Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 178 Corax's Assets

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"Most guild-affiliated companies are cruel, and they control a large number of indentured laborers."

"So-called indentured labor means that a person takes on a debt, and then the interest on the debt accumulates until he can never pay it back. Then the company will find this person and sign a labor contract to do the most dangerous work."

"It is impossible for an indentured laborer to pay off his debt by working for a company, so we call it indentured slavery."

"Of all the businesses that indentured slaves belonged to, the Copps Chamber of Commerce was the most brutal to them."

Avrenya said as she led the way.

Qin Xia listened and followed silently.

The two gradually moved away from the hovercraft that brought them to the factory.

After rescuing a girl named Ellie in the Corpus Chamber of Commerce building and sending her to the satellite, Qin Xia wanted to do something he wanted to do.

For example, check out the activities of the Human History Research Association on the planet Kiyaval and the results of their activities.

Qin Xia has always had a keen interest in those technologies and the STC templates that may exist on Kiavar.

Even if you don’t pay attention to the situation of the Association’s agents, you can still see how Angron and Corax cooperate to take down the hidden “fortresses” one by one.

But Avirenia, Corax's sister, forced Qin Xia to take a break and come to the planet again to help deal with a very difficult matter.

"Now that I'm here, there's no need to send Angron and Corax here."

"They should continue to clean up the pests worthy of the Primarch himself."

Qin Xia walked and looked at the huge factory in front of him.

Psychic vision allowed Qin Xia's eyes to penetrate the armored shell of the factory and deep inside.

He saw a woman who looked like a manager carrying a bomb, surrounded by thousands of workers.

The workers seemed to have been drastically modified. They stood in a neat group like robots, covering the woman from every angle.

"Can the two of us save those indentured slaves?" Avrenya asked with some concern.

Because the situation at the factory was rather special, Avrenya took the initiative to find Qin Xiashi who was returning to the satellite on a transport plane, hoping that the guide of the Twelve Primarchs could bring along the pair of sisters who could control others with language.

But Qin Xia asked everyone except himself to rest and do other things.

"Is there anything to eat?" Qin Xia did not answer Avrenia's question. "I heard from Ellie's brother that you are an excellent baker. I want to try some."

Avrenya was caught off guard by the question, but she still calmly met Qin Xia's request.

She took a backpack off her back and pulled out a large piece of bread that took up the entire surface of the backpack.

The bread was so big that Qin Xia had to hold it in his hands when he received it.

Everinia always carried a backpack with a large loaf of bread in it, and Qin Xia noticed that, so she asked for food.

Carrying lots of food wherever you go is a habit that only people who have been so hungry that they have been psychologically traumatized would have.

Qin Xia was indeed hungry, so he picked up the big piece of bread and started to take a bite.

Since being transformed into a Space Marine, Qin Xia only eats when he feels hungry, and his meal times are not as fixed as when he was still a mortal.

And now is the first meal since the banquet with the gladiators ended.

"Those indentured slaves, they seem to be protecting the woman carrying the bomb." Qin Xia said.

"This is the cruelty of the Corpus Chamber of Commerce. The contract slaves under their control have control devices implanted in them, which means they cannot control their own behavior. After working twenty hours a day, they can only control their bodies for two hours."

"So it's not possible that the indentured slaves protected the managers, but that the managers controlled the indentured slaves."

Avrenya explained.

Qin Xia nodded silently and took another bite of bread.

Avrenia looked at Qin Xia and found that this man who usually laughed was extremely serious at this moment.

It was hard for Qin Xia not to be serious, because he suspected that the female manager's means of holding the contract slaves hostage were not just to control authority and bombs. She might be able to directly use a command to fuse the contract slaves' neural implants and kill thousands of people instantly.

This involves thousands of lives.

After swallowing the bread in his mouth, Qin Xia took Avrenya into the factory.

In the workshop, they encountered the female manager and thousands of workers held hostage by her.

"Transport plane! Bitch!" The female manager yelled at Avrenya, "I told you three hours ago when you came here! I want a transport plane! I want the Lord of Ravens' amnesty permit!"

"Calm down." Avrenia stood with his hands behind his back, his tone very calm, "The galaxies are now controlled by the Lord of Raven and his brothers. Where can you fly with your transport plane? As for the amnesty permit, do you think you can be forgiven of your sins if we grant you amnesty? What if we grant you amnesty first and then break our promise?"

Hearing this, the female manager poked her head slightly out from behind the shoulder of a sturdy worker with a sneer on her face.

"I know you won't break your promise."

"Because you are different from the guild."

She smiled.

Avrenia rolled her eyes at the female supervisor and looked at Qin Xia helplessly.

Qin Xia was observing with his psychic vision and found a storage slot in the female supervisor's stomach, which contained an STC template.

So the purpose of this female supervisor is very clear.

She got hold of an STC template, perhaps snatched from her superiors or stolen, which would explain why there was no STC template in the Corpus Chamber of Commerce building.

Then he asked the rebels for transport planes and amnesty permits, and left the planetary capital to go elsewhere.

Make a comeback in the future using the STC template... The resistance will not stop you from doing business.

While Qin Xia was looking at the female supervisor with his psychic vision, Brown was looking at her with the factory's camera.

"Say something to stimulate her." Brown's voice sounded in the communication device in Qin Xia's ear, "I will detect the data fluctuations of the workers' implants and determine whether she is capable of ensuring that she dies with these thousands of people."

Qin Xia held the big bread, took a bite, chewed it randomly and swallowed it, then started cursing.

"At this time, you are still thinking that you can have a completely different fate from the guild? Is your brain the size of a fucking walnut?" "I'll tell you what your fate will be."

"The Lord of Ravens is a man of integrity and will not break his word, but I am not. After he grants you amnesty, I will hide in the transport plane you drive, knock you out, and then give you implants used by indentured slaves, and then send you to some poor bastard in the city to show the Lord of Ravens' care for the common people."

"Then after you give birth to a bunch of children, the Lord of Ravens will come to comfort you and tell the media that these are the middle-level managers of the guild whom I pardoned. And you, because of the influence of the indentured slave implant, have to force a smile and kneel on the ground, uncontrollably saying to the Lord of Ravens: Thank you so much, sir!"

After scolding, Qin Xia became serious again.

The female manager didn't care: "Nonsense. If you were as despicable as the guild boss, the city would have been devastated when supermen like you attacked it."

She was obviously not angry, and Qin Xia was holding back when he started to curse.

Brown finished testing the female manager's implant data: "She just had a significant short-term increase in blood pressure. At the same time, the bodies of the indentured slaves present also had increased blood pressure under the control of the implant. This means that if she dies, these people will also die, and the way they die will be the same."

Qin Xia frowned.

"But don't worry, the invincible Lord Brown will find a way to deal with this matter." Brown continued, "Lord Brown will hack into everyone's implants and do you a big favor."

"Go away." Qin Xia said in a low voice.

Qin Xia didn't want Brown to help with this matter. First of all, he was not helpless. Secondly, if the invincible Lord Brown helped with this matter, given Brown's personality, he would have to talk about it for the rest of his life.

Besides, Qin Xia also has many ways to deal with the current situation.

Directly take out the implant through the air, directly control the female supervisor to shut down the implant used to control the contract slaves...The only thing that really makes Qin Xia feel difficult is the fact that the lives of thousands of people are tied to the female manager.

Qin Xia is cautious because it involves the lives of thousands of people, not because it is difficult to handle.

There are many ways to do this with a 100% success rate, but Qin Xia chose to use a fancy method with the same 100% success rate.

Having made up his mind, Qin Xia began to squeeze the large piece of bread in his hand, and at the same time used his spiritual power to compress the bread to the size of a soybean.

Place the bread compressed to the size of a soybean on the nail of the middle finger and press the soybean tightly with the thumb.

Qin Xia moved his gaze to the right, stretched out his hand and popped out a piece of bread towards where his gaze was fixed.

The bread's trajectory was twisted by psychic energy and shot into the female manager's spine from behind, penetrating the skin, the flesh, and the implant that replaced a spinal joint.

The workers who were originally standing upright all fell to the ground, then stood up in surprise and found that they had regained control of their bodies.

The female manager fell to the ground with a look of panic on her face.

Avrenya immediately stepped forward, took a few quick steps, stepped on the female manager's neck, pulled out a pistol and shot her in the head.

Qin Xia also walked forward and took out the STC template from the corpse.

While Avrenya was calming the workers, Qin Xia walked to an open space and raised his hand to hold up the STC formwork.

The template immediately released a beam of light to scan the front, absorbing all available materials on site to build a device in one minute.

This equipment has no feed port and no place to spit out the product.

It's a boxy device covered in red markings and appears to have no function.

Just as Qin Xia was thinking about how to use this thing, a brick on the ground turned into a spot of light and dissipated, and then the device projected a thin beam of light, printing a small device on the ground.

“Brain-computer interface.”

Avrenya walked past the workers to the equipment and picked up the device made by the equipment.

"After attaching it to the human brain, people can control any authorized electronic device with their thoughts."

"The Copes Chamber of Commerce made its fortune in the early days by relying on this brain-computer interface."

While Avrenya was explaining the brain-computer interface, Qin Xia stared at the brain-computer interface production equipment itself manufactured by the STC template.

There are plenty of places to build brain-computer interfaces on the planet Kiavar and on Nu, and their functions are similar to those of the brain-computer interfaces produced by the production equipment manufactured using this STC template.

But this kind of production equipment is impossible for humans today to create no matter how hard they try.

“How amazing.”

"It's a palm-sized thing that can be lifted up to create such a production device. We don't even know how it draws materials."

"This production equipment can turn the material of a brick into the material for producing brain-computer interfaces. This is not as simple as converting matter into metal."

Qin Xia looked down at the STC template in his hand.

Avrenya was equally shocked.

Qin Xia looked back at Avrenya, then retracted his gaze and put the STC template in his pocket.

Seeing this action, Avrenya said nothing.

As a senior member of the rebel army, Avrenya is aware of everything that is happening on Kiavar.

Including the fact that a secret organization affiliated with the XII Legion is active on Kiavar, collecting ancient technological artifacts before everyone else.

Corax knew this, of course, but he did not ask Angron about it, nor did he stop it.

After the 12th Legion joined the battle, it took them seven hours to capture Kiaval. They captured the fortress and military camps that would have cost the resistance thousands or tens of thousands of casualties, indirectly saving many lives.

No matter what the 12th Legion's attitude towards this war is, it is not a good idea to let them work in vain.

Corax had the same attitude, and so did Avrenia, which was why she did not stop it.

"Will Nukeria trade with Kiaval in the future?" Avrenya suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Qin Xia turned his head.

"Brain-computer interfaces are very important to us here," said Avrinia. "Although the functions of the brain-computer interfaces produced by this template will not be more advanced, they are safer and more reliable. In the past, it was monopolized by the guild, but now the guild is gone, and everyone on Chiaval and Lycaeus is eligible to use this interface."

Hearing this, Qin Xia was stunned for a few seconds, then realized why Avrenya asked this, so he gave an answer.

"Don't worry, we won't take away such an extremely important asset as the STC template. The 12th Legion is here to help Corax, not to conquer the home planet of the 12th Legion's Lord Brother. These assets are yours. We are counting and recording them to prevent them from being destroyed by the current holders."

"After the 12th Legion leaves, both the STC template and the knowledge will be left to you."

(End of this chapter)