Chapter 291

"Fulgrim has begun his actions."

Roboute Guilliman's voice was low and powerful, and if one were to appreciate it slightly, one would also perceive the complex emotions contained within it.

Anger, sadness, pain, hatred, and even sighs were mixed within it.

Guilliman was suspected by quite a few of his brothers of being ambitious, but this Lord of the Ultramarines indeed sincerely regarded other Primarchs as brothers, even if the relationships were good or bad.

Regarding Fulgrim's fall, the Lord of the Ultramarines still felt sadness deep in his heart.

Once full of honor and pride, that Fulgrim who was showing perfection at all times, that Gene-Primarch of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's Children, that purple phoenix that was one of the symbols of the Empire, how could he have become like this?

Especially knowing that Fulgrim and his Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's Children, after ten thousand years, were still using the name of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's Children, using the Empire's double-headed eagle, and mocking by using "For the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang" as a slogan, Roboute Guilliman was even more painful.

Fulgrim seemed to have become a symbol of the Empire's past glory having already fallen, representing that the entire Empire was sliding into the abyss uncontrollably.

And now, after ten thousand years of dormancy and rotting, Fulgrim had once again extended his fangs toward the Empire.

According to the information provided by Zhou Yun, Guilliman had obviously already confirmed that the Governor of Magna Macragge City, the capital and largest city of Macragge, had already been corrupted by Fulgrim and had become a lackey of Slaanesh.

He proposed to hold a grand victory parade to show victory to the entire galaxy, to boost the spirit of the entire Ultramar, to bind the entire Ultramar together, and at the same time to let more people in the galaxy know the news of the Primarch's return, bringing hope to them.

Although this parade was grand and slightly exaggerated, the Lord of the Ultramarines had to admit that it indeed had its value.

"This can let the Primarch's brilliance shine over the entire galaxy, set up a new example for humanity, and can also awaken their faith in the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, and can also awaken their faith in the Primarch."

That Governor of Magna Macragge City declared to Guilliman like this.

It was just that the true purpose of this parade was to let that corrupted Governor, on the way, put on the Slaaneshi artifact called the Crown of Glory for Guilliman, corrupting and completely eroding him...

But Zhou Yun and Guilliman naturally would not let Fulgrim have his way; they had long since discussed the little trick to pit Fulgrim.

Theoretically, this little trick would let Fulgrim be eroded by Zhou Yun in turn.

Of course, Fulgrim, who had long since been corrupted by Slaanesh, would not easily become Zhou Yun's Daemon Prince, but it was enough to make him unable to respond to reality for a very long period of time.

"I agreed to this victory parade according to the plan."

The Lord of the Ultramarines said with a somewhat exhausted expression.

The High-Efficiency Pill sent by Zhou Yun indeed improved his efficiency in handling things, but it did not reduce the fatigue brought about when doing these things.

And the more he handled the government and military affairs from the recovered and unrecovered worlds of Ultramar, the gloomier Guilliman's mood became.

Inefficiency, buck-passing, and meaningless waste filled the human Empire.

Clearly everyone was bearing unimaginably heavy labor, everyone was doing their best to contribute to the Empire, but the efficiency was just low, the departments were just full of buck-passing, and meaningless waste was still increasing.

Guilliman smiled bitterly; he understood why Sanguinius and Zhou Yun said this Empire needed him...

"This kind of job of showing one's face and being worshipped by others should be left to Sanguinius to do." Guilliman sighed.

If it weren't for the fact that the victory parade indeed had value, if it weren't for breaking Fulgrim's scheme, Guilliman really did not want to hold any parade.

"Fulgrim was corrupted by Slaanesh, not hit by the Butcher's Nails." Zhou Yun shook his head and said: "If he sees Sanguinius, he'll slip away faster than anyone."

The current Sanguinius is ridiculously strong; Zhou Yun has fought him more than a dozen times with the Fatty Tiger Greater Daemon and has a deep understanding of this.

Unless Fulgrim is not thinking straight, he will not try to corrupt Sanguinius.

"I understand, everything can proceed according to the plan." Guilliman nodded slightly and said.

Although in Zhou Yun's plan, he did not need to face Fulgrim's corruption anymore.

But once the news of the victory parade spread, he would inevitably fall into a deeper whirlpool of bureaucracy, and various forces from all over the Empire would also surge toward Macragge from all directions.

Thinking of the work increased because of this, Guilliman's face was full of gloom.

Zhou Yun looked at the gloom on Guilliman's face, and for a moment even felt a bit sorry for Guilliman. This was mainly because Zhou Yun had recently been running around on different planets, recovering those corrupted things and helping various companies attack strongholds, and had also understood what kind of arduous work Guilliman's brain was doing.

Every company, every Ultramar Auxilia, and even every Astartes and mortal, were like tentacles extending from Guilliman's superhuman brain, acting along his thinking, carrying out surgical-like precise surprise attacks, offensives, and maneuvers on hundreds or thousands of battlefields.

This difficulty was no less than a surgeon performing thousands of surgeries at the same time.

But before Zhou Yun could say any comforting words, the chapter serfs, with the swift movements Guilliman had trained, sent more documents to Guilliman's desk.

Clearly, the time Guilliman had arranged to talk with Zhou Yun had passed, and the chapter serfs followed the rules he had set, urging—or one could even say whipping—him to begin new work.

Guilliman exhaled a thick, turbid breath and quickly plunged into the sea of documents.

He simply acted as if he had arranged himself as a high-IQ Cogitator servitor into the command system he had formulated, using himself to death.

Zhou Yun sighed with pity. He did not say anything more. For Guilliman, who had plunged into work, not letting him continue to be distracted was instead a better comfort.

He knew this point, and Guilliman also knew that he knew this point, so Guilliman did not perform any time-wasting empty rituals toward him anymore.

Zhou Yun turned around directly and left the command room through his Anywhere Door, letting Guilliman become a human-shaped command machine among the constantly shuttling chapter serfs.

"STAND WHERE YOU ARE!!!"

Zhou Yun had just returned to the Hera Fortress, to the residence Guilliman had arranged for him, when he heard Xiang Xiang Leina's voice like a thunderclap.

He had seen this move of Xiang Xiang Leina's; this was the Voice of Beguilement, using psychic power to wrap her own will to invade others' brains, achieving the effect of controlling others' actions.

Xiang Xiang Leina used to use it often in the Hive City...

Xiang Xiang Leina's voice was mixed with powerful psychic power, directly rolling toward the Macragge wild rabbit caught from the mountains—

BANG!!!

That poor wild rabbit directly exploded into blood splatters in the training cage in Zhou Yun's residence.

CLAP CLAP CLAP!!

Applause rang out from the ceiling, and the Aeldari Harlequin Cegorach's Veilwalker, hanging upside down on the ceiling, applauded for it.

"At least it really stood where it was and didn't move... Hmm, it won't move for the rest of its life." She grinned and said.

"... What are you two doing in my house?" Zhou Yun stood by the Anywhere Door, looking at Xiang Xiang Leina and Cegorach's Veilwalker with a speechless face.

The 184th Regiment was currently recuperating on Macragge, only responsible for the task of guarding several important cities of Macragge, so Xiang Xiang Leina was temporarily stationed on Macragge.

And Cegorach's Veilwalker... Guilliman did not arrange a separate residence for her, but directly carved out a separate embassy area for the Aeldari.

It was just that this Harlequin was suspected by the Ynnari, and most of the time she snuck into Zhou Yun's residence to live... After all, Zhou Yun was also running back and forth on different planets most of the time, and most of the time lived in the Wallpaper House, rarely returning here.

Cegorach's Veilwalker giggled, jumped down from the ceiling, did a somersault, and arrived in front of Zhou Yun.

"Big Sister Xiang Xiang Leina didn't pass the Inquisition-certified psyker exam; theory, practical psychic technology, military psychic technology, and anti-corruption all didn't pass."

"If it weren't for Inquisitor Greyfax signing the permit for her, she should have been shot directly by now."

"She wanted to visit you to ask if there were any items that could control psychic power, and I thought psychic power is something we Aeldari are good at!"

Listening to Cegorach's Veilwalker's words, Zhou Yun looked at Xiang Xiang Leina a bit strangely and could not help but ask: "You didn't pass anti-corruption? Why?"

"... Uh." Xiang Xiang Leina's eyes drifted a little.

"Tsk, this can't blame Big Sister Xiang Xiang Leina." Cegorach's Veilwalker giggled and explained: "The Inquisition on Macragge used a slightly simulated way to test Big Sister Xiang Xiang Leina, and then Big Sister Xiang Xiang Leina had an emergency reaction, firing an Alpha-level psychic cannon, almost blowing away half of the Macragge Inquisition."

Xiang Xiang Leina turned her head away awkwardly.

"Then how is your training?" Zhou Yun looked at the plasma and corpses on the ground of his training cage at home, his eye twitching as he asked.

"Not very good." Cegorach's Veilwalker did not wait for Xiang Xiang Leina to speak and giggled and said: "Her psychic power is considered not bad among the Aeldari, but various psychic technologies are not proficient, and psychic theory is even more ignorant."

"And because of the rise of her psychic power, many psychic spells that could be released before cannot be released now... For example, the Voice of Beguilement; the psychic power she uses to wrap her own will is too strong. Before controlling others, she directly blows people to pieces."

"... Actually, it doesn't matter if there is no Inquisition certification. To put it broadly, the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang is also an illegal psyker without certification. In two days, when Guilliman or Sanguinius has time, I will let the two Primarchs sign a special permit for you."

Zhou Yun's look at Xiang Xiang Leina was a bit pitiful.

Previously, in order to prevent Xiang Xiang Leina from being corrupted by Fulgrim or Slaanesh, Sanguinius had carefully checked her psychic potential and finally confirmed that Xiang Xiang Leina was indeed affected by her own psychic potential in her learning ability.

Most psykers, especially those who have reached the Alpha level, will have some mental distortion.

Xiang Xiang Leina is normal on the surface, but she is actually distorted by her own psychic power in her ability to absorb new knowledge, especially those that require logical reasoning and calculation. In most cases, her intelligence is normal, but when encountering the need to absorb new knowledge, her spirit, distorted by psychic potential, will interfere with her.

This cannot be considered a bad thing, because it is precisely for this reason that Xiang Xiang Leina is almost unaffected by the whispers in the Warp and has strong resistance to the corruption of the four gods, with the strongest resistance to Tzeentch's corruption, followed by Slaanesh and Khorne, and her resistance to Nurgle's corruption is also much stronger than ordinary people.

In other words, she will be extremely difficult in learning new knowledge for the rest of her life, especially in aspects like mathematics, mechanics, and psychic theory...

"Mainly I want to learn more practical psychic technologies, such as psychic wound repair, brain control, eliminating physical fatigue, clearing toxins, etc..."

Xiang Xiang Leina's expression was a bit embarrassed as she said:

"So I want to ask... do you have any items here? The kind that can directly learn knowledge?"

Zhou Yun's mouth twitched.

This was testing Doraemon's professional work.

"Nobita... oh no, Xiang Xiang Leina, secret items are not omnipotent. If you always rely on items, you will not get growth."

Zhou Yun said to Xiang Xiang Leina with a serious face.

Xiang Xiang Leina gave a light "ah," seemingly intimidated by Zhou Yun's serious tone.

Zhou Yun looked at Xiang Xiang Leina's expression and laughed lightly twice.

Of course, he was just joking.

Zhou Yun has always been "Four-dimensional pocket! Add points!", "Four-dimensional pocket! Let me see your potential!" toward things like golden fingers.

He rummaged through the four-dimensional pocket, directly pulled out a bag of bread from it, and stuffed it into Xiang Xiang Leina's hand:

"DANG DANG DANG! Memory Bread!"

"Press this bread onto the knowledge you want to remember, and then eat it into your stomach, and you can remember it."

"By the way, if you have indigestion, you will forget it."

Hearing this, Xiang Xiang Leina thanked Zhou Yun repeatedly, and then left Zhou Yun's residence under Cegorach's Veilwalker's curious gaze.

After Cegorach's Veilwalker watched Xiang Xiang Leina leave, she could not help but ask curiously: "Boss, can this bread really cure Big Sister Xiang Xiang Leina's brain?"

"I think her brain is to the extent that even if our family's Goddess of Life Isha ran out of Nurgle's Garden, it couldn't be cured... I even suspect her brain structure is the latest scientific research result of the human Hua Hua Hua Di Huang."

"... No." Zhou Yun shook his head: "It's just to let her remember that knowledge; understanding is another matter... Xiang Xiang Leina's memory is no problem, it's mainly a defect in understanding ability."

"Besides, if Xiang Xiang Leina's brain was really cured, an untrained Alpha-level psyker would probably be corrupted on the spot. She is quite good like this now."

Cegorach's Veilwalker could not help but nod in agreement.

Zhou Yun glanced at her: "Speaking of which, why hasn't Cegorach come to fish you out yet?"

"My four-dimensional pocket has been a bit short of people entering to enlighten themselves recently. If He really doesn't save you, do you want to come in and enlighten yourself?"

The smile on Cegorach's Veilwalker's mouth stiffened.

Outside Zhou Yun's residence, Xiang Xiang Leina, who had just left here, could not help but look up at the scorching sun in the vast sky.

She was still a bit unaccustomed to Macragge's climate, the broad sky, and the bright sun; all of this made her often produce a sense of fear.

Suddenly, Xiang Xiang Leina felt her vision blur slightly.

She could not help but lower her head, feeling her tear glands ache slightly, a few drops of tears secreted, sliding stickily across her cheeks.

(End of chapter)