Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 337 Pathfinder Curze

After talking for a few words, Koz looked at Qin Xia's face and suddenly thought of someone.

"There is a man named Shen in my legion," said Koz.

Qin Xia thought about it and recalled.

There is indeed a person named Shen in the Eighth Legion of Midnight Lords, and he is a heavyweight figure.

A Nostramo Space Marine, but not bad or harmful, very honest, a little too honest.

Perhaps it is precisely because of his honesty and integrity that he is one of the few soldiers of the Eighth Legion who is not disliked by Curze.

During the Horus Heresy, when the VIII Legion was about to destroy Nostramo, Shen stepped forward to stop it, but ultimately failed to do so because the person whose words counted in the VIII Legion was a man named Sevatar, and the good intentions of the battle brothers could not stop Sevatar from destroying Nostramo.

"I met Shen when he was very young."

"In a city in Nostramo, on a street."

Koz looked up, recalling that interesting experience.

"I executed the head of a crime family in an alley. I ripped his chest open, pulled his ribs apart, and nailed him to a wall, leaving him screaming until he died."

"Then there was a child lying on the second-floor window of the house on the right side of the alley, quietly observing me."

"When he noticed I was watching him, instead of hiding, he rolled the window completely open and leapt up to me with glee."

"He called me the King of the Night. He said everyone on this street called me that. There was no fear in his eyes. There was only excitement, admiration, and the joy of venting his anger."

"He is Shen. Until recently, I found out that he was a Nostramo Space Marine."

Koz recalled this and lowered his head to continue looking at Qin Xia.

Qin Xia nodded silently.

"There are people on Nostramo who hate me, who think I am immoral, and who worship me and regard me as a hero. Perhaps I should rely on them to establish a permanent zero-crime rule," Curze said as he thought, "but they are too weak and can only crave help from others, without the power to resist the evildoers on their own."

"Even Space Marines are weak in front of the Primarch, but humans are not creatures that excel in individual combat. When many individuals become a collective, they can exert amazing power." Qin Xia said, "Just like when the criminals on Nostramo unite, they can easily recover from the fear you create, and then turn Nostramo back to its original state."

Curze opened his mouth, then nodded, spoke again and said: "I will remember your teachings."

"No." Qin Xia smiled and shook his head. "My long speech is not a teaching, but an explanation to you. Don't take it as a teaching, but as a reason, a reason to explain the situation when facing certain situations."

Koz tilted his head slightly, confusion revealed in his dark pupils.

The Primarch thought that Qin Xia was teaching him like he taught Angron.

"Your biggest problem is mental and psychological." Qin Xia tapped his head with his index finger, then tapped his left chest. "If one day you find that Nostramo has become what it was before you changed Nostramo, or even worse, then you should think of what I said and know why that damn criminal world has become what it is."

"Instead of getting stuck in a rut."

“I feel like I can’t change anything, just like I can’t change those dark and heavy prophecies.”

"If you don't know why you can't change those things, you will put meaningless psychological and mental pressure on yourself until you collapse and become a schizophrenic and cold-blooded lunatic."

After saying that, Qin Xia turned around from the porthole and continued walking forward.

Koz stood there and thought for a moment, then followed.

The two entered a cabin that looked like a military base, and then walked out of the cabin that looked like a military base, gradually going deeper into the interior of the giant ship.

"Can't we use psionic teleportation to go wherever we want?" Curze asked.

"There is something in this giant ship that can intercept psychic energy." Qin Xia said as he walked, "We were able to teleport when we came here because my think tanks used a large number of crystals containing psychic energy to set up a magic array, which greatly weakened the reality structure of the area we just teleported from."

"But for some reason, the closer this giant ship gets to the center, the stronger its resistance to psychic energy becomes. When we go a certain distance deeper, we won't be able to teleport even if we use magic arrays to weaken the structure of reality."

"After all, this is an ancient creation. It is much more powerful and difficult to understand than the creations of modern people."

Koz nodded.

The Primarch had no idea where to go next, he just followed silently.

The transport channel in the giant ship ahead is wide and has no end in sight, and the transport channel is connected to many branch roads.

Occasionally, Curze could see blood-covered Space Marines walking out of the fork in the road, and their blood was green.

At the same time, the pharmacist accompanying the team was carrying a corpse on his shoulder, the corpse of some kind of reptile, and the green blood was obviously the blood of a reptile.

After walking a distance further, I could no longer see anyone.

The straight and vast transportation channel has also come to an end.

Hundreds of relatively narrow passages that could allow two primarchs to pass through one on top of the other appeared in front of Curze.

"This should be a dedicated passage for some kind of transport equipment. It may be used to transport supplies. It leads in all directions." Qin Xia stopped and said, "Lord of the Eighth Legion, I need your strength."

Koz was silent for two seconds, then stepped forward somewhat reluctantly.

After Koz took a few steps, he suddenly stopped, staggered, and his body trembled slightly.

At this moment, Koz saw what would happen after he walked through each passage.

Most of the passages lead to a place with more passages, some of which lead to cabins. Curz even saw what would happen when he opened the doors of those cabins... There might be a lot of reptiles and mutants in the cabins, a lot of jars with deformed people, and some seemingly useless consoles.

Qin Xia reached out and touched Koz, and saw what Koz saw at this moment, and knew the message that the prophecy brought to them.

Then Koz calmed down, took a few deep breaths, and gradually relaxed.

The prophecies just now only made him uncomfortable, but did not bring him pain, because he did not foresee the tragic and dark ending of anyone.

“I use this ability to find the perfect stealth path when dealing with some tough guys on Nostramo,” Curze said. “You were smart to bring me here.”

Qin Xia recalled the prophecies he saw when he touched Koz, and then walked to the wall beside the road.

He waved his hand gently.

There was a muffled bang and smoke and dust rose up.

A map was branded on the wall, showing where each passage led to according to Curze's prophecy, and whether it was safe.

"Didn't Angron say that you have the most unique psychic power and can directly lie on the curtain to pull the thread of fate?" Curze looked at the large map in front of him, "Why do you still have to rely on my ability to detect the road?"

"If you weren't here, I would have to slowly unravel the thread to reduce casualties on the exploration ships." Qin Xia shrugged, "I don't have the ability to actively predict. Lying on the curtain and watching the thread is just a last resort for me."

Qin Xia paused, and then said: "Also, your ability to predict is really too strong. Even the future that the prophets of the Thousand Sons Legion see is fragmented and chaotic, but you can see it clearly like a camera."

Koz nodded in agreement. Regardless of how disgusting and troublesome his ability to predict the future was, his ability to see clearly and far was indeed its strength.

But it is precisely because of this that Koz is extremely confident that the dark future he predicted will come true.

"Go on." Qin Xia looked up at the road ahead and walked towards one of the roads that would lead to deeper places.

Koz moved forward again.

Next, the Primarch used his prophetic ability many times to help Qin Xia shape the map.

Every time Koz used his prophetic ability, he was worried that he would see Qin Xia's death, but fortunately, this worry was unnecessary. Qin Xia seemed to be immortal and his end did not appear in any of the prophecies.

After leaving behind many maps and traveling for a full Nuceria day, or thirty-one solar hours, in an ancient ship named a forge engine by modern people, Curze discovered a "treasure".

"There are good things ahead." Koz quickened his pace and moved forward in a passage with Qin Xia, eventually entering an extremely large space.

This place is like a plain made of smooth metal, with straight "cliffs" on both sides of the plain. Those "cliffs" are full of holes, facing the metal plain.

"Dock."

Qin Xia walked to the edge of the cliff and looked at everything here.

"This is a shipyard, used to build ships."

"We found more than thirty such docks."

"When it is activated, the cliff-like structures on both sides of the dock will melt the metal material and reshape it directly into a ship."

"It's like... carving out a ship from a giant piece of metal, and then carving out the space inside the ship."

Listening to Qin Xia's description, Koz walked forward to the edge of the "cliff" and looked at everything here in disbelief.

Even though the operation here has not started yet and the ship manufacturing has not started, the "one-piece molding" ship building method that Qin Xia mentioned has not been presented in front of us.

But Coates could imagine what the scene was like.

"The structural strength of this ship is probably off the charts," Coze said coldly. "Made in one piece... it's much stronger than a ship that's made of modules and then spliced ​​together."

"Yes." Qin Xia nodded.

At this moment, a strong wind suddenly blew by.

A whirring sound came from the holes in the entire dock used to build ships.

Koz looked at Qin Xia with some confusion: "Why is there wind here?"

"It's caused by the ventilation system." Qin Xia said what had surprised him. "The people who built this giant ship created a ventilation system that mimics the natural ecology, so that some large internal spaces of the ship have air flow, and even rain and snow are produced during the water circulation process."

"There are even four seasons on this huge ship."

"For example, the place we just passed is a passage on the port side of the ship, like a pipe. Outside the passage is not the hull of the ship, but a wider space."

"It's summer all year round in that space... When you stand in that space and look down, you'll find a thick layer of artificial soil underneath, which is used to grow organic food for the crew... It's fucking hard to imagine that the people who designed this kind of ship would actually design a planting area to meet the crew's needs for natural crops grown in the soil."

There was surprise in Qin Xia's tone.

Even though he had already known some of the amazing features of this ship, he still felt a sense of disbelief when he talked about it.

"The stern edge of the ship is a place similar to a city. It is cold there in winter. There is a huge ski resort, which has now been converted into a warehouse."

"The entire ship's life support system and water circulation have never stopped since more than 10,000 years ago."

"This ship is a world unto itself, with climates, seasons, cold and tropical, it has it all."

"Although these are all unnecessary designs in our eyes, and none of the naval crew members we met would dream of eating native crops while sailing, people ten thousand years ago were obsessed with continuing their lives on the planet on ships, and they also had the ability to satisfy their obsession."

(End of this chapter)