Chapter 68

Diego held his weapon in his hand, leaning against a metal wall, and looked cautiously at the four people standing opposite him about ten meters away. At least from the appearance, they were obviously not good guys. He calmed down and silently mobilized his spiritual energy. In this place where the Emperor's holy power was everywhere except for the magic circle that was still running weakly, the Grey Knights Grand Master easily restored his state to the peak. However, the restraint that now restricted him from fighting with the four people was not strength, but doubt. Why could the Black Legion traitor wearing a black eight-pointed star with the symbol of the Chaos Gods stand in the Emperor's Holy Flame like nothing happened, and there was even golden flames on the blade? Why did the old soldier wearing the power armor of the original color of the World Eaters look so calm? Why did the person over there, whose color was like a green robe, and he couldn't tell what force it was, exude a righteousness that made him admire him? The strangest thing is, why does that guy who looks like a succubus from head to toe not only carry a bunch of holy relics of the state religion, but also the psychic energy wrapped around him is the purest exorcist psychic energy that can cause a decisive blow to the demons in the warp?

That's right! And why did the Khorne Demon that they killed not show the typical phenomenon of demons being exiled back to the warp, but simply broke into a pile on the spot and burned to death by the golden flame? Does this mean that the place where I am now is not actually the real universe, but a node in the warp, but this can only explain part of what I am experiencing now - more of it is even more confusing because of this speculation...

When Diego was examining the hammer guys and was ready to fight with them anytime and anywhere, several hammer guys who had happily killed the Khorne Demon and were about to summon another wave of four gods found that there was one more person here, and the hammer guys who had recognized the Grey Knight in front of them who looked very capable were going crazy in the chat group, and even tried to call Big E out to explain the current situation after chatting for a while.

"Fuck, it's Brother Zha! Aren't we fishing for Chaos Demons? Why is there a buy one get one free offer?"

Looking at the legendary Grey Knight standing opposite his group, with silver psychic energy lingering around him, Liang Feifan's eyes twitched slightly - although, the scene of summoning a demon to send Brother Zha has always been a favorite among the 40K cultists, but it's a bit subtle when it happens to them...

"It's a big problem. If you tell Brother Zha that we are Big E's people, he won't believe it - and how can we continue fishing when Brother Zha is squatting here?"

Political Commissar Sister felt a little headache. Although, with the combined combat power of their advent bodies, it's not a big problem to suppress Brother Zha, but this is a move they will take when they have no choice - but it doesn't seem to be a simple thing to find a way to make Brother Zha understand their existence and actions without going beyond the scope?

"In fact, things are not that bad. The fact that Brother Zha didn't take action shows that he has doubts about our identities. Think about it, according to Brother Zha's temper, it is incredible that he didn't rush up with swords when he saw our current descended bodies?"

Warrior Zhang was quite calm - although in fact, he was the first hammer man who was ready to fight with Diego.

"Then... we should talk directly? No! Let Brother E explain it. This matter is quite troublesome. I am worried that our diplomatic failure will lead to not-so-good consequences - damn! Why did he hang up the Do Not Disturb again!"

After listening to the reasoning of Warrior Zhang, Liang Feifan calmed down a little. After thinking for two seconds, he decided to contact a 40K social phobic person to ask him to explain this problem to Brother Zha in person. However, when he moved his eyes to Brother E's avatar, he found that the human emperor had already dived in a classic way.

"He is Big E after all. I think he will have great psychological pressure if he admits that he is at least a god-like existence. Look! Diego is looking at me again!"

The most heartless Dark Lady among the Hammers flipped through the deeds of the dragging brother in the realm of Slaanesh, and then she jumped up in front of the Grey Knight Grand Master with the pure flames burning in her left and right hands. This operation of a very Slaanesh demon made the corners of the dragging brother's mouth curl up, and his hands pressed down on the hilt of the sword. The other Hammers could see that Diego was already trying hard to suppress his desire to attack.....

"Liang Feifan, why don't you bake yourself golden first? I think you are actually very convincing in the current situation. The dragging brother's eyes fell on your sword at least three times. He is likely to suspect that you are a loyalist... Well, anyway, he thinks that you may have Chaos Eight Mangs on you for other reasons."

The political commissar sister forced herself not to think about whether the dark lady might have other problems. She cast her eyes on Liang Feifan and gave a very.... suggestion that made people want to complain.

"But he's also looking at the Dark Lady! Isn't the Dark Lady, a succubus who uses the Holy Power of Big E, more convincing?"

"...Personally, I don't support the Dark Lady communicating with Brother. Didn't you notice that Brother can't help himself?"

The political commissar sister who said this pointed at the Gray Knight Grand Master, whose eyes had begun to show murderous intent towards the Dark Lady, with a slight hint of urgency in her tone - obviously, the Gray Knight Grand Master may have diverted his thoughts to a certain place. In some respects, I already have the urge to fight with them directly.

"Tsk - I will definitely protest to Big E about his actions when I go back!"

Knowing that he would be beaten no matter what, Liang Feifan smacked his mouth in dissatisfaction. Under the gaze of the Gray Knight Grand Master, he raised his hand and ignited the eight-pointed star of chaos on his chest with golden flames. , and then activate a function in the operating system to make sacred words appear on the sword in his hand.

"Brother, I know you have many doubts about our existence, but I am sure that we are friends rather than enemies. Maybe we can have a talk?"

While struggling to piece together a sentence that was probably not malicious, Liang Feifan also took a step forward - and was very pleased to see that Diego did not make a more drastic move. However, after he took the second step Finally, the screen in front of him reminded him that the psychic energy of the Gray Knight Grand Master had reached a peak.

"Is this what you think is the best distance between us? That's fine, that's it."

Liang Feifan stopped and gave a pretentious sigh. He leaned on his sword and stopped. He looked at the Black Legion Astartes who looked less and less rebellious but was wearing rebellious power armor. , Diego, who was sure that he was indeed not entangled by any strange guy, also lowered the tip of his sword slightly, indicating that he was willing to listen to him.

"Ma'am, call some people over."

After confirming that Brother Yan had shown "limited friendliness" to his group, Liang Feifan, who had a brief discussion with other hammer guys in the chat room on how to increase Brother Yan's trust, also lowered the tip of his sword. , while giving instructions to the dark lady, the dark lady who had already received the script nodded, turned around and disappeared into the hall - such a smooth operation made Dial frown again.

"This is the Eye of Terror."

Before Diego could think about the relationship between these four strange guys, Liang Feifan spoke first, drawing Diego's attention back to the chat between them. After hearing this Familiar place names, and understanding why he was not exiled back to the subspace by the curse lingering on his body, the Grand Master of the Gray Knight nodded slightly and motioned for Liang Feifan to continue.

"And we, come from the distant future - you may not believe it if you tell me, but in the future we live in, the glory of the Holy Emperor has illuminated the entire galaxy - even the four Chaos Gods of subspace have surrendered to Under the glory of the great God-Emperor, part of their essence was taken away by the God-Emperor. Go and become part of the light of the God Emperor. Therefore, in the era of our birth, the Chaos Marks no longer point to Chaos itself, but there are some interpretations that you now seem to be extremely blasphemous - in these interpretations, Certain existences become extensions of the Holy Emperor himself."

"..."

If Diego was just shocked by his worldview when he first saw these four people, now he hears Liang Feifan say very seriously and earnestly that he can understand a bunch of things that he can understand separately, but together they are extremely outrageous. After explaining the reasons why they were like this, Diego's world view was completely shattered - things like the future have been wandering in the subspace for God knows how many mortal years. And guided by the malice of the subspace itself, he didn’t know how many times he had seen it - however, he could swear that he was absolutely! No! Saw it! Any one! The Emperor rises, and! A future where subspace is suppressed in reverse!

"Whether you believe it or not, brothers, our future is the world that seems so incredible to you now - for us, the records of this era have long been blurred, so for some reasons in our team After being swept back to this era by the power of subspace, we were confused about the difference between the two eras for a long time - until we captured this ship."

The political commissar sister also took a step forward and picked up Liang Feifan's words hoarsely.

"Destiny is indeed not static. Why has your world moved to such a future?"

The Grand Master of the Gray Knights, who was already five-fifths convinced that the 'rebels who could use pure psychic energy' in front of him did come from a different future, once again confirmed that he had not fallen into any psychic illusion, and decided to dig out why this future appeared. Information——Although he knew that the empire world he was in had almost no possibility of reaching this future, it would be good to know a little bit.

"In our future, Erebus and Kor Phaeron died on their home planet before the Holy Emperor could meet his great heir - and the ones on Colchis The cult was also destroyed by the Emperor's descendants before the arrival of the Holy Emperor.

Uprooted - this is the clearest distinction we have so far. "

"So that's the case. This is indeed a commendable variable."

The Grand Master of the Gray Knights, who was familiar with some of the key details of that period of history in which most of the records were locked in darkness, nodded slightly and thought about what would happen in that battle if these things really happened - - He easily came to the conclusion that perhaps the Chaos Gods could still find one or more spokespersons to penetrate their venom into reality. However, it was obvious that they would encounter greater obstacles - after all, some The tool is damaged, and the temporary replacement will definitely not be as good as the one that was used before!

"So we want to correct the mistake that Erebus and Kor Phaeron are still alive - unfortunately, we have only locked the position of Erebus now, and there is a high probability that we will not be able to stay here for as long as we want. Support us in finding Kor Phaeron."

Liang Feifan took over the conversation again, with a slight feeling of 'regret' lingering in his tone.

"The goal of this ship is to annihilate Erebus?"

There was a hint of anger in the voice of the Gray Knight Grand Master who captured the key words in Liang Feifan's words.

"That's right - we have obtained the coordinates of the demon world where he is now, and the ship is currently on its way there - Madam, are you back?"

"Yes, I'm back."

The succubus descending body of the dark lady nodded reservedly, turned slightly to the side, and allowed the three beings behind her to enter the ritual venue - well, one held a sword burning with golden flames and had a golden horn. Ghost, a golden fire demon who looks exactly like the Tzeentch fire demon but whose flames are all golden, and a man who looks so peaceful that if you don't look carefully, you won't be able to tell that he has anything in common with the Plague Carrier. .....Um, a humanoid creature that's too clean?

"...Okay, count me in. Also, why do you want to perform a ritual to summon demons?"

Diego, who believed more than 80% of what this group of people said in his heart, still maintained the necessary vigilance, but his aura was no longer aggressive. He knew that the Gray Knight boss nicknamed Brother Drag had been taken over by him. Several people succeeded in 'fooling', and Liang Feifan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"This was our favorite hunt at that time - burning the essence of demons to return them to the cycle of warp - seriously, brother, the demons of your era are really easy to take the bait..."

"Are you going to continue this hunt?"

Diego, who understood the meaning of Liang Feifan's words, was slightly stunned, and then felt vaguely ecstatic in his heart.

"certainly."

"Then, count me in."

Thirty-two. Erebus must die! ——A ship sailing out of subspace

Shake.

Shock.

When the Tormented Truth ended its warp voyage for God knows how long, it was shrouded in a series of purple-black warp lightning bolts, passed through the veil between warp space and reality at the Mandeville Point in the target system, and reappeared. In the eye of fear the rules are relatively When he was leaning more towards the realistic area, a powerful shock spread through every warehouse and every corridor of the ship - such an unexpected shaking caused several hammer guys to be hit one after another. He held on to the wall and stood firm, but he almost fell over and bit into the mud.

"Wow, was it so exciting when the empire's ship soared out of the subspace? It obviously felt quite stable when entering the subspace."

However, based on the quality of the descendants of the hammer guys, they were very good, so after the initial wave of shaking, they quickly found a balance point in the vibration that made people feel like the whole ship was about to fall apart - and At this time, the Gray Knight's Grand Master, who was vaguely guessing about this unusual shock, also spoke at the right time.

"This is not normal - if I'm not mistaken, this is real-world resistance to the ship."

"Forehead?"

The dark lady was slightly stunned as her brain was unable to process what Brother Lao meant.

"Battle brother of the Gray Knights, you wouldn't say that this ship has been 'warp-ized', right?"

The political commissar sister, who understood what Brother Yan wanted to express, spoke doubtfully.

"But this makes no sense! We captured this ship in the real universe - well, the Eye of Terror is at least half of the real world - to say the least! When we captured this ship, it Basically 'realistic'!"

Lich Zhang's tone was fierce - well, although I don't know how much of this tone was fake.

"Brother Diego, could you please elaborate on your understanding of the current situation? It seems that the knowledge we lost at that time was not just some history of this dark age."

Finally, Liang Feifan, who first talked to Diego, made a summary.

"I don't know how you got along with the subspace at that time, because I can't imagine your future. However, I think that as long as you get along with the subspace, some things are the same."

After hearing Liang Feifan's inquiry, the Grand Master of the Gray Knights fell silent for a moment, and then said something that seemed to have nothing to do with the current situation. Then, he slowly walked to a nearby door, gently put his hand on it, and activated his spiritual energy. The next second, stimulated by Diego's silver psychic energy, a figure appeared on the door.

A string of words, a string of words suppressed by burning golden spiritual energy.

"What are these words...?"

Even though at first glance these characters seemed to the Hammer guys to be some kind of ghostly symbols with unknown meanings. But soon, with the help of the language translation module of their descendants, the hammer guys understood these words - or the meaning of the curse. In an instant, the hammer guys were all confused.

"Why is there such a tragic curse on this door? Who left this curse?"

After repeatedly looking at the curse words written on the door that were obviously related to psychic energy, the Hammermen were full of questions - indeed, they were well aware of the fact that God knows how many people died in pain and unwillingness on board the Painful Truth. However, they also know very well that with the Word Bearers' style, these victims will never leave any possibility of curse!

"Do you still remember what we did under this door one month ago in Terra time?"

Realizing that these strange 'future beings' were indeed idiots in psychic knowledge, the Grand Master of the Gray Knights took his hand off the door, stopped stimulating the curse, and began to guide the Hammers in their memories. Come over, and under the guidance of Diego, the hammer guys also began to think seriously - about a minute later, the dark lady clapped the pliers hard, and her tone suddenly dawned.

"A month ago? Wasn't that the time when the great demon of Slaanesh was chased and beaten by us?"

"Yes, yes, yes! I remember that you were still pretending to be a Slaanesh demon that had been active on this ship for a long time. After a few operations, the Slaanesh demon thought that what happened to it was that its desires were suppressed first, and it happily cooperated with you all the way. Damn it—oh, it looked so miserable back then!”

In the Zhui Lao chat room, Liang Feifan, who remembered the unlucky Slaanesh Demon mentioned by Lady Darkness, quickly picked up the conversation.

"In the end, it seems that the big demon was hacked to death by us under this door? It seems that before it died, it still roared loudly and asked the dark lady why she just stood and watched instead of coming to help according to the plan?"

The political commissar sister also immediately recalled what happened under this door - although during this months-long subspace voyage, there were no demons of some strength that they managed to fish out and then turned into points with one operation. One hundred or eighty, but this great demon of Slaanesh is indeed dead One of the most frustrating demons in the world - after all, I foolishly thought that everything was a preparation before the big meal, and finally found out that I was the one who felt the catastrophic gap of the big meal... Well, Sister Political Commissar I even felt that if they followed Tzeentch, they would be blessed.

"In the end, the Lady of Darkness personally used the Emperor's Holy Flame to cut off the last trace of life, and its power returned to the original cycle of subspace - Diego, you mean that this curse was left behind by it, but , isn’t it already gone? Didn’t we eradicate it?”

"No, it was indeed completely wiped out - none of the demons we have 'caught' in the past few months have been able to escape back to their masters."

The Grand Master of the Gray Knight shook his head first, denying Lich Zhang's guess.

"Then why..."

"The subspace is the world of will. These are the final remnants of the demon's will."

"....I don't understand. Aren't they all wiped out?"

A series of question marks appeared on Liang Feifan's head.

"Just like in reality, the death of the deceased will not make the words left behind disappear. The complete disappearance of the devil will not affect the 'death message' it left - of course, not all devils have the ability to leave behind These messages cannot bring back the demons who have been wiped out - at best, these messages are only used to remind their masters of what happened to them, so that their masters can take precautions. "

Diego explained.

"So this is the curse?"

"Yes, these are the remaining 'last words' of those demons who have a little bit of will and are able to maintain their 'existence' at the last moment - however, they were all intercepted by this ship, and none of them can be returned to them. Master."

After saying this, Diego looked around at the hammer guys, trying to see if they understood the hidden meaning of what he said - as a result, he was very 'helpless' to find that, including the succubus, His face was covered with question marks, so Diego had no choice but to continue speaking.

"Therefore, this ship has become a 'ship carrying a large number of subspace demon curses', and its existence has irreversibly slipped towards the subspace - just like a mortal being injected with excessive subspace power, the body It disintegrates and the essence merges into the soul.”

"But, battle brother, isn't the power of the great God-Emperor burning everywhere in this ship now? How can it still become a 'cursed ship'?"

Liang Feifan's puzzled words were exchanged for Diego's rare hearty laughter.

"It is precisely because the Emperor's great power envelopes this ship that it can become such a 'cursed ship'. Well, everyone, I have a hunch that sooner or later this ship will be rejected by the real universe. Therefore, we cannot exist stably in reality - so no matter what we want to do in reality, we have to speed up a little - after all, this universe never lacks success. "

"Don't worry, battle brothers, before we leave Mander

The ‘bait’ had already been thrown out by us before reaching Weir Point. "

——————————————The dividing line of Erebus——————————————————————

Word Star.

This is a demonic world planet that was given a seemingly sacred name by Erebus, but is buried deep in the Eye of Terror and is overflowing with all kinds of blasphemy and madness - I don't know if it's accidental or not. Because of the influence of the Eye of Terror itself, this planet and the galaxy in which it is located are filled with incredible coincidences with the sacred numbers of the Chaos Gods. The galaxy where the Holy Word Star is located has eight planets. The Holy Word Star is numbered sixth in this planetary system. The distance of the Word from its star is exactly 999999999 kilometers in terms of Tyran dimensions. Finally, the time it takes for the Holy Word Star to revolve around its star is precisely stabilized within the special time of seven hundred and seventy-seven Terra days - as if the Four Gods of Chaos had strangely achieved success in this galaxy. The consensus is average.

The coincidence and incredibleness of all these easily moved the well-known Word Bearers priest Erebus who led his warband to "spread the truth" in the Eye of Terror, but was drifted here because of a subspace storm - this When every dog ​​with a name as a destructive power realized the strangeness of this planetary system, he immediately declared the 'sacred' of this world. Immediately, having made up his mind, he ordered his subordinates to find a large number of traitor Astartes or mortals who were "willing to serve the truth of the gods", and built various special structures on the planet. A building that expresses worship to the Four Gods of Chaos - Erebas is convinced - at least he is very convinced that as long as he completes it on this planet A big sermon, then you will be favored by the true God you serve, and thus take a very solid step forward on the path of truth - it may even be more solid than your original body. After all, His original body has been meditating in his temple in the subspace for a long time without leaving home. Maybe he has long been unable to keep up with the times!

However, what troubles Erebus is that although he has all the sacred plans for this planet in place, due to the lack of resources and manpower, the construction progress of this world can be said to be extremely slow - in the Eye of Terror In this star area where even a mouthful of clean water may trigger a duel, how many resources can a Chaos warband get and how much resources can this warband get? The leader's ability and combat prowess, the backers behind him, and the personal connections of the warband leader are completely positively related - as he initially surrendered to the Destruction Power and served as the trigger for the historic event of the Horus Heresy. Erebus, his ability and combat effectiveness are not bad among the leaders of the war gang, and his backers are the most powerful ones in the Supreme Heaven. Logically speaking, war gang leaders like Erebus should be among the top leaders in the Eye of Fear. Although it is a bit troublesome to build a demon world, it will not be reduced to the current situation where everything is lacking. The reason is... ....

Erebus's reputation in the Eye of Terror is simply 'too good'! So much so that no one is willing to take the initiative to defect to him!

"Lord Dark Apostle, communication from the Painful Truth."

Today is still a day for Erebus to stay in his secret room and study the will of the dark power seriously. Today, Erebus's life seems to be no different from the previous period. Today, Erebus received news of the return of a cruiser from the team he sent out to collect resources.

"Oh, I guess they didn't disappoint me?"

After hearing the report from his attendant, Erebus put down the human skin scroll in his hand, stood up, and looked in the direction of the door.

"Yes, they reported that they have allowed all the members of the Howling Desire War Gang to follow the Four Right Paths, and with the help of the members of the Howling Desire War Gang who have taken the right path, they also plundered the Howling Desire War Gang. Help all the young people and building resources stationed in the world and put them all on board the Painful Truth."

"Yes, these are what we are in urgent need of now. I believe the gods will be very pleased - how long will it take for them to come back?"

The good news reported by the Painful Truth made Erebus, who had been in a bad mood due to the slow progress of construction on the planet during this period, have a faint smile on his lips - although, the Howl recruited by the Painful Truth The predecessor of the Desire warband was a Slaanesh warband that only walked on the path of indulgence. Although you can use your toes to figure out which destructive power the mortals who can hang out with the Howling Desire warband believe in, Erebus believes that with his words and the destructive power that values ​​him, , it is easy to get these lambs who have strayed from the true path back to the right path.

"Their report shows that they are close to the Mandeville Point of the Holy Word Star, and will return to you soon with a load of loot - Sir, do you need me to help you change your clothes?"

"certainly."

Thirty-three. Erebus must die! ——The bolter extending from the black armored vehicle

The Star of the Word, the abode of the Word Bearer.

In this complex of buildings that was the earliest to be repaired on the Holy Word Star, Besdor, the veteran warrior of the Word Bearers, stood on a terrace, looking at the distant buildings on the plains or hills, even the word "mist" There are a lot of unfinished buildings that are indescribable, and the eyes hidden on the face behind the old MK signal power armor helmet are full of helplessness and confusion-as the first person to follow Ai

One of Erebas's Word Bearers, Bestor was once the most fanatical pioneer of the Dark Apostle, roaring the scriptures of the Four Paths and fighting for it on many battlefields - at that time, Erebas was still a basically perfect high priest, and both his combat and understanding of the Four Paths made ordinary Word Bearers like him admire him. At that time, Bestor was very sure that under the guidance of his own Primarch and Erebas and Kor Phaeron and other adults, the Word Bearers would eventually be able to tear apart the false appearance of the false emperor and implant the true truth into the hearts of the people of the Empire - and this would also represent that mankind would move towards a true new era, a new era guided by the truth.

However, everything collapsed so quickly. On the eve of the false appearance of the false emperor being completely exposed by them, the Astartes Legions that raised the banner of rebellion collapsed in an instant because of the fall of Warmaster Horus, and each fought for themselves - and he also followed Erebas in a panic and retreated to the Eye of Terror. At that time, Bestor still believed that Erebus, who seemed to be full of vigor and vitality at that time, would one day be able to carry the truth and the wrath of righteousness, rush out of the Eye of Terror and deal a heavy blow to the empire - but now...