Chapter 131

"What the hell are you sleeping for?!"

Zhou Yun kicked the hungover Augustus Flax in the face.

Augustus Flax rolled off the scarlet sofa at once, clutching his painful face as he climbed up from the ground—

Before he could climb up, Zhou Yun kicked him in the head again.

Augustus Flax let out a pig-like wail, his back hitting the wall, and he couldn't stand up at all.

"Zhou Yun..." Augustus Flax panted, looking with horror at the approaching Zhou Yun.

"Don't kill me..." he pleaded weakly.

Before he could continue to beg, Zhou Yun reached into his Fourth-Dimensional Pocket.

That hideous, twisted triangular head was thrown into Augustus Flax's arms.

Augustus Flax looked at the xenos head in his arms with horror.

"Tiberius..."

Augustus's voice was extremely complex, as if it carried pain, relief, and fear all at once.

This was his brother's head.

His blood relative, his blood enemy, his fear...

"Hahahaha..." Hysterical laughter erupted from Augustus Flax's throat.

His tears couldn't stop flowing from his eye sockets, his arms clutching his brother's head tightly.

"Tiberius, my brother, hahahaha, I didn't expect that the end that greeted us would be the same."

Augustus Flax stroked the head somewhat creepily, carefully looking at every detail on it, as if he wanted to identify the traces of his brother's former humanity from it.

If it was like this, dying with Tiberius like this seemed to be...

SLAP!!!

Zhou Yun slapped Augustus Flax across the face.

Before Augustus Flax could react, he snatched the Underworld Worm's head from his arms.

"Tiberius!" Augustus Flax wailed; he didn't know why Zhou Yun had snatched the head back.

"Did I say I was giving it to you?" Zhou Yun stepped on Augustus Flax's shoulder and stuffed it into his Fourth-Dimensional Pocket right in front of him.

This head was just for Augustus Flax to look at; he still had to take it to exchange for money.

"Kill me."

Augustus Flax said in a hoarse voice:

"In consideration of the fact that I once expelled Tiberius and provided you with a force of illegal psykers."

"Grant me a quick death."

"A quick death is also a reward, Augustus."

Zhou Yun looked down at Augustus Flax, his tone almost devoid of anger, just flat and straightforward:

"You still don't understand; you never understand. You don't deserve a reward."

"You only did a trivial bit of what you were supposed to do."

Zhou Yun glanced at the trembling Augustus Flax.

He actually didn't have any anger toward Augustus Flax.

This guy did indeed want to kill him, but that was nothing... just kill him back; Zhou Yun had indeed come to do just that.

People can kill others, and they should also be prepared to be killed by others; this is very fair.

But when he saw Augustus Flax hiding in the underground palace, hungover, Zhou Yun thought of some people.

He thought of Leina, Old One-Eye, Jeanne, and the gang thugs in the hive city who fought alongside the Astra Militarum and marched toward death; he even thought of Morgott and Margit.

Even if some had taken the wrong path, they were all trying to save Ashfold.

This should have been Augustus Flax's responsibility.

Especially when Augustus Flax was still shamelessly begging for a painless death,

begging for a reward for doing a little bit of what he was supposed to do...

How did he dare?

Every sip of wine he drank was enough for a hive city thug to live a lifetime.

And those hive city thugs, even the cowardly ones like Lage, stood on the front line against the swarm.

They never begged for anything.

Zhou Yun had no anger or hatred toward Augustus Flax.

He just felt that Augustus Flax was shameless and didn't deserve a quick death.

And for such a shameless person, he knew a way to punish them.

Khârn, the Mortal Champion of Khorne and Captain of the World Eaters' 8th Company, had once used Erebus to demonstrate it.

He slowly reached out and grabbed one of Augustus Flax's arms.

RIP, RIP, RIP, RIP!!!!

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Fresh blood sprayed from Augustus Flax's shoulder.

Zhou Yun tore off one of his arms, held the shoulder of this severed arm, and pointed the palm toward Augustus Flax. "Stand up." Zhou Yun looked down at Augustus Flax and said in a flat tone.

Augustus Flax didn't dare to disobey; he stood up from the ground with a trembling body.

He stared fixedly at Zhou Yun, expecting to see anger, hatred, and reproach in Zhou Yun's eyes.

But no, none of these were there. There was only flatness and composure in Zhou Yun's eyes; he even sighed softly.

SLAP!!!!

Another slap across Augustus Flax's face.

His own palm slapped his own face; Zhou Yun used his severed arm as a weapon.

Augustus Flax staggered and fell against the wall.

"Oh my!"

Zhou Yun said in a playful voice:

"Why are you slapping yourself? Don't be so self-reproachful!"

Augustus Flax panted, looking up at Zhou Yun in disbelief.

Pain, burning pain, and humiliation assaulted him, making Augustus Flax cry out loud.

"Stand up." Zhou Yun said again, still waiting.

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Augustus Flax stood up trembling; he wanted to run—

But Zhou Yun didn't give him this opportunity.

He swung Augustus Flax's severed arm again, slapping him in the face.

Augustus Flax fell to the ground with a trembling body.

Zhou Yun swung his severed arm, slapping him in the face one slap after another.

"Stand up." Zhou Yun said again.

Augustus Flax struggled to get up.

He had thought he could accept death, but now the fear of death struck again, coming so violently that it even surpassed everything he had endured in the past decades.

He knelt on the ground, sobbing, clutching his legs tightly.

"I didn't do anything wrong..." Augustus Flax said hoarsely.

Zhou Yun sighed deeply.

"Then why are you slapping yourself in self-reproach?" Zhou Yun said, swinging Augustus Flax's severed arm.

Captain Kaelen looked at this horrifying scene.

Augustus Flax—there was no doubt that this pile of things before him was Augustus Flax.

It was a mass of rotten flesh, bones broken, flesh beaten until it was dense, and the skin was almost invisible...

And the murder weapon that caused all this was... Captain Kaelen looked at the severed arm placed beside that pile of Augustus Flax.

That was Augustus Flax's own severed arm, the front end already a bloody mess.

Clearly, someone had used Augustus Flax's own severed arm to beat him into this pulp-like state, one slap at a time.

What made Kaelen feel most horrified was that he was actually still alive!

Augustus Flax was still alive! Even after being beaten into this state, he was still alive!

The person who committed these acts must have been extremely patient, beating Augustus Flax into this state inch by inch while avoiding fatal wounds.

But Augustus Flax wouldn't live long either; with such severe wounds, Augustus Flax would inevitably die slowly, bit by bit; he would clearly feel the passing of his life.

Augustus Flax's eyes, with his skull half-protruding, stared fixedly at Captain Kaelen.

Captain Kaelen understood that this was begging him for mercy, to grant him death.

But...

"The duty the Chapter Master gave me is to bring you back alive."

Kaelen said coldly.

He looked at the wine bottles and various fruits that had begun to rot piled up all around, and understood what kind of luxurious life this Viceroy had lived underground.

At the same time, the Cadians and Ashfoldians were dying in front of the swarm.

Captain Kaelen knew that Augustus Flax would definitely not survive, and he probably wouldn't last until they evacuated from Ashfold.

But Captain Kaelen absolutely respected the wishes of that man—the wishes of the man who killed the Underworld Worm and saved Brother Avery.

Let Augustus Flax experience the feeling of dying slowly.

He found a bag nearby and, with another battle-brother, carefully stuffed Augustus Flax into the bag, then carried him away on his shoulder...

He took Augustus Flax like this and began the evacuation.

Captain Kaelen could already hear the sound of the swarm rushing over.

Zhou Yun stood on a high tower outside the palace, looking up at the ocean of chitin surging before him.

The swarm knew his location and had begun the hunt.

But Zhou Yun was not alone, and the Hive Mind was not the only hunter.

"Fight for the Emperor! Fight for Sanguinius!!!"

The roar sounded from the sky, and warriors in black armor with red patterns descended from the clouds on jump packs.

For a time, the air was filled with the sound of roaring flames and chainswords.

Then came the roar filled with anger and madness:

"Brothers! Let the traitors witness! How the sons of Sanguinius fight against these traitors who blaspheme Terra!!!!"

Captain Kaelen, who had retreated from the palace, was also able to see this scene.

Both he and Zhou Yun knew that reinforcements had arrived.

The moment this group of black-armored warriors landed, blood began to splash in the tide of xenos; the black-armored warriors were like a furious black tide, punishing the blasphemous xenos.

"Death Company." Zhou Yun said softly.

(End of chapter)