Chapter 195: The Last Moon Wolf

It was mentioned earlier that the Crystal of True Knowledge is of great significance to the Warhammer 40K universe.

The long-distance communications of the Human Empire are highly dependent on the subspace and astropaths, and astropathic communications are notoriously unstable and have a small information capacity. They can be called the carrier pigeon of the interstellar age.

With the crystal of true knowledge, one can communicate directly without using the astropath, provided that Fu Qinghai possesses at least two crystals of true knowledge.

Before the space wreck incident broke out, Chen Xinlu used the Crystal of Truth to notify Chen Xue in advance and tried to persuade Chen Xue to join the Chaos camp. As a result, Chen Xue sold out her sister... At that time, Fu Qinghai said that Chen Xue was the only person on the Sothalan who could communicate with the outside world without an astropath.

The conspiracy of the Pink Terror was eventually classified by the Sothalan official as a psyker riot. Chen Xue must have been captured by the Ultramarines in a hurry, and many of her equipment did not have time to be transferred or hidden.

But it doesn't look like she has much magical equipment.

Fu Qinghai took the crystal of truth without hesitation.

…

After getting his equipment back, Fu Qinghai received a message from Ilia Lavallee. A coordinate location was projected in the eyepiece field of view, which was the location of the person Fu Qinghai asked her to find.

Fu Qinghai said goodbye to Gulte and returned to the surface to that place.

Eternal City, the hive city next to the Terra Palace, is where Fu Qinghai comes for the second time.

Fu Qinghai walked alone on the streets of Xiachao.

He was wearing a tattered cloak to camouflage himself, but his huge body of nearly 2.8 meters in full armor was too conspicuous in the hive. The knowledgeable residents of the throne world knew without any guessing that this was an Astartes.

This lousy cloak looks as good as not wearing anything.

Looking at the curious and slightly awed looks from the people around him, Fu Qinghai couldn't help but think this in his heart.

At the same time, he also thought: What is the meaning of Gavial Loken hiding in the Lower Nest area?

You are a Space Marine. You

look like a big can when you put on your armor, and a big guy when you take off your armor. What are you doing hiding in the city? Can you hide? Fu Qinghai walked down the stairs of the patio corridor. The U-shaped patio was like a cyberpunk version of a public housing estate in Hong Kong. It was messy, dense, and crowded to the point of suffocation.

Points of dim, pale light sprinkled down from the top of the patio, and along with the light came a waterfall-like overwhelming stream of garbage. Fu Qinghai saw that the residents of Xiachao used special steel cable fishing nets with different mesh sizes to set up interception nets in the patio to intercept the waterfall of garbage that gathered from the Shangchao area and filter out useful things from it.

Discarded mechanical and electronic products are the most valuable among all the garbage. Even leftovers and rotten food can be used to feed slaves and livestock. The slaves and livestock in the hive are not picky. The worst ones can be used to brew the hive's famous liquor "Second Best".

Fu Qinghai shook his head, without interacting with the bustling residents of the Lower Nest, and went straight to the address provided by Ilia Lavare.

When he came to the dilapidated iron door, Fu Qinghai couldn't find the doorbell or pager, so he could only raise his hand and knock on the door.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

There was no movement. Fu Qinghai wondered if he had found the wrong address. Was the address provided by Si Zu reliable in a place like Xiachao where there were messy and illegal buildings?

Fu Qinghai knocked on the door again.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

"Who?"

A deep and hoarse male voice came from behind the door.

Fu Qinghai lifted his cloak and said:

"Is it Captain Gaviel Loken?"

The other party did not answer Fu Qinghai's question, but asked:

"Who are you?"

Fu Qinghai introduced himself:

"I am Qingshan Nayanhan of the White Scars Legion's Brotherhood of God Machines. I have come to visit you specially."

"Captain Qingshan, I remember that I have never had any intersection with you in the past, and I have never had any intersection with the Fifth Legion."

"As you said, Captain Locke, we are strangers. I came here because I admire your reputation."

The other party was silent for a long time, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"How did you find this place?"

"I have my own plan, Captain Loken."

The other party was silent again, and finally said slowly:

"Don't call me Captain Locke. There is no Captain Locke here... Come in by yourself."

Fu Qinghai reached out to push the door and found that the bolt was locked. He pushed it with a little force and the lock core broke with a "click" and the iron door opened.

It was a dim and gloomy room with very simple furnishings. The owner of the room obviously had no intention of opening the door or leading the way for Fu Qinghai. He just walked in on his own, leaving Fu Qinghai with a tall and lonely back.

Fu Qinghai took off his helmet and held it to his side, then followed the burly figure inside.

…

In a spacious and empty room, Fu Qinghai and Gavial Loken sat cross-legged facing each other.

Fu Qinghai was looking carefully at the man in front of him.

He was naked, wearing nothing but a tattered loincloth, revealing his gray metal neural interface, wiry muscles, and battle scars. He had a handsome face, with gray-blond hair cut into a neat short haircut, and some freckles on his pale skin.

Fu Qinghai's eyes gave Gavial Loken an illusion.

The man in front of me seemed to have known me for a long time and was very familiar with me.

Of course Fu Qinghai knew him.

Gaviel Loken, former captain of the 10th Company of the Luna Wolves and a member of Horus' Council of Four Kings, is the protagonist of the first volume of the Horus Heresy novel. The novel observes the entire ups and downs of the Heresy from his perspective. It is he who witnessed the time on the eve of the Heresy and how Horus gradually fell from being a respected Warmaster.

"So, after all that, are you here to recruit me, Qingshan Khan?"

Gavial Loken asked calmly.

"Just call me Qingshan."

Fu Qinghai smiled and said,

"I don't have high expectations for recruiting you, Captain Locke. It doesn't matter if you don't accept my recruitment."

Gavial Loken raised his hand and interrupted:

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

"I told you, there is no Captain Locke here. I am Gavial. In that case, Qingshan, why did you come to this remote corner of the Lower Nest?"

Fu Qinghai agreed with a smile, and said solemnly:

"For me, as long as I can come and see the last loyalty and perseverance of the Sixteenth Legion, and see the legendary... the last Moon Wolf, I will be satisfied."

Fu Qinghai was not playing hard to get. He really knew that Gavial Loken would most likely not accept his recruitment, because the magic rune Malcador had recruited Loken to be the first Grand Master of the Grey Knights, but Loken had rejected his offer.

This man's state of mind can be described in one sentence:

There is no greater sorrow than a dead heart.

Fu Qinghai really just wanted to take a look at what the man who introduced him to Warhammer 40K looked like.

When Gavial Loken heard the words "The Last Moon Wolf", he raised the corner of his mouth, laughed at himself, and said,

"Indeed, many people have forgotten that the Sixteenth Legion was once called the Shadow Moon Wolf. That was the last glorious time of this cursed legion."

After the Luna Wolves changed their name to the Sons of Horus, Loken never liked the new name of the Legion. Later, when Horus and the Word Bearers priest Eri Bass were in cahoots with each other, it was Gaviel Loken who always tried to persuade and advise them. He was a model of loyalty and reason, and the last conscience of the Sixteenth Legion.

At that time, the Legion's inner circle organization, the Council of Four Kings, had begun to exclude and isolate Loken. People like Abaddon and Horus the Younger wanted to follow the Warmaster in superstitious rebellion. Loken was deliberately sent to the surface of the planet Istvaan III, but luckily escaped the baptism of orbital bombardment in an underground bunker.

Loken mistakenly believed that all the Space Marines except himself had betrayed the Emperor. Unable to accept this fact, he went mad and indiscriminately attacked indiscriminately without distinguishing between friend and foe. In the end, he was rescued and returned to Terra.

"As far as I can remember, I had long lost contact with the recorder and preacher on the Spirit of Vengeance. I never thought that my sad and painful experiences would one day be widely spread. I'm sorry to make you laugh, Qingshan."

Gavial Loken sat cross-legged on the ground, his hands on his knees, shaking his head and sighing.

Fu Qinghai said seriously:

"It may be tragic, but it is not sad. Garvel, your existence is a constant reminder to the world that not all demonic whispers and Chaos slanders can corrupt people's minds. Even in the face of the corruption that even the Primarchs cannot avoid, there are still people who can always stick to their rational thinking and loyalty."

"You are good at praising people, Qingshan. You are more eloquent than the most powerful preacher I have ever seen, but I have become indifferent to these things and do not feel the slightest satisfaction from them."

Gavial Loken said calmly.

The preacher that Loken mentioned should be Kyril Hindman, the chief preacher of the Spirit of Vengeance and one of the four founders of the Inquisition.

Another mortal friend of Loken, the narrator, Yovlady Keeler, was the first "living saint" of the empire, known as the cross-dressing emperor. He disappeared in prison after the siege of Terra.

In short, all the friends around the protagonist are big guys.

Fu Qinghai felt that it was very appropriate to put a conclusion and a period to the Horus Heresy, an event with far-reaching influence and subverting the empire, here with Gavial Loken, the witness of the beginning of the great rebellion. After a long conversation, Fu Qinghai prepared to get up and say goodbye.

But Gavial Loken stopped him.

Loken said:

"Qingshan, you don't know that I am not the only survivor of the loyal Sons of Horus in the landing site massacre. If you really need a warrior now, I have someone to recommend to you."

Oh?

Fu Qinghai was stunned. He expected Locke's refusal, but he didn't expect him to recommend a warrior.

Gavial Loken clapped his hands, and the wall behind him slid open, revealing a tall and burly Space Marine.

This was a bald strong man with a resolute face. His chin was replaced with a brass metal prosthesis. Except for his face, his whole body was covered with rough tattoos in the style of Cosunya. He walked out of the cubicle slowly, looked at Fu Qinghai, and said in a deep voice:

"Captain Loken has become disheartened. I don't blame him, but in this universe, there is still a Luna Wolf with a chest filled with rage for revenge that can only be extinguished with the blood of traitors!"

Fu Qinghai looked at the man in front of him, who was obviously an experienced and battle-hardened Astartes veteran, but what he thought in his heart was:

He is a good person, but I feel that... his way of speaking is a bit childish.

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(PS: Thanks to Qiao Shida Huijin for providing the extra character card, the second character created by a book friend that appears in this book)

　Thanks to Adam AJT, the Sky Wings of the Sun God, book friend 1560**1046, the Sublime King, the Angel Non-Human, what to do with Mr. Chen, and several book friends for their rewards.

　　This chapter can be considered a sentimental chapter. Loken's character can be described as the Luna Wolf version of Captain America, and he is portrayed in a more full-bodied way.

(End of this chapter)