Chapter 33

Alvin carried the Grox steak and Amasec, pushed open the rickety wooden door of the sanctuary, and saw a familiar person.

Take was sitting on a chair, crossing his legs, looking like he treated the sanctuary as his own home.

"Mr. Take, why are you here?" Alvin couldn't help but be curious, but his expression changed slightly soon after, with a bad premonition: "Could it be... that the cult has made a big move again?"

Seeing Alvin's serious expression, Take could guess what he was thinking and shook his head: "Don't worry, kid, it hasn't reached the serious level you imagine yet."

Hearing this, Alvin breathed a sigh of relief; one bad news after another, he couldn't take it anymore.

"Where is Aluman?"

Take crossed his legs and asked casually.

"Maybe he went out for something, I'm not too sure." This relaxed mental state really made Alvin a bit envious, but unfortunately, he probably couldn't do it.

Suddenly, Take's gaze was like a hawk, firmly locked on the bottle of "Amasec": "Kid, you're doing well, you can afford this stuff?"

"You might have misunderstood, this wine is Priest Aluman's, I'm just helping run an errand." Alvin's mouth twitched slightly, and he saw Take's intention at a glance.

It was too obvious; those eyeballs were almost popping out, wishing they could be stuck on the wine bottle!

"Oh, so it's Aluman's." Take suddenly realized, and then at a speed Alvin couldn't even see, he rushed to the side, hooked his neck, and said with a full face of smiles: "Aluman and I are buddies, rolled over from the same battlefield, let me help him taste it."

Having said that, before Alvin could refuse, he directly snatched the bottle of "Amasec."

Bang!

The wine bottle was opened, Take took a deep breath, revealing a face full of intoxication: "Wonderful, this is the wine a real man should drink, sure enough, Amasec is strong enough!"

Gulp, gulp, gulp...

Before Alvin could react, Take drank nearly half the bottle in one go.

As luck would have it, Priest Aluman happened to push the door and enter, and at a glance, he saw Take, who was holding the Amasec and drinking wildly.

After half a second of silence, Aluman looked at Alvin with a resentful gaze, as if saying: Why didn't you stop him?

Alvin looked helpless, looking powerless: "Believe me, Priest Aluman, I swear by the God-Emperor, I really tried my best to stop him, but... I couldn't stop him!"

"Omnissiah above, I'll kill you, you damn parasite, for the God-Emperor today!"

Aluman didn't say a word, the mechanical arm behind him operated the power axe, and he slashed at Take's forehead with the force of splitting a mountain, with astonishing speed and power!

However, this big guy from Catachan on the opposite side was clearly not a vegetarian either. He dodged the axe lightly, and while hooking his long hair in front of his forehead with his little finger, he said quite coquettishly: "I just drank two sips of your wine, is it worth hurting our feelings like this? Aluman."

"Fine, you go buy me another bottle, and I'll pretend this didn't happen." Aluman sneered and raised his hand to fire a bolter round.

Boom!

The door that had been repaired for only a few days was blown to pieces again.

Alvin familiarly found a corner to hide in, waiting for these two "big guys" to finish their intimacy. To be honest, he couldn't quite understand the complicated relationship between the two.

If Take hadn't dodged fast just now, if that axe had smashed down, his head would probably have been chopped to pieces.

Not long after, the two finally finished fighting, and the sanctuary became a mess again.

Take and Aluman sat in the debris, drinking Amasec mouthful by mouthful, with their arms around each other's shoulders, with no momentum of wanting to kill each other just now.

It was... very outrageous!

"What's the matter this time?"

Aluman clearly guessed, like Alvin, that the lower nest cult might have made a big move.

"The Hammer Gang eliminated the Bone Gang in the South District, and their sphere of influence has expanded to two districts." When mentioning business, Take looked a bit reliable, glanced at Alvin, and then said in a low voice: "The spies sent out said that a large amount of... PDF standard equipment appeared in the Hammer Gang for no reason."

Having said that, he paused for a few seconds and looked at Aluman meaningfully: "You should understand what this means, right?"

"There are nobles at the top level supporting the cult in secret."

Aluman's expression was uncertain, and he said hoarsely: "And, only a few families can provide PDF standard equipment."

PDF, also known as the Planetary Defense Force, is an armed force controlled by the planetary governor, completely obeying the local rulers.

And in the Loser Hive World, the only families that can control the Planetary Defense Force are the Planetary Governor Galken Hadley and his allied forces through marriage.

"Galken Hadley shouldn't be that kind of person..." To this day, Aluman still couldn't believe it. He shook his head and said: "If it really was Galken Khalid, why didn't he kill you back then? Instead, he exiled you to the lower nest? This is unreasonable."

"I didn't say it was Galken Hadley." Take sighed. In fact, he had always held a trace of respect for this planetary governor.

Galken Hadley was once the glory of the Imperial Guard and had made great contributions before being appointed by the Empire as the Governor of Loser Planet.

If such a heroic figure had thrown himself into the embrace of Chaos, Take would not want to believe it no matter what.

"The scope is too large. As far as I know, there are three families that can provide PDF standard equipment." Aluman frowned and said in a deep voice: "The Hadley family, who controls the military, the Meyer family, who controls logistics, and the Cobdo family, who controls recruitment and training."

"That... I probably know which family it is."

Just at this moment, Alvin suddenly spoke. Looking at their surprised gazes, he cleared his throat: "In fact, I saw that cult psychic who appeared in the lower nest again today."

"Where did you see him?" Take looked surprised, looking Alvin up and down: "That's not right, if you really saw him, how could you come back alive?"

A bit of looking down on people... Alvin could probably understand a little why Priest Aluman wanted to split Take with an axe every time.

"Today... wait, you saw him at the 'Celebration'?!"

Priest Aluman's brain turned very fast, and he guessed the key point at once. The red light in his mechanical eyes flickered and jumped, as if indicating his inner emotions.

"Praise the Omnissiah, just as you thought."

Alvin's expression was serious, word by word: "The cult's psychic is Rashid Hadley, now the first heir of the Hadley family!"

"Rashid Hadley, how could it be him?!"

Take on the side was almost shocked to the point of losing his mind, suddenly a bit irritable, and growled: "Impossible, it can't be Rashid Hadley, you must have seen it wrong, right!"

Seeming to see the doubt on Alvin's face, Aluman's expression was also very complicated, explaining: "Take assassinated the first heir of the Hadley family who was suspected of being a cultist back then, and it was Rashid Hadley who pleaded for mercy, so Governor Hadley changed his punishment to exile instead of shooting him on the spot."

So that's it, but... why did Rashid plead for mercy for Take?

Alvin looked at Take strangely, but saw him a bit dejected, and said softly: "I know what you want to ask, because back then... it was Rashid who showed me the evidence that Karen Hadley had fallen into Chaos, and it was also he who provided Karen's movements and location, so I was able to successfully assassinate him."

"So... Rashid used you to remove Karen, this stumbling block?"

Alvin suddenly realized and quickly sorted out his thoughts: "Then, taking advantage of Karen being removed, he ascended to the position of first heir and also eliminated you, the most troublesome person!"

Take was in pain, his ten fingers deeply inserted into his hair, his eyes red, like a ferocious beast: "I thought Rashid was kind, he was always very considerate of us veterans, but I didn't expect... it was actually him who planned all this behind the scenes!"

"It's not that simple, Take."

A deep and cold voice, as if suppressing anger and killing intent, squeezed out from Priest Aluman's teeth.

The Tech-Priest, who had always been known for his calmness, now revealed a look of wanting to eat people, and the sound of his teeth grinding made a creepy sound: "The matter of our 175th Regiment's retired brothers who were performing missions in the wilderness and were all wiped out for no reason should have something to do with this bastard!"