Warhammer 40 A New Hope

"I've been putting up with you for so long. You think you're a big shot sitting in a high-tech wheelchair, don't you?!" The metal brick in Zhang Yi's hand was still dripping with blood. "You can't walk?!"

Afterwards, Zhang Yi looked at the [Prophet of Truth] who also had a dejected look on his face, walked up to him, and gently tapped his head with the [Gold Brick for Immortals] in his hand.

"Is there anything you want to say?"

"If you don't have it, I'll do it."

"Don't worry, I'll hit him with my horn this time, and he'll die in one blow."

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【All Covenant fleets and soldiers】

[This is the [Prophet of Mercy], the [Prophet of Truth] and the [Prophet of Sorrow] are dead. I am here on behalf of the Star Alliance to surrender to the Human Empire and the UNSC Human Government]

[All soldiers immediately gave up resistance, and the ship stopped in the original area and was quarantined]

[We, in our ignorance, released the former forerunners’ great enemy, the Flood. In order to prevent it from spreading throughout the galaxy again, we will need to accept the supervision of the human empire.]

[The forerunners never protected us, and it is not us who should inherit their legacy]

[The Star Alliance was formed from a scam, and now the lie has been exposed]

【It's all over】

572. Oh no! Your Majesty was dragged away by the demi-humans!

The final madness of the Covenant was ended. After confirming the bodies of the Prophet of Truth and the Prophet of Sorrow, and hearing the words of the only remaining Prophet of Sorrow, most of the Covenant fleets and soldiers obeyed the order, isolated in place and waiting for the arrival of the people of the Human Empire.

However, there were still a considerable number of Covenant forces that refused to listen to the words of the Prophet of Regret. Some of them did not accept the fact that they had lost to humans, while others were afraid of the Flood - just like those people who were infected with the plague and ran around because of fear.

Fortunately, there were not many such people, and they were still within the control range of the Human Empire fleet that surrounded them. After the ships of a few rebellious birds were turned into garbage in space, the disobedient people basically quieted down.

A small problem of the Human Empire in the Halo world has been solved, but the big problem (the Flood) caused by this small problem will still take a long time to deal with.

The reappearance of the Tomb Kings troops, due to their unique existence, rendered the greatest weapon of the Flood, a terrifying and horrifying existence, useless. No matter whether it is the ordinary Undead troops as basic soldiers or the high-level construct troops, they do not have normal biological structures and mechanical circuits, which makes it impossible for the Flood to infect these existences.

How do you infect a bunch of dried meat and skeletons? How do you control a magically controlled construct?

The army led by Emperor Settra himself also proved that the human empire's suppression of him was correct. In just a short period of time, he led his team to draw a new quarantine zone, and even killed a Covenant ship that tried to escape, overturned all the resistance, and took control of the entire ship - and this was when they were fighting in other worlds and had debuffs on them!

Despite the intervention of the Human Empire, Settra's legions have not yet completed the replacement of all their equipment, and have not yet become fully familiar with the new way of fighting. But even in this situation, the Tomb Kings' troops still showed explosive combat effectiveness when they first faced the Covenant forces.

This was something Zhang Yi and the others had not expected, but it was precisely because of this that Zhang Yi decided to entrust the task of annihilating the Corpse Brain Beast to Setra and his troops.

The problem of 05 halo has been solved temporarily. Unless there are no accidents, the next step will be just a matter of time.

On the UNSC side, because Zhang Yi claimed to be an "ancient human", they once again fell into chaos and disputes, especially after they learned about the history of mankind.

The top leaders of the UNSC human government were divided into two factions. One faction was extremely hostile to the human empire led by Zhang Yi. They believed that the return of their ancestors would bring about huge turmoil and affect the stability of the current human society (they were also unwilling to give up the power in their hands). The other faction was in a frenzy, especially when they confirmed those battle records that seemed to be magical performances. The idea of ​​​​"returning to one's roots" became even more urgent (of course, there would definitely be people who had second thoughts among them).

But no matter what, the cooperation between UNSC and the Human Empire has to continue at this stage, but in this cooperation, the Human Empire has more room for maneuver (after all, from a genetic point of view, there is nothing wrong with Zhang Yi being an ancient human).

What happens next in the Halo world has little to do with Zhang Yi. The remaining problems will be handled by a group of professionals led by Guilliman. He only needs to open the door and send some things over - in theory.

Ringworld and Halo, two worlds with vast explorable space, are enough for the Human Empire to explore and discover for a long time, and the technologies discovered can greatly enhance the strength of the Human Empire.

Therefore, the great expedition to the other world has temporarily ended. It will take some time for the human empire to digest and absorb the harvest, but various small-scale exploration activities are still continuing.

But for Zhang Yi, he can also take a break.

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Planet C01 - the new home planet of the Star Knights

After this period of construction and development, a Space Marine fortress of initial scale has appeared in the original residence of the [Star Knights]. Originally there were only a single-digit number of members, but now there are dozens of people.

During this period of transfer, the entire planet's population has been concentrated near the [White Snow City] and the Space Marines' fortress. As the first planet discovered and landed by the Human Empire, even if it has not become the main development target, its development is very good.

[What are you doing, recruits?! You can't survive even a minute on the battlefield with this level!]

After a lot of experimental modifications, the fearless elder Thad in the [Astral Knights] regiment was able to stay awake for a longer period of time, and the pain he suffered in the Dreadnought was greatly reduced.

On the other hand, the Adeptus Mechanicus has begun researching how to repair the bodies of those veterans who were put into the Dreadnoughts for various reasons, so that they can continue to go to the battlefield and fight for the Empire with their own energy.

(Zhang Yi: Why does it feel like I’m being squeezed repeatedly...)

As the oldest warrior in the [Astral Knights] regiment, he who can stay awake for long periods of time chooses to become the instructor of the new recruits, training them with the most rigorous methods.

After Thad, as the Chapter Master, completely let go of himself, Lorac took over the duties of the fearless veteran and handled various documents for the entire [Astral Knights] Chapter (in fact, he was the one who handled it before, because you can't expect a fearless veteran who is often unconscious to sign anything).

As the first Space Marine chapter with its home planet on an alien world, and also the first to publicly disclose the existence of sub-humans within its ranks, Loraq has to deal with a lot of incidents.

In addition to various events related to the development of the chapter, there are also various investigation reports from the New State Religion and the New Inquisition. After all, the Human Empire has excluded sub-races for so long that it is unrealistic to change it. What's more, not all sub-races are kind to humans.

Just recently, the [Astral Knights] regiment raided a blood-sucking sub-human breeding farm in a nearby galaxy. The entire farm was very strange. After they successfully destroyed it and set the entire farm on fire, the obvious smell of barbecue and burnt protein could be smelled nearby for dozens of days.

The emergence of this situation gave the New Inquisition an advantage. Although given the current situation, they could not prevent the sub-humans from joining the Human Empire, they also used this opportunity to further tighten the process.

But this is not Lorak's biggest headache. His biggest headache is... the knocking beast.

After Zhang Yi reached an agreement with the planet's herd of knocking beasts, the number of knocking beasts living in the forest near the [Star Knights] regiment increased. In order to make the best use of resources, they also wanted to try to tame the knocking beasts and send them to the battlefield.

This attempt was not smooth. Although most of the knock beasts are relatively docile, there are some more aggressive individuals among them. But being aggressive also means that they have a bad temper. The first step to tame them is to make them obey you.

As "nature's masterpiece", the Percussion Beasts are fully capable of destroying some small colonies with low technological levels on their own. In addition, in order to be able to adapt to the variable and high-level battles in the future, the Percussion Beasts that Lorak and his men found are all very powerful - some of them can even fight against Space Marines alone.

Therefore, the taming process is relatively slow. After all, let alone new recruits, even veterans may not be able to defeat a knocking beast if the opponent (the knocking beast) has psychic powers.

And this is just one of the reasons why Lorak has a headache. There is another reason...

At this time, Kai, a native of the Ring World who had successfully become a Space Marine recruit (a savage boy who hunted the mechanical race alone), walked in to report on his daily patrol.

"'He' was carried out by the leader of the knocking beast."

"... (holding his forehead)..."

...Outside...

"I told you, your daughter dragged me away. I came here that day for other things."

Suck it repeatedly!

"That's unreasonable, isn't it? What do you mean by 'a long-term meal ticket full of wolfish ambitions'?!"

puff!

"Hey, you're still scolding me? I...don't drag me down, I'm going to break off this old man's horn today!"

Zhang Yi was dragged away by two Space Marines, and the knocking beast that sprayed him in the face was pushed back by several of its own kind around him.

Seeing this, Acting Chapter Master Lorak seemed to see a ship of Inquisitors on the way.

"...what is this...?"

573. A strong man sends you a wrestling application

"Starting with the Empire's occupied Shining World [Remnant Star] as the center, small-scale and batch-by-batch exploration and occupation of other planets are being carried out. Because of the siege long ago and the characteristics of this remote space, there are no difficult worlds around, and those that exist have been consumed before."

"I moved the Phalanx here before. Now the center of the human empire in the ring world is completely placed on the Glittering World, and the construction plan has also been replanned."

"The special psychic creatures that we encountered before, which can influence and control the natural environment and animal populations on the planet, need to be classified according to their attitudes towards humans and approached with different attitudes. This kind of existence is still very helpful to the development of the empire, and..."

"..."

"Listen to me, don't look at the slap marks on my face." Zhang Yi said to Lorak of the [Star Knights] regiment in front of him. "Did the Emperor hit you?"

"... (No, I'm not envious)..."

"According to Guilliman and his men, although the Astral Knights Chapter has only completed two recruitments, and the number of available Space Marines in the entire Chapter is only four squads, with a few dozen people, in order to speed up the construction of the new human empire, blah blah..."

"I will send the battle barge belonging to the Star Knights Chapter over here soon. The people on board will tell you the specific mission after you arrive at the Shining World of Broken Star."

"Be prepared, Acting Chapter Master Lorak."

"We are ready to sacrifice for the Empire!"

"It's not that serious. I just want you to be prepared and confirm who will stay and who will go out." Zhang Yi said, and then checked the time. "It's almost time. I promised to take Sophia out to play."

"The rest is up to you~"

Looking at Zhang Yi waving and walking out of the room, Lorak, who was originally full of enthusiasm for the upcoming mission and ready to sacrifice himself for the empire at any time, suddenly felt his "blood" cool down again.

"...Another report to write..." Lorak had a headache, and then looked at Kai, the new recruit who had been standing next to him without saying anything. "Are you interested in becoming the acting chapter leader?"

"You know me, Chapter Master. I don't even know all of High Gothic yet."

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It turns out that people with a personality like Sophia really do what they say.

After saying that she would choose Zhang Yi as her husband when she was in heat, she really did it - as soon as she confirmed that Zhang Yi had returned to Planet C01 in the Ring World, she found Zhang Yi and dragged him away - Lorak watched him being dragged away, and at that time he didn't know whether he should stop it (it would be wrong whether to stop it or not).

What happened afterwards was a natural outcome. Animals in estrus are usually extremely energetic, but fortunately Zhang Yi had the help of the Four Gods and did not "fall into a disadvantage" ((*/ω＼*)).

Then he was picked out by the leader of the Striking Beasts, and the [Astral Knight] dragged him away to deal with necessary matters.

Now the empire as a whole is in another "digestion stage", and there are not many things that need Zhang Yi to deal with (even if there are things, they are not handled by him), so Zhang Yi will take Sophia to different places to play in the future.

"Hello, Sister Snake/Sister Hard~"

As a knocking beast girl, Sophia's personal understanding and opinions are relatively different from those of humans, just like she doesn't care about the existence of Zero and Gorgon at all, and said that for an "excellent" male like Zhang Yi, he has too few mates.

“I have several mothers.”

This is not a problem. After all, based on the intelligence obtained from the exploration of various planets in the Ring World for so long, this kind of thing is not uncommon - not to mention the sub-humans, some humans have relatively "unique" concepts.

However, it is precisely because Sophia’s views on this matter are different from those of ordinary people that this leads to...

"(Looking at Black and the others) Is this cat sister also from your 'clan'?"

Although Sophia's words were rather 'subtle', Black, a Ferner who had also worked her way up from the bottom, knew exactly what Sophia meant - in her hometown, [Kun Shouzhou], some people also called their harem groups that way.

"No... Don't be like that..."

"Don't you like them? But your pink circle is so bright~"

"(Looking at his left hand) Get out! Get out! Get out! Your brain is full of yellow crap, right?!"

(Slaanesh: If you want to see something else, I have it too~)

Zhang Yi spent a lot of time dealing with this matter, and later, Ruby and the other three talked about it again. As the eldest daughter, White said that her sister and General James Ironwood had thought about obtaining more support from the Human Empire through certain means, but her sister did not agree.

Black's mother asked her openly what she thought of Zhang Yi. After all, the Human Empire had helped the Beast Continent and the Funa people a lot, and compared to the cold Necrons, humans like Zhang Yi looked more comfortable (his father didn't like any of them).

The sisters Yang and Ruby didn't think too much about it. It was too early for them to think about this. Their hunting career had just begun, but they didn't hate Zhang Yi.

"But then again, Qiang, who is in the same grade as us, is engaged to Pyrrha."

"Is this true? They haven't been together for a few years."

"It's true. Qiang's sisters all came to celebrate. That's when I realized he had so many sisters..."

． ． ． A new world ． ． ．

A white portal appeared in the snow and ice, and a whole team of Pathfinder Space Marines walked out of the portal, with Zhang Yi at the end.

"Is it usually this cold here?" Zhang Yi asked, looking at the snowflakes falling from the sky.

"From a geographical point of view, this place is close to the North Pole, so it should have a cold tundra climate. This kind of climate is normal all year round." Sabel (a furry wolf controller) from the Pathfinder regiment answered.

"Is the topography of this world the same as the one we know?"

"The author didn't say how I knew that, but at least he used that side of the story."

In the ice and snow, Zhang Yi and five Space Marines from the Pathfinder began to walk towards the camp that had been set up earlier.

Those who had been stationed here in advance were the Kislevites who had already surrendered to the Empire and the Valhalla Ice Guards who were good at fighting in the snow and ice. Their lives and habits were very similar to those of the indigenous people living in this area of ​​the world.

In order to hide themselves to the greatest extent and avoid the eyes and ears of the rulers of this area, they would use the most primitive way to live on this land most of the time. Because of their familiar habits and environment, they were very accustomed to it.

Of course, their seemingly primitive and simple camp is not just what it seems on the surface. There are quite a lot of imperial technologies and creations hidden in it, but they are not usually used or revealed.

After all, when they came to this world to carry out the initial construction, stationing and observation tasks, they had been clearly told what the situation was here and what kind of characters those in power and controllers were like. They also knew that it was best not to attract the attention of that one-eyed madman - although they felt that they might be able to kill the old bastard if they fought to the death.

Soon Zhang Yi and the Pathfinders found the camp established in this world and successfully contacted the camp manager.

"We have successfully settled down in this world, and we have roughly found the location of the barrier." The Valhalla Ice Guard officer in charge of the camp reported to Zhang Yi. "It seems that the barrier is still closed. We followed your order and just confirmed the location. We will not approach that area anymore."

"You're right. Don't interfere too much with the God of Killing's 'old age'. After all, if he really gets angry, all of us combined won't be enough for him to kill." Zhang Yi replied, and then looked at Kerr, the commander of the regiment. "Hold Wu Mo's dog Shengzi. If he rushes out, there's a 80% chance that he will get stressed out, and by then it's estimated that the bodies won't be able to be put together."

"Isn't that an exaggeration?" Kerr said. "Didn't he say his temper has improved a lot?"

"Just because his temper has improved a lot doesn't mean he has no temper. He hasn't completely walked out of the shadow of the past yet." Zhang Yi replied. "Do you want to try out his new weapon to see if it's sharp?"