Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 369 Suspicion and Appreciation

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"I will never forget the scene of him standing on the Titan. He drove the Titan over my head. The aliens in front of me were numerous but they became harmless after he appeared."

"Then I retreated into the transport tunnel."

"Your brother's adoptive father is a reliable man of the scene."

Luther stood in the operations room, whispering to Ryan about what had just happened on the Randan III.

Constantine, the messenger of Dreadwing, stood beside Luther and heard what Luther, the last one to evacuate, said. He felt a little regretful that he had not seen that scene.

In addition to Luther and Constantine, there were a large number of officers and soldiers of the First Legion present. They surrounded Luther, the Primarch, and Constantine, and understood what had just happened.

"But he lost the whirlwind torpedo." Ryan said in a deep voice.

"Just a torpedo." Luther didn't care.

"Just a torpedo? That's a whirlwind torpedo, a star-crushing weapon." Ryan stared at Luther, his voice low, like the roar of a lion, "You know what the torpedo I'm talking about is... You know."

Luther nodded slightly.

As the person the Lion trusts most, the master and apprentice of the First Legion's primarch, Luther does know a lot of secrets.

But he didn't care who lost the "Whirlwind Torpedo". As long as people make mistakes, even the original body is not perfect. If anyone is to blame, it should be blamed on Ran Dan for having too many alien trump cards and too many tricks.

"But Randan III was destroyed, just as you wished." Luther pointed to the galaxy on the holographic image, where only two planets remained.

Ryan leaned over, supporting his elbows on the edge of the holographic device, his expression solemn, his breathing slow and silent.

The Space Marines present all became nervous.

At this time, Ryan's state, like a lion ready to hunt, is often a sign of danger.

"I suspect he took the whirlwind torpedo." Ryan said suddenly.

Luther did not refute immediately, but listened quietly. He knew that Ryan would not make a casual judgment in this hunting posture. He had to listen before he could refute.

"As far as I know, there is an organization in Nukeria that is responsible for collecting ancient relics and knowledge, or other good things for Qin Xia. They accept all who come."

“This is one of the bases for judgment.”

"Then……"

Ryan did not continue speaking, but recalled what the Emperor had said to him in his dream before arriving at the assembly point to start the Randan Alien Extermination War.

"Destroy every world in the Randan system with psychic bombs."

"You must ensure that Qin Xia detonates those bombs himself, and that a psychic bomb is given to him in this war."

"But you have to be careful, he has a greedy attitude towards any ancient creation. He must get a psychic bomb, but this bomb cannot be obtained by himself in an ungifted way."

That's what the Emperor said.

Ryan thought carefully.

This is not the first time that the Randan aliens have been attacked by humans. There have been two Randan wars before. Most of the territory and fleets of the Randan Empire were destroyed in the first two wars.

If there really were some aliens capable of replacing something right under the noses of the Twelve Legion Champions... then the Randan Empire would not be fighting a defensive battle now. They relied on the ability to use non-zero energy means to protect the anti-psychic shielding field to replace something else. If they had exchanged some military secrets or strategic information before, I'm afraid they would have beaten the empire to a pulp.

When contacting the 12th Legion just now, Ryan also told them about the loss of the Whirlwind torpedo, and obtained video footage of the World Eaters who were present at the time.

The kind that is shot in one shot.

The most convincing reason why Ryan believed that the psychic bomb could not have been replaced by the aliens was that Kiel was there. He knew Kiel, a man who was extremely cautious. When he saw the company commander of his legion coming, he subconsciously checked the detector.

"Is it possible that a World Eater is under mind control, or an alien has infiltrated, such as a disguised alien or something, making the detection device ineffective." Luther could probably guess why Ryan thought Qin Xia was embezzling, so he asked.

"The detection device has been tested many times. I have used death row prisoners for the test. It is impossible for the detection device to fail." Ryan said coldly, "The detector I sent over is even a prototype. It has been confirmed to be effective through experiments. In the first two wars, Ran Dan's disguised aliens and those controlled by the mind had no place to hide."

"Besides, the key is not how the thief got in, but what method was used to replace the torpedo." Ryan continued, "The witchcraft-like method of replacing the torpedo... The 12th Legion is the only one among all our legions that possesses a large number of ancient technological artifacts."

Luther was silent.

At this moment, the door of the operations room suddenly opened.

The person Ryan least expected appeared outside the slowly opening gate.

Qin Xia dragged the huge container to the outside of the operations room gate with one hand, released his hand that was holding the container drag rod, and walked into the operations room with the roar of one side of the container falling to the ground.

Ryan immediately looked at Qin Xia.

Qin Xia also looked at Ryan and pointed to the container outside: "Your whirlwind torpedo." Ryan turned his head and looked at the Terminator who had just been sent to deliver the psychic bomb.

The guard wearing the Terminator turned and walked out of the cabin, shouted away the onlookers outside, slightly opened the container to check, and then nodded to Ryan.

"How did it get found?" Ryan asked.

"I found it." Qin Xia replied, "An alien used an unknown means of transmission that we don't understand to transport the container from a void facility near Randan II. The alien approached the container through a disguised Space Marine corpse and used the transmission method I mentioned."

As he spoke, Qin Xia transmitted the photo of himself finding the container near Randan II to the holographic image.

"Then what did you use to blow up Randan No. 3?" Ryan asked when he saw the group of aliens surrounding the container.

"In the Twelfth Legion's own way." Qin Xia replied.

Ryan thought about it and concluded that the 12th Legion had used some ancient creation similar to a psychic bomb to blow up Randan No. 3.

After thinking about it again, Ryan completely overturned his inference that Qin Xia had embezzled money.

Moreover, Ryan believed that if Qin Xia really committed embezzlement, he would not have brought the psychic bomb with him. At most, he would say that he had found another psychic bomb, used it, hid it, and then came back to ask for the other one that was promised to him in the previous communication.

"I see." Ryan said calmly, "Now that the truth is out, you can take the reward I promised you and take this whirlwind torpedo back with you."

"Is that all?" Qin Xia slowly took off his helmet, took off the spear from behind his back with his right hand and stuck it on the ground, holding the helmet with his left hand, staring at Ryan, "What you said in the communication before showed that you suspected that I stole the whirlwind torpedo that was supposed to be used for the mission."

Qin Xia recalled what Ryan had said to him during the communication on Randan No. 3. Although Ryan did not directly ask whether he had stolen the psychic bomb, his words revealed what he was thinking at the time.

Qin Xia didn't feel anything at the time. After all, he was too shocked and anxious. He just wanted to find the psychic bomb and blow up Ran Dan No. 3.

But after the psychic bomb was teleported back to the White Knight by Trazyn and he himself returned to the White Knight, he became more and more angry.

So Qin Xia, who could have directly told Ryan "I didn't find the psychic bomb" and left the psychic bomb, and then asked Ryan for the reward he promised, decided to drag the psychic bomb here and confront Ryan face to face, otherwise he would not be able to get over it.

In Qin Xia's opinion, sometimes interests are not as important as a breath.

"I see." Ryan was still calm. "I see that you didn't steal the weapons that were supposed to be used for the mission. Now you can take the contents of the container back. As I promised before, that's your reward."

"No, we can't just let this go." Qin Xia slowly paced to the left, "You have to take back what you said before."

As soon as the words fell, the officers of the Wing of Terror remained silent with mixed feelings, while the other dark angels present were extremely dissatisfied and looked at Qin Xia with hostile eyes.

"Watch your words and behavior." A sergeant stepped forward and drew his power sword, "Otherwise I will use force to protect the dignity of the Gene Father."

Qin Xia raised his spear and pointed it at the sergeant, and also at Ryan behind the sergeant: "I will use my force to protect the dignity of myself and the 12th Legion. The adoptive father of the Lord of the 12th Legion and the Lord of the White Knight of the World Devourer Think Tank is not a thief!"

Luther looked at Qin Xia, then at Ryan, using his eyes to signal Ryan what he should do at this moment.

Ryan didn't look into Luther's eyes, but continued to stare at Qin Xia, but he didn't seem to have much hostility.

The offended lion king was quite angry, but he still thought calmly.

The previous suspicion was a normal logical inference, the most cautious consideration made in the absence of sufficient information, and some of Qin Xia's deeds and well-known characteristics were sufficient to support this suspicious inference.

Just like suspecting that the aliens had replaced the psychic bomb by some means, it was all just speculation.

It was indeed a bad feeling to be suspected, but Ryan did not think that this was a reason for Qin Xia to come here with a weapon and confront him with an extremely offensive attitude, so Qin Xia deserved to be punished for his attitude and behavior.

Ryan thought so, slowly straightened up, and put his right hand on the hilt of the sword. But suddenly he changed his mind and thought that Qin Xia's performance in the Randan III Star Destroyer War was a great contribution, and he went into the void facility alone to risk his life to retrieve the psychic bomb to clear his suspicion... The merits and demerits offset each other, so he shouldn't do it.

After thinking for a while, Ryan slowly lowered his hand on the hilt of the sword.

"How do you want to put an end to this matter?" Ryan asked coldly.

"Take back your previous doubts." Qin Xia said.

Ryan was silent for a few seconds, using Qin Xia's performance and achievements to suppress his anger and slowly said, "I take it back."

After hearing this, Qin Xia nodded silently, put the spear back behind him, put on his helmet and walked out of the operations room.

Ryan clenched his fists, and after thinking it over again and again, he decided to complete the Emperor's instructions and give a psychic bomb to Qin Xia, so he said to Luther: "Go and ask that guy to take the bomb away."

Luther, who had been wanting to leave, left the war room immediately and ordered the Terminators waiting in the corridor outside to move the container: "Send this thing to where it came from."

Hearing Luther's order that was completely opposite to the Lion King's, the Terminators first looked at Ryan, and seeing that Ryan was silent, they obeyed Luther's order and sent the psychic bomb back to the treasure house of the Indomitable Truth.

Luther quickened his pace to catch up with Qin Xia, walked side by side with him, turned into a fork in the road and disappeared from Ryan's sight.

"A megalomaniac with a hoarding habit," Ryan said in a deep voice, "He has nothing to offer except being strong and reliable."

(End of this chapter)