Warhammer Inquisitor

Chapter 346 Expedition Road: City of Graves

There is no concept of time in the web, it is sandwiched between the physical universe and the subspace. It is meaningless to find a real concept of time in this twisted time axis. It may be in the distant past or the distant future. , so I don't know how long the city has been here.

Magnus didn't know either. His one-eyed red gold stared at the exquisite statue that passed by. It was the statue of an Eldar woman. The graceful body curve was almost like a real person, and the elegant gauze skirt was as clear as a dream. Shadow, she looked so flawless, only one flaw, her head was missing.

In fact, everything here is like this. The entire once gorgeous and prosperous city has long since become a broken wall. Everything here has collapsed, and all that remains is a piece of rubble, ruins and sighs.

Magnus walked on the street, his one eye looked around everything, the shops on both sides of the street were empty, broken glass and collapsed walls can be seen everywhere, some of which still have some ancient Eldar handicrafts , the exquisite bracelets and pendants are faintly exposed between the rubble and the white spiritual bone fragments, just like the decorations on a cake that has been smashed to the ground.

As Magnus walked past the door of the shop, he caught a glimpse of the Eldar corpse submerged in the rubble. The yellowish skin is attached to the skull.

He fell into the rubble, only a part of his upper body and one hand stretched out, struggling to grab something exposed, and the rest of his body was buried under the rubble.

Not only this corpse, but when Magnus walked on the only fairly clean road in the ruins, he kept scanning the skeletons of the spirits lying on both sides. There were men and women, and there were even rare spirits. Clan children, Magnus rarely saw Eldar children, and their Clan now rarely sees newborns.

They all fell on both sides, wearing gorgeous costumes that were very different from the current Eldar clothing styles, and fell sporadically or concentratedly in every corner of the street, but without exception, they all moved hard in the direction at the end of the front. scrambling to flock to that place.

He walked through the empty streets, where everything was shrouded in dead silence. Compared with this place, even the subspace was so vibrant and radiant.

Magnus followed Vito past a collapsed fountain. On the silver fountain stood an Eldar huntress in tight clothing and a robe with a bow and arrow over her shoulders. On the central platform, two huge stone statues collapsed on both sides.

The stone statue that slammed to the ground cut off the direction of the road and directly killed the Eldar who were crowding there at the time. The corpses were stacked under the boulder like a foundation, between the stone and the milky white dust. Pour into one piece, one on top of the other.

Vito walked over. He stepped on the stones at the edge of the corpse and turned over the barricade. Magnus turned over after looking at a screaming Eldar corpse lying down at his feet. Toh was taller, so climbing over the ruined barricade felt more like crossing a small dirt slope to him.

Magnus crossed the ruins and looked up at Vito in front of him. He was walking on the huge avenue on his own. After the two fallen giant statues, there was a square that seemed to see the sun through the clouds. Vito was wearing Wearing golden power armor, he stepped down from the corpses of the Spiritual Race lying on both sides of the stairs with heavy steps.

It was so quiet here that Vito's footsteps became much duller than normal amid the dead silence, and the rumbling echoed throughout the ruins, amplified by repeated echoes.

Magnus also walked to the square. His tall body stood at the top of the stairs, which allowed him to have a panoramic view of everything in the square. In front of him in the center of the square was a huge statue, a Statues of Eldar warriors stand with swords on a huge stone platform in the center, while large corpses are poured around it.

There are more Eldar bones gathered here. They seem to have gathered from all over the city, but in the end everyone died here. Thousands of Eldar have turned into a mass grave here. It’s better to say , this city is a huge cemetery.

Magnus saw that Vito was passing through the corpses in the center of the square. He stepped over the mummified corpses in different clothes without even looking at them. Magnus frowned slightly, and he stared at a corpse on the side. The dozen bullet holes on his back suddenly seemed to understand something.

He walked down the stairs, the tall red giant followed Vito's footsteps across the square, and more traces appeared one by one that confirmed his inference. A large number of Eldar corpses had bullet holes and explosions. Footsteps also continued to walk past places full of bullet holes and scorch marks of flames.

As he passed through the back of the statue, Magnus saw a large pile of Eldar bones scorched by flames. Their charred bones were all stacked together like a mass grave.

He raised his head and looked at Vito, who had come to a magnificent gate at the end of the square. He stood on the steps in front of the gate and looked up at the tall gate frame in front of him, on which the porch was covered with a large number of exquisite carvings. Patterns and frescoes, but without exception, those reliefs are all filled with bullet holes and explosions.

"Vito, didn't these Eldars die during the Great Fall?" Magnus asked as he stopped a few steps behind Vito, and Vito, who was on top, glanced at him slightly.

"How do you see it?" "The cry of Slaanesh's birth doesn't affect the net, that's why the Dark Eldar can survive in the Comoros, and the Eldar here are all dead, dying in a flight. , to escape a massacre."

Magnus turned his head to look at an Eldar woman who fell to the ground. She fell to the ground and held a baby in her arms. Of course, the baby was also dead. The mother and son turned into a corpse and fell on the stairs. , but the cause of their death is also easy to judge, there are several thick bullet holes in her back.

"You recognize this city at a glance, and you are familiar with it. You were involved in this massacre, right?" Magnus asked, while Vito, who was standing at the top of the stairs, slowly turned to look at it. Facing Magnus in front of him, he looked around the corpses and was silent for a while.

"During the Human-Elder War, the fleet under my command came here to destroy the Webway and this city. The Marine Corps was responsible for clearing the city, completely, clearing it."

"It was a slaughter, Vito, the Emperor never told us what happened here, this slaughter, and many more slaughter that he hid, slaughtered."

Magnus walked up the steps, he stood beside Vito and turned his head to look at him, "You are trying to hide the past, delete the truth and selectively forget some things, and make human beings pure victims."

"It was the Eldar who started it first, Magnus, they started the war first."

"Does this make any difference? Is the conflict between the Eldar and humans out of thin air? If I remember correctly, the humans of the Golden Age once occupied half of the galaxy, so they bordered the other half of the Eldar, and then broke out. The war, the rebellion of the human servant races in the later stages of the Iron Man Rebellion, was also driven back by the oppression of humans who had become prosperous as second-class citizens and became as arrogant as Eldar."

"And I'm sure that before the border, you and the Emperor, and the humans at that time had already done the same thing to more than one race, just like the current Empire, one after another of concealed ethnic cleansing. , and then packaged himself as a victim and found various high-sounding reasons for himself, just to satisfy the infinite desire for expansion, the truth was concealed, and the lie became the truth."

Vito folded his arms and looked at Magnus, who raised his head to look at the one-eyed giant, "Are you sympathizing with these Eldar? I don't think I need to tell you that in this dark galaxy there has never been a Compassion is the saying, if you don't shoot them today, they will probably give you a swipe on your back tomorrow."

"Sympathy? No, I don't sympathize with these aliens, but, Vito, how much more have you and the Emperor been hiding from Malcador? How many secrets have you kept hidden from human beings and pretended they didn't exist? It's like pretending that the warp evil god doesn't exist back then."

"You think forgetting and ignoring and those things will go away, but no, Vito, they never go away, they'll always be there in the shadows, waiting for those who unearth it, and when the truth emerges , the lie fabricated by the Emperor will collapse like a sand bank in the face of the truth."

Magnus said and walked forward, he left Vito standing on the steps in front of the gate, but he was just a few steps away when Vito stopped, "You know why we are hiding it? You Patronizing and criticizing us, have you thought about why?"

Magnus stopped, he turned his head slightly and looked at Vito behind him without saying a word, the latter turned around and put his arms in his arms, "Yes, I know what you are thinking, the Emperor and I are both Asshole, in fact, he's the biggest bastard ever, and I'm the second biggest after him."

"We've done a lot of things, too much disgrace, no, it's a glorification, it should be a fucking bastard, but we do it so that you don't have to do it."

Vito said and walked towards Magnus, and the latter stood there and looked at Vito who came, "Hiding and deceiving is so that those of you in the future don't need to carry the same burden as us, believe me, For humanity to survive in this dark galaxy, someone has to do what thousands of people say, not everyone."

"Then have you succeeded? Vito, tell me, is this human empire what you want it to be? How much effect did your concealment and deception play?" mercilessly mocking that so-called great act.

He turned to face Vito who was approaching, "How many people have betrayed because of the Emperor's deceit and concealment? You claim to be truth and reason, but you are against reason, and you refuse to tell all truth and knowledge. People, selectively telling people, don't the Emperor want people to know the "facts" that we don't deserve to know?"

"Imperial truth, that so-called truth is based on lies, deceit and burial, that's not truth, Vito, it's just a lie made up by the Emperor."

"Is that why you betrayed? Magnus, why did you go to Tzeentch? Or because of Prospero?" Vito asked as he walked over to Magnus, who looked down at Vito in front of him. The tall crimson giant stared at Vito in front of him with crimson eyes, and he and his eyes met each other.

Magnus was silent for a moment before speaking slowly, "All right, you lied to us, the Emperor swore to all his brothers that he never hid anything from us, but the truth is he hid Yes, many things."

"Isn't this also a betrayal of us? How can we trust him? When the Great Crusade is over, the Primarchs, and all the Astartes, will be swept away like the Thunder Warriors by rumors How should we trust him? How should we choose? To die for a lie that might be his, or to fight to the death for our own truth?”

"You can ask questions directly." Vito smiled and stood in front of Magnus with his arms folded, but the latter showed a contemptuous smile.

"A direct question? To the Emperor? And then slaughtered by Nus and his pack? No, Vito, I wouldn't do that."

"Who asked you to ask the Emperor? It's over if you don't ask me, come on, since you think I'm hiding too many things, then let me tell you one thing, keep up."

Vito said and walked to the magnificent gate in front. He walked under the gate. Magnus looked at Vito and wondered for a moment, but finally chose to follow.

The crimson Cyclops stepped through the gate with strides. He walked into a huge hall. This was a huge closed hall. The towering dome formed a huge dome above. Next, on the surrounding walls stood a statue of a giant god.

It was a huge ring with statues of the gods of the Eldar on the disk. Those lifelike gods stood on the round platform, holding their own weapons or instruments, and there were several circular arches around it. Carved serpents coiled around the doorposts.

Magnus looked up at the arches in front of him, those were portals, at least when they were activated, and now the gate was silent, with a solid wall behind it instead of a passage.

He watched as he walked in this arc-shaped hall, and Magnus walked to the edge of the platform near the gate. He supported on the handrail on that side and looked at the long bridge extending from the side of the hall.

The huge bridge deck sits above the void, as if it were suspended on it. There are many fragments floating at the end of the bridge, and those fragments are like the fragments of the network gate that Magnus had seen before, flickering. The dots of light floated in the void, like a swarm of fireflies.

"Here is the teleportation hall of the Spirit Race, and there is the teleportation of ships, which was first destroyed at that time, and here, here is a small teleportation gate, because it is impossible to teleport large troops and any heavy units, so it was given priority at that time. The level is not high, and when the Eldar reinforcement fleet arrived, it was selectively abandoned."

Vito said and walked to a Spirit Race terminal below the door steps. He smiled and walked to the instrument and approached the surface of the Spirit Bone with his fingers, accompanied by a small golden arc released from the tip of Vito's power claw. Soon the terminal was restarted.

The display windows of the entire instrument were all lit up, and a lot of strange Eldar characters below it also lit up one by one. The instrument that looked more like some kind of magic device was re-infused with spiritual energy and activated. I have to say that it is quite good. convenient.

"We use the terminal to activate the teleportation hall, and then use the teleportation door here to take us back to the physical universe and leave this ghost place." Vito said and clicked twice on the screen in front of him, and a large number of strange Eldar symbols immediately appeared like Magic words flickered and jumped, and Magnus, who was behind him, came down in surprise.

"Do you know how the Eldar's operating system is used?" "I don't know."

Vito's answer was both brief and quite confident. Faced with his answer, Magnus didn't know what to say. After a long while, he rubbed his forehead and said, "Then you bring us here. What are you doing? Look at the Eldar characters and guess the riddle?"

"I won't, and it doesn't mean that no one here will." "Is there a third person here?" "Of course there is."

Vito smiled and pulled out a compact disc from the bag on his waist. After spinning it a few times between his fingers, he spread it out on his hand. With Vito's fingers touching the edge lightly, the compact disc. Then it lit up, and a short-haired woman was quickly woven by light and shadow on it.

Magnus frowned immediately when he saw the woman in front of him. He recognized what that thing was at a glance, and then looked up at Vito in shock, "This is."

"This is the first secret I'm going to tell you. Let me introduce you. This is Helen."

(End of this chapter)