Chapter 56: Warhammer: What Do You Mean You Conquered the Bug Race

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

Lin En looked at Kaili, showing no emotion.

"I ask, you answer." His voice came through the faceplate, carrying an unquestionable tone.

"Just said, I need resources and food. How much is on this ship? Where are they?"

Kaili opened his mouth, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down.

He tried to recall, but fear left his mind blank.

"I, I, that..." he stammered, unable to form a complete sentence for a long time.

Lin En clicked his tongue impatiently.

He took out a data slate, set a countdown alarm for three minutes, and projected it.

"2:59"

"2:58"

The numbers began to jump.

"If you can't say it before the countdown ends, you die."

Kaili's eyes stared at the jumping numbers, tears began to well up in his eye sockets again, and he let out choked sobs.

"Crying? Crying counts as time too!"

This sentence quickly took effect.

Kaili took a sharp breath, forcibly suppressed his sobs, and spoke in a voice heavy with nasal congestion:

"Throne Coins, hidden in the safe in the Captain's Quarters, probably around five hundred million Throne Coins."

As he spoke, he glanced sideways at Lin En's reaction, and seeing the other party just listening quietly, he continued:

"Food is in the Main Cargo Hold, with several million tons of Synthetic Starch Blocks and protein paste."

"There are also three thousand servants in the Main Cargo Hold."

Kaili's speaking speed got faster and faster, as if afraid there wasn't enough time:

"Armed forces, originally one hundred and fifty Star Realm Army soldiers, one hundred and fifty of my private Escorts."

"Also about eight hundred crew members, of whom over two hundred have received basic Battle training."

"Oh right! Also over fifty Ogryns, all strong laborers, locked in the Lower Cargo Hold."

He said this, his voice lowering, with a trace of bitterness:

"But after the attack just now, how many are left, I don't know."

Isud beside her listened as her husband listed their "family assets" like counting treasures, her complexion getting worse and worse.

For someone like her who regarded wealth and power as life, this was simply more painful than killing her.

Her gaze became lifeless, her body like a deflated leather ball, completely losing her spirit.

While answering, Kaili couldn't help but size up Lin En out of the corner of his eye.

What exactly was this "person" wearing purple Chitinous Armor, with six eyes and a single horn?

A Tyranid Mutant, some new type of Gene Thief?

Or a monster distorted by Void Contamination?

After listening, Lin En shook his head.

"Not enough."

Kaili panicked: "Not, not enough? Adult, this is everything on our ship."

Lin En did not answer, just raised his Right Hand.

The Chitinous Armor on his forearm rapidly reorganized, deforming.

After a few seconds, his right forearm actually extended a thick, spiral-patterned Barrel.

This was a Symbiotic Bio-cannon, its Cannon Mouth steadily aimed at Kaili's brow.

Sweat instantly soaked his back.

"I... I, still have!" Kaili screamed, his voice distorted by extreme Fear.

"Brevis, we're going to Brevis, I am the new Planetary Governor!"

"As long as I take office, I can control the resources of the entire Planet!"

"Taxes, minerals, agricultural products, population can all be given to you!"

He finally threw out this last trump card.

"Oh?" Lin En's compound eyes flickered slightly, but the Cannon Mouth did not move away.

"Being Governor means having resources?"

His tone carried just the right amount of "interest," as if he had just learned of this.

Kaili nodded desperately like grabbing a life-saving straw: "Can! Definitely can!"

"Brevis is remote, but it is also a Hive World, with over a billion population!"

"And rich mineral and agricultural output, as long as you are willing to let me go and let me take office,"

"I guarantee to pay tribute to you every month, as much as you want!"

He spoke with deep sincerity, as if he had already seen himself sitting on the Governor's throne.

The sight of him commanding his subordinates to gather resources for this "Xenos Master."

As long as he could survive, what did betraying a planet's interests matter?

Lin En fell silent for several seconds, the cannon muzzle slowly retracting.

He seemed to be thinking, the light of his six eyes flashing rhythmically.

Kaili and Isud stared at him nervously, not daring to breathe.

Only the faint scuttling of the Bug Race came from the corridor.

Finally, Lin En spoke: "Fine."

Kaili was about to let out a breath of relief.

"But," Lin En's tone shifted, "I want to take your place in office."

These words struck like a thunderclap over Kaili and Isud's heads.

Both were stunned, mouths agape, eyes wide, looking at Lin En in disbelief.

Take his place?

A monster wanting to replace the Imperial Governor appointed by the Empire to rule a human world?

Emperor above, this was simply ridiculous!

Kaili's brain was completely addled.

He had imagined the other side might demand a huge ransom, or take him and Isud as hostages, or even turn them into slaves.

But he never expected the other side actually wanted the "identity" he had long dreamed of!

"Not okay?" Lin En's tone was terrifyingly calm.

But the biological cannon on his right hand once again aimed at Kaili.

Inside the cannon mouth, purple energy began to gather, emitting a low humming.

"Fine! Fine fine fine!" Kaili was so scared he waved his hands, speaking incoherently.

"Fine is fine! Theoretically, the people on Brevis's side don't know what I look like, but..."

He hesitated, not daring to continue.

Lin En's cannon muzzle moved closer: "But what?"

Kaili swallowed, forcing himself to say: "Adult, you need identification."

"Without official Imperial documents and verification, I'm afraid you can't enter the Governor's Mansion, let alone hold power."

He ultimately didn't dare say directly things like "you look like you're not human at all."

Lin En looked at Kaili's hesitant eyes and laughed once.

"Identification?" He repeated once, then.

The light of the six compound eyes on the front of his helmet extinguished.

Immediately, the chitin helmet opened from the midline of his forehead toward both sides, finally retracting completely into the neck armor.

Revealing the face beneath the helmet.

It was a "standard" human male's face.

Slightly curled black long hair was somewhat messy, fair skin, features with clear lines.

Most striking were his eyes, a deep purple.

In the pupils seemed to flow specks of starlight, giving a feeling both deep and bewitching.

Improved living conditions, plus the symbiotic armor's subtle changes to the body.

Lin En's appearance was indeed much more handsome than in the early days of his transmigration, though still not reaching Kaili's "top-tier handsome" level.

But he carried a unique, wild and mysterious temperament.