Chapter 369: Let Dan, the Curse Is Still There

When the war between the Empire and the Red Pirates was in full swing, life might still exist in the darkest and coldest depths. In the most inconspicuous corner of the control console of the alien fortress seized by the Empire, after a burst of abnormal wriggling, the long-sleeping creature awakened.

This was three months before the start of the war, when the Dan race had just been discovered and its last fortress was being dealt with...

Inside the alien fortress, about the size of a palm, it looked like a pool of rotten meat. The sluggish worms piled up together, like tiny brown granulations, but they gradually began to become active again, resurrecting from the hollow in the complex transparent crystal.

This ancient alien that had experienced the greatest expedition of the Empire did not look that terrible, but this group of constantly wriggling, shapeless worms had terrible desires beyond human imagination. They obeyed a group psychic concept called extermination. If you want to describe it, using an inappropriate and somewhat heretical term, extermination is their "Emperor".

And now, in its ancient will, this group of worms with almost no sense of existence has been awakened, freed from the constraints of an inappropriate group of crystalline devices that have nothing to do with organic matter, and they are also the source of the magical abilities of this fortress.

They are bound in it voluntarily, for their warp projection, although they are not as strong as the human emperor, the green skins, or even slightly worse than the gods of the Eldar, but they are extremely loyal to the slaughter and give everything they have.

Of course, this so-called warp projection is no longer as powerful as it used to be, and its individual will is completely erased. It was destroyed by the most vicious enemy of their race and the last enemy, that is, humans, that is, the real entity of the Empire.

After its brother was crushed by the gravity gun of Alanbair, it woke up in the death wave, and was led forward by the remaining will of slaughter. It naturally passed through the strange crystal that was so strong that the Empire could not dissect it, and then fell powerlessly from the console.

Pah-chih… It was extremely obvious and clear in the dark and lightless area, and also attracted the people of the Inquisition to move forward quickly. At this moment, it was confused, weak, fragile, and dying. It was also special, far superior to those who were killed by humans and exterminated by its will of extermination.

It was only the size of a palm, but it showed thoughts similar to those of normal humans. It was just a ball, but it could use powerful psychic abilities. This was a terrible talent that only human-sized people could fully exert their intelligence and their compatriots could not imitate. At the same time, its psychic power was so strong that it could activate a curse that spanned hundreds or thousands of years.

After the strange sound attracted the monks of the Inquisition, its weak consciousness received the last bit of power of extermination, and relying on its memory, it immediately turned into something that its brother remembered before his death, that is, a piece of imitation rose knot often used by high-level Inquisition personnel.

When the acolytes, who were fully armed and strictly wearing the anti-corrosion suits recorded in the ancient imperial documents, that is, wearing fully enclosed composite anti-corrosion materials made of heavy clothing like the early diving suits of ancient Terra, came here, they were restricted to stay in this high-risk area for half a minute, but it was enough for them to see the beautiful dark golden, supreme rose knot at a glance.

"It's the stuff of the high-level acolytes, damn, that lord left such an important thing here?" A young voice couldn't help cursing.

There were three acolytes who entered here at this moment. Because of the heavy protective clothing, they couldn't see their appearance clearly, but they all faced the supreme power inside the Tribunal with the attitude of looking at landmines.

This silence lasted for a few seconds. Given the countdown outside the room, if they didn't deal with this thing, they didn't know how many people would be scared to death if they lost the copy of the rose knot.

They who were unlucky enough to see this thing probably couldn't escape the disaster. For most acolytes, they were lucky to join the Tribunal. It was even more unlikely to guess the above idea, so it was better to do their duty, at least the probability of survival was greater.

They could only collect the relics in teams of three, lined up in a row, wearing thick isolation suits. The most experienced acolytes operated special long pliers to pick up the rose knot that was enough to kill them thirty or forty times.

Finally, they sealed it in a beautiful special metal box and handed it over to the senior acolytes according to the standard of heavy relics. At the same time, they also completed the most difficult service in their long service career for the Inquisition with sweat dripping down their backs.

No one knew what their fate would be next. They could only fill in the relic's attributes and the situation when it was found truthfully on the form. Then the metal box was pulled into the nearby state church with the transport ship for sealing and preliminary consecration by the Mechanicus.

And the moment Dan entered the box, the tiny anti-psychic array on the box made this psychic creature group particularly uncomfortable, and the psychic binding crystals on the transport ship made it even more weak and collapsed.

Normally, after ten thousand years of hibernation and suffering, being tortured like this would make any race powerless, but thanks to the simple body structure of those worm-like aliens, they have endurance far beyond most intelligent races in this universe.

It survived, just like it was completely destroyed by the Emperor's descendants, but revived again ten thousand years later. This evil alien that should not belong to this universe was successfully tilted a little bit in a slightly lax link during the layers of screening and transportation.

When the box passed through the hands of a young acolyte, the young man did not grab it. It was only tilted for a moment, but Dan seized the opportunity and detached most of the body, leaving a trace of worm limbs outside. Although that thing It looks like an inconspicuous red rope, but it is indeed alive.

The young man was instantly discovered by the senior acolyte in charge of the matter. The adult decided that as a punishment for his dereliction of duty, he would have to mechanically serve the Tribunal as a computer servant for the rest of his life. The linguistics that this young man knew, the superficial heretical knowledge and the countless contributions he had made to the Inquisition were all wiped out with this seemingly inconspicuous tilt.

At the same time, Dan's weak body and strong mental power were pulling an inconspicuous rodent. The rat came from the outside of the vents inside the court building, that is, those areas that were still used by civilians, and subconsciously ate the rodent. The bright red "rope" is quickly activated by the water in the living body.

It saw the world again, the dark sky, the metal ground, the chaotic air, the messy humans in robes, and countless heavy machinery. Its rat body warned frantically for a second that it was a severely modified human being called a machine. The individual servants kept driving them away with wooden boards and smashing them.

And read it. "The eviction protocol, the rodents, is being enforced, being enforced."

The rodent's instinct told it that it should let out a squeaking scream and run towards the hole, but it was smashed down by a heavy wooden board and instantly turned into a ball of flesh.

At this moment, Jean Dan, who had regained his moisture, also showed mobility beyond that of a normal worm. He instantly stuck to the board. At the same time, he crawled in from the unmodified human arm of the servitor. He followed the flesh and blood into the servitor's brain and was cut off. The brain is controlled by the control unit.

The servitor immediately paused, which was not uncommon among the countless consumable servitors in the empire that lacked maintenance. It was in a daze for a while, and was quickly called out by the acolytes of the Tribunal. "Miscellaneous Servant No. 3! Go and carry that box to the Chief Physician!"

Then the acolyte said to his companion. "Commander-in-Chief Alan Bair actually handed over the task of taking care of civilians to the Inquisition!"

Another acolyte answered, dragging his robes. "There is no way. The Dan incident has left us with no rights anymore. I just hope that we can save more useful citizens of the empire. If a war breaks out, hundreds of people will be injured in residential areas just from the aftermath of the fleet battle. Emperor... "

His words were somewhat compassionate, but that was all. He also knew how much of the medical supplies could be allocated to the locals. Most of them would be sold and entered the local black market or the hands of unlicensed doctors. He even said It was given to the chief physician, but that gentleman probably wouldn't even look at that garbage.

This universe is cruel and merciless, he already knows it deeply, and now he only cares about this matter with fulfilling his duties to offset the lingering feeling of guilt in his heart.

But he didn't know that this incident gave Dan an opportunity. This greedy monster had already eaten up the servitor's brain and its incomplete soul, and its powerful spiritual power could even be used while eating. Mimicry and mind control kept the poor guy's body functioning, preventing the servitor from feeling that his body was falling apart.

When the box of supplies he transported arrived at its destination, the carrier also lost its so-called value. After Dan left quickly, the materials were pushed into the interior of the transport vehicle.

The service servitor No. 3, one of the Emperor's possessions, disappeared under inconspicuous circumstances. To be precise, his core system was torn and eaten, namely the brain, which absorbed most of the body's nutrients. place was replaced. During this period, he was providing heat to Rang Dan and was being controlled by Rang Dan.

Now it suddenly slumped on the ground, and others complained about its short expiration date and dragged this worthless thing to the recycling bin.

But in the car, Rangdan, who hid inside the medical supplies, was powerful, but now he was just a red bug after leaving the servitor's body.

Although it can reproduce asexually by relying on nutrition, the speed is very slow, and one cycle takes more than a week. Although it can grow exponentially if the number is large, there are few humans it can currently come into contact with that can afford so much nutrition. thing.

And the conditions it requires are very harsh. First of all, the person must be in a high position and be able to provide a large amount of food and nutrition to other humans, including the lives of other humans. Dan needs the souls of intelligent creatures to reproduce. This is why the host inquisitor That one didn't split its body until it was killed by Alan Bair.

Secondly, under the current circumstances, its host cannot instantly control the host's will, so the human environment cannot be so good that if there is a physical problem, he will be surrounded by a large number of instruments and equipment. Secondly, he himself must be as superstitious and as superstitious about the world as possible. madness.

In any case, it is not as complete as its dead brother. Although it has spiritual power and intelligence, its individual weakness is far beyond what it can achieve as a complete body and let the Dan group have the ability...

And within its current wisdom, a hazy whisper is praising a lot of complex knowledge. Although it is a very one-sided flash, it also sees that it contains the real secrets of the entire universe.

That is, the current lord of the Imperial Guard, that special human, and its wisdom is not possessed by its body, but the last resentment and psychic power of Dan after being killed by humans, which changed the will of extermination. It is the embodiment of the wisdom of the Dan race. In this way, the subspace psychic power is actually its body.

And with the help of the memory of its poor brother, it touched a flash in Alanbair's mind. It was a very inferior civilization, and there was a world with a good environment. The most important thing was not this world, but the world under that civilization.

It was familiar with those primate-like creatures, and their technology was not so bad. If this was not one of the lost worlds of the empire, then there was only one possibility...

Ancient Terra era.

As the transporter kept swaying, the confused thoughts became clear, and it realized that it had encountered a miracle. The will of extermination left it with a chance for the Dan race to rise again, that is, an immortal, one of the most powerful individuals of the human race.

With the huge ambition in its heart, it already had a goal, that is, to restore the huge humanoid body, and to find the lord who lived from ancient Terra to the present.

Suddenly, the car stopped. It immediately melted the plastic skin of the medical supplies under its body in fear, and then turned into a part of it, stuck in a bag of physiological saline, and used its mimicry ability to become transparent and invisible, looking like the outer layer of ordinary saline.

A hurried voice outside the car shouted. "Hurry up, your vehicle has been seized by us, and all the medical supplies must be handed over to the doctors in the nest. This matter is related to the survival of our gang!"

After a few rapid shell gun shots, Dan was carried up dizzy. It has become accustomed to the feeling of being treated as a commodity. Given that it has been an inorganic body for nearly 10,000 years, it does not feel uncomfortable. On the contrary, it is more comfortable than when it takes in body fluids and muscle tissue in the body of the robot.

After another few hours of driving, when it saw the light again, it was already a dark and gloomy room like a basement. A dying man with his chest cut open was lying on a white bed. There was not even a good sterile environment. An unlicensed doctor who had served as a field doctor used a scalpel, disinfectant alcohol and strong anesthetics to solve this simple and ridiculous operation, removing the yellow bullets one by one.

The black doctor raised his hand and asked his assistant to wipe his forehead. The gang member with a mohawk standing next to him said through the curtain. "How is the boss? We have just completed the decisive firefight with the enemy, and we are going to swallow up the enemy's territory!"

"The commander who shared the hardships is going to die, damn, those black guys!"

The doctor spoke immediately. "Shut up, assistant, bring the saline solution, he is starting to lose body fluids, inject it first..." His tone was weak and exhausted, and at the same time, the assistant happened to pick up the bag of saline that was possessed by Dan.

Then, there was a sudden shout. "Damn it, this bag of saline is leaking! Call someone, call someone! Change it quickly."

But what's interesting is that in the following operations, the leader's condition became better and better. By the end, his breathing was stable and his complexion was much better. The gang members shouted that the Emperor had appeared, and the doctor was inclined to believe that he had lived another day...

The Rangdan race is not original. The official GW account says that he is one of the remains of the ancient saints, but I am more inclined to believe that he is an alien race similar to the parasitic virus in the biochemical crisis.

But the same thing is that they are all equally deadly and terrible, but the official GW setting is more "positive and powerful" and mine is more "sinister and vicious" because they are currently exterminated by the Emperor.

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