Chapter 4: Chicken Thief: Nature Warm, Taste Pungent, Unblocks Meridians to Relieve Pain

"When the shadow of the Great Devourer envelops all of Ashford, it will be too late."

The winged figure claiming to be Sanguinius flickered in and out of sight before Zhou Yun,

This time, just as he had said, Zhou Yun had indeed encountered some danger.

But Chaos always likes to use kindness to lure people into corruption,

the love of a lover, the teachings of a sage, the brotherhood of siblings, the care of a benevolent father—

sometimes this kindness is a disguise, sometimes it springs from a true heart, but whichever it is, the gifts of the Warp always have their price, and one will inevitably sink deeper and deeper.

The Sons of Horus, in order to save the Warmaster, placed him within Dai Wen's Coil Serpent Society temple, causing him to be corrupted.

Magnus pursued the power of the Warp too excessively; a single psychic cannon shattered Hua Di Huang's Webway dream.

Fulgrim became obsessed with the power of the Blade of the Laer, only to be controlled by the daemon dwelling within it.

Even the Primarchs, possessing superhuman wisdom, could be beguiled by it, and Zhou Yun believed he lacked the wisdom to distinguish truth from falsehood, nor did he have the courage to gamble.

He fished a small knife out of his four-dimensional pocket and walked over to those Genestealer Cultists who had been knocked unconscious by air guns,

The blade sliced across their necks, sending these Genestealers, who were not deeply corrupted, to meet the Great Devourer.

Looking at the several corpses lying on the ground, Zhou Yun felt a headache coming on;

if these corpses were left where they lay, who knew what clues other Genestealers might discover, tracking him down.

If only there were some way to destroy the bodies and erase all traces without leaving any behind.

Hmm?

Zhou Yun blinked his eyes, an idea popping into his mind;

he squatted down, grabbed a corpse, and stuffed it into the four-dimensional pocket on his stomach.

【Item Name: Hybrid Neophyte Corpse】

【Origin: Nether Shield Galaxy - Ashford Planet - Fordia City】

【Evaluation: A Genestealer corpse with little mutation; nature warm, taste pungent and slightly salty; effects include unblocking meridians to relieve pain, attacking toxins to disperse nodules, and causing genetic contamination; not suitable for consumption.】

【Production Time: 978. M41】

【Status: Intact, excellent quality】

【Value: 10,000 yuan】

Effects include unblocking meridians to relieve pain, attacking toxins to disperse nodules, and causing genetic contamination.

Zhou Yun had just been about to mock the four-dimensional pocket's evaluation when his gaze was drawn away by the income figure below, reaching as high as ten thousand.

It was actually more expensive than an entire damaged Promethium Extraction Transducer!

He hurriedly began his diligent labor, stuffing the remaining corpses into the four-dimensional pocket as well,

Eight Genestealer corpses contributed a total income of over one hundred thousand to him.

That leader Genestealer, who had been crushed into an insect pancake and possessed deeper mutations, alone yielded a recovery value of over twenty thousand.

For a moment, Zhou Yun felt a pang of regret; if it hadn't been crushed into a pancake, ruining its quality, the recovery value should have been even higher.

Counting the income from scavenging trash earlier, the money in Zhou Yun's pocket was already approaching the two hundred thousand mark.

He couldn't help but swallow hard,

Asking himself honestly, he was not a greedy person,

but the more money accumulated, the closer he was to obtaining an Anywhere Door, and the more opportunities he would have to flee.

If he could hunt more Genestealers...

Zhou Yun quickly shook his head, suppressing this dangerous thought.

Those were Genestealers, 'Chicken Thieves', not a flock of chickens wearing overalls who could sing, dance, rap, and play basketball.

These were merely Hybrid Neophytes with almost no mutation, the weakest and most human-like variety among the Chicken Thieves.

If he encountered more Hybrid Neophytes or Hybrid Acolytes with deeper mutations, or even those top predators within the Genestealer Cults,

he feared that long before the Tyranid fleet descended, Zhou Yun would already be going to meet the Great Devourer.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yun reached into his pocket and pulled out a bottle of potion.

【Item Name: Air Gun Potion】

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

【Production Time: 241. M3】

【Function: Liquid potion; after dripping onto a fingertip, point the finger at a target and shout 'Bang!' to fire a shockwave; the power is sufficient to knock a person unconscious; each fingertip can fire only one shot.】

【Evaluation: Without a gun, one cannot shoot people; how inconvenient a thing a gun is!】

This item's power was far inferior to a Shock Gun or an Air Cannon, its potency limited to rendering ordinary humans unconscious; for monsters with flesh distorted like Hybrid Neophytes, it required several shots to subdue them.

But its advantages were being cheap and highly concealable, and Zhou Yun would not be encountering things like Astartes, which were nearly legendary within the hive cities.

He replenished a few shots of Air Gun Potion on his fingertips and used the shockwaves to thoroughly blast the surrounding area, striving to erase all his traces.

Then, at his fastest speed, he slipped away from this ruined city district to avoid being caught up by the Genestealer Cult.

A few minutes after Zhou Yun departed,

a figure wearing a hood, with mechanical implants covering its face, silently approached the location where the battle had just occurred,

It was an Inquisitor, an assassin from the Genestealer Cult, born to eliminate anyone threatening the safety of the brood,

It possessed night vision surpassing that of mortals, multi-jointed limbs capable of crawling through shadows, and pliable muscles able to squeeze into the narrowest crevices,

Its eyes were the Patriarch's eyes, the bio-dagger in its hand was the Patriarch's claws, and it had come to investigate here to answer the Patriarch's doubts.

But the ground here seemed as though swept by a wild wind, leaving almost no traces behind,

It gripped the bio-dagger in its hand vigilantly,

Since there were no traces on the material plane, it would look for psychic traces lingering in the air instead.

In the world invisible to the naked eye, it discovered a pure white feather gently drifting down through the air.

That feather was so luxurious, as if forged from white gold, yet so softer than any goose down,

That feather was so pure, out of place in this filthy world; that feather was so noble, as if blessed by the most sacred grace of this realm,

It smelled a fragrance, emanating from that feather, as if it had been soaked in ten thousand years of prayers and incense within a cathedral.

Oh, it could no longer hear, could no longer hear the voice of the Patriarch, could no longer hear the voice of the Four-Armed Divine Emperor,

It began to sob; in a daze, it understood what grotesque form it had become and what erroneous path it had taken.

It begged for forgiveness, begged for atonement, and then, He descended this fire.

In the darkness of this ruined district,

That massive shadow, crouching in the shadows, over six meters tall, seeming the embodiment of all depravity and blasphemy in the world, half-god yet half-demon, gazed upon this scene,

Gazing at the Inquisitor who had served as its eyes, tracking the psychic traces; suddenly, the Inquisitor stood frozen, and the connection to it was abruptly severed.

Then, a searing golden flame surged from the Inquisitor's corrupted and mutated skull, pouring out from eyes, mouth, and ears, burning fiercely,

Until it burned the creature into a pile of ash shimmering with pale golden sparks.

That massive figure let out a low, fearful roar,

Then, in an instant, the Patriarch's roar echoed in the minds of all Gene-Thieves,

"Find him! Kill him!"

Croak, everyone is begging for votes!

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(End of this chapter)