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Chapter 658

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Lion El'Jonson's figure moved like a beast in the forest, quickly shuttling between the jungles cast of steel.

The shell of Long Linxing was Caliban itself, only the dense forest was replaced by steel jungles, mountains were replaced by flesh-and-blood factories, and streams were replaced by energy pipelines, but the terrain itself had no changes.

Lion was like a fish returning to the cold stream that nurtured him on Long Linxing. Every protrusion, every rock, and every pebble in the stream was in his memory.

He fought Perturabo almost like playing. Perturabo now didn't dare to use large-scale long-range firepower coverage, so as not to harm the semi-finished female robot on Lion's shield, and could only drag his huge body, chasing behind Lion.

But he was after all a Primarch with a huge body and not skilled in speed and reaction. He couldn't catch up with Lion, let alone keep up with Lion's reaction. Occasionally finding an opportunity to attack, Lion could also raise his shield before he touched himself, blocking that semi-finished female robot in front of himself.

Repeatedly pulling like this, Perturabo's mentality also became increasingly irritable.

This was the effect Lion was pursuing.

The figure of this First Primarch moved, stepped into the gloomy forest, and disappeared into the steel jungle.

Then in the blink of an eye, he appeared at Perturabo's side, wielding the shield in his hand and charging directly toward Perturabo's body.

Perturabo saw this and cursed in a low voice.

His body was too hard and solid. If that semi-finished mechanical body of "sister" hit it, he was afraid it would disintegrate in an instant.

Perturabo almost didn't hesitate, quickly connecting his will to Long Linxing, attempting to complete a transfer with the help of Long Linxing's ability to tear time and space.

But...

The moment Perturabo's will connected to Long Linxing, he noticed something wrong.

The interior of Long Linxing was simply a mess.

The Ouroboros, or the entire Caliban, was disintegrating and collapsing from the inside.

The Plague Heart had self-ignited, scattering terrifying energy toward the surroundings.

The Tuchulcha Engine was shining brightly, like a star about to explode.

The three Old One artifacts were all overloading at this moment, already on the verge of bursting.

Perturabo's attempt to mobilize Long Linxing's power also failed accordingly.

Inside Long Linxing, the will of the three Old One artifacts connected slightly with him, but what was transmitted was only a sentence left by Vashtorr.

"My friend, I owe you much."

"If there is another day, I will surely repay."

"This is not a contract, this is just a promise I don't know if I can fulfill."

Vashtorr...

Perturabo's superhuman brain soon made him realize what Vashtorr wanted to do.

He abandoned Long Linxing, abandoned the Malicious Art domain, abandoned Perturabo, and even most of the power in his shell was used to accelerate Long Linxing's operation.

Vashtorr abandoned almost everything, entering the Old One treasury, which was also his own cage, with only a shell. In order not to let Zhou Yun enter it, he even broke Long Linxing, which served as a key.

So weak, even if he ascended to godhood, he would inevitably be imprisoned in it for long years.

"Bastard!"

Perturabo cursed. He himself couldn't explain why he was so angry.

But at this moment, he had no opportunity to think so much. Lion was already holding the shield and about to charge up.

Perturabo cursed, and the steel armor that protected his body, layer upon layer, began to disintegrate and split, like a steel flower, blooming as Lion's shield fell.

Finally, Perturabo's body was exposed to the hot air, exposed in front of Lion's shield, exposed in front of that semi-finished female robot...

The arm of that semi-finished female robot hung down involuntarily due to gravity, hanging toward Perturabo's body.

Perturabo raised his head, which was pierced by steel cables, and his pair of eyes, which were always gloomy and unhappy, raised, looking at the cheek of that female robot.

That face... it was meticulously crafted by Perturabo, exactly the same as the real Calliphon.

Those hands, one mechanical, one covered with bionic skin, gently cupped Perturabo's face.

Perturabo had already reached out, preparing to take back his "sister" from Lion's shield, but his hand froze.

Those eyes, those beautiful black eyes, suddenly had spirit.

"Appe."

"You big fool, the smartest in the world."

"Have you learned how to love others?"

Calliphon's lips opened slightly, saying softly to Perturabo.

Perturabo only felt the world spinning. He seemed to have become that boy who knew everything again, that boy who was born knowing, that natural wise man. Everyone called him a genius, and everyone longed to use his talent.

Only one person, a woman, a frail woman who clearly didn't understand anything, would gently reach out her hand to stroke his cheek and say to him: "Appe, you big fool."

Only her, only she would call him a fool.

Just at this moment, the shield moved away, and the eyes of the semi-finished mechanical woman on the shield lost their spirit, as if everything just now was just an illusion produced by Perturabo.

The sword named loyalty stabbed out from behind the shield, its momentum unstoppable, stabbing straight into Perturabo's brow, piercing Perturabo's brain marrow.

This Lord of Iron opened his mouth slightly, spat out a few broken words, and then his body fell down. His body, composed of Warp energy, slowly dissipated in mid-air, disappearing without a trace.

The massive metal heavy armor aggregated by the Warp energy he controlled also disintegrated, turning into a small hill piled up by steel.

Lion pulled out the blade. He actually noticed something strange. Why didn't Perturabo use Long Linxing's power to transfer at the last moment?

But this confusion of Lion soon dissipated. In the communication, Fulgrim's voice sounded, telling Lion that Long Linxing had opened the door to the Old One treasury and was about to disintegrate, and they had already evacuated through the Anywhere Door.

Lion's face moved. Although he still hadn't figured out the situation before him, he should also evacuate quickly.

The Lord of the Dark Angels took half a step gently, and the dense forest suddenly appeared under his feet. Lion was about to step into the forest and leave————

But at the last moment, Lion's footsteps stopped.

The Lion raised his head a bit stunned, looking in all directions of Long Linxing.

At this moment, Long Linxing had begun to tremble violently, the ground began to crack, eerie light sprayed out, and the time and space around Long Linxing began to become chaotic due to the disintegration of the three Old One artifacts.

Long Linxing, or the scenes of Caliban at different times, began to appear on this planet at the same time.

The Lion saw his own nursery pod falling to the ground, saw himself surviving alone in the forest, saw his first meeting with Lu Se, saw... saw himself returning from Terra and angrily slaughtering his own offspring, saw the ground torn by the artillery fire raised by his fleet.

Lion saw the moment Caliban was destroyed.

But... but Lion also saw some things that shouldn't exist at that time.

He saw some ships, hanging the mark of the Dark Angels, but they were a bit different from those in the Great Crusade era. The paint was not the deep black, but the emerald green like a dense forest, and the identification codes of these ships had never existed in the legion's database.

Those were... those were the ships of the Dark Angels chapter in the forty-first millennium of mankind, and some Black Claw fighters...

How could it be?

How could those ships appear on Caliban?

Even if time and space were chaotic, when the Dark Angels chapter was established, Caliban had long since disintegrated.

Lion's eyes shrank suddenly.

Back then, when Caliban was destroyed, the Dark Angels troops on Caliban were not just his and Lu Se's.

There were also those from the future Dark Angels chapter.

Lion suddenly remembered that Lu Se had always claimed that it wasn't he who destroyed Caliban, and Lion was also convinced that the ammunition he dropped on Caliban at the beginning wasn't enough to tear Caliban.

If Lu Se didn't lie, then... then...

The Lion gasped.

He still wanted to watch for a while, to see clearly what exactly happened.

But Long Linxing had already begun to disintegrate, and more and more dazzling Warp light began to envelop the surroundings.

The Lion understood that if he didn't leave now, it would be too late.

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