman in front of him. He recognized what that thing was at a glance, and then raised his head and looked at Vito in shock, "This is."

"This is the first secret I want to tell you. Let me introduce you. This is Helen."