Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor - #627 - Chapter 609: The Savage Spirit Tribe (the branch line comes to an end)
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The man’s face was like a mirror, smooth and without any marks. On the entire smooth surface was only the face of the crosshairs. He could only see himself on it, and he knew that the man was looking at him from behind the mirror.
He was a strange man, wearing a mask made of mirror-like material and a long robe, but he was completely different from the people around him. It was a clean velvet robe, and in this desert, it was as dazzling as a phoenix falling to the ground. Every piece of velvet and every line was shining with the brilliance of the sun itself.
He was taller than the crosshairs, and even had a head longer than the tallest Destroyer in the team. He looked like a thin version of Astarte, standing in front of several people, silently observing them from behind the mirror.
“Hello, people of the Lord of War, the embodiment of destruction.” He spoke in Gothic unexpectedly, with a strange accent, not bad, but more like the sound of some musical instrument, sharp and low, like an actor singing loudly on the stage of a theater.
“Can you speak our language, Gothic?” the technician asked behind the crosshairs. He turned off the translator in front of him. It was no longer necessary. The man should have looked over, but the technician could not tell. His face was completely hidden behind the mirror. It must be a one-way mirror. From the outside looking in, there was nothing, but from the inside and outside, everything could be seen.
It was like an unfathomable master, hiding his true self and being extremely mysterious. “I do know your language. What do you call it? Gothic, well, I prefer to call it the howling of war. It’s a rude language, but since you say so, I have no choice but to do so.”
His contemptuous tone made the crosshairs very dissatisfied. He frowned and approached the man with a sniper rifle. “Take off your mask. I’m not used to communicating with people who hide themselves.”
“Don’t you hide your face too? In the sunlight, hidden in your helmet.” The man asked back. After thinking for a moment, the crosshairs took off the helmet. His long face appeared in the sunlight with a toothpick in his mouth. “It’s your turn, take it off.”
“Well, you think this is an equal obligation, but who can determine this? Is it an obligation? Or just, your imagination?” He said strangely, with a high tone, sounding like a deliberate irony. Regardless of whether he meant it or not, the crosshairs thought so.
The always gloomy crosshairs frowned, his finger pressed on the trigger, “Take him off, or, I’ll help you take him off.” “This is indeed a choice, but you overlooked one point, you can’t do it.” After the man said that, Crosshairs found that his hands were completely unable to move, his fingers were paralyzed, his limbs were out of control, she couldn’t even turn her head, she could only stare at the mirror in front of her, looking at her face on it. “Psychic.” The hunter immediately made a judgment, he turned around and looked at the man, the man who looked like a mirror also looked over, he tilted his head slightly, looked at the hunter, and then glanced at the people beside the truck. “Visitors from outer space, riding on a meteor, came to our dying homeland, bringing with them a dying person. I can see that the power of darkness is corroding her soul. She is in pain, not physical pain, but the loss of self. You should kill her. This is merciful and in line with your style, sons of destruction.” “We are not here to destroy, we come with good intentions.” The hunter said, he gestured to the truck, “Your people don’t understand what I say, but I’m glad you understand. We saved your people and came with a willingness to cooperate. We have no ill will towards your homeland. I don’t want to change your way of life. “Oh, you changed a long time ago. When the first group of sky people came to this world, you did that. There used to be a forest, an oasis and a vast ocean, but when you came, the forest became a desert, and the ocean became a canyon after it dried up. The beautiful corals in my memory turned into jagged rocks, wailing in the air, just like my people, the sky people.” As he said, he stroked the carvings on the scepter in his hand. Those textures seemed to form waves of the ocean, and they coiled around the scepter, layer by layer. The hunter knew what he was talking about. He had seen many people who accused the empire in this way. He wanted to explain to them that the empire had no choice but to do so. In this dark war in the dark galaxy, kindness and sympathy were the most dangerous existences. It would make you hesitate and waver, and these two were more dangerous than cannons and sharp blades. “You want to explain to your compatriots why you did this, why you left the flames, and why you left the death.” Did he see through his own thoughts? The hunter was almost certain that he was a powerful psyker. It seemed that he was the wizard that the girl mentioned.
“We do want to explain, but if you think it is meaningless, then let’s talk about something realistic.” The technician adjusted his glasses and said that he was still wearing a helmet and didn’t seem to want to take it off. The man wearing the mirror mask looked over.
“We are here for a mission. We really have no interest in your culture and tribe. We will not change you, nor will we ask you to forgive the Empire and be loyal to it. We are here to scout those barbaric greenskins and bring their news back to the fleet.”
“And you need our help. Your robot is very interesting, but it can’t understand this vast desert. It can’t understand the destruction and death here.” The mirror-like man said, holding Sally from the ground in his palm. Floating, they undulated like waves in his hands.
The hunter looked at the changing desert waves on the man’s hand. He walked over, and the man behind him suddenly pulled out his hand and pointed at his head, forcing the hunter to stop.
“Help us, help us find those greenskins, this is our reward for your help. You are also here to find these slaves, right? We brought them here, and spent a lot of time and money on the road. energy.”
“Well, pay and report, reasonable requirements.” The man said, tilting his head slightly and staring into the armored car with invisible eyes. Echo stood up from the car behind, and he pointed his pistol at the man. head, ignoring the other muzzles pointing at him.
“Let go of my brother.” Echo demanded in a low voice. The man raised his head slightly, moved his fingers to the side casually, and his crosshairs relaxed instantly. He took a step back with a hostile look in his eyes. He was watching him from behind, but after the hunter signaled him to calm down, the crosshair didn’t do anything drastic.
The man walked to the side of the carriage. He came to Echo, looked at him and then looked directly into the carriage behind him. The slaves stood up to greet him. They first tapped their foreheads with their hands, and then Spreading forward, it seems to be some kind of greeting etiquette.
“You have saved our people. The ancient grudges still linger, but I will not kill you for this, but I will not help you either. Compared to the dozens of people you saved, your country has never been The souls taken away from us are far more than this, but the souls of dozens of people are exchanged for the souls of six people.”
“Seven, you have to save the commander.” The technician added, holding his eyes, and the man suddenly laughed. His voice was long and ethereal, as if it was moving with the desert itself. It rises and falls with the heat waves, changes, and finally converges into one.
“You want us to help you find the destroyers who came with you from the sky, because they took things away from your cities, and everything you have was taken from us, the children of the world, Now, you want us to help you save a cursed person, a person who may become a mutant at any time? “
“Yes.” Yarek, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said gloomily. His voice was like a sudden heavy rain in the hot desert, dispersing the surrounding heat wave. The tumbling desert waves in the man’s hands were also heard in Yarek. The totem collapsed before Ke’s voice and disappeared instantly.
He turned to Yarick, raised his head slightly and looked at him, “Ah, two souls, two structures of will, I saw two souls in your body, not souls in this world, but souls in this world. Through you, I exist in this world.”
“Ah, do you understand? What are they talking about?” The King of Destruction didn’t understand at all. It was obvious, so he asked the technician who thought he should understand, and the latter gave him a negative answer, “No, no.” “You Why can’t you understand? Aren’t you the best at these riddles? “I’m not a psychic.”
While the technician was explaining, Yarick pulled up the robotic arm from the yellow sand on the ground. He was just making some final adjustments to the arm. The previous accident did not give him enough time to complete all the work, but now, he has completed it. Yarick raised his head, his red laser eyes flashing with red light.
He walked between the King of Destruction and the technician and came to the mirror-like man. The two looked at each other, as if they were examining each other’s inside and outside. After a moment, Yarick said, “You must help. She, you have no choice.”
“Why?” the man asked.
“I saw the future of this desert. If she dies, then there will be no more Sally, no more rocks, and no more souls. They will disappear in the flames.”
Yarick said solemnly, his laser eyes reflected the face on the mirror in front of him, but those laser eyes seemed to be able to see many things that could not be seen, “The flames will devour everything. If we can’t solve those Those polluting beasts, those blasphemous existences, then the result will not change. The Emperor will send down the fire of judgment, the baptism of fire, which will cleanse the dirt of this world.”
“What he means is that we come here to reconnoiter and must report back, but no matter whether we succeed or not, the fleet will arrive, and at that time, the expedition force will judge that the planet cannot be recaptured within acceptable losses, and then Immediately issue an extermination order and everything will be burned to the ground.”
The technician understood what Yarick meant and translated it into a more understandable meaning. As he spoke, the locals around him looked at each other. They didn’t know that they could understand what the technician said, but they were just doing it on purpose. He pretended not to understand, or they understood it through other methods, but since it worked, he decided to continue talking.
“You must revive the commander and remove the Chaos pollution from her body, because if we want to contact the fleet, we must do it from the shuttle, and to activate the shuttle, only she can do it. Although you are also a psyker, I think You don’t understand the Imperial Machine Vehicles, only she does.”
“Help us and save the commander, so that everyone will be fine. I promise, we will not report your news to the fleet in the future. The empire will not be able to rule the entire planet, and the expeditionary force will not stay. We will send those of you The enemy informed the fleet that the expeditionary force will help you destroy them and return this land to you. “
The hunter added that the gun pointed at his head behind him was also released due to the communication between the slave girl and the man. The hunter then walked over, approached Yarick, and came to his side to face the mirror with him. ordinary people.
“We only have these two demands, and nothing else. If you don’t help us, everyone will die together.”
“I’m not afraid of death.” The mirror-like man replied with an extremely calm voice. If your observation skills are not keen enough, you will think that what he said is true, but Yarick knows that this is not entirely true. It’s the truth.
“You are their shepherd. You have lived through the ages and protected them in the desert. You need to protect your sheep and fight against those threats.”
“And what’s in front of me is one of those evil wolves that I want to fight against.”
“Wolves and wolves are not one. There must be predators in nature. You can’t change this, but you can decide to cooperate with that kinder predator. Your flock will be destroyed by fire. You Can you stop the fire from coming?”
As Yarick said, the mirror-like man fell silent. He raised his head slightly, his invisible eyes flickering behind him. The hunter looked at the people aside. They all looked at each other, but they didn’t. People express their opinions, and they wait, waiting for an answer from their leader.
To shoot, or not to shoot, to help or to kill, all this will be decided in a single thought.
The mirror-like man looked in the direction of the front of the car. He tilted his head slightly. After being silent for a long time, he slowly said, “She needs treatment. Your medicine may be useful, but it has reached its limit now. Get in the car and take her with me.” And go, if time is still on our side.”
He made a conclusion, then turned and left. Everyone around him also put down their guns. The hunter breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead. It was caused by the hot environment and nervousness, but Now, the hunter felt a sense of coolness under the sun.
“Well done political commissar, I almost thought our mission was going to fail.”
“We will not fail. The Emperor’s mission never fails. Whatever our fate here, alive or dead, the Emperor will be victorious.”
“It’s just that it’s better to have the kind of victory that we also like. I don’t want to stand on the ground and watch the cyclone torpedoes come down.” The King of Destruction said, putting the machine gun on his shoulder. The hunter looked at him and waved He raised his hand to greet the other people beside the truck. The locals around him all climbed up behind the sauropod rider. The back of a three- to four-meter-tall bipedal war beast.
The riders held up the reins and raised the spear-like barrels with the other hand. The bipedal mounts they sat on immediately roared and turned around, turning and running on their sharp claws in the yellow sand, carried by the war beasts. The riders rushed down the sand dune, jumped up and landed on the sand, then started running quickly.
The mirror-like man also rolled over on top of a bipedal sauropod beast. When its rider approached, the mount actively leaned down and crawled on the ground with its front paws. It then rolled over on its back before standing up, then turned and ran towards the beast. He went into the desert, where several riders who were waiting for him followed him after he passed by.
The bipedal beasts gathered on the desert. The man with the mirror on his face raised his scepter and swung it forward, and the riders behind him ran closely behind.
“If you don’t want to, then get moving. The King of Destruction goes to add water, sight, and Echo go back to the car. Technician, go back and take care of the commander.” The hunter ordered, and the team immediately took action. The King of Destruction found another bucket and filled it with water. After adding coolant to the engine, the hunter climbed into the cab and drove the truck back into motion, following the riders who raised their spears high.
The hunter looked at their backs. The wind blew on their bodies and fluttered their cloaks, revealing the symbol of the reborn phoenix spreading its wings below. It was different from the phoenix in human culture, but suddenly, the hunter’s It occurred to him that he had heard these languages somewhere.
“The Spirit Clan, the Wild Spirit Clan.”