Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor - #707 - Chapter 688 The Final Autumn: The Promised One

Vito looked at the book in his hand. He was sitting on the edge of a cliff, but it was not accurate to say it was a cliff. This was actually the heat exhaust pipe of the Infinite Frontier’s No. 4 reactor. Under this deep rift was the reactor. A surging boiler, from which boiling water flows into pipes and then flows in the circulation system.

This naturally made this place a warm place. Gradually, leisure and entertainment venues gradually developed around these deep valleys. The sailors used the amazing wisdom of the working people to turn the once dark and boring corners into A brightly lit paradise.

In principle, Navy regulations do not allow this, but you know, this is the ship of the Inquisition, in short, Vito’s ship, so without his decision, this place became the Deep Space Ship. A little paradise in.

And Vito is sitting here now. He is blowing the warm wind rising below and looking at the book in his hand. It is a book that records the era of the two emperors. Vito actually participated in that Hongda event. The counter-insurgency war, but he discovered a few days after today’s meeting that he had actually forgotten almost all of it, so he came here to make up for it.

There were many books on the table in front of him, of various types, but most of them were illustrations of war history and imperial chronicles. Vito had experienced those things, but after reading The Age of Two Emperors today, he discovered I can’t remember many things clearly, and my impressions of some places are completely wrong.

After a long time, he discovered that his memory had become more and more confusing, and many of the things he thought had happened were actually fake. The fake things actually happened. When he closed his eyes and tried to figure it out, he only found out… A hazy purple light could be seen, which seemed to isolate him from the other end.

Vito has forgotten many things. Those things he thought he remembered, turned out to be unable to remember clearly when he thought about them carefully. There are also many memories that should not belong to him. They are interspersed in Vito’s mind, as if they were an ancient volume. The film fused together is small.

A huge silver tree, with a petal growing in the endless sea of ​​flowers. When the flower bloomed instantly, a huge crack opened in the sky. A man stood up from the flower. Vito saw his face, familiar and familiar. It was strange again, the black hair turned into silver hair when she raised her head, and the memory was quickly broken, cut off and disappeared, as if it had never existed.

“Three “people”, but only one soul, two worlds, but there will be a throne. This is the choice of destiny.” “Guardian of balance, re-creation, eternal one.” “An ancient, as if from Said the voice from the earliest moment of time, which was formless and incorporeal, spanning the farthest and nearest positions of the long river of time.

A golden throne emerged from the sound. It was located in the center of the huge crack. From the crack, a crown burning with flames on both sides rose.

“Everything will be reunited, Lord of Eternity.”

Vito opened his eyes suddenly, and his memory was broken by a burst of laughter. The low but hearty laughter pierced his memory and pulled Vito back, but he was not disgusted at all, but felt happy. , he closed the book, stood up and left the cliff.

Vito walked along the bookshelf, looking for the laughter from a corner of the semi-open cafe. At the end of the laughter, when he walked out from behind the bookshelf, he found the Astartes here. The four of them were sitting there. Here, among the tall bookshelves, Bell sat on a chair that was obviously specially brought here. Olaf sat cross-legged at his feet, and Lancelot sat on the table with his sword in one hand and a book in the other. The source of the laughter was Ragnar, who was sitting on a high bookshelf, laughing like a wolf howling towards the sky.

“Damn it, this story is so funny. Lancelot, look here, this fool, hahaha!” “It seems you found a good joke for them?” Vito appeared next to Bell, standing on the interstellar The warriors seemed as small as the furniture here, and this place had almost become a courtyard of giants.

But some people have this talent. When he wants you to notice him, you will notice him anyway. Bell sighed and closed the book in his hand, “That’s not a joke, but obviously, Rag I think so.”

“Of course it is. Damn it, why are you philosophers so weird? Because of a promise you made, and then you were so stupid that you went back and put your head under the knife when the enemy had already released you. I told you to chop it off and remember to put a statue on my head?”

“What are you doing here?” Vito asked. Lancelot ignored Ragnar who kicked him and looked at it with his sword. “Bell held a study meeting. He said that after fighting, we should also Study, so that you don’t become ignorant and have a hollow heart that is easily penetrated by chaos.”

“So, you are bringing them to see a joke? Are you going to make them laugh to death when Chaos sneaks into the heart?” Vito also joked, Ragna burst into laughter, and even the old wolf showed a faint smile, he When Bell helplessly held his forehead, he came out to smooth things over, “It’s not a joke, Bell is leading us to read this book.”

“Cambu Conference?” “Cambu Conference?” “It was a group of guys wearing cockscomb helmets, holding swords and shields, crossing the sea to fight another group of guys riding elephants.” “You are talking about the first time. The Bunnie War.”

Vito corrected Ragnar, and he also took a book and read it. Ragnar patted the illustrations on it and smiled, “Look at these guys, they are dressed like Bell. No wonder he likes it so much.” They are a group of little extreme warriors.”

“They are Romans, Ragnar.” “Mules and horses?” “It’s Rome! This book is about the war between the Roman Republic and Carthage during the First Bunne War. I will show you this book , is to let you learn the perseverance and fighting spirit of the Romans. Even though they were not good at naval battles, they still achieved victory after many failures and setbacks. “

Bell said, while Ragnar waved his hand impatiently, “Come on, I look like a bunch of idiots, stupidly insisting on what they are not good at, and in the end they still win by trickery, but obviously It was all a ruse, and their leader turned out to be an idiot.”

“After he was captured, he was released by the Carthaginians. He promised that he would negotiate peace with Rome. If he couldn’t do it, he would come back and let the Carthaginians chop him down. What happened? He actually went back.”

“You sound scornful of this, Ragnar, are promises not worth mentioning in your eyes?” Vito asked while flipping through the book, while Ragnar shrugged, “Of course it is important, I am a Fenrisian. Don’t forget, commitment represents glory, and glory is above all else. Without glory, we are nothing.”

“But you sneered at the Roman general because he kept his promise.” “Don’t try to secretly change the concept and use it to deal with our enemies, Vito.” Ragnar crossed his arms, “What I despise is His stupidity, knowing that he could not do it, that the Romans could not negotiate peace but still promised it, he was either groveling like a coward in exchange for freedom, it is me, I would rather commit suicide than accept the mercy of the enemy. “

“And what’s even more outrageous about him is that he was released through trickery, but in the end he ran back and was killed. For what? For his long-defunct honor?”

“Maybe it’s just because he promised? Even if he doesn’t know what he promised.” Vito replied inadvertently while flipping through the book, as if he was subconsciously answering. Ragna raised his eyebrows differently, “What do you mean? I don’t know what to say.” I agree, isn’t that stupid?”

“It’s nothing.” Vito closed the book and said with some emotion, “But humans, how can we live without doing something stupid? That’s how we are. Sometimes we don’t know whether we can do it, but we still make promises. Go down and do more stupid things and get into more trouble for it.”

Vito stroked the thick cover of the book. It was already very old. It was unknown that it was brought here from the market on that planet, and it had been gathering dust on the bookshelf for many years. It was only today that it seemed like a joke. A group of people found it.

How many stories that people in the past had no idea would survive have been treated in various ways after thousands of years, such as Bell’s longing, Ragnar’s jokes, and Lancelot’s confusion. The masters of those stories, When they made a promise, did they really know what they had promised?

“In a sense, I quite admire him. He did what he said without any hesitation. He knew it was impossible but still did it, even if it meant death.”

Vito fell silent, and looked at the book with a self-deprecating smile. Olaf on the other side reached out and pressed his shoulder, “What’s wrong? Vito, you look worried. I have never seen you like this before.” anxiety.”

“Yeah, you’re usually crazier than me. Even if you put the barrel of the Planet Killer in your face and fire it, you wouldn’t change your face.” Ragna said with a smile, shrugging with his arms folded, “What? Did you break up with someone? Listen to me, women are nothing, you still have a buddy.”

“I’m not interested in men, but I still thank you idiot.” Vito threw the book aside, “But don’t worry about my love life, never separate, just like I promised, don’t suddenly involve me How’s it going? Old Wolf, do you think you learned anything from this reading session?”

“This time? It’s hard to say. Thoughts are precipitated. It will take many years for me to discover what I have learned at this moment. But I did learn some truths and philosophies before. I never thought about it this way, but they can indeed Refinement of my mind has been very helpful in mastering my power.”

“What about you? Lancelot.” “Me? Well, I’m not smart. As my mother used to say, little cleverness is more than serious wisdom.” “But little cleverness is also the product of wisdom, so good job, you What? Ragna, have you learned anything besides laughing? “”Hmm, forget it, jokes work well here, they are better than strict imperial orders.”

“This place?” Bell asked differently. Vito smiled and pointed to the top of his head. Everyone looked at the armored window above his head that gradually opened, and a starry sky appeared outside the window.

“The Taiping Star Territory welcomes you all.”