Chapter 61

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

Lin En couldn't be bothered to deal with him anymore.

After understanding the basic situation, he was no longer in the mood to eat.

He stood up, his faceplate once again covered his face, and six eyes lit up.

"Now, take me to see how much of 'my' assets remain."

The first stop was the Captain's Quarters.

The safe hiding five hundred million Throne Coins was naturally intact.

After all, in that great chaos just now, the Dark Eldar wanted living captives and pain, Chaos Believers wanted souls and corruption, Gene Thieves wanted control, and the Bug Race wanted biomass...

No one was interested in these metal coins.

Lin En opened the safe, looking at the Throne Coins inside that looked like a pile of small gold mountains, and nodded in satisfaction.

This was a considerable sum of money; in the Human Empire, money was still often usable.

It was just unknown whether Brevis still used Throne Coins.

Then came the inventory of armed forces, and the result was as expected.

The Star Realm Army Regiment was wiped out in the Dark Eldar boarding action and the subsequent melee.

Kaili's private guard was well-equipped, but their fighting will and experience were far inferior to the Star Realm Army.

They suffered heavy casualties in the defensive battles on the Bridge and in the Upper Area.

Roughly estimated, there were probably fewer than twenty survivors, and most were injured.

As for the more than eight hundred crew members, the situation was equally dire.

Excluding those killed, captured, or missing in the chaos.

Most of the rest fled and hid in various corners of the ship in panic.

Under the Lena Swarm's search, they finally gathered fewer than two hundred people.

This was after Lin En deliberately controlled the Lena Swarm not to eat people.

Most of them had already suffered mental breakdowns or sustained injuries of varying degrees.

What Lin En regretted most were the three thousand servants hidden in the cargo hold.

These were supposed to be important "resources."

But when Lin En arrived at the Main Cargo Hold, he saw a horrifying scene.

Severed limbs and arms were everywhere, the scene extremely bloody.

At least half of the servants were killed or captured by the black bean sprouts.

Lin En didn't need to think to know the fate of those servants who fell into the hands of the black bean sprouts.

It would be a long torment, exceeding the limits of human imagination, lasting until their pain and life reached their limits.

"These pointy-eared mongrel xenos that should have been S-exterminated long ago..." Lin En cursed in a low voice.

Although he wasn't exactly a great saint, for the Dark Eldar who took pleasure in torture...

Treating others' pain as an art form, he still felt a physiological disgust.

The remaining servants were not all unharmed either.

Warp Energy contamination was omnipresent.

During the time when Chaos Rituals were held and demons walked on the Xian Ge Hao.

Leaked Warp Energy radiated the entire Slum and parts of the Middle Zone.

Some of these servants had their bodies and souls exposed to the contamination.

Lin En had Lena conduct a Psyker Scan on the remaining thousand-plus servants.

The results were not ideal.

About three hundred or more already showed obvious traces of corruption on their bodies.

Their skin grew tiny scales or tentacles, joints twisted and deformed, faces became hideous or ecstatic.

They were beyond saving; their souls and flesh were both tainted by the Warp.

They would immediately become a group of Chaos Waa'ghs or something even worse.

There were also about five hundred people who, though without obvious external mutations, had twisted souls tainted with the colors of Chaos.

These people might still be temporarily "usable," but were no longer stable and could "explode" at any time.

The truly "clean" servants who could be safely used numbered fewer than seven hundred.

Lin En watched those people whose faces gradually twisted in pain, silent for a few seconds.

After this, Lena No. 2 had another batch of usable biomass.

Kaili, who had followed Lin En the whole way, had trembling lips.

He finally couldn't hold back, mustered his courage, and asked in a trembling voice:

"T-Titus Adult, they're still alive, maybe they can still be saved, how could you just..."

His words got stuck halfway.

Because he saw Lin En turn his head; Lin En without a faceplate looked at him with his own eyes.

In the purple eyes there was no killing intent or anger, only an ice-cold indifference that overlooked everything, mixed with a trace of "regret."

Lin En did not answer immediately; he slowly walked to stand in front of Kaili.

The shadow cast by his tall armored body once again completely enveloped Kaili.

"Kaili." Lin En's voice was terrifyingly calm.

"Sometimes, so-called 'kindness' is itself the cruelest torment."

He reached out and pointed at a male servant lying on the ground, half of whose face had already grown fine blue scales.

The corner of his mouth twitched unnaturally, as if he were having a nightmare from which he could never wake.

"Look at him," Lin En said.

"His body is undergoing irreversible chaos mutation, his soul is being dragged into the abyss of the Warp."

"Wake him, and he will not be grateful to you."

"He will only scream, go mad, and then attack every living thing within sight, or..."

"He will kneel before you and pray, begging you to grant him more 'blessings'."

"Then he will make you become like him, a monster that has completely lost its reason."

"Let him keep living? His nightmare will only grow more terrifying, his pain will only grow deeper."

"Until his soul is completely shattered, becoming a demon's plaything or part of Chaos."

Lin En's compound eyes rotated slightly, looking at Kaili:

"Tell me, which choice counts as 'kindness'?"

Kaili opened his mouth, but found he could not make a sound.

He watched those servants struggling soundlessly in agony, and an indescribable feeling surged in his heart.

"For them," Lin En finally said.

"The kindest thing is to give them a quick end."

"This is the last respect for their remaining humanity, and the best way to stop the contamination from spreading."

After speaking, he no longer looked at Kaili, turned, and left the cargo hold.

Lin En's words were like sharp blades, cutting open Kaili's naive and cowardly fantasies.

This universe was far darker and crueler than he had imagined.

The inventory continued.

Finally, they came to the Lower Cargo Hold, where the Ogryn were imprisoned.

The situation here was better than Lin En had expected.

More than fifty Ogryn, only five had died.

Judging by the wounds, they should have been burned to death by magic flames or torn apart while fighting the Fear Demons and Chaos Believers.

The remaining forty-eight Ogryn, though all injured, were still in good spirits.

When Lin En arrived, they were sitting together in a circle, sharing the large quantity of synthetic food Lin En had previously had sent over.

They ate with relish, making loud chewing sounds and satisfied humming noises.

Even more surprising to Lin En was that no signs of Void Contamination from the Warp were detected on these Ogryn.

But upon second thought, Lin En felt relieved.

Yi Su, Lord of Change, God of Change, Trickery, and Magic.

His method of corruption often came through the temptation of knowledge, the weaving of fate, and loopholes in the mind.

And Ogryn, their brain structure was simple and direct, their thinking as simple as a blank sheet of paper, completely without complex thoughts.

You want to tempt an Ogryn with profound knowledge?

That is no better than showing a blind man a silent action movie and expecting them to feel the same.

You want Yi Su to corrupt an Ogryn? The difficulty is probably greater than making a fly understand calculus.