Chapter 165: Tombstone Gate

The vast and mighty wild orcs, covering the mountains and plains, are crossing the mountains and rushing towards the location of the Black Stone Obelisk.

Fu Qinghai, who is nearly 2.8 meters tall in full armor, and old man Hu Xian, who is 1.8 meters tall, are inconspicuous among the orcs.

It was normal that Fu Qinghai and old man Hu Xian, just two people, conquered the Blackrock Tribe. In later generations, a Space Marine of the Iron Serpents Legion, in order to cooperate with the legion's tactical goals, single-handedly held back the greenskins on a wild planet for more than ten years.

Are the Space Marines too powerful? Strictly speaking, it's because the technology of the Savage Orcs is too backward. The survivability of the Space Marines is abnormal. If a group of Savage Orcs have not developed a biological technology tree like the Snakebite Clan and the Squiggle selected and bred, they will never be able to break through the power armor relying only on bone knives and stone axes. As long as the Space Marine of the Iron Serpents uses the favorable terrain to prevent himself from falling into the sea of ​​beasts, he can deal with an entire planet of Savage Orcs.

But the two did not take it lightly or lose their vigilance. Fu Qinghai told old man Hu Xian that they could cooperate with the orcs temporarily, but they should never trust the orcs.

Because cunning is also the nature of orcs.

Gomo is the greenskin god, the projection of orcs' thoughts and emotions in the subspace. Gomo is fierce and cunning, Mao is cunning and fierce. Mao will beat you hard when you are not paying attention, and Gomo will beat you even harder after you find him.

Fu Qinghai and the Black Stone Tribe only have a common enemy, which does not mean that the two sides have become allies.

Fu Qinghai looked down from the hillside. In the depression, the black stone obelisk still stood tall, and the rift in the tomb world that was expanded by old man Hu Xian's lightsaber was still there.

Fu Qinghai thought of another reason why the Savage Orcs had never been defeated: the existence of the Blackstone Obelisk might limit the psychic energy from the Warp, including the self-organized LAN of Brother Mao, and the weird guy who played with psychic energy would basically be useless.

The Necrons repelled the attack of the Savage Orcs, but did not choose to build a position outside the rift. Instead, they hid in the passage and closed the door to fight the enemy.

Fu Qinghai read tactical information from this scene—the Necrons did not have many troops.

The two men quickly followed the wild orcs to the crack. Under the expectant gaze of the greenskins who surrounded them, old man Hu Xian drew out his lightsaber. The green blade lit up. The old man gripped the hilt with both hands and thrust it down hard.

"laugh!"

As the lightsaber cut, the cracks in the entire black stone turned red and hot and gradually expanded.

"Oh…"

The greenskins watching couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. On this planet covered with black stones, black stones were the hardest substance they had ever seen. They didn't expect that Lao Xiami's Burning Sword could actually cut through them.

For a moment, the greenskins looked at old man Hu Xian with expressions full of admiration. A few of them who were quick-witted stared at the lightsaber and began to think deeply.

Soon, the crack was enlarged again by old man Hu Xian. Although the Skug monster still could not enter, more green-skinned guys could enter at one time.

Fu Qinghai raised his head and looked at the war boss, his meaning was very clear:

According to the plan, it's your turn to go down and serve as cannon fodder.

The war boss raised his neck, raised the weapon in his hand, bared his fangs, and roared:

"Waaaaaaaaagh!"

"Waaagh!" "Waaagh!" "Waaagh!"

It was responded by roars one after another.

Countless wild boys beat their chests with various weapons, then jumped into the crack in a group and disappeared in the dim green light.

They might be killed instantly by a volley of fire from the Immortals waiting below, but it doesn't matter, the number of greenskins is endless.

As soon as Fu Qinghai reached a cooperation with the war boss, he immediately encouraged the Blackrock Tribe to mobilize and set off, just to prevent the tomb technicians from having time to repair the tomb world and set up defense devices.

The greenskins jumped into the light one after another like dumplings, along with various kinds of Squiggs.

Fu Qinghai counted silently in his mind. In just ten minutes, eight hundred and fifty-two Orcs had entered. However, they all disappeared.

There are more than 800 greenskins, their corpses will probably fill up the passage.

Finally, a wild boy excitedly climbed out of the crack, holding a metal arm in his hand, and reported to the war boss: The iron skeleton guarding the entrance of the passage was finally killed by the brave green-skinned boys!

The war boss looked at Fu Qinghai, Fu Qinghai and old man Hu Xian looked at each other, nodded, and jumped into the crack together.

There was a flash of light before my eyes, and the scenery suddenly changed.

As soon as Fu Qinghai regained his vision, he saw green-skinned corpses all over the ground. Their deaths were extremely miserable. The peeled bones and annihilated fragments were piled up like a mountain in the passage.

A green beam of light came.

Old man Hu Xian swung his sword to block, and the light beam returned along its original path and hit the immortal who fired the gun. The green light covered his chest and completely peeled off his metal sternum covered with the skin of the undead.

"rush!"

Fu Qinghai shouted and rushed forward.

Using the greenskin corpses piled up in the passage as cover, Fu Qinghai stepped left and right, and his snake-like movements flashed past several Gaussian rays. The moment he passed by two immortals, he raised the Blue Fang Chainsaw Sword and pulled hard!

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle--"

Dazzling metallic sparks lit up, and the neck of an immortal's skeleton was sawed off by the teeth of the Blue Fang!

After sawing off the immortal's neck, without waiting for the head to fall to the ground, Fu Qinghai swung and chopped, "Sizzle!" Another immortal was hit in the back, and his chest was directly cut through by the high-speed rotating blade. The skull tilted, the green light went out, and he fell to the ground dejectedly.

The Orcs who were fighting hard in the passage saw this scene and their morale suddenly boosted.

The Blackrock Tribe used eight hundred green-skinned guys to exchange for one immortal, but Fu Qinghai killed two right away.

On the other side, old man Hu Xian pulled the lightsaber out of the body of an immortal, turned his head and grinned at Fu Qinghai:

"It's not that hard. Just like killing a B2 robot."

That's because you can bounce Gauss rays, so you think Immortals are similar to the B2 super battle robots in Star Wars, Fu Qinghai thought.

In fact, B2 is just a more muscular B1 robot, and its weapons are still blasters and laser cannons, which are incomparable to the double-barreled Gauss blasters and particle cannons in the hands of the Immortals.

Fu Qinghai turned around and hung the double-barreled Gauss blaster and particle cannon that he had taken off the immortal's body around his waist. Ignoring the admiring gazes of the green-skinned boys, he randomly chose a fork in the passage and ran inside side by side with old man Hu Xian.

Once the breakthrough of the tomb world rift was opened by Fu Qinghai and old man Hu Xian, the greenskins swarmed into the complex passages behind, and the Necrons became even more uncomfortable.

Along the way, Fu Qinghai saw the ghost of the underworld worker quietly emerging from the wall in a super-phase state, smashing the head of a brutal orc with one claw, and then being knocked over by the pig-riding boy following behind. Then a group of wild boys pounced on it with howls and pressed it under them like a pile of monks.

Four or five wild boys pinned the Ghost of the Underworld under their bodies, bit it with their teeth, and beat it with sticks. Electric sparks burst out of the Ghost of the Underworld's metal joints. As a result, the tall pile of greenskins suddenly sank, and the Ghost of the Underworld's body became intangible and transparent, and it floated out from the pile of greenskins, swung its long spiked tail, spread out its sharp appendages, and placed them in the bodies of the wild boys.

Then, the Ghost of the Underworld returned to the normal dimension from the super-phase state. Its solid spiked tail and sharp appendages instantly pierced and cut the four or five wild boys, turning them into green-skinned corpses shattered on the ground.

Just at the moment when the ghost of the underworld worker solidified again and killed the wild boy.

"Sizzle…clang!"

The Blue Fang Chainsaw Sword cut off half of its body cleanly and easily.

"Plop!"

The long spiked tail fell down weakly, and the ghost of the underworld worker floating in the air fell down as if it had lost its support, and hit the ground with a bang.

This powerful underworld construct finally died.

Fu Qinghai looked at the huge corpse of the ghost under his feet, thought again and again, and finally gave up with great pain.

Fu Qinghai cannot carry an unlimited amount of loot, as it will eventually affect his dodging and speed.

Most of the Necrons' arms are typical of high attack, medium defense and low agility. Later human empires discovered that in large-scale battles, no matter what kind of armor, tanks, cannons or Titans they had, they would always lose when facing off against the Necrons' arrays. However, in small-scale encounters like the Death Watch squad, the Space Marines could rely on their powerful reaction and speed to easily kill the relatively slow and dull Necron warriors.

Even the Blue Shell Power Armor carefully crafted by Fu Qinghai would still collapse in the face of Gaussian fission rays and antimatter particles.

Therefore, agility is Fu Qinghai's first weapon against the Necrons, and secondly, the magic weapon that can cut the skin of the Necrons as easily as cutting melons and vegetables - the Blue Fang Chainsaw Sword.

In a passage, seven or eight Scarab Beetles of the Underworld gathered in a group, cleaning up the green-skinned corpses left over from the previous round of battle. Before they had finished cleaning up, a new round of Orcs arrived, and the Scarab Beetles of the Underworld flapped their wings and buzzed, taking off one after another.

A grinning Bite Squig rushed in too fast and was hit in the face by a metal beetle. The array of micro-repair claws mounted under the body of the Underworld Scarab grabbed the dog's face, and once the mass-energy conversion was initiated, a green glow of fireflies lit up, instantly eroding Bite Squig's head. The headless little monster took a step forward and suddenly fell down.

Although in the Necrons' military sequence, the Necromancer constructs are lower in rank than the Necromancer warriors, the Space Marines would rather face Immortals and Destroyers than face a swarm of Necromancer scarabs flying like a green cloud.

If you don't carry a large-range AOE weapon like a melta gun, and only rely on a power sword and a bolter, you will be devoured by the mechanical insect swarm.

The green-skinned guys jumped around and fought with the flying Scarabs in the air. Fu Qinghai urgently needed a few Scarabs that were not badly damaged, so he joined the battlefield quickly, chopped the Scarabs into pieces with a few swords, and then put them into his pocket.

Ignoring the poor greenskins whose heads were eaten away and torn by the underworld scarabs, who were rolling on the ground wailing with their faces covered, Fu Qinghai and old man Hu Xian continued to go deeper into the tomb world and ran deep into the passage.

…

The war boss jumped into the crack of the tomb world in one step.

Thanks to the partial breakthroughs by Fu Qinghai and old man Hu Xian, the Orcs finally made initial progress and were not easily driven out of the tomb world as last time.

The Tomb Technician's main defense revolved around the laboratory, and the War Boss led his green-skinned minions and strode straight to the laboratory.

Before they turned the corner of the passage, a dazzling bolt of lightning folded and passed through the bodies of several green-skinned guys. With a series of crackling sounds, their flesh and blood were melted by the lightning, leaving only a hole around their waists.

The War Boss's eyes widened in shock.

If it understood the Necrons, it would know that what it was about to face was Tesla weapons.

…

Fu Qinghai and old man Hu Xian wandered around in the complex maze-like passage, turned countless corners, and bypassed countless obstacles. Finally, after cutting open the last black stone door with a lightsaber, the two came to a vast and empty space.

Even with the wild orcs acting as cannon fodder to attract firepower, Fu Qinghai and old man Hu Xian still went through a lot of trouble to get here.

The two of them stared at the slowly rotating device in the middle of the empty space.

It was an inverted tetrahedron surrounded by dark living rocks, larger than the main building of the SHIELD Triskelion Base, with countless complex lines flashing with the brilliance of energy. The dull, dark, and mysterious light gathered in the open frame of that thing, the kind of faint green light that can be seen everywhere in the tomb world.

"Is this the Tombstone Gate?"

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

Fu Qinghai stared, frowned, and muttered to himself.

Staring at this huge and bizarrely shaped device, the scene before my eyes seemed like some kind of optical illusion: space was twisting and turning, time was swirling, the lines of objects seemed to be extending, expanding, contracting and closing on their own, and the hard-cut edges formed angles that collapsed against each other.

After just looking for a few seconds, Fu Qinghai suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous. He couldn't help but bend down, forcing himself to look away, gasping for breath with his mouth open.

Fu Qinghai didn't even aspire to understand the device. He merely tried to retain the shape of the thing in his mind, using the photographic memory of Tony Stark's electronic soul backup to remember it.

However, he did not expect that in the sea of ​​​​thinking where inspirations once exploded like bubbles, the most powerful plug-in that once assisted Fu Qinghai in cracking countless black technologies and inventing many new equipment, the brain plug-in that once understood, innovated, improved, and iterated everything, at this moment, it seemed to be overloaded and crashed. The sea of ​​​​thinking was no longer just rolling and boiling, it was almost vaporizing and evaporating.

"Ahhh…"

Old man Hu Xian turned around and was surprised to see Fu Qinghai covering his helmet and screaming in pain.

"Qingshan, Qingshan!"

The old man couldn't help but put his hand on Fu Qinghai's shoulder armor and asked anxiously:

"What did you see?"

Old man Hu Xian also saw the mysterious device, but he just felt like he was watching a kaleidoscope illusion, and had a slightly nauseous feeling like 3D dizziness, but then he was fine. He didn't expect Fu Qinghai's reaction to be so big.

"I, I…"

Fu Qinghai frowned and gritted his teeth. The intense pain in his brain like waves made him unable to speak.

"Yes, that is the Tombstone Gate."

On the left side of the vast space, a cold mechanical voice was heard, accompanied by the clattering sound of metal joints hitting black stone.

A giant mechanical centipede several dozen meters long slowly crawled out from under the mysterious device.

Tomb Stalker.

Its body is made of metal plates that have been spliced ​​together to form a long centipede body. Its thick and sharp limbs hit the hard black stone ground, making a hair-raising, fine and regular clicking sound. It has six dark green mechanical compound eyes and a circular mouthpart with gears turning in the middle. There are two long metal whiskers like the antennae of a longhorn beetle standing backwards on its head.

Next to the Tomb Stalker's insect-like head are two long green tubes. After Fu Qinghai's introduction, old man Hu Xian was already familiar with the Necrons. The two transparent tubes surging with green energy are linear acceleration chambers, the symbol of Gauss weapons.

The Tomb Lurker easily climbed up the wall and slowly crawled around Fu Qinghai and old man Hu Xian. It made the same sound as the Tomb Technician and laughed,

"What a smart human! Not only did he see through my plan, he even...haha, he even tried to understand the existence of the Tombstone Gate."

The Necromancer controlled the Tomb Stalker and made a sound of amazement.

"I have to admit that he is indeed a rare individual among low-level creatures like humans. He is really smart. So smart... that he dares to try to understand the most amazing creation of our Necrons."

"I kind of want to cut open his brain and find out what's going on."

Fu Qinghai covered his head, enduring the excruciating pain, thinking that this was not something he could control.

When Tony Stark's electronic soul backup sees any technological creation, he will feel great curiosity and desire, and subconsciously try to record, analyze and understand it.

In the past, Fu Qinghai relied on this ability to become a powerful technical sergeant and created countless advanced equipment.

But now, because of this ability, he fell into the pain of burning mind.

What is Tombstone Gate?

When introducing Tombstone Gate, the first thing we need to talk about is the webway.

The Webway is a galactic highway project created by the Old Ones, the common creators of the Eldar, Orks, and space apes, the ancient overlords of the universe, a race that has reached the pinnacle of technology and magic.

A means of safely, stably and quickly crossing infinite distances and achieving superluminal travel without the aid of subspace navigation.

The Webway is a creation of the Old Ones, and is the pinnacle of cosmic engineering in Warhammer 40K. During the War in Heaven, the Old Ones used the Webway's elusive entrances and exits to deploy troops everywhere, and once defeated the Necrons to the point where they could not take care of themselves. Even though thousands of years have passed, the Old Ones have disappeared, and the Necrons are dormant, the Webway is still the only barrier that the Dark Eldar use to resist Slaanesh's harvest of souls, and it is still a great project that the Emperor was willing to give up the Great Crusade to comprehend and study.

That's right, the Emperor appointed Horus as Warmaster, and then hid back in the underground of the Terra Palace to conduct experiments. His research was on how to utilize the Webway left by the Ancient Saints to free mankind from its long-standing dependence on Warp navigation and Warp communications.

The Necrons are said to be the technological ceiling of the Warhammer 40K universe, but what is very embarrassing is that as a race without psykers, the Necrons do not have the means of faster-than-light travel. If the inertia-free engine is simply a competition of efficiency, it is still not as efficient as the warp jump of the human Empire.

It was not until the end of the War in Heaven that the Necrons invented the Tombstone Gate, a special device that could open a gap in the Webway. With the help of the Tombstone Gate, the Necrons were able to get on the cosmic highway of their mortal enemy, the Webway. This enabled the Necrons to gain true superluminal navigation capability. Otherwise, the title of "technological ceiling" would be somewhat misleading.

The tomb technician saw Fu Qinghai's miserable condition through the Tomb Lurker's mechanical compound eyes and was immediately very proud, developing a sense of superiority as a superior race.

The frustration caused by Fu Qinghai stealing his scientific research results, the Pym ray pistol, and Fu Qinghai seeing through his plan and turning the tables on him, etc., were all slightly alleviated.

"Oh… fuck."

Fu Qinghai held his helmet with one hand, cursed under his breath, and slowly stood up straight from his stiffness.

When Fu Qinghai finally recovered from the pain, he slowly raised his head, looked at the giant mechanical centipede crawling slowly in the distance, and said,

"What are you so proud of? You are just thieves who stole the function of the webway. Besides, I can't understand the existence of the webway and the tombstone gate. Do you understand it?"

"Uh, what...what do you mean?"

There was a hint of doubt in the tomb technician's words for a moment.

Fu Qinghai took a breath, calming the slightly relieved pain, and sneered:

"The technology of destroying the webway and using the webway, the tombstone door, is it really invented by you? Did Nyadrazasa teach you?"

After hearing Fu Qinghai's words, the Tomb Stalker's smooth crawling motion was obviously a little stuck, and the Tomb Technician's voice was a little trembling:

"You...how do you know His name? No, no, no, you are not allowed to mention the name of that evil being!"

"snort."

Fu Qinghai snorted coldly, raised his chin, and said loudly:

"Not only will I mention it, I'll shout it out!"

"It was the Star God, the Burning Nyadrazasa, who taught you the techniques to break through the Webway and use it. It was the Star God who helped you win the War of Heaven. The Tombstone Gate was not invented by you. Remember this!"

"Ahh... This is a heinous crime! Human, you are challenging my bottom line. This is blasphemy!!"

Fu Qinghai's words evoked painful memories for the entire Necrons and revealed the deep scars of the entire Necrons - the ancient grievances with the Star Gods.

Fu Qinghai paid no attention to the mad tomb technician, and led old man Hu Xian to the tombstone door, towards the mysterious and huge device that was constantly rotating and changing.

"No, you are pretending! You dare not do this, you don't know how to operate the Tombstone Gate, you will be lost in the Webway!"

The Tomb Stalker's mouthparts emitted the Necromancer's shout.

The orcs of the Deathskull Clan once hijacked the Tombstone Gate to transport troops. Fu Qinghai guessed that they might have relied on the orcs' unique power of thinking. Fu Qinghai naturally did not have such a skill.

Without navigation and maps of the Webway, anyone, even a powerful Primarch, would get lost in the immeasurably vast Webway maze. For example, Fu Qinghai's Primarch, Chagatai Khan, who entered the Webway to hunt down the Dark Eldar and never came out again.

Fu Qinghai turned back confidently, took one last look at the tomb stalker in the distance, and said with a smile:

"I didn't know how to use it before, but now someone has taught me how to use it."

After saying that, Fu Qinghai took old man Hu Xian's arm and resolutely stepped between the two huge dark green living stone pillars and into the curtain of vicious and hostile green light.

The two figures disappeared.

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(End of this chapter)