Warhammer 40: Gods Of Mortals

Chapter 58 Commemorating the War Dead

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a few days later.

In a factory in New Cato, Grote sat on the ground watching the logistics machinery being delivered.

It was crushed while mining metal, and another support mech was repairing it.

As a maintenance engineer, Grote just watched until the damaged logistics machinery was repaired and flew out of the factory.

At this moment, Grote thought that the so-called job of a logistics mechanic maintenance engineer was actually nothing to do. It might just be an excuse, an excuse to give alms to others.

Most of the maintenance engineers in the factory are watching from the sidelines.

"Personnel No. 488181, personnel category: worker." The logistics machinery responsible for maintenance just now floated to Grote's side, and the black spherical body was facing another worker. "You have been working continuously for a month. You can go to the church to relieve mental stress."

The workers immediately got up and left.

Then the logistics machine floated to Grote again and told him in the same cold voice: "Guard No. 4, it has been detected that you have not relieved the stress since the last war, and from the results of the last psychological test, it can be concluded that you have suffered multiple mental shocks recently. You are allowed to go to the church to relieve the stress."

"I'm not a guard anymore, should your database be updated?" Grote patted the sleek shell of the logistics machinery, and then walked out of the factory.

It's working time now, but there is no conflict between relieving mental stress and working time.

Grote walked to the church with people from other factories, licensed relievers of everything.

The sentinel drone with flashing red and blue light flew in front of Grote and the others, and the sound of safety unlocking came from the heavy explosive weapon mounted on it, and at the same time, a beam of light shot out and scanned the people present.

"Thank you for accepting the inspection." After the scanning result was correct, the sentinel drone thanked in a cold voice, and then flew to the next area.

Grote and others continued walking until they entered the church in the city center.

The church is a huge building that extends to a hundred floors underground. The auditorium on the ground does have the function of praying to the emperor, but its real function is not for this.

Grote took the elevator to the underground part, saw a straight steel corridor, and countless rooms on both sides of the corridor, he randomly found an empty one and walked in.

After detecting someone coming in, the door is automatically closed and locked, the originally dark metal room is lit up, and then a beautiful environment is displayed, and two bottles of wine pop up on the ground.

A sandy beach, the ocean in the distance, and the blue sky overhead.

In this beautiful environment, a holographic interface pops up: Do you want to continue "The Loyalist vs. Alien Rebels"?
"Go on." Grotte nodded.

Then a rifle appeared in his hand, and he participated in the previous full-line counterattack against the rebels from the perspective of an ordinary soldier.

After replaying the war with a normal perspective, Gray walked out of the room and took the elevator back to the ground.

The moment the elevator door opened, Grote saw a familiar figure.

Gray.

Everyone who passed by Gray saluted him as he leaned against the wall and waited in his Praetorian power armor.

"Why, the captain of the guard, Gray, is also here to play against the alien rebels?" Grote walked forward with a smile, and hugged Gray.

"I don't like that game, I prefer to watch a movie called "Super Gray Kills Rebel Bastards." Gray joked, and then suddenly became serious, "Maya has been found."

When Grote heard the news, he was stunned for a moment, then trembled, and then ecstatically, with tears and snot mixed and flowing out.

Gray patted his brother on the shoulder, and continued: "Her residence is assigned next to yours, and you can see her when you go back after get off work, and then you have to teach her some rules of life in New Katoli."

"For example, you can't carry out any entertainment activities without permission, and you shouldn't resist scanning when facing the sentry drone..."

"The head of the legion specially made a genetic comparison device to help you find Maya."

"Fortunately, using your genes to compare and search, it is really your sister, not a so-called woman with muscles."

"Also, your brother..."

When it came to Grote's brother, Gray hesitated.

"He's dead, isn't he?" Grote asked.

"Huh. Huh? Yes, but..." Gray wanted to tell Grote what he had discussed with Qin Mo that day, but Grote didn't give him a chance to say it.

Grote's expression was very calm: "My brother never yells at me. He is really good at using violence but does not rely on violence. He is simply a role model... At that time, something was wrong. He seemed to have been taken from his body. Do you know what I felt at that time? When I looked into his eyes, they were like glass, and he knocked on the glass to ask me for help..."

"..." Gray was silent.While everyone else thought Groat was violent when it came to people who weren't his, he'd always understood that his good brother was actually a wise man.

"Contact me if you encounter any trouble." Gray patted Grote on the shoulder. "I have to go to recruit soldiers. I'll come to you for a drink tomorrow night."

"Okay." Grote nodded in agreement.

……

After a while.

the other side.

"He is quite perceptive." Qin Mo communicated with Gray, with a very surprised expression on his face.

"Of course. So...um...could Grote re-wear Praetorian power armor?"

Gray wanted to intercede for Grote, and he nervously waited for Qin Mo's reply, but then he heard a knock on the door from the communicator.

"Let's talk." Qin Mo hung up the communication, turned to look at the door, "Come in."

The door was pushed open, and Duncan, the head of the 87th Regiment, walked in, saluted and asked, "You are looking for me."

"Yes." Qin Mo nodded, recalled for a while and said, "I heard that you have your friend's ashes in your hand?"

Duncan immediately thought of Albert's ashes.

The friend's last wish is to see the sky after death, but even if he goes to the next nest, this last wish cannot be fulfilled, because it takes [-] throne coins to put the ashes on the surface of the planet.

Unless one day everyone can garrison the upper nest, then Albert's ashes can be sent directly out of the window of the building to fulfill his last wish.

"Did you know that almost all soldiers who died in battle had only two last wishes before they died." Qin Mo got up, walked to the table and sat down, then picked up the report he got from a census conducted by the main control intelligence organization, and read out the content: "One is to entrust the family to his comrades, and the other is to see the sky after death."

"Yes, Legion Commander." Duncan nodded.

Qin Mo also nodded, and then suddenly asked something irrelevant: "Do you know that we are building an orbital dock?"

"I know, Legion Commander." Duncan said with some doubts.

"There is a place reserved on the orbital dock. This place is in the interlayer between the outer shell and the internal structure of the dock. The instruments and equipment are too large to fit, but it can be used to store some small things, such as the ashes of the dead."

When Qin Mo said this, Duncan was so excited that he was about to lose his composure, and he could already predict what the army commander would say next.

That is, the ashes can be put into the orbital dock together with the ashes of other war dead, and then they will be sent to low-Earth orbit together.

"In the last war, when we launched a counter-offensive, the chance of soldiers dying in battle was less than 5.00%, but in the previous defensive battle, the death rate was 70.00%. These war dead should be commemorated."

"Now they can not only see the sky, but look down on us from orbit."

Qin Mo said.

"Yes... yes, Legion Commander." Duncan nodded vigorously.

"After you leave, put the ashes in the hands of any logistics machinery you can find, and then they will send the ashes to the dock." Qin Mo reminded.

"Yes. Thank you, Legion Commander." Duncan saluted and thanked, then turned and left.

Qin Mo thought for a while as he watched Duncan leave.

Putting the ashes of the dead of the previous war into the orbital dock mezzanine is of course a way to commemorate them, but it also serves another purpose.

The abilities of the mind in this universe are so outrageous, it can even give rise to miraculous abilities when something is worshiped or commemorated by many.

Perhaps these ashes in the mezzanine of the dock can be used as a shield against psionic attacks.

(End of this chapter)