Warhammer Inquisitor

Chapter 378 The Path of Expedition: Iyanden's Kitten

The starry sky of the netway illuminated the hazy light from the colonnade, and the dim starlight lit up in the colonnade. The tabletop of the table reflects the luster, and every stripe and every dent is particularly conspicuous under the silver-sand-like light curtain.

On the table, on the wall hangs a portrait, the golden fringe on the edge of the frame, flowing with little paths of light under the light of the stars, that climbs up along the frame, and then turns to one side Light silk, beautiful and dreamy.

The oil painting was hung on the wall, and a light curtain had already been sprinkled on its surface. The light spot on the surface of the oil paint that had hardened and stuttered on the surface of the painting seemed to illuminate a silver sand beach on the coast. The whole painting seems to be glowing.

But soon, a shadow shrouded the glittering oil painting, and the silver reflective gravel disappeared in an instant, the shadow passed by little by little, and as the shadow left, the oil painting reappeared in the starlight. Continue to shine down, like a never-ending dream.

Vito's shadow constantly shrouded the side of the corridor, and the shadow shrouded all the furniture, even the picture scrolls placed against the wall with picture frames, or the oil paintings hanging directly on the wall. Being covered by that shadow also allowed Vito to see them clearly in the dim starlight.

Those oil paintings depict many natural scenery, mountains and rivers, forests and fjords, and the magnificent natural scenes are vividly and vividly painted on the canvas, as if those places are really there, you just need to stretch out your hand. Like it can be touched.

Vito walked in the corridor behind the colonnade, his eyes followed the footsteps past the gallery on one side, he looked at the exquisite oil paintings, and soon discovered that there were some unique places on them, among these exquisite paintings arranged on the side. In the picture scroll, there are almost all parts of animals killing each other in the natural scenery.

Brown bears besieged by wild wolves in the forest, bison rushing towards coyotes on the prairie, and tigers and lions waving their claws and fighting each other with their mouths open, all the pictures are filled with Such primitive killing and wildness.

This allows you to see at a glance what kind of person the owner of the furniture and oil paintings is, the painter who leads the way, his personality, style, and dangers.

Vito raised his head slightly and looked at Sturling, who was holding a crow's long staff in front of him and guided him through the long corridor. Covering almost the entire head, it stood up high towards the surroundings, and the edge of the coat also bulged slightly outwards.

From Vito's point of view, he looks like a huge bat walking under the night, and this walking bat still uses a long staff to cause a clicking sound on the ground every time he steps. The sound echoes throughout the hallway, like the sound waves of a bat.

Sturling walked through the long starlight corridor. The towering colonnade on the side cut off the light of the starry sky into countless shadows, which were projected from the outside and densely covered on the ground, extending towards the very end of the corridor, while Sturling. , was walking through it.

The long shadows between the stone pillars flashed across his body, which made his body constantly glow with light, and quickly switch under the shadows, like a slideshow, constantly switching, like a vague dream.

Vito followed behind him, and the spaced starlight also shone on his face, causing Vito's face to disappear continuously, and then reappear, but it was in this fast switching of light and shadow that Vito came In front of the door at the end of the corridor.

It was a black door with a huge body inlaid on the surrounding equally dark walls. Vito looked at the door curiously. The material on the door seemed to be almost non-reflective. No lines or carvings can be seen, only a dim streamer flashes on the door from time to time, outlines its general outline, and also outlines the huge crow on it.

There is a crow on the door. The half body of the huge crow is embedded in the door. Only the beak part of the upper body and the huge wings are exposed outside the door. A dim light flickered below, and only its outline could be seen.

Vito looked up at the bird's head facing him on the door, the crow's head drooped slightly, overlooking the people in front of the door, the dark eyes did not reflect any light, only the huge beak was in the light. A dim streamer flowed down.

"Welcome to my office, Mr. Constantine, please come with me now." Sturling turned his head, he looked at Vito behind him and raised his hand slightly, but his words were soon lost because of the shadows on the side. The person who appeared was interrupted.

Sturling stopped abruptly, and Vito also took advantage of the opportunity to look at the shadow that interrupted the words. She slowly walked out from the dark corridor that led to both sides of the gate, and her dim figure was also under the starlight. , was illuminated and outlined little by little, and finally, as the painter drew little by little on the drawing board, a beautiful figure appeared under the light.

Her silver skirt was almost perfectly fused with the starlight, and the whole light skirt gauze flickered with light spots, and the light skirt fluttered gently with the footsteps, so that the reflected light spots Like a galaxy on the ground.

Vito looked at her face, it was a white and young Eldar female face, a little unexpectedly young, like a snowflake that had just fallen from the sky, pure and flawless. The red hair fell from his head, and a slightly raised wave was combed on the top of his right face.

She was dragging a delicate and small box in her hands, and she silently emerged from the shadows with the box in her hands, and then walked to Sturling's side, buried her head and gently handed the box up.

Vito paid attention to the girl, he found the collar shackle on the back of her neck exposed in the starlight, Vito frowned slightly, and turned to look at Sturling in front of her, who reached out and opened the box, showing it in red. A unique piece of wood on a soft upholstery that exudes distorted spatial undulations with a glance.

The wood looks very special, with a little dark gold on the black body. The dark golden streamer crawled up along the wooden body, and at the top corners of its soft hanging on the cushion, it flashed strangely. light.

"Very good." Sturling said and closed the box. He looked up at Vito, probably because he wasn't going to explain what it was if Vito didn't ask. In fact, Vito didn't It may be better to know.

In fact, Vito really didn't care about that thing. After his eyes were closed on the box, he quickly locked on the young Eldar girl. She held the box and stood humbly beside Sturling. There was no gleam in the beautiful blue eyes, dull and dull.

Vito stared at her, at the pretty but lacklustre face, while at the same time Sturling, who was in front of him, raised the crow's staff in his hand and tapped the door with the crow's handle of the staff. , as the golden crow's beak collided with the crow's beak on the gate, the entire gate changed.

The spread-winged crow on the door quickly raised its head, as if it suddenly came to life, its spread wings also quickly folded inward and overlapped on its chest, the whole crow curled up, and with the wings It was closed, and the dark door behind it also banged open inward.

Sturling put down his cane and turned his head to Vito with a slight nod to indicate his invitation. He took a step back and stepped aside to make way for Vito. After the latter nodded politely in response, he walked up and walked in front of Sturling. into the open door.

The young girl in front of Sturling also quickly stepped back with the box in her hand. She stood by the door and bowed to Vito with great respect.

But when passing by, Vito turned his head and briefly glanced at the young girl beside him, her blue eyes raised slightly, and Vito buried his head again after a brief glance, and Vito also followed the trend. Walking into the door, he walked into this luxurious office.

Vito stood on the ground entirely cut from expensive wood and then riveted. In the rest of the office, the owner's pursuit and obsession with nature were all carried out, from the walls to the ceiling. Made of solid wood, large trees were cut by a block machete and erected to create this luxurious office.

Vito walked into the inner part of the office. He looked at the interior space that was rectangular as a whole and stretched slightly toward the front. There was a huge floor-to-ceiling window in front of the office. Like here, the frame of the window was not Made of steel, but cut from wooden strips.

This allows the window to maintain unity with the entire room, and the large black-heart mahogany table and chairs in front of the window are undoubtedly the absolute core of the entire space. On the polished tabletop, all the wood thorns and friction parts are polished off, making the table look like a smooth marble.

Vito looked at the furnishings on the table, there was a beautiful pen stand on it, quill pen and ink were displayed in it, and there was a small crow statue on one side of the pen stand, the statue was displayed on the table, facing the The direction of the leather wooden chair, the table top part in front of the same leather chair, where the leather of some kind of animal is spread out to form a place where you can rest your elbows comfortably.

"How is it? Do you still like my office?" Sturling walked in. He walked into the office with a cane, and the young Eldar girl behind him also dragged the box in, she lowered her head, He followed behind Sturling with a dull gaze.

Vito pretended to turn around and look at the wall full of stuffed animal heads, all the heads of various beasts hanging on the exhibition board, and there was also a long long table below, with shelves and display cabinets on it. Chen kept horns, claws, and teeth among other trophies.

Vito looked at the specimen area that was carefully crafted and hung on the side of the desk, and looked at the box in the girl's hand from the corner of his eye, and of course, the silent beautiful girl.

"She's your slave?" Vito asked softly, while Sturling glanced at the girl behind him with a smile. He reached out and grabbed her face, so that her face could be raised to face Vito, and let the latter can be seen more clearly.

The girl was obviously uncomfortable being done that, but she didn't say anything in the end, just looked at Vito with a sad expression on his face, the latter also looked at her with slightly narrowed eyes, and Sturling also looked at the expressionless face. The girl with the expression frowned slightly, and he pinched her cheek with his fingers, letting the expression be forced back into a smile.

"Her name is Shatina, my slave girl and maid, although she is not very polite, but her appearance meets my requirements, and she is very young and can learn a lot of things slowly, so I put her from selling her. Left on the slave list."

Sturling said, shaking off Shatina's face, her head was thrown to the side, and her hair was messily hanging in front of her eyes. Nothing in this world deserves her attention.

Vito looked at the girl, Shatina?This name is quite unique. In Vito's impression, only the Ark Spirit clan of Iyangdeng will take this kind of name with oriental charm, plus her hair is rose red, and Iyangna's hair color Very close, so Vito is almost certain she is an Eldar of Iyanden.

The Ark Eldar have always been very popular in the slave market of the Dark Eldar. These torturers prefer to use their own kin, especially the "elegant" compatriots on the Ark, as slaves, just like in the slave market of the human empire. Like a noble lady, it gives them a unique sense of superiority.

Sturling looked at Shatina, then raised his head and snorted, then raised his cane, and pointed to the box in her hand, "Put it in the treasure room, talk, impolite girl."

Shatina didn't speak, until her shoulder was hit hard by Sturling's cane, and she took a few steps out at once, and the exposed shoulder part of the long dress was rosy. Bloody, her head turned to Sturling, Vito saw the fierce light of hatred in those eyes, the girl was not a docile kitten.

She turned her head after a while, raised her head and looked at Sturling after a moment of silence, then lowered her head, "Yes, sir." "It's the master," "It's the master."

Her voice was also very young, and Vito frowned slightly when he heard that voice. He turned his head to look at Sturling, who snorted and pressed his cane in front of him, "Like I said, She still has a lot to learn, but I'll train her until she learns how to be a maid."

"Mr. Constantine, please sit down, I'll come to talk with you later." Sturling is indeed a qualified businessman. When he looked away from Shatina and looked at Vito, he immediately It turned into a smile, and the latter responded politely while looking at the hypocritical businessman.

Then Vito continued to turn around and looked at the specimen wall on the side. He turned his back to Sturling, and the latter also looked at Vito and walked to the wall on the side, where there were two chairs, between There is also a round wooden table with high feet, on which is placed a chessboard with pieces on it.

Sturling walked to the chessboard and stood there blocking the chessboard in front of him with his body. He glanced at Vito, who was behind him, who was still standing in front of the specimen wall with his hands behind his back. He looked at the head specimen of a giant claw bear above.

Sturling turned his head and stared at Shatina, who was following him, from the corner of his eye. The latter immediately stepped back and buried his head. Her eyes moved away from the direction of the chessboard table, not looking at it at all. The table or the direction of Sturling's arm, after the latter made sure that Shatina moved her eyes away, she reached out and picked up some pieces on the chessboard in front of her, and moved on it.

Vito listened to the sound of the chess piece hitting the tabletop, and turned his head slightly to look at Sturling behind him. His body blocked the tabletop so that Vito couldn't see what was going on there, but he then glanced at the side with his corner of the eye. Shatina, the girl peeked in the direction of the table from the corner of her eye.

Those eyes full of hatred stared at Sturling, but they quickly buried it because Sturling noticed the gaze and turned his head to observe, while Vito, who was on the side, saw everything clearly. He looked at the girl with a smile.

At the same time, Sturling's hand was lifted from the table. He looked up at the inwardly embedded wall in front of him, and then suddenly slid the back-opening wall, where a door was opened, and inside was A secret room, from Vito's point of view, he can see the treasures on one side of the long shelf behind the door.

Sturling fiddled with the chessboard again, then walked away from the table and walked to the open secret room. Vito stood sideways behind him, peering in the direction of the chessboard, but as expected, the The pieces were all repositioned, as if they had not been moved at all.

Vito raised his eyes and looked at Shatina who followed after Sturling waved his hand lightly. He looked at the girl and frowned slightly, then turned around with a smile and looked back at the specimen wall in front of him. .

Not long after him, Sturling walked out of the door of the secret room behind him. He walked to the chessboard and habitually adjusted the collar of his coat. , then reached out and touched the Prime Minister's piece on the chessboard beside him.

As the black prime minister's chess piece was gently touched by his fingers, the door to the secret room behind Sturling quickly closed. He retracted his fingers and grabbed the collar of the overcoat with both hands and took it off his shoulders. After getting down, he casually handed it to Shatina, who took the coat and stepped back silently.

Vito watched the girl holding the large coat, and walked to the hanger made of a giant moose head on the wall of the room. There are a lot of hats, scarves, etc., and now that coat is added.

Vito looked at the girl, the latter stood on tiptoe and hung up the coat, and turned his head to look at Vito inadvertently, she looked into Vito's eyes, and the latter nodded silently at her, Resting her hands on her chest, she adjusted her shirt collar, but in that unintentional movement, Shatina saw a familiar gesture.

Vito's palm, which was tidying up the collar, suddenly opened to one side, the back of the palm and the back of the hand, each time facing Shatina's direction. She looked at the gesture and raised her head to look at Vito. She knew the gesture. Put together with the symmetrical spread gesture of the palm, you can form a phoenix with wings.

The symbol of Yiyang Deng is the phoenix spreading its wings. Shatina looked at the greeting gesture on the ark and looked at Vito in front of her in surprise. The latter also nodded slightly to her, and then told her with her eyes. Shatina kept a low profile, then put down her hand and looked at Sturling with a smile.

The latter held a cane, bypassed the chessboard table and the sofa and coffee table in the corner, and walked straight to the desk from one side. He opened a comfortable soft leather chair and sat on it. Chair, "Sit down, Mr. Constantine, and let's start talking about cooperation."

Vito smiled at him, and then walked up from the specimen wall. He pulled away the chair and took off his black trench coat, and was about to put it on the back of the chair. He waved in Shatina's direction, "Put Mr. Constantine's trench coat on the hanger, and then pour us something to drink."

Shatina nodded slightly, and then walked up from the side. She walked lightly to Vito and caught the windbreaker that Vito handed over. The latter smiled and handed the windbreaker up with one hand, holding the collar. The palm of his hand was gently folded outward, and the side of the coat near Shatina was turned outward, exposing the pistol hanging in it.

Shatina stared at the pistol for a moment, then raised her head to look at the man in front of her. The latter told her everything with his eyes, and then handed the coat to Shatina, who took the coat and put it back. It was folded on his arm, bowed slightly to Vito, and then stepped back.

Vito looked at the girl walking towards the deer head hanger, then turned around with a polite smile, pulled up the chair and sat at the wooden table, "Okay, let's talk about business, Mr. Sturling. "

"Pleased, Mr. Constantine," said Sturling, leaning back in his chair with a smile, nodding to Vito across the table, leaning back in his chair, smiling with his hands folded in front of his stomach.

"Let's talk about the amount of daily employment commission you give me, 2000 soul coins per month." Vito said with a smile, the outrageous number, after sitting opposite Sturling for a moment, then He quickly smiled and put his hands on the table, dragging his chin with his palms.

"2000 Soul Coins? You have indeed proved your ability, Mr. Constantine, but do you know that this amount can already buy dozens of slaves?"

"Wow, we're here to negotiate, aren't we? This will give us a good start." Vito smiled slyly, leaning back in his chair and raising his hand slightly, while Sturling in front of him also rested his chin on his back. On the palm of the hand, there was a smile on the slightly blocked mouth.

"Of course, it looks like you're a qualified businessman, sir, so let's start talking to each other as businessmen."

Negotiations began, and Vito offered Sturling a sky-high price to hire himself. As he expected, Sturling immediately began to bargain. Most of those conversations were very polite and high-sounding businessmen. When I was very young, I followed the bargaining that I learned when I was a businessman, and the boring game of raising the price of my own value and then bargaining with the other party.

Of course Vito didn't really haggle with him for the broken money. After all, Vito didn't intend to be with him at first. He did this to let Sturling focus on himself and give Shatina behind him. , buy enough time
When Vito and Sturling were discussing business and arguing deeply and heatedly about the commission, Shatina went to the huge antler, she hung the windbreaker on the tip of one of the antlers, and she tiptoed her arms. When she reached up, she glanced in the direction of Sturling from the corner of her eye. After making sure that the latter was completely silent in the discussion and did not notice her, Shatina put her hand into the trench coat and quietly put the pistol unplugged.

She pulled out the pistol gently, stood down in her hands, and at the same time Sturling, who had been tormented enough by Vito in the bargaining, leaned back in the chair and looked in front of him with his arms in his arms. This cunning man, he is too good at being a businessman, he speaks in a certain way.

Sturling looked in front of him. He was sitting across the table from Vito, who had a business smirk on his face. He smiled silently and looked at Shatina in the distance, "Don't stay in a daze! Give us that drink. Come on, it's going to be a very long negotiation."

Shatina was startled. She stood in front of the antlers and hid the hand holding the gun by her side. She used the dress and her body to block the small pistol. She nodded to Sturling and walked towards Looking at the low cabinet on one side, after watching the girl pass by, Sturling also refocused his attention back on Vito.

Shatina hung the pistol by her side, blocked the gun with her body, and walked not far away, just in the direction of the low cabinet on the other side of the office, on the table with the curved horn trophies, and a bottle A goblet with amber liqueur and several matching bantam glasses.

The young Eldar girl walked to the low cabinet, she put the pistol on the cabinet lightly, then began to prepare the drink with both hands and put it on the tray taken out from the cabinet, she put the plate with the drink Lifting it up, the pistol was hidden under the silver tray by the hand.

Shatina walked to the desk with the plate. When she walked up to Vito with her slightly petite figure, she was barely taller than Vito who was sitting. The latter looked at the drink handed over, and he took it. After dwelling on the glass, out of the corner of his eye, he looked at Shatina, who was leaning slightly and bent over.

The open chest of her veil skirt was just exposed in front of Vito, and the twin peaks, which were not fully developed, were exposed in front of Vito because the dress was hanging down.

But Vito's eyes only glanced at the chest, and then saw the silver tray below Shatina's bent body. Her palms were slightly tilted to one side, and she faced Si with most of the tray. Turin's direction, and Vito's side, just tilted slightly to reveal the hand holding the pistol below.

He took the wine glass and looked at the pistol with a smile. He raised his eyes and gave Shatina a wink, "The wine should be drunk at the right time, not too soon, not too late."

Vito looked at the little girl in front of him and said, the eyes exchanged expressions with him, the blue eyes instantly became bright, and the owner of those eyes nodded slightly to Wei Wei in an extent that was not easy to notice. Indicate that you understand.

"Business must be negotiated at the right time. It can't be delayed or early. It has to be just right." Vito smiled and raised his glass slightly, toasting to Sturling opposite, who was cold With a cold smile, he took a glass of wine from the tray handed by Shatina, who was walking around the table.

"She's very smart." Vito thought to himself, she knew that if she handed herself the wine just now, the lower part of the tray with her petite figure would be directly exposed to Sturling, so she used a very flattering way, hand the tray directly to Sturling, covering the palm below with a wide surface.

Sturling took the wine without noticing it, and after the tray was immediately retracted, he raised his glass forward and clinked with Vito, "Of course, Constantine, in the right way, at the right time. Time to get the business done, for example, the issues we're arguing about."

"Oh, I'm sure we'll come to an agreement, but before that, let me give you a little surprise." "Surprise?" "Yes, surprise, as I said, sooner or later. , just a good surprise."

Vito took out the golden pocket watch from his chest when he was clinking glasses with Sturling. He looked at the dabbling hands on it. At that time, the tips of the hands had almost reached the bottom, and the second hand was about to reach noon.

Sturling looked at the time on the pocket watch, looked up at Vito in surprise and puzzled, "Surprise? I don't know, there is another surprise tonight."

"Ah, it's true that you don't know yet, but you'll know it soon, now" Vito was about to say something with a smile, but suddenly got stuck, his expression became strange, looking at the At noon, the minute hand had reached the pocket watch at the end, showing a surprised and embarrassed smile.

Sturling raised his head and looked at Vito who stood up from the chair in front of him and leaned sideways against the table in surprise. That action, combined with his embarrassed smile, made him look extra funny.

With an embarrassing smile, he turned his head and looked at Sturling again, and then at Shatina behind him, "Wow, it looks like they're late, but I believe they'll be there soon."

Once again, Vito was interrupted before he could finish speaking, but this time it wasn't the click of the hands of the pocket watch, but a louder sound.

A huge explosion suddenly sounded from outside Sturling's office, and a cloud of fire surged up from the glass in an instant, projecting a blazing fire into the office. The blocked part, the entire desktop is instantly illuminated by the fire.

Sturling suddenly turned the office chair and looked back. He saw the explosions that followed one after another outside. The explosions rose from the floating building. The raging flames mixed with each other at close range, and the office glass was flooded in the blink of an eye. The fort area below.

"What's going on outside?!" Sturling pressed down the seemingly smooth and empty part of the desk, but when his finger pressed down, there suddenly appeared a flickering on the desk. The projection button and one side are suspended a few inches away from the desktop.

The communication interface of the audio channel was shaking, and there was a burst of explosions, which instantly raised the audio wave to the top of the display window, and the harsh explosion sounded the pirates shouting.

"That silver-haired bitch! And that red monster of hers! They'll use psionics, and they've blown up our control room and substation! The captive area is out of control, and we're trying to stop her. Wait, don't come!"

The pirate roared loudly, and then a gunshot sounded in the background, and suddenly the gunshot turned into a scream in the background, and finally stopped abruptly.

Everything went silent, the gunshots, explosions, and screams disappeared, and the audio band was instantly flattened into a straight line. Sturling stared at the line, but suddenly, the wave again. It shook slightly, and a pleasant female voice sounded from it.

"Do you still like this surprise?"

"I like it so much."

Sturling turned his head sharply and looked at Vito, who was sitting on the chair smiling. He understood everything in an instant. Sturling suddenly got up from the chair and leaned his paws on the palm of the table, pointing sharply at the person in front of him. man.

"I just said you'd like this surprise, so, are you ready for the next one?" Vito smiled and clapped his hands, and suddenly Sturling heard the sound of a bullet being loaded in the back of his head, and he slowly turned his head She saw Shatina, who was holding the tray beside her with one hand and holding the gun in the other, aiming the muzzle at her head.

The young girl was staring hard at herself, her arms raised exposing the bruises on her shoulders, and the muscle movement when the arms were raised was enough to sting there, and her micro-expression twitched slightly, But the kitten raised the gun without thinking, and finally showed her own teeth and claws. Sturling was stunned for a moment, then turned to look back at Vito in front of him, "Who the hell are you?"

"Then let me introduce myself again." Vito said and stood up against the table. He slowly got up, put one hand behind his back, and bowed to Sturling in a gentlemanly manner.

"Vito Constantine, I'm here to serve you."

(End of this chapter)