Chapter 97: Dowsing Rod (Still two-in-one)

"Inquisitor? Oh, that one on Laixi?"

"The Governor might use him to deal with me?"

At the Ark Gang stronghold, in a conference room,

Letna, Dixi, Old One-Eye, and Zhou Yun sat at the four sides of a square table.

Although Old One-Eye was once the Governor's man and still maintains contact with the Governor,

Zhou Yun trusts him and knows that Old One-Eye is no longer loyal to the Governor.

He is now acting more to make up for his mistake of letting the Worm of the Underworld go, and for this reason, he is an enemy of the Genestealers.

In this regard, Zhou Yun and Old One-Eye have a common enemy, and he needs Old One-Eye to train the members of the Ark Gang.

Just now, Old One-Eye also reminded Zhou Yun that there is an Inquisitor on the neighboring planet Laixi who might be used by the Governor to deal with them.

Inquisitors... the vast majority of Imperial citizens have a near-natural fear of Inquisitors.

Every Imperial resident can tell a hundred terrifying stories about Inquisitors, but no one dares to tell them in public.

Letna, this illegal psyker who runs a cult in the under-hive, couldn't help but shiver: "It's actually an Inquisitor... Zhou Yun, are we really going to be burned at the stake with white phosphorus?"

Looking at Letna's nervous expression, Zhou Yun couldn't help but shake his head: "Don't worry, I know who that Inquisitor is... he should be more interested in fishing for big fish right now... um, not a metaphor, he is really fishing for big fish."

That Inquisitor belongs to the Ordo Xenos, and his main goal is to raise... oh no, to clear out aliens.

And in the tidal waters of Laixi, there is a super-sized aquatic alien known locally as the "Goddess of Salt."

According to what Zhou Yun knows, that alien might be a special Tyranid Hive bio-creature.

That monster is terrifyingly large, has tentacles, possesses considerable intelligence and psychic power, and is worshipped by the Genestealers on Laixi.

It's just unknown what method the Tyranids used to send this monster to Laixi.

And that Inquisitor, Damian Ulrich, is trying to fish that thing up...

He probably won't have any interest in dealing with Zhou Yun for a while.

Even if there really is an Inquisitor who intends to thoroughly investigate the problems of the Underworld System...

Besides the Titan-sized giant beast on Laixi, the Governor of Laixi is also suspected of having directly defected to the Genestealers, there is a group of Necrons infected with the Flayer Virus and a shard of the C'tan of the Burning One on the neighboring Pertita, and there is an alien artifact "Starfire" on Tartarus in the depths of the system that is enough to destroy the entire system...

"We have so much work in the Underworld System that one Inquisitor can't handle it all, and this Damian Ulrich is just starting out, only bringing a squad of Tempestus Scions, so he can't handle it even more."

"Really?" Letna asked with some fear: "He won't throw an Exterminatus on us, will he?"

Letna clearly heard many terrifying stories about Inquisitors circulating in the under-hive.

In the eyes of Imperial citizens, most Inquisitors are madmen who might throw an Exterminatus at any time...

But even madmen who might throw an Exterminatus at any time have to consider things in the Underworld System.

"This is the Underworld System."

Zhou Yun bit down on the words "Underworld System":

"The Underworld System is the gateway to Baal, the most important fortress protecting Baal, and Baal is the home planet of the Blood Angels."

"Throwing an Exterminatus on the Underworld System... what is the difference between this and taking a dump on the faces of the Blood Angels? Why doesn't he just orbital bombard Baal directly?"

Without the Underworld System, Baal is equivalent to having its gateway wide open, losing an important fortress system.

Theoretically, the power of an Inquisitor is almost infinite... but there are always people in the Empire who have the ability to ignore Inquisitors, and even threaten them in return.

For example, the Adeptus Custodes, the Space Wolves, the Dark Angels...

And the Blood Angels, who are a founding chapter just like the others.

If a wolf pack gets anxious, they will bite people; if angels get anxious, they will treat an Inquisitor as Horus wearing a rose knot.

More than ten thousand years ago, the warriors of the Ninth Legion before Sanguinius returned had the reputation of ghouls.

And now, there are quite a few madmen among the Blood Angels successor chapters; this group of madmen, let alone Inquisitors, they would even dare to chop Guilliman.

Zhou Yun complained in his heart.

If Augustus Flax really found an Inquisitor, that would definitely be a stinky move.

It's just that killing him now is too cheap for him; Zhou Yun still has to continue to squeeze his utility value.

Without this worker in the top-hive supplying materials, how can we gentlemen in the under-hive deal with the Genestealers?

When the Leviathan Hive Fleet descends,

Zhou Yun also plans to use Augustus Flax to fish.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yun looked at Letna sitting beside him and asked: "How is the battle situation with the Genestealers?"

Hearing this, Letna, who had just calmed down a little, immediately looked ugly.

"... It looks good." Letna said somewhat bitterly: "The first batch of weapons has been delivered, and our people have also been equipped."

"When we started to launch an attack, the Genestealers almost immediately began to retreat, spitting out the territory they had once swallowed into their stomachs inch by inch..."

"... It's not a defeat; they are deliberately shrinking their lines." The winged figure in the white light shook his head and said.

Zhou Yun's mouth twitched slightly; he seemed to have guessed the purpose of the Genestealers doing this.

"They wouldn't happen to have cleared out almost all available materials before evacuating, leaving a wasteland for your people, would they?"

The bitterness on Letna's face deepened: "Yes, and as the front line locks up, the density of the Genestealer troops, which have almost no losses, is getting higher and higher, while we have to use a large number of people to occupy those useless territories to prevent Genestealer troops from popping up from various places at any time."

"And when we retreat, the Genestealers will follow up quickly, filling in the blank areas we retreated from, over and over again, tirelessly."

Facing this kind of tactic from the Genestealers,

Letna felt as uncomfortable as if she had punched a cotton ball, and there was a pile of nails hidden in the cotton.

No matter how powerful the fist was, it would have to be battered and bruised if it hit it.

"What a superb tactic..." Old One-Eye, who was responsible for training the Ark Gang soldiers, frowned.

Except for the winged figure in the white light in Zhou Yun's eyes, Old One-Eye was the person who understood military affairs the best present.

He saw the mystery of this tactic at a glance.

Using the least amount of force to consume the Ark Gang's greatest strength, in the repeated stalemate and pulling, the one who will be dragged down is definitely the Ark Gang.

"I need more powerful soldiers; how long will it take to train the first batch?" Letna looked at Old One-Eye and asked.

"Training takes time, even if I'm in a hurry... I still have to tell those idiots that they should close that eye when aiming, right?" Old One-Eye said quite helplessly.

Letna couldn't help but sigh.

The current Ark Gang can only be dragged by the Genestealers to play this game of advance and retreat.

"... I have an opinion, I don't know if you are willing to listen or not."

Zhou Yun suddenly spoke.

Letna, Old One-Eye, and Dixi looked at Zhou Yun in unison.

Especially Letna, she looked at Zhou Yun and said strangely:

"Are we willing to listen?"

"Dixi and her Daughters of Death, your people."

"The Ark Gang, you have a share too." "Old One-Eye, you introduced him."

"Is there a possibility that... you are the one in charge of this family."

Hearing this, Zhou Yun smiled lightly and looked at the three people present: "I don't know much about military affairs."

"But I understand Genestealers; the Genestealer troops are all commanded by a leader."

"This leader himself has a mental link with the entire Genestealer cult, and he commands the troops as if waving his own arms."

"He is the soul, brain, and even the entire nervous system of the entire Genestealer troop..."

Zhou Yun smiled.

"But there must be many troops protecting him." Old One-Eye frowned and said.

Letna nodded in agreement: "Not only that, he is probably hiding very deep."

"... As long as we can find the person, death will always take him away." Dixi said softly.

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Her voice was extremely cold, making Letna and Old One-Eye shiver slightly.

"I will let our assassins find him, but it will take some time." Dixi said.

"... We will try our best to drag them down for a while." Letna rubbed her brow.

"No need to be so troublesome."

Zhou Yun chuckled and shook his head.

He reached his hand into the four-dimensional pocket at his waist.

"Dang dang dang dang..."

Dixi and Old One-Eye showed curious looks, and Letna had an "as expected" expression.

Zhou Yun slowly pulled a walking stick out of his four-dimensional pocket...

Scipio sat in the cabin of an Ashford heavy truck, closing his eyes in front of the virtual sand table.

The sand table was only his auxiliary; the real battlefield was hidden in his mind.

The mind of every ethnic brother was clearly visible in his mind, and the eyes of every hybrid cultist were his monitors.

He was able to see every detail of the battlefield with his own eyes and convey every order to the hands of every warrior.

His soldiers were as flexible as tentacles, gently and slowly licking the entire under-hive; every attack looked not fatal, but as time passed, the entire Ashford would be drawn into the rebellion war he had stirred up.

Until the song of Leviathan sounded, and the Four-Armed God-Emperor from among the stars embraced them...

Of course, the premise was that Scipio could ensure his own safety and not be killed by anyone.

Otherwise, the warriors of the entire Genestealer cult would be downgraded from unstoppable killing machines to stupid thugs with mutations.

In order to protect himself, Scipio snatched this heavy truck produced in Ashford from the factory.

This heavy truck was an important military product exported by Ashford, and it is said that the technology came from Necromunda.

It not only had extremely heavy armor and two twin-linked autocannons, but it was also very fast and was equipped with some kind of signal shielding equipment.

This allowed Scipio to move around like a ghost in this heavy truck without any regularity, and almost no one could track him.

Around the heavy armored vehicle, Scipio also arranged a batch of motorcyclists to protect the surroundings, patrolling at any time.

The Sanctified were also hidden in the surrounding buildings, and their bullets were enough to take the life of any attacker.

But the Patriarch still felt uneasy; in order to protect Scipio's safety, he even sent out a batch—

Enemy! Danger!

Scipio's pupils contracted sharply, and the psychic power linked with the Patriarch issued a warning.

In the warning, Scipio saw a black shadow, and that black shadow pierced his chest with a dagger.

Scipio turned around in a hurry, looking behind him.

A black shadow had already arrived at a position less than half a meter behind him.

That cold dagger was also about to stab into his throat.

Assassin!

How did she find my truck? How did she sneak on silently?

Whether it was the Sanctified in the nearby buildings, or...

Scipio hurriedly raised the biological bone sword in his hand to block—

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Scipio let out a wail; the cold dagger easily bypassed his biological bone sword and stabbed straight into Scipio's eyeball.

Fortunately, at the last moment, four arms flashing with cold purple light grabbed the dagger, not letting it stab into Scipio's brain.

It's a pure-blood Genestealer!

This is a throwback born after five generations of hybridization; it is the monster closest to the gene sequence of the Genestealer Patriarch, and each one has the potential to start a new round of infection, or even become a new Patriarch.

Lurking in the shadows, it is almost one of the most terrifying and dangerous life forms in the entire galaxy.

Five pure-blood Genestealers walked out silently from the shadows, crevices, and carriages of the heavy truck, surrounding the assassin who dared to assassinate Scipio.

A smile appeared on the corner of Scipio's mouth.

Although he lost an eye, it was worth it to trade for such a highly skilled assassin.

The pure-blood Genestealers were very fast, and four sharp claws stabbed at the black leather-clad assassin one after another, like a web of thorns.

However, that assassin was faster!

In Scipio's astonished gaze, the two pure-blood Genestealers closest to the assassin were actually pierced through the head by those two daggers in the blink of an eye, leaving a quite gruesome wound on the heads of the pure-blood Genestealers.

Her body cleared slightly, and borrowing the gap revealed by the death of those two pure-blood Genestealers, she broke out of the encirclement and rushed toward Scipio.

Fortunately, the pure-blood Genestealers were fast enough and hurriedly entangled Letna again, creating some time for Scipio.

Actually faster than a pure-blood Genestealer!!!!

Scipio widened his eyes in astonishment, quickly realizing that these five pure-blood Genestealers couldn't stop the opponent in front of him for long.

He must abandon the car and escape immediately!

Scipio made a judgment immediately; he rushed toward the car door closest to him without hesitation.

Then, he saw the gaze of that black leather-clad assassin cast toward him.

"Doraemon says hello to you."

The assassin revealed the waist of the black leather suit, where a brownish-red gourd was hanging.

The assassin pulled open the stopper of the gourd at her waist, and a whistling hurricane suddenly roared out in the car.

Zhou Yun stood on a high point of a nearby building, and the Death-Worship Cult female assassin beside him was killing the Sanctified lurking nearby.

He gazed silently at the heavy truck driving on the road, holding a slender walking stick with a red rod and a silver head in his hand.

That walking stick flashed with a faint luster.

【Item Name: Dowsing Rod】

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

【Production Time: 271. M3】

【Function: An item in the shape of a walking stick; stand the walking stick upright and let it fall naturally, and it will point in the direction of the person you want to find, but the accuracy is only 70%】

【Value: 880,000】

This is an item with a selling price as high as 880,000, but at first glance, it doesn't seem very powerful.

Its greatest function is tracking people...

A sharp storm exploded from the heavy truck, and the violent wind instantly stretched the truck until it was slightly distorted, turning into a tornado in the blink of an eye, swallowing half a block in an instant.

Dixi had successfully released the pocket tornado, and the next step was...

Zhou Yun's fingers loosened slightly, and the dowsing rod in his hand fell to the ground, pointing in one direction.

I've been out for the past two days, and I've basically been in the car today. I started coding when I got home in the evening. I will make up for the two missing chapters tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 98 =====