Warhammer 40 A New Hope

Only he himself knew whether he did this for the empire and the planet, or for himself, or both. This matter was not known to the upper-level officials. Considering that they had just finished a party, perhaps even if they knew about it they would not pay attention.

And somewhere at the bottom, Archaon, the former Chosen of the Four Gods, sat on a metal chair, surrounded by solemn men in armor. These were his loyal subordinates whom Archaon had found from various planets.

A bottle of dreamy liquid was placed in front of Archaon. Archaon looked at it, then cast his gaze on the other side, which looked very ordinary and even a little inferior.

thump--!

At this moment, a person was thrown in front of him. Even though he was thrown very hard and even bled, this person did not react at all. He just groaned and twisted on the ground, as if he was immersed in a psychedelic dream and could not extricate himself.

Bear--!

Ahhhhh——!

When black flames burned on the man's body, he finally realized the problem. He began to wail in pain and rolled on the ground trying to put out the flames.

A few minutes later, a charred body lay on the ground, motionless, and no one around reacted.

"I will know what you want to do..." Archaon murmured as he looked at the entity in front of him. "I will destroy your plan..."

"I will make you pay the price!"

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The destroyer, moving at full speed, slammed head-on into the battle barge of the Defiler Nurgle Space Marine warband, and the flames of the explosion rose in the dark universe.

The Defiled Nurgle Space Marine warband, whose raid was interrupted, began to retreat. This was the third Nurgle Space Marine warband that attempted to attack a nearby planet.

Since it was confirmed that the goddess Elsa, the beloved father of Nurgle, was nearby, just as Zhang Yi and his men had expected, the hidden Nurgle troops began to attack this area in batches.

Among them there are also a small number of Eldar zombies infected with the new plague. It can be basically confirmed that Zhang Yi and his team's plan to change from passive to active was successful.

But what comes after this is where a lot of energy needs to be invested. Nurgle's troops did not follow what Zhang Yi and his companions said and thought, and directly rush into the fortress planet that was carefully prepared for them. Instead, they first tried to infect and control other planets near this planet, and then erode this planet that was like an iron wall.

This situation was also expected by Zhang Yi and others. The Imperial Navy fleet that was deployed in advance successfully intercepted the enemy fleet that appeared nearby and resisted the first wave of attacks.

The human empire fleet in the nearby star region also began to support this star region. The scale of this battle was expanding as the number of participating troops increased.

"We must strengthen the defense of this planet. It is a node connecting nearby star regions. Once it is controlled by the enemy, our subsequent support will not be guaranteed."

"Let the supporting troops go to the planet I marked. It is the planet where we mainly supply materials and personnel. Nothing can go wrong there."

"Continue to strengthen the offensive, both on the planet's surface and in its orbit, and at the same time, do not let down your guard against the plague."

Sanguinius, the Primarch of the Blood Angels Legion, is currently arranging anti-pollution matters for the entire area as the commander-in-chief. Now that Zhang Yi's plan has been successful, they need to make it achieve better results.

As mentioned before, Nurgle's forces were not stupid enough to directly crash into the fortress planet, but they also did not do as they imagined, the worst possible thing, to slowly consume their enemies with the utmost patience while accumulating their own strength.

Aisha is the ultimate target of Nurgle's operation this time, and this virus was created to find her, so even though he knew it was a trap, he could only rush in here.

The current situation is not very favorable for Sanguinius and others. Although relying on Zhang Yi's plan, they forced the other side to enter a battlefield that is favorable to the Human Empire, the whereabouts of the other side's large forces are still unclear.

"My father." At this time, a captain of the Blood Angels came in and reported to Sanguinius. "The ship you need is already in place."

In the high-altitude orbit of the planet Aduk Fortress, a ship that is completely different in style from the ships of the Human Empire is docked in the planet's orbit.

[The Long Night] is a super aircraft carrier, which originally belonged to the Covenant in the "Halo" world. In the previous battle, it was captured by the Human Empire through a boarding battle and became a trophy of mankind.

After a long period of research and transformation, at the request of Sanguinius, this precious super aircraft carrier, which is of the same level as the Human Empire's [Glorious Queen-class] battleship, arrived at the front line.

Derived from ancient Forerunner technology, this ship is capable of faster-than-light travel, and its hull and armor are also capable of self-repair to a certain extent.

In addition, the ship can bypass the defense facilities and fleets in the planet's orbit and jump directly into the planet's atmosphere, causing devastating damage to enemies on the ground and supporting its own troops.

This kind of technology is extremely valuable, and the people of the Mechanicus have not yet fully studied it. If they had not defeated the Stargate before and captured a large number of ships of the same level, the super aircraft carrier Sanguinius might not have been handed over so readily.

"I'll deliver the ship to you, what's next?" Zhang Yi came to Sanguinius and asked. "When I took the ship, the oil guys kept saying that many parts of the ship had not been modified, and the firepower was a bit weak, and it was completely inferior to the [Glorious Queen] battleship of the same size. Why do you want this ship?"

“This is my plan

"It is part of the plan," Sanguinius began. "And now..."

"I need you to give Nurgle some green hats."

"what?"

684. Go crazy in Nurgle's minefield

The relationship between Nurgle and Aisha can be traced back to the period of [Fall of the Eldar].

The Eldar's unbridled enjoyment led to the birth of Slaanesh Shalish in this universe. The scream at his/her birth almost killed all the Eldar.

Afterwards, this new Eldar god began to challenge the original Eldar gods. There is basically no detailed description of this part. Slaanesh had an almost overwhelming advantage over the original Eldar gods, with two exceptions.

One is the well-known one. After a long ideological struggle, the Eldar God of War Cain finally decided to accept the challenge of Slaanesh - and then he died in the aftermath of the battle between Khorne and Slaanesh (there is also a saying that when Khorne rushed in to fight Slaanesh, he slapped Cain to pieces).

Then, when Slaanesh was about to feast on the goddess of life, Aisha, Nurgle rushed over and rescued Aisha.

(It seems that none of the Eldar gods can fight Slaanesh. The obstacles in Slaanesh's battle against the Eldar gods all come from other Chaos gods)

Perhaps because they are both gods of life, Nurgle saved Elsa and then imprisoned her in his own garden. The fat green man allowed Elsa to stroll in his garden but did not allow her to go out. This may be to protect her, or it may just be to imprison her.

Everyone is familiar with what happened afterwards. Goddess Elsa was forced to eat "shit" for more than 10,000 years, and then she had to treat herself according to the symptoms caused by this "shit"... It's no wonder that Zhang Yi suspected that she had bad breath at the time.

Aisha is very important to Nurgle. This can be seen from the fact that Nurgle, who has always been "honest and dutiful" and unwilling to move, rushed out to save Aisha from Slaanesh, and from his reaction when Zhang Yi and others rescued Aisha.

Although Nurgle's feelings for Elsa should not be love or something, there is no doubt that Nurgle has feelings for Elsa (which ordinary people cannot understand or explain), so...

Now tell this fat guy that someone is kissing, hugging and lifting Aisha up high, how will he react?

I can already imagine this 'honest man' picking up his soup spoon and hitting someone...

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"Let me check it one last time." Zhang Yi glanced at the task list in his hand, then looked at Sanguinius in front of him. "You want me to take a foreign god with me at this critical moment, who would be crushed to ashes under normal circumstances, and who would be slapped by the old man if I stood with her, to... 'show affection'?!"

"Father agreed." Saint-Jale continued to smile. "This is part of the plan."

"...Have you been reading The Three-Body Problem recently?"

"I finished reading that book a while ago. I'm reading The Wandering Earth now."

"Is this the point?!"

"Don't you like... monster girls? This is perfect."

"You and I both know what the spirit race is like. If she were just an elf, I would be happy to accept her, but..."

"To be honest, based on what I know about this world, it's hard for me to feel anything towards this 'goddess of tears'."

"But didn't you feel something for the incarnation of the Prince of Darkness before?"

"...If you cut it open, it's black, right?" Zhang Yi looked as if he had seen a ghost. "Are you really planning to have me enter into a political marriage?"

"If you succeed, Guilliman may follow."

"...You know too much."

"Your previous actions have left a deep impression on the goddess, so this is something that only you can do," Sanguinius continued. "Your mission is to anger the Lord of Plague as much as possible and disrupt all his original plans, so as to resolve the new plague problem we are facing now."

"Last time, your plan to disguise yourself as a demon from another faction and divert its attention to other evil gods was very successful. It also proves that the Lord of Plague values ​​the Eldar goddess more than we imagined. Now we need to repeat that plan."

"I understand the reason, but... it still feels weird..."

"Besides, aren't you asking me to attract firepower..."

"Look at the bright side, you can slack off without any guilt while we are all working hard."

"No, who did you learn this from? Didn't I teach you?"

"I'm not an old-fashioned person."

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Zhang Yi, who accepted the mission, was escorted by a small mixed fleet of the Eldar and the Human Empire to a nearby agricultural planet.

Based on Zhang Yi's understanding of most of the elves, it would be better to take them to a planet with some natural scenery than to those prosperous imperial steel forests.

With the authority Aisha once had, it is impossible for him to like the steel forest far away from nature. As for you saying that many humans are also considered life? They are not the elves, so what does having many humans have to do with her?

And even if Zhang Yi chose a planet that Aisha might like as a place to show their love, there is a great possibility that this goddess does not like it here.

The reason is very simple. Although the agricultural planets under the Human Empire can produce as much as possible to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of people,

Food, will use a lot of fertilizers or other things that can promote the growth of plants and increase food output, these things are often very effective, tens of thousands of grains are transported out from here, but...

Think about how in Night City, in order to maximize the meat and milk yields of cattle and sheep, they are confined in a small square, blindfolded, and have thick feeding tubes inserted into their mouths, so that they will never know the scenery outside, the taste of grass, or what freedom feels like. In Aisha's eyes, what the human empire does to this land and plants in order to obtain the most food is the same as the above-mentioned captive cattle and sheep.

This was indeed the case. When Zhang Yi brought Aisha to a place with a pretty good environment, the goddess looked a little... scared.

This is a private garden specially built by the governor of this planet. Every plant here is carefully cultivated, and their styles and forms are carefully standardized and trimmed by Ye Shi. All of this is just to make the governor of the planet feel comfortable.

As the goddess of life of the elves, she naturally felt this. She felt that the plants had no freedom or self, and only grew and existed for the will of others. This made her feel a little scared.

Does it sound a bit hypocritical? The Savage Eldar among the Eldar would also do this, and it is understandable that intelligent creatures do this for survival, but it is a little different for Aisha who can feel more.

Being able to feel the existence of life around her at a deeper level was one of the reasons why she felt a little uncomfortable. Another reason was that this place reminded her of her days in Nurgle's Garden.

A unique presence in the vibrant but corrupted Garden of Nurgle, she is allowed to walk freely in the Garden and to transform it with her own power, simply because Nurgle likes to do so.

For Nurgle, Aisha is not only a good test subject for the virus effect, but also a good decoration, adding some different scenery to Nurgle's garden.

Elsa can turn what she sees back to normal, and after successfully curing herself, she can tell someone in the real world how to cure this new type of Nurgle plague. She can do this only because Nurgle allows her to do so.

Nurgle saved Aisha from being toyed with and devoured by Slaanesh, but as a price she would need to stay with her loving father forever and have a garden that she could not leave without Nurgle.

Feeling this, tears appeared in Aisha's eyes again, and under the watchful eyes of the accompanying Eldar soldiers, she slowly approached Zhang Yi, while Zhang Yi also silently kept a distance from her as before.

So the two of them began to circle in a range. Aisha was always some distance away from Zhang Yi and could not catch him no matter what.

“Why are you running!”

"Then don't come over here!"

Perhaps because Zhang Yi's voice was a little loud, tears in Goddess Elsa's eyes were about to burst out.

"Hold it back! What else can you do besides crying? It's embarrassing!"

Seeing Zhang Yi being so rude to their goddess, the surrounding Eldar soldiers were about to explode on the spot, but when they saw Aisha, who was about to cry, really held back her tears, expressions of shock froze on their faces.

"Our goddess is being eaten alive by this human~" Adele said as she looked at Aisha. "That's great~"

Aisha tried hard to hold back her tears but still felt a little unwilling to give up. However, she did not dare to walk towards Zhang Yi as she did before. She just stood there with tears in her eyes, looking at Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yiye was a little troubled by this. He took the initiative to walk towards Aisha, then stretched out his left hand and held Aisha's hand for the first time.

"Don't cry, and don't hug me." Zhang Yi held Aisha's hand and walked towards other parts of the garden. "I really can't imagine how Asu Yan can tolerate you like this."

"He ignores me most of the time..."

The accompanying interstellar crowdfunding group four⑤⑥①二⑦⑨４０ warrior teams followed Zhang Yi and Aisha who were leaving, while the Eldar entourage looked at Adele, who had the most seniority.

"Why are you looking at me? I can't even handle that myself."

"...We didn't even want to ask that..."

685. Nurgle is coming fast (Part )

'He who keeps company with vermilion becomes red, and he who keeps company with ink becomes black'

The general meaning of this sentence is that no matter what kind of environment you are in or what kind of people you are with, you will gradually be influenced by them.

Although Zhang Yi is a complete outlier in the human empire and has his own opinions on many things, it is undeniable that his attitude towards aliens has changed because of living in the human empire.

As mentioned before, there are many reasons why the Human Empire hates aliens. In the past, it was because when the Human Empire was at its weakest, almost all the aliens in its territory chose to take advantage of its misfortune. Now, it is because several major aliens are abnormal.

The Eldar are superstitious about prophecies. They may be treating you with respect one second, but stab you in the back because of the so-called prophecy the next second. The Necrons, as the former overlords, once wanted to dominate the galaxy again; and the Greenskins, needless to say, they just want to fight.

You ask about the Tau? Putting aside the fact that they came to the wrong 'room', it can be said that they had completely wrong ideas and behaviors. Now, there are no Tau anymore.

This was one of the reasons why he didn't like Aisha, a spirit creature who had almost no record of battle in his memory.

Apart from being beautiful, she is basically of no use to him and the human empire.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just take the time of [Fall of the Eldar], if she could stop crying and act as a nurse to help other Eldar gods, Slaanesh would probably have lost some teeth even if he could eat all the Eldar gods.

But she didn't. The goddess didn't do anything except crying. This might be one of the reasons why the God of Laughter didn't call her when he ran away.

Sanguinius' plan was simple. Just like before, he would put what the other party wanted in front of them, forcing them to stop the series of actions they were taking and directly seize their goals.

This was the same situation as when the Crow King was looking for Lorgar before. When Corax carried Zhang Yi out in a "Lion King style" and displayed him in front of all the enemies, Lorgar was caught in an awkward situation. He had to do something about the target that was so close to him, even if he knew it was a trap.

If Lorgar had chosen to do nothing at the time, it would have likely caused dissatisfaction among his demons or Chaos believers and Space Marines from other factions.

You say it's a trap? Do you think the people of Khorne or Slaanesh would care if it was a trap?

The situation is the same now. Although Nurgle is more stable than other Chaos factions, there are still people who try to break through the Empire's defenses and bring Aisha back for their father.

In order to further stimulate Nurgle and make it take the initiative to attack, Sanguinius asked Zhang Yi to appear in public with Aisha as much as possible, just like when he disguised himself as Tzeentch and dragged Aisha back to the Crystal Maze - if you don't take some action, you might become even more corrupt, and Tzeentch will probably laugh at you for this for the rest of your life.