The Bizarre Adventures of Cloud Hammer

"You really can surprise me every time, Lord Daxter." Allen said. Luochen's every move broke his cognition.

"Practice more, you can do it too." Luo Chen knew that this kid's psychic power level was not low, and he had not yet fully developed his talent.

"That's easy to say."

Alan tried to analyze the spell. With his psychic power, there should be no problem in using it, but he couldn't do it as easily as Luochen, nor could he protect his allies or clean up the mess.

"Let's stop wasting time chatting and go find that Word Bearer. My spell won't hold him back for long."

When Luochen used his psychic power to lock onto the Dark Apostle, he also cast a binding spell at the Dark Apostle remotely. The spell wasn't very strong, but it should be able to trap the Dark Apostle for a while.

"If the traitor escapes, our trip will be in vain."

Deep in the drainage system, the dark apostle in the psychic room tried his best to break free from the binding spell on his body. Luochen's spell not only made him unable to move, but he couldn't even make a sound while being controlled, otherwise he would have asked someone to carry him away long ago.

"Who is that guy? What kind of psychic power is this..."

There are very few psychics in the entire galaxy who can use psychic energy to this extent, and Luochen's ability to chase along the "network cable" gives the Dark Apostle a familiar feeling.

"Whatever, let's leave first."

The Dark Apostle was about to call others to evacuate together. He walked out of the psychic room and found that there was no one else in the entire base except him. When the other Word Bearers found out that Luochen and others were coming to kill them, they chose to run away. Anyway, the goal had been achieved and there was no need to sacrifice themselves for the plan. The Dark Apostle had an urge to curse. These people ran away and took him with them in order to avoid entering the psychic room. But what he didn't know was that the other Word Bearers thought he had discovered something was wrong long ago and had gone in alone, so they didn't go into the psychic room to check.

As luck would have it, Luochen and the others had just blew up the psychically camouflaged outer wall of the base. They were all ready for a big battle with the Word Bearers, but when they came in, they saw that there was only one person standing there alone.

"It's that heretic!" The Tianshi priest recognized the Dark Apostle.

"Everyone, don't be anxious. The traitor dares to be here alone. He may have set a trap." Luo Chen asked everyone else to stay still. The Word Bearers were a rebel legion that was good at making trouble, and the Dark Apostles were the elite unit among the Word Bearers. Luo Chen had reason to believe that the Dark Apostles had prepared a big gift for them.

He immediately spread his psychic perception to the entire base, trying to find the mechanisms and traps set by the Dark Apostles, but he found nothing after a sweep. Could it be that they were hidden by some special means?

Unable to find it himself, Luochen asked Gloria for help:

"Gloria, what's this Dark Apostle's trick up his sleeve?"

"Really? I didn't find anything?"

"you sure?"

"Really? I didn't scan with one click this time."

Gloria scanned the area with the radar that was still being debugged. She did not find anything abnormal, whether in reality, the subspace, or various messy space cracks.

"Is this guy trying to use the empty city plan?" Luo Chen looked at the Dark Apostle. Since there was no danger, he had to show his true colors.

"Word Bearers, I didn't expect you to have the nerve to appear in the Empire."

The Dark Apostle was also thinking about how to escape at this time. He heard Luochen talking to him and thought that he probably had no chance of escape, so he decided to have a chat with this strange Astartes.

"Heh, why can't we show up? Can the Corpse King stop us?"

"Hey~ You Word Bearers just don't learn from your mistakes. Back in the Perfect City, tsk..."

"who are you?"

Luochen's words shocked the Dark Apostle. He didn't expect that the guy in front of him was also someone who had lived from that time to the present. But this was impossible. The Extreme Warriors who participated in the burning of the Perfect City could not be alive until now.

"I was going to ask you when you joined the Word Bearers, but it seems that's not necessary." Luo Chen thought that this dark apostle was a young Deng who joined the Word Bearers in 40k, but he didn't expect that he was actually an old Deng who had been there for thousands of years. This was interesting.

"I haven't finished yet. Back then, when the Emperor pinned you all to the ground, you looked like a stray dog with a broken leg. Even now, you haven't changed much."

The heavy pressure of psychic energy from Luochen forced the Dark Apostle to kneel directly on the ground, just like that day ten thousand years ago.

The Dark Apostle struggled to straighten up. He watched Luochen grab a handful of ashes from the ground, walk over, and sprinkle them directly on his face.

"This is your perfect city. You put so much effort into it, but it was not recognized by the Emperor. It was even burned down by the Ultramarines. Your Primarch and Legion are just like clowns."

Being taunted by Luochen right in the face, the Dark Apostle wanted to fight Luochen directly, but he couldn't even move his body.

There were no such psykers among the Ultramarines during the Great Crusade. Who was this guy? This level of psyker power, and the way he used it...

"Answer our questions honestly, and I might be able to give you a quick death." Luo Chen turned around and looked at the others. "Don't take what I said just now to heart. I was just trying to trick him."

"Alan, don't you have a question? Come over and ask."

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Warhammer joke:

The Warmaster must be Horus

Sanguinius is powerful and popular, and he deserves his reputation.

Guilliman has good command and the best management, which is not bad.

Although Zhuang Sen's First Legion suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Randan, its foundation is still there, which is understandable.

《What the hell, Angron? !!!》

Chapter 64 Substitute

Is it cool to give a thousand-year-old Word Bearer a good look?

It feels great, very great.

These scum of the world should have their wounds ripped open mercilessly, but Luochen was not so happy when he thought that this was just an ordinary Word Bearer. He originally wanted to beat all the Word Bearers here to their knees before performing this act, but in the end there was only one left.

The Dark Apostle was also constantly doing a process of elimination in his mind. The Perfect City incident, as a punishment from the Emperor to the Word Bearers, was not made public within the Imperium. The only people who knew about it were the core group of the Imperium during the Great Crusade and the two Astartes Legions involved in the incident. Even during the Heresy, this matter did not spread.

The guy in front of him couldn't be an Ultramarines, the Dark Apostle was sure of that.

The conversation between the two made the others feel uneasy. They were not quite sure what the Perfect City was, but when Luochen talked about it ten thousand years ago, they knew it clearly. It was probably another mess during the Great Expedition or the Great Rebellion.

And you say it's just cliché?

Tianshi might believe Luochen's lies, but Alan would never believe it. The Grey Knights are fighting against the demon army, not the traitor army. They have mastered a lot of secret knowledge, but they don't know everything.

Before asking Luochen, Alan still wanted to know some things from the Dark Apostle first.

"Tell me, what is your plan for coming here?"

"Oh~ I didn't expect that the Corpse King's lackeys have been tracking us for so long." The Dark Apostle was not surprised at all. It would be strange if their actions along the way did not attract the attention of the Inquisition, and this was also within their expectations.

"Since the Storm Star Region, the Inquisition has been targeting traitors like you."

"Storm Star Region? You must have made a mistake. My troops have been in the Taiping Star Region since the beginning."

The Word Bearers' destination after leaving the Eye of Terror had been the Pacific Segmentum from the very beginning. To avoid detection by the Imperial Army, they even expended an artifact to perform a Warp jump. They eventually arrived in the Pacific Segmentum, though a bit short of their intended location. "Not you?" Now it was Alan's turn to wonder. The Word Bearers had been in the Pacific Segmentum from the start, so who was in the Tempest Segmentum?

The Dark Apostle suddenly remembered something. It seemed like those guys came from the Storm Star Region, right? I knew it would be bad luck if I ran into them!

"What's left in the Storm Star Region is exactly the same as yours. If it's not you, then it can only be your accomplices, the Blasphemy Blade War Gang." All the information Alan collected pointed to the traitors on Isil, and now it has been confirmed that there are two Chaos War Gangs, either the Word Bearers or the other one.

"The Blaspheming Blade? Hahaha - maybe they really did it." The Dark Apostle smiled on the surface, but he was very annoyed in his heart. It was really unlucky to meet that group of guys.

"I see. I have nothing more to know. I leave the rest to you, my lord."

"Don't you want to know more? About the Blasphemy Blade?"

"All I need to know is that the traitors are on this planet, and we've already found their tracks."

The trace Allen was referring to was the Night Lord that Eryu had killed, but the Dark Apostle sounded like something else.

Were those guys discovered?

The Dark Apostle was a little panicked. Those guys had been discovered even though they were hiding so deeply. They were...

"They were the ones who killed the Black Templars in the Lower Nest a few days ago."

Alan's additional words made the Dark Apostle breathe a sigh of relief. It turned out to be the Scarlet Blood Blade. He almost thought that the 'Profane Blade' had been discovered.

"Yes, it's them." The Dark Apostle continued what Allen said, letting these idiots continue to misunderstand. Then the 'Profane Blade' will give the Corpse King's lackeys a surprise.

While Allen was talking to the Dark Apostle, Luochen ordered the Grey Knights and the Celestial Lions to search the entire base. However, the base was too clean, and the team only found some invalid magic arrays and the bodies of several Celestial Lions warriors who had been used for some experiments.

It is impossible to find any clues of the traitor's plan in this base, so Luochen still has to pry the information out of the dark apostle.

"What is your plan? What are those stone pillars used for?"

"Do you think I will tell you?" The Dark Apostle had just been humiliated by Luochen, so it would be a miracle if he would give a good face.

"I think so too, so I won't waste my time talking to you." Luochen held the Dark Apostle's head. "I think you should know what I'm going to do next, right?"

"You want to read my memory?"

"bingo."

Mind reading can be said to be a common method used by psychics, but this spell is not as easy to use as imagined. If you have not received professional training, you may endanger yourself. The enemy will also use various means to counter mind reading. People with strong will can also resist this kind of spell.

Alan didn't read the Dark Apostle's mind directly because he hadn't mastered this skill yet. It was okay for him to use it on ordinary mortal heretics, but he didn't dare to mess around with Chaos Astartes like the Dark Apostle. Once he was countered, he might become a boy with an exploded brain.

But powerful psychics like Luochen who have all-round vision have nothing to worry about.

"You can't do that. No one can touch my memory."

“Who knows if you don’t try~”

Luochen's psychic energy began to invade the Dark Apostle's brain. The defense that the Dark Apostle had imposed on his brain collapsed in an instant, and soon Luochen penetrated deep into the Dark Apostle's memory.

"Is this guy a dark apostle?"

By searching his memory, Luo Chen learned the identity of the person carrying the words in front of him.

Dark Apostles were priests in the Word Bearers during the Great Crusade. They were the predecessors of the position of Astartes priests. Due to the religious atmosphere of the Word Bearers, priests had an extremely high status in the legion, and only a few people could hold the position.

After the Heresy, the Word Bearers who surrendered to Chaos renamed their priests Dark Apostles. The eight most powerful Dark Apostles (High-ranking Dark Apostles) formed the ruling body of the Word Bearers Legion - the Dark Council. New Dark Apostles were appointed by the Dark Council. (Among them were Erebus and Kor Phaeron)

Every Dark Apostle is highly regarded in the Word Bearers Legion, and each has a unit under his command. If a Dark Apostle dies prematurely, the Word Bearers Legion will consider it a huge loss and will hold ceremonies for several weeks to commemorate it.

Luo Chen totally didn't believe that the guy in front of him was a Dark Apostle. His equipment looked no different from that of an ordinary Word Bearer. He didn't have the Scepter of Blasphemy used by the Dark Apostles, and there wasn't even a Dark Disciple around him. Given the Dark Apostle's status in the Word Bearers, how could he not have even a single guard?

"Something's not right."

Luo Chen continued to look through the memories of the 'Dark Apostle'. He found that this person's memories were all in a mess. There was very little useful information in them, and there were many contradictions, as if they were forced in by someone.

It wasn't until he entered the deepest part of his memory that Luo Chen discovered the truth. He let go of his hand and cursed:

"What a waste of time! This guy is just a stand-in."

The 'Dark Apostle' in front of him is nothing more than a substitute created by the real Dark Apostle. Through brainwashing and hypnosis, he is made to believe that he is the Dark Apostle. The real body uses this method to control the plan on Isil. In critical moments, he can also use special means to transfer souls and take over other bodies. He is worthy of being a Dark Apostle, he is really good at it.

"I told you that you can't touch my memory." The Dark Apostle said after coming back to his senses from reading his memory.

"The memories of a stand-in really aren't that interesting."

"Substitute? What substitute?" The 'Dark Apostle' did not realize that he was just a substitute.

Luochen was too lazy to talk. He began to organize the few useful information he had obtained from the "Dark Apostle's" mind.

The Word Bearers' warband, known as the Sufferers, is preparing a planet-scale Chaos ritual on Ysil. The purpose of this ritual remains unknown, and the stone pillars that contain the Daemon Hosts are the energy source for the ritual. The Khorne warband collaborating with them is known as the Crimson Blades. Crimson Blades!? Isn't that Blades of Bladeless?

Luochen wanted to pass this news back to the people of Yunchui, but the Dark Apostle suddenly said:

"I know who you are."

The side effects of forced memory reading made the 'Dark Apostle' feel a little dizzy, which made him guess Luochen's identity in a trance.

After the events of the Perfect City, Lorgar went to find a Primarch brother. He told the brother about the Perfect City and discussed the definition of God with the brother.

That Primarch was called Magnus.

No wonder I felt a strange sense of familiarity before. If it was Qianzi, everything would make sense.

"I can't believe it! Even though the Legion and its Primarch were treated like that, there are still Thousand Sons who would choose to become slaves of the Corpse King. Shouldn't you be on our side?!"

The Dark Apostle's words left Allen and Tianshi unable to react for a moment. They were shocked by the news that a Grey Knight could actually be a member of the Rebel Legion. Everyone's eyes were focused on Luochen, and they wanted to know if this was true.

Not only the others, but even Luochen himself didn't react. How did this Word Bearer recognize him as a Thousand Son?

Feeling the eyes focused on him, Luochen felt a little panicked, but he immediately calmed down. What was there to be afraid of? As long as the skin of the Grey Knight was not stripped off, how could others still suspect that he was a traitor?

After organizing his thoughts, Luochen said calmly:

"I know what happened back then far better than you do. It was Magnus's willful actions that led to the tragedy of the Thousand Sons. His mistakes cannot be undone even by the demise of the Thousand Sons, and I cannot make the same mistake again."

"The one who is wrong is that lying corpse king, not us!"

"That's just your conceit, Word Bearers. In a sense, Lorgar and Magnus are indeed the same kind of people. Neither of them can recognize the mistakes they have made."

"Self-righteous? If we are self-righteous, then what is the Corpse King?"

The 'Dark Apostle' continued his nonsense, but Luochen didn't want to listen to this nonsense anymore. There was no useful information at all, and it was a waste of time to listen to it.

"If you say so, then so be it. I'll find your real body to have a good chat with you later. Goodbye."