Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 285 04.0284: ‘About to arrive’

“I should have told you all, I emphasize again that you cannot enter the staircase with the number 9 at 9 o’clock in the evening! Sailors, didn’t you remind your superiors?!”

A lieutenant of the armed forces was furious.

“He…he said he didn’t bring his ribbon and had to go back to get it. When we found out it was nine o’clock, he had already gone upstairs…” Several patrol sailors trembled.

“Then we didn’t dare to go up to the ninth floor, so we waited downstairs.”

“What’s wrong?” Horatio asked the lieutenant who led the team next to him.

Then, Louise, who had squeezed in, made a surprised sound.

"Mr. Lieutenant, a candidate officer in our department who was on board for the first time went missing on the 9th floor of the portside upper deck at 9 o'clock last night.

When we found him this morning, he had died strangely in the corridor on the 19th floor of the stairs on the west side of the bridge, which is here."

It was really strange. The span of these two stairs was too large. No matter how far a person walked, he would not go so far.

Horatio walked to Louise's side.

I saw a young man in a brand new uniform leaning against the wall. The wall behind his head was covered with blood and red and white brain tissue, and his face was bleeding from all seven orifices.

His pistol fell to the side, and it looked like he had committed suicide by swallowing a gun.

From the empty and horrified expression of the suicide candidate officer, no one knew what kind of desperate illusion he had seen before he chose to commit suicide.

But the bleeding from all seven orifices was obviously not caused by swallowing a gun to commit suicide.

Horatio narrowed his eyes, and the number 19 on the head of the corpse seemed to announce to them that this was the first victim of 9.

‘Also at 9 o’clock in the evening, don’t go up and down the stairs on the floor with 9, otherwise you will find that every floor you go up and down is still the 9th floor, and you will never be able to get out. ’

Horatio remembered what the captain said to him, but obviously, perhaps the horror is far more than just being unable to get out forever.

Soon, the body of the alternate officer was put on a stretcher, covered with a white cloth by the medical officer, and carried away by the medical assistant to the morgue, where the body was cremated the next day.

Only one day after the voyage, a valuable naval officer committed suicide.

For the Imperial Navy, this is not uncommon.

In the infinite and weird subspace, all demons and monsters are not just bluffing legends.

Although the Geller force field can resist the demon entity appearing out of thin air inside the ship, they are not without a way to deal with it as they want to devour souls all the time.

Specific time and specific place can enhance their energy and allow them to affect the creatures in the ship. Some demons even find ways to drill holes in the Geller force field, which will lead to the appearance of victims.

Even he had to be careful.

"Let's go, Louise, forget about it." Horatio gently stroked Louise's back, which was rising and falling frequently due to rapid breathing, and took her out.

"I will, Lieutenant Horatio, please take care of yourself, I'm going to work." Louise pursed her lips and saluted Horatio.

"Be safe, and... those legends should also be treated with caution."

She nodded.

——

After the self-adjustment in the first few days, coupled with the adaptation in the next few weeks, and the Geller force field became more and more stable under the continuous prayer and maintenance of the technical sage.

Compared with before, Horatio now feels much better, not as uncomfortable as when he first entered the warp.

At least, he can now fall asleep and distinguish between dreams and reality in nightmares.

His appetite has also recovered a lot.

With wine, he can eat a pound of Grox meat in one meal.

To his delight, Louise and Farida are also much better than before.

Because of the depression and lack of appetite for several days, the two girls' faces became thinner and less round.

After the situation gradually improved and they adapted to the life of subspace navigation, they not only recovered.

Louise also shyly asked Horatio to guide her to prepare for the Navy Lieutenant Examination.

She usually led the troops to improve their combat skills in a simulated training cabin with a psychic, and in her spare time, she followed Horatio to learn the knowledge points of the Navy Captain Examination.

For the candidate officers, preparing for the examination is their highest priority task.

The Imperial Navy does not need them to do too much work that can be completed by warrant officers.

Of course, Farida also has her own Navy Supervisor Examination, which is also located in Sepra-Mundi.

Perhaps six months later, they will have to take a favorable ship to the Navy Headquarters to take the officer examination together.

Horatio naturally spared no effort to tell them all the preparation knowledge points that he had prepared before but ultimately did not use, and taught them everything he knew, hoping to help them pass the exam.

——

The fifth week of the warp voyage, the third day, the command bridge.

"Report the current situation." Horatio shouted to the warrant officers after he took the battle station.

This shift was taken by a commissioned lieutenant, four people in three shifts, and there would always be a situation where only one person was on duty.

The shifts of officers and warrant officers were staggered, so that after the previous shift, the officers arrived and the warrant officers could report the current situation to him.

"Report to the commander, the ship is currently in the warp navigation state, everything is normal, all ships are keeping a safe distance, and there is no abnormality." The warrant officer responsible for summarizing the reported coordinates of each ship said to the punctuation chart.

"Each ship has reported to the flagship the crew losses of the day. The crew of the moon-class cruiser Lord Daros lost 278 people, the dreadnought-class light cruiser Fury lost 82 people, and the destroyer Starfire lost 67 people..."

"The closed-circuit televisions on the ship were damaged by mutants. Some blocks are close to the key monitoring area, and a maintenance team needs to be sent to repair them."

The large closed-circuit television screen is in the lower deck partition. Several of them are indeed damaged there, and several locations are relatively critical, close to the Geller force field generator, and must be handled as soon as possible.

Otherwise, if an accident occurs and the Geller force field generator is destroyed, the people on a warship will be twisted and corrupted by the subspace into a monster mixed in the steel hull in an instant.

It becomes a demon ship.

Horatio stood in front of the closed-circuit television control panel. Through the signal sent back by the closed-circuit television, he saw Louise who was leading the clearing team in a fierce firefight with mutants in the cabin.

These former crew members were originally the Sons of the Void. Due to the mutant genes brought by being born in the subspace, most of the descendants of these crew members will one day become hideous monsters.

When that day comes, what awaits them will be the ruthless suppression of the Imperial Navy.

Through the monitoring probe, it can be seen that the black and white cabins are littered with corpses, and the flames of the Navy's explosive bombs continue to fill the screen with dazzling white light.

For the Imperial Navy, suppression = bloodbath.

There is no situation of letting any survivors go.

"Officer Louise, please pay attention. Four elimination targets have just escaped from the side cabin No. 3. Pay attention." At the suppression site, Horatio's voice came from the sound array on the monitoring probe.

"Received, Lieutenant." Louise, who was covered in blood, replaced a set of new magazines for the explosive rifle in her hand, looked at the probe and nodded, then stepped over the bodies of the sailors who were smashed by the mutants, and continued to lead the team to clear the deeper cabins.

After 38 days of sailing, the Indefatigable alone had lost more than 8,000 people, not counting the number of contract workers.

Many people died every day for various reasons.

Some recruited sailors began to violate discipline under the impetus of intense emotions because they were dissatisfied with the strict regulations.

After gathering to increase the daily ration of Grog wine to no avail, they incited mutiny and were executed in public.

They obviously regarded the warship as the civilian ship they worked on before.

The Imperial Navy would use whipping and noose to teach them what military discipline is.

Horatio counted that Farida and Louise had to preside over more than ten punishments a day at most.

Basically, Farida issued punishment orders to the boatswain, and Louise led the armed forces to maintain discipline.

Of course, executions alone would not kill so many people.

Most of the losses came from infighting caused by the corruption of the warp.

A clan lost control and killed another clan, and the two sides, who were already agitated, started fighting because of this fuse.

The winner among them will be blessed by the evil god, and the best among them will become the devil's apostle.

The armed forces of the Imperial Navy need to wash the entire polluted and corrupted area with blood in the narrow cabin.

Then ask the state priest to lead his servants to purify the area again.

But this purification without the baptism of fire is not thorough. Some places that escape the cleansing and purification are likely to cause the next corruption and riot.

However, for the Imperial Navy, they have long been accustomed to all this.

Even 8,000 people died in 38 days, which is already considered a small number.

The reason why warships are built so large and carry hundreds of thousands of people is to leave redundancy and replace casualties.

The total number of crew members is based on the minimum amount required for the operation of the entire ship's equipment. After the crew members die ten times in each operating position, there are substitutes to continue to maintain the navigation of the ship.

All officers had undergone enhanced surgery specifically for subspace navigation, and had good logistical support, medical maintenance, and dedicated personnel to serve them.

During the 38 days, the total loss of officers in the entire support fleet, including the loss of alternate officers, did not exceed 5 people.

"Lieutenant, according to the navigator's report, our ship will arrive at the assembly point near the Rock of Ghana in at most 3 days." The warrant officer who was responsible for communicating with the closed navigation tower sent a message.

"Received." Horatio immediately uploaded the information to the command throne hub.

Commodore Peru nodded: "That is where we will meet with the Cal-Duniyash fleet. Communications Department, prepare to establish a contact beacon."

"Yes, Star Language Hall, this is the Communications Department, start contacting the Mars-class battlecruiser 'Storm Goshawk', the flagship of the Cal-Duniyash Evolutionary Squadron, and request him to report the real-time coordinates."

"As you wish, my lord." A vicissitudes and strange voice came from the device.

In the warship's astropathic hall, when a special door was closed, the Geller force field faded from inside.

So far, this has become the only place in the entire ship that is not covered by the Geller force field.

The psychic communication device, which looks like a giant organ and has three rows of astropathic seats, began to vibrate and hum in the strange chanting.

One after another, abstract psychic signals were thrown into the vast ocean of the subspace, sending communication parameters to the brother fleet within the approximate range of the distant channel of the subspace at a speed beyond imagination.

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