Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 48 Fake Butcher's Nails?
The flying vehicle is flying in the air.

Qin Xia lay in the co-pilot seat, his head against the seat, his eyes closed, recalling the battle he had just had, and looking for shortcomings in the battle.

The Tark guard with the Butcher's Nails named Brown beside him drove the vehicle calmly and methodically, as if he had become one with the vehicle.

For a moment, Qin Xia wondered why Brown could remain so calm after being hit by the Butcher's Nails, but it was only a momentary puzzlement.

There are also people who remain calm after being hit by the Butcher's Nails, such as a World Eater warrior named Thorax. This bastard is not only able to think calmly after being hit by the Butcher's Nails, but he even knows to run away instead of seeking death when he can't win.

Although the Butcher's Nails used by Thorax were a low-end version developed by Galan, a pharmacist of the World Eaters, it was still outrageous.

Maybe the Brown next to me has been hit with a similar Butcher's Nail, a low-end version, or simply a fake.

And Brown also occasionally observed Qin Xia.

Brown didn't notice what Qin Xia was carrying. He didn't even notice why Qin Xia was so strong and yet could sit on a chair designed for ordinary people like an ordinary person without feeling out of place at all.

It's not all because of the invisibility cloak.

Qin Xia had not received any systematic psychic learning and training before and after being abducted from the White Scars by the Grey Knights and transformed into a Grey Knight, but the think tank of the White Scars still taught him a lot.

For example, how to use psionics to make a Space Marine, who is very different from ordinary people, less awkward and inconvenient in life... use psionics to change the body's adaptability to the environment, such as straightening one's back and walking into a two-meter-high door.

This is not particularly difficult, especially for a psychic like Qin Xia.

Both of them were silent for a long time, and finally Brown spoke first: "By the way, I thought you would be particularly resistant to cooperating with the head of the Talko family."

Hearing this, Qin Xia remained silent and pretended to be very sincere: "My gladiator brothers and sisters can no longer tolerate the damn rule of fasting day. They also need medicine, and someone I care about needs to repair a short limb, so... I will suppress my resistance."

And beneath Qin Xia's sincere appearance, there is no false friendship hidden, such as indifference to the gladiators.

What he hid was that he was actually looking forward to the opportunity to leave the arena, because he could do so many things with this opportunity.

"Oh." Brown nodded slightly.

It was not known whether it was because of this answer that he felt something was wrong, or because he felt the atmosphere was too awkward, so he touched the "iron hair" hanging from the back of his head, those cables coming from the butcher's nails in his brain.

"Won't this thing drive you crazy?" Qin Xia finally couldn't help but ask this question.

"You mean the Butcher's Nail?" Brown said, "No, it won't work on me, but if it's on someone else, the person who has it implanted will become a complete murderer, because this thing will make the person who has it implanted feel like he is in hell if he doesn't kill."

Qin Xia suddenly turned around and stared at Brown: "You..."

Qin Xia recalled something.

The Butcher's Nail is not for human use. There is a speculation that it is some kind of neural structure implant in the stone man to control the stone man.

The so-called stone man, like the iron man, is actually an intelligent machine. Stone man means a synthetic man, not a man made of stone.

"Are you a stone man?" Qin Xia asked tentatively. Brown was stunned by the question, and for a few seconds, he asked back: "You didn't know I was a stone man? I thought you were an alien psychic so you could tell I was a stone man, and I didn't intend to lie to you, but you didn't know! If I had known, I would have pretended to be crazy."

"..."

Qin Xia was stunned for a few seconds.

The Stone Men once served humanity when it was still at its peak.

Before humanity fell into the abyss, it was the Iron Man Rebellion that interrupted humanity's prosperity.

The Stone Men sided with the humans during the Iron Man Rebellion, but were either eliminated or disappeared after the rebellion was quelled.

What followed was a large-scale warp storm that caused warp navigation to become completely chaotic and terrifying, and humans fell into the abyss due to the inability to communicate.

Qin Xia never dreamed that he would actually discover a stone man.

"Can you scan my genes?" Qin Xia suddenly had an idea. "If I'm not mistaken, you will find that I am different from others..."

Qin Xia remembered that when he traveled to 40,000 years ago, he was still in physical form, but his soul was contained in the body of his childhood that seemed to have been rejuvenated.

"Of course I can see that, which is why I am sure you are not from Nuceria." Brown nodded.

"Then...are there any technological treasures waiting for me to unlock?" Qin Xia asked anxiously, "Or, are there any iron men or stone men like you who can help me since I am an ancient human?"

Brown raised his left eyebrow and scratched the synthetic skull that contained the Butcher's Nail. "There shouldn't be any treasure, unless your direct ancestor left you a legacy with a gene lock. As for helping you, if we are friends, of course I can, otherwise... why?"

"I am different from other humans. You can see it from my genes. Modern humans have undergone a lot of genetic modifications, and I have also undergone modifications, but I still carry the genetic samples of primitive humans," said Qin Xia.

"It's indeed different." Brown was still confused. "If it was 20K now, I would find a way to bring you to a research institute in a nearby human colony and help you get a very good labor contract, so that you can make gene copies for them, or go to a university to assist an archaeological professor in research..."

"But now you have seen what the human race looks like. Where can I find such a civilized place for you to use them as research samples or for archaeological professionals to assist in research?"

"Now is a chaotic era. Ancient things are either squandered or buried. You have to wait until the peaceful and civilized era in the future to explore the value of your ancient genes."

Brown drove the flying vehicle while looking at Qin Xia.

Qin Xia was silent. He thought that it was a classic fantasy that ancient humans would be worshipped as treasures by emperors or stone men and iron men.

Before asking, Qin Xia didn't believe the saying that ancient humans were extremely valuable, but the stone man was right next to him, so he had to ask - as long as he could find a way to get out of the current predicament, even if the hope was slim, he was willing to try and verify it.

"I still can't believe I ran into a stone man." After a moment of silence, Qin Xia spoke again. "This is too unexpected... Shouldn't you have been extinct long ago?"

"Functional extinction, that's right." Brown nodded, "But no matter how exterminated, there will always be a few fish that slip through the net. The Nucerias are quite civilized. They didn't regard me as a potential threat and killed me after the Iron Man Rebellion."

(End of this chapter)