Warhammer Inquisitor

The mechanical transmission shaft bites together with the roar of the gears. The rapidly rotating transmission shaft and the heavy hydraulic rod share a unique sound, writing this unique chapter of machinery, which belongs to a kind of cold movement, belongs to The movement of the body of ten thousand machines.

But soon, the cold feeling will be dispelled by the temperature. In the physical sense, the inside of the pitch-black steel body instantly glows with scorching light. The crimson beam quickly appears in the dark space, and then spreads rapidly until Everything in the entire narrow duct is engulfed in that light.

The blazing light is no longer restrained, it shoots out from the pipe after rapidly expanding, the shining huge light beam is like the scorching sun appearing above the earth, the destructive light mixed with red and golden light rushes to the sky , when it pierced through the dust clouds swept up by orbital bombing and global wars, the entire sky was instantly illuminated by flames.

The heavy-duty ground-based turbolaser cannon imprinted with the Imperial Skyhawk logo shone its shining beams on the entire city, it burned the sky, and shot its own fire of destruction to the sky that was constantly flashing with explosions. , as the light beam penetrated, soon a new flame appeared in the gray sky.

The entire sky is burning, like a churning cloud of fire and rain, the flames constantly flickering in the dark clouds are accompanied by the bright beams of laser cannons, the sporadic shells falling from the dark clouds, those who have passed through the dense anti-aircraft fire net The orbital bombardment hit the void shield above the city, and the flames exploded and spread from the dark blue shield surface in an instant, quickly sweeping everything along the shield surface.

Those fire lights illuminated the upper floors of the endless steel city of Terra, all the outer walls of high-rise buildings were completely lit up by the artillery fire, and the unbroken glass reflected colors under the light beams.

Also reflecting the light of the fire of destruction, there is also the statue of the emperor under the corridor of the tall dome. It is a magnificent golden statue. He holds the burning holy sword in front of his hands. Behind the huge stained glass windows, looking out at the sky above.

The golden eyes of the statue of the emperor stared at the sky, the flash of gunfire in the black clouds, and the sea of ​​flames constantly exploding on the void shield, shining the light of the flames on the face of the statue of the emperor, shining on the sky. On those lifeless eyes.

The ever-emerging explosions shone on the statue of the Emperor, and huge shadows were continuously cast behind the stalwart statue. The shadow of the tall body sometimes turned backwards, and sometimes leaned to one side. Under the different explosions, The Emperor's shadow all showed different coverage angles.

Accompanied by the explosion of an orbital bombardment shell piercing the sky, the Emperor's shadow slanted towards the road in the corridor, and that huge shadow shrouded a tall being standing in the corridor.

He stood under the shadow, and soon as the light of the new artillery fire shone into the corridor, his body was illuminated in the shadow again, and the fiercely burning sea of ​​flames on the void shield cast the eye-catching light from the corridor. The light came in from the towering French windows above, illuminating his whole body unobstructed.

He was wearing the same golden battle armor as the emperor behind him, and the brand of the eagle with wings on his chest was shining under the firelight, and the golden sun disk burning behind his head was mixed with the light of the artillery fire, fully illuminating The face with the black eyes.

Looking at the tumbling sea of ​​fire in front of his dark eyes, his dark pupils flickered with fire, and he stood like this in this dim corridor. The huge floor-to-ceiling windows on each wall of the building will continuously shine the light of the fire outside.

The entire corridor was completely lit up in the flames, especially the icon of the Emperor standing in the center of it. Its entire body reflected golden light in the flames. The Emperor's face looked up at the burning Just like the people standing in front of him, they all looked up at the sea of ​​fire together.

"Whoa, it looks like we're in for a bit worse this time, without Dorne, without Sanguinius and the Khan here, and their legions fighting the traitor hordes on Terra, holding back the ones you created The only demigods are the mortal warriors of Terra."

Looking at the sea of ​​flames rolling in the air, the man in golden armor said with a smile, he put his arms around his arms, and the huge power claws stretched out from under his armpit and clamped under it, "And you, ah, you are not the same as last time." What's the difference, when Horus came you were squatting on the toilet, but when his son came you were still squatting on the toilet."

"Damn, you really left all the mess to me, why don't you get up quickly, reopen it, and destroy it when you're tired." The man smiled helplessly and sighed, his entire face was under the sea of ​​flames The light is clearly visible, there are no shadows under the eyebrow arch and jaw, and the whole face seems to be smoothed out.

He sighed and rubbed his head, the man shook his head and turned to glance at the statue behind him, "But no matter what, I have to help you, to help humans keep this place, you can't just kick your legs now if you want to stand up , and come back like lightning a second later, right?"

The golden statue of the emperor looked up at the sky speechlessly. The man rolled his eyes and cut his eyes when he saw the statue. He turned his head and looked at the black smoke billowing out of the window and the war-torn land of Terra, "Helen, my dear, we have Any news?"

"Do you want to hear the good news first, or the bad news? Sir." Helen suddenly appeared in the palm of Vito's hand, and Helen, whose body was gathered by blue shimmering light, stood on the big hand, almost completely fitting the skin. The tights together faintly reflected the firelight outside the window.

"What good news? Are you going to show me a new swimsuit?" "Your thinking always makes me unable to understand, sir, no, of course not."

"It's a pity, what is the good news? Abaddon was suddenly dreamed by his father, telling him to respect the old and love the young, and not to disturb his grandfather, the Emperor, and his second uncle?"

"I don't know if Abaddon can still understand this custom, so, no, the good news is that although most of the orbital defense arrays on Terra have been destroyed by the enemy, the automatic arrays I control are basically intact and still Fire on air intercept."

Helen's short hair made of light particles fell from her forehead, and she reached out to lift up the hair in front of her eyes. The azure glowing eyes made of data streams stared at the sea of ​​flames above her head together with Vito behind her.

"I re-coded Terra's orbital defense system, sir, let me put it this way, the code the Mechanicus taught you to write was shitty, slow and buggy, and the system I reprogrammed in five minutes was worse than They're a thousand times better, probably more."

"Understand, the brains of the oil guys are still binary. How can they compare with your excellent artificial intelligence supercomputer brain? Your computing power alone can beat the brains of all the oil guys including Kaur. "

Vito smiled and said, he had a rare laugh, Vito hadn't really smiled since the start of the Terra Defense War, it was to keep his majesty in front of Terra officials and generals, to frighten them, but The more reason is the current situation in Terra. Indeed, he doesn't feel like he can laugh at all. If you don't understand why, just look up at the sea of ​​flames above your head and you will understand.

But facing Helen, Vito still smiled. He shrugged slightly and looked at the statue of the Emperor behind his eyes, "That's why he let you connect to the system. Look, isn't the usefulness reflected?"

"Indeed, he was right. I deleted all the systems of Terra and re-programmed one. Now Terra's firepower efficiency has increased by more than a dozen levels, and all defense systems are operating efficiently. Therefore, we Stopped 68% of the orbital bombardment fire, so now the nests everywhere are still standing instead of being bombed to the ground."

"And the defenders everywhere can also rely on the complex Hive City that is still strong, and fight against the traitors in every street and tunnel. The city's municipal system you have rewritten is still in operation. Miraculously, it can still Running to ensure that the guerrillas and local trapped civilians can persist in those dilapidated places.”

Vito looked at the explosion above his head, and the explosion flames were constantly flashing on the void shield. Helen also looked at the void shield and shrugged slightly, "And this void shield, this shield system is the only one I haven't deleted. written, but merely enhanced and modified the following procedures."

"After all, it is the source code system of the golden age. When the palace was built, Waldo and I dug it out from the technology warehouse of the Watt Technology Alliance. I have to say that the group of technical dead houses maintained the code program quite well. , the golden age has collapsed for so long, now that the system is connected, it can be used.”

"It also made meritorious service back then. When Horus besieged Terra, this shield has been standing firm and unstoppable. It has received various rounds of bombing by all the traitor legion fleets. Now it seems that it has also made great contributions. "

Vito looked at the void shield above his head. He shrugged his shoulders and looked up at the fire clouds churning in the explosion, "What's the bad news? Tell me, when Omega gave me a physical examination last time, he said that my heart was fine."

"The communication system was disabled. Abaddon and his traitors blew up the main communication tower of Terra, and physically cut off my communication network. Therefore, we lost contact with the defenders everywhere. Communications with all troops outside the palace have also been cut off."

"Oh, by the way, the orbital elevator in Cairo was also destroyed. How about it, sir? Is your heart okay?" Helen said coldly. She turned her head blankly to Vito, who was almost killed He couldn't catch his breath, coughed and touched his chest.

"Damn you, why are you as vicious as that girl?" "Helena? Maybe, sir, do you need me to call you a doctor? Bell and the others are back, and I detected their Thunderhawk flying into the palace Radar identification range, if you need, I can summon him through the system."

"No need, you damn girl, next time remember to tell the bad news first and then the good news, otherwise I will be crushed to death by such a roller coaster experience sooner or later." "Okay, sir."

Helen said with a blank expression on her face, but when she saw Vito in front of her in a state of embarrassment, a happy smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She slightly turned her head to look at the other end of the corridor and raised her head, "Someone is coming."

Vito looked at Helen, and then looked in that direction. There was indeed someone coming. A tall figure was walking from the corridor. His golden battle armor shone brightly in the flickering gunfire outside the window. The lion's fur is also as eye-catching as white snow under the firelight.

"Commander Trajan." Vito said, turning sideways to hide Helen's CD-ROM behind him. He quietly closed the CD-ROM and put it in his pocket, but Vito's expression remained calm all the time. , did not appear to be hiding anything scary at all.

Yes, yes, I know that Helen is not scary, even a bit beautiful, but believe me, when you take her out in front of the Mechanicus, the State Church, and officials from various departments of the empire, you will know whether it is scary or not.

"Are you back from the American province, right? How's the situation there?" Vito asked Trajan with a smile, but when the commander of the imperial army walked towards the flickering fire in the corridor, his expression didn't mean to smile at all.

"Bad." "Well, as expected."

As Vito said, he turned his head and looked at the sea of ​​flames outside the window. He looked up at the explosion above his head with his hands behind his back and sighed softly. Trajan walked up from one side, and he stopped at Vito holding his Storm Axe. Hold it a few steps away.

"Everyone is here, Marshal, they are waiting for you in the conference hall."

"No, it's not all here yet." Vito said, looking at the golden Thunderhawk whizzing by outside the window. The fighter jet flew past under the burning void shield, and when it was approaching the apron in the garden outside the palace, it quickly flew towards the sky. Sliding on one side, the position of the vector jet was adjusted, and the inertia of the flight was instantly offset by the recoil force, allowing it to glide and suspend stably above the apron.

"It's all here now, send someone to bring them in, and then we'll start." Vito said, turning and walking towards the end of the corridor. When he passed by Trajan, the commander looked at the passing marshal, and then bowed his head.

Trajan stared at Vito who was walking towards the end. He held the storm ax and slightly turned his head to look at the emperor's icon in the flames beside him. Thor, "May you bless us, my lord."

Trajan left with Vito, they disappeared at the end of the corridor, and the emperor's icon was still standing in the corridor looking up at the burning sky, the explosion of fire illuminated his face, the huge The shadow shone behind it, and the shadow seemed to move in the firelight.