Chapter 182 The Wolf and the Khan

"Brothers, we do not know where the betrayal came from. We do not know whether it was the Emperor or the Warmaster who betrayed us. It does not matter. We do not fight for a tyrant far away. We fight for honor and the Khan. We do not fight for the ambition of a king, but because it is our destiny. We are the White Scars, we are the storm on the horizon, and we will never bow to anyone."

—Sumun Khan, pre-battle speech while surrounded by the Alpha Legion on the planet Condax IV.

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HMS Ironbone, a Cobra-class destroyer.

In a personal cabin, Fu Qinghai was working at a table, holding a mechanical ink pen, spreading out a biochemical parchment, and writing furiously.

He is writing a full post-war summary report.

Unlike the abridged post-battle report submitted to the Space Wolves' fleet, this full post-battle report is to be submitted to the Munitions Department and the Primarch.

Maybe the new department established by Terra, the Inquisition, should also be reviewed.

Due to Chagatai Khan's own personality, the Khan never cared much about these complicated and lengthy documents. He preferred to listen to his subordinates dictating to him. He might read it or not, but what if the Primarch read it? So Fu Qinghai had to write it well.

At the same time, because what Fu Qinghai and Koshvito planned in the Schwerin hive city have far exceeded the scope of a Space Marine's jurisdiction, soldiers are soldiers, and superhuman soldiers are also soldiers. Deciding who will be the planetary governor is the business of the administrative bureaucrats, so why are you worrying about it?

Who made Fu Qinghai and Koshvito reincarnates?

Therefore, the part involving this must be written well, giving full play to the writing style of the Spring and Autumn Period, so that it is both logical and does not involve overstepping authority.

After being promoted to officers due to their outstanding military achievements, many Space Marines hate the clerical work that comes with it. Perhaps only the Ultramarines and the Word Bearers are good at this kind of work. But Fu Qinghai is different. Five years of college entrance examinations and three years of working life as a company animal have already honed his excellent writing skills, so he has no difficulty in writing post-war summary reports.

After finishing writing the last word in High Gothic, Fu Qinghai picked up the biochemical parchment and shook it, watching the ink solidify on the paper. It is said that even psychic power could not change the writing on it.

"Tsk…"

Fu Qinghai smacked his lips. The main reason was that he was not a Chogris. Otherwise, he would have wanted to write a post-war summary report in Khorchin and submit it to Chagatai Khan separately.

"Tap, tap, tap."

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

Fu Qinghai put away the parchment, stood up and opened the door.

The hatch slid open, revealing a mortal servant.

He said respectfully:

"Lord Qingshan, the banquet is ready. Please follow me."

"OK."

Fu Qinghai put on a robe and followed the mortal servants to the banquet hall on the warship.

Walking in the corridor of the destroyer, Fu Qinghai turned his head and saw a giant gray wolf more than three meters long including its head and tail crawling in the grille next to him. Two mortal servants were feeding it.

The giant wolf saw Fu Qinghai passing by, raised its head, stared at Fu Qinghai with its yellow wolf eyes, wrinkled its nose, and snorted deeply with a strong warning meaning.

Wolf.

Fu Qinghai withdrew his gaze.

As we all know, there are no wolves in Fenris.

Not only in Fenris, there are no wolves in the entire human empire.

The wolf, an ancient native creature on Earth, like lions, tigers and leopards, had all become extinct tens of thousands of years ago. Both the Sixteenth Legion, the Luna Wolves, and the Sixth Legion, the Space Wolves, were worshipping and imitating the image and concept of "wolf".

So where did this wolf come from?

It is said that the early humans who came to Fenris, which is classified as both a world of death and a world of ice and snow, integrated a gene fragment of canines from ancient Earth into their own genome in order to adapt to the harsh environment and seek better survival.

This gene fragment is called the "Wolf Spiral" by the Space Wolves' Space Marines. Like the "Blood Thirst" of the Blood Angels, it is the most famous genetic defect of the Sixth Legion.

The Sixth Legion selects its soldiers from Fenris, its home planet and the only recruiting world. Its warriors are troubled by the Wolf Spiral throughout their lives. At some stage of biochemical transformation, or at some period of service and combat, the Space Wolves will undergo genetic mutations, becoming werewolves, with increased hair, protruding facial bones, and longer canine teeth... In the most serious cases, they may directly turn into giant wolves.

This genetic mutation has existed in Fenris since ancient times, so it is obvious where the wolves roaming the wilds of Fenris came from.

Go through the passage and turn around the corridor.

Fu Qinghai followed the mortal servant to the banquet hall. Before he entered the hall, the noisy sounds of loud noises and clinking of glasses reached his ears. The mortal servant pushed the door open with force, and the scene inside came into view. On both sides of the long dining table, a dozen Space Marines were sitting in their seats, eating meat with big mouthfuls, drinking wine from big bowls, and chatting happily. It was very lively.

The dining table was filled with all kinds of grilled meat, including a whole steak of ant beef and half a roasted Grox, which were foods Fu Qinghai recognized, and some that Fu Qinghai did not recognize, probably wild game hunted from some unknown alien planet.

There were also large cups of Fenris mead. Fu Qinghai had heard of this stuff. It was said that it contained neurotoxins, and only this kind of wine could make Space Marines drunk.

Until Fu Qinghai followed the instructions of the mortal servant and sat down at an empty seat at the end of the dining table.

The entire banquet hall suddenly became quiet.

All the Space Marines stopped what they were doing, stopped talking, and looked at Fu Qinghai who was sitting at the end of the dining table.

Fu Qinghai sat down leisurely, raised his head and said:

"Hello, warriors of the Wolf King."

The entire banquet hall was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, and an invisible atmosphere of oppression permeated the air.

"I don't know why a soldier from the cowardly army has the right to sit at our table."

A middle-aged soldier with a gray beard who was sitting diagonally opposite Fu Qinghai put down the cup in his hand and spoke slowly in a deep voice.

"The White Scars who left us to die in the past have now been rescued by us. Haha, fate is really unpredictable."

The young warrior with black hair and Mohawk sitting on the left side of Fu Qinghai held his cheek and said with a sneer.

Fu Qinghai put down the knife and fork he had just picked up, looked in the direction of the speaker, and asked seriously:

"Why do you say that?"

"snort!"

There was an angry snort from the other side, and the tone was said quickly:

"Why do you say that? Don't you know that we were surrounded and ambushed by the shameless traitors of the Alpha Legion in the depths of the Alexis Nebula? We asked you for help, but you turned a blind eye!"

Fu Qinghai knew what he said.

This happened in the early to middle period of the Horus Heresy, when the White Scars had just escaped from the Condacus system, and a carefully arranged blocking fleet of the Alpha Legion came to encircle and blockade them. However, they were "pierced" by the White Scars fleet led by Chagatai Khan at an unexpectedly wild speed, and were severely slaughtered by the White Scars fleet in return.

The White Scars Legion had just successfully broken through when they received a distress signal from Leman Russ. The Space Wolves Legion had just fought a battle with the Thousand Sons Legion, burning the Thousand Sons' home planet Prospero into a glass ball. They were exhausted and suffered heavy losses. As soon as they came out, they encountered the main force of the Alpha Legion that had been ambushed long ago. The wolves were beaten to a pulp by the sea serpents. The Wolf King asked the Khan to rush to his rescue immediately, and his tone was very impolite, as if he was ordering his men, and then he was rejected by the Khan.

Fu Qinghai turned his head to look in the direction of the other speaker and said calmly,

"That's because we need to first figure out the situation, who is loyal and who is rebellious, instead of just listening to other people's words and rushing up to bite randomly!"

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

Fu Qinghai's tone was calm, but there was hidden sarcasm and hidden meaning in his words.

Why did the Space Wolves attack the Thousand Sons? Because Magnus the Red, who was far away in his hometown, wanted to remind the Emperor that Horus had rebelled. As a result, his powerful psychic communication suddenly pierced the Webway under the Terran Palace, and a large number of Warp demons poured into the Webway, forcing the Emperor and the Custodes to start a secret "Webway War".

The Emperor's original intention was to send the Sixth Legion to punish the Fifteenth Legion, and by the way, escort the magical pony who had made the mistake back to sit on the Golden Throne. However, this order was tampered with by Horus halfway through and became to destroy the Thousand Sons. Then the Space Huskies really burned Prospero, Magnus was beaten into soul fragments, the loyal Thousand Sons were forced to rebel alive, and the remaining Space Marines fled into the Eye of Terror.

This was the first "Burning of Prospero".

Hearing Fu Qinghai's indirect criticism, the Space Wolves' Space Marines were immediately furious. They slammed the table and pointed at Fu Qinghai's nose and shouted,

"So, are you questioning Russ's decision, White Scar boy?"

"We were deceived by Horus. It was a divisive ploy by the shameless traitor!"

Fu Qinghai smiled, not caring about the accusations of the crowd. He picked up a glass of honey wine and took a sip, saying:

"You were deceived by the traitors, but weren't we deceived as well? When the warp storm in the Condacus system just dissipated, we were overwhelmed by countless contradictory astropathic messages: Horus said that Leman Russ had betrayed and attacked the Thousand Sons on his own initiative; Rogal Dorn said that Horus had betrayed and asked us to return to Terra immediately... But we are different. We first figured out the truth of the matter ourselves, and then made a decision."

This is the fact, which is determined by the character of Jaghatai Khan. In terms of loyalty, he is definitely not the most loyal one among the Primarchs. Jaghatai Khan knows very well that the so-called "Imperial Truth" is a self-deceiving lie, and the so-called "Great Emperor" is a complete tyrant (of course, Jaghatai himself is not much better). Whether it is a traitor or a loyal minister, they just want to use the White Scars, a marginal legion, and don't care what they think.

Chagatai Khan did not want his army to become a pawn of both sides. He met the soul fragment of his good friend Magnus in the underground passage of Prospero and found out the nature and truth of the rebellion from the magic pony. In the end, the Khan's decision was -

The White Scars were not loyal to the Emperor, but were loyal to Mankind. For the benefit of all mankind, Jaghatai Khan decided to declare war on Chaos.

This is why Fu Qinghai likes the White Scars. Chagatai Khan's character is "unpredictable", a typical oriental stereotype, but he is the most sober and rational person. It can be said that any loyal Primarch and Space Marine Legion is blindly loyal, but it cannot be said that the White Scars are blindly loyal. They have been fighting for all mankind from the beginning.

Empire is bad, but Chaos is worse.

Fu Qinghai defended his own army's behavior. He did not want to indulge these arrogant and arrogant wolf cubs. He immediately added:

"This is the White Scars. We will not be easily used as guns by traitors."

"Boom!"

The thick bottom of the wine glass was smashed heavily on the table, and the wine and foam splashed out. A Space Wolves warrior glared at Fu Qinghai and shouted:

"White Scars warrior, I challenge you to a duel!"

Fu Qinghai slowly pulled off a hind leg of the Grox beast, shrugged and said,

"Okay, but can you wait until I finish my meal before dueling? We are not the kind of barbarians who would fight during mealtime. God, the people of the Empire think that we White Scars are as barbaric and uneducated as the Space Wolves. I am really fed up with these damn prejudices."

After Fu Qinghai finished complaining, he put a large piece of hind leg meat into his mouth, tore it and chewed it, then swallowed it down with half a cup of honey wine, as if no one was around.

After being stabbed by Fu Qinghai again, the Space Wolves present were so angry that their eyes were about to spit fire.

"Hahahahahahaha!"

A sudden laugh broke the tense atmosphere.

Fu Qinghai looked up and saw the red-haired, red-bearded Space Marine sitting at the far end of the long dining table.

He raised his head and laughed loudly. After he finished laughing, he raised his hand, snapped his fingers, and shouted loudly:

"Someone come!"

Several mortal servants stepped forward.

"Bring up ten more barrels of mead."

After the red-haired warrior gave his instructions, he turned back and looked at Fu Qinghai with interest, and said with a smile:

"A duel doesn't have to be fought with swords. You can also duel at the dining table."

He raised the wine glass in his hand towards Fu Qinghai, raised his eyebrows and said:

"Tonight, we're going to...get drunk!"

Fu Qinghai nodded and raised his glass as well:

"Don't go home until you're drunk!"

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　Thanks, Angel at Home, all the names I thought of have been taken, Kusanagi Kenshin, DK Qin Ge, Mo Ji Ran Bai Shu Jiang Shan, Tie Yi Jue, and several book friends for their rewards.

　　Thanks to Wang MingLi for the 50,000 yuan reward.

　　Because the protagonist is going to return to Terra to participate in a main storyline, I have to briefly mention the White Scars' deeds during the Horus Heresy, otherwise many book friends will not understand why the Space Wolves have a grudge against the White Scars.

(End of this chapter)