Chapter 628 Sid Nora's Daughter

Terra, Inquisition Headquarters.

The Inquisition Headquarters, located beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, is a massive, impenetrable complex, the infamous base of the Inquisition, unmatched in scale by any other Inquisition outpost within the human empire.

The shuttle landed on the tarmac. Sid Nora got out of the cabin, shook off the snowflakes on his cloak, and walked into the slowly opening gate of the underground passage with a chill. The sound of his heels echoed on the steel floor.

Walking down the passage, they came to a precision mechanical iron door. Sid Nora handed the cloak to the two monks following behind her, and told them to wait outside the door. No one could enter without her permission, and then she walked into her personal office at the headquarters of the Inquisition.

This was a large suite with many small compartments. With only a few lights overhead, the room looked dim and gloomy, and the furniture and objects were shrouded in a dark shadow, which was in line with the style of the secret agency, the Inquisition.

Sid Norah sat down leisurely.

Then he raised his hands and stretched.

She was very familiar with this kind of gloom, and it did not make her feel uncomfortable. Her desk was piled with various books and parchment scrolls. Sid Nora casually unfolded a sealed envelope, which was a reply from the Star Torch Court. The letter told her: According to the observation of the Star Torch Court, the Marx King Star Region is still shrouded in the subspace storm and communication is temporarily unavailable.

Sid Nora sighed when he saw this.

Because the Starry Sky Order also came to the same conclusion.

It has been a full ten years since that star sector and the chapter within it completely lost contact.

In the past ten years, Sid Nora has been promoted rapidly. She was a high-ranking Grand Inquisitor at the beginning. Five years ago, she was promoted to the Lord Inquisitor of the Demonic Tribunal. Now she is the Grand Master of the Tribunal of the Holy Hammer Convent, and she is in charge of the entire Holy Hammer Convent alone. At this position, Sid Nora has almost no room for promotion. If she wants to go further, she can only choose to become a representative of the Tribunal - the agent and spokesperson of the entire Tribunal in the High Lord Council.

All of this is certainly due to Sid Nora's own outstanding ability, but it is inseparable from the most crucial mysterious object, the secret that the Grand Master of the Inquisition has been carefully hiding - the divination device. Ten years ago, during the Second Battle of the Iron Belt, this dark heretic technological creation was seized from the Zhelas Space Station. Through this prophecy machine, Sid Nora can always know the movement of chaos in advance, and even detect clues long before the demons invade the real universe.

Using this divination device, Sid Nora thwarted countless Chaos plots. The evil rituals of Chaos believers were always destroyed by Sid Nora and his men before they began. As soon as the Chaos Demons broke through the barrier and descended into the real universe, they would find that the Inquisitor had already been waiting outside with the Grey Knights...

And the price required to activate a prophecy is only eight souls. The souls of prisoners and traitors are available in the dungeons of the Inquisition. Sid Nora was quickly promoted, but she also became more and more dependent on this dark heretic technology.

Logically speaking, ten years have passed, and Sid Nora, as the Grand Master of the Inquisition, is so busy with daily affairs that he should have given up the exploration and pursuit of the Marques King Star Region and the Iron Pagoda Regiment. Why did he suddenly think of confirming the situation in that star region again recently?

Or was it because of the divination instrument?

Not long ago, Sid Nora cruelly sacrificed the souls of eight prisoners and used this instrument to perform a routine divination. The result surprised her a little - the divination instrument only showed a short sentence:

"An old friend has returned."

What does "old friends come back" mean?

Sid Nora doesn't quite understand.

The Grand Master of the Inquisition has been a little uneasy these days, thinking about this incoherent prophecy. Out of some intuition, she wrote a letter to the Astronomican Court, asking for confirmation again whether the star region is still covered by the warp storm.

The conclusion is still disappointing.

"It's such a pity..."

Sid Nora rubbed his forehead and sighed.

The loss of contact with the Marcus King sector not only means that a rising genius among the Astartes has completely lost its luster, but also means that the Inquisition has lost a very important source of equipment - Sid Nora has always been obsessed with the anti-warp tactical team created by Qingshan Khan, which has greatly lowered the threshold for fighting against demons. In the past, only psychics were qualified to deal with these warp entities.

Sid Nora leaned back on the velvet chair and reached out to press hard on her lumbar spine, trying to relieve the stiffness and soreness. Although she was a powerful Beta-class psychic, she was already fifty years old and had not yet reached the point where she needed life extension surgery, but her physical condition was no longer as good as before. Time was always so cruel.

Sid Nora was pressing.

Suddenly she noticed something was wrong.

Sid Nora slowly turned around and looked behind him. The charcoal in the fireplace that had not yet burned out was emitting a warm light, and a spark floated out. Behind the fireplace was a shadow, but compared to the room in his impression, this shadow was a little larger, almost covering the entire wall next to the fireplace.

"Crash…"

There was a sound of turning pages in the shadows.

"Who is it? Who's there!"

Sid Nora suddenly stood up and shouted.

"Tsk tsk…"

A sigh of laughter sounded from the shadow, and then the shadow began to move. After a flash of light and shadow, a tall figure wearing power armor emerged from the shadow... Fu Qinghai took off his helmet, looked at the stunned Grand Master of the Tribunal in front of him, and said with a little emotion:

"Long time no see, Ms. Sid Nora."

"Aoyama!?"

Sid Nora exclaimed.

She stared at the Space Marine in front of her with wide eyes and subconsciously took two steps forward, as if to confirm his authenticity. She was almost touching his breastplate when she finally woke up with a start. She then remembered to activate her psychic perception to confirm that the person in front of her was not some entity or illusion created by some demon.

"Qingshan, it's really you."

Sid Nora still looked incredulous:

"So 'old friend returns' refers to you."

"What do you mean by 'old friend returns'?"

Fu Qinghai asked curiously, his eyes following Sid Nora's gaze to a corner of the room. He walked over and pulled away the black velvet covering the table, revealing the quietly operating precision instrument underneath. With an expected smile on his face, he turned to look at Sid Nora and said:

"Are you still using this dark heretic technological creation, Grand Master of the Inquisition, Sir Sid Nora?"

Fu Qinghai looked up at the ceiling, his tone full of amusement and irony. There was a motto carved in plaster lines, and he could see it clearly when he looked up:

"We are on guard at the last line of defense."

"This eternal watch cannot fail."

"We are the Holy Hammer!"

The motto of the Ordo Malleus.

"That's right."

Sid Norah freely admitted:

"To use the enemy's weapons against the enemy is extremely dangerous to one's soul. Nevertheless, it is still a satisfying thing to do."

"Yeah, okay."

Fu Qinghai nodded without comment. He had nothing more to say about the court's well-known double standards.

"So, Qingshan, what is all this about..."

Sid Nora asked impatiently.

"No hurry."

Fu Qinghai raised his hand and pressed down:

"Let me explain slowly... I've rarely come to your territory, you can't just let me stand here and chat with you, right? Is there anything to drink, Grand Master of the Inquisition?"

"I don't have any wine here, only Rekha coffee."

Sid Nora turned to get the mixing utensils.

Sid Nora is an extreme radical when it comes to dealing with dark and heretical technological creations, but in her personal life, she is like a Puritan.

…

Regarding what will happen in the future, Fu Qinghai picked out some relatively important points and points that can be revealed, and briefly talked to Sid Nora. Seeing that the Grand Master of the Tribunal of the Holy Hammer Order was still immersed in thinking about the future, Fu Qinghai leaned back in his chair, crossed his legs, raised his coffee and took a sip, but began to think about other issues in his heart.

Before he came to Antarctica to look for Sid Nora, Fu Qinghai first went to the Central Office of the Military Affairs Department to look for another acquaintance of his - the "Szu" of the White Scars, Lieutenant General Ilya Lavallee. But he came up empty-handed. By checking the records of the Military Affairs Department Office, Fu Qinghai finally learned that Ilya Lavallee was not in Terra but in Chogris.

"So why did you come to see me?"

Sid Nora looked up and asked seriously.

"I'm going to get you out of here."

Fu Qinghai said calmly while holding a cup of coffee.

"Take me away?"

Sid Nora asked incredulously.

"That's right. I will take you back to my timeline, and you will continue to be the Grand Master of the Inquisition."

Fu Qinghai put down his coffee cup and said:

"That's all I'm going to do."

"you..."

Sid Nora was stunned for a moment and then suddenly reacted.

After all, she was an old spy chief who had been in politics for a long time. She quickly understood Qingshan's intention: Qingshan had the leverage over her, and Qingshan also had the leverage over her. The two of them were on the same boat. But in comparison, the Inquisition was the supervisor and the Astartes were the supervised. It was relatively safe for them to play with these dark heretical technologies, while Qingshan and his men needed more political protection.

"You want me to help you in the future?"

Sid Nora asked seriously.

"Yes."

Fu Qinghai nodded and admitted.

"Your idea is really selfish, Qingshan. Have you ever thought that I will abandon all the achievements, power, and status that I have worked so hard to achieve, and go to an uncertain future with you, and then I will have to start from scratch...all for your political safety?"

Sid Nora asked in a deep voice.

"Ha ha."

Fu Qinghai smiled, he stood up the book he was reading, cleared his throat and began to read:

"The weak are always led by the strong. The strong find their goals and take action, but the weak will only follow blindly; the strong will not fear difficulties and resist fate, but the weak will only succumb. There are many weak people in this world, and many are tempted by them. Hate these weak people, because they will surely bow down to the feet of demons and traitors. There is no need to pity them, let alone pay attention to their innocent cries - it is better to have a hundred innocent people fall to the wrath of the Emperor than one person kneeling to the devil."

This passage is excerpted from "Teaching Collection: One".

A guide book for the Inquisition.

Fu Qinghai raised the book in his hand and said:

"Apply this to both of us. I'm the strong one, you're the weak one, and you should obey me. And I don't have to pay attention to your grumbling and complaints, right?"

"wrong."

Sid Nora was not outraged.

Instead, he shook his head calmly and said:

"You have misinterpreted the original meaning of the Teachings, and I don't think I am the 'weakling'."

"Then how do you think I sneaked into the headquarters of the Inquisition without making any noise? Have you ever thought about this question?"

Fu Qinghai spread his hands and smiled,

"The mortal guards, armed servitors, and servos in the entire base were all unaware of my presence and let me in. When you face me, it's like the innocent mortals described in the Instructions facing the Inquisitor. To me, there's not much difference between you and ordinary mortals. You're both weaklings who can be killed with a wave of my hand."

As soon as Fu Qinghai finished speaking, all the lights in the room suddenly lit up, and the originally dark and gloomy room suddenly became brightly lit. Fu Qinghai snapped his fingers again, and suddenly all the lights in the room went out.

Sid Nora's face was a little surprised and confused for a moment, but she knew in her heart that given her friendship with Qingshan, he would not really attack her because of this matter. He was just showing off his threatening means.

"You have some prejudice against the Inquisition, Qingshan."

Sid Nora lowered his head and sighed.

"At least I'm not prejudiced against you."

Fu Qinghai put his hands behind his head and said,

"Think about it carefully."

"I've thought it through very clearly."

Sid Nora shook his head firmly and said:

"I will not follow you into the future. You don't understand the situation here, Qingshan. The Inquisition is very complicated. This huge and bloated organization has many factions within it, and it is endowed with almost unlimited power. Although I am the beneficiary of this power, and although I also enjoy the process of controlling this power, I have to say that this organization must be controlled by me personally to ensure that it is always on the right path."

Sid Norah said sincerely:

"I am not someone who is greedy for power. I choose to stay because it is my responsibility and my obligation. I want to ensure that the largest order in the Holy Inquisition, the Demonic Inquisition, always stays on the right track. The fighting and strife within the Inquisition is very cruel. I am the representative of the Occultists. If I follow you, this faction will be brutally suppressed by the group of Pure Inquisitors until it is completely destroyed."

The Observer faction?

Fu Qinghai had never heard of this faction.

It's not his fault, because there are too many factions within the Inquisition, which can be roughly divided into the Purity Faction and the Radical Faction. Fu Qinghai knows that Sid Nora belongs to the Radical Faction, but the Radical Faction can be further divided into: the Xansi Faction, the Sacrifice Faction, the Horus Faction, the Reunification Faction, the Istvan Faction...

There are no factions within the party, and there are all kinds of strange things.

Each Inquisitor has his own unique views on how to revive the human empire. As the Grand Master of the Inquisition of the Holy Hammer Convent, Sid Nora is more or less the leader of the party. She really cannot leave her post easily, otherwise the faction she represents will lose in the struggle.

Sid Nora said a lot of high-sounding words, but the last two sentences finally hit the point: she couldn't leave because of party disputes, and she was burdened with factional burdens.

"You want to place your own people in the Inquisition. I understand this request. This problem is easy to solve. It does not necessarily require me to follow you into the future. I have a daughter who is also a demon inquisitor. No one in the Inquisition knows about my relationship with her, but I will do my best to promote her and ensure that she can help you in the future. Of course, I also very much hope that you and your regiment can help her."

Sid Nora offers her solution.

"Wait...you have a daughter?"

Fu Qinghai looked at the Grand Master of the Tribunal in surprise.

"What's so strange about that?"

Sid Norah shrugged and laughed:

"I was young once, and I was beautiful once. If I were 10 or 20 years younger, and if you were not a Space Marine, I wouldn't mind having a passionate relationship with a handsome man like you... But now, I have dedicated everything I have to the Emperor."

Look at what you said...

Fu Qinghai thought to himself:

How dare you conclude that Qingshan Khan doesn't like mature women?

"No... this is not the point."

Fu Qinghai quickly waved his hands to throw away the messy thoughts in his mind, and said in a serious tone:

"Do you know what I mean by 'future'? I was swept into the time turbulence in the storm to seven hundred years later, and now I have traveled back from seven hundred years later - please note, not ten years or twenty years, but a full seven hundred years! Every timeline I discussed with you is based on 'hundreds' or even 'thousands of years'. How can your daughter live a thousand years later? Is she an immortal like Malcador?"

"No, she's not immortal."

Sid Nora shook his head slowly and said:

"But I'm sure she can be a great help to you in the future, and I'm sure she will fully support you as I do, because you are the same kind of people."

The same kind of people? What does that mean?

Fu Qinghai was pondering this sentence.

"You and she are both reincarnations."

Sid Nora has already solved the mystery.

"puff..."

Fu Qinghai spat out a mouthful of coffee.

Sid Nora smiled.

It was not until this moment that she finally laughed heartily.

Since Fu Qinghai secretly sneaked into the headquarters of the Tribunal, Sid Nora has been at a disadvantage in this negotiation or game of chess. Because she didn't know how Qingshan sneaked in here quietly, and how he controlled the electronic equipment in the room at will. But now, she finally turned the tables, and revealed Qingshan's true identity in one sentence, which made him show such an expression. Sid Nora was secretly proud.

"Do you think we are unaware? Do you think we know nothing? Then you underestimate the Inquisition, Qingshan. Although our reputation is not very good, we are not here to eat and do nothing. In my position, many secrets are no longer secrets to me. This is not the first time I have come into contact with a reincarnation. I imprisoned one in my dungeon some time ago. His figure would disappear after a period of time, and he would return to the dungeon again after a period of time. You are like fragments in the long river of time, and the Order of Time and Space has long noticed you."

Sid Nora spread his hands and smiled.

The Order of Space and Time is the Time Chamber of the Inquisition.

Similar to the Temporal Anomaly Management Bureau in the Marvel Universe.

It's just that the status, rights and responsibilities are far less than the latter.

"So your plan is..."

Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes and wiped his mouth and asked.

"This universe is too cruel. Being an Inquisitor who fights against non-material beings is not a power but a danger. Please take care of my daughter for me, Qingshan. This is my request to you, for we have fought side by side before."

Sid Nora spoke earnestly.

"All right..."

Fu Qinghai nodded helplessly.

Ultimately, he was unable to convince Sid Nora to leave with him, but the Grand Master of the Inquisition did offer her solution, a solution that he did not expect.

The two looked at each other in silence for a moment.

At this moment, the heavy and sophisticated iron door of the room, which was as thick and precise as a bank vault, suddenly made a mechanical turning sound. The two of them turned their heads to look, and Fu Qinghai was particularly surprised - because he did not order Qinghun to open the iron door, which meant that the iron door was being opened from the outside.

"Crack…"

The steel gate slowly opened outwards.

An acolyte bowed and walked in quickly.

"What are you doing? I told you that no one can enter here without my permission!"

Sid Nora immediately turned around and shouted.

"Lord Sid Nora."

The acolyte lowered his head so low that he didn't even notice the Space Marine sitting in front of Sid Nora. He just raised one arm and pointed behind him, saying in a trembling voice:

"Yes... a captain of the imperial guards."

Imperial Guards? Someone's coming from the palace?

Qingshan Khan and Sid Nora were both stunned, and then they stretched their heads to look outside. Sure enough, they saw a tall golden figure standing in the passage outside the door. The top of the golden helmet was a red tassel like a corn ear, and in his hand was a power spear combined with a bolter. He just stood there quietly, without saying a word.

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(End of this chapter)