Chapter 696: The Prophet’s Instigation and the Shadow of the Primarch
“Put away your weapons.”
Fu Qinghai ordered.
Many space warriors lowered their muzzles, Joestar and Kalamanda also released their transformation state, Tristan put down the Scepter of Truth that bloomed with holy light, and Satfaran slowly emerged from the invisible state. Figure No. 56's fingers pointed forward without trace, closed into fists and closed in front of his chest.
Salamander stepped forward, her eyes swept across the five senior officers of the battle group, but she did a good job of concealing the flash of surprise in her eyes - Qingshan was indeed different from other humans. Likewise, he can always show something that people can't understand. She has never seen these ways of using psychic powers.
The vast majority of Eldar have an extremely arrogant and superior attitude towards humans, because they believe that everything humans are experiencing now is what the Eldar have experienced before: ruling the galaxy, invasion of Chaos, prosperity and decline... so Always with a kind of pride like "I have seen through your future". And due to the information blockade, the vast majority of ordinary people in the empire do not have enough knowledge about this universe.
But Qingshan is different.
He is like a black hole of mystery.
Salamander thought she was familiar with him.
But sometimes I still feel like I can’t understand him at all.
If she and Qingshan were the only two people in this abandoned area at this time, Salamander would definitely catch him and get to the bottom of it. But now his men were there, and in front of a group of Space Marines, the pride and self-esteem of the Eldar prevented her from showing any timidity. Salamander suppressed her curiosity and walked forward gracefully.
Then open the fingers upward.
Fu Qinghai lowered his head and looked at her palm.
A huge triangular incisor inlaid with finely crafted gold wire, like some kind of souvenir or handicraft.
“The teeth of a nocturnal salamander.”
Salamander explained:
“This creature can only be found in Nocturne. It is a gift given to my father by Vulkan Volkan as a thank you for giving him during the Horus Heresy. "
Fu Qinghai took the giant tooth.
“This tooth is a token to show our identity to the Human Empire and to show that the Eldar are not enemies. Of course, it is no longer needed now. My father performed a divination before sending Rey and the others. , but she saw you waiting for her outside the Webway Gate, and the Harlequin suffered heavy casualties..."
Salamander paused here:
"So he changed his plan."
"I ordered not to fire the first shot."
Fu Qinghai played with the big teeth in his hands and only explained this sentence, and not much else. What to say.
If Vulkan Vokan knew that the mysterious old man who helped him during the Horus Heresy was an Eldar prophet, not only would he not give your father this tooth, but he would punch it Your father's head was smashed... Fu Qinghai thought to himself.
But he did not say what was in his heart. After all, Edrad Uslan and Uswe Arkworld are still his allies. The old prophet is a pure person, and his help to mankind is ultimately for the benefit of the Eldar themselves, which is normal. He also did the bastard act of diverting the green tide of orcs to the human world in order to protect an Ark world. From the standpoint of the Eldar, this was also very normal.
"So what does he mean now?"
Fu Qinghai held his teeth and looked at Salamander.
“We have fulfilled our obligation to remind you. Although we have not entered the palace, we have met the person we really need to see. He knows that the threat of Chaos is far greater than the beast, and he also knows that we will meet in the future He is the key to the human Eldar's joint fight against Chaos."
Salamander stared straight at him. Fu Qinghai said.
A pair of deep and bright eyes.
Fu Qinghai raised his eyebrows when he heard this.
Of course he knows who this "he" is talking about.
The old prophet praised me too highly.
Fu Qinghai shook his head in his heart.
The key to the joint fight between humans and Eldar against Chaos? Put such a big hat on my head? Robert Guilliman is pretty much the same. I'm not a Primarch or an Imperial Regent, just a border warlord, and I can't afford such a big title.
"My father also said."
Salamander suddenly leaned forward and became very close to Fu Qinghai. There was only a few inches between the tips of their noses, so close that they could even smell each other. The other person's warm breath.
Salamander had a mysterious smile on her face. She stood on tiptoes and got closer to Fu Qinghai's face. She raised her lips to his ear and lowered her voice and said:
"He said, if you want to do it, then do it. There is no need to hesitate and hesitate. Everything that hinders you will eventually be crushed by you... You are more suitable to rule this empire than they are."
< br>Fu Qinghai’s eyes widened instantly.
Huo Ran turned to look at Salamander.
After saying this, Salamander ignored the shocked look on Fu Qinghai's face, pressed his palm on Fu Qinghai's breastplate and pushed lightly, then jumped back lightly on his toes. The silent air began to twist and stir again.
“By the way, my father also united with the prophets from the entire Craftworld to cast spells to calm the subspace turbulent due to the roar of the souls of the orcs, so that the Imperial Fist fleet could arrive faster. Terra. No need to thank us."
Leaving these words lightly, Salamander fell backwards and disappeared into the air in a flash of light.
The foreign beauty has left gracefully.
Fu Qinghai stood there with a complicated expression.
"Pretending to be a ghost, trying to be mysterious."
Qiao Shida spat and snorted coldly.
"Space Elf is well-deserved."
No. 56 said with a smile.
Fu Qinghai looked up at the direction where Salamander disappeared.
He looked down at the teeth in his open palm again.
The Supreme Prophet seemed to have predicted more things than he imagined. Not only did he predict his ambush of the Harlequin Eldar, but he even saw his subsequent plans?
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Cordra, Torrens Settlement.
The orc army is marching. The green tide, which is a combination of steel machinery and green muscles, has destructive power comparable to the flow of hot lava. It is unstoppable and destroys everything. The big mouth on the orc totem flag is roaring in the wind, and the endless hunger seems to swallow everything up.
On the walls of the settlement of Torrens, people are observing the green tide with telescopes. They saw countless wide-open jaws, saw countless thick green arms and roaring beast faces, saw the trajectory of the giant war machine, and the paths of destruction left behind.
In the magnified view of the telescope, they could only see the swaying bodies and swaying weapons of the orc army, but this was enough to show how cruel the next battle would be.
After putting down the telescope, the naked eye could better witness the scale of this terrifying green tide. A huge turmoil shattered the jungle in the distance, and the green wave swept towards the city wall.
Most of the surface of Cordra is exposed rock. An extermination order was executed here during the Great Crusade. However, long before the imperial colonists returned again, the jungle had already existed on the planet. After thousands of years of self-repair, it is lush again. The planet's crust is undergoing drastic changes, with volcanic rifts and fertile land nourished by volcanic ash everywhere.
The settlement of Torrens is a small mining stronghold built on the rocky slopes of the western basalt plateau. It has a thick steel and chalk compound wall, which protects the residents from the ferocious predators surrounding the crater, making them vulnerable to There is no threat to people's production and life, and there is a dense jungle at the bottom of the slope.
The march of the greenskins began to accelerate.
The Orcs flattened the jungle as they advanced. Their huge tanks and walking mechas passed through the dense forest, followed by a large number of infantry. There were enough of them to cover almost the entire area visible to the naked eye, and the flames from the war machines' ventilators and valves illuminated the orcs' muscular green muscles that brought destruction, carnage, and burning.
Thousands of miners stood on the city wall. The life on Cordra made the residents accustomed to being vigilant and armed for a long time, so they had a large number of guns and ammunition, and they were on the west city wall. There is also an automatic turret at each end, and the settlement's firepower can instantly cover the entire jungle.
But in front of this green tide.
All this is to no avail.
There was a deathly silence on the city walls.
“How long can we hold them off?”
A miner suddenly asked.
“Drag until they kill us.”
Another worker replied calmly.
“Haha, that sounds pretty good.”
A pessimistic atmosphere has filled the city walls.
"Maybe they won't notice us. We are just a mining stronghold, not the capital of the planet."
A young miner said in a high-pitched terrified voice.
"Go ahead and dream."
Another middle-aged miner retorted with disdain.
“We are not blocking any of their paths!”
The high-pitched voice still had a hint of illusion.
"You're right, but the jungle wasn't in any of their path, and it was flattened."
The foreman of the Torrens settlement sighed:
"We are the road under their feet."
A few minutes later, the orcs proved that the foreman was right. Even though the city wall was far away from the shooting range, the howling green boys had already opened fire. Behind them, chariots, tanks and walking cans were also spitting out tongues of fire, and the shells streaked across the sky with roars. Some hit the city walls, while others went further and landed on the houses in the settlement.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
The steel plates under the miners' feet began to shake, and the air was filled with flames. The main part of the city wall exploded, and a storm of debris rushed backward toward the settlement. The ensuing shelling destroyed the buildings on the city wall, and a large number of miners died on the spot, but the living were still fighting. Parts of the city wall began to tilt, and the residents of Torrance clung to the battlements, climbed over the ruins, rushed to the broken wall, and shot wildly at the enemy.
Their faces were pale and trembling, their faces covered with sweat and fear, but they still kept pulling the triggers.
The orcs began to pour out of the forest. At the front were the green-skinned motorcycle troops. With the roar of engines, a large number of motorcycles got rid of the entanglement of branches and vines and headed towards the city wall along the sloping hillside. Speeding away. Thick black smoke billowed up, obscuring the view, and greenskin infantry followed closely behind, while their heavy armored units continued to bombard them.
The residents of the settlement all understood at this moment:
Their death was imminent.
But none of them stopped fighting.
At this moment, a sudden change occurred!
“BOOM——”
The leading green battle truck suddenly exploded, and the fireballs scattered around the motorcycle riders, turning them into rolling torches that were out of control. , and crashed into other vehicles. Then a motorcycle was instantly thrown high into the air and hit other companions.
The orcs' advance suddenly slowed down.
The flames rose into the sky, reflecting a huge figure wearing armor and wielding a war hammer. The hammer hit the front fender of an oncoming truck, causing the latter to be crushed into a ball as if it had hit a mountain. The truck turned over. When it hit the ground, all the orcs in the carriage were stunned. Was crushed into a puddle of mud. Orc infantry surrounded the warrior, but were quickly eliminated. Every move of that warrior had a loud sound like an artillery strike, and the tall war bosses fell down as quickly as the green-skinned boys under their command.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
With powerful hammer blows and sweeps one after another, the figure cleared an open space. Surrounded by wreckage and dead bodies, he stood in the flames.
The miners could see it more clearly now:
It was a giant nearly five meters tall, with gorgeous dark green armor, a huge reptile skull on the shoulder blade, and obsidian-like skin. , ruby-like eyes.
The warrior spoke.
His voice was low but extremely loud, even covering the savage roars of the green-skinned war machines:
"Sons of Cordra, you are very brave! Get up and continue fighting. You are not alone!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the fierce direct artillery fire of the green-skinned armored troops moved from the Torrance settlement to the hillside, and the soldier disappeared in the smoke in an instant. Explosions began to occur continuously on the ground, causing everyone behind the wall to bleed from their ears.
A tracked war machine in the greenskin army is like a metal monster more than 20 meters high, "crunching" and crushing the gravel. It is covered with shaking metal plate armor, and its whole body is They were all filled with gun barrels, and they were pouring out firepower indiscriminately. Hundreds of greenskins had already died in the intensive gunfire, just to kill their only enemy.
The hearts of the residents have been tense. The fire of hope was mercilessly extinguished just as it was ignited. But they did not throw away their weapons. They continued shooting into the flames and black smoke. They were grateful for the extra seconds the warrior had sacrificed themselves to give the settlement of Torrance, and they obeyed their hero's final command to continue fighting.
The green-skinned metal monster like an iron tower moved a lot forward, and then stopped, its fully armed arms twitching, the huge saw blade on its right arm stopped rotating, and billowing black smoke came out of its shoulders. A few seconds later, the left arm began to fire wildly, but also stopped in a short time.
The war machine shook violently and exploded from within. Its chest exploded, flames spurted out, and the huge metal plate on its chest flew hundreds of meters. The inside of the giant machine was like purgatory. The tall warrior emerged from the hole in the machine's chest, and the green-skinned machine behind him remained motionless.
The warrior turned towards the settlement of Torrens again and saluted it with his hammer raised, then he rushed down the hill to the north, breaking through the orcs that followed.
The miners' fingers were still pulling the trigger unconsciously, but their faces were stunned. They looked at the miracles happening one after another. The warrior could not have survived that kind of bombardment. But he did it! Now that he had single-handedly changed the direction of the green tide, the greenskins lost interest in the settlement of Torrens, the engines turned, the infantry roared, and the orc hordes rushed towards the warrior. Although small bands of orcs are still trying to climb the slopes, the settlement's inhabitants now face war, not extermination.
"This is..."
The young miner's mouth was half open.
But nothing can be said.
The foreman shook his head. He didn't know what he saw or how to explain everything in front of him, but he felt like he was in a legend.
And a tribute to that eternal glimpse.
…………(End of this chapter)