Infinite Metaverse

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Schwerin hive world.

A cloud-mounted tower in the spire area.

Fu Qinghai stood by the floor-to-ceiling window with his hands behind his back.

Quietly gaze at the rolling sea of ​​clouds in front of you.

"You finally have time to see me?"

A gray-haired woman walked up behind him.

Fu Qinghai turned around and glanced at Gladys.

This gray-haired woman is still delicate and beautiful.

As the planetary governor, she has ten thousand ways to keep herself young, beautiful and youthful forever. Moreover, she is not very old to begin with. When she first met Fu Qinghai, she was not even an adult yet, but she was in a noble family. The scheming skills honed in this period have become quite mature and sophisticated.

"How have you been these days?"

Fu Qinghai turned around and asked calmly.

"It's just like that, what else can I do?"

Gladys stepped forward and said.

She stood in front of the man, her face less than a punch away from his breastplate. This distance was far smaller than the normal social distance between two partners of interest.

Gladys looked up at the Space Marine in front of her. Under the carefully decorated eyelashes and eyeshadow, her eyes were like a puppy, looking forward to the approval and reward of its master.

Qingshan Khan's Dog - This is the nickname given to Gladys privately by several major families in the Spire area.

At this moment, it fits the name.

Fu Qinghai raised one hand to hold her face.

Gladys turned her head and gently rubbed her face against the hard and cold black gauntlet, not bothering her face at all.

From Fu Qinghai's perspective, Gladys is very sober and smart. This woman clearly knows who her power comes from, who her status comes from, who pushed her to the throne of planetary governor and made her turn her hands into clouds and rain, and...who should she deal with? Stay loyal.

Gladys has never tried to maintain a balance between the Sommerfeld family and the Iron Buddha Chapter. She has always carried out all orders given by Qingshan Khan to the letter, regardless of whether the order is in the interests of the family. , whether it is in the interests of all the aristocrats in the hive world.

If that was all, it would be normal.

Perhaps it shows that Gladys is a woman who is greedy for power and extremely egotistical. For the sake of the position of planetary governor, she even betrayed her family and even her class.

But the ambiguous wording in some of the correspondence.

Let this "loyalty" seem a little bit spoiled.

In the early days, as the aide-de-camp to the Chapter Leader, Lin Yu had to review the letters sent to Qingshan Khan from each planet in advance. At that time, he discovered the clues - in addition to the normal reporting work, the letters written by Planet Governor Gladys to Khan also contained personal information between the lines, mixed with some inexplicable words expressing admiration or longing for a response.

The more direct evidence is: Gladys, as the actual controller and the highest authority of a planet, is of course extremely luxurious in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. She owns dozens of the most expensive shuttles, and she lives in the most luxurious In the mansion, she has Space Marines as bodyguards, and she tastes delicacies from all over the empire every day... But in terms of the physical needs of both sexes, Gladys has not touched any man so far.

No marriage, no lovers.

It seems that there is no need for this convenience at all.

As a planetary governor, as long as her body can bear it, she can support more than a thousand capitals with no problem. The chaos in the private lives of some female planetary governors in the human empire is a hundred times more exaggerated than hers. The major families at the top of the tower had not thought of using gentler methods such as the beauty trap before, but they found that Gladys was not able to get in. They originally thought that the governor's orientation was a bit special, but it turned out that it was not easy to use a woman.

Fu Qinghai looked down at Gladys.

The mood is a little tangled and complicated.

He felt that Gladys's emotions were a bit deformed. No. 56 had investigated her background. Her parents had a political marriage, her father died in a power struggle, and Gladys, who lost her father when she was young, was raised by her uncle and mother. In this kind of growing environment, it seems normal to lack a sense of security and belonging.

Does she have a bit of an Electra complex?

In previous lives, many girls stated that they liked "daddy boyfriends" or "uncle boyfriends", but this was not an "Electric Father Complex", but a simple lack of independent living ability and a habitual desire to find a man by their side. Gladys was outstanding in her scheming skills and lacked neither ability nor wealth.

So what is she longing for?

"Take a look at this."

Fu Qinghai avoided Gladys' longing and expectant gaze and handed over a data tablet.

Gladys took the data pad in confusion and plugged it into the cogitator system in the office. A green holographic projection flickered on the table, and a slightly familiar planet model slowly rotated in front of her eyes. Gladys recognized it as the Schwerin Hive World, the planet beneath her feet.

Because it is clearly written in the projection:

Schwerin civilized world transformation plan.

"Civilized world?"

Gladys looked up in confusion.

Fu Qinghai nodded without explaining.

Gladys continued to read.

"For the main nest city, we can..."

"We decided to target the wasteland outside the city..."

The holographic projection video also has a narration.

The mechanical female voice narrates and interprets the story clearly.

This is the basic transformation plan for the hive city world issued by the technical priests of the Phaeton Forge World. It is mainly based on the previously discovered geographical conditions of the planet. The plan covers the dismantling of the hive city, pollution control, environmental transformation, population relocation, etc. As for the specific data details, they have not yet been completed.

Gladys looked a little stunned.

Fu Qinghai's intention exceeded her expectation.

For this ancient planet, this will be an earth-shaking change. Qingshan Khan's courage and determination are so great that he is not even satisfied with just annihilating the spire aristocracy - he wants to annihilate the entire hive world. !

"In fifteen minutes."

Fu Qinghai said calmly:

"The exploration team composed of Phaeton Tech-Priests will arrive in the hive city. I will personally lead the team to explore all the details of this thousand-year hive city. Then we will start to transform this planet. Do you understand? "

Fu Qinghai had no intention of discussing it.

He was just informing Gladys.

"I see……"

The Governor-General took half a minute to digest this information.

Then she nodded solemnly:

"I will go with you."

"You going with me?"

Fu Qinghai looked at her in surprise.

"Yes."

After speaking, Gladys began to take off her clothes. In front of Fu Qinghai, she untied her fur vest and threw it aside, revealing her fair shoulders and collarbones, tightly bound by a complicated black lace and scarlet fishbone bra. upper body.

Gothic style clothing is very complicated, but Gladys moved extremely quickly. She took off her black mesh long-sleeved gloves and took off her layered velvet fishtail skirt in just three strokes. She stood in front of the man wearing only her underwear. before.

Showing off her strong and strong body.

Then the planetary governor summoned her personal maid:

"Go get my hunting suit."

"You still have the Hunter suit?"

Fu Qinghai asked in surprise when he heard this.

Several maids quickly came in with a bunch of equipment. Fu Qinghai glanced at these dazzling items: a lightweight powered exoskeleton device, a black cloak-like optical camouflage cloak, a dual-wielding chain saw giant scythe and a straight-edged powered long knife... …

"The Lord Hunting Movement has been abolished in Hive Schwerin. I ordered this from Necromunda alone."

Gladys looked at Fu Qinghai and said proudly:

"The matriarch's hunting lord suit is one of the most expensive hunting lord suits. I have never given up my personal power."

The sport of lord hunting originated in the hive world of Necromunda, and gradually spread to other hive worlds with the trade exchanges between merchants. The hive nobles of Necromunda not only tell other hive world nobles how to train their family children through hunting lords, but they are also exporting hunting lord sets to the outside world.

The cost of a Hunter Lord suit is far more than that of a Space Marine's power armor, and the various customization functions are also richer than those of a power armor. But Fu Qinghai didn't think that the hive nobles could defeat the Space Marines wearing Hunter Lord suits, because there was also a biochemically modified soldier with a heart, three lungs, rich combat experience, and skilled combat skills inside the power armor.

With the help of the maid, Gladys quickly put on the hunter's suit, transforming from an exquisite and graceful female governor into a murderous "female patriarch". Her eyes shone with excitement as she looked at Fu Qinghai said firmly:

"Come on, let's set off."

"No, are you serious?"

Fu Qinghai asked with a somewhat dumbfounded smile.

"I can protect myself this time."

Gladys said with certainty.

Fu Qinghai opened his mouth and said nothing.

Are you going to play Memory Kill for me, little girl?

At the beginning, Fu Qinghai and Koshvito took the Lord Hunting Movement as an opportunity to plot to control the entire swaying hive city and force them to turn loyal. In order to prevent the Hive City bailiffs from being alerted by passing through the checkpoints between various areas of the Hive City, Fu Qinghai found a man from the Hive City as a guide and led Gladys through the Hive City directly to the wasteland outside the city and took control of the Schwerin First Regiment.

It was that experience that established the future relationship between the two and made him decide to support Gladys, a underage girl, to become the new planetary governor of the hive world.

"Master, the Mechanicum exploration team has arrived."

Qing Ming's voice sounded in Fu Qinghai's ears.

"Okay, let's go."

Fu Qinghai turned around and walked towards the elevator of the mansion.

Nor did he try to prevent Gladys from participating.

Nanoparticles crawl up his face to form a helmet.

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The door to the lower nest slowly opened.

The hive bailiff watched everyone walk towards the maze.

Fu Qinghai led the way, and Gladys followed him step by step. Behind them were a group of red-robed technical priests holding various weird exploration equipment.

Fu Qinghai chose this time to transform the world of Schwerin Hive City, definitely not on a whim.

Although the hive world is basically under the control of the war group, the aristocratic group at the top is not completely at the mercy of others and cannot resist, because the hive world can communicate with the outside world, and there are normal trade ships at the airport. Although the war group Mortal agents are also monitoring in secret, but as long as they have astropaths, they can still send messages to the outside world.

If the hive nobles try to contact the relevant institutions of the empire, such as the Inquisition, the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior, and even the High Lords Council, it will have some impact on the Iron Buddha Chapter - it is absolutely impossible to shake Qingshan Khan's influence on this planet. District rule, but it can indeed cause some trouble.

Many people don't understand what the Terran government is thinking.

But Fu Qinghai knew their brain circuits very well.

The planetary governor violently and bloodyly suppressed the popular uprising? Can. Hive nobles plotting to overthrow the planetary governor? Can. The people on the planet are in dire straits and are in dire straits? Can. Genocide among different peoples on the planet killing each other? Can.

The Terran authorities will not care about these matters.

There are only two situations they will never allow:

1. The planet did not pay the tithe in full and on time.

2. Space warriors intervene in the internal politics of the planet.

Needless to say, the first situation is that if you don’t pay the tithe, all the imperial troops will come to teach you how to behave. The second situation is more complicated. After the Horus Heresy, Astartes phobia became somewhat widespread, and the Terran authorities were very sensitive to Space Marines interfering in local administration. There is also a department within the Inquisition that specializes in supervising and investigating Space Marines. They have always wanted to catch the Space Marines.

There are only two exceptions. The first is that the Space Marines' own conscription world is under the jurisdiction of the Space Marines themselves. The second is that the Regent's exclusive autonomous dominion such as the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar is also directly ruled by the Ultramarines Chapter.

The subspace storm created a good opportunity. All communication traffic in the sector was cut off. It was impossible for the hive nobles to contact the outside world, whether it was the Calixis sector next door or the Holy One far away in the horizon. Terra.

Qingshan Khan can only let it be flattened and rounded.

He can transform it however he wants.

The exploration team has penetrated deep into the core area of ​​the lower nest, zigzagging through the gaps between the huge transmission bearings, lifting the hanging chain curtains, and climbing over the broken steel walls.

This time they did not need a guide, because the purpose of the exploration team was not to pass through the lower nest as quickly as possible, but to thoroughly explore and find out what was in the entire lower nest area.

Standing on the broken suspension bridge, Fu Qinghai once again saw the rotating crushing gears in the distance, as well as the huge flywheel like a Ferris wheel. The crankshaft made a hard friction sound, and the golden-red magma was flowing in the piston rings. The water flows and drips between the gaps, forming a lava waterfall.

These giant machines from ancient times are still running tirelessly to this day. They may maintain some of the hive's infrastructure, such as fresh air or geothermal power generation, or they may be some ancient technology. Even the top nobles and major trade unions don't fully understand this city.

For them, the hive city is a black box that can maintain operation but does not know the principles. This giant three-dimensional city accumulated over thousands of years is like a pile of super shit mountains of code that have been written and iterated by countless programmers. Keep running, but no one dares to modify it easily.

But today, Fu Qinghai wanted to completely understand what each character in this mountain of shit code represented. Only by analyzing this mountain of shit code could he dismantle this ancient city.

"Buzz buzz..."

The technical priest released the servo skull, and these small anti-gravity drones floated in all directions like a swarm of bees. Scanning rays were emitted from the eye sockets, scanning the surrounding mechanical components one by one, without missing any detail.

Fu Qinghai's eyes swept across this three-dimensional maze. He could analyze the uses of many mechanical components with just one glance. At the same time, he was also paying attention to the bottomless dark abyss around him. Although all the gangs in the lower nest have been taken care of by the Space Marines, there is no guarantee that some fish will slip through the net.

This is actually one of the contradictions between the Iron Buddha Chapter and the hive nobles - all the lower nest gangs are actually thugs raised by the top nobles. They are illegal gangs on the surface, but secretly they are inextricably linked to the major families. contact.

"Will we encounter an enemy?"

Gladys activated the optical camouflage on her cloak, leaving only a blurry silhouette. The woman held the chain saw and scythe in both hands and looked around, as if she wanted to find someone to try her hand at, and was looking forward to a fierce battle.

"Most likely not."

Fu Qinghai looked around calmly.

The technical priests are focusing on exploration and mapping, and there are dense skitarii around the oil guy. These red-robed soldiers are holding galvanic weapons and arc weapons, using specialized modified prosthetics to climb inside the complex urban structure of the lower nest, like A swarm of mind-numbing mechanical fire ants.

"Lord Aoyama!"

A technical priest suddenly shouted.

"how?"

Fu Qinghai instantly turned his head and looked over.

"This nest city, this nest city..."

The technical priest was breathing heavily and frowning, the green mechanical eyes embedded in the eye sockets were spinning wildly, and the loose flesh under the rust-red hood gradually turned red.

"Qiang...what happened?"

Fu Qinghai drew his sword and walked over.

The technical priest was so excited that he couldn't control himself. He took out a sedative and inserted it into his neck and pressed the button. He used the drug to force himself to calm down. Finally, his pounding heartbeat calmed down. He raised his head and carefully composed his words and said:

"We originally thought we found some fragments of an STC, but later we found out..."

"STC?"

Fu Qinghai was shocked when he heard that keyword, and then realized that it was not that simple:

"Not STC? What is that?"

"What we found was not the fragments of the STC. This nest city itself is a huge STC! This is a city built on an STC, Lord Aoyama!"

said the Tech-Priest, his eyes shining.

"What's the STC?"

Fu Qinghai calmed down and asked in a deep voice.

"The chassis of a super-heavy tank."

The technical priest closed his eyes, showing a pious expression like a pilgrim, as if pronouncing that name was an honor, and spoke out the noun in a slow tone:

"The famous...Emperor's Poison Blade!"

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