Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 506 Wild Ways

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Flagship of the World Eaters.

Qin Xia led three Mechanicus members to the large laboratory that had just been established at the stern of the ship.

After entering the airlock, the three Mechanicus members saw their fellow believers.

The Quadrant is studying the biological tissue of the Hrud.

"You want to help the Iron Warriors research stasis fields for use against the Hrud."

Qin Xia stopped and glanced at the three people in front of him.

These three people were the heroes who created the stasis field during the Battle of the Abyss, allowing the Iron Warriors to be able to deal with the Hrud.

It is difficult to describe these three Mechanicus members as "human beings".

One of them transformed himself into a strange shape, another one was covered with mechanical tentacles like an octopus, and the last one didn't even have a physical body, his brain was in a transparent glass jar, and he was driving a bionic machine.

"Cooperate with the Quadrant." Qin Xia turned to look at the Quadrant approaching, "If the Abyss War continues, special technology to deal with the Hruds will be essential."

Quadrant saluted the three brothers with a gear: "I have seen your existing research materials, it is perfect, but I still have some suggestions for improvement."

The Mechanicus also saluted.

"In terms of knowledge, the gap between us and you is like the gap between a firefly and the moon."

"From the moment we see you, we are bathed in the grace of the God of All Things."

"..."

Quadrant has never been interested in such corny words. He turned around, saluted Qin Xia, and then returned to his previous work station.

His fellow believers followed him and came to the biological structure of the Hrud together.

As Quadrant waved his hand gently, a holographic image appeared above the research table, showing several new devices.

"I intend to develop a device based on your stasis field technology. It can be placed in armored vehicles and ships and resist the influence of the Hrud's time technology."

"At the same time, we will also use the Hrud's time technology based on the warp technology to quickly restore warriors injured in battle. We can also deploy those Space Marines who have been aged or juvenile due to time technology to the battlefield, and in turn use the Hrud's time technology to restore their bodies to their prime."

“That’s the technology we’re going to create together.”

Quadrant introduces your ideas.

His three fellow believers remotely receive the signals transmitted by the research station, and understand the Quadrant's plan and the existing research results created by the Quadrant to realize this plan in a more efficient way.

After learning about this, the one with the brain in a jar among the three Mechanicus spoke up: "After this technology is created and put into use to prove its excellent effect, we hope to get the right to sign the document report submitted to Mars."

"It's just a secondary signature." Another "octopus" said.

Qin Xia watched from the side and understood why these three people made such a request.

It's like signing a paper.

If the names of these three people could be placed together with the quadrant, even if they were just in a secondary sequence under the names of the quadrant, it would be enough to gain many benefits.

On Mars, the amount of knowledge and creative achievements one possesses determines one's class and wealth.

"You don't need to include my name in the report to the Martian side. You have full ownership of this invention." Quadrant looked very calm. "These have no value or meaning to me. I only care about creation, not harvest."

Hearing this, the three Mechanicus looked at each other.

If they still had eyes and faces, they would be staring at each other.

Quadrant said that he could choose not to give himself the right to sign, as he thought it would be better for the three fellow believers, but that was not the case.

In the battle on Mars where the master and apprentice broke up, Quadrant had already proved his strength. If he was willing to go to Mars to accept academic tests, he would get all the academic titles including the Great Sage.

The quadrant has value, and the report documents signed by him will have more value, and other minor signatories will also become more valuable, so it would be a bad thing if he did not ask for a signature.

"It still needs to be signed." Qin Xia stepped forward to speak on behalf of the Quadrant, "Just follow your Martian rules."

Quadrant didn't care about these things at all, so he didn't object.

His three fellow believers gratefully performed the gear salute to Qin Xia.

"Just find a way to make your invention. I can't assist you this time because I have to go to the Hrud people to collect some information." Qin Xia said.

"Infiltrate and conduct reconnaissance?" Quadrant put down what he was doing, "That's very dangerous."

"Not dangerous at all. Remember the Rogue Trader appointed by Angron before? The Cramer family has connections. They have traded with the Hrud people."

"Wait...trade with the Hrud. Those aliens can actually communicate with us. Cawl, who is studying aliens, must be very interested in this news."

"Cawl is on Mars and can't come."

After giving the instructions, Qin Xia signaled Quadrant to continue with his work while he teleported out of the laboratory.

Three Mechanicus members were ready to assist Quadrant, but Quadrant just kept doing his work and did not assign any tasks to these people.

Only then did the three of them realize that what Quadrant meant by "assisting in research" actually just required them to wait by the side.

Seeing that Quadrant was busy with research and there was no electronic eye or anything like that behind his head, the three of them started the recording function at the same time.

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The Kramer family merchant ship is a retired Retaliation-class cruiser of the World Eaters Navy. The cruiser jumped out of the warp and arrived at a system.

There is only one star in the galaxy, and one world.

The world is square and looks like a cube cut from the land plate of a planet. If this is not the real universe, people who see it will think they are still in the subspace.

As soon as the cruiser appeared, it was approached by a ship with a vague outline, and then escorted by that ship to approach the cube world.

The early warning broadcast sounded, and all personnel on the hangar deck of the Ronin Merchant Cruiser were evacuated, leaving behind only giant containers filled with high-calorie synthetic food.

Some flying machines appeared from the blurred ships and entered the cruiser.

After the aircraft entered the hangar deck, it dropped the square metal containers mounted underneath it, then hung up the containers containing food and flew away.

Inside the command deck, the next successor of the Kramer family communicated with the traders next to the communication facilities.

"Twelve thousand Hrud flintlock rifles. That's what you asked for. I hope the food you give me is also sufficient, otherwise my masters will be very unhappy with this deal."

"Don't worry, the Cramer family is based on integrity."

"..."

Qin Xia watched the successor of the Kramo family conduct the transaction on the command deck.

The other party to the transaction was the Hrud.

However, the person conducting transactions on behalf of the Hrud on the communication panel was a human.

"There is another request." The successor of the Kramo family turned sideways, "This lord hopes to go to the Hrud world ship for a tour. If your master can accept it, we will pay more."

The human on the communication panel looked at Qin Xia, was silent for a moment, and turned off the communication.

"He went to contact his master." The successor of the Kramo family also looked at Qin Xia, "They will definitely accept it, because the Hrud people have just migrated from Gugan Star. They prepared in a hurry and need a lot of food to maintain the population of the tribe."

Qin Xia nodded silently.

The human face reappeared on the communication panel. "My masters have agreed. They will arrange for someone to take charge of the reception. But they also remind you that contact with the Hrud is extremely dangerous. The guests must at least be able to avoid being killed by the entropy field."

"I have plenty of ways to avoid being affected by the entropy field." Qin Xia stepped forward, "Tell me the meeting place, and I will teleport directly there."

A topographic map appeared on the communications panel, with a location on the Hrud world marked.

Qin Xia was teleported directly there, and after trudging through the wind and snow, he came to an underground tunnel, where he met the human who was responsible for communication on the communication panel, and a Hrud.

The human wore something like a shackle around his neck, which projected some kind of energy that could help him resist the entropy-increasing force field of the Hrud.

"After the battle of the Gugan Galaxy, you still don't plan to let us go?"

The one who spoke was not a human, but a Hrud alien.

In the blur caused by the visual fog, very standard High Gothic language was heard.

"I just came here to get some information." Seeing that the other party already knew his identity, Qin Xia no longer concealed it, "I didn't come here with the purpose of war."

The alien turned around and motioned Qin Xia to follow him.

Qin Xia discovered that the Hrud world he was in was the land plate that had previously risen from the planet Gugan.

The Hrud do not live on the surface of these migrating landmasses, but underground. They are cave dwellers with dark eyes and hate light.

The underground tunnels extend in all directions, and when passing through some places, Qin Xia saw the Hruds and humans living together.

But this does not mean that the Hrud have allied with certain humans. The humans here are actually their slaves and pets.

But this at least proves that the Hrud have the ability to communicate, and they are not like some alien races who only kill and be killed, and don't care about or understand anything else.

Tens of thousands of years later, the Hrud would even become mercenaries for an alien civilization called the Tau Empire.

"Why are you attacking us?" the alien walking in front suddenly asked.

"This is an order from our superiors. I don't know if your tribe can understand its meaning..." Qin Xia responded while looking around.

"Then the orders from your superiors are meaningless." The alien said, "We just survive and reproduce, and when the number of individuals in a tribe reaches a certain level, some people will separate from the tribe. This is called migration. I don't know how our migration has provoked you, making you want to kill us all at a heavy price."

The alien took Qin Xia to a place similar to a religious place.

This is a cave where a large number of Hrud are kneeling on the ground and worshiping some statues, including even their human pets.

"How does it feel to be a slave to the Hrud?" Qin Xia asked the human next to the alien.

"It's much better than being a slave to the emperor." The human said, "Anyway, the fate of our lowly and degenerate species is miserable. We will follow whoever treats us well."

Qin Xia remained silent, and didn't want to preach or blame anything.

The human empire in 30K is much better than in 40K, but there are still problems with rough management in some territories of the empire, resulting in some worlds being considered hell on earth in 40K.

To those who live in hell, all glorious undertakings and grand plans for the human race are of no value at all.

The standard of living on an Imperial world, when AI is banned, depends entirely on the governance and personal morality of the local Imperial bureaucrats.

As a slave among the Hrud, your fate depends on the Hrud.

Qin Xia could tell something from the slave's hesitant expression, which was that not all humans could have a good master like him.

(End of this chapter)