Chapter 89

"That Warp engine you wanted, that Warp engine corrupted by the Plague God, I moved it back for you."

Zhou Yun showed a brilliant smile, disregarding Xiang Xiang Leina's terrified expression, and patted her shoulder:

"The mission was successfully completed; you requested to bring the 'Warp engine' back, and I did it."

Xiang Xiang Leina requested to bring the Warp engine back,

And Zhou Yun indeed brought the Warp engine back.

"You don't have to worry, this engine is absolutely usable."

"It's just corrupted, not broken; it can be started normally."

Zhou Yun's tone was full of sincerity.

But where it will fly after starting... that's another matter.

As for whether Xiang Xiang Leina will cause a new Warp rift after accepting it...

Zhou Yun could only say: Is there such a good thing?

Xiang Xiang Leina looked at Zhou Yun's expression, which was sincere but carried some greed, and couldn't help but shrink her body backward.

She tried to use psyker power to amplify her own senses to find the fluctuations between Zhou Yun's expression and tone,

Trying to judge whether the bizarre things Zhou Yun said were true or false.

Zhou Yun's expression was calm and sincere, and his voice was full of confidence and sincerity.

And Xiang Xiang Leina's own psyker intuition also told her that what Zhou Yun said was all true!

He really brought back that Warp engine corrupted by the Plague God!

Is he sick!

Looking at Zhou Yun's appearance of everything being under control, Xiang Xiang Leina's expression was a bit broken.

"No... no..."

She hurriedly waved her hand, her tone carrying some fear:

"Can that Warp engine be destroyed? Can the rift be closed?"

"The rift has already been closed."

Looking at Xiang Xiang Leina's fearful little eyes, Zhou Yun shook his head helplessly:

"As for destroying it... that's another price."

"I'll pay more," Xiang Xiang Leina gritted her teeth and said.

But immediately, she was a bit discouraged.

"Forget it, money is easy to talk about..."

Without the Warp engine, it was impossible to leave the Underworld star system, and building starships would have no meaning.

Xiang Xiang Leina's expression wavered slightly.

She had always felt that building starships was the responsibility given to her by the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang and the only way to save Ashfold.

But now all of this had failed, and Xiang Xiang Leina felt a bit at a loss, as if everything she had done before had no meaning.

Zhou Yun noticed Xiang Xiang Leina's somewhat hollow eyes.

He had a wonderful guess in his heart.

On the way back, Zhou Yun had been thinking about this problem.

In the original history... the Underworld star system had neither Nurgle's invasion nor the Tyranid giant beast created by Genestealers, and even Tzeentch's invasion hadn't appeared.

Could it be that all of this was really because of the butterfly effect brought by Zhou Yun's crossing?

No, before Zhou Yun crossed,

Tzeentch believer Namar Carl, Nurgle brothers Monger and Margit, and Underworld Worm Tiberius Augustus already existed...

The only explanation is that,

The Hua Hua Hua Di Huang prevented these things from happening... through some "tools" He chose.

"Everyone is a tool of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, just with different uses."

Zhou Yun looked at Xiang Xiang Leina and repeated the words Jeanne had once said to him.

"Huh?" Xiang Xiang Leina blinked blankly.

"If it weren't for me, how would these terrible things on Ashfold develop?"

Zhou Yun looked at Xiang Xiang Leina and asked, and before Xiang Xiang Leina could answer, Zhou Yun began to ask and answer himself:

"First of all, Namar Carl, don't you think it's very coincidental?"

"You happen to be Namar Carl's neighbor, once followed Namar Carl to learn, and happen to need the flight route records in Namar Carl's home."

And the reason why your psyker power is so powerful without strict training is because it comes from the infusion of some kind of existence...

Zhou Yun didn't say this sentence; this was what the winged figure in the white light told him back then.

"Even, you happen to... happen to be slow enough to effectively resist the corruption of the Lord of Change; you are almost a tool made to deal with Namar Carl."

"This..." Xiang Xiang Leina's expression became a bit astonished; she only then realized in a trance that the Namar Carl incident was indeed full of coincidences.

No, it wasn't a coincidence, it was deliberate guidance, it was the wrestling between the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang and the Lord of Change.

The Hua Hua Hua Di Huang had calculated the Lord of Change.

"But, but if that's the case, if I want to clear the corruption of the Lord of Change, I must..."

"Just kill those corrupted children; you will always find a way."

Xiang Xiang Leina widened her eyes; she did think of several ways,

But without exception, they would make the entire ninth district flow with blood... many innocent people would die, but Tzeentch's corruption would also be cleared.

Many large areas in the Lower Hive relied on the ninth district to transport food, and the entire Lower Hive would probably fall into a period of famine.

And she herself, very likely, would also expose her identity as an illegal psyker because of this, and would most likely be on the stake.

Zhou Yun said softly:

"I remember you liked starship-like things when you were a child; your plan to save Ashfold by building starships might also be the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's deliberate guidance, just so that you would happen to break into Namar Carl's home to find that flight route record."

Xiang Xiang Leina was speechless for a while, looking at Zhou Yun with wide eyes.

Not only Xiang Xiang Leina and Namar Carl, but the situation in the Underhive was also very interesting...

The existence of Margit and Monger limited the expansion of the Genestealers,

And the Genestealers entrenched in the first district also prevented the two from contacting the Warp engine.

The attack on the Genestealer Magus originally planned by Monger would inevitably fail, and they would inevitably try to summon Iron Plague and force their way into the first district.

They would happen to destroy the Genestealer Patriarch's plan to cultivate Tyranid organisms,

And when they opened the Warp rift,

Not only would Nurgle's power be strengthened in the reality universe, but the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's power would also be strengthened to a certain extent,

And He would take this opportunity to manifest on Jeanne and close the Warp rift.

In this way,

The Genestealers suffered heavy losses, Nurgle's invasion was resolved, and the Empire won without making a sound.

Of course, Jeanne would also die because she couldn't bear the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's power.

But in the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's plan, the lives of individuals must be currencies that can be consumed.

Margit was the only one who got this wrong.

The Hua Hua Hua Di Huang did not ignore Ashfold; He had been paying attention to Ashfold.

Zhou Yun even had a suspicion that the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang was likely doing similar things on many planets in the galaxy,

Using mortals as tools, using the material universe as a chessboard, and wrestling with the Chaos Gods,

Many crises were likely suppressed silently or guided to a situation favorable to the Empire before they broke out.

He was indeed protecting humanity.

It's just that this weasel has a bit of a Tzeentch flavor?

Zhou Yun couldn't help but slander in his heart.

And Zhou Yun himself... was likely an existence that the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's plan did not expect.

Just as Jeanne and the winged figure in the white light said, predicting one's own future is extremely difficult.

Presumably, in the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's original plan, Zhou Yun did not exist.

After Zhou Yun got involved, the situation became a bit wonderful instead.

The ninth district did not suffer heavy losses, the Lower Hive did not fall into famine because of this, and Xiang Xiang Leina and Jeanne were safe and sound.

These were all "currencies" that were originally going to be consumed in the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's plan.

"I saved Him money; I have to let the weasel convert it into a reward for me per head..." Zhou Yun couldn't help but mutter.

"What did you say?" Xiang Xiang Leina heard Zhou Yun's muttering and was stunned: "What weasel?"

"No, nothing, a legend from my hometown... It is said that there is a psyker creature called a weasel, which will stand by the side of the road and stop people to ask: 'Do you see me as a human or a god.' If you say it is a god, it will stiffen its mouth and say: 'I am not a god'."

Zhou Yun waved his hand and fooled it away.

"Where exactly is your hometown? How come there are so many strange things."

Xiang Xiang Leina frowned slightly, and there was still some wavering in her eyes...

"Even if it is really as you said, everything is the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's arrangement..."

"... Then what about my Ark Gang? I promised to build a starship to save them..."

Xiang Xiang Leina's body trembled slightly:

"Now what should I lead them to do? Disband on the spot?"

Hearing this question from Xiang Xiang Leina, Zhou Yun's mouth twitched slightly.

This was likely also in the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's arrangement.

The Underworld star system, like Baal, is located in a sector called the Scarlet Scars.

This area is shrouded in a kind of blood-red light.

It is said that this is the scar cut by the Blood God's sword in the reality universe; the evidence is that the crime rate in the Scarlet Scars is much higher than on ordinary planets.

People born here are generally more irritable, bloodthirsty, and impulsive.

But when the Leviathan Hive Fleet arrived,

The gangs of Ashfold actually united, spontaneously cooperated with the Astra Militarum's actions, replaced the PDF, and fought with the Cadian Shock Troops in the streets of the hive city.

A group of lawless gangs could actually form a combat-capable force under the impact of the Leviathan Hive Fleet...

Zhou Yun guessed that the gang that would fight with the Astra Militarum in the future might be Xiang Xiang Leina's Ark Gang.

This gang was extremely loyal to the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang under Xiang Xiang Leina's training and was well prepared for Ashfold's "doomsday," and its discipline was far better than other gangs.

It was precisely because of the cooperation of the local gangs that the Astra Militarum was able to escort a large number of residents to evacuate, so that they did not become biomass for the swarm.

Although Xiang Xiang Leina's Ark Gang did not build a starship, it indeed saved more Ashfold people.

Zhou Yun told Xiang Xiang Leina this guess, and Xiang Xiang Leina's eyes became more and more dull, as if her brain couldn't process Zhou Yun's words.

"If there were no Ark Gang, and the Governor took all the PDF into the underground palace... then the Astra Militarum would have to fight the Tyranid swarm led by Genestealers in the hive city streets they were completely unfamiliar with, and evacuating the local people would also be very difficult."

"This is likely the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's arrangement for you; do you think this arrangement is good? Do you accept it?"

Zhou Yun looked at Xiang Xiang Leina and asked with great interest.

In Zhou Yun's mouth, Xiang Xiang Leina was the one who could be sacrificed in the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's arrangement.

Xiang Xiang Leina lowered her head slightly and made a prayer gesture gently.

The tattoo of the Holy Word on her face seemed to be glowing slightly under the illumination of the light on the side:

"If this is truly the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's arrangement, then it is the best arrangement."

"We will save Ashfold, and even if we die, we will return to the Golden Wang Zuo."

"If there could be more signs that could prove that this is indeed the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's arrangement, that would be great."

Zhou Yun couldn't help but shrug his shoulders; being able to sacrifice for the sake of saving more humans under the arrangement of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's will, for the imperial residents who piously believe in the State Church, is simply an express ticket to return to the Golden Wang Zuo.

Xiang Xiang Leina didn't find it hard to accept this possibility, just felt uncertain about it.

Life is the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's currency.

Dedication that can save more humans and return to the Golden Wang Zuo is a huge profit.

Meaningless sacrifice and death are a waste of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's currency.

"... I really have a way to prove it." Zhou Yun's mouth showed a smile: "As long as you are willing to spend some money."

Xiang Xiang Leina blinked: "What magical technology construct are you going to take out again?"

Zhou Yun smiled lightly, and under the cover of his clothes, he reached his hand into the Fourth-Dimensional Pocket.

He took out a red ring and a blue cross.

【Item Name: Right-Wrong Divination Machine】

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

【Production Time: 231. M2】

【Function: An item that can answer questions with right or wrong, and the accuracy is one hundred percent.】

【Rental Price: 1,500,000/10 times】

【Status: Used four times】

"Ding ding ding ding! Right-Wrong Divination Machine." Zhou Yun raised this item and said.

Right-Wrong Divination Machine, an item with extremely simple but heaven-defying functions.

Its function is to judge the right or wrong of a question, and it is one hundred percent accurate.

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However, this item is not without limitations.

First, the wording of the question must be precise enough, otherwise the answer obtained may not be what you want.

Secondly, the question itself must have a distinction between right and wrong; questions without a distinction between right and wrong cannot get an answer.

Zhou Yun relied on this item before to accurately avoid those dangers in the Underhive pipes and quickly returned to the Lower Hive.

Zhou Yun told Xiang Xiang Leina the function of this item.

"Just these two little things can judge the right or wrong of all questions?" Xiang Xiang Leina was dumbfounded.

"You can confirm its function with one question first... Of course, it also costs money."

Zhou Yun made a quote to Xiang Xiang Leina.

The blood stones converted from this price were equivalent to 900,000, which was equal to asking Xiang Xiang Leina to reimburse the questions he had used before.

"So expensive..." Xiang Xiang Leina clicked her tongue slightly.

This was just a quote for two questions; the Ark Gang's recent finances were also a bit tight.

"Opportunities to judge the right or wrong of all questions are rare." Zhou Yun smiled and said.

Xiang Xiang Leina gritted her teeth and nodded fiercely:

"Okay."

She took a deep breath and looked at the red ring and blue cross placed on the table by Zhou Yun.

"My last math test score in Namar Carl's home was thirteen points."

As Xiang Xiang Leina's words fell, the red ring jumped up and flickered a few times in the air.

This means correct!

"You only scored thirteen points? Out of a hundred-point test?" Zhou Yun looked at Xiang Xiang Leina in confusion.

"... Out of a hundred and fifty-point test." Xiang Xiang Leina turned her head away in shame.

Although a bit shameful, this indeed proved the efficacy of this item.

She hesitated for a moment, organized her language, and asked:

"The Ark Gang will resist the Tyranid swarm together with the Astra Militarum; is this the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's arrangement?"

The moment the words fell, the red ring flew up again, indicating that what Xiang Xiang Leina said was correct.

Sure enough, Zhou Yun secretly thought in his heart.

Sure enough, as he guessed, even if the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang is sitting on the throne, He is still protecting humanity in another way.

Xiang Xiang Leina's eyes revealed a light that didn't know whether it was joy or piety, and she lowered her head to pray in a low voice.

After Xiang Xiang Leina confirmed that the existence of the Ark Gang was the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's arrangement, her whole person became much more energetic.

She thanked Zhou Yun and said that she needed some time to confirm the account book and would pay Zhou Yun in a few days.

Zhou Yun informed Old One-Eye about the information regarding the Genestealers in the Underhive, and then Zhou Yun returned home alone.

Confirming that Jeanne was still sleeping peacefully and that no abnormalities had appeared in her body, Zhou Yun began to calculate the gains from this trip to the Underhive.

Old One-Eye would send the information he brought back to Governor Augustus Flax.

This was part of Zhou Yun's deal with him.

Zhou Yun calculated simply.

Xiang Xiang Leina's reward, Augustus Flax's reward, and Jeanne's reward,

Adding the three rewards together, his savings would be close to the 8 million mark.

Counting the Warp engine he got this time...

Zhou Yun glanced at the Warp engine in the Fourth-Dimensional Pocket.

He hadn't carefully looked at the information and price of this Warp engine before.

Huh?

【Item Name: Warp Engine】

【Origin: Lyra Star - Old CNSA Interstellar Colony Ship Manufacturing Factory】

【Production Time: 899. M27】

【Introduction: A faster-than-light engine with relatively backward technology that operates with the help of the Warp. This was the last Warp engine manufactured by Lyra Star when the old night came, and after several twists and turns, it was finally left on Ashfold Star.】

【Status: Corrupted by Nurgle】

【Price: 800,000】

Looking at the introduction popping up from the Fourth-Dimensional Pocket, a flash of surprise flashed in Zhou Yun's eyes.

Lyra Star...

CNSA CNSA?!

Zhou Yun then discovered that a faded logo was engraved on the Warp engine.

That was an arrow shot out from within a triple ring, surrounded by two ears of wheat composed of twenty-one grains.

Zhou Yun knew that this was the logo of Lyra Star during the 30k period.

But in an earlier era, in the era Zhou Yun was in, this logo had other meanings.

The twenty-one grains of wheat symbolized the 21st century Zhou Yun was once in.

The arrow in the triple ring symbolized breaking through the triple cosmic speed, setting sail from Earth, leaving the solar system, and driving toward the sea of stars.

This logo belonged to CNSA; in the world of Warhammer 40k, they indeed broke through the solar system and drove toward the galaxy, and established many interstellar colonies.

Lyra Star was one of CNSA's interstellar colonies; this Warp engine was manufactured on Lyra Star and was finally used by Ashfold's colony ship after several twists and turns, remaining on this planet.

Zhou Yun's eyes revealed some nostalgia.

This logo was an echo of humanity in the forty-first millennium in his era.

Zhou Yun thought for a while and finally couldn't bear to sell this Warp engine.

800,000 was not indispensable to him now.

Unless it was really short of this 800,000 to exchange for the Anywhere Door in the end, Zhou Yun intended to keep this as his collection.

"Collecting is a hobby, but don't overdo it." The voice of the winged figure in the white light sounded faintly: "Don't learn from a certain Necron."

"Yo, a birdman who maintains an improper friendship with the Silent King of the Necrons has the nerve to say this?"

Zhou Yun retorted sarcastically.

Saying this, Zhou Yun took out the Right-Wrong Divination Machine from the Fourth-Dimensional Pocket.

Zhou Yun exchanged for this item, of course, not just to crawl out of the sewer.

He actually wanted to determine a few questions.

"Can you let me ask a question too?" The winged figure in the white light opened his mouth: "Don't worry, when you arrive at Baal, I will pay the reward."

"I'm not sure if I'm going to Baal or not." Zhou Yun glanced at him.

"But this question concerns the entire Empire, and you should also be curious."

The winged figure in the white light continued to persuade:

"I want to know, is the existence now called the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang by the people of the Empire still my father?"

Zhou Yun blinked slightly.

This question was indeed very valuable.

He still remembered what Jeanne said before falling asleep.

Only worship the Death God, only sacrifice to death, this prayer was the reward the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang gave to Zhou Yun.

Evil, the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang is a bit evil.

Is the current Hua Hua Hua Di Huang... still the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang of the past?

There are four questions left, and one position can be left for this question.

Zhou Yun considered it for a while, organized his language, looked at the Right-Wrong Divination Machine before him, and asked:

"The existence now called the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang by the people of the Empire and sitting on the Golden Wang Zuo is the same existence as the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang who ruled the Empire in the thirtieth millennium of humanity."

This question was carefully thought out by Zhou Yun, preventing most of the ambiguity he could think of.

But after waiting for a while, the Right-Wrong Divination Machine before Zhou Yun didn't react at all.

Zhou Yun was stunned.

No reaction, the Right-Wrong Divination Machine didn't react?

This means that this question has no right or wrong?

Why is there no right or wrong?

Could it be that the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang on the Golden Wang Zuo now is both the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang and not the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang?

"Both and not, seemingly and not..." The winged figure in the white light hesitated for a while, as if he had gotten the answer, and nodded.

Zhou Yun glanced at him and stopped thinking about this somewhat distant question.

He had more realistic questions to ask.

"Can I exchange for the Anywhere Door on Ashfold before the Underworld star system is completely destroyed, without serious damage to my life and soul."

Zhou Yun asked tentatively.

This question concerns the future.

He was not sure if this item could judge things that hadn't happened yet...

The red ring jumped up and flickered a few times in the air.

Stable! All stable!

Joy appeared in Zhou Yun's eyes.

The accuracy of the Right-Wrong Divination Machine is one hundred percent.

That is to say, the future it considers correct will inevitably happen.

This means that Zhou Yun can exchange for the Anywhere Door before the Underworld star system is destroyed, and until he exchanges for the Anywhere Door, he will not suffer serious damage to his life and soul.

"Can it still be used like this? You really have it... actually used to determine the future." The winged figure in the white light clicked his tongue in amazement.

Zhou Yun smiled lightly and calmed down.

Two questions left...

Zhou Yun glanced at the winged figure in the white light.

"You still don't believe me until now?" The winged figure in the white light laughed dumbly: "Come, use this item to confirm it."

The winged figure in the white light seemed very confident.

Zhou Yun nodded slightly.

In fact, according to his observations during this period, Zhou Yun believed him at least seventy percent.

Now he was just confirming it again with the Right-Wrong Divination Machine.

After pondering for a moment, he said word by word:

"From beginning to end, the winged figure in the white light speaking in my consciousness is the Primarch Sanguinius of the Ninth Legion, manufactured by the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang in the thirtieth millennium of humanity, who sacrificed himself on the Vengeful Spirit."

As the words fell, Zhou Yun and the winged figure in the white light both stared at the red ring and blue cross on the table...

"Hmm? Ah??" A huge question mark appeared on the head of the winged figure in the white light.

This chapter is a two-in-one six-thousand-word chapter. The setting of Lyra Star and CNSA comes from the Battle of Lyra Star in the Magnus Biography. It's a fun one. Little Magnus met a collection of ten thousand psykers in a CNSA colony ship (sounds familiar, isn't this the old setting Hua Hua Hua Di Huang).

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