Chapter 387: The Road to Expedition: Traitors and Loyalists

The heavy plasma thrusters rumbled in the belly of the transport ship, and the six propeller arrays spit out shining blue flames. The rumbles caused the transport ship to slowly approach the dock of the pier under the influence of huge flight inertia. The docking deck deep on the side half also gradually extends outward.

The sliding platform rolled and extended the docking deck to the ground of the pier. The beautiful lady standing on it stood on the edge, stepped on the deck and approached the pier. Just before the deck was about to touch the ground, she stepped onto it. He walked onto the pier and walked towards the crowd wearing a long silver knife.

"Thank you, madam, for praising the Emperor!" The person closest to her stepped forward, held her hand and thanked her repeatedly. The woman nodded to him with a smile and walked to the next one. The person also quickly came up and held her hand. The silver-haired lady waved her palms and thanked her endlessly.

"Praise be to you my lady, thank you for coming to fetch us, and may the Emperor bless you."

"Thank you for your kindness, I will raise my prayers to the Emperor for you."

"Thank you so much, beautiful lady, thank you so much."

People gathered around her along the way and kept sending her words of praise and sincere thanks. The woman smiled and nodded to them one by one. Her smile was gentle and had an intoxicating beauty, which made many Everyone was so touched that they leaned in from all around and shook hands with her to thank her.

Even the Astartes, who had no interest in women or any emotions, looked at the woman who brought the transport ship with utmost respect, except for one person.

"Really? Everyone is thanking her, but no one says thank you to Master Vito, or is he awesome? No?" Vito complained and stood aside, looking at the large group of beautiful women in front of him. The refugees around her kept sending her compliments, and they soon turned from pure gratitude to praise for her.

She smiled at the crowd and walked up to Vito with light steps. She looked at the unhappy Vito and lifted up his long silver hair, "You are beautiful, but it is easier for people to thank you and praise you. You see, people are more willing to praise Sanguinius than Perturabo, for the same reason."

"I think it's because the two people have different personalities. Perturabo's personality does make it harder to thank him, but that's not the point! Lily, are you late again? How many times is this already? "

Vito raised his pocket watch, pointed at the time in it and muttered, "Damn it, we were almost killed by that broken ship." "Aren't you dead? It's better to arrive early than to arrive in time. Isn't this what you taught me? "

Lilith's answer made Vito choke. He tilted his head slightly and thought for a while. It seemed that this was really what he said. This was not the secondary processing in the "Astral Military Code", or it was I didn’t say a word, it was just a fabrication made up by later generations.

Lilith looked at Vito with a smile, reached out and touched his face gently, then turned her head and glanced at Vito's side, the fully armed Estart troops wearing power armor on the left, and the body armor on the right. Greenskin troops in rubbish armor, she looked at them jokingly and touched her chin with her finger.

"Your troop combination is really interesting. Astartes and Greenskins fighting side by side, it looks like a scene."

"This is just a temporary joint force, ma'am." Captain Sumani, who was standing behind Vito, said immediately. He was holding a chain sword, standing with his brothers, and deliberately keeping a distance from the greenskins on one side. Regarding the relative distance, the latter is obviously thinking about it in the same way.

"Lilith, my name is Lilith, handsome company commander." Lilith smiled charmingly and winked at the company commander provocatively. Of course, it had no effect on the company commander, but it made him The younger Su Tai and the young warriors were attracted. They looked at Lilith involuntarily, with silly smiles on their lips.

Sumani glanced at the unseemly Su Tai. After seeing the company commander's warning gaze, Sumani immediately stood at attention with a gun in hand. The young soldiers behind him also stood at attention with guns in hand.

"As you can see, Miss Lilith, we have formed an alliance with these temporary allies in the name of the Marshal."

"It's temporary. We don't want to stay with Xiami. After we go out, we will find a bigger fight, a bigger waaaaahg!"

After the company commander finished speaking, the burly green-skinned boss immediately added, which seemed to confirm the absolute temporary nature of this temporary joint force. As long as they leave here, this funny alliance will be disbanded immediately without any delay.

"How's it going? I asked the Astartes to cooperate with the Greenskins, and both parties were willing to do so. Isn't that awesome? Does anyone think it's awesome?" Vito boasted with his hands on his hips, looking at the Astartes and the Astartes on both sides. The greenskins said, while the latter two looked at each other with strange expressions.

Lilith, who was in front of Vito, looked at her with a smile, "It's indeed awesome, but it's not awesome. You have to get him to unite with the Astartes, then you can be called awesome."

She said with her hands on her hips and turned to look in the direction behind her. Vito and the two groups of people behind her also looked over. They saw a tall figure falling on the edge of the deck, with red feather wings behind him. They slowly closed together and then walked toward the crowd with heavy steps.

Vito looked at him with an awkward smile, "Damn it, I forgot about him, now it's fun."

"Hmm, good luck to you."

Lilith and Vito said in harmony, looking at the one-eyed red giant approaching. He came from the other end of the deck. The refugees in front of him all ducked to the sides after seeing him. Women Holding the children, the men backed away continuously. They didn't dare to take a breath when they saw the tall man walking by.

Everyone looked at him with horrified expressions, and the priest who reacted most violently among the crowd raised his finger and pointed at the red giant and stammered, "Judgment. "

"Traitor!" It was the Astartes who shouted those two words for him. Sutai behind Sumani roared loudly. He suddenly raised the gun in his hand and aimed it at his head. The people around him All the Astartes also raised their guns and aimed at the Cyclops who was walking through the crowd.

The latter watched them slowly walk a few steps away. The tall red giant shrugged slightly, without any resentment or even a sense of surprise, "As expected, Vito, I leave it to you."

"Okay, okay, I know." Vito said and waved to the greenskins on the side. The latter saw the Astartes raising their guns, although they had no idea what was going on and who was coming. Who, but still followed and prepared to raise the gun, but obviously, it was precisely because they had no idea what was going on and what the relationship between Magnus and the Empire was, so they were more likely to listen to the advice.

After seeing Vito's signal, the greenskins put down their guns, but Vito knew that the guys on the other side would not be so easy to listen to.

"Guys, put the guns down."

"Put the gun down?! Marshal! You know who he is!"

"Magnus, son of the Emperor, yes I know, so can you put the gun down?"

"Yes, the shameful heir who betrayed the Emperor!"

Vito and Su Tai had this series of expected conversations. Vito had long expected that there would be such a moment, but he almost forgot about it because of the happy fight before, but now he remembered, or in other words, had to think about it. .

He looked at the group of Astartes holding guns around him. They aimed a bolter with an astonishing caliber at Magnus's head, and the hostility in everyone's eyes seemed to be below. They were about to pull the trigger together at a moment's notice, causing the red-skinned one-eyed dragon's head to bloom.

"You just cooperated with a group of ugly aliens, didn't you? Sorry." Vito said and smiled and waved at the greenskins, but it was obvious that they were very generous. The leader grinned and waved to them. Vito raised his head, "It's okay, we also think you are ugly, hahahaha!"

Vito looked at Sutai with a smile, and then turned to look at Captain Sumani beside him. The latter was also staring at Magnus, pointing a bolter between his eyebrows, "Captain, I want you to The guy put his gun down."

"Put down your guns?! Marshal, this is the leader of the traitors! The Daemon Primarch of the traitorous legion, he is more dangerous than all the aliens here combined, but you ask us to put down our guns?!"

Su Tai pointed the gun at Magnus and shouted loudly, while Vito in front of him smiled bitterly and shook his head, looking up at the finger holding the trigger, "The only danger here is your hand, put that finger Move away, young man."

"Are you crazy, sir?! Do you know who the person in front of us is? As long as we put down the gun, he will kill us immediately! All of us!" Su Tai roared and pressed the trigger harder, behind him All the soldiers were holding their triggers firmly, staring at Magnus standing in front of them, who looked at them expressionlessly.

"The only hostility here is yourselves, private. I order you to put your guns down, immediately. All of you. In the name of the Supreme Marshal, I order you to put your guns down immediately." Vito said majestically, his The words immediately intimidated the Astartes present. They held their guns but began to look at each other.

Their company commander, Sumani and Vito looked at each other silently. The latter looked at the company commander issuing orders and requirements with his eyes. The company commander's hand on the trigger was firmly clasped on the ring, pointing at Mag. After a moment of hesitation, Nuss finally released the gun on his head.

"Excuting an order."

"But the company commander!"

"Execute orders, you are all soldiers, obey orders."

The company commander sternly scolded, and the soldiers behind him looked at each other and finally put down their guns. They stared at Magnus with hostility, and then looked at Vito in front of them together with the company commander.

Captain Sumani looked at Vito in front of him. Vito noticed that although he had put down the gun, he had not inserted it into the holster. His finger was still pressed on the trigger, and he could raise the gun at any time. The location of the gun's headshot.

Vito smiled slightly and then raised his eyes to look at the company commander in front of him. The latter also looked at him and raised his head slightly, "Sir, please explain to us why this traitor is here."

Sumani stared at Magnus who was standing aside, who also looked at them standing there expressionlessly, with their arms crossed without saying a word. He knew that it would be unwise for him to say anything now. It will escalate the situation, so let Vito handle it.

"That's a long, long story. You just need to know that Magnus is on the same front as us for the time being." Vito said looking at the group of Astartes in front of him, while Sutai, who was standing among them, immediately Raising his fist, the young and energetic warrior clenched his iron fist and pointed at Magnus.

"Absolutely impossible! He is a traitor! He is a shameful traitor who betrayed the Emperor! They have no credibility and honor at all, and we must not trust him!"

"I didn't ask you to trust him, nor did I expect you to like him. Young people, I want you to believe in me. Do you believe me?"

Vito said and looked at Sumani, who looked down at Vito. He was silent for a moment and then slowly raised his head to look at Magnus. The company commander remained silent for a while, with his fingers pressed tightly to his side. On the bolter.

"I don't believe you, traitor, not at all, but I trust the Marshal's judgment and I will obey his orders."

Sumani said, raising his hand to signal Su Tai behind him to shut up. When the latter saw the company commander's gesture again, he shook his fist to the side angrily, but still chose to obey the order like a soldier, and he retreated. Among the brothers, they stared at Magnus with hostile eyes.

The latter also looked at him, but did not react at all to the hostile eyes. Magnus then turned his eyes to their company commander, but the latter's eyes were not friendly at all, he just changed his anger into anger. It was just a cold stare, like a prairie eagle that had spotted its prey.

Those eyes stared at Magnus, and the latter stared into those eyes. He was definitely the son of Khan. Those sharp eyes were almost exactly like his father, as sharp as an eagle.

"I will keep an eye on you, traitor. As long as you have the slightest suspicion that you will betray us, I will shoot you without any hesitation. I will not hesitate at all." Sumani said coldly, The finger holding the bolter pressed down, making the trigger click.

Vito glanced at the company commander, and then at Magnus beside him. The latter also looked at the young man in front of him calmly, and nodded to him with almost no hesitation, "As you said. I wish, Commander.”

"Huh, so be it." Sumani said coldly. He loosened his fingers holding the bolt gun a little, and then looked at Vito in front of him, "Marshal, you owe me an explanation. Many."

Vito smiled, but just as he was about to speak, there was suddenly a sound of air breaking above his head, and something whizzing down tore through the air, and then turned into a series of explosions that sounded behind everyone.

Vito saw a floating motorcycle whizzing past the transport ship. The Dark Eldar riding on it pressed the steering wheel and pushed forward violently as it whizzed past the transport ship, and behind it, The second motorcycle followed and swooped down from the sky, the short-barreled cannon at the front of the vehicle spraying bright tongues of flame.

The dazzling blaster beam bombarded the top of the transport ship, spraying out sparks amid a burst of gunfire. The refugees screamed in fright in front of the ship. One person in the crowd raised his hand and pointed to the top of his head. In the sky above, Vito looked at the gesture and raised his head to look at the starry sky above his head.

In the night sky after the floating motorcycle quickly swooped down, there was a large group of fast attack motorcycles swooping down from the sky. The motorcycle rider rushing at the front pulled the trigger on the handrail, and a series of rapid-fire bombardments fell from the sky. , bombarding the top of the transport ship one after another.

The sound of tearing air caused by their swooping made the refugees squat down one after another, and the screams mixed with the constant sound of bombing gunshots resounded through the dock.

Vito also squatted down and looked at the floating motorcycle swooping past from outside. "Magnus, are you telling me that you killed all the flying things in the base?"

"Indeed, but these are not from the base, but from outside." The magic pony said, looking at the sky, raising his red finger and pointing to the direction of the dimly flickering air shield at the top of his head. Groups of floating motorcycles emerged from the asteroid belt outside the faint blue air shield.

The motorboats that quickly swooped under the riders swarmed out of the asteroid, rushing along the surface of the planet like a group of griffins, then lowered their heads and quickly headed towards the base below. It swooped in, and the front of the car was pushed down almost at a right angle into the air shield, and then the trigger was pulled and unleashed a fierce fire.

Continuous artillery fire bombarded the side and rear of the transport ship, causing sparks to fly from the armor there. Soon a piece of armor was shattered. Vito sighed helplessly as he looked at the flying sparks. He rubbed it. He rubbed his neck and looked at the company commander beside him.

"Looks like I'm delaying the explanation I owe you, everyone aboard."

Captain Sumani nodded slightly. Vito then looked to Lilith and tilted his head to her. He glanced at the panicked refugees in the distance and said, "Use your charm to appease those unlucky ones. Then get them on board and I'll get rid of these nasty flies."

Lilith smiled and put her hands on her hips and nodded to him, but she looked at the night sky beside her in surprise, "But how are you going to fly up and kill them? I remember you can't fly, and your sword can only pull you. It’s just flying a certain distance where there is atmospheric pressure.”

"Hitchhike, follow Magnus, let's go and finish the work you haven't finished." Vito said and rushed to the edge of the star port. The moment he rushed towards the starry sky, he shot out a bolt of lightning with one palm, accurately The unmistakable shot hit an Eldar who was swooping down on a floating motorcycle. The man staggered and fell off the motorcycle, and the floating motorcycle also swayed and flew down.

Vito strode to the edge, then stepped on the boundary of the starport and jumped down. He fell rapidly backward and downward from outside the starport, head down from the air with his back to the flock of vultures roaring down behind him, and rushed to the floating motorcycle that fell naturally. Vito quickly landed beside it, reaching out in the air repeatedly.

He failed several times, his fingers just touched the edge of the handrail, but slipped down again, but in the end Vito still grabbed the handrail.

He pulled his body up by the handrail, then bent over and sat on the seat of the motorcycle. Vito stepped on the pedal with his boots, then suddenly put his feet into the guard ring, stepped forward and re-ignited the engine.

Vito sat on the mat, smiling as he looked at the dashboard in front of him that had all lit up again. The red pointer quickly turned upwards. Vito suddenly lifted the front of the motorcycle, then turned his wrist and twisted the throttle. The jet at the end of the motorcycle below him quickly lit up, spewing out flames and pushing the motorcycle body into the sky.

Magnus on the dock saw Vito soaring into the sky. He rushed up from the platform under the dock, roaring with blazing flames and rushing into the sky. Magnus and Lilith looked at each other and then jumped out of the dock. After falling briefly, he flapped his wings and flew into the sky, following Vito into the sky.

Lilith stood aside with one hand on her waist, watching the two people soaring into the sky, then glanced at the petite girl standing next to her, and suddenly reached out to hold Shatina's chin, lifting her face up.

Lilith looked at the little face under the hood, and a playful smile appeared on her face. "He found another little girl behind my back, but he has good taste. This little face is okay."

"I'm not his woman." Shatina complained, and suddenly opened Lilith's hand.

"Everyone said so at the beginning." Lilith turned around and walked towards the panicked refugees. She waved to Shatina to let her follow.

"Come on, I will teach you how to use your face to make them shut up and get on the boat obediently. I rarely teach people in person, so learn well, you will need it in the future." She smiled evilly and said so.