Warhammer: Beginning with Planetary Governors

Chapter 150 A treasure trove more precious than a planet?
The concept of holy relics is very broad.

The various institutions in the empire have different definitions of holy relics.

They could be lost ancient technologies, weapons left behind by some powerful beings, or even washbasins used by emperors, living saints, and the like.

But anything worth the fleet commander hiding secretly must be a good thing.

This fleet collected a tithe tax from nine planets.

While collecting taxes, the fleet commander also followed the instructions of His Majesty the Emperor and completely plundered the nobles on those planets and took away their treasures.

For safety reasons, the treasures were kept on board the giant cruiser.

The most precious treasures were secretly hidden by him, intending to keep them for himself.

Among those treasures are holy relics.

The fleet commander did not reveal where the treasure was hidden.

His only request was an interview with the Governor.
Only after meeting the governor was he willing to tell the whereabouts of the treasure.

It seems that this guy wants to use those treasures to save his own life.

Ron rushed to the interrogation room and saw the embarrassed fleet commander.

As soon as the fleet commander saw him, he burst into tears, as if he had suffered some terrible punishment.

"Governor, if you pardon me, I will pledge my loyalty to you and tell you the whereabouts of the treasure!"

"Pardon you?"

Ron shook his head:
“What qualifications do you have to be pardoned?

When you ordered the bombing of the upper nest to kill me, why didn't you think of this outcome?
As for loyalty, do you have it?"

This guy looks miserable, but he actually didn't suffer any harm.

He cried and confessed many things before the torture began, and then asked to meet with him in exchange for the treasure.

Ron even doubted whether he graduated from the Naval Academy.

This fleet commander can almost be considered a traitor.

Who dares to accept his loyalty?

"Don't you want to get the treasure?
That is something more precious than a planet!"

The fleet commander became anxious when he saw that Ron was unwilling to pardon him.

"Of course I want the treasure, but what qualifications do you have to make demands now?

Given your personality, you will most likely hide the treasure on your own warship. Now that the warship is in my hands, I will slowly look for it."

Ron glanced at the Inquisition torturer next to him.

They are future inquisitors in training, responsible for torturing and interrogating suspects.

"Continue the execution, increase the intensity, even if someone dies, it doesn't matter!"

After giving the order, he turned and left.

"Stop, you can't leave!"

Seeing this, the fleet commander became even more anxious and threatened:
"It's useless even if you find the treasure house. Without the special password, there is no possibility of obtaining the treasure."

He told everyone that if they forced the door open without a special password, the heat-melting device in the treasury would be activated, melting all the treasures into ashes!
This is the bargaining chip for his life.

Hearing this, Ron turned around and smiled slightly:
"Thank you for letting me know. I have received the information I wanted."

All he wanted to know was the approximate location of the treasure house and what was inside.

As for special passwords or something, he doesn't need them.

Doing so is more risky, as who knows if that special password has any other use.

He would rather let the spirit network crack the operating system of the treasure house after finding the location.

Seeing the governor leave, the fleet commander was completely desperate.

But he refused to reveal anything about the treasure house.

Because that was his only recourse.

The fleet commander believed that the governor would come back to find him, and he would tell him the "special code" without reservation.

Soon, the interrogation came to an end and he was detained.

Afterwards, the torturers interrogated other prisoners.

They need more interrogation reports for cross-comparison.

On the other side, Ron asked the Machine Soul to search the giant cruiser.

It is not an easy task to find a secret room on a giant cruiser that is over ten kilometers long and as big as a small city.

But the fleet commander has already given the answer.

If he secretly hid the treasure, then the treasure house must be in an unmonitored place.

This narrows the search significantly.

Xiao Ling only needs to search for the blind spots of the battleship's monitoring system.

Soon, Xiao Ling found several surveillance blind spots inside the warship.

Ron first sent people to search the blind spot near the bridge, but found nothing.

Afterwards, he sent a search team to search the blind spot in the battleship's bottom warehouse.

The battleship's bottom cabin is even more complicated, with densely packed pipes and complex cabins like a maze.

Even a professional maintenance worker can get lost in it.

It can be said that the bottom cabin of a battleship is similar to a small hive city pipeline world.

The mutant creatures or chaotic monsters hiding there are even more complex and diverse.

While searching in the blind spot, the search team unexpectedly found several lost maintenance workers.

They have been contaminated and mutated into mutants.

For this reason, the search team had to execute him on the spot. Afterwards, the search team even wiped out several groups of Chaos monsters.

After all, it is a fleet that sails in the universe for a long time, and there are too many dirty places on the ships.

According to legend, some ships even have demons hiding deep inside.

It seems that we will have to conduct comprehensive environmental purification on all captured warships to eliminate those hidden dangers.

As the surveillance blind spots gradually decreased, Ron became increasingly nervous.

The treasure trove should be hidden in those blind spots.

Or maybe it was a lie made up by the fleet commander to buy time?

Fortunately, the search team found the treasure house in the last blind spot.

……

In front of the treasury gate.

Ron was wearing a gas mask that blocked out odors, and a scarlet glow shone from his eye windows.

"You're really good at hiding..."

He looked at the filthy door of the treasury and felt a little emotional.

This treasure trove was disguised as a sewage outlet.

If you don't search carefully with a purpose, you will never find it.

The Tech-Priests were busy around the treasure vault.

They are installing mechanical devices to scan, detect and enhance signals.

Warriors such as the Thunder Guards, on the other hand, were dealing with the mutant creatures and chaos monsters on the periphery.

Prevent the monsters that suddenly appear from interfering with the work of the technical priests.

Nourishing~
When the signal enhancement device surrounded by golden energy was activated, Xiao Ling's body temporarily left the host and came here.

"Father, did you miss me?"

The golden energy on the mechanical device vibrated slightly, and Xiao Ling's voice came from the sound generator.

It greeted Ron warmly.

After all, it hadn't been so close to its father for a long time.

Xiao Ling has been hanging out with Kaul and others for a long time, and his behavior patterns and way of speaking are becoming more and more like humans.

"Hey, hurry up and crack the internal system of this treasure house for me!"

Ron's mind was now entirely on the treasure house:
"Pay attention to the hot melt device inside. Once activated, it will destroy the contents inside..."

"Oh~"

Xiao Ling received the order and immediately controlled several mechanical devices around him to invade the treasure house's system.

This process was a bit long and everyone waited quietly.

"Father, the treasure house system has been successfully cracked!"

Xiao Ling's happy voice appeared.

Ron woke up with a start. He got up from the couch and looked at the treasure house:

"You are indeed a considerate little girl. Is the hot melt device completely shut down? Is there any special situation?"

Afterwards, Xiao Ling reported on the situation of the internal system of the treasure house.

From it, I learned that the treasure house did not have any special password at all, but instead had a startup password.

If Ron chooses to trust the fleet commander, he can enter the password to open the door.

Then the moment the door is opened, the extremely high temperature emitted by the hot melt device will completely submerge him.

Almost no carbon-based organisms can withstand such high temperatures.

The outcome is certain death.

This is the fleet commander's last resort of revenge.

Once he realizes that he has no chance of survival, he will make those who covet his treasure pay a heavy price.

Sure enough, those who can reach the top are not simple people.

The fleet commander's previous appearance was probably half acting. He knew he was going to die, so he wanted to take Ron with him to be buried with him.

Fortunately, Ron was more cautious and did not fall into the trap.

The door to the treasury slowly opened.

Ron walked in on a soft carpet made of the fur of some white feline.

After passing through a passage several meters long and filled with hot melt devices.

He finally entered the treasure house.

It was a well-equipped storage facility.

The walls and floors are made of the most advanced protective materials to protect the items stored therefrom from various factors as much as possible.

The various ancient objects in the storage box exude a solemn and dignified atmosphere.

There is also a faint fragrance in the air.

It is the taste of years of sedimentation, which makes people feel a sense of tranquility and peace of mind.

Ron walked to the deepest glass storage box, inside which was an ancient stone tablet engraved with complex text and patterns.

A piece of parchment was embedded in the middle of the slab.

The moment he saw the parchment, he knew what it was.

However, when Ron saw the mark on the lower right corner of the parchment, he exclaimed:
"My goodness, bloody fingerprints, is this thing real?"

(End of this chapter)