Chapter 623 Crystal Statue

The halls of the battleship Vengeful Spirit are inhabited by countless horrors, and the Black Legion knew this a long time ago. It was precisely because Kayan knew this that he dared to actively lure the Parasite Legion and the Black Templar to board the flagship of the Legion. He wanted to use the things in the Vengeful Spirit to bury the enemy.

The depths of the ship are rife with strange mutations, which go on unnoticed and unchecked for long periods of time, sometimes even entire generations. Lowly clans of mutants or tribes of beastmen might eke out a living there, but the deepest decks are often too dangerous and hostile for mortals.

After all, the Queen of Glory class battleship is so huge that it is no exaggeration to say that it is comparable to a city. Many areas of this battleship are not actually under the actual control of the Black Legion, but are occupied by other indescribable things. The Black Legion crew only controls the core operating area of ​​the battleship, and other areas are not visited at all. The two sides have formed a weird balance of not interfering with each other.

Small groups and warbands were sent out to clean up and explore, but not all returned safely. Those who did return reported that a mixed ecosystem of creatures and demons was thriving in the deepest areas, where the air had become a miasma and the walls had become wriggling pits of undulating flesh and crystals had grown from the surface of human bones.

This is the hallmark of the Warhammer 40K universe.

The battleship is indeed your battleship.

But the stuff in the battleship.

Not entirely at your disposal.

The Black Legion's legionnaires fought against Daravek's boarding troops in such halls and passages, and at the same time, they fought against the halls and passages themselves. The injured Space Marines on both sides were either devoured by the warships themselves or eaten by the demons committed to the warships' flexible skeletons.

All sorts of bizarre mutated creatures that had lost all genetic purity centuries ago emerged from the ship's walls like ghosts, spraying smoke-black bile like squid at the warring Space Marines. These psychic inks floated in the air like water, expanding and corroding armor.

A horde of blind, lost creatures with no concept of sunlight rose up against the Parasite Legion Space Marines, who were forced to hack and slash these dehydrated husks just because they blocked their way. These bodies, with only some flesh remaining, fell to the ground and screamed and scratched at the Space Marines' boots.

Although these mutant creatures were not very powerful, they had a supernatural tenacious vitality that caused the boarding troops to never tire of it - however, the most difficult ones were not these ordinary bottom cabin mutant creatures, but the chaos demons that occupied the bodies of the mutant creatures and attached to the related structures of the warships.

These unliving monsters have built their lairs in this suffocating darkness. The chaotic thoughts they exude oppress the nerves of the Space Marines, filling their senses with foolish hunger and morbid despair. Just to avoid being tainted by the primitive impulses of the demons in battle has caused many Space Marines to have splitting headaches and sweat profusely.

On the other side of the battlefield, on the port side of the Vengeful Spirit, Fu Qinghai was also crossing these "obstacles". However, for him, after experiencing the triple psychic plague of the Plague Father of Nurgle, these mutant creatures and Chaos Demons hidden in the cabin of the Vengeful Spirit were nothing - he was really swimming in a maggot pit and a sea of ​​feces.

The boarding torpedo that Fu Qinghai was on hit an unfortunate position, and he had just stepped into the passage when he was surrounded by mutant creatures and Chaos Demons. However, compared with the difficulties faced by Chaos Space Marines, these miscellaneous soldiers and monsters could not cause him any interference or hindrance at all.

The elusive sub-space creatures hiding in the wall were nowhere to be found in the spiritual vision goggles. Without waiting for them to suddenly appear and attack, Fu Qinghai raised his hand and grabbed the spirit out of the wall. He grabbed the screaming and struggling spirit with his claws and put it into his mouth to chew it.

Fu Qinghai ate while walking, cutting melons and vegetables with ease, and quickly passed through this area. Killing these mutants, chaos demons and subspace creatures cannot gain assimilation points - which means that although they are inside the Soul of Vengeance, they do not belong to the Black Legion camp. However, they can replenish the consumption of the ghost armor in the previous battle to a certain extent.

Due to the disordered modification and psychic pollution, the channel structure of the Spirit of Vengeance has become extremely complex, far exceeding that of the Eternal Expedition. Fu Qinghai can only move forward in a general direction. He firmly believes that even if Abaddon is not on the bridge, other key members of the Black Legion must be there. As long as he kills his way to the bridge, he can kill the core leadership of the Black Legion.

After killing many mutants and passing through several corridors, Fu Qinghai finally encountered the first group of Chaos Space Marines under a towering dome decorated entirely with warm white jade. The two sides started fighting without saying a word as soon as they met. The bombs rained down on the outer shell of his armor, and Fu Qinghai quickly slaughtered all the traitors.

However, it was not until the explosive bomb hit his shoulder armor and bounced to the top, causing a pile of debris to fall in front of him. Fu Qinghai picked up the debris and observed it carefully, then he suddenly realized that the "white jade dome" above his head was actually made entirely of densely packed human teeth - he didn't know what kind of blasphemous rituals and cruel tortures the traitors had held in this hall.

You killed a Parasite Legion Space Marine.

[Calculating assimilation points reward...]

A series of cold reminder sounds rang out.

The name of the enemy camp was somewhat unexpected to him.

"The Parasite Legion has also joined us?"

Fu Qinghai opened the white suitcase and talked to himself.

The silver-gray granular liquid flowed out of the box again, quickly outlining the shape of the power armor. Without Fu Qinghai's further instructions, the Blue Shell Power Armor immediately transformed into a pharmacist and squatted on one knee, inserted the bone drill and began to collect the gene seeds from each Chaos Space Marine corpse one by one.

The gene seeds have been collected.

Fu Qinghai continued to move forward.

He encountered countless Chaos Space Marines. He killed the World Eaters and Alphas, the Thousand Sons and the Death Guard. He killed a Son of Horus warrior - pinching his neck until his claws crushed the cervical armor and sank into his throat, then smashing his head on the deck. He killed the Night Lords, the Emperor's Children, the Iron Warriors... Space Marines from all nine Traitor Legions turned into wailing ghosts under his claws.

Sometimes he rushed into a narrow passage like a charging rhino, violently slashing down all living things that moved. Sometimes he was like a patient lurking wolf spider, using the claws on his fingertips and the hooks on his wings to climb quietly on the cables and pipes on the ceiling, and then dropped from the sky into the enemy camp.

A claw sank into the mouth of a Space Marine in spiked armour, and with a tug he ripped off his entire jaw and visor. He turned around and chopped another man into a human stick. When the traitor's jaw was torn from his head, the scream that came from his throat was inhuman.

There are many horror legends circulating in the Spirit of Vengeance, but Qingshan Khan is more terrifying than any of them, enough to become the nightmare of this enchanted warship.

[You killed the Black Legion Space Marines]

[Calculating assimilation points reward...]

You killed a Parasite Legion Space Marine.

[Calculating assimilation points reward...]

For Fu Qinghai, the biggest advantage of this boarding operation is that he does not need to distinguish between friend and foe. All living creatures seen in the Spirit of Vengeance can be killed without discrimination. The Samsara World will almost always give assimilation points as rewards - at most there will be no rewards but no deductions. It seems that there is no one from the human empire camp in this battleship.

There is no innocent person.

"Master, I have a discovery to report."

The power armor behind him suddenly spoke.

"What did you find?"

Fu Qinghai stopped and turned to ask, panting. There were piles of broken corpses at his feet.

The Blue Shell Power Armor raised the medical needle on his arm, and a slightly dull voice came from the loudspeaker:

"We have just harvested a gene seed. According to the gene comparison and matching data of the Astartes Legion provided by Master Quinto, it is confirmed that this gene seed belongs to the Dark Angel Legion. I think this sample is a little unusual, so I need to report it to you and remind you to pay attention. Report completed."

Dark Angel gene-seed?

Why are there Dark Angels here?

Fu Qinghai was stunned when he heard this.

Then he immediately reacted:

"Fallen angel!"

Abaddon's Black Legion not only has Space Marines from the nine Traitor Legions, but also traitors from the Loyalist Legions! The most famous traitor among the Loyalist Legions is the little secret of the First Legion - the Fallen Angels. This discovery is not surprising. Fallen Angels can be said to be everywhere. They are behind all kinds of conspiracies and secrets. It is normal for them to choose to join the Black Legion.

Qingshan Khan still had some bottom line and moral integrity. He never collected the gene seeds of friendly Space Marines during battle. Tiefutu had fought side by side with the two Blood Angels, Flesh Tearers and Bloodthirsters, and had not collected their gene seeds. Fu Qinghai also did not touch the gene seeds of the Space Marines who died in the Black Templars.

But this situation would not last long. As long as the Iron Pagoda Chapter adhered to the basic strategy of obtaining gene seeds from the traitors, sooner or later they would collect the gene seeds of the loyal Space Marine Legions - because the traitors also had to use pure gene seeds to create new Space Marines. And in the next 10,000 years, there were also loyal Space Marine Chapters that constantly rebelled and brought pure gene seeds to Chaos.

It is said that some of the Chaos warbands after the Alpha Legion split used the gene seeds of the White Scars and the Raven Guard, which is a legacy of the Horus Heresy. The most exaggerated is the Iron Warriors. It is said that nearly one-third of the Space Marines in the Iron Warriors Legion used the gene seeds of their most hated enemy, the Imperial Fists, which is another problem caused by the Heart of Hydra Campaign.

Fu Qinghai never thought there would be any problem with using the gene-seed of the Traitor Legions. After Belisarius Cawl initiated the Ultramarines, many Primaris Space Marine companies or chapters were nominally descendants of the Ultramarines or Imperial Fists, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that they must have used the gene-seed of the Traitor Legions, and therefore looked different.

"Put this gene seed away."

Fu Qinghai instructed the armor.

"Understood, Master."

Power Armor stiffness recovery.

The discovery of the Dark Angel's gene seed brought Fu Qinghai back to his senses from the endless killing. Taking the opportunity to catch his breath, he also thought about what other discoveries might be found in the legendary battleship, the Spirit of Vengeance. Sanguinius died on the Spirit of Vengeance, and it is said that his body has turned into a crystal statue that will appear randomly in various locations in the battleship. Kayan's psychic field sword was made from fragments of Sanguinius's sword and statue.

But Fu Qinghai had fought for so long and crossed a large area of ​​the Spirit of Vengeance, but he had never seen any crystal statues, let alone the crystal statue of Sanguinius. He did not want to look for it deliberately, because killing the future Chaos Warmaster Abaddon was his main mission.

Fu Qinghai took a breath and continued to move forward.

Walk through the hold area to the lower deck.

Here Fu Qinghai saw the mortal crew members on the Spirit of Vengeance - mortal crew members composed of mutants, beastmen and cultists. Just like the mortal crew members in the Imperial Navy warships always form macro cannon families, torpedo families, and engine families, the mortal crew members in the Chaos warships are also the same. It's just that they occupy a piece of land in the form of tribes and clans, which are darker and more barbaric and more law of the jungle. The bad habits of Chaos Space Marines seem to have infected them.

Fu Qinghai saw with his own eyes that a beastman with a sheep's head was knocked unconscious by the shock of artillery fire. Instead of treating him, his fellow beastmen around him swarmed over him and used all kinds of crude weapons to kill and dismember him. Then the strongest beastman seized his position and power and continued to control the macro cannon to aim.

Fu Qinghai knew very well that Beastmen, as a type of mutant, looked rough and primitive, but they were not barbarians without discipline and conscience. In the early days of the human empire, Beastmen were even allowed to join the Imperial Guard as a member of the subhuman auxiliary army, just like the Ogryns and the Ratlings.

However, with the outbreak of the rebellion, many Beastmen who had suffered from bullying and oppression finally chose to join Horus' camp to fight against the Empire. After being defeated, they followed the Chaos Space Marine Legions to escape into the Eye of Terror, and gradually multiplied to form the main component of the vassal armies of the current Chaos warbands.

Unlike the mortal slaves that were captured, Fu Qinghai had nothing to say to the Beastmen crew, and he just went up and hacked them. These bloodthirsty and cruel Chaos accomplices saw the invaders and picked up their weapons to fight. However, the Beastmen holding old laser guns and wearing tattered armor were no match for Fu Qinghai, and they were soon killed and fled in all directions.

Killing these crew members will also earn you assimilation points.

Based on the principle that no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.

Fu Qinghai chased a beastman crew member into the messy shacks and pipes next to the giant macro cannon. Fu Qinghai pounced and pinned down the strong goat-headed man, who was as tall as an ordinary space warrior. The man let out a miserable howl and fell into a pool of blood. Fu Qinghai looked up and suddenly found that this narrow and crowded pipe was full of beastman women with big bellies and children in their arms.

Fu Qinghai stood up slowly.

He frowned and looked at these mutant humans.

They were all women, ranging in age from young to old. They had goat-like deformed heads and white or mottled hair on their skin. What they had in common was that they all had bulges in their abdomens, some large and some small, and they all had babies in their arms who were breastfeeding.

These beastmen women huddled together, looking up at Fu Qinghai with terrified and evasive eyes. Malnutrition and continuous pregnancy and childbirth made their lower limbs swollen and their faces sallow. They seemed to have lost the ability to escape and could only sit on a few dirty and tattered blankets covered with black oil, dried blood and smelly amniotic fluid, trembling.

Waiting for the impending fate of death.

Although Fu Qinghai knew very well that the Goldokin Purebred Manual had already excluded the beastmen from the ranks of humans. Although Fu Qinghai knew very well that they were all traitors, and the children in their bellies were also traitors. Although Fu Qinghai knew very well that they, and the offspring they were about to give birth to, would cause harm to tens of millions of humans in the future.

But in the end…

Fu Qinghai clenched his iron claws and then loosened them.

In the end, he was unable to attack the pregnant woman and the baby.

"well..."

Fu Qinghai sighed, slowly turned around, found a black ammunition box, bent down and sat down. He took off his helmet to reveal his tired face, took a deep breath of the dirty and smelly air here, and did not look at the group of beastmen again. He stared at the ground in front of him and said hoarsely:

"Water, and food."

The beastmen pregnant women looked at each other.

No one dared to make any move.

"Don't tell me you don't understand Gothic."

Fu Qinghai added impatiently.

The beastmen pregnant women exchanged glances, and finally a young, thin, and slightly belly-sized sheep girl, dragged her swollen thighs and knelt on the ground, moving towards the dark pipe behind the shed. A moment later, the sheep girl held an iron bowl and a can, and carefully knelt in front of Fu Qinghai, lowered her head, and raised the items in her hands.

Fu Qinghai took the iron bowl and drank it all.

The water in the bowl had a bitter smell of disinfectant and rusty iron pipes, but it was probably the cleanest water they could find. Fu Qinghai had a sense of taste and was not worried that they would poison the water and food.

After drinking the water, he looked at the tin can again. It contained a white turbid liquid that was as thick as a lump of wet cheese and smelled like fermented sourness. Fu Qinghai frowned and looked at the beastmen pregnant women. One of the women pointed at her sagging and deflated breasts.

Fu Qinghai shook his head helplessly.

Or just lift the can and swallow it.

Fu Qinghai was really hungry, tired, thirsty and hungry. The food in the white suitcase had been eaten up when he crossed the subspace storm. He only had one meal before the battle - the prison meal in the bottom cabin of the Eternal Expedition. Facing the legendary Chaos Warmaster Abaddon, who was chosen by the four gods, and his subordinates, the little kami, who each had their own unique skills, Fu Qinghai had to ensure that he was not in the worst condition.

Finished drinking water and eating milk.

Fu Qinghai stood up and put on his helmet.

Ignoring the group of pregnant beastmen looking at him nervously, Fu Qinghai walked straight out of the messy shack area and continued the battle. However, just as he walked out of the shed, Fu Qinghai suddenly became nervous and his hair stood on end. He subconsciously raised his iron claws and took a half step back, assuming a defensive posture.

At this time in front of Fu Qinghai.

A crystal statue stands quietly.

This crystal clear statue, which is nearly four to five meters tall, is so lifelike, and Fu Qinghai is very familiar with the person depicted in the statue: a handsome and perfect face, long, smooth hair parted in the middle, and a pair of huge white wings behind him, decorated with exquisite pearls and gems.

Sanguinius!

Crystal statue of Sanguinius.

Fu Qinghai stared up at the statue blankly.

He had just entered from this passage and was coming out of the same passage now. Fu Qinghai was very sure and confident that there was no statue here just now. However, within the few minutes after he entered, there was no unusual sound outside, but a statue appeared out of thin air.

The legend of the vengeful spirit is true!

Unlike what he had imagined, the face of the crystal statue did not contain the anger and pain that Sanguinius had before his death. On the contrary, the statue looked calm and straight into the distance, as if it was looking into the future as predicted.

The only regret is that this statue is not perfect. Its left arm is completely broken and disappeared, and the sword held in the palm of its right arm is also gone. Only an empty cylindrical hole remains, representing where there used to be a hilt.

What exactly does this mean?

Fu Qinghai stood there, confused.

What should I do now?

......

(End of this chapter)