Chapter 724, Comoros
Vice Admiral Du Shiliang of the Alliance Navy paced around the bridge anxiously.
He was waiting to hear from Martini.
After learning that one of Wang Jiarong's caravans was missing and was suspected of being robbed, he rushed over anxiously.
After Yelicia left, he became the temporary supreme commander of the entire alliance navy. He is responsible for the safety of the entire alliance, including the alliance ships sailing in the cobweb space and on the star sea.
If something happens to the Xinghai Merchant Ship, he will definitely be responsible.
Moreover, I am afraid it is not a leadership responsibility. When Ye Lixia left with Gu Hang, she specifically explained the work of the navy. The focus was to establish star sea defense measures for the entire star domain in the spider web domain.
At the same time, the alliance government had also sent him a note, saying long ago that the merchant fleet of Wang's Trading Company was coming, and he had to be prepared.
As a result, something happened.
He felt that he was quite unjust.
Beware of everything but black skin.
The Alliance has never dealt with the Dark Eldar before. For Du Shiliang, this is a blind spot. Not only have I no experience, I haven’t even thought about it.
In addition, the Dark Eldar themselves have the characteristic of coming and going without a trace, which makes them even more difficult to guard against.
But he also understood that these were all excuses after the fact.
Among the Alliance Navy, except for Admiral Yelicia, who is the most stable, there is no particularly big gap between the others in terms of qualifications and abilities.
Du Shiliang is indeed a veteran. During the Battle of Koroga, when Governor Gu began to step onto the Star Sea stage, he was a commodore of the Imperial Navy and a captain of the Pegasus fleet, and had provided help to Gu Hang. Moreover, in the subsequent series of decisions, he made the right decision and finally reached his current position.
However, there are still people like him in the navy; some rising stars also perform quite well in battle.
He has no absolute merit that can ensure that he can always be the commander of the navy.
But now, Ye Lixia has left and his position has been released. He has been appointed in critical situation. After he has indeed had the opportunity to take charge of his own business, if he screws up, the road ahead will be difficult.
Incomplete protection will give people the impression of being "embarrassing and useless".
Things have happened, and Du Shiliang has nothing to do. What he can do now is to clean up the situation as soon as possible.
First, the lost caravan must be found. The situation is definitely in danger, but if you want to see people in life or death, you will see corpses. Those who have harmed them must be exposed, otherwise they will not be able to explain.
Secondly, he had to plug the hole.
Seeing that the Alliance is carrying out large-scale development of the Spider Web Universe, massive amounts of materials are being exchanged in the star sea of the Spider Web Universe. These merchant ships and transport ships must operate efficiently to meet the needs of the alliance.
And this so-called efficiency, everything else is empty, safety is the greatest!
If there is no safety guarantee for commercial transportation, a huge amount of time and cost will be spent on escort, detours, and exploration.
That is certainly unacceptable.
If there were an endless stream of Dark Eldar pirates that caused the Alliance's merchant ships to be lost one by one, then his role as acting commander-in-chief would be over.
Not to mention taking it a step further, it would be nice not to be sent back to being the captain of an ordinary cruiser.
The astropaths and navigators affiliated with the navy... in short, the psychic powers that could come in handy were already running around like crazy in the void of Yangyu Galaxy under the leadership of the warships, trying to catch any clues.
But this is a bit inefficient and nothing has been gained so far.
Second, he shook people. Since the black skins can have people lurking in Yangyu, then maybe there are more lurkers? Perhaps there are some people who have been corrupted and bribed by the Eldar? Will they know anything?
So, he went to the higher level, that is, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and asked Marshal Thaddeus to send experts from the Military Intelligence Bureau to try to find some more clues.
Of course, what he was most looking forward to was the interrogation of the black-skinned prisoners by the judges.
After hearing that the Inquisitors of the Order of the Anti-Foreigners had a big move, he ordered the fleet to be ready for action at any time, and also informed the two companies of the Raging Flame Chapter that were accompanying the ship to prepare for the war.
Then, Judgment Martini took the people from the Foreign Order onto his ship and told him the good news.
They identified the enemy's location.
The Dark Eldar pirates have a temporary base on an inconspicuous asteroid in the Yangyu galaxy. There is even a spiritual door open there.
Du Shiliang was anxious and ordered the entire army to dispatch, and on the way, he listened to some popular science about the Dark Eldar Tribe.
After listening, his expression was quite uncertain.
……
Xernos Bloodspell, from the high platform, watched tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of captives carrying supplies on the asteroid where they were, under the whipping of blood slaves.
Of course, normal mortals cannot move freely on an asteroid without protection. In order to allow these humans to move, a passage was built from the temporary parking place to the spiritual gate that was about sixty meters in diameter and was assumed to be on the asteroid. Several huge life-support facilities are placed along the way. A thin layer of energy protects the passage area, blocks deadly cosmic radiation, and maintains internal oxygen and temperature, allowing people to move.
The human captives were originally more than that. They had a great harvest, plundered more than a dozen ships, and all headed back to this temporary base. There are a large number of crew members on more than a dozen ships, not to mention a huge number of immigrants taking the ships.
However, after they arrived here after plundering the ships, most of them were killed in less than ten days.
No resistance.
Unarmed human captives have no way to resist in the first place. Several armed merchant ships that resisted fiercely were destroyed and turned into space junk; the captured ones were also the Dark Eldar with blood slaves, who invaded the interior of the ship, slaughtered all the armed guards, and used the specially made enchanted ships. The medicine was poured into several internal air circulation devices throughout the ship, and after knocking all the people over, the captives were easily completed.
This is what the Dark Eldar pirates often do, and they are already familiar with it.
Even after completing the robbery, they had a very mature plan for these prisoners.
Robbing the population was originally the most important target for the Dark Eldar to rob. People, whether they are human beings or other races, are advanced creatures with emotions, intelligence, and souls, and they are their targets.
The development of Comoros requires a large population.
The Eldar are a sparsely populated race. If your own population is insufficient, you can only rely on foreigners. Supplementing the labor force is only the smallest of the many reasons why the Black Bean Sprouts capture prisoners and slaves.
The biggest goal is to use it for killing, torture, and fun.
It may sound outrageous, but it's true.
There was a time when Xernos didn't kill properly or torture for a long time. He felt that his soul was about to dissipate.
No, that's not a simple 'feeling', it's reality.
The Eldar race was the true overlord of this universe countless thousands of years ago. They have a highly developed civilization, a vast territory, and a splendid culture...
But all this was completely destroyed when the entire spiritual race was in boundless enjoyment, indulgence, carnival, and depravity.
Using the entire Eldar race as a sacrifice, the youngest of the four gods of the subspace was born.
Its birth was fed by the destruction of a cosmic overlord race.
The glorious civilization and kingdom of the Eldar were completely annihilated in this way, and their 'gods' either fell or were corrupted by Slaanesh and became her toys and lackeys.
The remaining spirit tribe was divided into two groups.
They all consider themselves to be the true successors of the Eldar.
One branch, the white-skinned Eldar, is called the Ark Eldar. They built a sanctuary—often an ark that sailed through space. Soul stones are placed in the ark, which is a virtual space. The souls of the Eldar are placed within the Soul Stone, cutting off the connection between their own souls and the Warp.
They practice asceticism, asceticism, and strictly guard their souls. This way they can avoid being noticed by Slaanesh during life, and after death, their souls will return to the sanctuary and become the fuel for the ark.
The other group, the black-skinned ones, live in the magical city of Comoros.
Commorragh lies within the veil between the Warp and the real universe.
Logically speaking, the reality curtain does not have the concept of thickness, but the technological level of the Eldar in the peak era is incredible. They were able to carve out a space in the curtain and build a city.
This 'city' is different from the conventional sense. Since it is not in the real universe, but within the veil, it can use subspace to open a door in the city at any time, just like a star tunnel. To any place in this real universe.
But they were not in the Warp either, so they were lucky enough to escape the storm that was unleashed by Slaanesh's birth that ravaged the entire Warp and the Manifest Universe.
However, escaping a disaster does not mean that everything will be fine. All remaining Eldar cannot escape the control of Slaanesh, this is not just talk. Unlike the Ark Eldar, who established a sanctuary and promoted abstinence, the Dark Eldar took another path.
Their souls are connected to Commorragh, which ensures that their souls will not be sucked away by Slaanesh at the first moment - if this connection is cut off, it will be over, their souls will be sucked away directly, Enter the realm of Slaanesh and become her eternal toy.
That's the most painful thing.
If they die, their souls will return to Commorragh and be preserved in the soul boxes they left behind. Among the Dark Eldar, highly skilled flesh engineers called Haemonculi would process a body and resurrect their soul.
Of course, there will be a long period of weakness. Therefore, the best result is to bring back the body of the dead Dark Eldar and then perform surgery. The effect will be much better.
Once there is no surgery for too long, or the death takes too long, the Dark Eldar will truly die - after death, their souls will belong to Slaanesh.
This is every Eldar's worst fear.
They fear real death more than any other race.
Because, for other races, death is death, and everything returns to nothingness; and their death means eternal torture and imprisonment, and they will not be liberated until the universe is destroyed.
But even if they are not completely dead, the Dark Eldar are more likely to be favored by Slaanesh than their counterparts in the Ark.
In other words, Slaanesh is staring at them all the time and sucking their souls all the time. However, with the protection of Comoros, this process will be slower.
If they do nothing, maybe ten years? Twenty years? Fifty years? ...In short, their souls will be slowly sucked away.
The way to prevent your soul from being sucked is to find a replacement.
Through torture, violence, killing, etc., he creates endless pain, and uses such souls as substitutes to be sucked away, so that his own soul can be preserved. It can even make up for the lack of one's own soul to achieve the effects of extending lifespan and strengthening strength. The most powerful family governor can even truly achieve immortality.
This is the real reason why the Dark Eldar continue to rob foreign populations.
The one led by Xernos Bloodcurse was such a raiding party.
He is a middle-level cadre of the Blood Curse family. The Blood Curse Family is one of the top families from Comoros. His job in the family is to lead a raiding team and attack frequently to make profits.
Taking advantage of the fact that Comoros can open a door to the real universe anytime and anywhere, they can truly come and go without a trace.
However, the Veiled Spirit Sect is not completely without restrictions.
The place where the Veiled Spirit Gate can be opened must be the location where the Dark Spirit Tribe has built the entity of the 'Veilted Spirit Gate' in the real universe as the coordinates.
The place where Zernos has been active for a long time is not in the Spider Web Universe, but in the Galactus Universe to the north.
Even the Eldar of Commorragh were speechless looking at the previous brutal wars in the Spider Web Universe. There are plenty of places to plunder, and there is no need to feel uncomfortable running over there when the fight between humans and humans, humans and the Void Zerg until your eyes turn red.
Not surprisingly, they will not set their sights on the Spider Web Universe for a long time.
However, a transfer order from the upper echelons of the family forced him to be sent here.
He had to take his plundering fleet and return to Commorragh first, and then enter the coordinates of the nearest Veil Spirit Gate in the Spider Web Domain - the Sword Gate Star Domain in the northern part of the Spider Web Universe, and then return to the real universe in the real universe. After a long voyage, they arrived at the Fox Moon Star Territory, built another Veil Spirit Gate, and then launched a robbery operation.
The target of his robbery is the Alliance.
In other words, it is another force that trades with the Infinite Star Territory.
(End of chapter)