Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 315 05.0314: ‘Fellowship’

The bonfire is burning, the firewood is crackling, the unknown wood exudes a faint resin aroma, and the fresh natural smell silently soothes the heart.

The fire sometimes stood still, sometimes jumped violently, like a vibrant creature. The shadow cast by the firelight on the cave wall silently outlined the shadows of the surrounding objects.

The largest piece of it was the sleeping bag stuffed with Horatio and Louise.

Louise was back to back with him, feeling his warm body temperature.

It was cold inside the sleeping bag, and Horatio knew as soon as he entered that she had woken up from the cold.

Louise was in the other corner, curled up, her hands and feet cold.

Horatio deliberately kept a gentleman's distance, but a cool breeze blew across Louise's back through the gap, making her involuntarily lean against him.

"Sorry." Horatio realized that his self-righteous gentlemanly demeanor had frozen her.

She was only wearing very thin clothing, which was a set of Cadian female soldiers' training underwear.

Horatio is much the same.

When her smooth back pressed against her, the coldness was quickly dissipated by the combined force of their body temperatures.

"Do you miss Cardia?" After a long silence, Horatio asked when he saw that Louise was still not sleepy, staring at the fire with a lot of thoughts.

"When I was in the water today, I kept thinking, I can't die here. I want to return to Cadia, fight the enemy there, and truly fulfill the oath I made when I joined Kashezin, and serve Cadia. Fight to protect our mother planet.”

She pursed her dry lips:

"This was the first time I felt the fear of death. This fear came from a worthless death. The guilt of failing the God Emperor brought me a deep sense of shame.

Although it was not my intention, I failed to fulfill my oath to defend Cardia when I joined Kashezin. I failed to fulfill my duty, so I was taken to the Port of Abyss by my parents.

Every sleepless night, I wondered countless times whether the zombie plague was the punishment the God Emperor had sworn to me. "

The more she spoke, the more she shivered, and a chill slowly seeped into Horatio's body.

He turned around, hugged her with his native left hand, crossed her arm, held her twisted hand with his warm hand, and stroked the thin cocoon on it comfortingly, and the iron hand on the right side slightly turned on the heating function. , to add a little more warmth to the sleeping bag.

"Don't think too much. No matter where you fight, you are fulfilling your oath." Horatio said seriously:

"Every enemy of the God-Emperor you kill is contributing to Cadia's ongoing and future wars, reducing the hostile forces they face and reducing the pressure on your fellow comrades."

"Really? But, they are everywhere..."

"It's true, I'm sure." Horatio affirmed:

"Once upon a time, the leader of thieves, Abaddon, launched the twelfth black expedition to the Gothic Sector. More than eight hundred years have passed, and that guy will definitely come back. In my opinion, the target is probably Cadia.

So every traitor we kill now is likely to reduce the pressure on Cadia and reduce the bloodshed and sacrifice of your compatriots. "

"Cardia remains standing." Louise turned around, staring firmly into his eyes with her iconic purple eyes, and said reflexively.

"Well, Cardia stands."

After receiving a response, she returned to her nostalgic and warm state, clinging closer to him, face to face with him.

"Thank you, Horatio, you are really inspiring. You made me feel the 'brotherhood' in our culture."

"How do you Cadian people describe 'romantic friendship'?" Horatio asked with a smile, looking at her purple eyes that were like crystals in the dark.

Louise moved her eyes away in embarrassment, her voice dropped sharply, like a mosquito. If they weren't face to face, he might not be able to hear her.

"Two people will never abandon each other at any time. They decide everything they face together and live and die together."

"Do you remember our first mission?" Horatio looked into her eyes and recalled the past:

"I was fighting a stinky can. I thought I was going to die. Then you rushed over, cut your hand open with a knife, and poured your own blood on that thing, buying me time.

At that time you were my team leader and I was just a corporal recruit.

You told me that you would never abandon me. For this reason, you received a punch from the plague pig. The ceramite breastplate was shattered and two ribs were broken. "

Listening to his words, Louise's eyes widened slightly.

"I said I would take you to see the moon. In the future, I will definitely take you back to Cardia. I will definitely fulfill the oath I made, just like you said you would not leave me behind." Xiao continued.

Next to the warm campfire, the two of them were keeping each other warm, and they were so close that Louise could even clearly count Horatio's eyelashes, and naturally she could see the subtlest instinctive expressions on his face when he spoke.

Memories suddenly emerged from the depths of her mind, and Louise's eyes flickered.

At this moment, she seemed to be back on the plague ship rushing to the Port of the Abyss. She was covered in blood and holding a sharp knife. There was a young man in front of her, reaching out to her.

My heart, which had been shrouded in guilt for a long time, felt a touch of warmth and relaxation for the first time in a long time.

Just like before, he held her hand and walked forward when she shuttled through the waves of plague ship corpses and recalled the unpleasant past.

"Horatio..." She opened her red lips and murmured softly, "Are you...willing to form a friendship with me?"

"Of course, team leader." Horatio's hot breath rubbed her ears together, making her earlobes turn red, like red fruits.

Louise gently tapped her smooth forehead on his collarbone and buried her face into his strong chest.

He kissed the top of her head.

Gradually, Louise raised her head, a pair of jade arms wrapped around him like vines, and her two soft lips met together gently and delicately.

She felt his warmth firsthand, and the sleeping bag no longer needed an iron hand to warm her.

At this moment, two hot hearts blended together, resisting the cold wind and bringing warmth to the cold body.

The training clothes were soaked again. Only this time, the source is no longer the cold lake water.

Outside the cave, a blizzard roared, but inside the cave it was as warm as ever.

the next day.

The Taurus assault vehicle's engine roared outside the cave.

Archie Cuthbert Collingwood used the butt of his rifle to break through the thick snow that had almost completely blocked the entrance to the cave.

Suddenly, the butt of the gun hit a hard object, and a 'pale woman' covered in blood stood motionless in the ice and snow.

Until... her dull eyes moved.

Archie was startled and instantly put his finger on the trigger.

"Relax, Archie, that's the servitor I arranged to watch, come in." Horatio's familiar voice came from the cave.

Collingwood stepped into the cave and took off his helmet, feeling a scent of aroma coming to his nostrils.

In front of him were two people who were fully armed. The giant strange fish, the most essential white parts of the fish, had been cut into dozens of large rows, and they were skewered on firewood with peeled tree branches. .

The meat steak is glistening with oil and crispy on the outside. Even if it is only seasoned with the simplest salt and spices, the aroma exuding is very exciting.

"Good morning, soldiers, would you like to try some of this planet's specialty fish before going on a mission? I'll hold a brief tactical seminar by the way."

Horatio adjusted the simple grill and greeted the visitors with a smile, as if they were not deep in the enemy's dangerous depths, but camping in the snow in some garden world.

A dozen top soldiers followed Collingwood into the cave. They shook off the snow from their bodies and sat beside the pile of firewood.

“This seems to be a large meat fish specially bred on this planet.

After being adjusted by geneticists, they only need leftovers and defective products of agricultural products to thrive. Their meat is of excellent quality. However, they are too fierce and aggressive, and large fishing boats with powered harpoons must be used every time they fish. Fish boat, how did you catch it? Captain Horatio. Archie asked in disbelief as he looked at the huge dead fish skeleton beside him.

"I had a fight with this thing underwater. It almost swallowed me and Louise. Fortunately, it tasted pretty good, otherwise it would have been a huge loss."

Horatio nonchalantly ignored the previous thrills between the two of them, took out the data pad, and then got to the point:

"Our target is the largest orbital air fortress in this area. I believe you should have seen the giant cannon."

"That's right. Even through a blizzard, you can see the barrel of the gun shooting straight into the sky from more than ten kilometers away. It's so big."

Archie turned around and looked outside the cave, as if he had already seen the target site, which was several kilometers long, raised high, and bombarded the sky with orbital cannons.

There is no doubt that this is the masterpiece left by the traitorous Iron Warriors.

"More than a dozen forts form a 300-square-kilometer air defense cluster in this area to ensure the security of the airspace in the southern part of the continent.

We have now parachuted into the 'inside' of this huge defense cluster.

Judging from yesterday's fire reconnaissance, the outer perimeter of this defensive area is mainly composed of sporadic small anti-aircraft turrets, and the main equipment is Hydra anti-aircraft artillery. "

Horatio marked several light yellow marks on the data pad and said.

"Going to the inner ring is the large-caliber anti-aircraft turret. The main equipment here is the 133mm high-flat dual-purpose ground-mounted cannon, as well as some Skyhawk-type anti-ground macrocannons that were captured after the fall. The range is about 40 kilometers. "

Horatio moved his fingertips to mark an orange area.

He continued: "In the innermost layer, there is only one heavy air defense fortress. This fortress covers an area of ​​about 50 square kilometers and adopts a bastion structure.

There are at least more than 100,000 rebel troops stationed inside. The artillery is mainly a twin-mounted intra-atmospheric anti-aircraft heavy artillery of over 210 mm, and a twin-mounted orbital bombardment cannon with a caliber similar to that of a ship-borne macrogun.

This giant cannon is the only thing that can truly threaten the Astra Militarum orbital landing ships and our low-Earth orbit support ships. "

He ticked the blood-red mark.

"Then our battle plan is to directly destroy the anti-aircraft forts along the way from the outer perimeter, and finally attack the heavy anti-aircraft fortress?" Louise asked while looking at the holographic briefing.

"No, as long as the enemy commander is not stupid, he can judge our location through the lost fort and roughly estimate our maneuver time to reach the next target.

As long as one of the nearby forts loses contact, they will immediately be on alert.

After they put on armed guard, there was no way that a dozen of us could defeat the hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in the fortress.

And this weather, as well as the extremely threatening orbital bombardment macro cannon, cut off our possibility of calling for orbital bombardment and air strike support. "

"So, we go directly to the heavy anti-aircraft fortress?" Archie guessed Horatio's thoughts and asked.

"Yes, the enemy only knows that we landed between the outer ring and the inner ring.

In this kind of blizzard weather, if there is no power armor and special heat-insulating carapace, people will directly freeze to death.

Moreover, only there can a large-scale climate control system be built.

So, they would not have thought that we would not only survive, but also directly skip the turrets along the way and go straight to Huanglong." Horatio sneered while pointing at the data board.

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