Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

Ravenna Springfield is a researcher in the genetic laboratory. He is very good. At a young age, he became a core department researcher under Dr. Astarte. He is directly in charge of the research and development of core genetic links. He is very talented.

However, if you are familiar with Ravenna Springfield, you will know that this talented guy is also very arrogant and arrogant, and he is the kind of guy who makes people feel bored and dissatisfied just by looking at him.

It is precisely because of this that Ravenna has very high standards. He looks down on almost everyone except Dr. Astarte. It is almost a well-known fact that he loves Dr. Astarte. Although the doctor himself has no reaction to this, it still does not affect his pursuit of the doctor.

But it is obvious that Ravenna probably doesn't know what Dr. Astarte likes, or in other words, his arrogance has prevented him from really understanding his "sweetheart". So it is no surprise that when Marshal Vito Constantine and Dr. Astarte began to officially date, no one was surprised.

But Ravenna was very annoyed and angry about this. Obviously, this guy didn't notice that he might have such a "small" gap with Marshal Vito, but this did not affect his self-confidence. He still pursued the doctor openly and secretly, competed with Vito, and even directly expressed his contempt for Vito in private.

This is really bold, isn't it? But, aren't these scholars, nobles and dignitaries who think they are superior to others so arrogant and stupid? They will only be honest after being beaten up.

Ravenna walked in the corridor of the core experimental area. Usually, few people would go deep here. All the people here are core researchers. Ah, of course, there are also those porters. You can't expect these noble scholars who are devoted to scientific research to go down and move things by themselves, right?

So in this corridor, Ravenna saw a porter. There were only two of them in this corridor, and they were walking towards each other opposite each other.

"Hey! You idiot, who do you think you are? Get out of here!" Ravenna pointed at the porter and shouted, but the latter continued to walk towards this side, as if he didn't hear Ravenna's words at all.

This made Ravenna instantly angry, "Are you deaf? Get out now, go back to move your boxes, low-class person, or I'll whip you!"

The porter still walked over without saying a word, and he even showed a faint mocking smile, which made the arrogant Ravenna instantly furious. He strode towards the porter and raised his hand, "You low-class person, I want you to get out!"

Ravenna shouted and slapped the porter, but the latter raised his hand at lightning speed and grabbed Ravenna's wrist, and then before he had time to react, he suddenly locked Ravenna's arm in reverse, and the pain of the wrist joint made Ravenna scream loudly.

But before the talented researcher could continue to shout, the porter grabbed his hair and slammed his head against the wall. Ravenna's forehead hit the steel wall hard, and then he fainted instantly due to the impact.

"Ravenna Springfield? How interesting, it seems that you are my "rival in love"." Vito supported the unconscious Ravenna and lifted the name tag on her chest with one hand.

Vito smiled, then opened the small door of the power maintenance room on the side of the corridor with his backhand, pushed Ravenna in, and fell face down on the ground.

"Ha, it seems that your face will not be very good after waking up, but this is good for you, at least it can make you a little more low-key." Vito said with a smile, his eyes looked around the corridor twice and then walked into the power room, and gently closed the door.

Vito came out soon. He adjusted the collar of his white coat and smiled with satisfaction at Ravenna, who was stripped naked by him and only had underwear left. "Good luck. When you wake up, you won't be seen before you find new clothes to wear."

No, in fact, Ravenna Springfield experienced social death afterwards. He was only wearing a pair of underwear and swaggering around the laboratory, becoming a beautiful scenery in front of all researchers. Then he suddenly disappeared. Well, I heard that he applied for transfer himself. There was nothing he could do. After all, he ran naked in the laboratory once and was seen by Astarte and Elda.

But Vito didn't know it now, but when he knew it later, he did show a gloating smile.

But now, after Vito put on his white coat, he walked deep into the corridor. With Ravenna's ID card, the journey was smooth. Vito only needed to walk to the closed doors one by one, and the automatic sensor lock could recognize Ravenna's identity chip, and then open the doors for "Springfield Researcher".

Vito whistled and walked leisurely. He did not dodge or hide at all, but walked in the corridor between the laboratories.

Because Vito guessed that based on his understanding of these scientific research geeks, they usually buried themselves in various time-consuming experiments that did not require much conversation with people, so this group of introverted workaholics who were extremely lacking in social skills probably never recognized or even tried to remember how many people there were in their department, let alone know them.

So yes, Vito was walking here swaggering like this. Among the scientific researchers who were doing experiments behind the glass windows on both sides and walking hurriedly, no one recognized that Vito was not from here.

Vito walked past him with a smile. He didn't even look at the scientific researcher who was reviewing the data panel with his head buried in his head.

Vito stretched out, put his hands in his pockets as if for a walk, and walked leisurely to the facility map on the side. His fingers quickly slid across the map, and then he walked in a "Primary Body Culture Cabin" The place stopped, he looked at the name of the place, and then hummed and went to the place.

He dared to bet that his dear Astartes must be somewhere. She had a big experiment today, and everything here revolved around the same plan, the most important experiment, the Primarch Plan.

Vito was walking in the corridor of the laboratory, humming a tune from a famous movie on ancient Terra. The cheerful song called "come and get your love" naturally swayed with him. Humming while raising his arms, Vito walked briskly through the boring researchers who were immersed in experiments.

Vito spun in front of an open reinforced door and danced into it. He sang the lyrics in his mouth, and his hand seemed to be holding a microphone as he walked towards the imaginary microphone in his hand. Singing.

The cheerful tune attracted the attention of the two people in the training room. Dr. Astarte and Ms. Erda, who was checking the data report with her, looked at the researcher who was singing and rocking.

Astarte and Erda looked at each other. Astarte was silent for a moment and then turned to look at the researcher. He walked up to the two ladies as he sang. He turned around suddenly, and the white coat on his body followed suit. Flying, as he stood still, he raised his arms and clapped his hands suddenly, revealing that bright smile.

"You two beautiful ladies," he said with a smile.

"Aren't you a fool?" Astartes stared at him with a cold face and muttered.

"Yes, it's a handsome guy!" Vito grabbed his face and suddenly pulled off the human skin mask. The scene that looked like a horror movie to ordinary people didn't scare the two ladies at all. In any case, they didn't either. He followed the Emperor as early as the early days of the Terran Unification War. What storms and waves have he not seen?

"No, he's still a fool." Astarte said coldly, while Vito chuckled and glided over to her. He held Erda's hand with a smile on his face and gently touched the back of her hand. A kiss.

"Long time no see, Erda, how have you been lately?" Vito smiled and still held Erda's hand, while the latter smiled kindly and gently withdrew his hand.

"Good or bad, but how are you and Constantine doing lately?" The ancient lady, who was an immortal like Vito, smiled. She looked at Vito who was walking past her. He put his hands in his pockets and looked at the culture tanks on both sides. Those culture tanks made of a mixture of fine steel and plastic steel were extremely strong.

"It wasn't very good. What did I eat in the Middle East? I was bitten by mosquitoes in the rainforest of South America and lost a few tubes of blood. I went to Siberia and was half-frozen to death. Then I went to Central Africa and was half-dead from the heat."

As he spoke, Vito tapped his fingers twice on the surface of the culture tank on one side. The metal reverberated very strongly. Vito tilted his head while leaning on his hips and looking at the glass observation window above.

"But I think you had a good time last night, right?" Erda glanced at Astartes on the side, who turned his face slightly, and his slightly red face was so cute, which made Erda He laughed involuntarily.

"Isn't that right? That's much more comfortable than being blown half to death by a snowstorm on Mount Ararat." Vito smiled and winked at Astarte, who turned his head and waved his hand gently. This girl was still shy. After all, Erda was present. In front of him, who was like his biological sister, Astarte looked as shy as a little girl.

But obviously, Vito was not so decent. He put his hands on his hips and showed a confident and bright smile. Erda looked at Vito and burst into laughter. She touched the upper part of her lips with her fingers.

"You're still the same as before, Vito, that's great. You're the only one who hasn't changed." Erda smiled and suddenly her expression turned sad. She sighed softly. She raised her sad eyes and looked at Vito not far away.

"Did the Thunder Warriors leave peacefully?" Erda asked softly, but those words stunned Astartes for a moment. Her rosy face calmed down instantly, and then she turned her head cautiously. Looking at Vito who carried out the "Emperor's last order".

Vito looked at Erda, and his smile disappeared for a moment, but soon appeared on his cheeks again, "Well, they... walked away peacefully, as heroes, not out-of-control beasts."

With that said, Vito turned his head away from Erda. He did not look at Erda's face. Erda himself sighed softly and managed to laugh.

"Where are you and Constantine's test game? Bloody game, right? Is it going well for you?" Erda raised his head and asked with a smile. The sadness that had just filled the air quickly disappeared, which also made Vitorson He breathed a sigh of relief. What he feared most since returning to the palace area was Erda asking about the final settlement.

She created the Thunder Warriors. Although she worked with Astarte, she was the main person who created the Thunder Warriors, their biological mother. Vito really didn't know how to explain everything to him, but fortunately, she didn't continue.

"I'm standing here, so I must have won." Vito swept away the gloomy mood just now and put a bright smile on his lips again.

"But it's not his fault. The guards of your laboratory are as weak as a group of ducks being chased. I sent two teams of assassins from the Assassin Court to mess them up."

"The imperial guards brought by Constantine are busy cleaning up the mess for them. The defense line has been messed up with loopholes. If you ask me, all your security guards should be withdrawn. They can't protect my dear Astartes."

Vito smiled and turned his head to Elda and blinked, "Of course, there is you, how could I forget you?"

"Your love words are still so... interesting, Vito." Elda said with a soft smile, and Vito laughed happily. He jumped onto the ladder rack on the side and stood next to the culture tank marked with No. 16. Vito's eyes approached the observation window and peeked inside.

He saw the baby floating in the artificial amniotic fluid. The tiny baby was floating in the jar, and the umbilical cord on its belly was floating in the pale yellow amniotic fluid. At the end of the umbilical cord, it was connected by a mechanical hose, replacing the part that should belong to its mother's umbilical cord, and continuously delivering nutrients to the much-anticipated baby.

"Is this the original body?" Vito asked in surprise, and Astarte walked to the end of the shelf ladder behind him, holding a data tablet in his hand.

"Yes, what's wrong, you seem to be disappointed."

"Well, I thought they would be bigger and stronger. After all, it is a combination of that guy and Erda's genes, and you have carefully compiled the genes. I thought they would be bigger and more powerful."

Vito raised his eyebrows and looked at the baby floating in the amniotic fluid, "but they look no different from normal babies."

"They are still babies after all, but babies will grow up and eventually become extraordinary beings." Erda said, her fingers touching the No. 9 culture tube beside her, saying lovingly and gently, like a real mother caressing her child.

"I hope they grow up fast. I don't want to wait for twenty years. The old guy doesn't seem to have the patience to wait that long. He is eagerly looking forward to stepping into the starry sky and unifying human civilization." Vito said, his eyes moving with the baby that seemed to be swimming in the amniotic fluid.

"Do they have names?"

"No, not yet." Erda stroked the culture tank and said, her tone full of sadness, "The Emperor didn't give them any names. They were always called by numbers, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 18, just like calling each weapon."

"Ha, don't worry, Erda, I will give them a good name." Vito stood up with a smile, he put his hands on his waist and grinned, "Besides, that guy's naming level is ridiculously bad. He calls himself a thinker and scholar every day, but the names he chooses are so ugly."

"What are Dusk Raiders, Death Warriors, etc., what kind of weird names are these? Listen to what I gave them, Shadow Moon Wolf, Ultramarines, Imperial Fists and Holy Blood Angels, etc., these names are much worse?" Vito smiled with his hands on his waist, turned around and proudly raised his head to Dr. Astarte, laughing. Astarte rolled his eyes at him, "Then you can start thinking about their names. Today is the last test. If everything goes well, the Primarchs will be taken out of the culture tanks tomorrow."

"The Emperor will come too. He will be there in person to witness and take these children away." Erda whispered, her eyes looking in other directions with her head, as if she didn't want Vito to see her eyes clearly.

But Vito could understand that these children were Erda's flesh and blood. They were produced by her genes and cultivated by her and Astarte. As for the Emperor, except for occasionally asking about the progress of the Primarch plan, he didn't care about these children at all. In his eyes, there was only the great goal of unifying human civilization.

"Wow, I was wondering why Constantine had called in the Imperial Guards. It turns out that guy is coming. In that case, I have to call in a few Space Marines to replace these useless guards." Vito said as he jumped down from the observation window. He landed beside Astarte, patted his white coat, and naturally put his arm around Astarte's waist, hugging her into his arms. He looked at the culture tubes beside him and laughed, "Don't worry, kids, your Uncle Vito and Second Mother Astarte will take good care of you." "Second Mother?" Astarte asked in surprise, leaning on Vito's chest, while the latter rubbed his nose and smiled. "Yes, Erda is their biological mother, and you are the other mother who raised them, so you are the second mother, right?"

"Oh, then shouldn't you call me second uncle?"

"Hey, you know what, this name is not bad, second uncle Vito."

Erda smiled at the young couple on the side, and she moved her fingers away from the culture tank and turned to walk over, "I won't be a light bulb and disturb you."

"Xiao A, remember to bring the experimental data to the database, I have something else to do, so I'm leaving first." Erda left, and Vito looked at her back in silence.

Astartes looked at the data pad in his hand with some anxiety. Her eyes were obviously wrong. Vito looked at the Astartes in his arms in surprise. Every time she was uneasy, she would turn her face inward and lean against him. .

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, Vito, don't worry about me." Astartes said, holding the data pad on his chest and burying his face in Vito's chest.

"I can see when you are angry and happy, and I can also see when you are scared and uneasy, and you are right now." Vito said, putting his arm around Astarte's waist, and gently raising his other hand to caress Astarte. Stat's hair.

"What's wrong?"

Astartes was silent for a moment, then moved her face away from Vito's chest. She handed the data panel in her hand to Vito. The latter took the panel and looked at the information on it. To be honest, Vito Most of them are completely incomprehensible.

"Well, I, it seems, maybe, I don't know that much about technical work." Vito said with a wry smile, and Astarte motioned for him to put the panel down. After all, Vito is 1.9 meters tall, and Asta The genius was a little over 1.6 meters tall, so Vito thoughtfully placed the panel where the Astartes could reach it.

Astarte pointed to a row of data on it. It was a string of numbers in the center, showing 60%

"This is the final monitoring data when we created the Thunder Warriors after successfully integrating the subspace power entrusted to us by the Emperor with the Emperor's genetic experiments. This string of numbers represents the perception and influence of the Thunder Warriors and the subspace. Probability.”

"So high?" Vito exclaimed, looking at the number in surprise, "How come I never knew about this?"

"The Emperor wants us to keep it secret. He believes that the danger is still controllable, and the Terran Unification War urgently needs Thunder Warriors, so this risk can be tolerated, but"

"The Thunder Warriors showed excessive bloodthirst, murderousness and uncontrollability, and finally the Emperor gave you the order, on Mount Ararat."

Astartes didn't finish her words, but Vito already knew what she meant. No wonder the Thunder Warriors were so unstable and often out of control. Now Vito knew why.

And when Vito was silent, Astartes slid the plane, and the data panel switched to the next page.

"And this is the data of the originals." Astartes said, burying his head in Vito's chest, and the latter's pupils dilated slightly as he looked at the data.

"40%" he said softly. Astartes leaned against Vito and stretched out his hand, his fingers tightly holding the clothes on Vito's body.

"Erda and I thought that using her and the Emperor's genes as the master template could combine and suppress the interference rate of the subspace, but the result was not at all what we expected."

"Vito, Erda and I are worried that the Emperor will. Even if he won't do that for the time being, he needs the Primarchs and the Space Marines who carry the Primarch's genes to conquer the galaxy, but Erda is worried that he will do the same to the Thunder Warriors. ,at the end."

Vito looked at the data plate in his hand, one of his hands holding the Astartes' head. He looked at the number, 40% subspace influence rate.

40%