Chapter 32: Contact with the Sotharan

Fu Qinghai took great pains to bring the fat merchant back to the Shortsword frigate.

Even space marines cannot be exposed in space for a long time, let alone ordinary people. Fu Qinghai's helmet was damaged by the detonating talisman, and his goggles could not display normally. The hull of the spacecraft where the transmission beacon was located was damaged, and there was no air and gravity.

Temporarily modifying the space suit helmet on the merchant ship to a size that suits his own and then retrieving the transmission beacon turned out to be the most troublesome and time-consuming part of Fu Qinghai's anti-pirate mission.

A thick white light flashed, and Fu Qinghai, holding his helmet in one hand, was teleported back to the deck of the Shortsword carrying a fat man in gorgeous clothes.

Talal came up with a few crew members, looked at Fu Qinghai's smoke-stained, blood-stained armor and damaged helmet, and asked,

"How is it?"

"Done."

Although he looked very embarrassed, Fu Qinghai's expression was calm, as if he had just done something insignificant.

"What's the situation with that spaceship?"

Fu Qinghai handed the fat businessman in his hand to several crew members and said:

"Ask him."

He returned to his rest cabin, which was an Astartes-standard personal cabin. Next to it was a weapons room, just like Ogedei's. Fu Qinghai seldom used this weapons room because his weapons maintenance and modification could be done in Master Quinto's laboratory, where there were better instruments and equipment.

Fu Qinghai entered the weapons room, closed the door, and began to take stock of his gains.

Start by opening the Properties panel in your mind.

[Name: Fu Qinghai (real name)

Reincarnation number: 60731920

Race: Space Marine (Biochemically modified human)

Height: 249cm

Weight: 301kg

Ability: Tony Stark electronic backup (17% complete) bound to brain area

Reincarnation Equipment: None

Assimilation Points: 1944

World Anchor: X1

Reincarnation Life: X2]

The assimilation points increased a lot, mainly from killing the reincarnations of the enemy camp.

Fu Qinghai looked at himself. He was wearing MK4 power armor, a power sword and a composite bolter, and holding two super energy capsules in his hands.

However, the reincarnation equipment displayed in the attribute panel is still "None".

It seems that you have to spend assimilation points to make these equipment truly belong to you.

In the world of reincarnation, I will assimilate this super power capsule... Fu Qinghai thought silently in his heart.

No response.

Lord God, Lord God, I want to assimilate this super power capsule… Fu Qinghai continued to recite silently.

No response.

System, system, fuck, forget it... Fu Qinghai gave up. The reincarnation world never responds to the call of the reincarnated people. It will only appear when it is time.

Fu Qinghai guessed that only when the plot line is completed, the things that are still under his control can be assimilated.

Two super capsules.

A prepared detonating talisman.

Three smoke bombs.

A scroll, when opened, was filled with tadpole-like scribbles that Fu Qinghai didn't recognize.

These were all the gains Fu Qinghai got from digging up the corpse.

"Really poor..." Fu Qinghai complained.

I don't dare take the super energy capsule, I don't know how to use the detonating talisman, I can't understand the scroll, and the smoke bombs are useless.

There were also some cold weapons and blades such as shurikens and kunai, but Fu Qinghai didn't take any of them at all.

The material strength and processing precision of ordinary weapons in the Naruto world cannot be compared with those in the Warhammer 40K world.

At this time, on the bridge.

The fat merchant was crying and sobbing to the White Scars warriors.

"What did you say? Qingshan killed five psychics by himself?"

Ogedei's loud, surprised voice echoed throughout the bridge.

The fat man nodded and said, "I was afraid of being affected by the battle, so I hid in the wall. I heard the battle breaking out outside and I also heard Master Astarte interrogating the pirates. When I came out, there were only corpses on the ground outside."

Oh my goodness, he actually did it all by himself... Talar was secretly amazed when he heard it.

Fu Qinghai heard Ogedei's exclamation as soon as he arrived at the bridge.

He knew why Ogedei and Talal were so surprised.

Breathing fireballs, mastering lightning... Humans with these abilities are defined as standard psykers in the Warhammer 40K world.

But they are not real psychics. They are ninjas who use their own chakra. Ninjutsu flames are more powerful than ordinary flames. In the Warhammer 40K world, real psychics use ether to create psychic flames that can completely ignore real armor.

Directly burns the subject's soul.

This means that only magic resistance is calculated, not armor.

No matter how many layers of ceramic steel plates and plastic steel plates you have stacked on the outside, they will all be ignored.

Psychics are of course divided into different types and strengths. Navigators and astropaths have almost no combat power, and those weak psychics are not necessarily stronger than Naruto and his ilk. Their souls may have been swallowed up by the subspace before they could even develop their psychic abilities.

But after all, there is only one psychic in a hundred million, especially those who gather in groups to cause trouble, they are usually very difficult to deal with. If Fu Qinghai doesn't come back, Ogedei is planning to send a Terminator to teleport and board him. In Ogedei's expectation, he only sent Fu Qinghai on a preliminary reconnaissance mission, not an annihilation mission.

Because Fu Qinghai was a complete rookie, with less than two years of service, he had not normally completed his promotion surgery.

Seeing Fu Qinghai approaching, Ogedei called him,

"Qingshan, come here."

Fu Qinghai walked quickly towards Ogedei.

He did not have any sense of pride or complacency. In the Naruto world, the Kotohira Group had at most the strength of a Chunin and a few Genin. They worked so hard to come up with an S-class ninjutsu, Lightning Release: Raikiri. They were a grassroots force and could not be compared with the top combat forces in the Naruto world.

Ogedei patted him on the shoulder and said with satisfaction: "Well done, Qingshan. It has far exceeded my expectations."

Then Ogedei said, "It just so happens that I have a task for you."

"Good news. That Moon-class cruiser, the Sotharan, belongs to the XIII Legion Ultramarines. They are a loyal legion."

Fu Qinghai nodded. The Smurfs had been loyal to the Primarch and the Emperor throughout the Horus Heresy. The Battle of Calth had completely aroused their rage for revenge. There was no need to worry about any double-dealing among them.

"After entering the Leiser Sector, I felt that the Dagger's firepower was insufficient. This is a supporting ship in the entire fleet and is not capable of fighting alone. I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to complete the mission assigned to us by the Khan by driving this frigate, so I asked the Sotharan to accompany us, and their commander agreed."

Fu Qinghai saw that Ogedei looked calm at the moment, but he didn't know that he had just experienced a fierce verbal battle.

Commander of the Sotharan: "Why did you leave the Primarch's fleet and act alone?"

Ogedei: "We have other tasks assigned by the Khan."

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

Commander of the Sotharan: "What mission?"

Ogedei: "You have no right to know."

Commander of the Sotharan: "I heard that on Prospero, some White Scars have started a rebellion against the Primarch."

Ogedei: "Humph, I also heard there was a second emperor..."

Hearing that sensitive keyword, the commander of the Sosarlan's eyes suddenly became stern in the projection, and he interrupted hurriedly:

"Be careful with your words, Captain Ogedei!"

Such was the verbal exchange between Ogedei and the commander of the Sotharan.

When the Warp storm obscured Terra's Astronomican, and the entire galaxy was unsure whether Earth had fallen, Robert Guilliman, far away in the Ultramarine, teamed up with Sanguinius, the Primarch of the 9th Legion's Blood Angels, and Lion's Jonson, the Primarch of the 1st Legion's Dark Angels, to establish the Second Imperium in order to preserve the flame of hope for mankind. Sanguinius, who was most like the Emperor in all aspects, served as "Regent", with a status equivalent to that of the Emperor, Lion's Jonson served as "Lord Protector of the Realm", similar to Horus' "Warmaster", and Robert Guilliman himself served as "Governor of the Frontier".

After establishing contact with Terra, the "Second Empire" was immediately disbanded, and the three legions, especially the initiator, the Ultramarines, were extremely reluctant to talk about this "empire that should not exist."

In the end, the commander of the Sosarlan agreed to Ogedei's request.

"But I can sense that they are still wary of us. The commander of the Sotharan said that their mission is to cut off the rebels' supply lines and to eliminate all forces in the Lesser sector that are in collusion with the rebels. They can accompany us as escort, but they are short of personnel recently, and hope that we can provide them with a few fighters."

"This is both a request and a test," Ogedei said. "Traitors cannot disguise themselves when fighting alongside one another. The Ultramarines commander is a cautious and shrewd fellow."

"You all know my current situation. I am unwilling to appear in front of those proud Ultramarines as a disabled person representing the Fifth Legion."

"Qingshan, you have shown great fighting ability in the process of clearing out the pirate ship. You have been invincible in the fighting in the training cage. I believe that you will not bring shame to the great War Eagles and the White Scars Legion, whether on the battlefield or in the ring."

"So, I decided to send you as our representative to the Sotharan to contact them, and you will stay there afterwards. During the escort, you will obey the command of the Ultramarines."

Ogedei looked at Fu Qinghai with burning eyes and asked, "Can you complete this mission?"

"Of course!" Fu Qinghai straightened his chest and raised his head, answering without hesitation.

"Very good, you will take the Stormbird to the Sothalan immediately. You have no experience in these ceremonial occasions, so I will send Talal to assist you."

This is a glorious mission, and Fu Qinghai now represents the image of the entire White Scars Legion.

All the Space Marines and mortal officers present looked at Fu Qinghai with respect and gave him warm applause.

Fu Qinghai's thoughts drifted to a secret conversation he had with Ogedei in the rest cabin not long ago.

Fu Qinghai: "Khan, our goal is to escort Master Quinto to Mars? What is the purpose? To help him seize power?"

Ogedei: "I don't know. Master Quinto has a high status on Mars. I guess that's the case."

Fu Qinghai: "We can't go to Mars. This is definitely a mission where you will die!"

There are two reasons why Fu Qinghai is so confident.

Having read the official novel, he knew that Mars fell soon after the rebellion because Warmaster Horus used the sealed forbidden technology of the Dark Ages as bait and bargaining chip to bribe the head of the Mechanicus, Forge-Master Kalbor Hal. With the Forge-Master's defection, the loyal Mechanicus on Mars were simply unable to withstand a single blow and quickly retreated back to Terra.

What's more, Fu Qinghai could also infer from the results that the novel did not write about the story of this escort fleet, which meant that they did not make any waves on Mars, and maybe they did not even reach Mars at all.

Ogedei: "Why do you say that?"

Fu Qinghai: "Boss, use your brain to think about it. With only seven of us, what kind of waves can we make on Mars, which is full of Skitarii and Titan Legions?"

Ogedei: "We can use Master Quinto..."

Fu Qinghai interrupted, "Forging Commander Kalbo Har has rebelled."

Ogedei was surprised and asked, "How did you know that?"

Fu Qinghai: "I dreamed about it. I saw fragments of things that happened in the past."

I won't pretend anymore. I'm going to show my cards. I'm a psychic and a prophet.

"This..." Ogedei hesitated. The alternative predictive ability that Fu Qinghai demonstrated from time to time was considered reliable so far, and Ogedei had to consider it.

The rebellion of the Forge Lord is no small matter. The intelligent robots with powerful firepower and no fear of pain, and the Emperor-class Titans as tall as mountains, are not a force to be trifled with. This means a stab in the heart of the empire.

No matter how influential Master Quinto is, he cannot compare to the leader of the Mechanicus.

There is absolutely no comparison.

At this time, a book friend asked: Aren't you a reincarnation? Can't you change the situation by yourself?

No, after so many battles, Fu Qinghai knows his own weakness and the strength of the Primarchs and Legions. At this stage, it is difficult for him to participate in the magnificent Horus Heresy plot line. If he participates in the Battle of Terra, he will be a cannon fodder, let alone go to Mars.

Ogedei stroked his chin in deep thought. Slowly, he raised his head, looked at Fu Qinghai, and said,

"Qingshan, we are Astartes who are loyal to the Khan and the Empire. We are the descendants of Chagatai Khan. It is our duty to obey the orders of the Primarch."

Fu Qinghai understood that even if there was a high risk of death, Ogedei would go to Mars.

Thinking back on this conversation now, and now that Ogedei was making a big fuss about sending himself to the Ultramarines, Fu Qinghai felt mixed emotions, not knowing what Ogedei was thinking.

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(End of this chapter)