Chapter 322

The moment Zhou Yun and Guilliman stepped into the ward, all wailing and sobbing ceased.

The thick, foul-smelling air became fresh, the scent of disinfectant overpowering the odor of filthy secretions. The patients lying on the beds suddenly felt a renewed strength in their bodies, and the swollen tear ducts at the corners of their eyes no longer oozed foul tears; the edema dissipated, and light filled their eyes once more.

The patients widened their eyes in surprise and bewilderment, looking at their own hands; the disease and pain seemed to have receded in an instant.

They were as if completely healed!

The patients climbed out of bed with joy and looked at Guilliman and Zhou Yun standing at the door.

Because the soldiers of the Cadian 184th Regiment would not contract the Tears Plague, these patients were all members of the Ultramar Auxilia.

Zhou Yun was a stranger to them, and they did not know that Zhou Yun was Doraemon.

But how could they not recognize the Primarch's figure?

Filled with reverence and fanaticism, these patients tried to climb off their beds to kowtow to Guilliman.

They naturally took all of this as a miracle brought by Guilliman.

The Primarch quickly waved to signal the stunned apothecaries and medics to stop the patients trying to kowtow to him, and immediately began to check the physical condition of these patients.

They soon reached the conclusion that the diseases on these patients seemed to have truly vanished into thin air.

Even those ubiquitous mites, which were almost impossible to eradicate completely, were dying in droves; black little pools formed by mite carcasses could be seen on the floors of the wards and the camp.

The medics and apothecaries were completely at a loss, while the patients and the accompanying Ecclesiarchy priests took it for granted that this was a miracle brought by the Primarch.

Guilliman couldn't help but rub his brow to ease the headache.

He could faintly hear that outside the ward, Ecclesiarchy priests had already begun to preach.

"This is the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's mercy! The God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's divinity has spread through the bloodline to His offspring!"

"The radiance of the Master of Mankind is shining upon the Primarch; the Plague God's disease dares not approach Him in the slightest!"

The Ecclesiarchy priest brandished the Aquila scepter in his hand, preaching the divinity of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang and the Primarch with all his might, and the soldiers below listened, mesmerized.

It was no wonder the priests were so excited; the rise of the Holy Doraemon Sect had put some pressure on the Ecclesiarchy groups near Ultramar.

The Ecclesiarchy had originally been full of suspicion toward the Doraemon Sect, but the endorsement of Sanguinius and Guilliman had suppressed that suspicion, allowing it to develop rapidly in Macragge and Ultramar.

Zhou Yun would occasionally shuttle through the battlefields across Ultramar on the front lines, using the Fourth-Dimensional Pocket to recover items corrupted by Chaos. The Cadian 184th Regiment and the Doraemon Company, equipped with gadgets, were also active throughout Ultramar.

Many mortals were thus able to see the magical effects of various gadgets, taking them as miracles of Doraemon, and consequently, they committed themselves to the faith of the Holy Doraemon Sect.

This created a sense of crisis among the Ecclesiarchy groups within Ultramar, especially since Guilliman had always been distant from the Ecclesiarchy after his resurrection, and instead allowed the Holy Doraemon Sect to hold ceremonies and celebrations in the capital of Macragge.

Of course, Zhou Yun understood that this was because Guilliman hoped to have some religious-level power to check and balance the Ecclesiarchy; it was a manifestation of his political maneuvering.

But the Ecclesiarchy, unaware of this, only felt that their status had been challenged. Now that the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's offspring had displayed a miracle, they naturally couldn't help but promote it extensively.

"In ancient superstitions, humans believed that the King's touch alone could cure all diseases."

Guilliman said with a dark and grim expression:

"Now you actually want me to believe that this plague is God's creation, and I only need to stand here to cure it?"

"Ultramar Gratitude Education: 'Grandpa Guilliman Uses the King's Touch to Defeat the Plague God's Disease'."

Zhou Yun, sitting beside Guilliman, shrugged and said. He understood Guilliman's mood.

Guilliman was now like Ximen Bao, who had thrown the River Lord and the three elders into the river, only to suddenly discover that the River Lord actually existed.

Materialism no longer existed! The Imperial Truth no longer existed!

In such a situation, the only ones who could still not question materialism and the Imperial Truth were probably the two lunatics, Mortarion and Fabius Bile.

Guilliman's expression was complex; on one hand, he had indeed found a way to cure his people, but on the other hand, this method was not pleasant. Moreover, Guilliman felt strange.

"This is truly strange; I have never realized I possessed such a talent."

Guilliman pinched his chin, muttering to himself.

Guilliman sighed, seemingly accepting this point.

He and Zhou Yun began to move throughout Ultramar with the help of the Anywhere Door.

Everywhere the two arrived, the Tears Plague vanished like dew encountering the scorching sun. The Ecclesiarchy preached the miracle brought by Guilliman with all their might, and the patients knelt to Luo Bote Guilliman with gratitude.

Hymns were endless; Guilliman seemed to be conducting a sacred pilgrimage. Even the areas where the Tears Plague was most severe faded away due to the Primarch's arrival. Such a coincidence, so ingenious.

Relying on the Anywhere Door, Guilliman took only a day to arrive at the camps with the most Tears Plague patients, using his presence to eliminate the disease in these places.

The "Tears Plague" couldn't stop tears from flowing from its corners—how unwilling it was! Because of Mortarion's request to the Grandfather, it had to control itself to submit when Guilliman visited, withdrawing the Grandfather's gift from those mortal patients.

This was to make Guilliman run around in Ultramar, to make him wander in despair, to make him have to stay in Ultramar to save his people, unable to go to his father's side.

This was Mortarion's goal: to force Guilliman to choose between Ultramar and the entire Imperium.

Either let his people weep in sorrow amidst the disease, or let the Imperium fall into chaos and division.

How sad, how painful.

The "Tears Plague" sobbed uncontrollably; its tears flowed more into the material universe, turning into bacteria injected into the bodies of mites, promoting their growth, development, and hatching.

At the same time, the plague bacteria dormant in the patients' bodies began to revive.

Weep, weep.

To be able to weep to one's heart's content in this galaxy is also a gift.

The "Tears Plague" twisted its body, tears flowing like a tide from its eyeballs formed by mites.

They also flowed from the eyes of those patients in the mortal world who had originally seemed to have recovered, and from the eyes of more people who had originally been healthy.

In the Graldo Valley camp on Thalassa, the patients in the ward fell into a heavy sleep; this was the first time in days they had enjoyed a peaceful rest.

But this peace was soon shattered; the first cry of grief sounded from the ward.

A patient let out a painful cry, tears gushing from his tear ducts. The foul-smelling tears stuck stickily to his eyelids and eyeballs, quickly solidifying into clumps, irritating the eyeballs, tear ducts, and eyelids until they were swollen and red.

Then, an unbearable rustling sound came from the eyeballs, and countless tiny mites crawled out from between his eyeballs and eyelids, spreading throughout the ward.

Soon, other patients developed the same symptoms. Those patients who seemed to have been cured by Guilliman began to weep again, and mites gathered into a tide, crawling out of their tear ducts and converging into a black water tide on the floor.

The mortal medics let out terrified screams, and the Astartes apothecaries intercepted the mite tide.

The same scene was happening on more worlds; those patients who had once been cured by Luo Bote Guilliman began to show symptoms of the Tears Plague again.

The medics and apothecaries were helpless against this.

The mite tide even began to appear from outside the ward; these tiny mites seemed able to appear from any position outside human sight.

They surged out from every corner like clumps of viscous black water, rushing toward the Ultramar Auxilia encampment.

Lasguns scorched the rain of Thalassa, colliding with the mite tide, but the effect was minimal.

"Use Promethium!!!" the commander of the Thalassa Ultramar Auxilia roared.

Mk. IIIa Heresy-pattern promethium flamers began to vent scorching flames, burning the mites carrying the germs on the ground.

But these mites seemed like a commanded army, quickly changing their strategy.

The Ultramar Auxilia commander watched in horror as the cold rain falling on Thalassa turned into a pitch-black, viscous substance, filled with mites carrying the Tears Plague.

The rain fell on the mortal soldiers, the mites gnawed at their skin, and the symptoms of the Tears Plague appeared almost instantly. In just a moment, nearly one-third of the Ultramar Auxilia soldiers began to weep and wail.

The "Tears Plague" wept; the "Tears Plague" rejoiced in venting the Grandfather's blessing upon them.

The only thing that made the "Tears Plague" feel a pity was that those Astra Militarum soldiers wearing Cadian uniforms, who were approaching the Ultramar Auxilia camp in the pitch-black rain, seemed to be protected by some kind of power. It could control the mites to gnaw at them, but it could not inject the blessing into their bodies.

Xiang Xiang Leina stood outside the Ultramar Auxilia camp, bathed in the cold rain of Thalassa. Her eyes flashed with scorching psychic fire; she could hear the demonic sobbing coming from the Warp and could feel the profane power within the Tears Plague. She was furious because of this.

Damn Warp demons, so rude, bullying people too much!

"Get out!!!"

Intense psychic power was released with Xiang Xiang Leina as the center; the mite tide on the ground, like a black water pool, began to burn. At the same time, her intense psychic power surged directly into the clouds in the sky, exploding like a scorching sun, burning away the dark clouds and filthy rain, allowing sunlight to shine again on the Graldo Valley camp.

But the sobbing in the Warp still existed; Xiang Xiang Leina could destroy the mites, but she could not destroy the pathogenic bacteria that had already parasitized the human body.

As long as these bacteria existed and continued to make those infected weep and suffer, the demon in the Warp that existed because of the Tears Plague could continuously draw power and keep making itself stronger.

This was the unique power of Nurgle and His demons; when a great plague spreads, Nurgle can even leap to become the most powerful existence among the Four Chaos Gods.

"Commander, how should we deal with these patients?" The soldiers of the Cadian 184th Regiment quickly took over the Ultramar Auxilia camp on Thalassa and asked Xiang Xiang Leina for the next step.

"Report the situation here to Zhou Yun and Lord Guilliman—" Before Xiang Xiang Leina's words were finished, she heard a crisp sound of a door opening.

For a moment, she and the soldiers of the Cadian 184th Regiment showed expressions of joy simultaneously, looking in unison toward the direction the door-opening sound came from.

The reddish-pink wooden door was gently pushed open, and a figure stepped out.

"Zhou E?" Before Xiang Xiang Leina could call out Zhou Yun's name, she froze.

A round, blue, red-nosed raccoon cat stepped out from the Anywhere Door.

The soldiers of the Cadian 184th Regiment immediately knelt on the ground, and those Ultramar Auxilia soldiers also gasped, as if they had seen a legend appear before their eyes.

Zhou Yun, wearing the appearance of Doraemon, reached his hand into the Fourth-Dimensional Pocket and pulled out a handheld lamp.

"Ta-da! The lamp that eliminates useless bacteria!"

(End of chapter)