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

Chapter 63: The elephant doesn’t matter, there’s a blue whale in your hangar.

Iron Hands tend to be very quick when they need to decide something.Within a few minutes, the four people present unanimously planned the follow-up matters for the docking of the two ships.The next step is to send psykers to contact the Lion's Mane to confirm some technical details with each other.

Debit moved naturally at this time: "I'll go ask the Astropath."

Fujimaru Ritsuka also followed suit naturally: "After all, we have to use psychic telepathy in the subspace, so I think I'd better follow along and take a look."

Feros made a noise, and it took a moment for those present to realize that it was a slight cough meant to attract attention.

"The Astropaths may all be masters of the telepathic school, but the Astartes' will is stronger. Since we are in the subspace now, it is better to send a think tank brother to do this, and communication will be more efficient. ." The Iron Father said quickly.

This reason is actually quite far-fetched.In a sense, the higher the proficiency of the user, the lower the risk of using psychic spells.Surrounded by enemies in the waves of the vast ocean, the Astartes' will is indeed stronger than that of mortals, but it cannot be regarded as a decisive advantage in the current situation.

When Feros says this, he doesn't mean that he actually thinks that the Chapter's Librarians are safer on this mission (but it's true that communication is easier).It was just because he had a hunch that there was something wrong with those astropaths and he didn't want them to meet this outside judge.

When he rushed towards the main power room with his men, all the mortal psykers on the ship were still on the upper level.He didn't know exactly how this happened, but when he came back, he learned from the historical work data package sent to him by Adjutant Fish that most of the astropaths and two navigators had been killed by Debit. It was saved by unknown means and temporarily placed in a nearby hangar that was temporarily vacated for equipment maintenance.

It would be nice to save the precious crew of psykers, and Feros had no problem with that, but the matter itself seemed too suspicious.Due to some stereotypes, if you don't want the whole ship to be disturbed, it is best not to let any Inquisitor know about such "not normal" things.

Then he realized that he was being stared at at the same time by three other people present.

"Mr. Feros, I'm not boasting. I have some experience in things like observing words and expressions." Fujimaru Ritsuka's expression was even a little sad. "I don't know if you realize that you are trying to cover up something." Sometimes, the hidden meaning in the tone becomes very obvious.”

"..."

When he said that sentence, he did speak 1.7% faster than usual, but he didn't think that an unmodified mortal would be able to tell this subtle difference.

Feros turned his head and cast a confirming look at the adjutant. His good adjutant shook his head at him - but there was some hesitation in his movements.Debit remained as usual, expressionless and motionless, but spoke in a calm tone:
"Leaving aside the observation of words and expressions, Fujimaru is basically an intuitive creature, especially when faced with living beings that can communicate. In this regard, the judgments she makes are often the optimal solution."

This is an objective evaluation from Debit Zem Wojd.It’s convincing, but it’s also puzzling: When did you get to know each other so well?
The Iron Father and the adjutant were still confused, but Fujimaru Ritsuka added another attack smoothly:

"Speaking of this, Debit, have you realized that many people on this ship have realized that something is wrong with you, but they just don't show it in front of you?"

"..." Debit paused and nodded: "I remember, I will pay attention."

Sometimes the young man's logic is difficult to understand.I don’t know what he was thinking in these few seconds, and it’s hard to say what he said he would “pay attention to” in the future. Anyway, what he showed at this moment was-turned around again, and at the same time turned towards Others informed: "I'll go get the Astropath."

After all, after sailing on the same ship for eight months and communicating with each other from time to time, Feros has become accustomed to Debit's unconventional behavioral logic.Then, he discovered that this "foreign" judge was not only more accustomed to this behavioral logic than he was, but had even adapted to it:
"Wait a minute, take this." She took out a small ball of paper folded in the shape of a bird from her pocket and put it into Debit's hand.Under the scanning of the mechanical eye, Feros could clearly see in an instant: the raw material of the paper bird was an ordinary piece of paper of low quality, smooth, white, and light, but nothing more. While easy to fold, it is also very easy to be damaged.Its structure is also very simple, it is just a shape formed by folding a piece of paper.What made it slightly different was the writing on the piece of paper used to fold it.Too much content was stacked on top of each other, but from the analysis of the few fragments that could be seen completely, Feros judged that it was the content at the very beginning of Chapter 1 of the Book of Sacred Words.

Debit took it in his hand and looked at it for a moment. There seemed to be a faint golden light all around the paper bird.

Neither Feros nor Fish had a concrete idea of ​​what it was. They could only realize through the unreasonable spiritual light that the thing was not just "a paper bird."But the question "what is it?" didn't seem to bother Debit. After observing it for a while, he even made a comment:
"Perhaps it would be better to abandon this shape and use stronger paper instead. After focusing on improving load capacity and service life, the slight increase provided by this shape is no longer needed."

"That's it, but in terms of consumables, the low-cost and replicable characteristics should be more important. Besides ordinary printing paper, I only have a little bit of devil skin on hand that I made out of curiosity. I want to use the subspace ether to It’s really difficult to preserve the physical form, and it can’t be used for consecration at all, which is really a big loss.”

Debit nodded, said "I will consider it", and left with the paper crane.

Feros was a little unsure of what to say now, but Adjutant Fish, because he had communicated with Fujimaru Ritsuka before, roughly understood that her character was not harsh, so he asked directly: "What is that?"

"I copied some small things from sutra stacks experimentally. They can probably be used as a one-time amulet. When using telepathy, let the astropath take it with you, which will increase the safety factor to some extent." Fujimaru Ritsukahao He explained nonchalantly, and then returned to the previous topic, "Now that we have come to this point, I think we should just open the skylight and speak openly: You all know that there is something wrong with Debit, and that there is something wrong with the psyker in the hangar where the psyker temporarily lives. There’s a problem with those two things, right?”

coming.The two Iron Hands unconsciously straightened their bodies slightly.Maybe other people wouldn't notice this little movement that showed "nervousness", but in the eyes of Fujimaru Ritsuka, it was obvious enough.

"Ah. I don't mean to start an investigation. I have known Debit for a long time. If I insist, I have to call him senior. I probably know what is wrong with him, and I completely know that he is a good person."

She explained so understandingly, dispelling most of the nervousness of the two Space Marines in front of her.Then, Adjutant Fish, who knew the whole process better, spoke:

"There is indeed something wrong in the hangar of the psyker, but it should not have anything to do with this incident." He said, "Since several months ago, the vehicles placed in that hangar have always been... It broke down inexplicably after a period of subspace navigation. After this happened several times, we put it aside. This time, after rescuing the psyker, Debit said he wanted to borrow the machine. Library, I think everything is appropriate and I agree. To say 'there is a problem', Debit did promise that 'the psykers will not go crazy because of the subspace as long as they stay there'. He should be the one who did it there. What is it?"

"..."

Fujimaru Ritsuka was suspiciously silent for three seconds before speaking again:
"Uh... yes, but not entirely right." This time it was her turn to show a slightly "nervous" micro-expression: "So you don't actually know what he did in that hangar, right?"

Hearing what an inquisitor said, Feros began to panic: "What is the specific problem? Are psykers still at risk of becoming time bombs?"

"That's not true... The psykers in Debitsey's past shouldn't have any big problems. As long as they are in that hangar, their spirits will be protected by another powerful subspace entity. The waves of the subspace will have no impact on them. The impact will be minimal..."

"...Another powerful subspace entity?" In shock, Adjutant Fish managed to extract the correct keywords.Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded heavily:
"That's right, God Tezcatlipoca is an 'old acquaintance' of both of us. I can guarantee that he has no unprovoked malice. Plus, Debit is also on this ship, which can be another insurance, but God He is a god after all... I think the vehicles in that hangar are always broken, and that's probably because he took advantage of your subspace navigation to be interfered with, sneaking in, dismantling the vehicles and putting them back together to cause trouble. .”

The Iron Hands felt that their thinking links were overloaded.

　Today’s total is 6K but I still feel like I haven’t written anything. Why is this happening... (Sad)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)