Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 199 03.0198: ‘The forbidden secret that cannot be known’

When Inquisitor Ravenno entered the key, the low humming sound of the Thinker changed its tone, and the video recorded by Grandmaster Greg Eisenhorn when facing the interrogation began to play.

“My entourage and I were attacked by unconscious soldiers of the 50th Rifle Regiment of the Astra Militarum Gudrun, naval security forces, and followers of the Cult of Joy.

They behaved strangely and looked like they were being manipulated.

After we suffered heavy casualties in the previous operation, 56-Aiza was destroyed by the traitor lurking around us, no, to be precise, the Inquisitor played by a demon host, who issued an extermination order of ‘Doomsday Judgment’.

We and the Space Marines of the Death Watch had no time to confirm whether all copies of the Book of the Dead had been completely destroyed.”

“Then there was a low-orbit bombardment, and after the Holy Flame After the baptism of the Inquisition, the Black Ship of the Inquisition launched a virus bombing - a pre-set plague hurricane swept the world. "

"In the end, the nuclear explosion induced the collapse of the earth's core. When we left, the whole world had turned into cosmic dust.

From then on, the alien Saruti who could master forbidden knowledge by taste no longer existed, and the filthy light emitted by the Book of the Dead, the Book of Chaos, was permanently extinguished. "

"I will not forget the Saruti and their painful lessons: even a highly developed civilization will be completely swallowed up by the seemingly tiny chaos. "

Inquisitor Clarence Ravenno looked at what the master's master said and fell into deep thought.

[Are the twisted alien Saruti and the Book of the Dead really destroyed?]

[Like, too much like. A sect that has fallen into joy, a navy soldier who is unconscious and attacks his own people, a conspiracy against the fleet...]

In his conversation with Horatio, Inquisitor Ravenno deliberately concealed the real purpose of his coming to Abyss Port

-to investigate whether this matter is related to the "Book of the Dead" alien incident investigated by his master Eisenhorn.

This is a top secret that will kill you even if it is leaked within the Inquisition.

It is enough for the Assassin's Court far away in Terra to send the most capable assassin to personally solve this matter and the parties involved in this matter.

This is also a major event that is serious enough to issue an extermination order to Abyss Port, the anchorage of the legendary fleet.

Therefore, he can only keep silent, which can be regarded as a protection for himself and Horatio.

In this world, many times, ignorance is a kind of protection. Only ignorant people can live longer.

And the desire for knowledge, which seems beautiful, may be a trap that pushes people into the abyss.

Inquisitors should especially abide by this, this is the bottom line.

Most of the traitors among his colleagues were curious about unknown creations, so they reached out and eventually got out of control.

Compared with this, cooperation with aliens is just a trivial sin.

Although in theory, the Book of the Dead has been completely destroyed under the extermination order.

The twisted aliens called the Saruti were widely distributed and multiplied on 40 planets at that time.

And they have a strange ability: relying on taste alone, they can obtain the experience recorded on the information carrier by licking it with their disgusting and greasy long tongues.

He is not sure whether these aliens can extract the destroyed Book of the Dead from the ashes.

It is said that since the founding of the Empire, when the Primarch did not exist, this evil work was listed as a taboo book by the Emperor himself.

He did not know what kind of horrible and evil content was recorded in this book, and he did not want to know at all.

He only knew that this was a taboo carefully cultivated by the Lord of Pleasure for unknown purposes, asking for it to blossom and bear fruit.

He even created a demon host.

Speaking of which, Horatio also said that these joy cultists captured him at that time to turn him into a demon host.

Is all this really a coincidence?

Inquisitor Ravenno shook his head.

Perhaps other colleagues came to Abyss Port to find out the traitors who destroyed the empire.

But he knew very well that his task was far more difficult than any other inquisitor, and the impact was so great that it might affect the entire human empire.

After all, the forbidden book designated by the Emperor himself would cause great harm to the human empire, and the severity can be imagined.

If, as he guessed, another copy of the Book of the Dead has been born, he must make sure to witness its destruction with his own eyes like his master Greg Eisenhorn.

The fully armed inquisitor strode out of the room.

"Guys, get ready, we are going to do something big here."

He checked the cylinder of Scipio's pistol again to make sure that every bullet was in the right place.

"We are always ready."

Soon, another thin figure with a data plate embedded in his arm and both eyes replaced by implanted avian eyes appeared.

Followed by a naval armed forces officer wearing various modified armors and holding a gun in an extremely experienced posture came over, followed by some imperial veterans who survived various life-and-death battlefields but were marked as dead in the military department's statistics.

There were not many people, but they all looked like tough guys who had fought their way out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood and demons.

——

The Imperial Navy investigates the autopsy room.

"Are they all dead?" Horatio asked an armed captain.

"Yes, during the armed forces' invasion of the Divine Will, no mutineers surrendered." He looked at the operating table:

"The only thing we got were these unconscious, wounded rebels."

Horatio sighed, as he expected.

"Medical officer, have you found anything?" He looked at the man inside and asked.

"All the indicators of the body are normal, and the organs and internal organs are functioning normally. There are no abnormal lesions. The only problem may be the presence of multiple low-density lesions in the skull. But for people of this age, especially those who have lived in the void for a long time. It’s normal.”

The medical officer places the X-ray photo on a bright board.

Horatio looked where the medical officer was pointing.

"Low-density lesions are generally lesions in parts of the brain, or low-density lesions will form when water dissolves after necrosis. These locations are not core. Most people will have them as they age or live in the void for a long time. The necrotic parts can also grow back. "

"Open the skull and take a look."

"Investigator, this is actually a very normal and common physiological phenomenon..."

"Please open it and take a look, thank you." Horatio insisted on requesting while keeping a smile.

Seeing Horatio's insistence, the medical officer cut open the deceased's head with a skull saw for this overly cautious officer.

When the skull was opened, a pool of thick dark blood flowed out from the gap and fell into the metal plate that had been prepared.

Horatio stepped forward to observe carefully.

The medical officer didn't care about the blood, put down the skull saw, picked up the special equipment, and prepared to slice the brain for examination.

"What is this?" Horatio saw the blood pouring into the metal plate, and under the illumination of the shadowless lamp, it vaguely reflected a trace of silver light.

"It seems...a kind of metal wire?" the medical officer said uncertainly after magnifying the inspection with the prosthetic eye he wore.

But after all, this kind of prosthetic eye is not the advanced microscopic prosthetic eye of the Mechanicus, and doctors normally do not use devices that are not cost-effective for surgery. The medical officer can only judge the general shape with the equipment at hand.

These silver filaments floated in the blood basin, forming a crazy twisting spiral.

The medical officer tried to pick up the tiny silver wire with tweezers, but the moment the tweezers touched it, it broke gently. It seemed that these thin wires were not really connected together at the microscopic level.

Then, in front of Horatio and the medical officer, these twisted silver threads were reorganized into a shape that was as small as a drop of mercury falling into water.

The medical officer picked it up, sucked it in with a small pipette, dropped it on a microscope slide, and then sent it to the microscope.

The medical officer frowned.

"What's wrong? Can I take a look?" Horatio stepped forward and asked.

The medical officer stepped aside, and Horatio pressed his eyes against his.

This small drop of mercury-like matter slowly squirmed at an undetectable level under the microscope. However, ordinary optical microscopes used in medical examination rooms cannot achieve nanometer-level resolution and can only see a general situation.

Horatio thought of the jar he had captured from the plague ship.

He couldn't help but feel wary in his heart.

Could this matter be related to the Dark Mechanicus?

He wasn't sure. The related parties involved in this suspicion obviously exceeded his investigative authority, and perhaps also exceeded the authority of several judges.

Moreover, the various branches of the Mechanicus were like steel eggs that could not even be nailed into the cracks, making it difficult for him to check.

Unless it's the Ordo Machinum, a branch of the Inquisition that specializes in supervising those mechanical modification maniacs.

Otherwise, the three inquisitors who came here might not have the power or ability to investigate the Mechanicus.

After all, the relationship between the Empire and the Mechanicus is essentially cooperation for the unification of the Human Empire.

The 'outsiders' from the empire want to check the Mechanicum. Those mechanical lumps with more iron than flesh are probably not even able to wink at the emotion simulation module running for tenths of a microsecond.

"Medical officer, can you help me store this sample?"

He was not sure that Father Ratty was reliable, but at least there were no problems with her in the previous investigation.

At the moment, it seems that only she, as an insider of the Mechanicus, can help.

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