Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 44 02.0044: ‘Shadow of Chaos’

"..." The half-cat girl lowered her head and sobbed.

The food has been served on the table, covered with a shiny pot cover to keep it warm.

"The craftsmanship is really good." Horatio couldn't wait to lift the pot cover, and the fragrant dishes were placed in front of him, stimulating the most primitive desires of mankind.

The half-cat girl opposite had never seen such a good meal in her life. She washed her hands carefully in the basin, and then squatted on the dining chair like a cat.

"Have you ever seen a fat, bald man wearing a purple robe and a mask who presided over a cult ritual?" Horatio asked in a low voice.

Since that guy can collude with people from the Ministry of Justice as accomplices, his power is certainly not small, and he will definitely unite similar people of all sizes around this area.

Horatio took out the sealed tableware and took out the chopsticks.

[Well, it turned out to be chopsticks. ] Horatio felt a small surprise.

"I've seen it... but can I have something to eat first?" The half-cat girl's ears drooped, her shoulders hunched and her neck shrunk, as if she was afraid that these words would anger the hive city bailiff who had just been beaten up in front of her. Horatio.

"Of course, you can talk while you eat." Horatio wiped his hands and said in a soft tone.

The food was well cooked, fragrant with oil, and the meat was fresh and tender, which was very suitable to Horatio's appetite.

The taste is different from that of the Hood family's dishes. According to Horatio's preference, the taste of this street restaurant is not necessarily worse than that of the noble family.

As the main meat-eating beast, Grox is an important and most important economic meat beast in the empire. Although it is a fierce batch, it is widely sought after in the empire because it has the taste of pork, the aroma of beef, is easy to feed, and has strong adaptability.

Then he mixed the dessert called bean blood jelly.

"Your father's craftsmanship is very good." Horatio praised the girl with a smile.

"Thank you for your compliment, sir. If you like it, come often when you have time!" A happy and simple smile appeared on the girl's face.

Horatio looked at the half-cat man. Her fingers were quite slender and she couldn't use chopsticks.

"Here, this is how it works." Horatio picked up the chopsticks and demonstrated how to pick up vegetables.

The half-cat man glanced up and tried to imitate Horatio's posture, but ultimately failed to pick up the chopsticks.

So she tried to grab food with her hands, but before her hands even touched the vegetables, she was forced back by the heat.

"Actually, you can use a fork." The boss's daughter whispered awkwardly, pointing to the fork on the table.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she looked at the knife that Horatio was playing with.

That was the knife she had swung at Horatio before. After being subdued by Horatio, the knife remained in his hand.

"This knife is very delicate. What does it have?" Horatio asked, playing with the knife.

"That's... my father's relic."

"If you answer my question, I'll give this back to you."

"I know the people you are talking about. Those people harmed my family. My father is a very powerful thief. Before he left, he asked me to keep this knife. Except for self-defense, I cannot hurt anyone. So..."

As the girl spoke, her tears fell down.

"So I'm really sorry. I didn't mean it. I...I was really scared."

"Rogue...is your father the one who was killed by the guild alliance?" the boss's daughter asked.

"Huh? Do you know what?" Horatio looked at the girl: "Excuse me, please give me a pen and paper."

The girl took the pen and paper from the bar and handed it to Horatio.

"I've heard about the deeds of a thieves. It is said that he broke open the treasury of the guild alliance and scattered the gold inside to the poor. But then for some reason, he ran to the Ministry of Justice, and ended up giving him the bounty on the way. The hunter is dead." After saying that, the girl went to entertain other guests.

"My condolences. Can you tell me what happened?"

Why would a master thief go to the legal department? It is obviously impossible to throw yourself into a trap.

Horatio smelled something strange.

"Dad is a human being. He met his mother when he was stealing from the office of the prostitute owner. The two fell in love at first sight. After they got married, his father ransomed his mother. He worked as a thief to support the family. In order to improve his life, he became a famous thief and went to school. The wanted order from Zhongchao.”

"That's very impressive. He wouldn't have stolen something from the government."

"He stole gems and gold from the guild bank, made necklaces for his mother, and distributed the money he took away to the poor. He used this knife to pick the lock."

[sharp. ] Horatio nodded pertinently. Being able to sneak into a heavily fortified vault and successfully steal it was a legendary thief.

"Later, in order to protect me, my mother was kidnapped and taken away by cultists in purple robes to be sacrificed. I told my father. My father was very anxious and wanted to run to the ground to call the Ministry of Justice to call the police. But just as he was about to arrive successfully When he was in the Ministry of Justice, he was shot to death by mercenaries from the Guild Alliance."

[Sacrifice...] Horatio captures the familiar word.

"Do you know where it is?"

"It's very deep. Dad said it was in a very low place in the residential area of ​​PW15-S-21. I don't know exactly where it is, but it is in an abandoned and collapsed hermitage."

"That's already the lower nest, and it's almost to the bottom nest." Horatio frowned. He had narrowly escaped death and climbed up to the middle nest from there before. It was bad enough there, and he couldn't even think about going further down. think.

Everyone knows that the deeper you go, the more dangerous it is. The bottom nest is no longer a place that one can go alone. If you rashly step in, you will only be killed, especially when a strange plague broke out there half a year ago.

[These guys really know how to choose a place.] Horatio sighed dully.

"As for the others, since they can reach the middle nest, they must have a base here."

"The nearest one is an abandoned chapel in K-7 block below Vegas, but it is not the base camp, just a stronghold.

Originally, there was also a Saint's Monastery in V-8 area, but their forces were cleared from there overnight. There was a lot of blood on the ground. I also saw tall figures. These people reacted very quickly. I was discovered from a long distance and then ran away.

Then there are several small secret gathering points of bad guys in F-4 block, respectively... But they don't seem to be purple, but red! Scarlet! The person you said has been here."

The half-cat girl told Horatio everything she knew, her words were excited and unreserved, venting the forbearance and unwillingness of not being able to avenge her parents.

[According to the description, K-7 Chapel should be the place where he and Farida escaped, and V-8 Saint's Monastery is where he found this prosthetic limb.

Red? Is it the power of the killing power? How can the believers of joy be mixed with the slashing? V-8's forces were purged by a tall figure? Could it be a Space Marine? Or... an Inquisitor? ]

The clues were disorganized and somewhat confusing.

I thought I could only find clues from the cat-people's instinct to avoid danger, but I didn't expect that the half-cat in front of me was consciously looking for the murderer who killed her mother and father.

With the lesson of the Ministry of Justice officials being corrupted into traitors, he dared not casually reveal what he knew to the Navy.

Even the special task force investigating the accident of Farida's mother eight years ago was stopped, and Major General Alexander Hood, who lost his wife, could only become the chief of the Military Intelligence Command and then find another way to continue the investigation, not to mention him.

Except for Farida, the others must at least wait until he has a deeper understanding before deciding.

[Let's talk to Farida tomorrow. ] Horatio thought that at least she and her father should be loyal to the Empire.

"Thank you." Horatio put the knife on the table and pushed it towards the girl.

"Is there anything special about this knife?" Horatio asked.

When his iron hand touched the knife, he felt the surge of the machine soul, which meant that this knife was not ordinary.

The half-cat girl took the knife and pinched the upper and lower parts of the handle. A delicate lock-picking tool extended from the end of the handle. A closer look showed that it even had a universal hacker code to hack into the access control system.

[Good guy, a self-taught Furycon thief programmer?] Horatio couldn't help but complain in his heart.

"Keep it away, don't use it to hurt people in the future, I may not be able to return it to you if you are caught next time."

"Woo." The half-cat girl didn't dare to look at Horatio and nodded.

Da da da! Bang! Bang! The sudden sound of killing sounded from a distance.

Horatio immediately raised his head and looked in the direction of the sound.

Both the half-cat girl and the chef's daughter immediately showed horror on their faces.

"It's gunfire! So dense!" The girl tried her best to keep the tray stable, standing behind a pillar with a worried look on her face.

About 200 meters ahead, a group of protesters holding signs and banners screamed and fled. The scene was so crowded that it even turned into a stampede.

"What's going on?!"

"It looks like the mercenaries of the Guild Alliance opened fire on the protesting crowd!" Yin Shuyao looked at Horatio with horror in her eyes.

Horatio stood up instantly, and his chair was knocked to the ground.

The horn-shaped sound array on the back of the female sergeant Louise who was patrolling nearby suddenly received a special encrypted line call from the Navy Department.

This is a special frequency band that calls the leader of each loyal marine team.

"I am Captain Elphinstone of the Military Intelligence Department. The Zhongsi Marine Task Force on standby in the K-7 block will immediately carry out an in-depth strike against the abandoned chapel. All teams near the F-4 block will immediately rush to the shooting scene to deploy riot control to prevent the conflict from escalating..."

The Lord Colonel's words were suddenly interrupted by an extremely angry male voice: "Kill all the cultists in the K-7 chapel! Don't let any of them escape! Dig up their past for me! People in the F-4 block, let those gangsters get out immediately! If there is resistance, shoot them on the spot!"

The Zhongsi Marines certainly knew who this person was - the famous Rear Admiral Alexander Hood, the chief of the Navy Military Intelligence Command.

"Are you sure, sir?" The leader of an unknown team in the F-4 block asked.

"Shoot! Kill all the resisters! Smash those scums for me!!!"

With a scary clang, the communication was interrupted.

Needless to say, the other party must have hung up the landline very violently, but the team leaders didn't know that the major general would be so angry, nor did they know that the cultists had reached out to his only daughter before.

"I am Louise, a sergeant from the Delta team. Please ask all the Zhongsi Marines near the F-4B-7 intersection to move closer to me!

Repeat, all nearby Zhongsi Marines immediately move closer to the F-4B-7 intersection!"

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