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After having a happy breakfast, Chuck looked at the servant and asked, "Have you seen Reina since last night? I went to look for her last night, but it seemed that no one was in the room."
"Yes." The servant replied respectfully, "I saw the Lord Inquisitor on the apron."
"Farewell, Lord Inquisitor, she is just a torturer like me, not a formal inquisitor." Chuck said and walked out of the room.
When the servant wanted to ask Chuck where he wanted to go, he only heard one sentence from Chuck without looking back.
"I have to keep an eye on that bitch, lest she secretly make things worse."
……
After a while.
Chuck leaned against the door frame of Lena's room and listened quietly to her explanation of why she believed that everyone in the Tyrone Galaxy was a heretic.
These reasons are very similar to those mentioned yesterday. There is not much detailed evidence. They all rely on feeling and suspicion of various technological creations of unknown origin in the Tyrone galaxy.
The suspicion of technological creations of unknown origin is also the focus of the investigation by Chuck and another inquisitor. They also think that these technological creations are strange, but they do not think that people who use such technological creations are heretics.
After listening, Chuck said to Lena: "Have you ever thought that these things might be made from STC templates?"
"Are you kidding me?" Reina couldn't believe her ears. She stood up and yelled at Chuck and asked: "There are so many STC templates appearing in a remote galaxy that is not even divided into star sectors. What do you think? Is it normal?!"
Chuck has gotten used to Lena's attitude. He looked at Lena indifferently, and his tone was light: "Then what do you think is the situation? A super powerful person appeared in a remote galaxy that is not even divided into star regions. He researched these technological creations? Are you kidding me?"
Lena was left speechless. She originally wanted to talk about the possibility that these technologies were alien creations, but she also felt that this was impossible. She finally gave up arguing and pushed Chuck away before leaving the room.
Chuck watched Lena leave quietly.
He was very suspicious of what this guy did yesterday, but now it seems that she didn't do anything, she just left her room.
Out of professional habit, Chuck even doubted whether Lena was still the same person as before, but based on her performance, it was concluded that this doubt was completely unnecessary.
After making sure that Lena did nothing last night, Chuck also walked out of the room.
But just after Chuck took more than a dozen steps, he suddenly thought of something. No one knew about Reina when she planned the kidnapping operation. Maybe she deliberately concealed something?
After thinking of this, Chuck turned back to Lena's room and began to search everything here.
After rummaging for a long time, Chuck's eyes fell on a diamond-shaped metal box on the table. He recognized it as an item that Reina carried with her and could be used to record things remotely.
Chuck immediately opened the box and looked at its contents.
There was a piece of paper inside, and it was blank, with nothing on it.
"Hmph, you'd better not do anything." Chuck snorted and put down the box, but he did not leave immediately. Instead, he took five steps back, then moved two steps to the left, and finally moved back a little. step.
After walking a few steps as if performing a ritual, Chuck squatted down, picked up the floor beneath his feet, and took out a very tiny listening device from inside.
Chuck put the bug in his ear and listened to the recording, then closed the floorboards, turned and left the room, closing the door.
"I cut off your head, heretic!"
"Witness my glory, my victory! Witness the death of you evil governor!"
At first they were just a few words in sleep, and Chuck frowned when he heard them, but just when he was about to take out the bug, he heard another set of footsteps.
It was the sound produced when the power armor collided with the metal floor.
Chuck frowned and realized that things were not simple. His intuition told him that someone entered Rena's room last night, and it was a person wearing power armor.
The collision sound produced by this power armor was not loud, and it was different from the noise made by ordinary power armor, which made Chuck even more suspicious.
By the time he finished listening to the recording, Chuck had already walked to his room.
"The priest is waiting for you." The servant reported respectfully to Chuck who came in, then walked out of the room and closed the door.
Chuck looked towards the table, and sure enough he saw Vic sitting there. The priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus turned his neck behind his back and was staring at him.
"Listen to this." Chuck sat down at the table, took out the bug and placed it on the table.
Vic stared at the bug for a while. The hearing enhancement device he implanted had transferred the contents of the bug and played it back.
"It's a normal recording." Vic gave a cold response after listening.
"Normal? No!" Chuck lowered his voice, "Is it possible that a person teleported into Rena's room last night, then picked her up and took her away? Have you seen the capabilities of those teleportation devices, and those high-level Power armor, don’t you think it’s weird?”
Vic's only remaining flesh-and-blood eye stared at Chuck, and after a moment of silence, he said in a commanding tone: "Destroy it."
Chuck neither agreed nor refused, just sat silently.
"Destroy it." Vic repeated his order like a machine.
Chuck was silent for a few more minutes before picking up the bug, holding it in his hand and crushing it to pieces.
There was no expression on Vic's face, which was only a quarter of flesh, and there was no wave in his eyes.
"This is a troublesome matter. I hope you made the right decision, because we will be in big trouble if things are exposed in the future." Chuck warned while spilling the powder on the table, "You'd better think it over...Father."
There is a development period between the second volume and the first volume, which is one and a half years. I have skipped this year and a half, so the second volume is one and a half years after the last chapter of the first volume.
Chapter 127 Cargo
"This is the result of my precise calculations and is the best outcome compared to what other options might have led to."
Vic still showed no emotion when he said this, which made Chuck think that his father might be trying to reassure him with a firm tone.
But Chuck was worried. On the one hand, he didn't believe his father, and on the other hand, as an inquisitor, he just liked to be suspicious.
"Doubt, anger, hatred, doubt... If you are influenced by the emotions of these creatures, you will make mistakes. This is the truth I have concluded." Vic stared at Chuck, "Just like me, I was influenced by the emotions of creatures seventy years ago. Or so, make a mistake with a female of the same kind."
If he hadn't heard what Vic said, Chuck wouldn't have remembered that he was already over seventy years old. Decades of time seemed like years, passing by in a blink of an eye amid various life-extension techniques and heavy Inquisition affairs. Even his appearance and personality haven't changed much.
As for the relationship between father and son, Chuck felt that the man in front of him was just the priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus. He might have some relationship with him, but the relationship had faded after not seeing each other for more than sixty years.
Chuck didn't care about Vic's cold words, but nodded with great satisfaction: "As long as you think about it carefully... But I'm wondering what benefit the Lord of Tyrone gave you, couldn't it be STC?"
As a member of the Inquisition, Chuck had read some information about the Adeptus Mechanicus.
STC templates, archaeological technological relics, are very precious. If Vic can get an STC template, he will have status and power.
"Not the STC." Vic replied calmly, "You don't know what I found on that hive world. You don't know what secrets the Lord of Talon holds. These are more important than the STC, far more important than the STC."
Chuck was curious about what could be more important than the STC, but considering that the mouth of this old thing had been replaced with a titanium alloy sound generator, he probably couldn't get any useful information out of it.
"So, based on the importance of what I said." Vic said as he stood up slowly, turned around and walked towards the locked door, saying the rest of his words as he walked: "I can be sure that Judge Lena must An accident occurred, and it must have been done by someone from the Tyrone Galaxy, but it doesn’t matter, I ask you not only not to report this matter, but also to undermine your colleagues in the future work."
Chuck nodded silently, and then suddenly asked: "Is this your order or the order of the Adeptus Mechanicus?"
Vic walked to the door without giving an answer. Instead, before pushing the door open, he turned his head back to face Chuck and said another thing: "There are eight bugs in your room. I The recorded content in the bug has been deleted. You can record some nonsense later and save it in it."
After saying that, the metal structure on Vic's neck quickly turned his head, and used the tentacle-like mechanical arm connected to his back to push the door and leave.
Chuck watched Vic leave, then immediately began searching the room.
"It shouldn't be... I found nine before going to bed last night. Did the rest get lost or were they placed by others?"
……
A week later.
Hive World Spaceport.
The spaceport is one of the orbital buildings built in the past year and a half. It looks like a fortress in space. All ships entering the Tyron system must dock at the spaceport and undergo inspection and formalities before they can conduct business. Activity.
Every day a dozen ships jumped out from Mandeville Point and passed through the fortress defenses into the spaceport, but today this time there was a ship that teleported out directly next to the spaceport.
This ship is different from the surrounding ships. It has no church, and the overall look is sharp and angular. There is a golden lion family emblem hanging on the hull.
Although various large turrets attached to the surface of the ship can be seen from a long distance, this is indeed a merchant ship.
After teleporting out, the merchant ship sailed towards the space port and was guided by a small guide ship to dock under the holographic projection with the number 37 suspended.
After the merchant ship came to a stop, ten large transport planes flew out from under the ship's hull and finally landed in the port area.
The transport plane door opened, and Klein and his entourage walked out of the middle transport plane cabin and looked at a guard waiting in front of him and the thousand soldiers behind the guard who were armed to the teeth.
"Are you Gray, Areda, or someone else? Could it be Grote?" Klein looked at the guard, wondering who was under the thick mask.
The guard walked forward and took off his helmet: "You bastard are doing well."
"Gray!" Klein laughed and walked forward, hugging his old acquaintance.
Then Gray looked at the entourage behind Klein.
A very large Ogryn, wearing hand-made carapace armor.
Behind Ogryn were some guards with scars on their faces.
In addition to these people, there was another person who was immediately attracted to Gray's attention when he looked at him.
It was a strong man with a height of 2.3 meters, a handsome face, and long golden hair. He was wearing a yellow ceramic armor, and there was a red heart with red blood drops on the chest of the armor.
It was obvious that this was an Astartes.
It's just that this man's armor has a lot of damage, and even the thick pauldrons on his shoulders are gone.
The man didn't show any displeasure when being stared at by Gray. He remained quiet and indifferent for a while, and then nodded to Gray.
"Foros, an Emperor Angel. I don't know much about the details. In short, I found him in a world with a harsh environment." Klein briefly introduced him, and then whispered: "I have to say that their lives He was so strong that when I found him he and his men had been eating poisonous animals for a month.”
Hearing this Gray realized that not only one Astartes was coming, but several.
Seeing that Foros didn't look like a bad guy, Gray didn't ask any more questions. Anyway, Klein had to meet the Lord of Tyrone later.
"I came back this time mainly to transport the goods that the governor wanted." Klein said and walked towards other transport planes.
The doors of every transport plane were opened, and mercenaries were armed with live ammunition to maintain order in the transport plane.
The interior of a large transport aircraft is like a square, and the cargo that Klein mentioned is on the "square."
Gray and Klein walked together, chatting while observing the "cargo" in each transport plane.
The first transport was packed with Ogryns.
So does the second one.
"I haven't been back for several months. How is the governor doing?" Klein asked with a smile.
"Very good, just spend most of every day in the research institute, you know, the underground of the fortress where you used to be stationed."
"That's still the same as before..." Klein sighed helplessly, and then asked, "You haven't found a governor's wife either?"
"A few days ago, the Governor went to Tyrone 2 several times during the day and spent a few days at the manor of a young female noble...I saw the two of them on the beach before my vacation was over, so..."
During the conversation, Gray looked at the cargo in the nine transport planes in front.