Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

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morning.

"Lord Chuck, you have a letter from Priest Vic of the Adeptus Mechanicus."

"I see."

Chuck, one of the three inquisitors currently on the ship, took the letter sent by the servant, opened it and read it carefully.

This was a routine report about what Vic saw on the hive world.

Although none of this information is important, and the Inquisition can obtain this information that cannot be concealed through a hundred means, Vic's existence still greatly speeds up the acquisition of information.

After recording all the information in the letter, Chuck walked to the porthole of the room and observed everything outside as usual.

In front of the ship are two space fortresses. The shape of these fortresses is not a bastion-like structure, but a very standard circle.

A large number of black spheres were flying back and forth around the building, and many machines that looked like some kind of sea creatures were climbing up and down the shell of the fortress.

Chuck doesn't understand why people in this galaxy like spheres so much.

The fortress in front of us is like this, and so are the man-made buildings in the orbit of the hive world, just larger or smaller in size.

After thinking for a moment, Chuck suddenly recalled a speculation that Vic once told him.

Maybe the role of the fortress we see now is not just a fortress, but a small-scale celestial system. Maybe the two existing fortresses are satellites of some super-large planet-like building in the future, just like forts.

Chuck thought this was ridiculous. He only felt that the things in front of him had a unique beauty, giving him a solemn and solemn feeling.

"Don't you think this is charming?" Chuck suddenly said to the servant.

"I only feel horror." The servant replied, "I can't imagine if those two fortresses were equipped with weapons and opened fire on us..."

Chuck is a good person, so the servants dare to tell the truth in front of him, and Chuck also likes to hear the truth. What he hates most is lies, and what he likes most is machinery.

"Don't be so hostile and prejudiced." Chuck turned to look at the servant, "Don't be like Lena. Those conservative lunatics think everyone is a heretic. She told me before that you might be a heretic. .”

"Nothing can shake my loyalty to you," the servant said, kneeling.

"I know." Chuck said.

Both fell silent.

Until the slave on the ship brought breakfast into the room, he walked to the porthole without raising his head and presented the plate to Chuck.

Chuck picked up the bread and wine sandwiched with nutritional paste, and while eating, he observed the construction work of the fortress outside the porthole.

When a machine controlled by a human did not secure itself firmly to the surface of the fortress and floated away from the surface of the fortress due to some bumps during work, Chuck would stop and watch nervously.

And when the machine used various methods to float back to the surface of the fortress and continue working, Chuck would clenched his fists and cheered for him.

After eating a happy breakfast, Chuck looked at the servant and asked: "Have you seen Lena since last night? I went to look for her last night, and there seemed to be no one in the room."

"Yes." The servant replied respectfully, "I saw the Lord Inquisitor on the apron."

"Farewell, Lord Inquisitor, she is just a torturer like me, not a formal inquisitor." Chuck said and walked out of the room.

When the servant wanted to ask Chuck where he wanted to go, he only heard one sentence from Chuck without looking back.

"I have to keep an eye on that bitch to prevent her from secretly making things worse."

…

After a while.

Chuck leaned against the door frame of Lena's room and listened quietly to her explanation of why she believed that everyone in the Tyrone Galaxy was a heretic.

These reasons are very similar to those mentioned yesterday. There is not much detailed evidence. They all rely on feeling and suspicion of various technological creations of unknown origin in the Tyrone galaxy.

The suspicion of technological creations of unknown origin is also the focus of the investigation by Chuck and another inquisitor. They also think that these technological creations are strange, but they do not think that people who use such technological creations are heretics.

After listening, Chuck said to Lena: "Have you ever thought that these things might be made from STC templates?"

"Are you kidding me?" Reina couldn't believe her ears. She stood up and yelled at Chuck and asked: "There are so many STC templates appearing in a remote galaxy that is not even divided into star sectors. What do you think? Is it normal?!"

Chuck was already used to Lena's attitude. He looked at Lena indifferently and said in an understatement: "Then what do you think is going on? A super powerful person appeared in a remote galaxy that is not even divided into star sectors. He is He researched these technological creations? Are you kidding me?"

Lena was left speechless. She originally wanted to talk about the possibility that these technologies were alien creations, but she also felt that this was impossible. She finally gave up arguing and pushed Chuck away before leaving the room.

Chuck watched Lena leave quietly.

He was very suspicious of what this guy did yesterday, but now it seems that she didn't do anything, she just left her room.

Out of professional habit, Chuck even doubted whether Lena was still the same person as before, but based on her performance, it was concluded that this doubt was completely unnecessary.

After making sure that Lena did nothing last night, Chuck also walked out of the room.

But just after Chuck took more than a dozen steps, he suddenly thought of something. No one knew about Reina when she planned the kidnapping operation. Maybe she deliberately concealed something?

After thinking of this, Chuck turned back to Lena's room and began to search everything here.

After rummaging for a long time, Chuck's eyes fell on a diamond-shaped metal box on the table. He recognized it as an item that Reina carried with her and could be used to record things remotely.

Chuck immediately opened the box and looked at its contents.

There was a piece of paper inside, and it was blank, with nothing on it.

"Hmph, you'd better not do anything." Chuck snorted and put down the box, but he did not leave immediately. Instead, he took five steps back, then moved two steps to the left, and finally moved back a little. step.

After walking a few steps as if performing a ritual, Chuck squatted down, picked up the floor beneath his feet, and took out a very tiny listening device from inside.

Chuck put the bug in his ear and listened to the recording, then closed the floorboards, turned and left the room, closing the door.

"I cut off your head, heretic!"

"Witness my glory, my victory! Witness the death of you evil governor!"

At first they were just a few words in sleep, and Chuck frowned when he heard them, but just when he was about to take out the bug, he heard another set of footsteps.

It was the sound produced when the power armor collided with the metal floor.

Chuck frowned and realized that things were not simple. His intuition told him that someone entered Rena's room last night, and it was a person wearing power armor.

The collision sound produced by this power armor was not loud, and it was different from the noise made by ordinary power armor, which made Chuck even more suspicious.

By the time he finished listening to the recording, Chuck had already walked to his room.

"The priest is waiting for you." The servant reported respectfully to Chuck who came in, then walked out of the room and closed the door.

Chuck looked towards the table, and sure enough he saw Vic sitting there. The priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus turned his neck behind his back and was staring at him.

"Listen to this." Chuck sat down at the table, took out the bug and placed it on the table.

Vic stared at the bug for a while. The hearing enhancement device he implanted had transferred the contents of the bug and played it back.

"It's a normal recording." Vic gave a cold response after listening to it.

"Normal? No!" Chuck lowered his voice, "Is it possible that a person teleported into Rena's room last night, then picked her up and took her away? Have you seen the capabilities of those teleportation devices, and those high-level Power armor, don’t you think it’s weird?”

Vic's only remaining flesh-and-blood eye stared at Chuck, and after a moment of silence, he said in a commanding tone: "Destroy it."

Chuck neither agreed nor refused, just sat silently.

"Destroy it." Vic repeated his order like a machine.

Chuck was silent for a few more minutes before picking up the bug, holding it in his hand and crushing it to pieces.

There was no expression on Vic's face, which was only a quarter of flesh, and there was no wave in his eyes.

"This is a troublesome matter. I hope you make the right decision, because we will be in big trouble if things are exposed in the future." Chuck warned while sprinkling the powder on the table, "You'd better think about it carefully... …Father."

There is a development period between the second volume and the first volume, which is one and a half years. I have skipped this year and a half, so the second volume is one and a half years after the last chapter of the first volume.