Warhammer Inquisitor

Chapter 300 Rise of the Primarch: The Children of Macharius

There are no lights in the broadside corridors of the Infinity Frontier, all lights and lights are silently off, but that doesn't mean it's dark, it's actually very bright, even brighter than many places on the ship. Bright.

The light from the sun shines through the sealed glass in the hallway, and as the Infinity Frontier gets closer to the core of the solar system, it has been shining at its core since the beginning of the universe, giving life to humans and Terra for millions of years. The sun that provides warmth and light appears brighter and brighter.

A huge stream of solar fire danced on the surface of the sun, accompanied by those pulsating slender flames, black solar flares continuously surged and exploded on the surface of the star, and they splashed the light that illuminated the entire galaxy in the deep space, splashing Go to the corridor of the Infinite Frontier and shine on the fiery red hair.

Anna was walking in the corridor, holding a data plate in her hand and watching, as her fingers kept clicking and sliding on it, her footsteps in high military boots did not stop for a moment, she strode forward. As she walked, the service officer beside her could only quickly follow her, answering questions out of breath while walking.

"The marines and the crew had a fight?" Ana asked while looking at the registration information of the gendarmerie in her hand. The service officer held several identical data boards, so many that he could barely hold them. Can walk while trying to adjust the position of their arms to avoid these slabs falling to the ground.

"Yes, mate, I don't know exactly why the fight started, but the gendarmerie said it was a fight on both sides in the cafeteria. I guess it was some bad joke?"

"Joke. Well, it looks like they are really busy." Ana said, sliding the data pad in her hand, sliding the registration information down in detail in her hand, and her eyes quickly swept across the rows of data.

"What about Colonel York? Does he have any opinions? After all, he belongs to him." Anna asked, the service officer beside him grabbed the data board that almost fell, he put the board back on his wrist, and then quickened his pace to rush came up.

The service officer cleared his throat. He looked at the signature at the end of the registration information in Anna's hand, which had the beautiful signature of Colonel York written on it.

I have to say, although as a strong man who licks blood with a knife, fights fiercely at close range, and can kill a green-skinned boy with one punch, York's handwriting is quite beautiful, with clear lines and elegant endings, but it is also very beautiful. The font flicks as steady as a bullet. .

"The colonel signed it, and he agreed to leave this to us, I mean, to you, Anna."

"Call me first officer, only the captain can call me Anna, and even Vito is no exception."

"Of course, as ordered, Chief Mate."

The service officer watched, and Anna pulled out a signature pen from the corner of the tablet. She gently placed the electronic touch pen tip on the screen, and then quickly signed her name with the movement of her fingers, Anna. Yevgeny Makaryan, the exact same last name as Cole.

Anna's fingers moved the tip of the pen to write, and the follow-up orders in her mouth did not stop, "Send the marines to clean all the armored vehicles, maintain the armory, and throw all the naval crews to the artillery deck, and let them take every I've polished all the macro cannons to get rid of the rust."

"Since they're so busy, let's find something for them to do. When they're done, they won't have the time to be sullen." Anna said and handed the data version to the service officer on the side, who took it. The back of the data board nodded again and again, "Smart arrangement, first officer, I believe that when they finish their work, they will forget why they are busy there."

Anna smiled. She talked about the fiery red hair that floated beside her ear with her footsteps. She pinned it behind her ear. The short hair made her look quite capable and valiant, with the same temperament as those bomb girls. , ah, I mean battle nuns, don't call them that in front of those silver-haired chicks, unless you like to eat bombs, the physical kind.

"Is there anything else?" Anna turned to look at the service officer and asked, who shook his head gently, "Then go to work, keep an eye on those boys, and don't let them fight again."

"According to the first officer! For the empire and the navy." The service officer stopped and saluted Anna. After receiving the return salute from Anna, he turned and left. Anna looked at the back of the distant service officer and turned and continued to walk towards the end of the corridor.

But she stopped just after a few steps, because a voice spoke from the shadow of the support pillars in the hallway. "It's interesting, you always take care of all this trouble, does Cole care?"

The voice said, accompanied by a cracking sound like a shortbread being smashed, Anna stopped and smiled and turned to look at the shadowy location in the corridor, which is called darkness under the lamp, "Cole has never liked dealing with this kind of thing. Trivia, or rather, private questions, you know."

"That's right, he can't even handle his own private affairs, let alone dealing with other people's." The master who spoke the voice stood up from the shadows, he stood up from the support column in the corridor, and followed When he got up, the rays of the sun in the corridor gradually illuminated his figure.

Ana looked at the guy. At first, only the outlines of his chest and arms were illuminated by a dim light, but soon as he stepped out of the shadow, his entire body also emerged from the shadow.

"Aren't you full yet? It's still time to eat, and what else are you going to eat?" Anna jokingly looked at Vito, who took a bite of the burrito in his hand, and put the A large portion of the burrito was bitten off and handed to Anna who was on the side.

"The Sausalia burrito, Mario made, tastes pretty good, reminds me of a burrito, just not spicy enough, but not bad, have a bite?"

Vito stretched out the cake that was full of bite marks from his teeth towards Anna, who pushed the thing away slightly in disgust, "Who wants to eat something full of your saliva, and I've eaten it."

"What's wrong? Are you still losing weight, afraid that Cole will dislike you?" Vito smiled and took another bite of the burrito. Obviously, he was not full. He chewed the delicious combination of vegetable leaves and minced meat in his mouth. In front of the window on one side, his eyes looked at the huge sun on the side of the battleship.

As the Infinite Frontier approached the core of the solar system, the area of ​​the sun became larger and larger, and now the giant had almost engulfed the entire field of vision outside the window. Vito looked at it and saw all the The surface of the sun surging with fire.

"Are you serious? Every time I change the perfume and put on makeup, Cole has to be stunned for a long time before he can react, and I have to remind him." Ana said, leaning against Vito, her arms folded , one leg bent up and stepped on the bulletproof glass behind him.

Vito looked at the sun, his eyes reflecting the huge lines of fire pulled from the surface of the planet, "Are you okay with him? I mean, when I leave to smash Abaddon's fleet."

"What more progress can be made? It's not like you don't know about Korna's virtue. He's been like this since he was a child, and he hasn't changed at all in his twenties." Anna helplessly shrugged and sighed, while Vito smiled and bit his mouth. The cake, while chewing, he babbled vaguely.

"He didn't want to maintain the relationship between superiors and subordinates. You know Cole's character is so serious and serious that it hurts. I doubt whether his ancestors were Germans."

Vito pondered while eating the burrito, as if he was just trying to find a topic while eating, "If I remember correctly, you and he grew up together, right? Anna Makarian? It's a good name, but I prefer your old name, Anna Rommel Erwin."

Ana looked at Vito and raised her eyebrows jokingly, with a rather speechless smile on her face, "You did a background check for me? It's so detailed."

"Haha, I'm also a professional judge anyway. I know the friends I work with, so it's not just you, I know their backgrounds." Vito looked at the sun and said softly, his eyes turned to one. Skipping sideways, the blasted dark patch on the sun's surface scrapes its fiery storm of stars.

"Then tell me, what did you find out?" Anna hugged her arms and adjusted her body against the glass, while Vito smiled silently as he gently shook the burrito in his hand .

"Anna Rommel Erwin, the daughter of Admiral Erwin of the Imperial Navy, your father has made great contributions and is one of the most talented captains in the history of the Imperial Navy. He has great military exploits, I heard about it a long time ago. he."

Vito's eyes flickered with flames, and the fire storm that jumped up and subsided briefly illuminated his face, Vito took another bite of the burrito, chewing slowly in his mouth, "But unfortunately, He died young, not in a sea of ​​stars, but in an absurd political conflict."

"A political conspiracy of Star Macharius, someone wanted to use a vacuum bomb to blow up the Governor and the Grand Marshal of the sector, but the Governor was a little far away from his seat when he was in a meeting that day, and the explosion and assassination failed by coincidence. Several big figures in the military affairs department were killed, but the governor did not die."

"And then after "investigation", it was found that among the officers in the "7.20" assassination case that planned the assassination, many of them were your father's old men and students, so the Governor-General suspects that your father also participated in the assassination. Admiral Erwin was involved in the assassination? With your father's reputation, that was enough to scare the entire planetary leadership to sleep."

Anna didn't speak, she just listened, she nodded with her arms folded, and motioned for Vito to continue speaking, who also continued to speak after swallowing the food.

"Your father was implicated and suspected to be related to the 7.20 assassination. Later, he was given two options. After committing suicide, he would preserve his reputation and honor, and his family would not be implicated. Or if he was arrested and executed as a traitor, his family would also After being arrested, they are thrown into the world of punishment."

"Your father chose the former. In order to protect you, he was forced to commit suicide. After that, the Sector Government fabricated a ship drill accident for him. Unfortunately, he died in the explosion. Hmph, in order to cover up your father's death, they also Pulled on a boat to make the lie more believable."

Vito said disdainfully, and he bit off the corner of the burrito again, "Admiral Erwin's death caused a shock within the Imperial Navy. Of course, no one believed the outrageous reason, especially Cole's father, Mansch. Admiral Tann Makarian, he and your father are old comrades-in-arms, and they worked together for many years when they graduated from military school. They made contributions together and became admirals together, so he didn't believe that outrageous reason at all."

"Admiral Makarian later found out the truth, and gathered a group of naval officers under his command. When the Governor was out to patrol another planet's jurisdiction, he commanded a fleet to ambush and arrest the Governor, After that, Admiral Makarian handed the truth of Admiral Irwin's death to the Inquisition Chamber who heard the news and came to investigate, and persuaded the Inquisitor to believe their words, and then the Governor was executed for heresy, Makarian Admiral, was promoted to the new planet governor."

Vito was eating the burritos, and there were not many burritos left in his hand, shaking with his fingers, Anna looked at him with a smile and shrugged, "You checked it out very well, I thought it would be completely cleared up. The cover up is, after all, the scandal of the Navy, no one would want the common people of the Empire to know the Holy Land of the Navy, such a scandal happened in the hometown of Sun Lord Macharius."

"Please, I'm an Inquisitor, and I'm also the Supreme Instructor of the Inquisition. I can look up whatever I want." Vito's words carried a trace of pride. He ate the last burrito with a smile. He clapped his hands and turned to look at Anna who was beside him, looking at Anna who looked extremely gorgeous in the sun.

The throbbing fire of the sun shone through her red hair, and her long crimson hair cast a red halo on her face. From Vito's point of view, she looked like she had stepped out of a painting. Same.

Vito put his hands on his hips and pointed at Anna in front of him with one hand on his waist, "And you, dear Anna, were adopted by your uncle, Admiral Macarian, who is Cole's father. , it can be considered that he has done his last duty to your father, as his adopted daughter, your surname has also been changed to Macarian."

Anna turned her head to look at Vito. She was silent for a while and then smiled and shrugged, "Have you found anything else? Investigator."

"Of course, you grew up with Cole, and you knew Cole very early on because of the coworkers between your fathers, especially when you were adopted by Governor Makaryan, and you were literally with Cole. You grew up together, you go to school, live, play together, and I heard that you were the most troublesome at the time."

"Childhood sweetheart, I remember that this word can just describe your relationship." Vito smiled and shook his hand in front of him. Anna looked at him and burst out laughing. She leaned against the glass and raised her eyebrows to look at Vito. "How come you are like Mario, talking and gesturing after talking excitedly."

"Do you know that the name Vito was named during my stay in Italy? Believe me, everyone in ancient Terra was like that. When you talk and gesture, it's audio and video, which is especially atmospheric. ,Mamma Mia!"

Vito said, pinching his fingers in front of him, and swaying with gestures. Anna couldn't help laughing when she saw Vito, and Vito smiled when she saw Anna who was laughing.

"You grew up with Cole, even if Cole entered the Imperial Navy Academy according to the family tradition, studied and became a captain, you also chose to join the army with him. I want to know that you are just the same as when you were young. , always likes to be noisy, can't stand the red tape of the nobles, or is it because of him?"

Vito said, standing in the corridor with his arms in his arms, the sun's rays shone on his side, and the shining light lit up from the hair on his arms and side face, Anna watched him silent for a moment and then stood up , She stood on tiptoe and turned to look at the sun outside the window. The bright firelight shone on her face, brightening her fiery red hair.

She looked at the sun, her emerald green eyes gleaming under the brilliance of the sun, Anna closed her eyes after a moment to feel the warmth of the ray of light, and then slowly exhaled, "All right."

"Cole was never good at politics, or conspiracy, when we were kids, every time I, or we got into trouble together, I told him to shut up, just panic and get through, but every time Cole would He took the initiative to come out and admit the truth, no matter how scary and serious the punishment he faced, he didn't care at all, and he was determined not to talk shit and lie."

"He's always been too honest, doesn't like it, and doesn't want to participate in the red tape of the aristocracy and the political life of each other's hypocrisy, you know, as the son of the new governor, there are many people who flatter him, such as various nobles The family's daughter or something."

"Aha." Vito heard that the DNA moved here, and he showed a bright smile on one side, Anna looked at him and rolled her eyes speechlessly, "Don't think about it, Cole is not you, He's not interested in 'sexy' women."

"Fuck, Cole is not interested in men." Vito's smile froze, and gradually turned into a weird and awkward smile, "Ah, it's no wonder he's not interested in you, I remember you wore it for a banquet before, you wore it for a party. When that dress came in, I swear in my experience that any man would react a little bit, but Cole didn't."

"Fuck, Cole would prefer to stay with me, he won't."

"Go to your uncle's Vito, Cole is not interested in you. Who told you that if you are not interested in women, you are interested in men? Your brain was electrocuted by Omega the last time the robotic arm was overhauled?"

Vito smiled and scratched his nose, of course he was joking, what Cole was interested in Vito of course knew, he had partnered Cole for so many years, "Well, I know, Cole is only interested in sailing and Ships, the war itself is interesting, and every time I say go for a "bold" plan, Cole is always cursing, but I can see that he is still very excited."

"So, Cole wasn't very happy in Maccarian, right? Every time I asked him about Maccarian, he wasn't very happy to talk to me."

"If you start at the age of seven, you need to live in your own political traps, assassinations and kidnappings, and you won't like those memories." Anna stood in front of the window, her hand lightly on the glass, The surface flames of the sun tumbling outside cast a bright light on that beautiful face.

Anna's other hand subconsciously touched the gun on her waist. The Seiko laser gun had been with her for many years. Anna's fingers touched the butt of the gun, which was attached with a reinforced carapace. , that thing is so hard that it can be used as a hammer by grabbing the barrel of the gun with the backhand.

Those emerald green eyes flickered in the sun's rays, and Anna looked at the pistol on her waist, and the gun body shone with gray-black light under the direct rays of the sun's rays.

"Marshal Makarion has become the new governor, but that is also a curse, those in high positions will always be the target of everyone, and all the conspirators with bad intentions and hidden evils will turn their guns on you. , the ex-governor's explosive assassination, Marshal Makaryan has also learned a lot."

"And as his only son, Cole had his first assassination since he was seven years old. It was his mother, Mrs. Margarita, who took us to the park to play. She was a beautiful and kind woman. , everyone who knew him respected her, but not the assassins."

Ana said that she held the gun on her waist, almost an instinctive action. Vito lowered his eyes and looked at Ana's fingers tightly holding the trigger of the gun, and then slowly released it after a long time. , Her expression was very bad, and she took a deep breath before speaking again.

"A group of assassins drove into the park entrance, shot us with laser guns as we were walking down the path, our bodyguards were killed on the spot by a surprise attack, and Madame Margarita used her body as a shield to protect us, She fell in a pool of blood and died. Quite tragic, she shouldn't have ended up like that."

"Cole and I were only seven years old when we witnessed death, his mother died in front of him, and I remember Cole crying that day and not speaking to me for a while, and after that, Makarian The marshal found out who did it, and carried out a political purge on the star of Makaryan, killing a lot of people, including some of our friends' homes after hours."

"I learned later that they became friends with us only to spy on intelligence and understand the laws of our actions, a typical political trap."

Anna took a long sigh, and she raised her eyes to look at the sun outside the window, "Since then, Cole has become very withdrawn, he doesn't like to deal with people, you can see it on the boat after so many years, besides his work Outside of that, there is hardly much interaction with the subordinates on the ship."

"Cole hates politics, I know, but it's not a good habit," Vito said, leaning against the wall to one side, and he also looked out the window at the sun, shimmering on him, drenching the entire wall. Lit up.

"He just hated that life, Cole hated being the governor's son, he wanted to leave Makaryan, so he set out to be a navy captain very early on, and his understanding of the military came from his father There he came, and he believed that in the military, where pragmatism is paramount, and where the fight for all mankind is fought, there will be no political intrigue."

Vito shrugged lightly, and he shook his head slightly, "But he was wrong. The astral army, especially the navy, is an aristocratic military. There are many political struggles and intrigues between nobles."

"But it's not his fault. After all, he is the son of the Governor, and from the archives, he has always had good grades in the military school. The teacher also likes him. Naturally, he will protect him and help him solve a lot of troubles. He also There is no need to worry about interpersonal relationships, to tell the truth, as far as his interpersonal relationship is concerned, he has to be the son of the Governor, otherwise God knows how to deal with it."

When Anna heard this, she laughed helplessly. She rubbed the back of her head and smiled bitterly, "When he was in the military academy, he was quite withdrawn. It attracted a lot of envy and jealousy, you know, the kind of arrogance and arrogance that is common among noble children."

"And you, First Officer Anna, is a good helper for Cole's interpersonal relationship and politics. I read your file, and I read it a long time ago. Your evaluation among your classmates is very good, and many even admire you. The male students envy Cole because of this, and everyone knows your relationship with him."

Anna smiled silently, she didn't speak, so Vito decided to continue talking, he leaned against the wall and stretched, his voice was long and sharp, "You know politics better than him, Ana, I think it's because of your father's death, and to protect him, right? Cole doesn't like politics and doesn't want to touch it, but you know how important prestige and exchange of interests are in empire politics, the whole empire is built on this."

"You learned political skills, for him, for yourself, you learned it, and I'm sure it wouldn't be easy and quite unpleasant, after all, Cole didn't even want to talk to me, so I guess the learning process was quite uncomfortable."

Ana turned her back to Vito and didn't say a word, but Vito knew why she didn't say anything. Although she was the adopted daughter of Marshal Mackarion, she was the daughter of the Governor after all. Their identities and statuses must decide What you face and need to go through is something no one wants to go through, you have to deal with a lot of people you hate, and even do a lot of things that you hate. This is aristocracy.

"So when Cole joined the navy, you joined, I guess, Governor Makarion asked, right? He only has this one son, and once Cole leaves Makarion to serve elsewhere, the Governor will There's no way to cover him, and Cole's personality probably won't get along well with the new leader and colleagues."

"So he needs you, Anna, a genius for politics and relationships, Cole is a good commander and captain, no doubt about that, but in the Navy there is a need for political manipulation, plus you, Cole's military The career has gone so well, and where he can be when I know him, I think you have a lot of credit for it, Anna."

"Hmph, he's good himself, I'm just silently helping him with some things, some trivial matters, just chores." Anna said softly, while Vito watched him silently for a moment.

In his mind, he recalled some things he had investigated, some unpleasant things, things Cole definitely didn't know, and Anna wouldn't tell him, so he would keep silent.

The awkward silence lasted for a moment, and he suddenly raised his head and smiled, "By the way, do you need me to help you with Cole?"

"Help me? What do you mean?" Anna turned her head in surprise and asked Vito, who smiled and shrugged and waved her fingers confidently.

"Look, that workaholic has never been interested in you, definitely not because he is an emotional idiot, he must know what you mean to him, but Cole's personality leads him to believe that you and him are in a subordinate relationship, in order to fulfill the Good captain duty, not affected by personal feelings, that's why I reacted coldly to you."

"Then what do you mean?" Anna turned her head slightly, looking at Vito who was smiling in front of her.

"I can enlighten him. Who said that the relationship between superiors and subordinates can't be established? I had a lot of experience in this field back then, and I can definitely give him some life experience, and the life experience of the Supreme Marshal, he can't ponder and study it carefully. a bit?"

Ana burst out laughing when she heard it. She imagined in her mind Vito whispering and sharing the "secret experience" with Cole, especially Cole's weird expression after hearing it. , but the funny expression that was really thinking, Anna couldn't help laughing when she thought about it.

Her laughter echoed in the corridor, and soon even Vito laughed together, and they laughed together. The topic that had just been suppressed seemed to be swept into the sun and burned up by its flames.

Just as the two were laughing, the communicator on Vito's wrist suddenly rang. Vito raised the communicator and pressed down the flashing icon. With the pressing of his finger, Cole's bust image immediately appeared. appeared on it.

"Vito, and Anna? Aren't you supposed to be on duty?" Cole said, turning to look at the red-haired girl to the side, she came up, put her elbow on Vito's shoulder, and watched with him Looking at the holographic image suspended on the communicator.

"It's over, I'm chatting with Vito, your embarrassing thing." "My embarrassing thing?"

Cole asked inexplicably, Vito looked at him and smiled, "It's quite interesting, and there are not so interesting things, but I don't think you're looking for me for chatting, right?"

"Yeah, we're in trouble." "Trouble? Unsurprisingly, how big?" "Look out the window, look forward."

Vito and Anna looked at each other, and then walked to the side porthole of the corridor. Vito went to the window and pressed it against the glass, lying on it in a very comical position, looking at the front side of the ship.

"Fuck!" Vito exclaimed, and Anna also came up. She pressed Vito's head down and made him half-squat in front of her. The red-haired first officer put her hands on Vito's head and leaned on it. opened the window, "what's the matter? What did you see? Chaos fleet is going to give us a face-to-face output?"

"In terms of results, you may be right." Vito's face was pressed against the glass, and his whole face was lying on the surface like a pancake fruit. With her head close to the window, she looked sideways and forward.

Her expression was startled, and then she raised her eyebrows slightly to look at the red fleet ahead. A fully armed fleet, and all the guns are aimed at you.

"The guys from the Mechanic School have a bug in their heads? Does this mean they want to kill us?" Anna asked in surprise, "Can't they see our logo? Has the identification code been sent?"

"Send it, but it's obviously useless, I can't handle that group of guys who only have 0s and 1s in their heads, so Vito, immediately came to the bridge, and after they drove me crazy with their own procedures and calculations, they decided to launch torpedoes You'd better get out of here immediately."

Cole said that the image disappeared, Vito smiled and stood up from the window while supporting the glass surface, he patted his clothes and tidied up, "Wow, let Cole jump one step to deal with the machinery. It seems a bit difficult for him to teach those guys the question."

"Then what are you going to do? I guess because the solar system has just been attacked, the heads of those oil guys are still going crazy. I don't know how to deal with these guys at this time." Anna stood helplessly with one hand on her hip. Said, he looked at the smiling Vito also showed a happy smile.

"You already have a plan, right?"

"Yeah, call Kaul to the bridge, you can find him in the lab, he and Omega will probably be there all day." Smiling, watching Vito's back.

"What's your name? Let the oil guys quarrel in binary space?"

"No, it's called using magic to defeat magic." Vito waved his hand and disappeared at the end of the corridor, Anna also smiled and shook her head, she turned her head to look at the fleet of Mechanicians floating outside, watching the fleet behind it suspended in the universe The huge crimson planet in the background then turned around and walked towards the other end of the corridor.

(End of this chapter)