Chapter 208: Hit the target

HMS Fiery Horse light cruiser.

After gathering all his strength to release the last dimensional door, Chen Xinlu closed his eyes, his body softened, and he fell to the side powerlessly.

Fu Qinghai, who was standing next to her, subconsciously reached out and held the icy queen in his arms.

Outside the captain's room, Zhang Yuning, who had just walked over, saw this scene and her narrow eyes narrowed instantly.

Fu Qinghai pushed the woman in his arms out without saying a word, and Chen Xinlu flew to the side. Fortunately, Jiang Yixia was quick to catch her and held her in his arms.

Zhang Yuning's expression changed from gloomy to bright. She, Ron, Eugene and others were about to come over, but Fu Qinghai reached out to stop them:

"Wait a moment."

Fu Qinghai instructed Eugene Eleanor:

"Bring the flamethrower and disinfectant aerosol cans over here, and go through the pre-treatment procedures for biological and chemical weapons."

Eugene was stunned, then nodded quickly and turned to make arrangements.

Thirty Crusaders were still standing by in an orderly manner outside the captain's room. When Eugene brought the disinfection equipment and flamethrowers, Fu Qinghai, Qiao Shida and Camille directly used the flamethrowers to spray themselves as a high-temperature sterilization. The three women who were not wearing power armor also had to be sprayed with disinfectant aerosol cans.

This is the trouble with fighting the reincarnations from the Resident Evil. In terms of direct combat capability, they are not that strong, but it is this kind of microscopic infectiousness that is hard to guard against.

As the company commander and captain of the ship, Fu Qinghai cannot just seek convenience and ease, but must also be thoughtful and not accidentally infect some mortal crew members with low immunity, causing a zombie plague to break out in the cabin of the Fiery Horse.

After all the treatment, Fu Qinghai asked Eugene to arrange Chen Xinlu and the other two to the medical deck for further treatment to eradicate the various drugs injected into their bodies. He also ordered the Crusaders to return to the research ship on the Thunder Eagle gunboat, while he and the others returned to their respective cabins for a short rest.

…

In the captain's room.

Fu Qinghai took off his power armor with mottled paint, took a quick shower, changed into a gray linen robe, and sat on the swivel seat, holding a small notebook and a mechanical pen in his hands.

The first name in the notebook has been crossed out.

Lucius, the flawless blade.

A horizontal line in the middle indicates that the two have already fought.

Following this name, look down:

Blade Warrior, Kos Wayne.

The Crow of Mourning, Nikona Sharokin.

Jago Sevatar Lyon, Prince of Crows.

…

The last name.

Black Marshal, Sigismund.

The first person under the true Primarch, the Black Knight, the Sword Master, Sigismund.

Fu Qinghai's gaze lingered on this name for a long time.

This is a list made by Fu Qinghai, specifically recording the people he wants to challenge.

I can clearly remember it in my mind, so why do I need a special little notebook?

Because it seems more ceremonial.

This is a pure list of fighters, excluding well-known think tanks such as Iskandar Kayan, Talihutai Yesugei and Azhak Ahriman.

But including the Betrayer Khârn and the Invincible Warmaster Abaddon.

People like the hunting master Zhuba Khan and the lord of the Qiexue Qin Xia no longer have the chance to fight against these two people in the normal timeline.

The only thing that made Fu Qinghai feel conflicted was Sevatar, the Prince of Crows. He was not sure whether he should include this person or not.

Unlike others who simply have superb martial arts skills, Sevatar is actually a Space Marine with strong psychic talent. The Primarch of the Night Lords, Konrad Curze, himself had full psychic talent, and the probability of his descendants becoming think tanks was also very high. However, Curze was always pessimistic and superstitious, and did not allow his subordinates to practice psychic powers, so Sevatar failed to become a think tank, and he always concealed the fact that he mastered psychic powers, and often used this trick to ambush his opponents in battle.

Apart from psychic powers, in terms of actual martial arts, Sevatar is very strong, but not particularly strong.

Fu Qinghai gently closed the small notebook.

He whispered:

"Lucius, hehe, Lucius the Flawless Blade, Lucius the Immortal."

The first well-known Astartes figure defeated by Fu Qinghai.

Lucius, former captain of the 13th Company of the Emperor's Children, although he was the best swordsman in the Third Legion, in fact, his record had always been rather poor before he became the Chosen of Slaanesh.

Generally, people with such superb martial arts skills tend to be rather arrogant and conceited, but Lucius was very jealous of his colleagues of the same rank, and liked to lick the boots of senior leaders. During the Landing Site Massacre, he was first on the same team with the loyalists, and then, just because Sol Tarvitz had gained command, he turned against them out of jealousy and joined the rebels, killing many loyal Emperor's children.

His two most impressive achievements:

First, in the training cage, Lucius first beat up the Word Bearers' chief priest Ari Bass, but Gaviel Loken noticed that he relied too much on skills and ignored the results, so he knocked him down with one punch.

Fu Qinghai's punch is a tribute to Loken.

Second, in the subsequent hunting of the surviving loyalists, Lucius encountered the number one assassin under the throne of the Raven King - Sharokin, the Crow of Death. He was defeated by Sharokin twice. First, he was humiliated by two symmetrical cuts on his face, and then he was stabbed in the heart and throat.

Fu Qinghai's four sword moves are a tribute to Sharokin.

Originally Lucius was dead, and the old Chinese doctor was planning to dissect him for research. But he inexplicably sat up from the operating table, and ran away before the old Chinese doctor could react.

Blessing of Slaanesh.

After Lucius entered the Eye of Terror, he awakened the attributes of a soul thief, and his battle record continued to improve. However, anyone who killed Lucius and felt a sense of satisfaction in the process would look more and more like Lucius in the future, and eventually completely become Lucius, and they would become a crawling human face on Lucius's chest and shoulder armor.

He possessed another person and was named "Lucius the Immortal".

This setting is obviously inspired by Japanese supernatural horror movies. Tomie Kawakami and Kawamata Kayako both have similar processes of possession, and the details are especially similar.

It was so exaggerated that even the Necrons without flesh and blood would be affected, including Lucius who was later killed by a landmine, and then he took over the body of the worker who made the mine.

Therefore, Fu Qinghai repeatedly warned not to let Lucius die. Although theoretically, Lucius became a "soul thief" after entering the Eye of Terror, Fu Qinghai did not dare to gamble, in case the blessing of Slaanesh took effect at this moment.

"What are you thinking about?"

A soft female voice sounded beside Fu Qinghai's ear.

Fu Qinghai came back to his senses from his thoughts.

He took Zhang Yuning beside him into his arms, buried his face in her black hair and took a deep sniff, then whispered,

"Nothing."

"What are you going to do with those three women?"

Zhang Yuning asked:

"I remember you had a grudge against them before."

"Ah, yes."

Fu Qinghai felt bad when he thought about it, and sighed helplessly:

"Which nest city we pass by, just drop them off."

"snort."

The evil beauty snorted,

"In my opinion, just stuff it into the escape pod and throw it out."

"Ahahaha."

Fu Qinghai laughed dryly and scratched his head:

"It's not good to kill someone right away."

"but."

Fu Qinghai looked at Zhang Yuning in his arms and said seriously,

"If you insist, it's okay. No problem."

"whispering sound."

Zhang Yuning wrinkled her nose and said with disdain:

"You're retreating to advance, huh, you scumbag!"

Fu Qinghai looked innocent and spread his hands and said,

"Who did I cheat on?"

"Anyone who is soft-hearted is a scumbag."

Zhang Yuning threw out the conclusion.

Fu Qinghai looked at Zhang Yuning's cute and innocent appearance, and couldn't help but stretch out his fingers to smooth out her delicate wrinkled nose.

After reflecting on his battle experience and spending some time with Zhang Yuning, Fu Qinghai stood up from the swivel chair, walked out of the captain's room and headed for the medical deck.

…

This wave of psychic boarding operation yielded fruitful results and earned a large number of assimilation points, but Fu Qinghai was still a little unsatisfied.

He wanted to go see if Chen Xinlu had woken up.

When they arrived at a medical cabin on the medical deck, they saw the unconscious Chen Xinlu lying flat on the bed, her face changing from red to white.

Fu Qinghai frowned, looked at Camille beside him, and asked:

"What's going on? I remember she was getting better, why is she like this now?"

Camille spread her hands and said,

"I just used the chemical regulator to suppress the potions in her body, but the last use of magic activated the potions in her body again."

"What are you going to do?"

Fu Qinghai asked.

Camille said,

"The crew has just taught me how to use your equipment. I plan to give her a full hemodialysis to help clean out some of the drug components in her body. The rest will have to be excreted through her own metabolism."

After saying that, he turned around and operated the equipment.

"Um."

Fu Qinghai nodded.

Suddenly, he noticed that Chen Xinlu's eyelids moved, her eyelashes trembled, and her mouth opened slightly, as if she wanted to say something.

Fu Qinghai reached out and patted her face.

"Hello, Chen Xinlu."

Fu Qinghai had a plan in mind, a bad idea to further earn assimilation points, which could only be implemented with the cooperation of Chen Xinlu.

"Hmm, well..."

The icy queen twisted her body restlessly, her face turned to one side, humming something incomprehensible, and her long legs were twisted together.

Fu Qinghai had no intention of showing any mercy to Chen Xinlu. He pinched Chen Xinlu's face with his fingers and forcibly turned her over, saying:

"Wake up first, I have something to tell you."

(PS: A large section of the plot is deleted here.)

As a result, Chen Xinlu did something that Fu Qinghai had never expected.

She bit his finger.

Fu Qinghai: "!???"

Hey, you know what, it tastes pretty good.

It's true that you can't judge a book by its cover.

Fu Qinghai was amazed in his heart, and when he realized what was happening, he retracted his hand and pulled out his finger.

Chen Xinlu woke up suddenly.

Her eyes were a little blurry, as if she was still immersed in some kind of dream. She looked down...

Chen Xinlu's eyes slowly widened, and her fair face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"alright."

Fu Qinghai spoke calmly, breaking the awkward atmosphere. He wiped his fingers on the white sterile cloth draped over Chen Xinlu's chest with some disdain, and said,

"You're awake from your dream, right? Listen to me."

Fu Qinghai looked at Chen Xinlu and asked seriously:

"How big can your dimensional gate be, at its largest?"

"ah?"

Chen Xinlu looked bewildered. She had not yet recovered from what had just happened and her mind was completely confused.

"I said..."

Fu Qinghai was about to repeat his question again when Chen Xinlu suddenly interrupted him:

"Put your finger in my mouth!"

Fu Qinghai glared at him:

"Bullshit, you bit it yourself."

"I don't believe it!"

"Do you want me to adjust the surveillance?"

"I..."

Chen Xinlu was speechless.

"What are you talking about?"

Camille, who was debugging equipment not far away, turned around.

Fu Qinghai smiled and joked:

"I'll call a crew member over right now and get the data pad to show Miss Chen the video."

"No… no need."

Seeing Fu Qinghai so confident, Chen Xinlu lowered her head and spoke in a whisper.

Fu Qinghai put away the sneer on his face and repeated the question seriously:

"How big can your dimensional gate be at most?"

Chen Xinlu thought about it silently and said softly:

"Have you seen Avengers: Endgame?"

"uh-huh."

Fu Qinghai nodded.

"I can expand the dimensional gate in there as big as I want."

Chen Xinlu replied in a low voice.

"Hmm…I see."

Fu Qinghai raised his arm, touched his chin, and the smile on his face became more and more presumptuous.

…

Four days later.

In the pitch-black space, next to the light spear array, the Fiery Horse light cruiser.

A Thunderhawk gunboat opened the tail engine nozzle and adjusted its speed to keep parallel with the cruiser.

Fu Qinghai personally sat in the driving seat of the Thunder Eagle gunboat, holding the control lever with one hand and pointing at the muzzle of the Light Lance outside the porthole with the other, and said to Chen Xinlu who was sitting next to him:

"See? That's it!"

Chen Xinlu nodded:

"I see."

The Imperial Navy's light spear array, regardless of its size, looks very much like the turrets on battleships during World War I. On top of a huge square turret, there is a row of long gun barrels with a very large caliber ratio. That is the largest laser weapon of the human empire - the light spear.

Not everyone has a Nova Cannon. Light Spears, Macro Cannons and Torpedoes constitute the main weapons on the Imperial Navy's warships. Light Spears have a long range and high shooting accuracy, making them the best choice for long-range bombardments. Some Light Spear models also have special attacks against void shields, which can easily penetrate void shields or cause them to overload. The disadvantage is that the firing rate is slow.

The macro cannon has a fast firing rate but poor accuracy, and its range is shorter than that of the light spear. It can cause decent damage to the ship and is suitable for medium and short-range bombardment. The significance of the torpedo is mainly that it is slow and can be guided, and can break through the interception of the void shield.

The Enforcer-class system controls the cruiser. In order to make room for the grenaku, there is no macro cannon array, only a light spear array.

Fu Qinghai asked,

"Have you ever been to the rear of the battleship Ode to Joy?"

Chen Xinlu shook her head:

"No, I was taken to the prison in the lower cabin as soon as I got on board."

"Tsk."

Fu Qinghai pondered for a while.

This is still difficult. The caliber of the light spear is smaller than that of the macro cannon, but it is also a giant weapon. It cannot be stuffed into a narrow place like a battleship passage.

Fu Qinghai asked again:

"Where is the most spacious place you have ever been to on the Carol of Joy?"

Chen Xinlu thought for a moment and said:

"It's the boarding deck."

Boarding the ship's deck?

Fu Qinghai carefully recalled the path he had taken after boarding the ship, as well as his general understanding of the hull structure of the Imperial Cruiser, including the keel layout, compartment distribution, direction, etc.

Well, no, the boarding deck is too far away from the plasma reactor, and there may be a battleship keel in between. A keel made of refined gold cannot be penetrated by a shining spear.

If you want to attack from within, you have to hit the vital points.

Fu Qinghai asked seriously and patiently:

"Chen Xinlu, think carefully again, where can you open the dimensional door at the place closest to the rear of the battleship and large enough to accommodate the muzzle of the light spear?"

Chen Xinlu frowned and thought for a long time, then said slowly:

"There is a place that can be used. It is at the corner of the stairs in the lower hold prison closest to the stern of the battleship. There is plenty of space there. I have been there before."

"very good."

Fu Qinghai smiled with satisfaction, put on his helmet, and instructed in the communication channel:

"Light Spear Array No. 1, Main Cannon No. 001, are you ready?"

"Ready, Khan!"

The person who answered Fu Qinghai on the communication channel was the mortal officer in charge of the light spear array and the artillery deck.

At this time, the gun deck.

In front of the light spear control array was a mechanical servant that was hard-wired and fixed in place. On both sides of the mechanical servant were crew members busy adjusting the firing status. Behind them stood Qiao Shida, Camille, Ron, Zhang Yuning and others.

"Light Spear Array No. 1, Main Cannon No. 001, countdown to fire."

The robot servant said in a stiff voice.

"10, 9, 8..."

Just when the mechanical servant counted to "3", Chen Xinlu's finger wearing the ring suddenly waved, and in the dark and boundless space, a huge dimensional gate was pulled out right in front of the main gun of the Light Lance.

On the other side of the dimensional gate, somewhere in the bottom cabin of the Hades-class heavy cruiser, dim lights shone from inside. Because of the instant connection of the dimensional gate, a large amount of air in the ship escaped, forming an air pressure cavity.

There is no sound or movement in space.

The laser generator focused countless beams of light into one. The golden light, like a divine punishment from heaven, was brilliant and scorching, shooting straight out of the muzzle. For a moment, the dazzling light caused Fu Qinghai's goggles to automatically lower the photosensitivity threshold to protect his vision.

The spear of light did not rush into the dark space, but went straight into the fire ring of the dimensional gate.

Success!

Fu Qinghai clenched his fist tightly.

This was the opening direction carefully selected by Fu Qinghai, facing the plasma reactor at the tail of the battleship. He saw with his own eyes that the huge golden light beam completely submerged the bottom cabin prison, and instantly penetrated through layers of bulkheads and went straight to the tail of the battleship.

The edge of the fire ring of the dimensional gate was slightly touched by the edge of the continuously radiating light, and it went out with a "hiss".

As if suffering from some backlash from the interruption of the spell, Chen Xinlu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned pale, rolled his eyes, and fainted again.

Fu Qinghai quickly leaned over to check.

Fortunately, I'm still breathing and alive.

Now Fu Qinghai had no time to worry about whether the plasma reactor of the Ode to Joy had been hit. After all, a reactor as big as a building would have been hit even if he fired with his eyes closed. Fu Qinghai hurriedly asked in the communication channel:

"How is it, over there, is there any reaction from that robot servant?"

At this moment, on the gun deck, Qiao Shida was holding weapons, and he was surrounded by armed sailors. All of them stared at the back of the servitor as if they were facing a great enemy, looking at this skinny half-human, half-machine, who was still standing there stupidly.

"Khan, there are no changes to the servitor for now."

Qiao Shida replied into the communication channel.

"Qingshan, I didn't sense the transfer of souls."

Zhang Yuning also spoke in the communication channel.

Very good, it seems that either Lucius is not dead, or the cause and effect of Lucius' death are not attributed to the servitor who pressed the launch button.

Fu Qinghai nodded secretly.

It was based on this consideration that Fu Qinghai deliberately let the mechanical servant complete the firing of the light spear instead of a mortal gunner.

The chain explosion caused by the plasma reactor being hit will cause even the strongest warship to disintegrate. However, the disintegration will not happen in an instant, but will proceed layer by layer with the conduction of the explosion, the breaking of the keel and the tearing of the hull. If you are lucky, there is still a chance to escape.

There are even precedents of the Word Bearers boarding the Ultramarines on these warship fragments.

The naval warships of the Human Empire stand out in various science fiction IPs for being sturdy and durable. In the era of space naval warfare, they still use ramming ships. Their defense is unimaginable. The adamantium keel is a basic operation. The thickness of the hull is dozens of meters, and the composite armor plates are dozens of meters thick. Even if the void shield fails due to overload, it will not disintegrate on the spot after being hit by a few luminous spears and macro cannons.

But attacks from within are different.

Apart from the battleship's keel which serves as the supporting skeleton, no one would be so extravagant as to use platinum armor in the densely packed bulkheads inside the battleship.

[You killed an Emperor's Children Space Marine...]

[Progress of the points race increased...]

[You killed...]

…

Countless reminders of assimilation points flashed deep in my mind, until...

[You destroyed the Hades-class heavy cruiser Ode to Joy...]

[Progress of the points race increased...]

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Fu Qinghai clapped his hands and laughed heartily. He didn't need to see the scene on the other side. He already knew the ending through the significant increase in the points race progress.

Fu Qinghai thought about it and wondered if there was another possibility: Lucius at this stage simply did not have the ability to be a soul thief?

......

　Thanks to 007 in 1008611, Mr. Magician, Loneliness Under the Moonlight, King Marquez, Kenshin Kusanagi, Lord of the Grey Knight, and several book friends for their rewards.

(End of this chapter)