Warhammer Inquisitor

The land in the south pole of the planet is a snow-white hell. Needless to say, it is covered with snow all the year round, and strong winds are commonplace. However, the Antarctic land of Macragge is significantly different from the snowfields of other worlds. The snow here is not It is flat and straight, but is composed of countless large and small peaks.

They tower over the entire land, like spears piercing the ground, tearing out many holes in the entire snow-white world, just like openings cut with a knife on a scroll, abrupt and conspicuous gray mountains Standing up from the earth, it added its own color to the snow-white world.

Among the mountains, the Mars-class battlecruiser that is significantly different from the surrounding environment, the USS Infinity Frontier is suspended among the peaks. Its magnetic levitation power unit is rumbling under the hull, releasing a circle in the air. Magnetic loop.

Captain Cole stood on the bridge with his hands behind his back, looking at the white world outside, "The situation."

"The magnetic lock is in normal operation, the self-sustaining force of the hull is suspended, and the power unit is 80%, and it can continue to sail." Someone in the bridge reported that overlooking the operating area below the bridge, the screens kept flickering.

"The status of the shipboard system?", "The overload situation has been resolved, but the temperature of the reactor is still high, exceeding 60% of the standard. The mechanical sage suggests that it should be repaired at the port immediately."

"We will call at the port when we are free. Now let them figure out a way to ensure that this ship will not crash here." Cole said and turned his head to look at the space fighters on the bridge, Mikay Captain Er held his chin anxiously, and nodded to Cole when he saw him coming.

The captain also nodded to Mikael, and then glanced at the other people beside the image. Ragnar, Lancelot, and Olaf were all here, and they were gathered around the table, but only Olaf Raff showed the same anxious expression as Mikael.

But they were not anxious about the situation in Antarctica, but for other places. When the gate of the bridge entrance opened, Captain Mikael immediately looked over, and Vito in power armor was walking in from there. Already fully armed.

"Master Vito, we have received rumors that Master Guilliman had an accident?" Mikael asked immediately, his face was full of tension and anxiety, but whenever he thought that the rumor was true, he would It felt like the world was collapsing.

"Yes, Master Vito, the far-wave communication system of the Infinity Frontier is damaged, and we cannot receive other messages." Olaf held Mikael's shoulder on the side, but the expression of the old wolf was the same as the latter , "Is that true? Terrible news in rumors."

"First of all, call me Vito, this is not a military parade, nor is it the palace of Terra, and secondly, let him speak for himself." Vito said as he walked in and stepped aside. With the sound of heavy footsteps outside the door, the rumored person appeared on the bridge.

Cole opened his eyes wide, but he didn't need to blink, and he didn't suspect that he was hallucinating. If his hallucinations could simulate the light behind the Emperor's Children, then his brain would be able to communicate with the most outstanding artist in the galaxy. The brain is compared.

"Lord Guilliman? You, are you alright?"

"Did this disappoint you, Mikael." Guilliman smiled, and Mikael immediately knelt down on one knee and buried his head in front of him, "My lord, your safety is the best thing message, I never have any idea of ​​where to go."

"Okay, Mikael, I'm just kidding, I know you won't, get up my child, here are friends and brothers." Guilliman stepped forward to help Mikael, the company commander said His primarch nodded in salute, then stood aside, helm in hand.

Guilliman nodded back to Olaf, who immediately saluted Guilliman with Wolf manners, and the Primarch came to the table.

Vito also came over, and he stood beside Cole with his arms folded. The latter glanced at him from the corner of his eye and then looked directly at Guilliman, "You caused a lot of trouble on Macragge. Trouble.", "But the problem is solved, so don't talk about teaching old friends, besides, the trouble you brought is not small."

Vito glanced at Cole with a smile, then shrugged his shoulders and looked at the mountains outside the bridge window. Gray-white lifting platforms and protruding buildings were scattered on the mountains, and huge rail train tracks spanned the mountains. The high-power communication antenna was shaking in the strong wind, and the countless pipes on its body were swinging around in the strong wind on the top of the mountain.

"Tell me about your situation here. You have caused a lot of trouble." Vito said with a smile, while Cole shook his head and clicked on the desktop in front of him, "It's not us, it's them."

Two communication channels quickly appeared on the stereoscopic image. Cole activated one of them, and the communication information carried inside it immediately came out from the grid under the table. Its voice attracted Guilliman's attention. Forced, he walked to the table and stood there listening to the content.

"Help, help! This is Olympia 1 facility, there is an emergency, please help! Any force that can hear our signal, send reinforcements here immediately, they are in facility 1, we are blocking this place, but don't know, God Your Majesty, they've entered Facility 2!"

The communication ended with a scream and a roar that seemed to come from dozens of mouths at the same time. Guilliman frowned and turned to look at Cole.

"Who else received a distress call?"

"Only us, the communication system of the base was cut off, and the high-power radio wave signal hadn't had time to start, so the signal was very weak, only we just received it in orbit, and then we sent an alarm to the surrounding imperial forces, Mikael even Immediately after the chief received the news, he brought a group of teams over."

"Yes, my lord, I just happened to be in the city of Sola on the edge of Antarctica, preparing for the expedition to Pamenia. After receiving the news from Captain Cole, I immediately rushed over with my troops."

Mikael said behind Guilliman, he held the helmet, and looked at the communication image in front of him with the Primarch, Guilliman looked there for a moment and frowned, "Is the cause of the facility accident clear? "

"It's not clear, my lord. The base facilities have not had time to report the specific reason, and all external communications in it have been interrupted."

"We tried to contact Bell, or the other two battle brothers, but there was no response. The radar system of the battleship detected strong radiation interference." Mikael added, Guilliman nodded and frowned, Cole cleared his throat, and his fingers cast a video interface from the edge of the image.

"You must see this, my lord."

"What's this?"

"The video inside the facility, before you came, we sent a commando inside, consisting of the Ultramarines under Captain Mikael and the Stormtroopers on my ship, this is the video they sent back .”

Cole played the video while talking, Guilliman was leaning on the table, and Vito was also watching the video from the other side. A gun barrel was horizontally in front of the screen, which seemed to be shot from the perspective of a space warrior's helmet.

The Ultramarine is walking in the dark corridor, all the surrounding lights have been extinguished, and his muzzle flashlight shines on the corridor in front of him. In the picture, there are several fully armed stormtroopers walking in the corridor with laser rifles. front.

"Closing to the target, is this here?" The leading stormtrooper stopped, and he pointed his gun at the Ultramarines, who saw a simple facility structure diagram in the latter's field of vision. After a few observations, the Ultramarines Nodded to the Stormtrooper, "It's right here. If the system at the terminal of the facility is correct, the radiation source is behind here."

"Everyone put on protective clothing and prepare to enter."

The stormtroopers took a few steps back with their guns in hand. In the view of the Ultramarines, the technical sergeant with a mechanical arm on his shoulder walked up. He bent down and clicked a few times on the operation screen, but the thing was still pitch black.

"The power is disconnected here." The tech sergeant said over his shoulder, and the Ultramarine pointed his bolter at the door. "Can you open it? If not, blow it open."

"Of course I can open it. Wait a minute. I'll take the backup circuit. Damn, what's going on in this place? Why are all the wiring systems reporting errors?"

"What's the meaning?"

"It means they are not damaged, but something is causing them to keep malfunctioning. That's weird, wait a minute." The tech sergeant said and started to operate on a flat surface. He pulled a cable from the side of the robotic arm and connected it to the screen. On the screen, there were a few lines of garbled characters on the thing, but it still lit up.

"Switching the line, three two one, all right." The technical military said, with a hoarse voice, the door opened with a bang, but it stopped suddenly, and its door body rattled , a dozen muzzles and flashlights shone through, illuminating a small area behind the door, where something was hanging on the door.

"Wait, something is hanging on it." The Stormtrooper walked over, he pulled out the laser dagger and stretched it through the crack of the door, cutting off the shadows two or three times, and as they fell, the door burst open .

"Oh, the Emperor and Ultramar." The Ultramarine exclaimed, and the light in his vision shone into the corridor behind the gate. There was a wide space. It might have been a test area, but Now, it has completely changed.

The Ultramarine walked in with a gun in his hand, his muzzle swept around, and the lights in his vision shone on the tall plants, which grew out of the plant pots, and they looked taller than they should have been. It was hundreds of times larger, and the vines stretched out between the huge canopy, flooding the entire space.

The light swept across the ground, the Stormtrooper squatted on the ground, he hung his gun and squatted in front of a corpse, at least he should have been a person, he was lying on the ground, his body and limbs were completely submerged by some kind of weird fungal lawn, The colonies of fungi that extended from him and then crawled all the way to the ground merged into one.

The Ultramarine raised his barrel, and the flashlight in his field of vision swept over his head. There were several corpses hanging above him, probably belonging to the researchers here. They were all wearing white coats, but their surfaces were all covered with filth. Something, the Ultramarines zoomed in on the view inside the helmet, and the faces came into view.

"Damn. What are you studying here?" In the video interface of the Ultramarines, the faces are covered with tiny fungi. They crawled from the eyes, ears, nostrils and mouths of the dead. They rolled their eyes, but their lips Squirming under the control of the fungus, speaking slurred sentences.

"What are they talking about?"

The Tech Sergeant on one side asked, and the Ultramarine glanced at him, then shook his head, pointing at it with his bolter, "I can't hear you clearly, but I guess it's useless, do you know what fungi say? ?”

The technical military officer shook his head, holding the heavy-duty flamethrower in his hand, "At least it was right to bring it in. Damn it, the data shows that the radiation value here exceeds the standard, and there are subspace sound waves everywhere. We should go back."

"Agreed, captain, prepare to close the team."

"Hey, what's that?"

The Stormtrooper held his gun and pointed at something ahead. The Ultramarine raised his head and that thing appeared on the screen under the light. Under the light, an interstellar warrior in white armor stood not far away. In the middle of a pile of fungi, a chainsword is held in his hand.

"Our people have the letter U of Macragge on their shoulders." The sergeant major raised his gun and said, the Ultramarine and the sergeant major looked at each other and walked over. He carefully held the gun and approached the soldier from behind, " Hey bro, are you okay?"

"Brother, you are finally here, do you like the gift I gave you?" the Ultramarine said vaguely, the Ultramarine who approached him was very confused, he continued to approach him, and a hand was stretched out in the picture.

"Whatever is going on here bro, it's okay, come with us, everyone else is out there, they'll help you."

"You have to come in, my good brother, look at my gift, you must come." The Ultraman continued, he giggled, his voice was very weird, and the videographer's Ultraman pressed Grab his shoulder, "What are you talking about? Are you okay?"

"I am fine."

The Ultramarine turned his head abruptly, and the video became garbled in an instant. In the last frame, a chainsaw sword swung and a hideous and terrifying face appeared.

"Oh shit."

After watching it, Ragnar whispered, "What the hell did these mad scientists do here?"

"The stele." Guilliman stood up and said, he looked at Vito as if seeking the other party's opinion, and the latter nodded in affirmation.

"The stele? That thing we brought back? Oh, the beard of Fenris is the devil." Ragnar touched his beard and sighed, while Lancelot beside him looked at the face of the Ultramarine in the last frame I couldn't help but trembled all over.

"Damn, I hate that stuff."

"That team lost contact with us later, and we sent several other teams in to find them, but they didn't come back." Cole pointed to the video and said, his face twisted while watching the screen, although it wasn't Watched it for the first time, but it's creepy every time I watch it.

"This is the only insider information, and we know very little beyond that."

"Is Bell still alive?" Vito asked, the person on the video is not Bell, and Cole shook his head, "I don't know, maybe he's alive, or maybe he's dead and turned into those ghost things, we can't contact him .”

"Did it leak?" Guilliman asked, looking at Cole.

"No, thanks to the Emperor, his glory has made the blasphemy here trapped in the realm of faith." The person next to Cole said reverently, and he was doing the eagle salute on his chest, and it was a good time Pious look.

Guilliman looked at him, the man was wearing a dirty red robe with a string of pendants on his chest, "Who is this?"

"Let me introduce you, this is Father Mathieu, an outstanding member of the State Church, and he has helped us a lot with his faith." Cole pressed the priest's shoulder and said, while the latter showed humility smile.

"I am just the carrier of the great Emperor's power, Captain, be grateful to the Emperor, not me, just like Lord Guilliman." The priest looked at Guilliman, who frowned slightly ,"I?"

"Yes, my lord, aren't you the carrier he is most proud of? The god son of the emperor, the most vivid incarnation of his power in the world."

"I'm not a god, he's not a god, and I'm not his container." Guilliman said with a frown, while the priest still smiled and put his hands on his chest, "You and I are both the agents of the Emperor's will, Primarch My lord, he guides us all."

Guilliman frowned fiercely. Cole knew that he never liked people of the state religion, so he cleared his throat and broke the gradually frozen atmosphere, "What should we do now? My lord, the things in this facility must be Get rid of it."

"If you ask me, this place should be blown up."

"Unfortunately, if Ragnar could, I would have done this earlier, but unfortunately I can't. Seven layers of granite and reinforced alloys are installed in the facility here. Orbital bombing will not penetrate here."

"Can't we completely destroy this place?" Olaf raised his hand and asked, Cole shrugged, "If we carry out star-level bombing and send a few warships, we should be able to destroy this place, but the consequence is that Antarctica will sink as a whole." , causing Macragge's sea level to rise, submerging most of the planet."

"Not to mention other unpredictable disasters, we are destroying the natural environment of the planet." Vito added in a timely manner the moment Cole finished speaking.

"This sentence is unacceptable, I will not look at my planet, and the home world of the Ultramarines Chapter will be destroyed." Guilliman said conclusively, his voice was very firm, and no objection or disagreement was allowed. question.

"I agree, my lord, but what should we do? Although this place is blocked, according to our understanding of Nurgle, it will definitely find a way to break through here in the future." Mikael said on the side.

"This place cannot be destroyed, at least until the precious research results in the experimental facility are rescued. Those things are the treasures of the entire human civilization. After thousands of years of decline, they must not be allowed to be lost again!"

If someone from the Mechanicus was present, they would definitely praise them, and they are the same. Apart from technical treasures and knowledge, everything else is not important. Blow up a planet for an STC? That's such a bargain, you'll press the button without even thinking about it.

But what Guilliman said does make sense, human civilization has fallen for too long, and any progressive knowledge is crucial to all human beings.

"In the facility, there should be a switch for a self-running nuclear reactor. That thing is installed for the facility to ensure that they can survive there for hundreds of years even if the entire planet suffers a doomsday disaster. But now, that is a bomb , we send people in and overdrive the powertrain there, and if the video is true, it should be easier than usual to overdrive it now."

"Once it is overloaded, it can create a nuclear explosion underground, with the granite above as an obstacle, the underground explosion will not affect the surface of the planet, and the radiation will rapidly heat up to star-level temperatures in the confined space, burning everything in it , more effective than orbital bombing, where things will have nowhere to hide."

Guilliman said, Cole and Vito looked at each other, and the latter nodded while holding his chin, "It's a feasible plan, but dare I ask, how about sending someone?"

"Of course it's me." Guilliman stood up and said with his head held high.

Vito looked at him with a playful smile, "No surprise."