Chapter 152 Hive World
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"The seventh cruiser was slightly damaged, but there were no abnormal conditions on the ship."
"The navigator is safe."
“Everything is normal, the fleet can leave the subspace and enter reality, and then the seventh cruiser will undergo maintenance and repairs.”
On the command deck of the Resolute Resolve, Lotharassalin reported to the Primarch.
Angron turned his head and stared out of the porthole.
In a subspace that is difficult to describe in words, a giant eye was staring at him.
It was dark inside the deck, with only dim lights, but he could see the thing.
Others do whatever they have to do, as if only he can see it, and in fact only he can. Contradictory, real, false, everything is mixed together.
"Leave the subspace." Angron ordered.
Salin saluted.
Then the entire fleet jumped out of the subspace after making a series of preparations and entered the real universe at the Mandeville Point in the galaxy numbered 921.
"If you have no other orders, we will stay in this galaxy and prepare, and then quickly start the next voyage." Salin said.
Angron looked out the window.
But from a visual perspective, Angron felt that his eyes felt a lot better after leaving the treacherous place in subspace.
There is no eye as huge as a planet, nor a beast bigger than a fleet.
But speaking from personal experience, Angron did not feel particularly comfortable. While in the Warp, he would feel something close to him, calling him, looking for him.
“Your Highness?” Salin called softly.
The distracted Angron immediately reacted and asked with a smile: "This galaxy numbered 921, does it already belong to the empire?"
"Obviously not." Saleen picked up the data pad and looked through it. "This galaxy is ownerless. After we left the Novshendak galaxy, on the way to where your nineteenth brother is, everything along the way The galaxies are unknown and unconquered."
"Then I will take this place." Angron walked towards the tactical table.
As the Primarch approached, the results of the Resolve's scan of the system were displayed on the tactical table.
Three-dimensional patterns of celestial bodies appeared on the tactical table.
There is only one habitable planet in this galaxy, and the rest are all dead worlds.
The so-called death world means that the entire planet is a desert, full of poisonous insects, beasts, poisonous gas, or other types of planets with extremely harsh conditions that are simply uninhabitable.
“He reminds me of Nuceria.” Angron pointed to the tactical table and said to Salin, “There is only one habitable planet in the Nucerian galaxy, and the other planets are all dead worlds. "
"At least the death world in the Nuceria galaxy contains a lot of rare minerals, and the death world here really has nothing." Saleen smiled helplessly.
Angron nodded.
The Primarch recalled that while sailing in the warp, his adoptive father came to him and told him about Nuceria's current situation.
There are astropaths arranged by the empire on Nuceria. The astropaths use psychic energy to send messages. Without them, super-light communication would not be possible.
Everything becomes strange and elusive as long as it passes through the subspace. The messages sent by the Astropath are not 100% clear, but vague.
The astropath in the fleet is a newbie, and he often cannot recognize the messages sent by other astropaths.
So Qin Xia temporarily served as an astropath, interpreting the astropath's messages from subspace.
The current situation of Nukeria was naturally interpreted by Qin Xia.
"The Nustar Archon launched the great pioneering movement."
Angron looked at the dead world of the No. 921 galaxy, as if it was the dead world of the Nuceria galaxy.
“People shouted for the God Lord, boarded transport ships, went to the death world, and then established outposts to mine minerals.”
“They will live in those death worlds for generations. , forever, forever, making a living by mining on those worlds."
Salin listened to what the original body said and asked softly: "You do not agree with the Archon's decision."
"No...how to put it." Angron rubbed his chin in thought, "Nukerians are prone to collective fanaticism. A Nuwei scholar believes that Nucerians are very social. I think this is part of the reason. . ”
“They go to the Death World to mine and leave Nu Star. They will even raise their own funds to buy ships. Those who fail the screening will find ways to take the ship to the Death World.”
Angron gradually fell silent as he spoke.
"Off topic." Angron shook his head, "We have to take this place. First understand the situation of this galaxy."
After receiving the order, Saleen implanted the communication in his brain The device flashed twice and transmitted her order: "Dispatch investigators."
Naval officers in the fleet immediately organized professionals to go to habitable worlds in the galaxy. These professionals all belong to the naval fleet. They are responsible for such a thing during the Great Expedition. When the Human Empire discovers a galaxy, they will investigate the galaxy and confirm all the conditions of the galaxy.
Afterwards, if intelligence shows that this galaxy can be recovered peacefully, then the imperial bureaucrats will come here and manage it as the ruling class of the existing ruling class.
On the contrary, that is the matter of the Space Marines.
"I have a hunch that we may have to fight a war in this galaxy." Salin said, "The First Legion is still waiting for us to help transport the vehicles there."
Angron Shaking his head: "It is impossible for the First Legion to wait for the vehicle to be used. Besides, we have to wait for them to transmit the star language before we can discuss the rendezvous location."
"What about your nineteenth brother? He may still be waiting for you and the Emperor to arrive in his world." Saleen added.
"I was originally planning to go find that brother first and then go back to fight, but I was told by Qian Dingzhuwan to arrive in a year later. I don't know the specific reason." Angron said.
Salin was relieved.
It seems that the fleet has plenty of time to do what needs to be done. ……
other side.
“This is a hive world.”
Qin Xia sat cross-legged on the ground and closed her eyes tightly.
He is currently in the medical room on the flagship.
Those gladiators who decided to undergo transformation were soaked in jars filled with nutrient solution.
Pharmacists, including Garland, were busy going back and forth, monitoring everyone's condition together with the mortal military doctors, and responding to emergencies in a timely manner.
The medical room was busy. Only the lower right corner of the room where Qin Xia was located was quite calm.
But Qin Xia was doing two things at this time. Although he was calm, he could be considered busy.
Qin Xia observed the only habitable world in the galaxy through the consciousness and eyes of others.
At the same time, he also uses his spiritual energy to sense the situation of each gladiator. When anyone may have an abnormality, or when his prophecy ability is activated, he will alert the pharmacists in advance so that they can Pharmacists are able to make decisions without haste.
"The hive world is really amazing."
Theseus stood on a bell tower, holding the pendulum of the clock, looking down at everything below and everything above.
Below is the city.
The buildings are piled up layer by layer, like a messy and weird thing built by a child with building blocks.
The top of the head is not a sky dome or sunlight, but a huge dome that can be distinguished as being made of artificial metal. There is a city above the dome.
The cities are stacked on top of each other until they reach the low-Earth orbit of the planet.
This is the hive world.
The closer the hive world is to the surface or below the surface, the thicker, larger, and uglier the buildings will be, the living environment will be harsher, and the population will be larger.
The hive world may have been just an ordinary city. After the subspace storm affecting the galaxy interfered with faster-than-light navigation, this urban planet with a large population will experience a loss of technology. As the population reproduces, As the number of people increased, the city began to expand.
The ancient construction technology has been lost, and people used crude means to expand the city, which eventually led to the city getting bigger and bigger, becoming the ugly and cumbersome it is today.
Industrial production has completely destroyed the natural environment on the planet's surface, causing mutant monsters and radioactive wastelands outside the city, making it impossible for people to even escape the city and live in isolation.
In the end, the hive world became what it is now in front of outsiders.
There are many hive worlds in the territory of the Human Empire. The locals have local terms for the architectural structures and regional divisions of the hive cities. However, in the standardized terminology formulated by the empire, the regions of the hive worlds have exclusive names— —The top of the tower, the upper nest, the lower nest, and the bottom nest.
They respectively represent the topmost nest where the nobles of the hive city live, which is the spire, the upper nest below the spire where the hive nobles or wealthy merchants live, the lower nest where ordinary people live, and the lower or more humble nest. People live here and there is a horrifying and dangerous underhive.
"Collect information." Qin Xia said, "Investigate the technological level of this world, whether there are ancient relics and important knowledge, and by the way, collect some information for the naval bureaucrats who only go to the nest."
Theseus jumped from the bell tower. The deft girl spun a few times in the air and then the anti-gravity boots on her feet allowed her to land smoothly.
There is a restricted area near the bell tower, and Theseus fell silently into the shadows.
Just as she had approached the beastman known as the Ogre from the shadows as a young child in the arena of Nuceria, Theseus began to approach the hidden secrets of the hive world. .
Qin Xia temporarily looked away from Theseus and looked at the others.
No, to be more precise, I use other people to see it.
In the lowest and harshest place in the hive world, a man who had been transformed and strengthened in every part of his body was surveying the terrain of the hive.
He was once a meat brick made by the Murray family's transformation madman, but now he is an enhanced human agent.
In the place where the poorest people in the hive world gather, a woman is dressing up as a beggar and using words to ask the locals about the situation in the hive world. Her implanted translator translates and records every word she hears or speaks.
There are hundreds of other people doing similar things, and there are even people overseeing the Twelve Legion Navy Fleet Herald Bureaucrats in the luxurious area at the top of the hive world.
These people were once gladiators on Nuceria and soldiers of the City-Eater Rebels.
They are either unable to return to normal society and live a normal life like the girl Theseus, or they are scouts who were disabled in the war but are still willing to continue fighting or performing tasks.
There are also fanatics who have been supported by the legend of Nuceria's god and have gone through the years of pain and suffering. They have nothing to do but dedicate themselves to the god who saves them.
These people do not belong to the regular mortal army in the Twelve Legion fleet today, but to an organization established by Qin Xia himself - the Association for the Study of Human Trust and History.
People who are acting in the hive world can be called agents.
The information the agents investigated, the secrets they encountered, and the strange things they observed were all sent to the fleet.
In a conference room on the upper floor of the flagship of the Fortitude Resolve, scholars who followed the fleet and intended to explore more mysteries were having intense discussions and analysis. They were also members of the Association for the Study of Human Trust History.
Qin Xia watched all this.
At the beginning, the Human Creation and History Research Association was just an organization he established casually to recover the knowledge monopolized by the high knights on Nuceria, and to find ways to bring out some historical relics or technological relics before the war began.
In the propaganda organization established by Angron, some people will cooperate with the Research Association to record and publicize what the High Knights have done to the oppressed.
The Association for the Study of Human Trust History was once just an ordinary academic organization, as its name suggests, for the purpose of recording and researching trust history, and protecting and collecting historical relics.
But plans always fail to keep up with changes. On that cruel Nuceria, in that cruel galaxy, force is needed to do anything.
Perhaps this association will become more diverse and have more people in the future.
At least that’s what Qin Xia planned.
(End of this chapter)