Chapter 48: Warhammer: What Do You Mean You Conquered the Bug Race? Chapter 48 New Map

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

Lena's gene bank stored some of the gene coding for the Narvhal Whale Insect Ship.

Those were precious gene fragments she obtained by analyzing large numbers of the Bug Race.

The Narvhal Whale Insect Ship is a faster-than-light travel unit of the Tyranids, capable of manipulating gravity fields, creating spatial compression channels, and performing interstellar jumps.

But the gene coding Lena obtained was incomplete, and she could not manufacture a true Narvhal Whale Insect Ship.

She could only settle for second best, biologically modifying this merchant ship to create a low-spec Narvhal Whale Insect Ship.

After consuming a large quantity of biomass, Lena produced "castrated versions" of the three most crucial organs.

The first was the Single-Thread Thorn Cluster.

It was installed at the ship's bow, and when used it would extend a cluster of black, slender tentacles.

It could sense gravity signals in the universe and determine the location of the target star system.

The second was the Gravity Heart.

It was embedded in the ship's engine room, a huge, pulsing mass of flesh.

It could amplify and manipulate the gravity field of the target star system, activate spatial compression, and create a channel.

The third was the Spacetime Sphincter.

It was installed at the ship's tail, a ring-shaped, muscular biological organ.

It could control the width and stability of the compressed spatial corridor and guide the ship's direction of travel.

Lin En looked at these three "low-spec" organs and couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth.

Even without having seen a Narvhal Whale Insect Ship with his own eyes, Lin En knew the quality of these three organs was not great.

One could guess this thing was probably single-use.

If Lin En hadn't wanted to quickly escape this star system, he wouldn't have gone to such trouble to modify this ship.

"Using it once will definitely be no problem."

Lena's consciousness transmitted into Lin En's mind, carrying a trace of certainty.

Lin En looked at her serious compound eyes and sighed helplessly.

"Fine."

He chose to trust Lena.

After all, trusting one's wife brings good luck.

He renamed the modified ship the Purple Crystal Hao.

Next was choosing a destination.

The star system where Necromunda was located definitely couldn't be stayed in; after the Hive Fleet descended, this place would become a dead land.

The old nest of the Son of Medusa was also not far from here; those Space Marines absolutely would not let it go.

Once they fixed their sights on him, he couldn't even run away.

His gaze finally stopped at the edge of the star map, the western frontier of the Tai Ping Star Region.

That was a corner forgotten by the Empire, far from the areas of the Great Rift and Chaos Forces.

Most planets were feudal worlds or savage worlds, with extremely weak Imperial control.

The technology level there was low, but resources were abundant, most suitable for him and Lena to lie low and develop.

"Let's go there."

Lin En had specially gone to great trouble at the Black Market to scavenge a damaged star map of the Tai Ping Star Region for this.

All preparations were complete.

On the seventh day before the Hive Fleet descended, the Purple Crystal Hao slowly departed from Necromunda's spaceport.

Most of the crew on the ship were Imperial sailors infected by Genestealers; they were loyal, efficient, mastered relevant skills, and absolutely would not leak secrets.

Butcher still served as Lin En's Deputy Officer, responsible for managing the order of others on the ship.

Lena became the ship's "Navigator," using her psychic power to control those three castrated Narvhal organs.

Lin En also fulfilled his promise.

He had the Iron Anvil Society bring as many as possible of the families of the Lower Hive Citizens who had attacked the Son of Medusa's outpost back then onto the ship.

Of the two thousand people, there were elders, children, wives who had lost husbands, and orphans who had lost parents.

Before boarding the ship, they had seen Lin En once.

Those eyes were filled with gratitude and awe.

Lin En looked at them and couldn't help but sigh.

In this man-eating universe, pity is a luxury item.

But he was still willing to bestow pity as long as it didn't endanger himself.

This was his bottom line as a human.

The Purple Crystal Hao's engine emitted a low roaring, flying into deep space.

After leaving Necromunda's line of sight.

The Gravity Heart began to pulse, the tentacles of the Single-Thread Thorn Cluster waved in the air, capturing gravity signals from the Tai Ping Star Region.

"Activate spatial compression." Lin En's voice sounded in the cockpit.

Lena's consciousness sank into the Gravity Heart, and pale purple psychic energy surged into that mass of flesh.

The Gravity Heart's beat suddenly quickened, space around the ship began to distort, and the light of stars was stretched into ribbons of color.

The Spacetime Sphincter slowly contracted, and a pitch-black spatial corridor leading to an unknown star region slowly unfolded before the ship.

Purple Crystal plunged headlong into it.

Lin En leaned against the porthole, watching the distorted light and shadows speeding past outside the window, unable to help but feel some anticipation in his heart.

He thought this would be a smooth escape.

Until three days later, the Spacetime Sphincter let out a strained groan, and the spatial corridor collapsed with a boom.

Purple Crystal was violently thrown back into Real Space.

The worst fear still came to pass; this low-rent Narvhal Whale Insect Ship was not only single-use.

Even the positioning was wrong; they had arrived at the edge of a completely unfamiliar star system.

On the star map, there were no markings for this star region at all.

The deep-space scanner went mad with alarms, the screen showing that this star system was shrouded by a Warp Storm, signals could not be transmitted at all, and no contact could be made with the External World.

This was a Cage Star System.

"Damn it!" Lin En slammed a fist onto the console, making a dull sound.

Lena silently crawled to his side and rubbed her Green Skin Virus Head against his arm, as if comforting him.

Lin En looked at her apologetic eyes, and the anger in his heart instantly dissipated.

"It's fine," he sighed, touching Lena's cold head.

"At least we escaped, didn't we?"

Days passed one by one.

Purple Crystal drifted aimlessly within this Cage Star System.

Food and fresh water could last for a while, but fuel was nearly gone.

The people on the ship began to grow anxious.

The families of those Lower Hive Citizens gathered on the deck every day, gazing at the starry sky outside, their eyes full of Ice Cold Confusion.

Lin En stayed in the Cockpit every day, staring at the scanner's screen, hoping to find a trace of Ice Cold Life.

Until the seventh day, when a blinking red dot suddenly jumped onto the scanner's screen.

"Abnormal gravitational fluctuation detected! Coordinates:..."

A piercing Alarm sounded in the Cockpit.

Lin En leaped up from the Chair, staring fixedly at the red dot on the screen.

He immediately looked at Lena: "Lena, see exactly what's going on!"

Lena closed her compound eyes, and psychic energy spread out like a tide.

After a moment, her consciousness transmitted into Lin En's mind:

【Large quantities of life signals detected—human, Xenos, and unknown psychic fluctuations; the signals are very chaotic.】

Lin En's eyes lit up, and based on Lena's description, he roughly determined that it was a Hive World!

Whatever was up there, at least it was a place to land.

"Set course! Target: that Hive World!" Lin En's voice finally carried a trace of joy.

Purple Crystal slowly sailed toward the newly discovered Hive World.