Chapter 28 New Missions and New Toys

The return journey on the Stormbird was still as bumpy as ever.

Talal turned his head to look at Fu Qinghai beside him and asked, "So, what's the problem with that woman?"

Fu Qinghai said, "She killed a member of the Night Lords, using the same method she used on you. I guess that's why the Night Lords are causing massacres in the city."

"Oh." Talal nodded, turned away and said nothing more.

It was very courageous and impressive of a mortal woman to kill a soldier of the Astartes Legion, even by a surprise assassination.

You can't ask for more from her. That's how Talal sees it.

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The changes that this short landing operation brought to the Cutlass frigate were visible to the naked eye.

Fu Qinghai did not participate in the damage control repairs, but from the smile on Captain Konrad Adenauer's face, it can be seen that after this wave of replenishment, the frigate's condition has improved a little.

Fu Qinghai's most intuitive feeling was that what was placed on the plate in front of him was finally no longer a bowl of paste-like rations for Space Marines - an amino porridge mixed with ceramic steel balls, but a whole roasted hind leg of a Grox beast.

Fu Qinghai grabbed the hind leg, which was almost as big as a power battle axe, and for a moment he didn't know where to start.

I just found a place where I could put my mouth down and took a bite. The gravy overflowed, and the feeling of my teeth quickly cutting through the muscle fibers brought a good taste. The frigate chef's just right smoking and grilling retained the moisture in the meat.

Fu Qinghai tore off a large piece of bloody meat, chewed it twice and swallowed it.

Fu Qinghai tasted the meat of this creature carefully. It was a bit like the curry fried crocodile meat he had eaten when he was traveling in Vietnam in his previous life on Earth. It had a texture that was a mixture of chicken and fish, with almost no large pieces of fat, but the meat was very moist.

The taste of reptile meat is indeed a little different.

Groxmon is a kind of livestock similar to giant dinosaurs, and is a close relative of crocodiles. It is widely raised in various agricultural worlds of the human empire. It produces a large amount of meat with delicious texture. Its disadvantage is that it has an extremely violent temper. Generally, agricultural worlds will remove part of their brain tissue to control their violent and aggressive temper.

The Space Marines were feasting. Soon, Talal wiped his mouth, stood up, sat next to Fu Qinghai, and asked:

"How is it, Qingshan, this is your first battle, how do you feel?"

Fu Qinghai shook his head and said, "Not very good. I feel it's not as satisfying as beating Albus Lang in the training cage."

Albus Lang, who was eating meat opposite him, raised his head and said, "Who are you going to beat if you say it again?"

Talal laughed, patted Fu Qinghai on the shoulder, and said, "A native planet that has just been cleaned up is indeed not as strong as a training cage, but don't worry, we have entered the battle zone and will soon encounter real enemies."

Before he could finish his words, he heard Ogedei's loud voice on the radio:

"Space Marines, assemble in the war room!"

The Space Marines at the table all stood up.

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War room.

A messy meteorite belt appeared on the holographic projection in the middle of the table.

Ogedei didn't waste any time. Seeing that everyone had arrived, he simply swiped his finger to enlarge the projection, and two spaceships appeared in the meteorite belt.

Connected together in a strange posture.

Captain Konrad Adenauer was the first to speak: "We have received a distress signal from one of the two ships and have locked their position."

"Pirates?" Talar asked, frowning as he looked at the holographic image in front of him.

"It's very likely." Konrad Adenauer nodded, "But we also heard some other information in the distress signal."

As he spoke, he tapped on the table, and a recording began to sound intermittently:

"Zizi... Zizi... Help, I'm from the Imperial merchant ship... Val... Zizi... Long. We've been attacked by pirates. I'm the captain..."

"They have... sizzle... psykers... wizards, on the throne... what do I see, melee wizards wielding daggers? They're slaughtering my crew..."

The audio ends here.

A melee wizard wielding a dagger? Everyone in the war room looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Ahem..." Ogedei in the wheelchair coughed lightly and said, "First of all, we can be sure that there are unregistered illegal psychics on the pirate ship. As for how they decide to fight, that is not something we should consider."

Various types of psykers have appeared in the human empire, some of whom are extremely dangerous, but in general, psykers are not known for their physical fitness or physical strength. From the perspective of playing to their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses, most psykers will not engage in close combat with humans.

Especially veterans like Ogedei and Talal who had participated in suppressing psyker riots knew that if the Space Marines were allowed to get within three meters, the psykers would almost certainly be dead.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

At this time, Talal glanced at Ogedei, who understood what he meant and waved his hand, saying:

"Our first priority is to escort Master Quinto to Mars. Although these two ships are blocking our way, it is not our job to wipe out space pirates."

"But the auspicious instrument shows that another spaceship leapt nearby an hour ago and is heading here. It is most likely a warship, so..."

Ogedei suddenly looked at Fu Qinghai and said in a deep voice: "Qingshan! I am sending you to use torpedoes to board the merchant ship to find out the situation and set up a transmission beacon. When necessary, you can transmit the Terminator Tactical Dreadnought Armor to it."

Fu Qinghai was suddenly cueed and was startled, and quickly stepped forward to respond.

Teleportation, yes, this is the correct way to deliver the Terminator to the battlefield. Previously, letting the Terminator run on the planet Moradigan was not the normal way to use this heavy and slow tactical armor. The normal way is to use teleportation technology to directly deliver it to the front-line battlefield.

Teleportation is not unconditional, and requires scouts, mortal auxiliaries or other Astartes to build teleportation beacons in advance.

If the transmission beacon is inaccurate, there is a high probability that people will be stuck in the wall.

Ogedei continued, "And the rest of us, on the frigate, are preparing for battle, ready to welcome the arrival of that warship."

Talal frowned and asked, "Can't we just hide..."

Konrad Adenauer shook his head and said, "No, the other party has discovered us and sent us a signal asking for our identity information."

After saying that, the bitter black-bearded man added: "That's a Moon-class cruiser."

The important thing is the last sentence.

The Moon-class cruiser, the standard main battleship of the Imperial Navy, is five kilometers long and carries more than 90,000 crew members. Its numerous macro cannons, lance arrays and torpedo tubes are positioned far beyond a series of light cruisers, not to mention the ancient Broadsword-class frigate "Shortsword".

The most crucial thing is that cruisers are known for their speed in positioning. If that Moon-class cruiser wants to chase, the Dagger will not be able to escape at all.

Talar nodded and understood. Ogedei sent the new recruit Fu Qinghai to deal with the pirate problem, while all the main Space Marines were left behind to deal with the Moon-class cruiser. This meant that the key to the problem was not the pirate ship, but the Moon-class cruiser that was attracted by the distress signal.

Ogedei said, "Everyone take your positions. Qingshan, take your new toys and go to the torpedo tubes and wait."

Everyone stood up and responded.

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(End of this chapter)