Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 636 06.635: "Oath of the Raven Guard"

Yoyo's pupils were dilated to their maximum - this indicated that she was nervous or excited.

Now these big dark eyes were staring at her opponent, exuding a strong murderous intent.

She hugged the alien with her upper limbs and kicked it hard with her feet like a real cat, and successfully broke one of the Wasp Man's wings, causing the Wasp Man's originally stable flying posture to instantly lose control and fall rapidly in a spiral trajectory.

With a crisp sound, Yoyo pulled out the relic of her thief father and stabbed it through the alien's heart.

The wasp man's flapping speed was getting slower and slower, but his serrated jaws were still opening and closing, making a creepy "crunching" sound, and his many long and short tentacles twitching and swaying, formed a terrifying picture that could make people lose their minds.

Yoyo mistakenly thought that the alien was going to bite her neck, so she subconsciously let go of her hand. Then, she realized that she had made a big mistake.

Having lost her fulcrum, she waved her hands frantically in the air, but now the height was not enough for her to adjust her posture in mid-air.

"Yo yo be careful!" Horatio shouted anxiously.

It was understandable that he was so panicked, because at this moment, right below Yoyo was the guardrail in front of the captain's command throne.

The guardrail was cold and hard, shining coldly under the dim light. If she fell on it, her back would be broken on the spot, and the final scene would be horrible.

According to ancient Chinese saying, cats have nine lives.

But who is willing to bet whether the half-cat man has nine lives?
Horatio rushed up the spiral staircase at this moment and jumped without hesitation.

"Boss?!" Yoyo was stunned in surprise and subconsciously stretched out his hand with his claws retracted. That hand looked no different from a human's hand.

"Boss, do you think I'm so important?" Her eyes were full of shock, and a simple thought flashed through her mind.

At the critical moment, Horatio grabbed Yoyo's hand with his iron hand, pulled her into his arms, and used his body to build a buffer for her.

He decided to gamble that his body, strengthened by Latti, could survive a 10-meter fall and land on his back.

Cold sweat trickled down his forehead and his heartbeat quickened rapidly.

Maybe he can still live...

boom!
He closed his eyes before he expected to feel the severe pain spreading throughout his body.

[Am I dead?]
Horatio blinked and looked at the glass dome in front of him.

[No, I'm not dead. Isn't this still the bridge of the Epic? Hiss? Why don't I feel any pain? Has my body been transformed so much?]
He was filled with doubts.

As he was thinking this, he felt himself slowly sinking.

?

He turned his head and met Brother Korchagin's eyes.

That's right, at this moment he was holding Yoyo in the princess' arms, and he himself was held by Friar Korchagin in the same posture.

Brother Korchagin had a calm expression on his face and was observing the situation around him vigilantly.

"It's safe now, Captain. There are zero hostile units in the surrounding environment."

Brother Korchagin's black eyes looked at the surrounding domes, "There is no trace of these pests anymore."

As he spoke, he carefully put Horatio down, and Horatio, who had stood firmly, put Yoyo down again.

"Thank you for your timely assistance." Horatio thanked Astarte.

"Boss, thank you for saving me!" Yoyo expressed his gratitude to Horatio.

"That's because your heroic act of risking your life to destroy the enemy is worthy of my doing so." Horatio touched the cat-eared girl's head, causing the latter to narrow her eyes in satisfaction. "It was an unintentional success. My decision to keep you was the right one. Now, you have grown to the point where you can protect the members of this Void family from being harmed by the Emperor's enemies."

"Really?" Yoyo's mouth corners moved closer to her ears and she looked at Horatio with admiring eyes.

"Of course, we all saw it—eh?"

"Boss, your clothes are dirty!" Yoyo diligently took out a dry rag and began to wipe the alien blood on Horatio's uniform.

Generally speaking, in the Imperial Navy, if a crew member who is not even officially on the roster takes out a dirty rag from somewhere and scratches the captain's new uniform, then the captain has every reason to execute this unruly guy. Even if it is to maintain his authority, he should be given a beating and confinement package.

But no one on the entire bridge was angry, only some were surprised and asked, "How can the captain's uniform be so clean?"

Horatio frowned and took the clean handkerchief handed to him by Yin Shuyao and wiped the mucus off his body. This was his new dress, and it was stained with this disgusting liquid when he wore it for the first time, which really made him feel uncomfortable.

His face was full of disgust. These aliens would disgust him even if they died. "Can you figure out where these enemies came from? They can't have sneaked in from the docking station, right?"

He looked at the pulse gun on the ground, with Ratti's Mechanicus gear skull poked into it.

When he saw the mark, Lati just came hurriedly from the cabin below.

Her hair was a little messy and she looked flustered.

“Rati, you better explain this situation to me.

Your experimental sample appeared in the hands of an unknown wasp man, who then pointed his gun at me."

There was a hint of coldness in Horatio's eyes, but he did not rush to tear his face off and order everyone to arrest Letty. He planned to give her a chance to explain, because he knew very well that she had no reason to assassinate him.

Lati lowered her head and bit her lower lip. Her face was covered with a layer of haze, and she looked extremely guilty. Her body trembled slightly. "I'm sorry, Captain, this is an accident. I will take full responsibility."

"What accident?"

Horatio questioned, his voice raised a few degrees, with a hint of majesty, "What have you done? How did the Wasp Man board my warship?"

"The combat suits that were aboard the Red October contained Wasp eggs.

This means that even if the combat suit is destroyed, as long as the insect eggs inside are not broken, they still have a chance to infiltrate.

I just discovered this as well, I didn't expect the Tau would hide this thing and have it incubate in their battle suits.

When I found out, the screws of the ventilation duct in the laboratory had already been unscrewed by the claws, and there were three captured alien weapons on the experimental table. I was modifying them using the experimental data scanned from the Farsighted battleship. "

Horatio stared into Letty's eyes. She didn't seem to be lying, and no one would be stupid enough to give the alien a gun with their mark on it to assassinate them.

"But why do these creatures have guns as soon as they hatch?" Horatio asked the question in his mind.

"According to my preliminary judgment, this should be some kind of Gestalt ritual. This is a common social system for insect creatures." Lati said, pinching her pointed chin while looking at the corpse of the wasp man on the ground.

Horatio nodded slightly, his doubts slightly alleviated.

He was still frightened. He didn't expect that these opponents who had already died at his hands would have such a sinister trick.

"This is really a vicious trick."

Horatio stepped on the body of the Wasp Man and said unhappily, "I was almost taken away by this cunning and dead opponent."

The corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing a bitter smile, and he admitted that the move of his deceased opponent was a fatal blow.

"Captain, how can we retaliate?" Louise kicked the alien's gun away angrily and crushed the trembling forked jaw with the heel of her boot. Her eyes were burning with anger.

"Now that the instigator is dead, let someone more important take the blame."

Horatio looked at his home world in front of him, looking towards the planet called D'Anoi.

His eyes were deep, as if they could penetrate the endless universe.

His left eyelid twitched, and he had a hunch that there was a valuable prey waiting for him to hunt.

Then he looked at Lati and said, "Since these assassins crawled out of your experiment, I'll leave it to you to investigate thoroughly. I don't want these insects to remain in the ventilation ducts of the Epic. I don't want to be stabbed in the throat by the aliens that crawled out of the ventilation ducts in my sleep."

"Yes, Captain, I will use those drone bees to check every pipeline." It was the first time that Letty showed such a submissive expression, which made Horatio feel a little novel.

However, he did not want to blame the priest. After all, those combat suits had just been sent to the laboratory to thaw, and it was indeed unexpected that such a thing was hidden inside. Who would have known that these insect eggs could survive under the unnatural absolute zero of psychic energy?

This alien is also interesting.

"Warfare is the art of deception." Horatio narrowed his eyes dangerously. "I learned that."

He nodded slightly, as if thinking about something, then turned to the technical priest and said, "Latti, drag these Wasp corpses back and see what makes them able to endure the extreme cold. I hope to discover the secret, and it would be best if I could get some extract to see if it can be used in military applications."

"I understand, Captain. I will live up to your expectations." Latti rarely leaned over and bowed, keeping his head down the whole time and not looking him in the eyes.

Horatio walked past her and whispered, "You must not make such a mistake again, otherwise Brother Korchagin, who had turned a blind eye to the situation, will surely start a thorough investigation of the entire ship soon, and some of our secrets may be lost."

"Understood. I guarantee with my honor and life that there will be no more problems."

"Go ahead, I'll try to find a reason to give Brother Korchagin an answer."

The two of them staggered and walked in different directions.

One of them walked quickly towards the laboratory, and the other walked towards Brother Korchagin of the Raven Guard.

"Thank you, Brother Korchagin. If you hadn't helped us, I'm afraid we would have encountered a serious accident just now."

"Where do these aliens come from?" Brother Korchagin looked into his eyes calmly, as if waiting for the truth.

"The enemy planted Wasp eggs in our trophies. Due to the favorable temperatures after the thaw, they hatched."

"I'll check the ventilation ducts."

"I don't need to trouble you with such tedious matters, monk."

Horatio raised his hand to signal, he looked him in the eyes, unwavering, not showing any guilt at all: "I will let Yoyo investigate thoroughly, she is petite and flexible, more suitable for this task."

Brother Korchagin glanced at the half-cat girl, Horatio winked at Yoyo, and the half-cat girl immediately nodded quickly like a chicken pecking at rice.

"Yes, big guy, leave this to me. You can't get through the ventilation duct with your big body."

Brother Korchagin sighed and said to Horatio: "Captain, although I have been ordered to protect you during this expedition, your safety is ultimately your own responsibility."

He looked at Horatio and said cryptically, "I am an Oathbreaker, and I have failed to fulfill my vows, which makes me live in shame and disgrace. I will turn a blind eye to some of your actions because I believe you can help us avenge the death of our deceased Chapter Master.

Please do not make me swear a second time. I promised Inquisitor Clarence Ravenor and Inquisitor Thei Peru to keep you safe."

"Of course, Brother Korchagin. Thank you for trusting me." Horatio extended his hand to the Raven Guard and said with a firm look: "This time, I will prove that the alien's cleverness will only lead to greater anger and revenge."

(End of this chapter)