How can a retired savior be considered retired if his price drops to 40,000?

Chapter 258 Cats are scary, cats are trapped in their cocoons

Before arriving aboard the Emperor's Dream through his warp forest, Leon El'Jonson had already completed a certain level of profile on Fujimaru Ritsuka during his conversation (or interrogation) with Ranmalok. Write.

Although it is said that this person has the command of the Emperor's Dream, has technology that is unimaginable even to the Lion King who has the Icarus Protocol, and has also successfully obtained a small group of Dark Angels that he lost thousands of years ago. The organization of the troop command authority is led by a seventeen-year-old (self-proclaimed) mortal girl as the chief commander. This thing sounds really weird; however, after quickly learning about this through the battle report on the Lion's Mane, After what the ship and its crew had experienced in their subjective experience for more than half a year, the Primarch was surprised, and actually had already become aware of this distribution of power that seemed quite counter-intuitive to Tiangang by the standards of ten thousand years ago. There was some recognition.

The first was the escape of Night Lords First Captain Argo Severtarion from prison under the custody of the Dark Angels - and subsequent attempts by the Lion's Mane to remedy this were unsuccessful. Regardless of whether it is placed ten thousand years ago or ten thousand years later, this is a serious mistake, and Ranmallock, who is the leader of this ship, should undoubtedly be punished for it. But considering that it was because of this incident that all the crew members of the Lion's Mane could drift in the subspace ten thousand years later and be reunited with the original body who had awakened ten thousand years later, Lei Ang hesitated again on whether to actually take punishment accordingly.

For ten thousand years, maybe he just lay there and fell asleep, or maybe his soul drifted somewhere else. The fisherman in the floating boat didn't tell him, and neither did the Dark Watch. But he did change during this period of time that he barely noticed: he was older - even a betrayer had first told him this - and softer than before.

He retracted his free thoughts, crossed over this point which was not the main point of conflict at the moment, and continued to compare and read the Lion's Mane's operating records and Lan Malok's work records. What happened on Jestal is written in a mess. The records are not only filled with a large number of vague and contradictory descriptions that look like the machinations of the enemy of Chaos, but some of them are undeniable. During this time, the Lion's Mane somehow lost an extinct weapon-level ship-borne virus bomb.

These records are followed by a note from Ritsuka Fujimaru for reference. This explanatory record details the "truths" that are "impossible to be verified anymore." The language she used in writing was High Gothic from 10,000 years ago. Her words and sentences were very formal, the document format was also very standard, and the data was very detailed, but the things she described did not look real. Therefore, at the end of this document, Leon saw the electronic signatures of several people fighting underneath. The annotations showed that these inner circle members had great differences on whether to add it to the record - but in the end , Ranmarok won, so Leon managed to read this bunch of nonsense here to the effect that "the entire timeline of Jestal has been rewritten for thousands of years."

Even the original body's brain couldn't tell whether this was true or not, so Leon simply put this part aside. He then looked down and saw the reappearance of Conrad Curze, and the fact that the Lion's Mane was forced to release all the Night Lord prisoners they originally held. Not to mention his inexplicable reappearance of the rebel brothers, Fujimaru Ritsuka's mediation was obviously also an important factor in making the whole thing come to a smooth conclusion without bloodshed.

Perhaps the writing style of the previous report was preconceived in some aspects. Based on the few words describing Fujimaru Ritsuka in this record, Leon profiled a trumpet Guilliman who was very good at pretending to be powerful. He told himself that there was too little information and that this conjecture was groundless, so he quickly dismissed the image that appeared in his mind and made him feel uncomfortable, and then skipped and recorded the two interviews with Lan in the inner circle that followed. Mallock initiated the impeachment process (and all failed) documents, and asked the Firewing Grand Master who was still poking in front of his eyes, and who seemed to be almost waiting for execution after getting the information: "Who is Konrad Curze?" what happened?"

Of course Lan Malok didn't know what was going on, but of course he couldn't say "he didn't know what was going on". He had no choice but to put the scattered fragments of what he knew into something that looked like a whole in his mind, and then even more reluctantly poured the pot of dumplings out of his own teapot.

For the first time in his life, he felt that his ability to express himself in words was so poor. But at the same time, he also firmly believed that such problems occurred because what happened in reality was too absurd and difficult to understand, and the fault was never his own.

He described what he considered to be a completely perverse power relationship between Fujimaru Ritsuka and the Traitor Primarch (and submitted at this stage certain two video recordings as illustrations. Yes, Lord Guilliman had ordered their destruction, But how can the Primarch of the Ultramarines control the Dark Angels?), and also mentioned the inexplicable appearance of Ferrus Manus after encountering the Iron Hands' Claw of Destruction, and the appearance on Parmenio Corvus Corax suddenly appears and causes some chaos. In theory, he shouldn't know about this, but he still reported to his original body the information that "the resurrection of Sanguinius" may also be in Fujimaru Ritsuka's plan, and combined all the above to make an inference: this The little girl may have existed, at least in part, so that the Emperor could recall the lost Primarch.

After hearing these words, Leon was noncommittal and just continued to look down. Lanmarok, who felt unsure after telling these stories, didn't know that his original body also didn't feel confident after hearing these stories. Leon has been walking around in the dark side of the empire for some time. He still scorns the widespread view in the empire that "the emperor is a god". He is only non-committal in most public situations due to the situation, but at this moment, He really couldn't help but wonder if there was indeed some metaphysical behemoth behind Fujimaru Ritsuka - to be more specific, his genetic father - operating everything. But he is indeed relieved to know that his other brothers have gradually begun to be active in the material world ten thousand years later. Although it includes a Conrad Coates.

Leon would rather replace this candidate with Leman Russ. But considering Manus, Guilliman, Corax, and possibly the Sanguinius Jewels in the future, there is only one Konrad Curze to worry about now, which doesn't sound too unacceptable.

Then, he quickly passed through several battle reports from Zaintik Afupa. This included more than a dozen battles, large and small, from Jestal to Parmenio, and then as they sailed all the way to Baal. Fujimaru Ritsuka has never directly intervened in the Dark Angel's chain of command, so what Leon saw in these battle reports were familiar tactics and operating modes. However, it cannot be said that there is very little information about Fujimaru Ritsuka - at least, Leon can still see a lot from the strategic goals she assigned to the Lion's Mane and the rest and supplies afterwards: For example, she cares about the personnel. Although he does not care about material losses, he is very fond of decapitation tactics, and he is also very skilled in maintaining morale, etc.

Considering the structure of the entire team, the above is a matter of course. If Leon was commanding such a small but powerful team, he would do the same. But if the commander's age, experience, and the physical limitations of mortal thinking are also included in the evaluation criteria, she will appear to be quite powerful.

He was not yet sure whether the client realized these things on her own or whether someone else was teaching her. That's why he decided to meet Fujimaru Ritsuka face to face in this way to see if her behavior in the face of his "unexpected situation" could show that she had some real talents.

Leon rated the pop quiz very highly—a little too highly, in fact. He admitted that it was wrong of him to scare such a little girl from behind, but he also did not expect that he would be locked in a room on the Emperor's Dream and forced to do so amidst the rumbling noise of mechanical operation. Move for more than ten minutes.

Just as he began to seriously consider whether to summon Caliban's forest around him and use it to escape, the radio station next to him that had been cut off when the room started to move came on again. This time, however, what appeared on the screen was not Ranmarok's winged helmet on the Lion's Mane, but Ritsuka Fujimaru, who was apparently in another room on the Emperor's Dream.

"Mr. Leon, I think we need to talk openly and honestly - not for any special purpose, just to exchange information. To be as transparent as possible in various institutions that are supposed to cooperate with each other, in today's dark side of the empire Neutralizing reality is a necessary thing.”

She sat on a chair and said as if she had made up her mind.

(End of this chapter)