The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Looking at his daughter, who was developing into a beauty, Hayes was overjoyed and kissed her little face.

"You've grown up and become more beautiful, my little princess."

Finally, there was Fizz, four years old, hiding behind his mother, Andina, clutching her skirt and staring timidly at the stranger.

Hayes was still in his infancy when he went to war, but now he was a fast-moving boy.

Squatting down, Hayes smiled and clapped his hands.

"Is this the first time you've seen your dad's face clearly, little Fizz?"

Andina also bent down and gently comforted her son.

"Don't be afraid, call him Dad."

After hesitating for a long time, the boy said in a childish voice.

"Dad."

Hayes reached out and hugged him, gently stroking his head.

"I'm sorry, Dad hasn't been home for the past few years while you've been aware, but that won't happen again."

After saying that, he turned to look at his two wives, reunited after a long separation, their eyes filled with tears.

"These years have been hard, I've been thinking about you all the time, dreaming about you, I was so afraid I'd never see you again."

Andina wiped the corner of her eye and said softly:

"It's good to be back, coming back is more important than anything else."

At this moment, the off-road vehicle also drove to the door, and Hayes immediately asked to open the carriage and began to move the gifts and various things inside, some of which were to be distributed to other people in the brigade, and they were distributed on the spot.

After that, Hayes was not idle, and went with Little Fitton and others to visit the families of the fallen soldiers of the company. Although there was official compensation, Hayes personally took out a sum of money to express his condolences.

In the evening, on the square, tables were filled with local delicacies, fruits and vegetables, and Hayes had to perform one last "performance."

He told some stories about the battlefield, and the experience of traveling and giving speeches with the officer corps, and even used the small imager on the car to show everyone some battlefield video recordings - when they saw the terrifying Tyrant and Executioner rampaging on the battlefield, many people exclaimed in horror.

Finally, after being busy until the evening, Hayes had the opportunity to truly reunite with his family.

After returning home, he took out many toys, clothes, shoes and hats, and some electronic products, such as locators, vital sign monitors, etc., that he had bought for the children from several large boxes, followed by high-end cosmetics, various clothes, shoes and hats, and jewelry that looked very expensive for his two wives.

Seeing those glittering earrings, pendants, bracelets and other objects inlaid with huge gems and rare materials, Galina and Andina were dumbfounded.

"These... are very expensive, aren't they?"

Hearing Galina say this, Hayes on the sofa smiled and gently patted the little butt of Fizz, who was crawling around on his legs. The little guy was holding a singing cloth ball in his hand, but it was covered with his saliva in just two hours.

"Expensive, of course it's expensive, why would I give you cheap goods?"

"Then that's such a waste, we don't really need this kind of..."

Hayes smiled, gently put the little guy on the sofa cushion next to him, bent down and opened a black thick cloth bag, and took out a golden statue from it. The image was an old nun with her head lowered, and there was a halo behind her. The characters were lifelike, but the focus was on the 19 dazzling gems inlaid on it. As Hayes changed the angle of holding it, the gems would change from emerald green to bright blue or light yellow in the eyes of the people around him.

"I asked someone to evaluate it. This thing should be a saint statue from four thousand years ago. The nineteen gems on it are extremely expensive Wica gems. This kind of gem is almost monopolized by the State Church and is only used on precious saint statues."

As soon as Hayes said this, the two of them gasped. Although they hadn't seen much money, they could still imagine its value.

"This wouldn't be you..."

"Ha, don't worry, it's already been registered with the division headquarters. This is a legal item. It was taken from an old landlord's house when I was on a mission. The whole family died at the hands of gene stealers. It was an unowned item. I also reported it to the instructor, and I can take it."

"Wow."

Andina took the precious statue with both hands, almost didn't catch it, and could only put it on the sofa and gently caress its surface engraved with scriptures, feeling the heavy weight, and then handed it to Galina.

"It's not just these, I picked up a lot of things during this operation. Some of these jewelry are spoils of war, and some were bought. The money was obtained after selling some things."

As he said that, Hayes also took out an exquisite lighter made of crystal.

"This one, someone offered 30,000 and I didn't sell it. The market in that place was already chaotic at that time. If I sold it, it would definitely be at a low price, just like that idiot Little Fitton, who finally got some spoils of war and sold them all to profiteers at a low price, and then bought jewelry at a high price to send... forget it, I won't say it. This time when I came back, I casually found someone to estimate it, and the result was at least 100,000 to start with. This thing is made of rare crystal that the Mechanicum strictly controls. You can't find the material on the market at all."

Then Hayes took out all the precious spoils of war from the box.

"...This time I was lucky. I often received rescue missions, and they were generally sent to rescue local wealthy people, dignitaries, and landlords. Sometimes they left in a hurry, and many valuables were not brought with them."

Finally, Hayes took out two cards.

"The money is all here, it seems to be five or six hundred thousand, I haven't calculated it carefully, I sold some that weren't worth keeping."

"Oh my god."

Andina looked at all of this and couldn't help but sigh:

"So many valuable things, and this is just what you picked up. Is that Great Archdiocese so prosperous and wealthy?"

Hayes shook his head.

"What prosperity and wealth, what I see most are poor people, beggars, slaves..."

"Then how..."

"Otherwise, where would they get so many luxury items? In my opinion, the difference between those priests and lords and the Tyranids is only that they eat people slower, while the Tyranids eat people faster."

"This, I heard that the Great Archdiocese is an area presided over by priests? Logically speaking, they should be better than those hive city nobles and governors, right?"

"Ha, alas, let me tell you a story. On a planet that had not yet been invaded by the Tyranids, the regiment was still responsible for guard patrols, but it was said that due to the influence of the Tyranids, the planet's climate became very bad, with extreme high temperatures and droughts, followed by once-in-a-century torrential rains. The world was originally dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, and most people were farmers. After such a mess, there was no harvest for the whole year, but in order to cope with the war, the above directly requisitioned three years of Holy War tax in advance, and even collected the fourth year. For a time, there were disaster victims everywhere who were causing trouble because of lack of food, and we could only run around..."

Hayes spoke娓娓道来, and the two wives listened very carefully, while the children were still playing with various new toys in their hands.