Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 508 Superluminal Methods

The ship sailed in the opposite direction to the world ship's location.

Its engines were running at maximum speed, but it did not enter the warp.

The suspended sphere in front of Qin Xia suddenly released energy, and a time wave slowly spread to the entire engine room and then to the entire ship.

A portion of space where the ship is located is accelerated.

The stars outside the porthole turned into shining lines moving backwards, and in an instant, the battleship arrived in another galaxy.

Qin Xia was surprised and realized the role of the suspended sphere in front of him - it accelerated the space around the warship, which was equivalent to the warship using the propulsion device to travel a distance of more than ten light years, but the distance that would have taken many years to complete was completed in a moment because of the time acceleration.

"Is this the Hrud's superluminal engine?" Qin Xia turned around and asked.

The iron man stood with his hands behind his back and nodded silently.

"It's really amazing, but it's not worth much." Qin Xia looked at everything around him that was aging due to the acceleration of time. "You probably used 80% of the ship's space to store promethium fuel. It used up all the fuel after traveling more than ten light years. This is not a big deal. The key is that the crew's lifespan cannot withstand this voyage that only lasted a few seconds at the sensory level."

Iron Man continued: "The Hrud people have almost no desire for expansion. Attacking them is not valuable in itself, but this hyperdrive is still very valuable... The Emperor is like a person dying of thirst in the desert. Even if you give him a bottle of urine, he is willing to buy it with a piece of gold. Therefore, in his opinion, it is extremely necessary to let the Iron Warriors attack the Hrud aliens."

Qin Xia frowned slightly and looked the iron man up and down.

An answer that could reasonably explain the doubts in his mind emerged in his mind, but he quickly rejected it.

After some further thought, he decided that this answer was the only explanation.

Finally, Qin Xia stroked his chin, continued to ponder, and slowly spoke: "You...you are another version of me? I know this may sound incredibly stupid, but I can't think of any other explanation."

The iron man also rubbed his chin and thought.

It's thinking about finding an excuse or something...

If Angron had been present, he would have noticed that the iron man had the same pensive posture as his adopted father.

Finally, Iron Man finished thinking: "I actually...actually I didn't mean to hide it from you, otherwise if I really pretended, you would definitely not be able to find out."

"Really?" Qin Xia was stunned. "What's going on? Are you me who traveled through time from a parallel universe?"

"It's a long story." The iron man walked to a low device and slowly sat down.

The equipment collapsed due to age, but the Iron Man managed to sit still, the mechanical joints behind his knees allowing his body to remain in a sitting position out of thin air.

"It all started with a bastard named Fabius Bile becoming an Emperor's Children Space Marine."

……

Half an hour passed.

The Iron Man has told his story.

"Then I will take those humans and drive the Invincible Firepower and the Super Transport away from the empire."

"We encountered the Hrud aliens. One of their tribes was about to migrate and they were in urgent need of supplies, so they asked us if we were merchants from the Empire."

"When they found out we were not, their fleet attacked us. Countless Hrud warriors rushed into the ship... Anyway, they either killed all the humans who followed me or took them back as slaves. The looting of the Invincible Transport and its supplies was the most insignificant loss in my opinion."

"Before the Iron Warriors and the Hrud went to war, I settled the Invincible Firepower and sneaked into a Hrud warship to go to Gugan."

Having said that, the iron man named Super Xiao Qin paused for more than ten seconds.

"Anyway...anyway, I saw the five people who were captured on Gugan Star."

"To be precise, there are five heads... with Hrud mouthparts inserted into them... they are held in their arms and sucked like bubble tea..."

"This is what happened to the more than a thousand people who followed me."

Super Xiao Qin stood up and paced back and forth in front of the original body.

"The one directing the looting was the alien you met."

"Later, I created a metal that could resist the entropy field. I used that metal to build an iron army and attacked Gu Gan Star and the World Ship again and again, just to kill him and avenge my followers."

Qin Xia nodded slowly and observed a moment of silence for the more than a thousand sailors who followed his copied consciousness.

"That's why I warned you not to trust them in those bastard tunnels."

Super Xiao Qin suddenly raised his voice.

"Yes, they have very low desire for expansion and have no other purpose except reproduction and survival. They can also communicate with them...but they are not white lotuses like the Inters aliens."

"You know, in ten thousand years, the Hrud will still be at war with the Empire because they need to migrate and obtain resources for survival. So the lack of expansion intentions does not mean that there is no threat."

"The Emperor instructed the Iron Warriors to attack the Hrud aliens just to obtain the time engine that is not applicable to humans. It is meaningless in your opinion. I also think that this is equivalent to digging gold in the desert to buy urine. It is indeed inappropriate, but that has nothing to do with me."

"Whatever you decide will not affect my goal of destroying the Hrud world. Even if you withdraw your troops in the end, I will make them pay the price."

When Super Xiao Qin said this and paused, he heard the original body's opinion on the Hrud alien.

"I estimate that Angron will communicate with the Hrud aliens and ask them to stay away from the human empire. If they are unwilling, then war will eventually break out." Qin Xia said, "Like you said, their lack of desire for expansion does not mean that there is no threat."

Super Xiao Qin nodded to indicate that he felt the same way.

Then Qin Xia began to think about the Iron Man version of himself.

From the conversation just now, he found that the replica consciousness had completely accepted the reality that it was a replica consciousness and was not entangled in philosophical issues such as existentialism. Otherwise, it would have gone crazy and collapsed when Bayer conducted experiments on it.

"I am just a copy of consciousness." This is Super Xiao Qin's attitude - it is completely in line with his own temperament.

"You really make me proud." Qin Xia said suddenly, "Even if you are a clone of a consciousness, you can turn yourself into an iron man and create an iron man army."

"Don't you see who I am a copy of?"

"Super Xiao Qin, this name is as cool as your battleship... I think you might want to entrust me with something, which is to beat up the old Chinese doctor when you go back. Bayer, that bastard, didn't die after you tore him apart. I saw him when I left the Ullanor system after the coronation ceremony."

"That's right. By the way, let that bastard Garland pay the price as well."

"Of course. If Garland hadn't given Bayer the chip reader, Bayer wouldn't have been able to do anything to you."

Qin Xia and Super Xiao Qin bumped fists.

"I have to go back to forge the engine." Qin Xia prepared to say goodbye.

"Give me a ride, the fuel in this boat is all used up, help me find a place to resupply." said Super Xiao Qin.

Qin Xia readily agreed. The Invincible Firepower was sent into the subspace, and the psychic torrent pushed the warship forward.

On the way, Qin Xia discussed some issues about "self" with the iron man version of himself.

For example, when did I develop the habit of stroking my chin while thinking? It was after I watched the movie "Steve Jobs in the Restaurant" in Jiu Zhuan Da Chang. I thought the way this guy lowered his head and supported his chin with his hand while thinking was very cool, so I got inspired.

For example, how did the simple and crude naming preference of Invincible xx and Super xx come about? It came from the period when I started a technology company before traveling through the Warhammer universe.

The company was suffering from "big company disease" at the time. After Qin Xia drove away the partner who had burned other people's money trees with him, he found that the partner had left behind a department that urgently needed to be deleted. The job of this department was to name the products.

At every meeting before the release of a new product, when that department wanted to demonstrate its own value and come up with amazing names, Qin Xia would veto all suggestions from the naming department and give the products he developed names like "Invincible Dialysis Implant".

Then it was what he saw when he first did it and then watched the first implant surgery that led to him forming the habit:

The famous surgeon in the medical field opened the cryogenic storage box with a pilgrimage-like mentality, and saw the amazing titanium metal creation looming in the white mist of liquid nitrogen, as well as the funny name branded on its surface. The doctor and all the bigwigs outside the operating room couldn't hold back... This made Qin Xia feel interesting.

Because he talked too much with the copied consciousness and physical energy, Qin Xia deliberately slowed down the speed of using psychic energy to propel the ship forward.

In the end, it took about four months in the real universe, but in reality only two weeks had passed before he arrived at the destination. After saying goodbye to Super Xiao Qin, he returned to the legion on the Kramo family battleship.

Before going to Angron to convey the message, Qin Xia wanted to do what he promised to Super Xiao Qin.

……

Medical room, flagship of the HMS Resolute.

Garland is conducting experiments on a batch of unused Hrud biological tissue.

While other pharmacists were disgusted by the disgusting biological tissue of the Hrud, Garlan had a perverted smile on his face, with his face only a few centimeters away from the biological tissue, and it looked like he wanted to eat the thing into his stomach.

"Chief Pharmacist." A think tank walked into the medical room, "The head of the think tank notified you to go to the arena."

Garland was a little confused, but still left the medical room.

In the arena, Garlan passed by the World Eaters Space Marines who were resolving conflicts through fighting, and came to the deepest area of ​​the arena.

The most respected flag bearer among the entire World Eaters, the most respected flag bearer of the Champions, was standing beside the venue holding the Champions' battle flag.

He would oversee a duel to resolve the conflict, according to the rules set by the Primarch.

Qin Xia was wearing only shorts and standing in front of the weapons rack.

He was searching for the soul projection of Fabius Bile in the subspace. After finding it, he projected his psychic energy and drove Fabius Bile, who was conducting research, to walk to the laboratory database and delete the data inside with one click.

After doing this, Qin Xia pulled out a chainsaw axe from the weapon rack and then came to Garland.

"I will supervise your duel." The flag bearer stuck the battle flag into the ground. "You will enter here with your conflicts, and you will leave them behind when you leave."

Garland was even more confused and looked at Qin Xia in bewilderment.

He didn't know why Qin Xia wanted to duel with him, nor did he know why Qin Xia didn't wear armor and wanted to duel with him with only a chainsaw axe.

According to the rules, psychic powers are not allowed in the arena.

The flag bearer next to him was the one with the worst temper and was the most stubborn. When Mago, the deputy commander of the Champion Regiment, accidentally broke the rules in his daily life, he would whip him directly, but he would not condone the violation just because the Lord of the White Knights was the adoptive father of the Primarch.

"Here." Qin Xia threw the chainsaw axe to Garland and fought with his bare hands.

Garland reached out and took it: "You..."

"You are Bayer's apprentice, right?" Qin Xia asked.

Garland nodded silently.

Qin Xia looked at the flag-bearing officer.

"Begin." The flag bearer ordered.

Qin Xia rushed to Garland in the blink of an eye, broke the seal on the neck of the armor with one punch, took off Garland's helmet with his left hand, and punched Garland in the face with his right hand.

Garland was just beginning to realize that he was ready for fighting when he was beaten to a pulp.

The chief pharmacist fell backwards, and as he was about to hit the ground, Qin Xia grabbed the protruding part of the armor on his neck, and then his fists rained down on Garland's face.

"You gave your mentor the equipment I used for pharmacists! Was that your personal property?"

Garland felt like he was being punched with every word he heard.

At first he wondered who had leaked the news that he had secretly given the equipment to Bayer, but after that he knew nothing.

Until Qin Xia beat Garland so hard that his skull was deformed and his face was blurred.

The flag bearer raised the battle flag: "The duel is over."

The pharmacist on standby nearby stepped forward to treat Garland's injuries.

When Garland regained consciousness, Qin Xia warned him: "From now on, you are forbidden to use the chip device. If the device is not returned by Bayer after the coronation ceremony, you will be executed."

After saying that, Qin Xia turned and left.

The flag-bearing officer who watched the whole process thought about it for a moment and figured out the whole thing.

He didn't understand what chip or device it was.

But he understood that Garlan took the Legion's property to give to the Emperor's Children pharmacists.

"Did the Emperor's Children Apothecary Bayer return the Legion's property after the coronation ceremony?" The flag bearer drew his sword.

"Returned..." Garland nodded.

"Chief Pharmacist Garland." The flag bearer stepped forward and untied the long whip with a plasma field attached from his waist. "You have violated Section 7399 of Part IV of the Legion's Regulations. I will execute three lashes on you according to Article 88 of the Flag Bearer's Duties. Do you have any objection?"

Garland shook his head.

The whip immediately hit Garland in the face.

There was no treatment for being beaten by a flag officer.

When Qin Xia put on his armor outside the arena and walked towards the command deck, he saw Garland being carried away on a stretcher.

(End of this chapter)