Chapter 114 Landing wine, blade, being regarded as a god
It is difficult to judge how much courage it takes to say goodbye to the environment you are accustomed to. At least when you are used to the endless darkness, the light on the bridge will now be dazzling. The captain is still wearing the blue suit. A gold-rimmed navy uniform, holding a glass in his hand, filled with rare red wine.
"Look at how much greatness you have accomplished. To celebrate your revenge for Kabbah, have a drink?"
Alan Bair and his staff borrowed wine that was extremely rare and sweet in this dark universe. Wine was still something that only nobles could enjoy in the empire, and because Terra was completely uncultivable, crops like grapes had completely lost their ancient value. Flavor, most of today's wines are artificial, full of stimulating flavors and indescribable enjoyment, but have lost that unique value.
But wine is not extinct. In many agricultural worlds, there are still grapes among the crops that have been transformed countless times in ancient Terra. In this era, real wine is more of a badge than a drink. The mere existence of that liquid is enough. Represents noble rights.
"From your family?" Alan Bayer asked.
The captain nodded. “I can’t afford half a bottle with all the salary I’ve earned since I served, but I still love my current job. I prefer adventure and fighting compared to inheriting a territory as a nobleman in my hometown and eating a lot of fat with the planetary governor. ”
Staff words. "It's hard to imagine that a noble with family, territory, and inheritance would hang out with guys like us."
Alan Bayer said a bit self-deprecatingly. "I am the lifeblood of the hive city. I never thought that one day I would be able to taste this thing."
The staff officer nodded. "I have never seen my parents. They have been at Chuji Academy as long as I can remember."
The captain stroked his beard. "I'm sorry, but being a noble is not as comfortable as you imagine. My family has no honor and does not care about family ties. Their desire for power has reached a twisted level, and the only normal person in my family is my sister... I'm sorry. , I shouldn’t say too much, it must be the aroma of the wine that makes us intoxicated.”
Alan Bair nodded. "Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite. No matter whether you are a saint or a prisoner, life will only ask for everything you have."
"To the Emperor, cheers." He raised his glass, honor, hope, and the sweet and rich taste immediately entered his throat.
"Huh?"
"Huh?!"
The cheeks of the staff officer and Alan Bayer twisted together. It was the first time in their lives that they tasted such a sour taste. Alan Bayer would describe it as fermented lemon juice with alcohol. Only the captain squinted his eyes to enjoy it.
Alan Beyer thought that this might be a prank, but he knew the captain, so it was impossible. He swallowed the thing, his throat stung, and he asked. "It's so beautiful, it..." His teeth chattered. The last time he did this, he drank Kane's favorite...
"Where does it come from?"
the captain replied. "Baal."
Baal, the home planet of the Blood Angels, the Blood Angels' crazy love for wine has allowed them to retain the grape varieties that can be planted in the land of Baal that has been devastated by war to the point of madness, and the purest ancient Terra wine craft, but the only The problem is that the soil that is full of all kinds of pollution produces something that is simply sulfuric acid.
Therefore, drinking Barr's wine is not a pleasure for anyone, but a taste of honor, history, in other words, drinking it without knowing anything about the wars, or where the wine came from. The thing is to torture yourself.
Alan Bayer covered his mouth, the thing was fermenting in his stomach, and the stomach acid couldn't beat it!
"Sorry, excuse me."
The staff officer immediately followed Alan Beyer. They came to the bathroom in an instant before the captain could answer. Then there was a long and continuous sound of things leaving the human body for a long, long time...
"Dehydration, weakness, and acute gastroenteritis. Mr. Captain, Mr. Staff, have you tasted sulfuric acid?" The ship's doctor looked at the blood test report in his hand and slowly selected pills. Those white, deadly products of the empire are now is the only thing that saves them from devastating diarrhea.
The moment he got the pills, Alan Bayer opened the thing and poured all the white stuff into his stomach. He felt uncomfortable, including vomiting, diarrhea, and persistent abdominal cramps.
After taking the potion, the empire's powerful potion took effect quickly regardless of the side effects. Of course, it may also be a placebo effect...
"Thank you, doctor..."
"By the way, do we have enough medical supplies?"
"We need to sail for two months during this time, and I don't want anyone to get sick."
the doctor answered. "Of course, it is enough. There is no doubt about our medical care. It is better to say that the supplies are sufficient enough to be squandered. Thanks to your efforts, every star region is at home for us."
"The powerful firepower of the Bordeaux has also kept us safe. The warp has been calm during this time, with the Emperor's blessing."
Alan Bair covered his mouth. "Doctor, stop talking..."
The doctor rubbed his mouth. "Sir, you didn't wipe it clean."
Alan Beyer wiped his fingers with medical wipes. "Have a nice afternoon."
He and his staff said goodbye here. It was rare for the void to be calm. During this period, good and bad things gathered together, but their stomachs were not necessarily there.
The only good thing is that, as the doctor said, the journey was calm, the food was sufficient, and the medical treatment was complete. The small flu that the crew gave birth to during the subspace trip was quickly suppressed. You know, it is extremely difficult to manage hundreds of people, not to mention the number of people. Thousands of people.
Time flows slowly. The Elora Veil area is an important guarding point of the Empire, a concentration point for subspace travel, and a place guarded by three Astartes Chapters. However, only one remains now. For centuries, the Emperor The Spear has been focused on guarding the area of space known as the Veil of Elora along with the Celestial Lions and the Scorpions.
But the former was hunted down by the Inquisition, and the latter had been wiped out, leaving only the Emperor's Spear as the only sentinel of Elura's Veil.
This void also represents that Alan Bair has reached his end point. Although there is still about a month of travel time, it is already close.
said the captain. "It's almost as expected. Let's resupply and find the nearest imperial world. If the connection goes smoothly, we can set sail again within a week."
The captain looked at the star map here and smiled. "Lieutenant Colonel Alan Beyer, look at this."
Alan Bair walked near the control point. On the star map, a planet full of blue and its atmosphere could be seen clearly even through the damn projection of the empire.
"Okay, what a garden world, as beautiful as Holy Terra, there must be a lot of good things."
"This area is also very stable and comfortable. There are no abnormalities. It is really a geomantic treasure."
The captain frowned at this moment. "Something's not right. This world is surrounded by asteroid belts, which are very dense. It's no problem for transport aircraft, but it's basically a natural anti-ship ring for warships. We can't get close to that world."
"And as soon as I started the correspondent was sending signals to that world, but there was no answer."
"Currently, only transport planes can land, but you must descend without cover. If the world is controlled by aliens or there is some rebellion..."
Alan Beyer replied. "The Emperor's warriors are not shy, are they?"
The captain looked at the prompt that suddenly flashed on the screen, and then answered. "I have a group of Astropath communications here, but the most important thing right now is to go to that world for supplies and take the soldiers down. No matter what the situation is, in the end, force is the most reliable."
The staff officer listened and nodded. "It cannot be denied that it would be better if all of our current 50 bulldogs land. After all, the situation is complicated."
The Fourth Skadi Regiment had to face stupid situations like this again and again. In this dark universe, there were thousands of shining worlds on the imperial star map. Without the help of the local military department, it was completely impossible to distinguish the worlds on the star map. What kind of world is the imperial world?
That seemingly beautiful world may be a place full of death, but in order to complete the mission, the Imperial Guard will still risk their lives.
The 4th Skadi Regiment and the 113th Fraxia Regiment are ready in the transport plane. No matter what kind of hell it is, the Imperial Guard has absolute confidence to break through.
They approached slowly at sub-light speed. Although the transport plane was small for a battleship, it was enough to transport a company at a time, and there was no problem in being packed with 700-809 people.
Such a huge scale of landing, falling suddenly without a docking star port, is also a torture for the imperial world's failure to respond to the radio normally. The Imperial Guards and the Imperial Hammer will also wave at their own people.
The unusually dense asteroid belt gathers and intertwines under the influence of the planet's gravity, which is amazing, and it is unclear what makes this world have such a strange natural environment. Countless asteroids collide together because they are too dense. A burst of fireworks erupted in space.
And even Terra will often be hit by planets. For humans, it is not frequent, but for a planet like this, planet impacts are as frequent as rain. It seems that those things attracted by the gravity of the planet are floating in orbit for some reason. , forming such a protective network.
Even transport ships have to carry out mental transportation. If they are not careful, they will touch asteroids. The density of such a planetary belt is very abnormal. Normal planetary belts in the void will hardly collide, but the gaps are large enough. As the battleship passes by, the planetary belt here is more like the scary place full of dangers in movies and television works. Those things are intertwined with rocks and appear again and again in the blind spots of the driver's field of vision.
Alan Beyer quickly realized something was wrong and told his staff. "Advisor, this world may be a feudal world or even a primitive world. If the planet is so dense, it is impossible to establish a starport or leave this world."
The staff officer was enlightened. "The transportation of transport planes to provide people and materials will also consume the driver's energy. A large number of traffic accidents have made the empire judge this world as a place with little value for colonization, and the good natural scenery also makes this place not a good source of recruitment. .”
"This is how the feudal world was born. If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. If you don't have transportation capabilities, you won't be rich. But I still have a question. Why doesn't the empire clean up the asteroid belt here? If it fires violently, then..."
In the middle of speaking, Alan Bair suddenly saw a huge void creature like a small ship in the planetary belt, with twisted and grotesque tentacles and horny skin, and a protozoan creature like a battleship in the Leviathan swarm. The impact point of the planet after the explosion absorbed something, and their long tentacles also revealed spiritual energy in front of Alan Bair, pulling the asteroids in the void. This hand alone was enough to pose a threat to the imperial warships.
"As I haven't said before, this world is at best an agricultural world. If you want to deal with such things, you must use destroyers. If the planet is inhabited by more than 40, it is the standard of a fleet."
The staff officer also commented. "The vastness of the void is really full of wonders, which is why I want to travel."
They looked at the giant monsters that gradually gathered in the planetary belt. The long-bearded creatures wearing armor had obvious whale-like shapes and huge bodies, ranging from one kilometer to five hundred meters. Even children had this. Assault ship size.
With their background, the entire void becomes vibrant and substantial, like the deep sea, and the huge monsters can make people with a phobia of giants directly coma.
The assault ship carefully left the area, but Alan Bayer's mind couldn't help but think, if those things were captured, brainwashed, and made into war machines, how much firepower could it provide to the empire?
He shook his head. In this dark universe, his thoughts were gradually becoming imperial. War and long-term fighting were changing his thinking logic and favorite things.
When the transport ship broke through the atmosphere, what came into view was not hell, but the boundless ocean. It was flying at extremely fast low altitudes, with blue waves rippling on the blue ocean. The transport ship quickly came to land and paddled where it had flown. There was a burst of white mist from burning fuel.
The biological system of this world is also very strange. It may be because there is no planetary impact, or it may be that the creatures in the void are specially protected. Just like the story in the Lord of the Rings, the creatures, the world, and the continent are protected by gods.
There are abundant resources here, with various giant lizards and giant mammals appearing alternately. The continent has also been transformed into a huge plain with endless rivers.
On the ground, humans riding mammals similar to horses, wearing metal armor, shields, and sword blades, fought like medieval knights against greenskins who were too primitive to make swords, while the Skadi Fourth Regiment The soldier opened the back compartment of the transport ship and took a laser to aim at the orc.
"Boss, I'll give you the whole job." He held his breath and fired with his gun. The laser instantly killed the green-skinned man riding a boar-like animal. Then one after another, the orc tribe continued to fall, and the knights were standing by the dirt road. It protects an original carriage, which is sewn with gorgeous fabrics and complex family crests, and looks very much like the aesthetics of medieval aristocrats.
Alan Bair ordered the transport ship to descend, and the knights dismounted and knelt down. A girl dressed in gold and white came out of the carriage, shouting in low Gothic in a hurry. "Oh my god, the emperor is here! The God Emperor is here!" She looked at Alan Bair and piously performed the complicated ceremonial movements of the imperial state religion that were not very standard.
Then the Imperial Guard was handed the wine that the knights carried with them. Alan Bayer's head short-circuited. He first realized that he had been tricked, and secondly, he had PDST about wine!
(End of chapter)