Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

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Compared with the meeting with Kaul, Qin Mo's meeting with Inquisitor Horst was much more formal.

Just like having a meeting.

Qin Mo, the leader of Tyrone, Adam, the marshal of Tyrone fleet, and Gray, who represented the army and the imperial guards, attended the meeting together.

This meeting will not determine the fate of the entire Talon galaxy, but it will decide whether a total of 17.2 billion people in the three worlds will go to war with their own kind.

In the conference room of Xincato's command building, Horst and Qin Mo sat opposite each other.

"I know that the Tyron system fought a brutal war a year ago, and the loyalists were heretics. I know that most people in this system do not want a war."

Horst's voice was calm. He lowered his head and looked at the documents on the desktop while giving a very plain explanation.

"But you still went too far."

"Of course, you can express objections to the investigation of the Inquisition, but you cannot intercept the Inquisitors at the edge of the galaxy, or even send an entire fleet to attack the ship they are on."

Horst glanced at Adam as he spoke.

Adam was extremely tough during the confrontation. He issued a well-known order: If the target ship crosses the border, we will destroy the ship before the fortress.

"From the beginning of the investigation to now, everything you have done has added fuel to the fire."

Having said this, Horst snapped his fingers at the attendant beside him.

The attendant immediately took out a box from his waist and opened the box respectfully.

Qin Mo saw that the box contained a revolver and six engraved bullets. That pistol was a very delicate and beautiful but ancient revolver with a slightly sci-fi appearance. It was probably a collector's item.

"This was once the weapon of a tyrant. I killed him and kept this weapon as a collection." Horst said, taking out the revolver from the box, then pulling out the magazine and filling it with bullets.

Horst explained his reasoning as he loaded the bullet.

"What you're doing is like loading this gun."

"For example, intercepting the ships of the Inquisition, or taking in the people of the Weeper Chapter. The Weeper should have been on an expedition. Every excessive thing is adding a bullet to this gun."

Horst stopped when five bullets were loaded, then slid the magazine and swung the gun body. The revolver's magazine returned to the firing position, and the entire gun was ready to fire.

"If I pull the trigger at this time, the bullet may or may not be fired. It all depends on the probability, and when five bullets are loaded, the probability of the bullet not being fired is very low." Horst said He raised his gun and pointed it at Qin Mo.

Gray and Adam looked at Horst but did not stop him because they knew that if the two sides fought, Qin Mo would not need anyone's protection.

Qin Mo stared at the muzzle of the gun and understood what Horst meant.

It's like ancient roulette on Terra.

What Horst said was that every time he did something to resist the Inquisition, he was filling the revolver magazine with bullets, and his survival rate was getting lower and lower until he was certain to die.

"This pistol is for you." Horst's grip on the gun was slightly loose, and the revolver slid in his hand with the muzzle pointing downward.

"Thank you." Qin Mo took the pistol and pulled out the magazine, then stood up and picked up the last bullet and stuffed it into the magazine.

At this point the magazine is completely filled.

Horst looked at Qin Mo in confusion, not knowing what he wanted to do.

Qin Mo shook the pistol to return the magazine, and then put the muzzle of the gun against his head: "I understand what you said, but I choose to bet that it jams."

"No...this weapon will not jam." Horst explained.

"Then I'll stop it from misfiring." Qin Mo pulled the trigger.

Horst's followers quickly stood up and tried to stop him, but Horst remained motionless, but slightly nervous.

The revolver's trigger did not fire a bullet after it was pulled, and it seemed that it really misfired.

Qin Mo pulled the button a few more times, but no bullets were fired every time.

Horst felt that Qin Mo used some kind of force to prevent the ammunition from being fired, and then realized that Qin Mo meant that he could silence the Inquisition.

This was a bit crazy, but Horst also believed that if Qin Mo was wrong, he would not come to the hive world in person to announce the judgment of the Tribunal.

"You are lucky. The Inquisition finds you innocent." Horst took out a piece of parchment and handed it over. "You are now the new governor appointed by the empire. You are the ruler of three worlds in the Tyrone galaxy with a population of tens of billions. , the well-deserved Lord of Tailong.”

Qin Mo took the parchment and put it down.

Horst went on to talk about things like what the Imperial Governor's obligations were to the Empire, including responding to war calls, sending out men to form Astra Militarum regiments, and tithes.

The focus is on tithes.

Horst participated in a meeting before coming. The senior officials of the Inquisition and the High Lords Council discussed tax collection. The final result of the discussion was that the tithe must be paid, but how to pay it can be discussed. Now there are new crises emerging throughout the empire. If trouble occurs in the Tyrone galaxy, it will be difficult to suppress it.

"The Tyrone Galaxy will only pay one kind of tithe, and that is the dimensional engine." Qin Mo said.

"You mean the new navigation technology that is not based on subspace?" Horst asked.

"That's right." Qin Mo nodded.

After thinking about it for a while, Horst thought it was very feasible.

This stable new navigation technology was important in gradually weaning the Imperium away from its dependence on the Warp.

At first Horst was worried that Qin Mo was unwilling to promote the dimension engine, but now this doubt has been dispelled.

But Horst still has a question: "Why did you offer to use the Dimension Engine as a tithe?"

"Because the subspace is a cesspit. Human beings can no longer dive and swim in the cesspit and then bring all their shit into the material universe." Qin Mo replied.

Hearing this, Horst felt that Qin Mo was indeed on the side of the entire human race. Whether he was on the side of the empire was yet to be considered.

However, the Dimension Engine cannot be promoted just by promoting it.

"The vast majority of people don't really trust your technology. There are many people in the Inquisition who think your technology is heretical poison. The promotion process may be very slow, but as long as your dimension engine is really easy to use and is not adulterated, If it is a private product, it will eventually replace the subspace engine," Horst said.

After talking about the tithe, Qin Mo said nothing more. He had already said everything he wanted to say.

But Horst still has something to say: "I am investigating a strange plague and need your help. The reason is that there are only two places where this plague is raging, one is the hazy star field where Cadian is located, and the other is your Tyrone." and surrounding galaxies, it’s weird.”

Qin Mo frowned when he heard this sentence, and a bad guess popped up in his mind.

"This is the result of my colleagues and I's investigation into the plague..." Horst took out a stack of documents written by himself from his entourage and handed them to Qin Mo.

Qin Mo immediately took a closer look and found that the place where the plague was raging had two characteristics.

One is that there are plague zombies.

The other was the emergence of new sects in places where the plague was raging. These sects claimed that the Empire had betrayed the Emperor's will and that the plague was the Emperor's punishment.

Before the plague began to rage, space hulks appeared more and more frequently, and there were raids by alien and heretical ships.

"The Plague of Unbelief." Qin Mo put down the document and stared at Horst very seriously, "An expedition against the Gate of Cadian is about to begin."