Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 307 The Danger of the Great Whirlpool
Interior of the command deck.

When Yochuka ran all the way to the command deck, he found that all the senior officers gathered there.

Some of the blood drinkers' guards were fully armed, some had blood on their hands, and it was unknown what kind of crisis they had just experienced.

"We are near the Great Vortex. This is not entirely the reality we are familiar with. The situation here is between reality and the subspace."

"This kind of thing will happen many times in the future. Everyone needs to adapt to the environment here."

Qin Xia stood among the crowd and told the story.

Yochuka squeezed next to his brother and asked in a low voice: "What happened just now?"

"Many people suddenly lose their minds and become immersed in hallucinations," Yochula replied in a low voice. "These hallucinations cause people to see all kinds of things, and then their reactions in the hallucinations are projected into reality, so they hurt others, hurt themselves, or even commit suicide."

Hearing this, Yochuka looked down at the blood on Yochula's hand and said, "You...you killed someone too?"

"Space Marines like us won't be affected." Yochura shook his head. "The Nu people were hardly affected either. All the ones who got into trouble were the Sons of the Void."

Son of the Void.

When Yochuka heard this word, he was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered what this word meant - a person who was born on a battleship and will surely die on a battleship in the future.

The Sons of the Void have some physical mutations, and they also have problems like weakness and brittle bones, because they were born in a zero-gravity environment. The slight physical mutations are because ships must navigate the subspace. Some children grow up during the subspace navigation, and some are even born during the subspace navigation stage.

Whenever something touches the subspace, there will always be some unexpected problems.

Also because of the many problems of the Sons of the Void, these people born in the void are always discriminated against and excluded.

"An engineering sailor came to me and Kleist with a hot melt bomb..." Yochula looked at the blood on his fist, "This is not my blood, nor is it Kleist's."

"Did you hear that wake-up call just now?" An older gladiator beside him patted Yochuka's shoulder. "Old Qin's shout awakened nearly 100,000 Sons of the Void on the entire ship."

Yochuka thought about it. He did hear it, and unlike other Space Marines, he was trapped in an illusion and saw his biological mother...

"All those who have problems are Sons of the Void." A weathered and irritable voice came into Yochuka's ears.

That was the man in charge of the gun decks on both sides. He had a bad temper and complained about the Son of the Void.

"How could normal humans like us be born in the void? Everyone on our ships should retire after working for a certain number of years, instead of just staying on the ship and eating and drinking for free."

"Some people sneaked into the warship decades ago. They might be death row prisoners or exiles. Then they became parasites on our ship. They have nowhere to go. They don't know where to go after leaving the ship, or where to eat free food."

"And then they multiplied like cattle, multiplying until now, waiting to give us all a hard time one day, and eventually the entire battleship would be doomed."

"..."

The words of the gun deck chief resonated with many people.

All those present were high-ranking officials on the White Knight. Most of them were normal humans, but a small number were Sons of the Void, and they represented all the Sons of the Void on the battleship.

It is not easy at all to make these people resonate with each other on one thing and take the same stance.

"I suggest locking them down immediately!"

"Lock up the Sons of the Void, lock them up on the lower deck, and don't let them out until we complete our mission and leave!"

"I used to have no prejudice against the Void Children until my daughter and granddaughter were nearly shot to death by their husband and father in a restaurant!"

"..."

"Shut up!"

Qin Xia spoke up and stopped all the cursing with his loud voice.

"Just look at those ghost planets outside the porthole and you will know where we are. Nothing is surprising here."

"Hallucinations, self-harm, insanity, these cannot destroy us. Only one thing can destroy us, and that is internal strife."

The White Knight Lord's fair words elicited agreement from the few Voidborn officers present.

Then Qin Xia walked towards the few officers who represented the Sons of the Void and made the arrangements: "People born in the void are indeed more susceptible to supernatural events. This is an objective fact. Do you agree?"

The officers all nodded.

"So we can't just do nothing." Qin Xia glanced back at the people who wanted to lock up all the Sons of the Void, and then said to the pale, thin, tall people in front of him, "I will never allow them to lock you up, but from now on we have to formulate a martial law plan."

"We will live under the army's martial law, as long as we are not imprisoned..." said one of the Void Sons officers, "I will never deny the objective fact that we are easily influenced, but I cannot accept that we, the Void Sons, are imprisoned somewhere like prisoners. We have also shed blood for the White Knight. When we were fighting against the Eldar aliens, my compatriots rushed to the sea of ​​fire to repair the hull... As I said, we have also shed blood for the White Knight."

Qin Xia nodded in agreement, then looked at Crest who was standing next to the gladiators.

Crest floated half a meter above the ground with the help of the anti-gravity spear on his leg. When he saw Qin Xia looking at him, he nodded immediately: "I will make arrangements and have the army impose martial law on the entire warship, and pay more attention to the situation of the Sons of the Void."

"I will think carefully about the specific plan, but what I can think of now is to place a company of armed personnel equipped with non-lethal weapons in each corridor of each residential area."

"When someone falls into hallucinations again and commits suicidal or murderous acts, soldiers will immediately go there and use non-lethal weapons to stop them after receiving the report."

"This ensures the safety of the vast majority of the Children of the Void."

After Crest finished speaking, he waited for the reaction of the officers representing the Sons of the Void. The officers saluted Crest.

"That's it." Qin Xia nodded with satisfaction, and then glanced around, "Where's the captain?"

"My brother-in-law was stabbed into the medical room by a Son of the Void." The captain's adjutant stepped forward and said.

Qin Xia nodded helplessly: "I will find a chance to visit him. Now everyone on the ship will obey my orders directly."

The naval personnel present saluted one after another.

"Recheck the status of the ship and make sure it remains operational. Once everything is ready, head to a galaxy one light year away. That is our destination."

"Everyone must be ready to fight."

“We have a tough battle ahead.”

Qin Xia issued several orders in succession.

When people hear the part of the order that involves their own responsibilities, they will leave the command deck and carry out the order.

Yochuka and the Blood Drinker Guards also all left the command deck. Only a few naval officers in charge of combat duties remained on the command deck to discuss with Qin Xia the various details of the void war that would obviously take place after arriving at the target galaxy.

"Everything is normal on our gun deck because we are all normal people."

"We...we..."

The person in charge of the gun deck was speaking when he suddenly paused, his eyes not on the tactical table, but outside the porthole.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the command deck, a strange galaxy appeared.

A planet with eyes, a planet where the mountains seem to flow.

Those planets looked extremely strange, but the people in charge of monitoring on the battleship had already used various monitoring equipment to explore the planets in the galaxy.

The giant eye on the planet is just a special natural environment composed of various landforms, not a real eye.

The moving mountains are not the mountains themselves moving, but the cloud layer of that planet is quite special and reflects some conditions on the surface. Then the flowing nature of the clouds presents an amazing visual spectacle.

Qin Xia knew very well that this was near the big whirlpool.

Everything here cannot be seen as some kind of natural phenomenon that can be explained by science, but rather as supernatural in the strict sense. Even if the giant eye on the planet is just a landform, it is still a kind of supernatural.

The environment around the Maelstrom is eroded by the Warp, and everything here is developing in a strange direction under the erosion.

"Amazing, isn't it?" Qin Xia said to the person in charge of the artillery deck.

“I’m sorry, sir.” The person in charge retracted his gaze, “It’s just the first time I’ve seen such a strange…reality.”

Qin Xia didn't blame him.

No one nurtured in the Imperial Truth would not be surprised to see supernatural phenomena near the Warp rifts.

The environment in the subspace is ten thousand times stranger than here, but people cannot see the outside when they are traveling in the subspace, so the scenes here will scare everyone.

"It's just a natural wonder." An officer suddenly said, "The Imperial Truth teaches us that there are no supernatural phenomena in this world. All phenomena that seem to be supernatural are just because our knowledge or scientific and technological development is not enough to explain them."

"Come on, fellow citizens."

"Nothing can scare us! Nothing can stop us. Not the supernatural, not even the murderous aliens."

“The only way forward!”

The words of the officer who respected the Imperial Truth the most stirred up the atmosphere and cheered up those who were originally surprised or stunned by seeing supernatural phenomena.

"He's right." Qin Xia reached out and patted the shoulder of the officer who was using the Imperial Truth to boost morale. "There are only two kinds of things in this world. One is what we can explain, and the other is what we can't explain for the time being. Respect science, respect rationality, and let us maintain the spirit of the Imperial Truth!"

It was against his will to say this...but Qin Xia felt that the lie was very effective at this moment.

The structure of reality is very fragile near the Maelstrom, which means that the mind can really change everything.

When being near the big whirlpool, many people do not believe in the existence of monsters and demons, and firmly believe that everything they know is real. Then the power of idealism will really resist the erosion of monsters and demons and consolidate the reality structure in their cognition.

Qin Xia thought of a space marine unit called the Black Templars that existed ten thousand years later.

The Black Templars are not equipped with think tanks. When they encounter the creatures of the Warp, they rely on their firm belief in materialism to resist the erosion, which is really very effective.

"Leave the command deck now and go to the broadcasting station." Qin Xia said to the officer who particularly worshipped the Imperial Truth, "Take some people who don't have to work with you and go to the broadcasting station to collectively recite the Imperial Truth. Make sure everyone can hear it, especially the Sons of the Void."

Hearing this, the officer looked puzzled.

"You know, in times of crisis, people need something to boost morale, such as the Imperial Truth," Qin Xia said.

The officer nodded vigorously: "I'll go right away!"

(End of this chapter)