Chapter 93

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

Vanguard Army Second Legion, fifth day of marching.

Three hundred seventy kilometers remaining to the Frost Ban Wall.

Inside the transport vehicle, Lin En was studying the Green Skin "stew pot."

The main ingredient of that thing was Greenie Fungus, a specialty of Dolido Agricultural World, stewed together with the plumpest Squigs.

And research shows that Green Skins like to eat it fresh out of the pot, hot.

Because after the stew pot has been done for a while, it becomes hard and loses its aroma, not nearly as good as fresh out of the pot.

As for why someone would know this, it was because a certain soldier had eaten a stew pot dropped by Green Skins.

Later, a Green Skin grew inside that soldier's stomach and burst him open alive.

Fortunately, the army discovered it in time, cremated the soldier's corpse and the Green Skin, and thus avoided a major disaster.

Lin En guessed they surely cooked this kind of food inside Brevis's camp, and maybe he could tamper with it in this regard.

"Looks like we'll have to find a way to check the situation inside the Green Skin camp."

Just then, the Miniature Shredder Worm on Lin En's shoulder suddenly twitched.

Lena's consciousness transmitted a warning:

"Abnormal psychic fluctuation, within the team."

Lin En put down the data slate, expression unchanged, heart sinking.

Indeed, they came.

From the moment he decided to let Lena expose herself, he knew it would attract some dirty things.

"Can you pinpoint it?" Lin En transmitted information through the system.

"Very blurry." Lena answered.

"The other side has high-grade anti-reconnaissance equipment not up to Imperial standards, with strong psychic shielding."

"If it weren't for her recently using psychic power, leaving some residual fluctuation, I wouldn't have detected her."

"Her?"

"Female human, high psychic strength, professionally trained."

Lin En narrowed his eyes, professional psychic user, non-Imperial technological equipment, the answer was obvious.

The Inquisition, and an Inquisitor belonging to the Radical Faction.

They often used heretical means to fight heretics, and to eradicate heresy they would stop at nothing.

And they specialized in killing human traitors within the Empire, the kind of Inquisitor officials least wanted to meet.

"Send someone to find her, don't startle the snake, first confirm her location and intentions."

"Mm." Lena answered.

At this moment, a shadow beside Lin En moved.

Lin En picked up the data slate again, pretending to continue reading the report.

Having experience dealing with Cassius, he understood the importance of information reconnaissance.

This time, he absolutely would not let himself and Lena fall into a passive position again.

Three hundred meters outside Lin En's escort, on the Second Legion's flank.

Sorin Vimlot leaned behind a giant boulder, the light armor she wore blending her with the snowfield.

This was the Ark Eldar "Shadow Walker Light Armor" from the Eldar, with a built-in psychic invisibility field generator.

It could distort light and psychic signals, achieving optical invisibility and psychic shielding, the pinnacle of Eldar lightweight stealth equipment.

She was an Inquisitor of the Inquisition's Calixis Sector Branch, directly under Grand Inquisitor Able Warro.

Three months ago she was ordered to come to Brevis, her mission to assess the threat level of Ice Plains mutants and find evidence to classify them as heretics.

But now, her priorities had changed.

She had witnessed the entire battle at Broken Canyon; those "Flying Dragons" were seventy percent similar to Tyranid flying units.

But stronger and more beautiful, especially that cyan-blue leader individual, whose psychic strength had at least reached Alpha Level.

More suspicious was that those Flying Dragons only attacked mutants, not the Imperial Army.

And Governor Kerry Feng, had a brief eye contact with the Flying Dragon leader.

Sorin naturally knew the legend of the Frost Dragon, but she, having undergone systematic xenos knowledge theoretical study,

knew that thing absolutely was not a Frost Dragon, so she needed evidence.

An Inquisitor could not convict based on intuition, that was what his teacher Able often said.

Although she did not agree with that statement, now the situation had not yet developed to where she considered it uncontrollable.

She was willing to be more patient, to see that group of Flying Dragons appear again and interact with the Governor.

She also needed to confirm that those Flying Dragons were indeed the Bug Race.

If they really were Tyranids, then all of Brevis might already be in the early stage of infection.

And Governor Kerry Feng would be among the first infected.

Must be purified!

Suddenly, Sorin felt a slight palpitation.

It was not a danger warning; her spirit energy sensed no hostility.

It was more like she had been scanned by something.

She immediately stopped all actions, activated her light armor to maximum power, and remained motionless.

A few seconds later, the palpitations disappeared.

Sorin exhaled a breath.

There is a Spirit Energy User in this army, and their perception is very sharp.

Possibly an Army Priest, or possibly the Governor himself.

The report shows he received the "Emperor's Blessing" during the State Religion Mass, which usually means spirit energy awakening.

She remembered this information and continued observing.

In any case, she did not believe that the powerful "Frost Dragon" would hide within the convoy.

Just as she thought everything had returned to normal, unexpectedly a terrifying Tyranid monster had already arrived behind her.

Likate, one of the Bug Race's top assassins, with a green skin body over three meters long covered in color-changing carapace, capable of achieving perfect optical camouflage.

Body structure similar to a mantis, with forelimbs that are a pair of scythe-like giant claws, capable of tearing open Terminator Armor defense in one blow during a sneak attack, causing a kill.

Upon learning that a Spirit Energy User was tracking Lin En, Lena first released a wide-area spirit energy reconnaissance to cover Likate's actions.

Afterwards, through energy connection, she had the Bug Swarm's Warp Shadow provide spirit energy concealment for Likate; this is also a common anti-spirit-energy reconnaissance method of the Bug Race.

Now, this extremely dangerous Tyranid assassin is less than ten meters behind Sorin, if it wants to.

Sorin will die silently, without even feeling pain.

But Lin En did not let Lena kill her; that is a last resort.

Unlike Necromunda, this is merely a transition platform for Lin En.

Brevis is the "farming" old nest Lin En needs, if he kills this Inquisitor.

The outcome is predictable.

He does not want to continue being a space wanderer.

So Sorin cannot die, or rather, cannot die in Brevis, or even in the Hiliss Star System.

Lin En, upon learning that Likate had successfully locked onto the Inquisitor's position, revealed a sinister smile at the corner of his mouth.

Lin En wants these people to know the price of opposing him.