Chapter 274 Death Guard Fu Qinghai

The fleet emerged from the warp once again.

They successfully arrived at the Mandeville Point outside the Schwerin galaxy in the Marx King Star Region, and then the entire fleet sailed into the interior of the galaxy at sub-light speed, and finally docked at the circular airport in the orbit of the Schwerin hive world.

As soon as the hatch connecting the passage was opened, Fu Qinghai, wearing armor, led a group of space warriors to stride out. The army was neat and tidy, the armor clanged, and the solemn and oppressive momentum was overwhelming.

Planetary Governor Gladys and Commander-in-Chief of the Planetary Defense Force and Commander of the Schwerin Corps Koshvitor were already waiting at the airport, followed by a large crowd of servants and soldiers.

"Where is number fifty-six? How is the 'warning meeting' going?"

Fu Qingbian asked as he walked.

"It's not clear in the Star Voice communication. Come to my mansion and I will explain in detail."

Gladys came forward and whispered to Fu Qinghai.

"Yeah, okay."

…

The sky is blue and white clouds are rolling.

Gladys's Governor's Mansion is bright and clean, overlooking the sea of ​​clouds, and decorated in a simple yet luxurious style.

The table was laid with porcelain from Vasanides, the glasses were filled with Catalin white wine from Quatis, and the floor was covered with Tygus skins from Felicis.

"The matter of the Warning Society is a bit tricky. Qingshan, Fifty-Six has left the Schwerin Hive World and headed for the Calixis Sector. He left behind this servo skull, which records his methods and ideas for solving the cult problem, and explains the reasons for his departure."

Gladys pushed a half-metal, half-bone servo skull in front of Fu Qinghai.

She did not call Fu Qinghai "Khan" or "Sir" because Gladys believed that her relationship with Fu Qinghai was different. The two of them had adventured together in the Bottom Nest and experienced the political turmoil and bloody struggle at the top of the tower together.

The successful ascension of this young female planetary governor was inseparable from the silent support of the Space Marine Captain behind her, so Gladys did not want to use such informal titles as "Khan" or "My Lord", and wanted to call him "Qingshan".

He didn't seem to care much.

Fu Qinghai took over the servo skull and activated it in front of everyone present. The servo skull slowly floated into the air, and blue light bloomed in its eye sockets, forming a holographic projection in the air. Its image was exactly that of Sea Serpent Warrior No. 56.

Number Fifty-Six:

"Qingshan, if you see this holographic projection, it means that I have already set off for the Calixis Sector, and you have returned to the Schwerin Hive. I have to explain to you in detail the solution to the problem of the Bottom Nest cult."

"After my extensive investigation and research, I found that the so-called 'Warning Meeting' was caused by the Underhive residents accidentally releasing a dormant ancient Nurgle virus while mining garbage in the ancient ruins. The Nurgle virus infected the Underhive residents, but it did not kill them. Instead, it caused them to believe in Nurgle."

"The first group of scavengers infected by the virus established the Warning Society. They took advantage of the hatred of the Lower Nest residents towards the Upper Nest nobles and carried out a series of infiltration activities, gradually moving towards the Lower Nest and the Upper Nest to develop their own followers."

Fu Qinghai nodded slightly.

If we have to say which of the four Chaos Gods is closest to the idea of ​​"eliminating the nobility and making everyone equal", it can only be the all-tolerant and benevolent father Nurgle.

"After figuring out the cause of all this, Gladys and Koshvito worked with me to follow the clues and kill all the believers of the Warning Society lurking in the spire, the upper nest, and the lower nest. But just as we were gathering our forces to attack and completely eliminate the lower nest, we ran into trouble."

Number 56 in the holographic projection looked solemn:

"It seems that the high-ranking members of the Admonition Society used the souls of a large number of believers to complete some kind of sacrificial ritual. The power of the virus has been enhanced, or mutated, and it has become a new type of virus with memetic properties. Even if the Imperial Guards under Koshveto are wearing fully enclosed carapace armor, gas masks and breathing valves, they can still be infected by the mutated virus."

Qiao Shida and Camille, who were sitting on the left and right of Fu Qinghai, and Lin Yu, who was standing behind him, were all concentrating on listening to No. 56's story, wanting to know how he solved the Nurgle virus. But they heard him say:

"Then, the big events of the plot line ended, and I landed in the JK Rowling universe."

JK Rowling universe? What does that mean?

Qiao Shida was puzzled.

Looking around, I found that except Gladys, no one around looked surprised, as if it was commonplace.

"I tried to find a way to fight the Nurgle virus in the Harry Potter universe. Thanks to the psychic awakening brought by the Brain of MODOK, my magical talent is pretty good, comparable to that of a pure-blood wizard. In the JK Rowling universe, I learned 'Legitimate Memory' and its counter-spell - 'Occlumency'."

Legilimency and Occlumency are very complex, difficult and unpopular spells, even in the reincarnation world of JK Rowling's universe where magic is prevalent. There are not many wizards who are proficient in them. The famous ones are Voldemort, Snape and Dumbledore. The fact that No. 56 was able to learn them may have something to do with Alpha's gene seed.

Number 56 continued:

"But I found that the brain block can resist mental pollution, but it cannot resist the infection of the body by the Nurgle virus. If we insist on attacking the bottom nest, my mind will still be clear, but my body will collapse."

No. 56 came to a conclusion: Occlumency only blocks the brain, but it still cannot prevent memetic virus infection of the body.

"I was infected with the Nurgle virus. I didn't want to become a walking corpse, nor did I want to implicate others. Eventually, I had no choice but to leave the Schwerin Hive and head to the Calixis Sector to find a solution. My mortal agents heard some rumors."

"With the help of the mutant girl you know, we found and sealed all the exits from the Underhive to the Lowerhive and the suburbs. We blocked the Nurgle zombies in the Underhive, abandoned the Underhive area, and let them fend for themselves. This is the only solution we can think of at the moment."

"As for me..." No. 56 smiled bitterly:

"Remember to add me as a friend, Qingshan, my reincarnation number is xxx... If that rumor is false, I'm afraid I can only use switching reincarnation worlds to break the virus infection."

Fu Qinghai nodded slightly.

Number 56's idea is correct.

If he wants to bring the Nurgle virus to other reincarnation worlds, he needs to pay assimilation points. With the precedent of the Divine Seal, he first needs to keep himself conscious. When switching reincarnation worlds, he will get a free "purification", provided that he does not infect other people around him during this period.

In order to fight against a hive cult, the Brotherhood's intelligence officer made a great sacrifice this time.

The holographic projection went out.

Fu Qinghai looked at the others present and asked,

"So the entire bottom nest area is now closed?"

"Yes, the Warning Society has gathered all the believers infected by the virus in the bottom nest, intending to fight us to the death. After the decapitation operation of No. 56 failed, we had no choice but to close all the passages and exits."

Koshvito said.

"Um..."

Fu Qinghai lowered his head and began to think.

As a psychic virus with some physical properties, the Nurgle virus is transmitted in a very metaphysical way. The strong ones can be transmitted across time and space and the mind, just like Sadako. The weak ones can also be eliminated by traditional epidemic prevention methods such as disinfection and sterilization.

For example, there was once a short story in the original novel: The Space Marine chaplain discovered that the entire company was in a space station contaminated by the Nurgle virus, and directly ordered the warships outside to fire at themselves to prevent the virus from spreading further.

Power armor is fully enclosed + internal circulation + breathing valve, but it can still be infected by the Nurgle virus.

However, in the Plague War, the traditional medical methods such as isolation, disinfection, and treatment used by the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar can also prevent the spread of the Nurgle virus to a certain extent.

Fu Qinghai speculated that the difference in the strength of the infectiousness depends on the psychic strength of the virus.

Fu Qinghai silently thought about the solution.

Everyone waited quietly for his orders.

Are you going to use that thing so soon?

It's also a good opportunity to try out its power.

After thinking it over again and making up his mind, Fu Qinghai took out a test tube from his waist, handed it to Lin Yu behind him, and instructed:

"Take it to the Goliath-class factory ship and give it to the technical priests. Have them replicate the virus in large quantities and make the virus solution into a large spray device and give it to us."

Lin Yu didn't ask any more questions and left.

Many of the technical priests on the Goliath-class factory ships are students and old friends of Master Quinto, and they are geneticists. It should not be difficult for them to copy a virus.

"What are you going to do, Khan?"

Qiao Shida turned around and asked.

"Fight fire with fire."

Fu Qinghai said lightly.

…

During the following period of time, Fu Qinghai patiently waited for the preparation of the virus solution, and by the way communicated with Koshvito and Gladys about the future plans of the hive world.

"Kersh, you must know my good intentions in getting you the position of commander of the Schwerin Corps."

Fu Qinghai said earnestly.

Koshvito nodded:

"I know, Qingshan."

"The Schwerin Corps has been completely transformed after my reforms. I disbanded the four regiments that originally belonged to the corps and reorganized them. Soldiers with too strong aristocratic backgrounds were removed from the troops, and all the grassroots non-commissioned officers were replaced by my people."

The main difference between the Planetary Defense Force (PDF) and the Imperial Guard (IG) is that, generally speaking, soldiers must first serve in the former and be screened among the former, at a ratio of about ten to one, before they can serve in the latter.

The Planetary Defense Force does not undertake external combat responsibilities and only stays on the surface and in orbit to protect the security of the homeland. The Imperial Guard must accept the dispatch of nearby war zones to fight outside. The latter is of course more elite than the former, but the difference is not that big.

Yes, in Fu Qinghai's opinion, both are human soldiers. No matter how big the difference between humans is, the difference between humans and space warriors will not be greater.

The reason why the Imperial Guard is stronger than the Planetary Defense Force is that the Imperial Guard has armored vehicles such as airplanes, cannons and tanks, while the Planetary Defense Force can often just deal with a few automatic guns and relies more on fixed fortifications.

In modern warfare, the gap in weapons and equipment is always greater than the gap in personnel quality.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the planetary governors in some war-torn areas are more generous and pay out of their own pockets to subsidize the military expenses and purchase weapons for the planetary defense forces, but after all, direct support from the Imperial Military Affairs Department is not enough.

A widely circulated rumor in Warhammer 40K: There is a Rambo in every Imperial Guard... This is pure nonsense. The original novel describes the relevant plot: many people can't make it in the hive, whether they owe debts or are being hunted by enemies, so they just sign up for the army, and then they get into the Imperial Guard in a daze.

With this kind of troop quality, how can there be "Rambo per capita"? Among the Imperial Guards, only the Catachan Jungle Troops can be called "Rambo per capita", because they directly plagiarized the movie "First Blood", so they are "Rambo per capita", right?

If Koshveto wants to be the commander-in-chief of the Planetary Defense Force, Fu Qinghai doesn't need to go to the Military Affairs Department to do anything, Gladys can appoint him directly. But if he wants to be the commander of the Imperial Guard, he needs some operations and application.

As Koshvito said, he integrated all armored vehicles including the Sentinel Mechs into an "Armored Regiment" and no longer divided them according to the original division - the original division was to take care of the power structure of the four major families at the top of the tower. Now that the four major families are gone, it is natural to concentrate the few armored vehicles for use.

The remaining infantry are divided into two regiments, one equipped with laser guns and the other equipped with feather guns. The two weapons have their own advantages and disadvantages. If all members are equipped with laser guns, they will be very passive when facing certain enemies that are able to restrain laser weapons.

Yes, the Phaeton Foundry World has begun mass production of metal spike blasters and giant mining excavators, and as Phaeton's two flagship products, the Schwerin Hive World has the advantage of being close to the water and has begun large-scale equipment.

Koshveto once served as an instructor for the ODST and Spartan-IIIs in the Halo universe. He was very good at training soldiers, and Fu Qinghai respectfully called him "Instructor Kosh."

When he trained the Imperial Guard according to the standards of the Hell's Paratroopers, there was no need to worry about the quality of the Schwerin Corps' soldiers - they must be very strong, even far exceeding other ordinary Imperial Guard Corps.

The Imperial Guard led by Koshveto is an important part of the future star zone military force created by Fu Qinghai. It is not as important as the chapter, but it is also very important.

At least one more hand to ask the Ministry of Military Affairs for money.

On the surface, Qingshan Khan is just an ordinary Astartes captain, and the Brotherhood of the Gods is just a White Scar company responsible for escorting the Mechanicus fleet to the Phaeton Forge World and is also responsible for garrisoning here.

But secretly, the entire Marcus Wang Star Region, the planetary governor and the guard commander of the Hive World are all his subordinates, the foundry director of the foundry world is his teacher, and even the chief executive of the agricultural world, Calvin, is his acquaintance.

In this remote border area, Fu Qinghai has actually achieved the essence of "covering the sky with one hand" and can completely replicate the career of the Blackhearted King Huron in the Badab star zone - becoming the so-called "Tyrant of XX Star Zone."

But there's no need to be so high-profile.

How nice it would be to be an "underground emperor".

In theory, Space Marines only have political power over their home worlds and the worlds they recruit. Therefore, they should maintain the minimum respect for Holy Terra and the superficial political structure of the star zone. The Empire is originally very feudal, and it is best for each side to live in peace. It would be no fun to raise the flag of rebellion, withhold taxes, and provoke investigations from the Inquisition and the Assassin's Court.

Fu Qinghai patted Koshvituo on the shoulder and said,

"Don't worry, Kosh, just focus on training the Imperial Guards. Leave the weapons and equipment to me. The feather gun is not the end. In the future, there will be more guns, vehicles, and even individual armor for your troops."

Koshvito nodded.

"By the way, why don't you join my reincarnation society so that we can look after each other in the reincarnation worlds to come? How about that?"

Fu Qinghai suggested.

Koshvito had already had this idea:

"Okay, Qingshan."

As their cooperation deepened, joining the Samsara Society became a natural move.

Apart from his position as an instructor, Koshveto's personal combat power is also very strong. Spartan warriors are roughly equivalent to mini-space warriors. Spartan II is the strongest of the first period. Spartan I was experimental in nature, and only a few were severely disabled in the end. Spartan III and IV compromised based on cost reduction, either using cheaper power armor or using strengthening potions instead of biochemical transformation. In short, they are not as strong as Spartan II.

In such a vast world of reincarnation, there is of course more than one Spartan warrior like Kosheveto. Fu Qinghai, Chen Xinlu and the other two have encountered another one in the Resident Evil movie universe, and that reincarnation was obviously not as strong as Kosheveto.

Therefore, Koshveto can proudly call himself "Koshveto-151" because he is the only reincarnation in the normal timeline of the Halo universe who has participated in the Spartan-II program and survived. Others will never have the opportunity to participate in the Spartan-II program unless they travel back through the copy world.

Koshvito said:

"Number 56 learned two magic tricks, and my last reincarnation was not without gain. I returned to the Halo universe and obtained the engine technology of the Warthog transporter."

Fu Qinghai's eyes lit up:

"Graf/Hauptmann solar/salt water engine?"

Koshvito smiled and nodded:

"Haha, I guessed you would like this! The transformation surgery of Spartan warriors and the manufacturing technology of Mjolnir power armor are both too confidential. However, I can still get my hands on a military and civilian dual-use engine technology. Although I don't quite understand it, I believe you can figure it out."

Fu Qinghai was very happy, laughed and said:

"Before long, all forging worlds will find that the myth of the Leman Rust tank engine will be broken, and a new type of fast infantry fighting vehicle will appear soon."

…

Finally, three weeks later.

Shuttles shuttled back and forth, transporting huge storage tanks from the Goliath-class factory ships to the main city of the hive.

Accompanied by Gladys, Fu Qinghai met with representatives of several large unions in the Hive City, especially the Water Union and the Gas Union. The Ocean Merchant and the Climate Merchant stood respectfully in front of him and listened to Fu Qinghai's instructions:

"Put these tanks containing the virus into the ventilation shaft and exhaust valves, and spread them to the bottom nest area. Please note that this is a highly contagious virus. You must control the direction of the airflow and resolutely prevent it from spreading upwards."

"Yes, sir."

The climate merchant agreed.

"The sewage treatment pipes in various factory areas and living areas, as long as they lead to the bottom nest area, must also be filled with virus solution. As required by the Gas Union, they must not contaminate other water sources and pipes in the hive."

"Understood, sir."

The ocean merchant agreed.

Qiao Shida stood behind him, watching Fu Qinghai constantly issuing orders, and explained the specific requirements and precautions for infectious diseases in detail...

Why does he understand so much?

Is Khan really the White Scar?

Could he be a Death Guard pretending to be a White Scar?

......

　Thanks to Chengpeng Wanliyouliuxu and book friend 20190801141214569 for their rewards.

(End of this chapter)