Chapter 493 Son of Hydra

Phaeton builds the world.

Baseband is obsessed with the Necromancer Scarab, and is obsessed with unlocking the secrets of the Necromancer's living metal.

Shi Lan was left behind by Xiao Fei, as some problems arose with the five Titans under construction that needed to be solved by the space monkeys.

Fu Qinghai returned to the Suzheng alone and began to deal with some of the daily affairs that had been piled up.

"Khan, last week's news said that alien traces and Chaos pollution appeared again in the Octares sector. The Military Affairs Department dispatched the Iron Pagoda Regiment to deal with the matter."

Lin Yu picked up the briefing and read it.

"What is the size of the enemy?"

"There is only one agricultural world warning at this point."

Fu Qinghai casually ordered:

"Send the Thirteenth Regiment aboard a strike cruiser to the Octarius Sector to resolve this matter."

"OK."

Lin Yu immediately began to make arrangements.

The 13th Company was responsible for guarding the Marques Wang Star area during the Battle of the Iron Ring. Even according to the general rotation logic of garrisons, it was time to send them into battle this time.

On the other hand, currently in the reincarnation interval, there are no major plot events, so Fu Qinghai doesn't want to go out to fight in person. Fighting during major plot events can earn both assimilation points and spoils of war, but fighting during the reincarnation interval does not earn reincarnation points. In contrast, Fu Qinghai's enthusiasm is not very high, and he only wants to send his men to fight.

Of course, military orders cannot be evaded, and problems must be dealt with. A company of Space Marines plus a specialized strike cruiser are enough to handle most problems.

"Next item."

Fu Qinghai said lightly.

"Pirate traces found in the Kronos Expansion..."

Lin Yu continued to report.

...

At the same time.

Calixis Sector, Hive World of Sintira.

Number 56 was walking alone in the alley.

The Chief Intelligence Officer of the Iron Pagoda Chapter is accustomed to being alone. Unless the Chapter is facing a major battle and requires all members to assemble, he rarely participates in daily combat missions. Qingshan Khan gave him this authority so that he can concentrate on lurking in the Calixis sector to develop an intelligence network.

This is the correct use of the Special Agent Corps.

Number 56 had just finished an intelligence meeting with his "Sparatu". Sparatu, also known as "Sower", was trained by the Alpha Legion in the past to infiltrate the local people of the target in advance, acting as spies, traitors, agitators and saboteurs. They will incite rebellion, spread false information, find and take over underground rebel organizations or terrorist groups. They are also responsible for causing dissent, creating panic and destroying infrastructure, and try to weaken enemy resistance before the Legion goes to war.

Now, No. 56 is still diligently training his "Spalato" mortal agents, with the goal of mastering all intelligence information in the entire Calixis Sector in the future, and if possible, even spreading it to other star regions in the Hazy Star Region.

In the dark and narrow alley between buildings.

There are dense wires and cables overhead.

As No. 56 was walking, he suddenly stopped.

The narrow alley was still silent, except for the occasional dripping of sewage, the air blowing through the air duct, and the occasional noisy sound coming from several blocks away. But No. 56 could clearly feel it, or perhaps his intuition was reminding him.

He was being followed.

Number 56 was not wearing a helmet, and his face was gloomy under the hood. He slowly raised his head and glanced around.

The Sintira Hive World is a place he has been planning and infiltrating for a very long time. Who would dare to ambush him here?

Stalking an Alpha Warrior?

Ambush a Son of Hydra?

"So, you noticed it, didn't you?"

A familiar voice sounded above his head.

Number 56 slowly raised his head and looked upwards.

In the shadows of the windows of the surrounding buildings, tall figures wearing power armor emerged one after another.

Seeing the armor paint, No. 56's pupils slowly shrank - peacock cobalt blue with black dragon patterns.

It was his mother regiment, the Alpha Legion! Number

56 was surrounded, and a full-strength tactical team had occupied the surrounding advantageous terrain, armed with bolters and chainswords, and surrounded him. These Chaos Space Marines wore MK3 and MK4 armor from the Legion era, and their guns were neatly pointed at Number 56 without making any extra noise.

"Number 56, do you still remember me?"

A dark shadow slowly emerged above my head.

Even though the other person was shrouded in a black silhouette, No. 56 still recognized the voice.

"teacher!?"

Number 56 looked incredulous:

"You are still alive?"

"Of course I'm alive."

The black shadow jumped down, then landed steadily, shook off his robe, and walked towards number 56.

"No. 56, I still remember that I chose you at first sight in that hive city, a silent, calm and ruthless young killer. You were so ignorant and ambitious back then. It was me who asked you to join the Legion, it was me who trained you, it was me who made you an 'Evericon'... and I still remember that before I left, the last order I gave you was to let you infiltrate the Iron Warriors Legion as an undercover... instead of letting you join a White Scars regiment and be loyal to the corpse king."

The shadow walked and talked, and when he reached the light, he revealed his true form - a Chaos Wizard. He was wearing a set of finely crafted power armor, and the beautiful green human skin cape on his back fluttered without wind. He held a purple staff of unknown material in his hand, and the hollow shape on the top of the staff was the symbol of the Lord of Change. The snake scale reliefs on his shoulder armor and arm armor were exquisitely crafted. Only the thin spikes on the edge of the armor and the skull-shaped exhaust nozzles told others:

This is a Chaos Space Marine.

Averikons, also known as "Headhunters", are a special group in the Alpha Legion that selects those Space Marines with unique talents and infiltrates other Astartes Legions as undercover agents by means of forged files, plastic surgery, etc. Almost all legions, whether loyal or rebellious, have had some Space Marines replaced by Averikons. Those who can become Averikons are the core backbone of the legion.

"Are you wondering why we infiltrated the Calixis Sector to look for you, investigate you, and ambush you, but your mortal agents were unaware of it?"

The Chaos Wizard laughed hoarsely:

"No. 56, don't forget that all your skills, including how to train Spalato, how to disguise and hide, and how to gather intelligence, were all taught by me."

"As your teacher, what methods and tricks do you have? Don't I know them?"

The Chaos Wizard asked back with a smile.

Number 56 remained silent.

His teacher, Dinat Mal, was the former captain of the Sixth Company of the Alpha Legion and the one who led him to join the Legion and become a Space Marine. Information flow in the galaxy was blocked, and Fifty-Six did not know that his teacher had earned a nickname, "Raven Scourge", because he successfully ambushed and massacred a large number of Raven Guards during the Lix Campaign during the Great Purge.

During the Horus Heresy and the Great Purge, the twin Primarchs of the 20th Legion were killed by Rogal Dorn and Roboute Guilliman respectively (suspected), and then the entire legion was disbanded into multiple Chaos warbands. Instead of entering the Eye of Terror, they wandered around the eastern galaxy, fighting and making trouble according to their own ideas.

Since then, No. 56 has completely lost contact with his teacher. The last order he received was to go undercover in the Fourth Legion. In the following series of battles, he met Fu Qinghai and Qiao Shida, and was tricked into joining them... He never thought that he would see his teacher again one day.

The Milky Way is so big that even if it was his teacher, No. 56 didn't believe that the other party could easily find him hiding in the Calixis sector - this had nothing to do with any agent's methods! It wasn't until he saw the staff in his teacher's hand that No. 56 finally realized that the other party had already defected to Tzeentch, so it was not surprising that he could find him - after all, there is a completely unreasonable metaphysical means of obtaining intelligence in the Warhammer 40K universe, called "prophecy".

The encirclement is gradually shrinking.

The Chaos Space Marines around them were approaching step by step.

"Disarm yourself, Fifty-Six."

Dinat Mar said calmly:

"Surrender to me. This is your only way out. For the sake of our teacher-student relationship, I can accept you into my band. Don't worry, you have a chance to redeem yourself from your crime. According to that great plan, you have to cooperate with us to infiltrate the Iron Pagoda regiment, then wait for an opportunity to disintegrate them, and finally kill Qingshan Khan... Think carefully about what to do."

"teacher..."

Facing the muzzles of guns, No. 56 sighed bitterly. He slowly raised one hand to indicate that he had no weapons, and with the other hand pressed the magnetic lock button on his waist. The plasma pistol, precision power sword, and pulse bolt gun hanging on his waist and thigh all fell to the ground, and then he raised his hands.

Express your surrender.

Damn it...

No. 56 blamed himself in his heart. There was no Iron Pagoda Legion troop stationed in the entire Calixis star sector, and now he couldn't even call for support.

But that's not all.

"I know who you are, number fifty-six."

Dinat Maar stared at him through narrowed eyes.

"Open your consciousness. Don't resist. I want to enter your mind and see what you really think. Then I can determine whether you really want to surrender."

"You know me as well as I know you."

Number 56 raised his eyes helplessly and looked at him:

"Come on, Master, I will hold nothing back."

In the Warhammer 40K universe, a common method used by psychic psychics is to directly enter the target's mind and forcibly explore the other party's thoughts, or to speak directly into the mind of others. This trick is disgusting, but many Inquisitors and Librarians will use it. As a Chaos Sorcerer who believes in Tzeentch, Dinat Maar naturally has this method.

This method is a very classic magic in the Harry Potter universe - Legilimency. Voldemort and Snape are both very famous Legilimency masters.

Unfortunately, however, the counter-spell to Legilimency - Occlumency - was exactly the first magic that No. 56 learned in the Harry Potter universe.

The teacher and the student looked at each other quietly.

Dinat Maar suddenly frowned:

"Your brain is empty..."

Number 56 smiled:

"Of course, I know you want to corrupt my mind, under the pretext of exploring my true thoughts, but in fact you want to force the order of 'assassinating Qingshan Khan' into me. I understand you, just as you understand me, my dear teacher."

The Chaos Wizard looked puzzled:

"You can...read minds?"

An Alpha warrior nearby noticed something was wrong and was about to pull the trigger, but No. 56 was quicker. He pointed his finger at the other man and shouted:

"Expelliarmus! (Expelliarmus)"

"Crash!"

The grenade launcher in the Chaos Space Marine's hand suddenly flew out of his hand, flew uncontrollably towards the wall behind him, and with a "snap" sound, it stuck firmly to the wall of the alley.

"Stupefy!"

"Petrificus Totalus!"

Fifty-six spells fired in succession.

A Chaos Space Marine suddenly felt dizzy and staggered forward a few steps, firing his bolter randomly. Several rounds hit No. 56's breastplate, splashing sparks, and more bombs hit his teammates directly.

Another Chaos Space Marine was about to draw his sword and strike, but suddenly his whole body froze and he could not move, he stood there like a statue, the Space Marine behind him could not retract in time and almost bumped into him. No. 56 dodged into the opponent's arms to avoid several shots, and took out the bolter pistol from the opponent's waist, grabbed his arm with one hand as a shield, and passed the gun through his armpit with the other hand, with the muzzle of the gun tilted back like a venomous snake.

"Bang!"

Blood rushed into the sky and one shot blew up his head.

Number 56 raised his hand and fired another shot.

"Bang!"

The explosive shell penetrated through the eyepiece and blew up the helmet.

The Alpha warrior who was hit by the petrification spell was also shot in the head.

"Impedimenta! (There are obstacles everywhere)"

Another obstacle spell, the Chaos Space Marine was like an insect trapped in invisible transparent mucus, the air around him was sticky, pulling and restraining him, his speed suddenly slowed down, and his whole movement turned into slow motion in a movie.

"Pah pah pah pah!"

No. 56 emptied his magazine in one breath, then threw away his bolter pistol, grabbed a chainsaw heavy sword and fought with the Chaos Space Marines that rushed over. He swung his sword to block the opponent's sword and stabbed the enemy's lower abdomen with one sword. Kill another person! No.

56 dodged the two chainsaw battle axes that were swinging at him, picked up the fine power sword on the ground, and swept it across to cut off the enemy's knee joint. He rolled sideways on the ground, turned his body to face upwards, and then pushed his feet hard on the ground to slide back a distance. He didn't know when he had a pulse bolter in his arms, and pulled the trigger at the enemy!

"Da da da da!"

A cross of flames suddenly burst out.

The Chaos Space Marine fell to the ground suddenly.

In a flash, the Chaos Space Marines that swarmed over all fell to the ground. Dinate Maar stood outside the encirclement with a staff in his hand, watching coldly as No. 56 slaughtered his former comrades, killing several Chaos Space Marines in a few seconds. His gauntlet clenched the staff tightly:

"That's enough!"

The end of the staff slammed heavily to the ground.

A circle of invisible ripples spread out in the surroundings.

Including No. 56, all the Space Marines were instantly knocked away by the psychic impact, and fell to the ground and hit the wall with a "crackling" sound. The originally crowded and narrow alley suddenly became empty. The Chaos Wizard walked over with a staff in hand, staring coldly at No. 56 lying on the ground.

What we've been waiting for is now.

"Imperio! (Imperiod)"

Number Fifty-Six chanted the spell again.

The Chaos Wizard had just been on guard when he suddenly noticed a Chaos Space Marine at his feet trembling all over, then looking up and letting out a sigh of happiness and joy, then suddenly raised the muzzle of his bolter and pulled the trigger at his Chaos Lord.

"Da da da da!"

The dense bombs were all embedded in the invisible psychic shield and could not advance an inch. They then exploded one after another into balls of fire. The fire was also blocked by the psychic shield, and the light disappeared dimly in front of this invisible barrier.

"It's all fancy."

Dinat Marr commented.

Number 56 cast the legendary Imperius Curse, controlling the Chaos Space Marines to fire at the Chaos Wizard, hoping to catch him by surprise, but the opponent was not afraid at all.

The Chaos Wizard raised his hand and grabbed, and No. 56 suddenly floated into the air. He struggled desperately in mid-air, trying to mobilize his negative emotions and used all his strength to raise his finger and yelled:

"Avada Kedavra!"

At the end of No. 56's raised fingertips, a flash of emerald green lightning suddenly burst out. This winding lightning struck the psychic shield fiercely, causing the shield to flicker dimly. However, until the lightning completely died out, it still failed to penetrate the psychic shield... Dinat Mal was still fine.

Two of the three unforgivable spells were used.

Number 56 has run out of tricks.

The Chaos Wizard clenched his hands suddenly.

"Snap!" "Snap!" "Snap!"

Number 56 was suspended in the air, trembling all over and unable to move. Electric arcs and sparks burst out from the gaps in the power armor. With a piercing noise, the entire breastplate was pulled off by psychic power, revealing the complex servo parts inside. Then came the abdominal armor, arm armor, leg armor, greaves... The entire set of MK8 anti-insurgency power armor was peeled off piece by piece.

"Look at your armor, and your paint... You betrayed the Son of Hydra, you betrayed Alpharius. I never thought that my student would be a traitor."

The Chaos Wizard shook his head and clicked his tongue.

"You betrayed humanity, bastard!"

Number 56 managed to squeeze out the sound with difficulty.

"Huh?"

The Chaos Wizard ignored his accusation. Instead, he spoke in surprise as if he had discovered something new:

"Your armor is trying to repair itself? Interesting, interesting. Who did this?"

Dinat Mar raised his head:

"Qingshan Khan?"

No. 56 had all his armor stripped off, leaving only some remnants of black electronic muscle fiber lining hanging on his naked body. He was fixed in mid-air, his muscles were squeezed by an invisible force, his neck kept twitching, and he couldn't speak.

"Cluck…cluck…"

There was a hissing sound of air in the throat.

"You are about to die, what else do you want to say?"

The Chaos Wizard took two steps forward, tilted his head close to Fifty-Six's mouth, and pretended to listen to his last words, then relaxed his control slightly to allow him to speak.

"Hehe... uh-huh."

Number 56 took a breath, and his neck finally stopped twitching. He then lowered his eyes, looked tiredly at the Chaos Wizard in front of him, and said with a regretful and slightly sighing tone:

"What I want to say is..."

"You're too close to me, Sensei."

What does that mean?

Dinat Maar hasn't responded yet.

A strange cobalt-blue colloid suddenly gushed out of No. 56's eye sockets, ears, nostrils, and mouth. In the blink of an eye, the Space Marine turned into a terrifying muscular giant, opening its bloody mouth full of densely packed sharp teeth and biting down fiercely.

"Crack!"

A crisp closing bang.

The Chaos Wizard disappeared from the shoulders up.

"Plop…"

The headless corpse collapsed.

The staff rolled to one side.

The great demon Tzeentch's conspiracy.

It failed at the first stage.

The symbiote retracted into the body of the Alpha Warrior, and No. 56 landed steadily. There was no time to think or feel, let alone celebrate the victory. He quickly walked towards a seriously injured and dying Chaos Space Marine, squatted down, grabbed his neck armor and pulled off his helmet. Looking at this fallen Astartes who looked exactly like him, No. 56 asked loudly:

"Tell me, where are they? Where are the other Space Marines? A Chaos warband cannot have only this many troops. Where are the others? What is your real goal?"

"Uh... too late."

The Space Marine's eyes were lifeless, blood foamed from his mouth, and dense scarlet bubbles filled his three lung cavities.

"You guys, it's too late..."

Then his head tilted and he died completely.

Number 56 slowly stood up.

His expression was shocked and even a little terrified.

He doesn't need the other person to speak, as long as the other person is thinking about it, his psychic ability of reading minds can get the answer.

The regiment must be notified immediately!

Number 56 picked up a tattered robe and put it on, then started running. He ran quickly in the alleys of the hive city, turned a corner, jumped over a bridge, and quickly climbed to the limestone fortress, a slender and tall purple-black stone tower - the headquarters of the Astropaths in the Sintira hive.

However, the door has not been opened yet.

Number 56's heart had sunk to the bottom.

The strong and pungent smell of blood was reminding him.

Number 56 raised his hand and pushed open the half-closed door.

As expected.

The entire Star Language Hall was littered with corpses.

All the Astropaths fell in a pool of blood.

"I have to return to the chapter's home planet immediately!"

Number Fifty-Six muttered to himself.

Without much hesitation, No. 56 turned around and headed straight for Sintira's spaceport.

...

(End of this chapter)