Chapter 539 The Lion King Rises: Valhalla's 597th Regiment
The natural environment of Tyrell Munda is very unique. There are a large number of towering terraces, plateaus and deep rifts running through them. They are bottomless and straight and long. Scholars who have seen them have named them "Sword Cliffs".
The cities of the planet are built on the towering land between these rifts. On the terraces and steep plateaus, humans built the first batch of cities, which makes the scenery and lifestyle here very different from other imperial hive worlds. For example, the most intuitive city size is proportional to the population.
The scale of Tyrell Munda's hives is far inferior to that of the imperial worlds of the same level, and even inferior to some smaller hive worlds. The direct reason is also directly related to the natural environment here. The intricate rifts cut the habitable high land into pieces, making it impossible to build any large-scale hive cities.
As a result, the population has always been at a very low level. The land here is vast and sparsely populated. Except for the only huge main city capital, most of the rest are sparsely populated livestock towns. Farmers graze in the valleys with abundant rainfall, and then transport planes and aircraft are used to transport various settlements.
This also constitutes another unique feature of Tyrell Munda, the mode of transportation. The people here are different from other imperial worlds. They use vehicles as the main means of transportation, but spaceships. They connect every settlement on the vast land. There are spaceships or more simple but adapted to the planetary atmosphere in the sky all the time.
And one of them is flying over the rift valley and the deep ditch. It flies over the vast and broken land, passes through the scattered livestock towns, and whizzes over the heads of the animals living on the grass, calling the herds to look up as usual.
Vito was flying in the sky of Tyrell Monda, and soon approached the city built on the plateau from a distance. It was also the only city here, Tyrell Monda City.
The wings of the spaceship under him passed through the air steadily, and the propeller at the end was well connected with the system. It can be said that this was the most comfortable spaceship Vito had ever driven, second only to the Skyhawk. The reason was very simple. Although the appearance of this ship looked no different from that of the Empire, its core was completely different.
It was created on the Sky Blade, processed and produced by advanced manufacturing lines, and then system programmed by Helen, which made it look like a golden age aircraft with a layer of Empire coat.
Vito was turning on the screen in front of him, and a sound wave echo of the radar came from it. He was turning off the automatic radar during invisible flight. It had ensured several times before that they would not crash into the cliffs of the foggy valley here when flying, but now it was no longer needed.
"Helen still gave me a surprise. I decided to name this ship Aquila II, but you are also a surprise." Vito said, looking at Celestine on the side. She lifted one leg and hung it on the platform in front of her, leaning her back on the chair, the flat chair back.
She could do this posture without being dragged down by the huge wings behind her. The direct reason was that the wings were gone. I mean, they were really gone, not an adjective.
Vito looked at her and smiled, and began to operate the control terminal in front of him. Although it had been improved in the golden age, the interface here was still as troublesome and annoying as the Empire version.
"I didn't know you could hide your wings."
Celestine was wearing a corset, her back was tightly sealed, and she put her hands behind her head, "There are still many things you don't know, I will tell you when I want to tell you."
Vito smiled bitterly, put down the thruster at hand, and the flight power on the terminal dropped instantly. He continued to flip the switch around, and then put the headphones hanging on the back of the chair on his head, "Ahem, this is your captain, welcome to this flight, we are about to arrive at the destination, please open the small bench, take your things and prepare to get off the ship."
"Damn, finally here, now I know what Ragnar said about your nightmare of driving a boat." Sicarius' voice came from the headset, Vito smiled, operated the interface next to the compass, and then held the rudder tightly. He drove the Skyhawk II into the sky above Tyrell Munda from the air, bypassed the rift at the edge of the city, and flew to the vast open space on the terrace outside the city.
It was an airport, and it was obvious at a glance. But it was also obvious at a glance that there were large transport barges parked on it, and fighter planes parked in squadrons on the surrounding runways. There were no civilian spacecraft. As expected, the voice of the new owner of this place soon rang in the communication.
"Listen, civilian aircraft, this place has been requisitioned. Turn and leave immediately." "Then where should I land?" "How do I know? Watch the announcement channel, and then land wherever you want. Leave now. This place has been requisitioned by the military." "Military requisition? That means I flew right."
There was a silence on the other side of the communicator, with only the rustling sound of electricity still echoing. Vito smiled and decided to tell him before the other party notified the air defense company to open fire on him, "I am Inquisitor Vito Constantine, a senior member of the Alien Tribunal. Now find me a place to land. Identity verification code, to be sent."
Vito clicked on the interface at hand as he spoke, and the other side of the radio fell into silence for a while, "The verification code is accepted, being recognized, and waiting." "Then you'd better hurry up and let the inquisitor wait. It's not a good idea. "
I don’t know if his words had any effect, but there was a response soon, “Verification completed, identity verification successful, please follow the tower instructions to land at C93.”
"Copy that." Vito and Celestine looked at each other and smiled, and then under the guidance of the sudden reversal of attitudes, they quickly landed on the airport. There were no anti-aircraft guns or surface-to-air missiles pointing at them. .
The landing gear of Skyhawk 2 fell to the ground with a burst of roaring airflow. In the condensed smoke sent out, the hatch slowly lowered. Outside the door, the Valhalla man holding a gun had also left. Coming up, he was followed by two soldiers holding guns.
"Welcome, Lord Inquisitor, welcome to Tyrell Munda, I welcome you on behalf of the Valhalla Army." He said, standing in front of the landing position of the cabin, looking up at Vito who was walking down from it, he He was followed by a female attendant, who had black hair and eyes like him. The Valhalla looked at her for a while, then looked at Vito and cleared his throat.
Vito didn't think that person would be interested in Celestine. After all, she was a woman, wearing Valhalla's iconic gray coat and felt hat, but her clothes were open, revealing her lower body. Thin clothes.
But this is not because the surroundings are very hot. In fact, the air on the plateau is very cold. But obviously, for the people of Valhalla, compared with their hometown, it is hot enough here to need to take off their cold-proof uniforms. .
The female Valhallan looked at Vito and frowned slightly, "I need to further verify your identity. Sir, please understand that the situation here is not very peaceful."
"Of course, I understand, take it." Vito said and walked down. He put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked over casually. He came to the female officer all the way. There were two Valhalla warriors behind her. He clenched the trigger vigilantly, and with the officer's hand gesture, he did not point the gun at Vito.
She raised her head and looked at Vito with gray eyes. The latter smiled and took off the Inquisitor badge from his belt and handed it to her. After taking it, Vito carefully checked it and took out the tactical tablet from the bag behind him. , put the inquisitor badge under the camera and started scanning.
There is a special chip embedded inside the inquisitor's badge, which can be scanned by the empire's military equipment, thereby identifying the inquisitor's identity without wasting time explaining it. Although Vito sometimes likes to admire it. Those idiots looked like they were intimidated by him.
But now, he had no such plans for the female officer in front of him. He held his chin and looked at her carefully. The sight made the female officer very uncomfortable. She raised her head and said, "Is there any problem? Sir. "
"You are a woman." "Obviously, sir, what does this mean? War has nothing to do with women?" "No, it can only mean that you are a member of the 597th Regiment of Valhalla, and the soldiers behind you are all men. , as far as I know, among the Valhalla Legion, only the 597th regiment is a mixed regiment, what’s your name?”
"You guessed it right, sir, I am Captain Kinnit Sura of the 597th Regiment of Valhalla." She said, returning the inquisitor badge to Vito, "Verification completed, welcome, sir." "
"Ginette Sula? If I remember correctly, you are the company commander of the 597th regiment, right? You once served as the aide-de-camp to the commander of Colonel Kasteen."
Vito's words surprised Sulla, "Yes, sir, I was ordered to stay behind to deploy the regiment for subsequent landings, but do you know me?"
"I know your political commissar Kaifas Kane. I fought side by side with him many times. I mean, I fought with them and him." Vito said with a smile. Sulla looked up in surprise. He saw the space warriors appearing in the cabin behind him, a total of five steel giants.
They stood in the cabin, looking at Sulla and her soldiers with scarlet eyes under their battle helmets. It was not that Sulla had never seen the Astartes, but every time she took a look at them from a distance, the angel of death of the empire. They rarely have direct contact with junior officers like her. Often, only Captain Kastin and Political Commissar Kane have the honor to talk to them.
Sulla looked at the Space Marines nervously and swallowed unconsciously. Vito smiled and crossed his arms, "Don't worry, you will have enough time to get to know them. Where is your Commissar Kane? I I haven’t seen him for a long time, and now I’m starting to miss him.”
"Commissar Kane, the main force of the regiment, and the troops arriving with the Valhalla Army are parading through the city to intimidate the separatists in the city, and are heading to the 597th Regiment's station at the other end of the city, which is located at"
"No, what I'm looking for is Kane." Vito smiled and patted Sura on the shoulder. "I believe it's easier to find him in the city. After all, he must be walking in a group with great dignity. in the middle, it’s hard to ignore.”
"Ah, of course, and his adjutant Jurgen, he is even more difficult to ignore." Vito said and smiled at Sura, then looked at a Salamander armored reconnaissance vehicle on the runway in the distance. , there are several ground crews refueling it.
"Let me borrow your armored vehicle. I don't want to walk there or be stopped by your people for questioning." Vito said, patting Sura on the shoulder, and then walked over. Under the watchful eyes of the surrounding logistics personnel, he climbed onto the armored vehicle and stood on the hatch. The female attendant also climbed onto the armored vehicle and sat on the turret with her legs crossed. Vito turned his head and pointed at the Space Marines in the cabin.
"They will answer the other questions you want to ask." After that, Vito drove the reconnaissance vehicle away with black smoke, leaving Sura looking back at the huge Space Marines wearing Terminators behind him, or five.