Chapter 186: Old Friends Reunited

The White Scars' legion's temporary base was located in the Judgment Hall.

The Hall of Judgment was once the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice. During the Siege of Terra, it was transformed by the Imperial Fists into a defense command center. It is not far from the Eternal Gate Avenue leading to the Terra Palace.

Fu Qinghai returned to the Falcon Brotherhood to which he belonged.

The sudden return of a long-lost Space Marine is, in the 41K era, a cause for celebration for the Chapter and a cause for investigation for the Inquisition.

However, given the chaotic time when the Horus Heresy had just ended, it did not attract much attention.

In a huge room in the Judgment Hall, Fu Qinghai looked at Ogedei who was stuffed into the Dreadnought Mech with a complicated look in his eyes and asked,

"So, what happened later, Khan?"

Just by looking at the fact that everyone on the Dagger frigate was still alive, Fu Qinghai knew that they definitely did not go to Mars, or did not arrive on Mars as planned.

Before Ogedei could speak, Talal took the lead in explaining:

"After you disappeared in the psyker riot on the lower deck of the Sotharan, we followed your advice and consulted Master Quinto. Master Quinto also believed that if Forge Master Kalbor Har had already rebelled, then going to Mars would be tantamount to suicide."

"So we changed our route. Instead of continuing on the same route as the Sotharan, we went to a forge world designated by Master Quinto."

Fu Qinghai asked quickly:

"Where did you go? Huangquan No. 8? Griffin No. 4? Steel Ball? Lucius? Or Riza?"

Talal shook his head and said,

"No, these famous Forge Worlds all have their own power structures. It would be meaningless for us to go there. It was Master Quinto who provided us with an option - the satellite of the Graf Hive World, the Moon of Gravia."

Gravia? What is that place?

Fu Qinghai had never heard of this forging world.

Talal saw Fu Qinghai's confusion and introduced him,

"This is a very marginal forge world in the Mechanicum. It belongs to a secretive, niche, and even somewhat heretical branch sect - the Micro-Ohm Messianic Order. They study a technology called nanomechanical dendrites. When Master Quinto was still an apprentice mechanic, one of his classmates and colleagues later worked in the Moon of Glavia. He had some connections, so we went to the Forge World of Glavia."

The Mechanicus, which specializes in nanotechnology... is indeed quite a niche.

Fu Qinghai roughly understood that Master Quinto, Ogedei and others deliberately found a marginal forging world that was not too powerful to make it easier for them to act.

"What happened next?" Fu Qinghai asked.

"We arrived at the Moon of Glavia smoothly. It was peaceful there, and everyone expressed their loyalty to the Emperor. But soon, a band of the Night Lords that had been defeated by the Dark Angels fled here. They demanded that the Moon of Glavia obey Chaos and provide them with the necessary supplies to go to the Eye of Terror. Naturally, we fought with the Night Lords for the ownership of the Moon of Glavia."

The Night Lords have split into numerous warbands so quickly?

Fu Qinghai knew that during the entire Horus Heresy, the Night Haunter Konrad Curze was basically in a state of self-abandonment and self-pity, and he didn't really care about the Space Marines under him. The Eighth Legion was not as strong as the First Legion, which had many relic technologies, and the Primarch was in a trance and talking nonsense all day long. The Night Lords fought on their own and were soon defeated by the Dark Angels.

"We are too few in number, and the technical priests of the Moon of Gravia are not proficient in combat. Their nanosilicon implants are very fragile in combat... I really don't know what the point of their research on this thing is."

Talal complained and continued:

"The battle was intense. There happened to be a remnant Leviathan siege dreadnought on the Moon of Gravia. In order to enhance our combat power, Ogedei asked Master Quinto to put him in."

Fu Qinghai raised his head and glanced at Ogedei. The burly man with a Fu-headed face had no expression on his face.

Fu Qinghai had heard in his previous life that due to the slow movement speed of the Dreadnought, it was disliked by the White Scars warriors. There was only one Dreadnought in the entire White Scars Legion.

Unexpectedly, this fearless mecha is Ogedei...

Ogedei was a truly ruthless man. When they first met, he performed an amputation surgery on Fu Qinghai. Now, in order to temporarily enhance his combat power, he cut off both of his arms.

"What are you looking at!"

Ogedei gave Fu Qinghai a displeased look and snorted.

Fu Qinghai retracted his gaze, not wanting to offend his old boss, and looked at Talal, asking,

"What happens next?"

Talal said:

"We set up a trap on the Dagger. We hid our dreadnoughts and pretended to be defeated. We shut down the void shields and attracted the Midnight Lords to teleport and board our warship. Then we led them to the bottom laboratory and reactivated the void shields. Master Quinto's cybernetic soldiers and armed servitors were in the front, and Ogedei's Leviathan siege dreadnoughts were in the back. The two attacked from the front and back and wiped out the Midnight Lords warband. We also seized a Scimitar-class frigate."

Very classic White Scars tactical style.

Fu Qinghai commented in his heart.

Feigning defeat is a common tactical move for the White Scars, and anyone who decides to pursue them should think twice.

Fu Qinghai remembered that at the door of Master Quinto's bottom cabin laboratory, there stood two Castellan intelligent-controlled mechas, commonly known as "Dabai". These things were very powerful. Together with the armed mecha servants created by the biological sages who were proficient in biochemical transformation technology, Master Quinto himself was a force that could not be underestimated.

Almost none of these great sages of the Mechanicus are pure scientific researchers, and they are all very ferocious in fighting.

As for Talal's complaints about the uselessness of the Micro-Ohm Messiah Order's nanomechanical dendrite technology, we can only say that Talal is a pure warrior who only considers issues from a combat perspective. As a scientific researcher, Fu Qinghai is well aware of the great significance of nanotechnology.

This is just like 3D printing. Whether it can be realized is one thing, and whether the strength of the material can be guaranteed after it is realized is another. At this stage, the nano-creatures of the Mechanicus are very fragile. They cannot withstand explosive bombs, heat melts, or plasma. But it does not mean that nano-technology is useless. It can be very useful in other places.

"Finally, we received word of the Emperor's victory on the Moon of Gravia, and without waiting for the Khan to summon us, we set out on our own back to Terra."

Talal concluded.

Fu Qinghai nodded to show his understanding, raised his head to look at Ogedei, and said with a smile:

"How is it, Boss, is it comfortable staying in there?"

Ogedei snorted and said,

"It feels as uncomfortable as being swallowed by an orc warlord. Do you want to try it?"

Fu Qinghai shook his head to indicate that he didn't want to.

It's okay in peacetime, but the Dreadnought is even more uncomfortable in combat. The strong electrical signal stimulation is not much better than an electric oven, and sometimes it will burn the driver to death.

Fu Qinghai said to Ogedei seriously:

"Boss, leave it to me. I'll find a way."

Ogedei said disdainfully:

"It's just pain. When have I ever been afraid?"

According to the rules of the tribes and brotherhoods in the White Scars, Fu Qinghai should call Ogedei "Ogedei Nayan Khan", but Fu Qinghai was not a Chogris, so he liked to call him "Boss", and Ogedei was too lazy to correct him.

Ogedei had to be put into the Dreadnought Coffin, but as a reincarnation, Fu Qinghai had many ways to make him more comfortable, even dragging him out of the Dreadnought Mech.

Fu Qinghai summarized the experience of the Short Sword.

In general, Ogedei and others were still very clear-headed at the critical moment. They knew that their primary purpose, which was also the important task entrusted to them by the Khan, was to protect a valuable loyal high-level technical priest like Master Quinto, rather than relying on their weak forces to feed themselves into the meat grinder of the siege of Terra.

Although they were not afraid to take part in the Siege of Terra.

You know, in the era before the Great Crusade, the Emperor had a conflict with the Forge Master of Mars because of the dispute with the Mechanicus over the ownership of a biological sage.

The importance of Master Quinto is evident.

Ogedei asked,

"What about you, Qingshan? What did you go through? I read the investigation report Vlahos sent me. There are many suspicious points in the so-called psychic riot. Albus Lang and Aaron told me after they came back that one of the female psychics knew you. What happened?"

"Hmm..."

Fu Qinghai showed an indescribable expression:

"How should I put it? She was the recorder on the Sotharan. She was actually an illegal psyker, but she was loyal and her mind was blinded by Chaos. I don't want to defend her, but I really couldn't do without her help in the battle of the Space Hulk... Later, I was teleported to a hive world and stayed there for a long time. I happened to meet a detachment of the Space Wolves, and that's how I was able to return to Terra."

Ogedei asked again:

"What happened to your power armor? I remember I gave you a set of MK4 extreme power armor. How did it become like this? Where is your mechanical servo arm?"

Fu Qinghai said:

"That MK4 extreme power armor and mechanical servo arm are already damaged. This is the power armor I built myself. I call it the 'Blue Shell'."

"You can make your own power armor..."

Ogedei narrowed his eyes, his gaze deep and unreadable.

The three of them talked about the past and discussed their current situation.

Ogedei, who was shrinking in the cabin of the Dreadnought, suddenly showed a smirk that Fu Qinghai was familiar with, and said,

"Congratulations, Qingshan. My decision to promote you to captain has been recognized by the Khan and the Military Affairs Department. Now you are an official Astartes captain."

Fu Qinghai was slightly stunned.

He is now the company commander, which is a good thing. Why does Ogedei have such an expression?

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

Before Fu Qinghai led the team to board the wrecked space ship, Ogedei temporarily promoted Fu Qinghai to captain to facilitate his command of the tactical team. The rank of captain in Astarte corresponded to the position of company commander, so Humar half-jokingly called Fu Qinghai "Qingshan Nayan Khan" at that time.

It is also because of this that Fu Qinghai painted the symbol of captain's rank on the shoulder armor of the Blue Shell Power Armor, so Saroyan Skarson would call him "Captain Qingshan" when he saw it.

But Fu Qinghai was actually a fake company commander with a military rank but no actual position, and this "captain rank" had not been certified by the Primarch and the Ministry of Military Affairs.

Sure enough, Ogedei continued,

"The status we marked for you is alive, and the status reported by the Ultramarines is missing. However, the status marked for you by the Military Affairs Department... is dead."

"In other words," Ogedei said with a sly grin, "in the database of the Military Affairs Department, you are an Astartes captain who died gloriously in battle."

I see...

Fu Qinghai understood it completely.

Fu Qinghai was initially wondering why his military rank promotion was so smooth.

Although Fu Qinghai's military record can be regarded as outstanding, his service period is too short, less than three years, which makes people doubt whether his combat experience is sufficient to command a company of Space Marines.

Presumably, the Primarch and the Military Affairs Department had some intention of posthumously promoting Fu Qinghai's rank.

The dead are greatest.

The person is dead, so what if he is given the title of company commander?

The three were chatting when they heard the sound of heavy footsteps outside the corridor.

A group of mortal officials in military uniforms rushed over in a hurry. When they saw Fu Qinghai, they compared his face with the photo on the electronic tablet in their hands and said with a smile:

"Sorry, sorry, Captain Qingshan, we got your information wrong. This is a mistake and negligence on our part. We sincerely apologize and will update your service status right away."

Fu Qinghai didn't want to argue anymore, so he waved his hand and said,

"Okay, just re-mark it."

Talal was very dissatisfied. He glanced at the bureaucrats and said coldly,

"You arbitrarily marked the service status of Space Marines who have not been confirmed dead as dead... You are really something."

The officials from the Ministry of Military Affairs could only apologize repeatedly and then said goodbye and left.

Fu Qinghai could also understand it. The Horus Heresy was too chaotic. The entire galaxy was in chaos. There was no such thing as "retirement" in the service status of Space Marines. It was normal for the Military Affairs Department to subconsciously think that Fu Qinghai was dead.

After the officials from the Military Affairs Department left, Fu Qinghai asked, "Where are Aaron and Albus Lang?"

Talal explained:

"They are on a battleship in orbit, participating in Terra's defense."

The battle is far from over, and the throne world still maintains the necessary vigilance.

Fu Qinghai nodded and asked,

"What about Master Quinto?"

Talal said,

"He is at the Adeptus Mechanicus on Terra. I forgot to tell you that the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars will be reorganized into the Adeptus Mechanicus. With Master Quinto's level, his status on Mars is expected to be further improved."

The Emperor is about to strengthen his control over the Mechanicus.

Fu Qinghai understood clearly.

Unfortunately, even so, this control ultimately fell into the hands of the Council of High Lords, and the Emperor who sat on the Golden Throne could no longer directly interfere in the management of the Empire.

During the Horus Heresy, not only Mars was fighting a civil war, but many Forge Worlds were also fighting civil wars. The Knight Families and the Mechanicus on the Iron Ring were fighting each other with their pig brains.

The Dark Mechanicus fled to the Eye of Terror, while the Loyal Mechanicus were killed or injured. Master Quinto, the only remaining biological sage, will become a powerful figure on Mars in the future.

Fu Qinghai said goodbye to his old comrades and old superiors and prepared to go talk to Master Quinto.

Fu Qinghai first returned to the residence arranged for him by the Corps and put down the metal box he had been holding in his hand.

This is the box that Koshveto prepared for him. Inside is Fu Qinghai's various spoils of war and personal belongings:

Hall Kemp's Servo Skull.

Qing Soul Artificial Intelligence Chip (Qing Ming).

Three doses of Super Soldier Serum.

Unknown authentication card.

E-11 blaster rifle.

211-V plasma cutter.

Madame Viper's poison cocktail.

(PS: The cocktail poison is the redemption item of Lady Viper. I missed it when I assimilated her earlier. I have already made up for it. Let me tell you about it to the book friends who are catching up quickly.)

Feiyi's necklace has been hanging around her neck, and the Wagang sword Broken Heart has been stuck in the side of her thigh.

These two things have never left Fu Qinghai's side.

The former is used to remind himself that there is a girl waiting for him, while the latter is currently the only solution to the monsters and demons in the subspace and various psychic phenomena.

...

　There should be another chapter later.

(End of this chapter)