Infinite Stream Metaverse

Chapter 168 Hive City Ecology

Mona, the name on this card.

All of a sudden, Fu Qinghai was reminded of many things.

Hive Capital of Schwerin.

In the milestone event of the entire space hulk stage, the black hand hiding behind the scenes, the name that will appear faintly from time to time.

Chen Xinlu and other reincarnators from the Horus camp came to the nest capital of Schwerin. After some exploration, relying on their own magical power, they decided to overthrow the rule of the planetary governor, and then sent a message to the army of the Warmaster, Meet the arrival of the rebel fleet.

As a result, they overestimated themselves and underestimated the standing military power of the empire. Even a military force like the Imperial Guard cannot be easily overthrown by a group of illegal psykers. They were suppressed by the planetary governor alone, and the rebellion ended in failure. .

In the end, the facts proved that Chen Xinlu, a group of reincarnations with super-dimensional self-esteem and confidence, was just used as gunmen by the local natives of the hive capital, and finally became an outcast arranged by Tzeentch-a space hulk bait for enslavers.

Fu Qinghai looked at the drug remnants in this place, and thought to himself that the group of reincarnated people that Chen Xinlu pulled together in the hive capital were really pulling.

Into the world of reincarnation to take drugs?
What rubbish.

Fu Qinghai recalled how messy the place was when he entered that cabin. Looking back now, he might be a group of drug addicts who gathered together to take drugs. No wonder after he brutally killed two people, the rest went away at once. scattered.

But then again, with Chen Xinlu's sickly look at that time, who knows if she took the medicine or not, after all, reflective tablets and necromancers, things that have something to do with the subspace, for psykers That said, it's not just drugs, it should be some kind of potion.

The pink fear that the phantom girl tricked Chen Xinlu into trusting——Mengna, a low-level tzeentch demon, has already been beheaded by Chen Xue with the sacred sword of Emperor Weishan. There is nothing to say.

But there was one person's name that Fu Qinghai still remembered.

"Baron Zedo..."

Fu Qinghai stood up and whispered to himself.

According to the information provided by Slan, the space ape, it was captured and kept in captivity for decades by the Baron Zedo family of Schwerin's hive capital, before being sent to the space hulk to be responsible for the creation of the gravity siphon device.

At that time, Fu Qinghai judged from the situation described by Slan that the family of Baron Zedu was probably a family of cultists who secretly served the evil god Tzeentch.

The fact that Chen Xinlu and the others were able to avoid the pursuit of the planetary governor's troops and escape to the space hulk is probably also the handiwork of Baron Zedu.

A hive noble who secretly serves the evil god and is involved in a conspiracy against the Space Marine fleet.

"The grievances have not been reported, and the rest of the love is not over..."

Fu Qinghai tsk-tsk smiled, a bit evil and cruel.

Suddenly, he changed his mind:
"This fucking... won't be another Tzeentch's conspiracy, right?"

The smile on Fu Qinghai's face disappeared.

Be cautious, still be cautious.

Fu Qinghai secretly reminded himself that he opened his palm to aim at the rubbish on the ground, the hexagonal armor plate in the middle of the palm slid open, and a blazing white beam of light shot out, and the arc pulse gun burned all the drug residues such as the reflector .

……

With a huge jetpack on his back and a bunch of weapons hanging from his waist, Fu Qinghai trudged through the ruins of the bottom nest.

The scattered black puddles were bottomless. Every time Fu Qinghai encountered a puddle blocking the way, he would directly activate the turbofan and jump over it.

Who knows how deep the water is, who knows what's in the bottom nest water.

At least this armor is not good at underwater combat.

Fu Qinghai suspected that this should be a hive city near the ocean. The bottom hive was located at an unknown depth below sea level. The engineer's intuition told Fu Qinghai that it was a huge and thick pressure-bearing wall and a complicated and ancient drainage system. That’s why this dark land was prevented from being swallowed up by the sea. Even so, hundreds of thousands of tons of seawater still poured in from the cracks that were in disrepair day after day, forming a patch of water in the poorly drained low-lying areas. A piece of small Haize.

Fu Qinghai quietly came to the back of the man-made building on the ruins. It was the dimly lit spot that looked like a shanty made of rubbish.When a space warrior decided not to make a sound, his whereabouts could not be revealed due to the heavy armor, Fu Qinghai walked slowly to the side of the light.

It was a tin promethium lamp hanging on the shore, emitting a dim yellow light.

Beside the rusted chandelier, a figure in a hood and a tattered robe sat quietly.

Fu Qinghai put his hands on his thin shoulders, and said in a low voice:
"Hello."

The tattered robe shook, and the person sitting on the shore was startled. He turned around, and the face exposed under the hood also shocked Fu Qinghai:
A distorted face with seven eyes of various sizes.

Mutants!
Fu Qinghai raised his eyebrows, knowing it in his heart.

"You... who are you and why are you here?"

The mutant looked up at the tall and ferocious armored giant behind him, his thin body trembling, and his voice was full of fear.

Bottom Nest's cruel survival instinct told her that a guy like this must not be messed with.

At the bottom of the Hive City, which is full of thousand-year-old garbage, highly toxic radiation, and crooked demons, heresy has always been a breeding ground, and it is not surprising that heretics and mutants appear.

Even, you can't tell whether it is because human beings mutated and were driven out of the bottom nest, or because they were driven out to live in the bottom nest, the mutation occurred.

From the voice of this mutant, it should be a young girl, but this face full of eyeballs really made it impossible for Fu Qinghai to correspond to a "young girl".

Fu Qinghai withdrew his arm and said lightly:
"You don't care who I am, I'm hungry, do you have anything to eat here?"

The mutant girl lifted off the tattered robe she was wearing, revealing her skinny chest with protruding ribs. Except for two pitiful dots, she couldn't see any female features at all. She said:

"As you can see, I'm hungry too."

Fu Qinghai was silent.

In addition to being as thin as a skeleton, the skin of the mutant girl has nothing to do with the word "young". It may be damaged by radiation, or it may be corroded by toxic air and water. In short, it is dark and wrinkled. Ugly stains.

Fu Qinghai turned his head to look at the promethium tin lamp on the shore. The light reflected on the dark water surface, and the water surface rippled, as if there were living creatures swimming underneath.

"what is that?"

Fu Qinghai pointed to the surface of the water and asked.

"Bottom Nest Burrowing Grouper."

The mutant girl replied honestly.

Fu Qinghai asked:
"Why don't you eat it?"

The mutant girl shook her head:
"It will eat me first."

Fu Qinghai looked at the promethium lamp, then at the water surface, and said:

"Is it phototaxis?"

The mutant girl thought for a while before she understood what "phototaxis" meant, and nodded.

Fu Qinghai walked to the water's edge, leaned out half of his body, stretched out an arm, and aimed his palm at the water surface, a white light lit up in the middle...

"Whoa!"

There was a loud noise, and a huge monster leaped out of the water amidst the splashing water. It opened its huge mouth and bit Fu Qinghai's arm. engulf.

"Crack!"

The fine teeth hit the ceramic steel of the shoulder armor and broke.

Fu Qinghai grasped it hard with his palm, piercing through the visceral wall of the strange fish. He felt that he was holding something in his palm, and immediately squeezed it hard, "pia ji", a unique feeling of a balloon water bag bursting.

Fu Qinghai twisted his waist and raised his arms, and with a strong flick, the two-meter-long giant fish was thrown to the shore by Fu Qinghai.

The internal organs were crushed by Fu Qinghai, and they were still thumping non-stop. The dorsal, pectoral and caudal fins opened and closed, and the long hollow spikes were exposed to the air. Fu Qinghai walked over and raised his knees to face the fish. Step on your head.

"Snapped!"

With a crisp sound, the strange fish fell silent.

The mutant girl was dumbfounded.

He didn't even draw a weapon of any kind.

……

The two-meter-long bottom-nest cave-dwelling grouper is laid out entirely on the table in the shed.

All resources in the bottom nest are limited, and the mutant girl has no cooking utensils and fuel to cook this huge strange fish. Fu Qinghai can only use the arc pulse gun built in the palm of his hand, and use the method of roasting sashimi in Japanese food. The edge of the high-temperature laser is on the fish. Pass it across the surface of the body and heat it up slightly.

The skin of the fish is very gluey, like East Star Spot. The flesh of the fish is white and firm, and tastes good, but if you put a Geiger counter next to the flesh, the instrument will sound an alarm.

There is radiation in fish.

Fukushima Grouper is clean and hygienic.

Fu Qinghai only ate the fattest big belly and middle belly, and didn't eat the rest.

He sat quietly, watching the mutant girl bury her head in the belly of the fish and gorge herself. Even the half-baked fish intestines were pulled out and stuffed into her mouth, wishing she could smash the fish bones and suck the marrow.

It seems that a whole fish can be stuffed into a small body, and mutants are indeed not to be underestimated.

"What are you lighting that lamp for?"

Fu Qinghai was a little curious, since the resources were limited, and since the strange fish could not be caught, would it be a waste of fuel to light the lamp?

"Show my parents the way."

The mutant girl said vaguely.

"How long have you been waiting on the shore?"

"Fourteen days."

Sure enough, it unfolded to be another tragic story from the Bottom Nest.

Her parents are most likely dead.

But what does it have to do with me?

Fu Qinghai sat on the construction waste, thinking to himself.

Fu Qinghai asked again:

"I want to go to the upper floor, do you have a way and access?"

In the huge and complex hive city that reaches up to the stratosphere of the clouds and reaches down to the mantle layer of the deep sea, the leap from one layer to another cannot be achieved by flying up with a jetpack at full power. There are guides or maps, or there are special vehicles.

The mutant girl raised her head from the open fish belly, blinked her seven eyes, and said:
"I don't, but I know someone who might have."

Fu Qinghai picked up the helmet on the table and put it on:
"Take me to see her."

……

The Empire believes in and respects the purity of human beings, as evidenced by the ubiquitous skull symbol.

However, the empire's attitude towards mutants is not the same as it treats illegal psychics. If they are caught, they will be exterminated. Mutants are discriminated against in imperial society, but strictly speaking, they are not illegal citizens. The approach taken by the imperial government is often Expulsion, or sent to do hard work in mines, some war-prone galaxies, and even set up an atonement force composed entirely of mutant criminals, used as cannon fodder death squads.

Fu Qinghai is an interstellar warrior, not a hive police officer. The issue of mutants is not up to him to deal with. Now he just wants to get to the upper level of the hive as soon as possible to see what's going on in the hive of Schwerin and contact the Loyalists by the way. The fleet is better.

Be a wild space warrior and rule the mountains?That was the choice of the fallen angel who had nowhere to go. Fu Qinghai was a loyal and loyal white scar, so he had to return to Terra as soon as possible.

Fu Qinghai followed the mutant girl to a secret place, where there are only piles of ancient construction waste, countless floors, roads and bridges sunk here, in the "in"-shaped space supported by two broken bridges, Fu Qinghai saw the woman.

Yellow exploding head, clusters of hair wrapped in hairspray like hedgehogs stabbing into the sky, thick smoky makeup, rippling red tattoos all over her cheeks, shiny metal armor, but only covering her chest , thighs and arms, with some sort of fur waistcoat over the shoulders, decorated with chains, rivets, belts and skulls.

He holds a long-barrel laser gun in one hand, and a saber with a gauntlet in the other.

The light under the broken bridge was very dim, and Fu Qinghai's superhuman vision locked on to the woman before he found himself.

It's like the lead singer of a hardcore heavy metal rock band in the 70s, except that he is holding a weapon instead of an electric guitar. In terms of body shape alone, the woman's body is plump, sexy and hot, but the aesthetic style of Chaodu women is really acceptable to Fu Qinghai No, a very typical female member of the nest gang, the so-called "gothic punk".

She stood proudly on a pile of cement waste, stepped on the stone pier with one foot, and looked in the direction of the person with her chin raised, but when the woman gradually saw clearly the little armored giant walking in slowly from the broken bridge, Especially when seeing those scarlet goggles clearly...

She was so frightened that she could hardly hold the saber in her hand steadily.

"Ah... Astartes..."

"Hello."

It was still the same opening sentence, Fu Qinghai's tone was flat.

A promethium lamp was placed on the ground. When the tall and burly Fu Qinghai stood in front of the woman, the dim light illuminated his front. Looking at the clear metal relief of the lightning eagle wing emblem on the breastplate, the shoulder armor Rust-red gears and skulls... The woman's eyes widened.

The famous Martian Red.

Space Warrior + Mechanicus =...

The gang woman understood what these elements represented. She quickly retracted her foot on the stone pier, lowered her head and dared not look directly at Fu Qinghai's visor, lowered her shoulders, and said in a low voice with some timidity:

"Honorable... respectable Lord Astartes, I, salute... to you."

Unlike in the Marvel Comics universe where fame is achieved through punching, in the Warhammer 40K universe, Fu Qinghai has a tall and strong physique, the power armor he wears, and the symbols on the armor are symbols of strength and status.

The woman lowered her head, saw the mutant girl following Fu Qinghai, couldn't help but glared at her, and cursed in a low voice:

"You didn't say you were a space warrior..."

The mutant girl blinked the seven eyes under the hood and said innocently:

"What is a space fighter, sister Hulda?"

"I……"

The gang girl Hulda was so angry that she wanted to beat her to death, Fu Qinghai stretched out his hand and interrupted:

"All right."

"I want to go to the top floor of the hive capital, what can you do?"

Fu Qinghai put forward his request directly.

The gang woman raised her head and said carefully:
"I can only lead you to the upper level, at most from the bottom nest to the lower nest, and then to the passage to the upper level, there are nobles' private troops and hive capital bailiffs guarding, if you want to pass, you may need to arrange a two……"

When Hulda said this, he suddenly stopped talking.

The woman scolded herself for being so stupid. She and other members of the nest gang needed to be managed by bribes. He was a star warrior of the imperial army. What did the star warriors do?
It seems that with the ability of this gang woman, she can only lead herself to the next nest.Fu Qinghai understood.

He nodded and said:

"Then trouble you to take me to the upper floor first. By the way, what reward do you need?"

Hulda quickly shook her head like a splash drum:

"No, no, I don't need any compensation, it's my honor to be your guide."

Hulda thought to himself: If I refuse, I am afraid that losing my life is the only reward I can get.

Fu Qinghai was also very satisfied to see that the woman was so sensible.

When it comes to rewards for a woman, Fu Qinghai really has nothing to give her. The weapons and equipment on his body are assimilated through hard work in the previous reincarnation world, and the seizures in the tomb world are also the advanced technology of the Necrons. They are all Fu Qinghai's sweethearts.

The gang member who got into the nest is not a mutant girl who can't even eat a bite. She can be dismissed with a bottom-nest burrowing grouper. You can tell from her plump body that at least it is enough to eat. Don't worry.

In this way, this gangster will act as a guide to lead Fu Qinghai from the bottom nest to the next nest.

Before leaving, the mutant girl waved her hand and said to the sad-faced Hulda:
"Don't worry, Sister Hulda, the stranger is a good man."

Fu Qinghai smiled. He turned his head to look at this ugly mutant girl, and asked:
"How do you know I'm a foreigner?"

The mutant girl said seriously:

"In the bottom hive, no one would say 'hello', and in the hive capital, no one would say 'hello' to a mutant."

Fu Qinghai nodded, turned around and left Broken Bridge with the gang women.

To say that this mutant girl has no knowledge, she really has no knowledge. She was born and raised in the Bottom Hive, and she doesn't even know the famous interstellar warriors.

If you say she is stupid, she is not stupid. From a detail, she can judge Fu Qinghai's identity as a local. Perhaps this is the survival wisdom of the residents of the Bottom Nest.

As for saying that I am a good person?
Fu Qinghai shook his head and laughed.

I say "hello" because I'm polite, am I a nice guy... God only knows.

…………

　Thanks, Mi Shijuhe, Ji Ji, two book friends for their rewards.

　　Warhammer 40K is generally translated as "mutant". I am worried that it will be confused with Marvel, and it will be called "mutant" in the future.

　　Can Space Marines survive by eating rocks?I really don’t know where this setting seems to be, it’s too ridiculous, how to eat inorganic matter, Tyranids can’t eat stones, but space warriors can eat them?I don't think so.

　　
　
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