Night fell quietly, and the Hive City turned into a steel forest with brilliant lights. In the dark corners where the lights could not reach, there were still turbid undercurrents crawling and surging, as if the night could cover up the filth inside.
The Judgment Hall was also lit up with stars.
Fu Qinghai and everyone in the society gathered in a temporarily vacated room. Apart from the dim light coming in from the floor-to-ceiling windows, there was no other lighting, and the room was dark and deserted.
Because several of the people present here, a ghost, a psychic, a symbiote, and a space marine, can see in the dark without the need for lighting.
Fu Qinghai asked,
"How did you find me?"
Zhang Yuning shook her head slightly and said:
"We just heard that a Space Marine appeared in the lower nest of Eternal City, and our landing location happened to be in Eternal City, so we came to see if it was you. Unexpectedly, it was really you."
I see.
Fu Qinghai's tattered cloak could not hide his identity as an Astartes at all. People who were interested would naturally notice that Upton and Zhang Yuning were both good at gathering intelligence, each with different methods. When Fu Qinghai went to visit Gavial Loken, he estimated that the news that "a Space Marine appeared in the nest under the Eternal City" would soon reach their ears.
Fu Qinghai said:
"I have already guessed the major event of this plot line. It is the 'Great Purge'. Simply put, it is a game of escape and hunting. We have to kill as many enemy camps as possible before they run into the Eye of Terror. This way we can earn enough assimilation points."
Following this topic, Fu Qinghai gave his teammates a detailed overview of the Warhammer 40K universe, including the direction of the plot, basic settings, various forces, and most importantly - Fu Qinghai's own situation.
The Warhammer 40K universe is recognized as a world of pioneering treasures in the Samsara Forum. There have been many posts on the forum introducing the background information of this ancient, niche and complex science fiction IP, but all of them are scattered and half-true and half-false fragments of information, which are definitely not as comprehensive and detailed as Fu Qinghai's personal introduction.
Zhang Yuning whispered:
"According to my guess, quite a few reincarnations have descended on Terra this time. When we were in the lower nest trying to find out about you, we also encountered a few reincarnations."
The Reincarnationists have come to Terra. I wonder whether this is a misfortune for the Imperial Law Department or for the Reincarnationists themselves, for these unruly and lawless guys.
Zhang Yuning continued:
"The Lord God indicated that this was a points competition. Some of the Reincarnators had roughly guessed the gameplay of this plot line mission through their own information channels. Several Reincarnators came to us, claiming that they were assigned to the Emperor's camp and hoped to join your fleet and take them to participate in the plot line mission together."
Fu Qinghai asked curiously,
"How do they know I'm a space warrior?"
Upton interrupted unhappily:
"It's just Ron bragging everywhere."
Zhang Yuning also rolled her eyes and said nothing.
Fu Qinghai looked at Ron, who anxiously defended himself:
"I didn't spread it around, I just...I just let it slip when I was chatting with someone."
Well, Ron's IQ has returned to its original level, which was really erratic.
Fu Qinghai did not blame Ron, but turned around and asked:
"And then?"
Zhang Yuning said:
"Then they agreed with us to meet somewhere in Eternal City tonight to inform them of the results. If we don't go, it would be equivalent to a rejection."
Fu Qinghai asked,
"How can they prove that they are in the same camp as us?"
Zhang Yuning said softly:
"Upton eavesdropped on the conversations of several people and confirmed that they were just scattered soldiers, not a society. I once invaded the dreams of these people and guided them to talk to themselves. The vague information revealed roughly shows that they should be from the Emperor's camp."
Um...
Fu Qinghai pinched his chin and began to think.
On the premise that the major event of the plot line is the "Great Purge", the distance from Terra to the Eye of Terror can be figuratively regarded as a track.
The traitor ran desperately, and the loyal ministers chased him desperately.
If the Reincarnators of the Emperor's camp stayed on Terra, they would never be able to earn assimilation points, because in this points race, Terra is the starting point and the Eye of Terror is the end point.
The siege of Terra ended long ago. If the reincarnators stand still at the starting point, they will basically have no chance of encountering natives and players from the hostile camp, and they will not be able to play PvE or PvP, unless they stop doing storyline quests and earning assimilation points, and just concentrate on obtaining the SSS-level black technology of the main universe.
But as analyzed before, equipment can be picked up casually, let alone the laser guns of the Imperial Guard. Even if you pick up an automatic gun from a hive gang, you can kill people indiscriminately when you descend into the reincarnation world of ancient wars. The problem is that if you don't have assimilation points, can you take the picked up equipment with you?
Assimilation points will always be the hard currency of the reincarnation world, and no one will not care about assimilation points.
That's why these people asked Fu Qinghai, the space warrior, to take them on board.
How can you participate in the major events of the plot if you don't stay on Terra on the spaceship?
There is just one thing, Zhang Yuning and Upton can only roughly judge that those reincarnations belong to the Emperor's camp. Zhang Yuning does not know how to read minds in dreams, so she cannot know exactly what their camp is.
Kayako and Valak have many abilities of fierce ghosts and evil spirits: creating illusions, distorting reality, attacking with spirits, possessing and taking souls... Each of them has its own emphasis. Kayako represents the ultimate in pure hatred and destruction. She will kill when she says she will, without any twists and turns, and she has the highest killing efficiency. Valak, on the other hand, has religious special attack attributes, and is more powerful when facing Christians, Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and other people who believe in God.
But when it comes to controlling dreams, it has to be a certain man on Elm Street with a sweater and sharp claws and a burnt face.
Freddy from A Nightmare on Elm Street is the ghost king who is best at playing with dreams.
Zhang Yuning's two evil ghosts can lead others to have nightmares, but they do not have the ability to completely invade other people's dream world, so she can only say that those reincarnations are most likely from the Emperor's camp, but she dare not guarantee it.
After careful consideration, Fu Qinghai stood up and said:
"No matter what, let's go and take a look at what kind of people those guys are."
Ron and Zhang Yuning also stood up. Fu Qinghai led the two out of the temporary base of the legion, and then the two led Fu Qinghai to the agreed location.
The agreed location is not far from the Judgment Hall. It is a post-war ruin that is still being restored. It is a bit empty and difficult to hide. The surrounding lighting facilities have not been repaired yet, the light is dim, and the vision is limited.
The darkness and lack of light did not affect Fu Qinghai's vision, and even the slightest obstruction was visible under the active and passive perspective. Fu Qinghai walked to the center of the ruins, looked at a dark shadow on the left, and said loudly:
"I am the man you are looking for, the Captain of the White Scars Legion's Brotherhood of God Machines. Come out and meet me."
Knowing that they had been seen through, three reincarnations of different shapes emerged from the shadows and slowly walked in front of Fu Qinghai.
Fu Qinghai first looked at the reincarnation on the far left.
The nearly two-meter tall power armor is painted in snow-white, and has a huge, exaggerated thick armor shield installed on the left arm. The overall style of the power armor is between Halo and Warhammer. It is more bloated and bulky than Halo's power armor, and has a stronger defense. It has fewer Gothic punk style decorations than Warhammer's power armor, and is more sci-fi and concise.
Hey, a medic!
Fu Qinghai recognized him immediately. He was the human ground medic from StarCraft.
Fu Qinghai was full of anticipation, guessing that there was a nurse with blonde hair and fair skin inside. As a result, the golden mask slid open, revealing an ordinary white male face.
Well...
The corners of Fu Qinghai's mouth, which had just been raised, immediately drooped.
No male nurses, no male nurses.
Although I thought so in my heart, I still said:
"Please introduce yourself."
The medic nodded.
"My name is Camille. I was an experienced surgeon before I entered the reincarnation world. My first world was the StarCraft universe. I served in the expeditionary fleet of the United Earth Council as a marine medic. My reincarnation equipment includes: CMC-405 power armor, 'Shelter' medical module, including nano-level anesthetics, chemical regulators, and battlefield surgical cold lasers."
The United Earth Directorate is the famous "UED", a much stronger entity in the human camp of StarCraft than the Terran Federation.
After listening to his self-introduction, Fu Qinghai immediately made the decision:
"Medics can get on board, Camille, right? Stand behind me."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
The medic's face lit up with joy, and he drove the power armor and strode behind Fu Qinghai, not caring about the remaining two people. It seemed that these people were indeed stragglers.
The main style of Warhammer 40K is gloomy and pessimistic. Medical soldiers are not emphasized here. The apothecaries of Space Marines, the pain boys of Orks, and the blood Orcs of Dark Eldar are not good doctors strictly speaking. Their treatment processes are extremely bloody, brutal, whimsical, and wanton. Especially the blood Orcs, whose cruelty and distortion can be called artistic aesthetics.
In comparison, the healing ability of the medic in StarCraft is very strong. It is outrageous that the medic in the game can add blood to the Yamato. I wonder if it is so exaggerated in the world of reincarnation.
"Next."
Fu Qinghai looked at the second person.
This is a thin, middle-aged man wearing a gray cloak. It is difficult to tell his whereabouts from his appearance. He said:
"My name is Guy, and I'm from the Fullmetal Alchemist universe."
Concise and to the point, the name suits the person.
Fu Qinghai thought for a moment and shook his head:
"I don't know Fullmetal Alchemist, I don't know this anime IP, and I don't know you guys. Sorry, I can't let you on board."
The middle-aged man took out a blood-red crystal stone from his robe, held it in front of him, and said,
"Take me aboard and I can provide a reward. This is the famous Philosopher's Stone, an alchemical material that can ignore the principle of 'equivalent exchange'."
Philosopher's Stone? It sounds familiar. What is that?
Fu Qinghai just frowned when a hoarse female voice like a ghost crying sounded next to his ear:
"That is the crystallization of the human soul. It is very valuable and precious."
Fu Qinghai felt that the voice sounded familiar, like Kayako's voice. Turning around, he saw Zhang Yuning nodding slightly at him, while the other people around seemed not to have heard any sound.
Can you communicate in ghost language? That's cooler than the communication channel.
Fu Qinghai turned back and said,
"You paid such a huge price, I'm afraid it's not just to participate in the plot line and earn assimilation points, right?"
The alchemist named Guy said calmly:
"Yes, I have my own purpose, you don't have to worry about it. This Philosopher's Stone is a down payment. Take me to Prospero and drop me off. I will give you another Philosopher's Stone as the balance. Is that okay?"
Going to Prospero?
Why go to that planet that has been burned into glass?
Fu Qinghai thought for a moment and nodded slowly:
"Okay."
Without Fu Qinghai's instructions, the alchemist automatically walked to and stood behind Fu Qinghai.
All that was left was a lonely young man.
Fu Qinghai asked,
"What about you? What role do you play, or what reward can you give?"
The young man was stunned:
"I don't have any special abilities, nor do I have any equipment."
Fu Qinghai took a look at the young man. He was about 1.8 meters tall and wore a typical sports school uniform. The jacket was draped loosely on his shoulders. He wore a gray T-shirt with shiny "small diamonds" spliced into the Armani eagle logo. He wore a pair of large washed blue AJ 1 shoes with loose shoelaces and had a messy dark yellow perm on his head.
Chinese? High school students?
Fu Qinghai thought about it and decided to give his compatriots a chance.
Fu Qinghai asked:
"Do you know Warhammer 40K? Have you read the original novel? Played related games? Painted tabletop war chess? Or the group rules and hearsay are also fine."
The setting of Warhammer 40K is very complicated, and Fu Qinghai himself dare not say that he understands it 100%. If the other party knows Warhammer 40K very well, even if he has no ability and cannot offer any compensation, Fu Qinghai is willing to give him a chance to get on board, just as a "story consultant".
The young man spread his hands:
"You ask me? How the hell should I know? How the hell do I know what this Warhammer 40,000 is? I woke up in this weird place. Hey, is this the legendary infinite flow?"
Everyone: ...
Fu Qinghai turned and left.
Everyone present looked at the young man as if he were an idiot, then turned around and left.
The young man was still shouting behind him:
"Hey, why are you walking, fuck, say something, what the hell…"
Before he could finish his words, the medic turned around and raised his arm, and the thick double-linked gun muzzle on his arm armor lit up...
"Bang!"
The huge flare with a long smoke tail hit the young man, and he turned into a torch with a scream. The light was so dazzling that it seemed as if the entire construction site would be illuminated.
Without looking back at the burning corpse, Fu Qinghai looked at the medical soldier Camille with interest and asked:
"What model?"
"A-13 tracer grenade launcher, supplied exclusively to UED."
"good."
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Thanks, thanks to the cat taking a nap, Yuxuan Zhenren, Sun Yua, Adun I Toridas, the essence of all things, Rimuru O Tempest, sturbanus, book friend 160716172237828, all the names I thought of are taken, book friend 20170101002746489, the abused soldier, It's as hard as becoming an immortal, One-eyed wolf, how can you cultivate immortality without pretending to be cool, 6aqc9, Taibai Bujingtian, Nanfang Beisui, thank you all for your rewards.
I still have two thousand words in my hand but it is not coherent. I will post a medium one tomorrow. I dare not call it a big one now.
Space dwarves... My speed in looking up information can't keep up with GW's speed in reading books.
(End of this chapter)