Chapter 1803: The Remnants of the Far Star (Part 1)
“Are you there?”
One second he was still in the bedroom of the Eternal Loyalty, and the next second Soshyan found himself somewhere else.
Veronica's teleportation technology is different from all existing forms of teleportation in humans. After passing through a door and walking up a staircase composed of vines, Soshyan appeared in an extremely distant place. on a planet.
When the portal slowly disappeared, beautiful lightning danced around the two people, and finally dissipated into nothingness.
Soshiyang looked up and found that he was standing in a ruins. There was once a magnificent temple here, but now it was only quiet and dilapidated. When he raised his head, he could only see the dark dome. According to the faint sound coming from all around, From the echo, Soshyan guessed that they should be in an underground cave, so it is not surprising that the surrounding environment is filled with eerie silence.
"I am Fonseca, the expedition leader appointed by Lord Doral. I have met His Majesty and His Highness."
After the two appeared, more than a dozen people wearing Dark Eldar armor But the color and decoration were that of the Ark Eldar warriors who immediately knelt down on one knee. The leader, Soshyan, had even seen him before. He was a Dracula under Doral.
Wearing a light green dress and silver body armor, holding the Heart of Avalon, Veronica raised her hand slightly and whispered:
"Get up."
Although her voice was steady, her cheeks were slightly flushed. It turned out that an hour ago, she couldn't stand Suoshiyang's teasing when she was changing clothes, and she had another quarrel with him.
After that, Soshyan briefly learned about the situation. This planet is called Isha 7. It may seem like nothing more than a worthless, dead world, hanging alone on a cold and distant pale star. Deep in the depths, according to the conclusion reached by the Adeptus Mechanicus after a brief exploration, the planet only has the most basic minerals, but because the planet is far away from the star, cold and isolated, it actually has no mining value. .
So it is almost a completely forgotten world. In the chaotic maelstrom area, no one cares about a lonely planet on the far border
But such a world is not impossible. visitors.
In the Maelstrom, there is a huge group called Treasure Hunters. Their main job is to dig out those ancient cultural relics, technological relics, and even alien creations. For this purpose, they will not only go deep into the bottom of the nest, but also Will visit those desolate planets, and even venture to explore those hulks floating out of the warp.
What drives them to do this is naturally the world-famous huge black market of Maelstrom, whose endless demand creates huge profits.
After Fonseca led the team to the Maelstrom, they were at a loss at first. After all, this area is so huge and it is in an active subspace zone. Finding traces of the Eldar is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but in By chance, he discovered an Eldar artifact on the black market.
The artifact was not recognized as a product of the Eldar at all at first. If Fonseca had not come from Comoros and had seen many artifacts from ancient empires, he would not have recognized it at all.
He immediately realized that it was a pre-imperial artifact and immediately contacted the seller.
However, he did not buy the item directly. Instead, he investigated the identity of the seller, a down-and-out antique dealer. Then he kidnapped the unlucky guy and obtained the origin of the item.
The antique dealer's father was once a treasure hunter and belonged to a group. At that time, they launched an excavation activity on a world in the Pale Star. At that time, the leader of the group seemed to have received information that there might be an alien ruin in this world.
After several months of hard work, they seemed to have really found an alien relic. At that time, the antique dealer’s father secretly hid an artifact on his body, but before they could count the artifacts they found, the team He was attacked——
The antique dealer didn’t know exactly what happened, and his father never told him until he died. In short, most of the people in the group died, and his father and a few others survived. Abandoning his original career, he opened an antique shop and passed this ancient cultural relic to his son. Unfortunately, his son was not good at business and the antique shop could hardly sustain itself, so he had to sell the cultural relic and exchange it. Get some funds back.
Fonseca determined Isha 7 based on the planetary position given by his father in the memory of the antique dealer. However, they searched here for a long time and found nothing except the shrine of Lilith. There is no need to encounter any of the same race.
In the end, after trying many methods but still ineffective, Fonseca could only ask Veronica for instructions, which was also what Doral gave him. "There are shrines and cultural relics, indicating that this was at least a colony."
After listening to Fonseca’s narration, Veronica expressed her inference.
“But areas like the Scar of Kane (the Eldar’s name for the Maelstrom) are not suitable for colonization. If there are really fellow wilderness people here, why can’t I sense the world’s spirit?”< br>
Soshiyang had been silent before, but when he heard this, he suddenly said something.
“Are you sure that it was Ada who killed those treasure hunters?”
Fonseca was silent for a moment, then shook his head.
“I’m not sure, Your Highness. After all, everyone involved in the original process is dead, and we can only judge from the words of the monkey human antique dealer.”
“Then maybe it’s true here. It’s just a ruin. After all, there are only a few ways for Ada to survive. There is neither a soul stone nor the blessing of the world spirit. They don’t have the conditions of the residents of Commorragh, so they can’t be a bunch of clowns, right?”
“We also have this speculation, but we have found some huge underground passages with traces of manual excavation. We suspect that there may be an independent underground space in this world, and we are not allowed to follow the underground passages down to a certain distance. There is no road after that, blocked by a huge rock, which may be some kind of psychic mechanism."
"Like this."
Soshyan's face, covered by a golden mask, had no expression, and he turned to Veronica.
"You decide."
"Go and have a look."
The two then walked out of the underground shrine under the escort of the Eldar expedition team, and it turned out to be true. As Soshyan thought, it was a huge underground cave, or in other words, the shrine sank directly into the ground to create such a cave.
As soon as we came to the ground, we could only see the barren gray land. The sky of the planet showed a misty gray color, indicating that it only has a very thin atmosphere and is not suitable for habitation. The dim stars hung in the sky. The wind blew intermittently, bringing gravel and hitting Soshyan's shining Eldar armor, making a rustling sound.
Afterwards, Fonseca led the team to a Predator gunboat. With the high speed of the gunboat, it took them more than ten minutes to reach the edge of a mountain range on the planet.
On the gray-brown foothills, Soshyan saw a large hole that was blown open, and the gunboat flew directly into it.
“This is where the treasure hunters discovered the ruins.”
As the lights around the gunboat were lit, Soshyan saw a wide space with some buildings scattered inside. Wrecks, incomplete columns, vague statues, and some high platforms with only their bases left.
Suddenly, he discovered that there were some human skeletons in the ruins of the buildings. Most of them were still in the state before death, and each one had their body and head separated.
(End of this chapter)