Chapter 171: Lord Hunting

"From what I know, Lord Hunting is the way of playing in the Necromunda Hive."

Fu Qinghai looked at Koshvito and said slowly.

Koshvito shrugged and said:

"Ten years ago, the eldest son of the Thorndike family, Kathy Thorndike, returned from his trip to the Necromunda Hive World and brought this popular activity to the Schwerin Hive World."

There was some sarcasm in Koshveto's tone, and he emphasized the words "loved by everyone".

Fu Qinghai pursed his lips in thought.

Despite the instability and inefficiency of warp navigation, there is still information and material circulation within the Empire, and the famous Rogue Merchants specialize in this.

Just like in the bottom nest of the Schwerin hive, there appeared reflective sheets originating from the Weiss star region and necromancy originating from the Necromunda hive.

Even drugs are circulating, let alone culture.

As everyone expected, the descendants of the Shangchao nobles were a group of pampered dandies.

But dudes also need to seek excitement occasionally, and they need to establish a contempt chain among a group of dudes. Showing off is an eternal need of human beings after they have had enough food, drink and sex.

So the dandies in the Necromunda hive developed a new way of playing - hunting dukes.

Young nobles wear expensive hunting suits, form teams and descend to the lower nest, swear an oath, complete tasks such as "individual survival in a designated area" or "killing quota", and are not allowed to return to the upper nest before completing the task.

This is a rite of passage. If these people can come back alive, it means that these young men born into decadent aristocratic families are cold-blooded, cruel, and resourceful enough to be qualified to serve as leaders of the hive in the future.

Sometimes, some young nobles would develop a pure interest in the activity of hunting nobles, and the thrill of killing that had nothing to do with inheritance rights. They would take the initiative to join other hunting noble teams and go to the bottom nest to hunt, or they would establish a hunting noble team that belonged only to them and go to the bottom nest to play.

"In the Schwerin Hive, hunting for nobles is not linked to inheritance rights. It's just that young nobles think this activity is cool, so they spontaneously organize themselves, wear elite power armor, go down to the Underhive, and take the lives of vicious Underhive creatures and poor Underhive people as a means of proving their courage."

Koshveto explained to Fu Qinghai.

Fu Qinghai nodded slightly to show that he understood.

Then he asked:

"But what does this have to do with me? I'm going to the Upper Nest, which doesn't conflict with them coming to the Lower Nest to hunt for the Lord."

"Don't you want to know what's going on in the upper nest now?"

Koshveto asked with a smile.

Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes: "What do you mean?"

Koshvito said:

"The backer behind the Longtooth Gang is the Bentham family, one of the five major families in Shangchao. Not long ago, I captured a member of the Longtooth Gang and learned some information about Shangchao from him through torture."

Koshvitos said,

"The planetary governor who had suppressed the rebellion of the Samsaras was found dead in his official residence three months ago. The Schwerin Hive World lost its highest official. After a lot of fighting and discussion, the five major families finally agreed to decide which family will be the new planetary governor based on the ranking of this year's hunting event."

Koshvito gave a meaningful look:

"You know what this means. The nature of the Lord Hunt has changed this year. It is no longer a thrill-seeking activity for young nobles, but has become a killing game to determine who will be the planetary governor. None of the five major families want power to fall into the hands of others. They don't want a bloody civil war to break out, which would shake the foundation of their rule. They want to limit the scale of the fight to the Lord Hunt and the scope of the fight to the Undernest. But even so, a bloody storm will surely be set off in the Undernest."

After listening to what Koshvito said, Fu Qinghai frowned, kept silent, and tapped his knees with his fingers.

The reason why Fu Qinghai was not in a hurry to go to the entrance guarded by the Nest City's bailiffs was because he planned to find out the current situation of the Nest City first.

The former planetary governor was considered a loyalist. He suppressed the rebellion of rebel reincarnations such as Chen Xinlu, which was good news.

But now he is dead, and his death is inexplicable.

To be honest, Fu Qinghai doesn't care who will be the governor of the Schwerin Hive World. It has nothing to do with him. However, in this critical period when the Horus Heresy has just ended, the attitude of the Schwerin Hive World is very important, which directly determines whether Fu Qinghai can return to Terra.

Fu Qinghai and Koshvito are reincarnations. From the prompt sound of the reincarnation world, we can know that the Emperor plot line camp has won the final victory.

But the natives of the Schwerin hive didn't know that.

Fu Qinghai had only been on the wild alien planet for three months at most. In just three short months, Fu Qinghai had no idea whether there would be any astronomical communication transmitted to the Schwerin hive to inform him of the situation on the Terra battlefield.

Even astropathic communication can certainly transmit false information. What if the news received by the Schwerin Hive is fake news, that the Warmaster Horus has won? This is not impossible.

Fu Qinghai looked serious and asked:

"I don't care who will take the position of planetary governor. I only care about the attitude of the Schwerin Hive towards the Horus Heresy and the position of the planetary camp after the death of the previous planetary governor."

Koshvito spread his hands: "I don't know."

"I don't know?" Fu Qinghai repeated.

Such an important and crucial question, but you don't know it?

"Yes." Koshvito said, "I am isolated from the news in the Lower Nest, and I have no background in the Upper Nest. Forgive me, I really don't know what the public statement of the Schwerin Hive World is in the star zone."

"Oh."

Fu Qinghai looked at me with amusement and chuckled.

Loyalty that is not absolute is absolute disloyalty.

Isn't there a Space Marine in the hive world? It's time to remind these fat-headed hive nobles what the price of sitting on the fence is.

Fu Qinghai didn't know what the technological level of the Schwerin Hive was. Take the Necromunda Hive, the birthplace of the hunting lord activity, as an example. The hunting lord suits built by the noble children at great expense were so costly and technologically advanced that they were not inferior to the power armor of the Space Marines.

As I said, there is a difference between personal equipment and mass-produced equipment. The various parameters and indicators of the Blue Shell Power Armor are far superior to those of the standard MK4 extreme power armor.

"Have you ever fought against them? What do you think of their equipment level?"

Fu Qinghai asked Koshveto.

"Hmm..." Koshveto touched his chin. "The last time I came here, I just caught up with the end of the Lord Hunt. When the Horus Heresy broke out, the Lord Hunt was cancelled for a while. Later, the people in the Schwerin Hive found that neither the loyal fleet nor the rebel fleet visited this hive world, so they gradually resumed the Lord Hunt."

"As for the equipment level, objectively speaking, it is indeed good, but the people who operate the equipment are a bit lame."

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

Koshvito winked at Fu Qinghai:

"You are also a trained soldier, you know what I mean."

Fu Qinghai nodded slowly.

In the Underhive, it is unclear whether the mutants are more dangerous or the Underhive people are more dangerous... perhaps the harsh environment is the most dangerous. In short, pretending to be cool should not affect your survival. It is inevitable that the nobles will build a hunting suit regardless of the cost, but the technological level of the hunting suit in the Necromunda Hive can surpass the power armor of the Space Marines in some aspects, provided that the Necromunda Hive itself hides some black technology and unknown STC templates.

As for the specific level of the nobles in the Schwerin hive, it can only be tested in actual combat.

After figuring out all this, Fu Qinghai turned to look at Koshveto and said with a smile:

"Having said so much, Koshveto, what is your plan?"

The Spartan warrior said openly:

"I can't hide it from you. Yes, I also want to take advantage of this hunting opportunity to get a piece of the pie. This is a great opportunity to reshuffle the power structure of the hive city. I have already dropped the world anchor here. The experience during this period has made me realize that I will never get ahead by simply becoming the leader of a gang in the lower nest. I need your help to make this muddy water even more muddy."

"I'm sure you need my help as well, brother."

Koshvito looked at Fu Qinghai sincerely and said.

Fu Qinghai was not surprised at all. He thought for a moment and said slowly,

"First you have to tell me, which family was the last planetary governor from?"

"It's the Sommerfeld family. The last planetary governor was named Odysseus Sommerfeld."

Koshveto answered without hesitation.

Fu Qinghai nodded:

"Well, then the Sommerfeld family is our current potential ally. Their attitude is likely to be close to the Emperor's camp. I said highly likely."

"You are right."

Koshveto agreed.

"And," Fu Qinghai added calmly,

"Baron Zedu's family must be exterminated."

Koshvituo's expression was startled. This was the first time he heard Fu Qinghai specifically mention a Shangchao family. However, he did not ask why. Instead, he nodded and said,

"I understand."

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This question is the primary one.

——Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society

To put it bluntly, the magic weapon of struggle is to win over one faction and attack another, to unite the majority and suppress the minority, that is, to make our people more numerous and the enemy's people fewer.

Many Cloud Hammers like to spread rumors about how many Space Marines can destroy a city, how many can destroy a country, and how many can destroy a planet.

It's as if Space Marines are human whirlwind torpedoes.

Take the case that Fu Qinghai had seen in the original novel: the Primarch of the Third Legion, the Imperial Phoenix Fulgrim, led only seven Space Marines of the Emperor's Children to conquer and recapture a planet, which was praised in the Space Marine circle as a story of Fulgrim's unparalleled strategy.

Fu Qinghai also heard this story during his military service.

This was when the Primarch himself was leading the team, and the enemy was just a planet whose technological level had only reached the cold weapon age, and they didn't even have matchlocks.

Unlike what many people imagine, that he could cut through mountains with one sword and cut off rivers with two swords, even when facing a backward feudal world, Fulgrim did not conquer the planet by simply hacking and slashing his way through it. Instead, he was deeply involved in the existing political disputes on the planet, playing both sides between the separatists and the royalists, using one faction to fight the other, and finally clearing them all out and regaining the planet.

If you use your brain to think about it, you can understand that in the Warhammer 40K universe, a planet can easily have tens of billions of people. If it just stands there for you to chop, how long will it take for a team of Space Marines to chop it?

Warhammer 40K is not a fairy tale. Even if it is a space opera, it still has to pay attention to basic logic.

And now, Fu Qinghai plans to replicate the case of the Phoenix Lord in the Schwerin Hive City. Taking advantage of this opportunity of hunting the duke, he will wipe out Tzeentch's minions in one fell swoop, and by the way, restore the hive world with an ambiguous attitude to a firm and loyal sequence!

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(End of this chapter)