Chapter 1: You, Sanguinius?

In a derelict district of Ashford, the capital city of the Hades system, Fedia City.

Zhou Yun's head poked out from an Anywhere Ring, cautiously surveying the abandoned district.

Fedia City had a long history, its founding dating back to the Dark Age of Technology, before the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang had even begun the Great Crusade.

Over the long course of history, many districts had been abandoned, buried, and forgotten.

Many mutants, psykers, and cultists, who were not tolerated by the Imperium, would quietly hide in these buried districts, concealing themselves in the darkness.

Even so, scavengers like Zhou Yun would still risk entering these derelict districts.

After all, they were likely to contain some valuable trinkets, and if one were lucky, perhaps even some ancient technological artifacts.

That would mean striking it rich—provided the person digging didn't lose their life in the process.

Zhou Yun looked out and saw only the twin scarlet suns casting radiation-poisoned sunlight down through the cracked dome, illuminating the collapsed buildings and abandoned machinery within the ruins, while also revealing the half-man-high, heavy pipes nestled between the rubble.

Noticing these pipes, Zhou Yun raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Looks like promethium pipes? Could this be an abandoned old promethium plant?"

After confirming there was no immediate danger, Zhou Yun crawled out of the Anywhere Ring, took the golden hoop off the wall, and stuffed it into the white pocket on his belly.

This hoop, a full meter in diameter, was stuffed by Zhou Yun into a white pocket no larger than a palm.

He stepped over the rubble and walked to the nearest section of abandoned pipe.

The pipe was half-buried in the ruins, its steel surface covered in powdery scarlet rust.

Yet, one could still faintly discern the double-headed eagle emblem and the crest of the Viceroy's House of Flax.

Having the emblems of the Imperium and the Viceroy meant this pipe was likely a product of the post-Great Crusade era.

Judging by the degree of corrosion on the casing, it had likely been buried for two or three hundred years.

Zhou Yun wrapped his arms tightly around the pipe and brought the white pocket on his belly close.

This pipe, two meters high and five or six meters long, was stuffed into the white pocket on his belly as if it were liquid.

【Item Name: Promethium Transport Pipe】

【Origin: Hades Shield System - Ashford - Mechanicus Spire】

【Evaluation: Promethium is the blood of the Hive World, and this is a vein.】

【Production Date: 705. M41】

【Status: Heavily Damaged】

【Value: 500 Credits】

"It really is a promethium pipe, but it's a pity it's so badly damaged."

Zhou Yun couldn't help but shake his head; this section of pipe was only worth 500 credits, still far from the cost of an Anywhere Door.

Thinking of the price of the Anywhere Door in the "Future Department Store," Zhou Yun felt a slight stomach ache.

If he didn't save up enough money to buy the Anywhere Door soon, he would have to offer his biomass to the Great Devourer along with Ashford.

In his past life, Zhou Yun was a newbie Warhammer fan living in the peaceful third millennium of humanity.

He had just gotten into Warhammer, bought a Leviathan box set, and before he could even unbox it, he transmigrated to this planet, Ashford.

The Imperium of Man, the Hades Shield system, the civilized world of Ashford.

The planet's Viceroy, Augustus Flax, was like the reincarnation of the Wanli Hua Hua Hua Di Huang of the Ming Dynasty, experimenting with anarchism in the forty-first millennium of humanity, maintaining a persistent attitude of "letting it rot" regarding the planet's management.

This had left the planet's internal security in a complete mess, with all sorts of chaotic gang organizations running rampant.

But having transmigrated to this world, Zhou Yun even felt a bit fortunate.

Compared to true Hive Worlds, Death Worlds, or even Forge Worlds, Ashford, despite having two toxic suns, was generally considered habitable; the average life expectancy was nearly thirty, almost catching up to Macragge.

If he were lucky enough, Zhou Yun might even be able to live out a peaceful, albeit not very long, life.

It was only after knowing the time node of his transmigration that Zhou Yun couldn't be happy.

By the Four-Armed God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, it was currently the nine-hundred-and-nineties of the forty-first millennium of humanity.

In the not-so-distant 999. M41, the Leviathan Hive Fleet under the Great Devourer would visit this place.

The true target of the Leviathan Hive Fleet was Baal, the home world of the Blood Angels, and the Hades system happened to be on its path.

In the near future, the Astra Militarum, Adepta Sororitas, Blood Angels, Tyranids, and even the Necrons and their Star God Pokémon would engage in intensive warfare on the soil of Ashford, ultimately burning the entire system to white ash.

If Zhou Yun didn't want to become an unlucky casualty in this brutal war, his only choice was—

The four-dimensional pocket on his belly, Doraemon's four-dimensional pocket.

Good news: Zhou Yun transmigrated with a golden finger.

Bad news: This cheat is paid.

Just like in the anime, those magical items that defied the laws of physics and could even create universes had to be rented or purchased from the Future Department Store.

Zhou Yun could exchange currency by recycling items from the real universe to buy or rent items.

But the What-If Phone Booth, Time Machine, Tomorrow Notebook, Devil's Passport...

The exorbitant prices of these most magical items made Zhou Yun feel they were out of reach.

He had to set his sights on cheaper items that could help him escape, such as the Anywhere Door.

【Item Name: Anywhere Door】

【Origin: 22nd Century Earth - Future Department Store】

【Evaluation: The first and most famous secret item. Please do not use it while girls are bathing.】

【Production Date: 231. M3】

【Function: While holding the doorknob, the user thinks of the place they want to go, and the other side of the door will connect the two locations. Opening it allows one to cross between the two places to the destination.】

【Value: 11,650,000 Credits】

Eleven million six hundred and fifty thousand—Zhou Yun would have to move tens of thousands of promethium transport pipes to save up enough.

Currently, Zhou Yun only had a little over fifty thousand credits in his pocket; he was far off.

The road of scavenging is long and boundless, Zhou Yun sighed silently in his heart.

He shook his head and continued to dig out a pile of abandoned machinery from the surrounding rubble to recycle.

Only those large, high-value machines were recycled by Zhou Yun into currency for the four-dimensional pocket.

As for the remaining small machinery, Zhou Yun would take them back to the Hive to sell.

The threats he faced were not just the future Tyranids, the mutants in the sewers, or the gangs in the city, but also the ever-approaching hunger and poverty.

Of course, there was also the Chaos that could exist at any moment.

In his past life, Zhou Yun was a Tyranid enthusiast; the only miniatures he played were Tyranids and World Eaters.

Mainly because World Eaters were cheap to field—a Christmas box and a patrol box were enough to get started—so he threw his lot in with Chaos for the sake of his wallet.

Thus, it was hard to say how much faith Zhou Yun had in the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, and he didn't have much resistance to Chaos corruption.

Sometimes, Zhou Yun even felt that he might have already been corrupted by Chaos.

"Friend, there is some danger ahead."

A sublime, gentle, divine voice that warmed the heart rang out from Zhou Yun's heart.

The voice was so moving that Zhou Yun couldn't help but feel a sense of trust.

Before his eyes, a soft white light lit up, and deep within the white light was a hazy figure with wings.

"Please believe me, I, Sanguinius, Lord of Baal, promise you that there is indeed danger ahead."

The wings behind the figure slowly spread, pure white feathers gently falling, and the divine voice came from deep within the soft white light; the Warp special effects were truly maxed out.

"..." Looking at the figure that clearly came from the Warp appearing before him once again, Zhou Yun couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"..." The divine figure in the white light was also silent for a moment: "I really am Sanguinius."

"Then I'm Roboute Guilliman, Lord of Ultramar."

(End of Chapter)