Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 13 01.0013: ‘Heaven and Earth’

Horatio kept smiling.

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He knew that the favors Farida was talking about were not the favors in the ordinary context of daily life, but the contracts with obligations, unconditional compliance, and must be fulfilled. They were the ‘favors’ guaranteed by reputation and honor in the context of nobility.

“Of course, do I have any choice?” Horatio raised his eyebrows, put his hands behind his head, put his feet on the operating table in front of him, and smiled indifferently.

Facing his current situation, owing favors is not worth mentioning compared to giving up his life.

So he tried to create the confident hint of ‘as long as you help me, I will definitely give you a reward’ from the beginning, just to get something for nothing and guide the girl to bet on him.

Therefore, when the female huntress was willing to offer him a price and negotiate conditions, his desired goal had been achieved.

[I'm not afraid of you asking for a price, I'm just afraid of you not asking for a price.]

"You must obey me in everything. I will take you to my father's study, where there are no guards. He personally participated in the accident investigation eight years ago on behalf of the Imperial Navy. There may be things you want to know there. But I must remind you not to leave any traces, otherwise I will kill you before he finds you."

"It seems that the risk is not small."

"Nonsense, I haven't been in there myself. If he finds out that I brought a strange man in..."

"Don't want to go in or are you not allowed to go in?" Horatio raised his eyebrows and looked at Farida's face, wanting to see her expression.

"Not allowed to go in..." Farida's eyes turned away in panic and she muttered softly.

Horatio smiled with satisfaction.

[Pretty cute. ]

"Then you trust me quite a bit. Don't worry, I won't sell out my teammates."

The Huntress snorted with satisfaction: "Then I'll take it as your consent."

"Of course, I owe you a favor. What do you want me to do to repay you?"

"I'll owe you first and decide later."

Horatio took a deep breath, adjusted the soft seat, and lay back.

"Then I'm sure this favor will increase in value." Horatio chuckled.

"I hope so."

The shuttle suddenly stopped moving, the vector engine nozzle began to adjust downward, and the body rose vertically.

Horatio looked out the window, it was dark, only a string of navigation indicator lights were glowing silently.

"We're almost at the upper nest, look forward to it."

"Oh, what kind of scenery can there be..." Horatio snorted coldly, seeming to be indifferent.

Although he hadn't seen the appearance of the upper nest on this planet, but thinking of some of the settings he had seen, since it was a nest city, the upper nest would be just like that.

It is estimated that there are towering steel forests and thick exhaust pipes everywhere, as well as the surface of the hive city that looks like a pyramid. The atmosphere is polluted by various industrial waste gases, and it may even be raining blood-red acid rain.

[Is it a bit too much to discuss the environment and scenery with a Terran from the 3K era like me...]

The female hunter raised her mouth confidently and silently turned on the photosensitive adjustment of the windshield. A green light film visible to the naked eye slowly spread from the area in front of the driver's seat to the entire glass.

"There are three seconds to reach the surface. Three... two... one."

As the female hunter's voice fell, a dazzling golden light penetrated Horatio's eyes from the windshield, making his optic nerves, who had lived in the underground of the hive city for many years and adapted to the dark environment, feel abnormal discomfort and even some pain.

After a while, after the photosensitive reflective film screen completely covered the glass and took effect, the light was finally not as dazzling as before.

Horatio blinked his dry and stinging eyes and tentatively opened them a little.

"Oh oh..." Horatio swallowed and muttered to himself.

One after another, towering giant structures that reached the sky rose from the ground, shaped like mountains but towering above them, as if they were the carved beams and painted buildings of the sky itself, and the surging shock rushed straight into the heart.

The Holy Empire Sky Eagle emblem outside each building emitted a dazzling golden light under the sunlight, and countless white doves flapped their white wings and flew over the solemn and sacred cathedral.

Below it, high-speed tracks like dragon bones crisscrossed, and all kinds of vehicles, hovercrafts, and shuttles came and went.

Around it, large-scale gardens, botanical gardens, artificial lakes, and glass palaces were scattered everywhere, decorating the city quite beautifully, even exaggeratedly.

The entire surface of the planet has been developed into the ideal future life of mankind with unimaginable huge investment. The air on the surface is no different from that on Earth, and the climate is more comfortable and pleasant.

Horatio looked up at the sky. Through the blue sky above his head, countless huge ships from all corners of the empire appeared one after another on the planet's route. The dazzling flames emitted by the bead-like plasma engines formed a brilliant star chain.

"Abyss Port is an artificial planet. From the day it was born, the atmosphere and habitable facilities have been activated. This is a great creation that is difficult to replicate. You will not see a nest planet so close to the garden world in other worlds."

"..." Horatio was speechless. It was hard to imagine that this was a world in a dark and cruel story.

Prosperous, gorgeous, magnificent, shocking, orderly, novel, legendary... All the words in my mind that praise the greatness of human civilization can be used for the scene in front of me, but it is only satisfactory.

Horatio could feel that even though the world was dark and without light, the indomitable human beings were working hard to keep the fire of civilization going in the darkness.

When the shuttle lowered its altitude and merged into the city track, the scene near the ground became clear.

Horatio lowered the cabin window and leaned out to look around. The huge difference between the upper and lower nests impacted his heart in the most intuitive form of expression - everywhere here was a world of difference from the middle and lower nests.

There was plenty of light, fresh air, clean ground, new houses, and order.

Horatio took a few deep breaths of the clean air with the fragrance of flowers, and a refreshing coolness rushed straight into his lungs, dispelling the filth in his lungs.

The shuttle passed the consumption area. Outside the high-end tea restaurant, the ladies and nobles of the upper nest brought their children to enjoy afternoon tea peacefully and leisurely, tasting all kinds of high-quality wines and beverages. The family was happy and talked and laughed, and there was no trace of sadness on their faces caused by the pressure of life.

The enthusiastic waiters smiled and provided thoughtful guides and services to the nobles who came to travel and vacation. Even the hive police, who always had a stern face, had a gentle smile on their faces and provided services to any upper nesters who needed help.

"How is it?"

Horatio sat back, sighed, and nodded slightly: "Amazing."

"The words are quite exquisite." The female hunter snorted, but there was no smugness on her face, but a sense of solemnity rose.

"I have never seen such a big difference in impact. They are all pious citizens of the empire, but their lives are completely different..." Horatio looked out the window with his face sideways. As a person who grew up in ancient Terra in the 3K era, he saw such a huge and bloated giant society for the first time.

As an artificial planet with a vast area, complex structure and huge volume, the theoretical living area of ​​Abyss Port is enough to accommodate trillions of people.

And now, referring to the results of the closest census a century ago, the registered permanent population of Abyss Port is only 50 to 60 billion. Even if the estimated increase of 100 billion undocumented households in the lower and lower nests is based on the already counted population, it is still just a drop in the bucket compared to the theoretical full-load population.

Under the pleasant climate, the entire surface is the exclusive living area for more than 10 billion upper nesters and nobles.

The canvas of the nobles, the architecture and urban planning will naturally not be clustered together like some hives with harsh climates, forming a bloated and messy hive megastructure, but will be evenly planned and arranged on the entire surface of the planet.

To put it in a metaphor, the surface style of Abyss Port is more like Coruscant in Star Wars, rather than the hive planet in the Warhammer world.

"My political officer mother once lobbied the governor to support her surface livelihood expansion plan, and persuaded my father to set up a foundation and set up a poverty alleviation fund of 10 billion Gothic coins to allow the middle nesters to move to the surface as much as possible, reduce the development of underground residential areas, and further improve the utilization rate and population coverage of surface public facilities."

[Wow, what a daring idealist. ] Horatio dared not imagine how great the resistance would be.

"The resistance must be great."

"The Mechanicus opposed it because their underground forging enclaves require a large amount of labor; the representatives of the Upper Nest opposed it because they planned and constructed all the projects on the surface of the entire planet; the nobles opposed it because they were the main investors in the construction and did not want the ants to breathe the same air with them."

"What about the Imperial Navy?"

"The Navy supports it, and it is not out of favor with my father."

"It seems that they are quite humane. After all, many navy people started from scratch."

"Not entirely, they support more strategic considerations. All stars The port and cargo area are not far from the surface, and they will not reach 100 meters underground. The population migration will make it easier for them to recruit sailors. "

"...Okay, then did your mother's plan finally come into effect?"

"With the support of the navy, part of the port area was piloted, but with her death, no one continued to take over this work for eight years. The people who moved up were either driven down or conscripted for service. Now only the 'Vegas' area is left, a... half-dead mess, which is the place you just passed by, and it is also the area you are most familiar with."

"Yeah... familiar and strange." Horatio was a little dazed.

It was a huge area, so large that Horatio had been working there for many years and was only familiar with one percent of the land.

It was also the proudest achievement of the political officer, Farida's mother when she was alive.

It used to be a synonym for ideals, hope, future, harmony, beauty, and unity.

It is the only place on the planet where you can see the lower, middle and upper nests at the same time. It is directly opposite the three-dimensional high-density population living and consumption area of ​​the planet's government affairs district, and is integrated with the PW-P-15 giant star port cargo area, the largest civilian port on the planet.

And now, eight years of management absence.

Although the "Vegas" area is full of bright lights and flashing neon lights, there is also a huge gap between the rich and the poor. The poor police force is only enough to protect the community where the rich live, and the public security is non-existent. It has become a huge crucible, a microcosm of the entire Abyss Port society.

Prodigals, thieves, murderers, pickpockets, and prostitutes prefer to call it "Elysium Vegas".

Because there, murder, prostitution, robbery, epidemics, theft, fraud, rape... lawless crimes are staged in every corner of this big crucible at all times.

It is no exaggeration to say that the current "Vegas" is an oversized replica of Night City with hundreds of millions of people living there.

Well... the outside is beautiful, but the inside is rotten. Even if the surface is eye-catching, it still cannot change the fact that this is a garbage world.

This is very K hammer.

The incomparable depression and darkness extinguished the little surprise that Horatio had finally ignited in his heart.

Perhaps I shouldn't have had any unrealistic fantasies about this dark and cruel world from the beginning. After all, this is the desperate 41K world!

The shuttle's altitude meter kept rising and drove into a man-made platform that could be called a sky garden world. It was a living area for the Celestial Dragons, who were more noble than the Upper Nesters.

"We are almost there, put on your helmet and pretend to be someone from the Ministry of Justice."

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