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Chapter 1317: Riddler, get out of here... (Water outage for two consecutive days is terrible)

For Duanmu Huai, who was used to the webway, navigating the subspace was slow and painful, as slow as taking a high-speed train and then a green-skinned train—but without the speed increase.

The only lucky thing was that he was sitting in a soft sleeper.

After two weeks of bumpy ride, the Inquisition's warships were finally impatiently spit out by the Warp and arrived at the designated star field.

But at this moment, the expressions of everyone on the command deck were not very good. The reason was very simple. Their astropaths had contacted here again and again, but all they got was silence.

Well, no matter what the circumstances, the silence of the Astropaths is not a good thing. They are like the birds that miners bring with them when they go down the mines. Once they encounter danger, they will scream in fear, letting the miners know that there is a poisonous gas leak underground.

The Astropath just thought that if you could hear their crazy speeches, then everything would be fine.

But if they fall silent, then you have to be alert.

Like the screaming of birds in the depths of a mineshaft, the silence of the astropaths, who were most sensitive to the Warp, was a silent warning of impending danger.

Sten contacted the governor here, but the latter obviously did not look very good. The body sunk deep in the throne was skinny, and this look was enough to be an extra in a zombie movie without any makeup.

"Secretary Camille?"

Seeing his figure, Sten was stunned for a moment.

"Where's the Governor? Where did he go?"

When facing Judge Sten's questioning, the latter was weak and looked as haggard as a child who insisted on practicing the dance RIP while having a fever of 48 degrees.

"He...he's dead, as are most of the cabinet, killed by the plague that ravaged our planet."

"So now you are a government representative?"

"Yes... Was your mission successful?"

"Yes, we have reorganized the amulet."

"That's good. Please bring it to us immediately. It's our last hope. This terrible disease has infected and killed 50 percent of the population. The number of dead is incalculable. The bodies are piled up in the streets. There are not enough crematoriums."

"We will try our best."

Judge Stern answered.

"We will leave immediately. Please grant us landing permission."

"As you command, Inquisitor. However, I don't think there are many people left controlling the orbital defense system. Even if you want to land directly, I'm afraid you won't have any trouble."

Soon, the communication was interrupted again. Everyone looked at each other with serious expressions. Judge Sten looked at Duanmu Huai again, who shrugged his shoulders and said nothing more. So, Judge Sten gave the order.

"Let's go."

As a hive planet, here, like other hive planets, the pollutants in the air turned into dark clouds covering the sky. Metal-cast skyscrapers turned into mountains. Huge buildings, huge foundries, huge steel and flames. Wide roads flowed through the metal mountains like rivers. How magnificent it was, a product of human civilization.

Of course, we cannot ignore the filth hidden within.

When the shuttle landed on the platform, Duanmu Huai walked down the stairs and saw all that filth.

Countless people fell to the ground, most of them had become corpses, and some were waiting to become corpses. This reminded Duanmu Huai of the time when he was tracking the plague on the Novice Planet. Large swaths of people in a city were killed by the plague, and the rest of the people were desperately waiting for death in their houses. That scene was not much different from the present, except that there were more people—at least hundreds of thousands, or even more.

But they didn't come here for these dead or living people.

Duanmu Huai raised his head and stared at a huge black pyramid not far away. Its appearance looked very much like the large amusement facility used by Egypt to attract tourists. However, the appearance was made of black glass instead of earth and stone. According to Kara's prophecy, as long as the fragments of the pendant were collected, reassembled, and then brought to this pyramid, the evil that was ravaging the entire planet would disappear.

As vague and stupid a prediction as ever.

Duanmu Huai yawned silently. He had almost guessed what was waiting there.

The group walked forward, passing through the square full of corpses and zombies, and arrived in front of the pyramid. Then Duanmu Huai saw Kara raise her hand, and with her movement, a complex Eldar rune emerged from it. Then, a passage quietly emerged from the originally tightly closed black pyramid.

They went inside.

You don't need to look to know that this is an Eldar building.

And looking at the murals and words on the walls, you will know that this is the building of the Eldar.

Duanmu Huai sighed silently and looked at the silent Space Wolves around him.

"Okay, don't be so nervous. We all know what we're going to face next. It's nothing serious."

"you know?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's complaints, Lana was stunned for a moment, while Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders.

"I've experienced similar situations so many times that I feel like throwing up. In the final analysis, you've been fooled by the prophecy again."

"Tricked? You mean... the prophecy is false?"

Hearing this, Judge Sten turned around and looked at him in surprise. On the contrary, Kara seemed to turn a deaf ear to Duanmu Huai's words and just walked forward.

"That depends on how you distinguish true from false."

Duanmu Huai curled his lips.

"I can make 70 or 80 prophecies of this kind. For example, someone kneels in front of me and says that he is cursed and feels extremely painful, and hopes that you can help him relieve his pain. Then I will tell him to find an Astarte who can help him relieve his pain."

"Astartes still have this ability?"

Lana himself was stunned, while Duanmu Huai just glanced at him silently.

"Of course, it's very simple. Just raise the bolter in your hand and shoot him in the head. Wouldn't that solve everything?"

“…………………???”

"What? Just tell me whether he can still feel pain. Dead people can't feel pain, right? Then is my prediction wrong?"

Duanmu Huai spread his hands and stared at the Space Wolves, while the wolf cubs were confused and speechless. "…Is this also possible?"

“This is the norm most of the time.”

Duanmu Huai snorted coldly and continued walking forward.

"So I say, don't take the prophecy too seriously. I think you will understand this soon."

The crowd continued to move forward, but this time their steps were much heavier. They were not idiots. Duanmu Huai had made it so obvious. If they still couldn't guess that they were being tricked, they would be real idiots.

The surroundings were getting darker and darker, and the strange power was growing stronger and stronger, making everyone feel the same aura as when they faced the brain in the space hulk before.

Same, but more powerful.

At this moment, the air began to turbulent, and then a phantom of the Eldar appeared from it. It stared at the people in front of it, and the latter, except Duanmu Huai, raised their weapons and looked at it cautiously.

"Turn back, human."

The Eldar phantom spoke.

"You shouldn't be here."

“We can go wherever we want.”

Lana snorted.

"We are the servants of the Emperor. In the Emperor's territory, no alien can stop us!"

"I have no ill intentions."

The Eldar shook his head again.

"I am here to bring you a warning. You are disturbing something that should not be disturbed. You want to awaken something that should not be awakened. If you insist on doing so, the final result will only be a terrible disaster beyond your imagination."

"What does it mean?"

Inquisitor Sten stepped forward and stared at the Eldar, who reached out his hand and pointed at the pendant around Kara's neck.

"Do not reconstruct what was destroyed. Do not bring it to the cursed lands. Do not release the prisoners. You have been warned! The power of the seal is weakening now. The spell that keeps my Brotherhood here is about to fail! Turn back! Turn back! Before it is too late, turn back!!"

With a final desperate scream, the Eldar disappeared, and everyone looked at each other in silence.

  What exactly does the Eldar's warning mean? Is it a conspiracy? Or a reminder?

But before they could think more, Duanmu Huai had already walked forward.

"The Riddler should get out of the galaxy."

He snorted coldly and continued forward with the war hammer.

"These stupid Eldar are meaningless except for saying some specious and stupid things all day long. Well, let's move on."

"Is this really okay?"

Lana spoke again. The warning from the Eldar deepened his worries. He recalled the content of this mission and felt that something was wrong. From the beginning, this mission seemed to be full of some unspeakable weirdness, and until now, this feeling was even more obvious.

“Of course there are problems, but it’s right to have problems.”

Duanmu Huai turned around and looked at everyone.

"Look, a plague of unknown cause suddenly appeared in the Hive World. The prophecy revealed that the plague has a deep connection with this place, and now the idiot Riddler has also proved it. But..."

Having said that, Duanmu Huai sneered.

"Isn't this just right?"

“…………Just right?”

"Of course, no matter what the other party wants to do, there is only one thing we have to do, and that is to kill this bastard, right?"

"…………………"

Faced with Duanmu Huai's simple and crude answer, everyone was speechless for a moment, while Duanmu Huai stared at them and shrugged his shoulders.

"Okay, if you really don't want to think about those complicated things, I'll teach you four words. When you encounter similar things in the future, just recite them."

Isn't it praising the Emperor?

Hearing Duanmu Huai's words, everyone looked a little strange, but Judge Sten still swallowed and asked.

"What are those four words?"

Staring at Judge Sten, Duanmu Huai chuckled.

"It's all here."

"…………………Why?"

"Okay, let's go."

After saying this, Duanmu Huai turned around and continued walking forward, while everyone stood there in a daze, looking at each other, speechless for a moment.

Then Lana chuckled.

"Yes, now that we are here."

After saying this, Rana suddenly raised the grenade launcher.

"Let's go! Wolf cubs of Blood Claw!"

(End of this chapter)