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Chapter 366: Will there be dreams of brown-skinned magical girls on the nuclear wasteland of Terra?

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The golden mist of the webway gate intertwined and twisted, and the clear chanting of Sylandri Veilwalker echoed in the void.

The feeling of reality and the Warp intertwining and confusing passed through Zhou Yun's body, which made him feel a slight dizziness.

Following this was the weight of reality being re-applied to his shoulders, a sense of solidity completely different from the webway surging from all directions.

Then came the cold, silence, and dead stillness————

Deep space—the deep space without the cover of the sky was nakedly exposed before Zhou Yun's eyes. Glare swayed on his crystalline lenses, and the stars and dazzling cosmic rays flickered in the pitch-black universe.

Zhou Yun took a step forward gently, and rolling dust immediately rose on the gray-white ground, like cloud mountains and mist.

He looked around and found that he was standing at the bottom of a huge crater, beside a webway gate engraved with a large number of runes. The dim stars above the sky barely illuminated the surroundings.

This was clearly Luna, the Moon, Terra's satellite, the first extraterrestrial territory humans stepped on.

Unlike the Moon of the third millennium of humanity in Zhou Yun's memory, the current Moon had been developed quite a bit.

Under the surface of the cold planet, it was filled with a large number of underground hive cities, where billions of people lived, producing various industrial products for Terra, and the surface was also distributed with many strategic bases, fortresses, and spaceports.

And the gravity on the surface of the Moon was no longer just one-sixth of Earth's, but exactly the same as Earth's.

This was thanks to the terraforming engine deep in the lunar core—that ancient technological creation of the Golden Age. It was originally aimed at transforming the Moon into a beautiful world like the Earth of the past.

In fact, it did achieve this. In the long years before the coming of the Old Night, the Moon had always been a beautiful world with gravity and atmosphere identical to Earth.

It was just that with the passage of time and the decline of humanity, the operation of the terraforming engine gradually had problems. Although the gravity system was still running normally, the atmosphere manufacturing system had been damaged, and only a very thin air remained on the surface of the Moon, with only a few areas still retaining a breathable atmosphere.

The crater where Zhou Yun was clearly was not among them. Thanks to the effect of the Adaptation Lamp, he could move normally in this thin and cold air.

At this moment, a slight mechanical sound came through the thin air, and a massive body like a giant metal worm twisted and appeared in the dark crater.

Belisarius Dora Cawl bowed respectfully to Zhou Yun in his scarlet robes.

It was just that his body was too massive; even if he bent his body, he was still a large chunk taller than Zhou Yun.

At the same time that Zhou Yun, Guilliman, and Sanguinius's party were fighting Ma Genusi, Ahriman, Kairos, and Abaddon, the Archmagos, Saint Celestine, Grey Knight Grand Master Voldus, and Inquisitor Greyfax's party were also heading to Terra through different routes.

Zhou Yun noticed that there were bloodstains on Cawl's body. This Archmagos had clearly also experienced battle, but the intensity of the battle was far less than what Zhou Yun's party had experienced.

As the dizziness of entering reality from the webway gradually dissipated and his eyes gradually adapted to the darkness of the surroundings, Zhou Yun gradually felt others besides the Archmagos.

The Grey Knight troops led by Grand Master Voldus seemed to have suffered some damage, but it was not large.

The Archmagos's Skitarii were lining up on the cold lunar soil, and the few remaining flesh parts of them were a bit black.

The Astra Militarum troops led by Lady Greyfax and Saint Celestine also suffered minor injuries, but among them were the Cadian 184th Regiment equipped with props, so the damage was not large.

Saint Celestine's wings trembled slightly, breaking through the dark sky, and landed in front of Zhou Yun like a small golden sun.

"My lord." Celestine bowed gently, her eyes also carrying a little anxiety.

Zhou Yun had passed through the webway gate alone; she was clearly a bit worried about the situation of the Primarchs and others.

After all, although splitting the troops greatly reduced the pressure on other troops, it also made Zhou Yun's party face a Daemon Primarch, a Tzeentch Chosen, and a Chief Greater Daemon at the same time.

And these three were all leaders in their respective fields, and their strength was in the upper tier among Primarchs, Chosen, and Chief Greater Daemons.

Hearing this, Zhou Yun couldn't help but glance at his 4D pocket...

【Item Name: Roboute Guilliman】

【Origin: Solar System—Terra—Himalayas—Imperial Underground Laboratory】

【Evaluation: One of the twenty-one extraordinary progeny forged by the Human Hua Hua Hua Di Huang using genetic alchemy technology, it is the product of the combination of strong Warp echoes and the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's powerful genetic sequence. Roboute Guilliman is the thirteenth among them. The essence injected under his fleshly body is the echo of the order of the Ultramar Five Hundred Worlds produced in the Warp.

Anyone who approaches him will be unconsciously affected by his Warp nature, and being rolled into the order he plans often manifests as people approaching Guilliman having inexplicably increased work, long-term falling into overtime, and instinctively accepting the norms specified by Guilliman, which can be called an innate overtime-prone body.】

【Production Time: 792. M30】

【Status: Exhausted】

【Value: 】

The long string of numbers representing Guilliman's selling price made Zhou Yun feel a bit dizzy, and for a time he couldn't even count how many zeros were on it.

This number even made Zhou Yun, who had fiercely exploded the gold coins of Ultramar, feel a bit tempted.

After all, according to the judgment of the 4D pocket, Guilliman's Warp essence came from the order of the entire Ultramar Five Hundred Worlds.

Ultramar prospered and existed because of his order, and this order also shaped Guilliman himself.

Guilliman was Ultramar, and Ultramar was Guilliman. It seemed that in the judgment of the 4D pocket, Guilliman was also equal to the sum of the value of the entire Ultramar—this was too much of a test for the cadre.

Just at this moment, Guilliman himself drilled out of the 4D pocket.

"I have no problem."

Guilliman said somewhat exhaustedly.

Kairos's spell ultimately caused him some damage, but the form of the damage was not quite the same as he had expected.

That spell strongly stimulated the negative emotions Guilliman had accumulated since his resurrection, especially the exhaustion he had accumulated in constant overtime.

He was now extremely exhausted mentally.

"Sanguinius needs some time to recover."

The injuries on Sanguinius mainly came from the wounds left by Horus in the past, in which the power of the four gods resided. The Changer of Ways used this to make Sanguinius fall into weakness, but he should also recover very quickly.

Suddenly, Guilliman noticed Zhou Yun's gaze————

"Can you drill back into the 4D pocket?" Zhou Yun shook the pocket on his stomach and couldn't help but say.

The cadre still wanted to accept more tests.

"Hmm?" Guilliman looked at Zhou Yun somewhat vigilantly.

Jokes aside, it was impossible for Zhou Yun to really sell Guilliman.

After all, now humans, the Empire, and Zhou Yun himself all needed Guilliman's super-excellent operational ability.

As long as Guilliman didn't think about writing some Imperial Creed all day long and tricking Zhou Yun into working overtime, Zhou Yun would definitely not sell him.

With the help of the Bamboo-Copter, Zhou Yun and others left the bottom of the crater very quickly.

In a few minutes, Zhou Yun, Guilliman, and a group of vanguard troops climbed to the top of the crater.

Zhou Yun was able to see that dim yellow planet hanging in the pitch-black sky.

That was Terra, that was Earth, that was the hometown of Zhou Yun and all humans, that was the center of the entire Empire.

It was just that this star was no longer the azure blue in his memory. At a glance, Zhou Yun could only see a piece of ugly, dry, dim yellow.

Clouds full of radiation covered and circled its outer layer, and oceans could no longer be seen on the surface, leaving only a few dry scars that could barely see the shapes of the oceans of the past.

Besides this, Zhou Yun could only see the lights of those disorderly growing hive cities distributed densely on its surface; they were like a large pile of glowing parasites parasitic on the surface of Terra.

"Damn it."

Zhou Yun couldn't help but say:

"If I weren't standing on the Moon, I would have thought it was Mars."

"... I personally think the atmosphere of Mars is more comfortable to breathe."

Belisarius Cawl, standing beside Zhou Yun, suddenly said:

"You know, Mars even had several small oceans in the thirty-fifth millennium of humanity."

"And the last ocean of Terra was drained by a water thief in the early thirty-first millennium."

"..." Zhou Yun's evaluation of this was only "hard to bear."

Although he had been mentally prepared, Zhou Yun, looking at Terra, which had been tossed into this state, still couldn't help but feel an impulse to scold his unfilial descendants in his heart.

It was because of the tossing of those tech-barbarians that the current Terra couldn't grow the Keling apples that were fruit-sized, tasted right, were full of juice, and could make one have brown-skinned magical girl Neos spring dreams after eating them.

Zhou Yun couldn't help but sigh in his heart————

Then he heard a burst of noise coming from the bottom of the crater.

The loudest one belonged to Sylandri Veilwalker, who was closing the webway gate.

"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!"

"By Saint Doraemon's Dorayaki and Xi Gaoqi's hooked nose!"

Sylandri Veilwalker roared incoherently as if she had received a great shock.

Zhou Yun's curiosity was piqued. He turned his head to look at the bottom of the crater.

Then Zhou Yun saw a massive scarlet figure flash past his eyes.

Zhou Yun turned his head back in astonishment, wanting to see clearly what that agile scarlet figure was.

Then Zhou Yun saw a scene he would never forget in his life.

Zhou Yun felt that many years later, facing the Four Gods, he would definitely remember the moment he watched Ma Genusi, naked on his upper body, running past the Terra on the pitch-black sky on the Moon... this was too abstract.

"Rotate! My muscle power!"

Ma Genusi's roar penetrated the limitation of the thin air and echoed throughout the Moon:

"Run!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 367 =====

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