Chapter 271 04.0270: "Conclusive Evidence"

In the void, a black ship without the ability to navigate in the warp was slowly approaching the state religion pilgrim ship with the word "Apocalypse" engraved in High Gothic on the side of the hull.

"No need to communicate, board the ship and search by force." Military Supervisor Melina sent combat orders to her military supervisors and the Zhongsi Stormtroopers.

Then she looked at Farida and said, "Just follow us. Be careful no matter what."

"Yes." Farida saluted.

"Master Sergeant Valina."

"Here!" The female officer wearing a red beret saluted the military supervisor. Melina instructed:
"I have read your resume. You are an excellent veteran. The safety of the Hood Military Prison will be in your hands."

"Yes, Your Excellency the Military Supervisor."

"Come on, let's put an end to this."
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On the black ship of William Carter's Inquisition.

The sound of various weapons exchanging fire echoed inside the ship.

Fighting against the Ravenno Inquisitor was a large group of Inquisition agents who had been blessed and corrupted by the Lord of Change and had countless eyes and wings on their bodies.

A bolt of psychic lightning flew past Ravenno's shoulder. The Inquisitor focused his psychic energy with his backhand, waving his right hand that emitted a faint blue light to counterattack the corrupted Astropath in front of him. The psychic fluctuations instantly spread throughout the corridor.

hum!
Suddenly, a tall figure appeared behind him. It was a Thousand Sons Rubric Warrior who appeared beside him, holding the ancient Prospero-style classic scimitar in his hand and swinging it towards his chest.

boom!
A loud noise of tearing the hull was heard from somewhere. Ravenno, sensing something, jumped away urgently, leaving a distance of dozens of meters. The Thousand Sons Rubric Warrior also teleported again, but the culprit arrived too fast.

A boarding pod with the Ultramarines logo smashed through the corridor and hit the Thousand Sons Rubric Warrior who had transformed again on the spot. The hollow armor was flattened and buried deep in the twisted bulkhead.

"I! Cato Sicarius! Will put an end to these heretics!"

A tall warrior wearing a Roman crossbow and gold-blue armor rushed out of the boarding bay. He fearlessly knocked away the oncoming Tzeentch monster and slashed it in two with a smooth backhanded sword.

Facing the group attack from the other 9 Thousand Sons Red Letter Warriors present.

Sicarius, a veteran of battles, anticipated their predictions.

The moment his opponents appeared, he reacted with amazing speed, quickly raised his hands, and made a defensive posture in the direction of the blank space.

A red-letter warrior who suddenly appeared bumped into Sicarius's broad blue iron hand, and his simple blue-gold helmet was tightly grasped.

The helmet instantly deformed under the huge grip, and a wisp of dust came out from it.

Many young and inexperienced battle-brothers, when facing these enemies, would become careless because they successfully destroyed the enemy's head, and eventually lose their lives because they were ambushed by the fallen "corpse".

They did not know that these fallen heretics were no longer mortal, and that the fatal weaknesses of mortals were no longer weaknesses to them.

But he is Cato Sicarius, the Chapter Champion, the greatest Space Marine in the Empire's greatest Ultramarines Chapter. What kind of heretic has he not killed?
Before the headless Astartes could launch a surprise attack, Sicarius twisted the Thousand Son's hand holding the scimitar, stabbed his wrist into the breastplate, and the blade pierced the enemy's entire torso.

Then he turned around and stabbed his Roman power sword, which was flashing with blazing red flames, into his abdomen, made a horizontal slash with force, and then at an astonishing speed invisible to the naked eye, he chopped the entire armor into pieces, and scattered countless smoke and dust on the ground.

In the blink of an eye, two more Rubric Warriors were ripped into pieces by Sicarius's extraordinary swordsmanship.

The remaining Red Letter Warriors tried to launch an attack with psychic power, but the black ship's hull shook violently again, interrupting their witchcraft tricks.

The red boarding capsule smashed in from other parts of the black ship.

Captain Afir stepped down, and his battle-brothers joined the Ultramarines in the surprise attack.

He looked at the man in front of him wearing the Inquisition Rose and said, "Inquisitor Ravenno, leave these heretics to us. You can continue to investigate the whereabouts of the Inquisitor of the Holy Hammer."

"Thank you, Lord of Watch."

The Inquisitor and his attendants immediately rushed into the room that exuded an ominous aura and had inscriptions carved all over the exterior.

When they cautiously threw a flashlight into the room and waited for the light to illuminate the inside, they found that there was nothing inside.

The cold demon-suppressing hook hung empty in the air, and the monster that was supposed to be trapped by it was nowhere to be seen.

Upon seeing this, Inquisitor Ravenno couldn't help but feel even more worried. In desperation, he could only grit his teeth and risk being corrupted as he released his mental tentacles to explore the remaining spiritual energy in order to locate its direction.

Previous images in this room flashed before his eyes. He saw a lot. It was too smooth. It seemed that this was the truth that the demon host deliberately let him see.

[No wonder I can't see his thoughts... He thought he had control over the demon host, but he didn't know that he was already part of the plan of the treacherous apostle.]
The last image emerged in his mind, and amidst the sound of malicious giggles, he gradually saw an Anglican pilgrim ship from the vague shadows.

[He went on the pilgrimage ship?]
"Everyone, pack up immediately! This is a bait! The target is on that pilgrim ship!"
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The Storm Troopers used melta bombs to break open the tightly closed armored door of the docking station of the pilgrim ship.

An elite team broke into the interior, which was bright and magnificent with many scented candles burning. The walls were covered with embossed windows and paintings, making it look like the interior of a pilgrim ship in a church.

After the electronic warfare team hacked into the display console, a retractable ladder automatically led to the Navy Discipline Security Ship docked not far away.

"According to the plan, we will split up. The first team will take control of the bridge, the second team will take control of the engine room, and the main force will follow me to the central church to inspect the ship thoroughly."

Military Supervisor Melina held a power sword in one hand and a bolter in the other, and gave orders to the others.

The disciplinary inspection team set off immediately.

After unloading the pilgrims from other planetary organizations, the interior of this giant ship, which is 21 kilometers long, 8 kilometers wide and 13 kilometers high, is now empty and eerily quiet.

With such a small number of people, it is obviously not enough to search the entire ship, so Military Supervisor Melina plans to find the key areas first.

As long as any evidence of heresy is found, the Imperial Navy can officially intervene and dispatch a large number of troops, or even bombard the state religion pilgrimage ship.

Before the operation, Military Supervisor Melina had requested the relevant departments for the prototype design drawings of this type of pilgrimage ship, and following the general direction, they headed towards the central church area.

This is a long process, but fortunately the internal transportation lines are still usable.

Military Supervisor Melina took Farida and the storm troopers off the car at the end of the horizontal axis of the inner track car.

Along the way, they didn't see anyone except some unconscious servitors.

"Stay alert."

They slowly walked into the central church and saw a girl sleeping on the pulpit.

At the feet of the Angel of Death statue next to the girl was a book with a pink gem inlaid on the cover. The Military Supervisor and the Stormtroopers approached the pulpit cautiously.

After checking the girl's vital signs, a stormtrooper pulled back her eyelids and saw her iconic heterochromatic eyes. By comparing the data, they determined that this was the high-level psychic that the Gothic Fleet was looking for.

"What should we do? Do we need to shoot her on the spot?" After confirming her identity, Sergeant Valina did not relax. Instead, she looked even more like she was facing a formidable enemy and pointed the muzzle of the Hell Gun at the sleeping girl.

"Take her away. It is said that she is related to the vision at the Festival of Sanguinius. The Inquisition is very interested in this." Military Supervisor Melina hesitated for a moment and said, then began to check the surroundings.

"No trace of the target found. There is only this girl and this book here."

"Military Supervisor Hood, please keep the book. I think with this, we can make this pilgrim ship not escape suspicion."

Military Inspector Melina took photos of the evidence one by one, encrypted the photos and sent them to the Inquisitor using a new code that Inquisitor Ravenno had someone give her, as well as a clever little device to assist in encryption.

"Yes."

As an untouchable, Farida wore psychic-isolating gloves as double insurance and picked up the thick book that exuded strong psychic power.

The moment she put her hand on it, the ominous aura emanating from the book was suppressed.

Just as Farida breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the book to put it away, suddenly, the light around the tall statue of the Angel of Death above everyone's heads began to distort.

"This is the fifth military supervisory bureau of Abyss Port..." A nauseating and harsh sound suddenly came from the communication of Melina Military Supervisor, and she was so scared that she threw away the microphone in her hand.

When she realized something was wrong, she looked sharply towards the gigantic statue of the Angel of Death. From its majestic head crawled down a gigantic alien creature with extremely twisted features, multiple deformed limbs, and a form that was completely inconsistent with physiology.

It let out a howl, and a purple psychic field visible to the naked eye instantly enveloped the entire central church, and a purple mist filled with laughter also spread in the field.

But there was no trace of the purple mist within a radius of 330 meters from Farida. Once they touched this boundary, they disappeared into thin air. They could not break through this black barrier.

"what!!"

The stormtroopers who were guarding the church gate outside the barrier had no time to dodge. Their bodies, which were contaminated by the purple mist, swelled up instantly. The overgrown flesh and blood bulged into small mouse-like protrusions, and then flowers of flesh and blood burst out. Their limbs also began to become twisted, deformed, and proliferated.

Their carapaces were stretched by the ever-growing tumors, and eventually even a glimmer of human form disappeared, transforming into deformed freaks that resembled the twisted monster and did not conform to the laws of physics.

"God-Emperor...what are these?" The sergeant was stunned to see his comrades turned into monsters, and muttered to himself with a dry throat. It is not difficult to imagine that the teams sent to other locations may have met with unexpected accidents.

The Gothic Admiralty in Abyssal Harbor.

"Sir, we just received a communication request from the Fifth Department of the Military Supervision Bureau, but the communication was instantly disconnected after the other party revealed their identity." A captain who received the signal reported.

"Location coordinates." Lord Admiral Katalia frowned as she looked at the large holographic screen in front of her.

"According to the last source of the signal, they are on a pilgrimage ship called the 'Apocalypse'."

"Notify the nearby ships participating in the fleet review to prepare to board."

"But... this behavior is already a blatant infringement of the state religion's assets. If we investigate later, they will not let it go..." a staff officer reminded.

"Since they sent us messages, and the communication was interrupted for no reason, it means there must be something wrong. Follow my orders! If anything goes wrong, I will be solely responsible." The female admiral said resolutely.

"Report, we have received a secret message from the Inquisition's Anti-Foreign Order! The file package in the message was successfully delivered using an experimental new code to break through the obsolete code interception. It contains holographic images of the evidence collected by the Fifth Military Inspectorate on the pilgrimage ship."

"Project it now!"

Everyone immediately looked towards the lit screen and saw an extremely suspicious and blasphemous scene.

"I think the evidence is now conclusive. Telegraph to the entire fleet, first level combat alert! Block all entrances and exits to ports and waterways!"

"Yes! Urgently contact the Retribution-class battleship Cardinal Bolas, the Moon-class cruiser Lord Daros, the Gothic-class cruisers Drachenfels, the Emperor's Wrath, and the Wrath of Justice... blockade the State Religion Pilgrim's Revelation and the surrounding airspace!"

In the void, huge warships parked around the star port slowly lit up their huge and powerful plasma reactors, and their thrusters spewed out blue tail flames for several kilometers.

The macro cannon and the light spear tower turned, pointing their black muzzles at the pilgrim ship named "Apocalypse".

Sirens blared on the ship, and tens of thousands of naval armed forces soldiers began to head to the arsenals in various blocks under the leadership of their respective non-commissioned officers and began to assemble armed forces.
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Inside the pilgrimage ship 'Apocalypse'.

Soon, the purple mist dissipated, and the black barrier in the mist disappeared with it.

"Shoot these monsters!" the female military supervisor ordered, and picked up the microphone again to try to call the outside world, but the terrifying laughter still came from the microphone.

"The communication has been invaded, retreat!" She acted decisively, picked up the unconscious girl, and under the cover of everyone, prepared to leave through the side door with Farida.

Boom!
Before he had run a few steps, the side door was suddenly kicked open.

Several Space Marines who were tall but extremely depraved and heretical in appearance blocked their way.

Farida gasped and looked at these Space Marines.

The full body power armor they wore, which stretched out human skin, had already blended with flesh and blood, with a living purple-pink hue on the surface, and was adorned with Sky Eagle emblems painted with blasphemous words and patterns. The part that should have been a breathing grid had merged with the sound array grid, and the power backpacks on their backs had vertical pipes like an organ.

Faced with these abominable and terrifying inhuman monsters, she instinctively began to slowly retreat.

Sergeant Valina did not hesitate, stepped forward and fired first. A beam of high-energy laser hit the bodies of these ugly soldiers, and everyone followed suit and opened fire.

The lasers burned the decorations on the heretics' armor, and their supernatural flesh and blood made them moan with strange satisfaction after being hit, but the firepower still forced these fallen warriors to disperse their formation. However, they soon surrounded the General Supervisor and Stormtroopers at a speed faster and more violent than that of mortals.

Several Traitor Space Marines surrounded the search force of only a few dozen people.

But these traitors and heretics did not seem to be in a hurry to attack, except to block everyone when they tried to break out, as if they were waiting for a good show to begin.

The sound of grenade launchers and hell guns firing echoed in the central church, and interlaced flames flew everywhere.

"Go to the other side!" Faced with the crisis of being surrounded, the female military supervisor held the unconscious girl in one hand and fired at the twisted aliens that were jumping around above her head with the other hand.

Farida began to organize the troops to fight while retreating. Valina used her strong arm strength to pull over the bench to provide cover for her comrades. These things could not stop the bombs, but they could provide some vision blockage.

"Where are you going? My distinguished guests." Just as everyone was about to retreat to the side door, a bald bishop escorted by two noise warriors blocked their way.

　Because the number of words in each chapter is quite large, Wenshuting will post one chapter after he finishes revising it. There will be three updates today.

　　
　
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