Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

The flashing warning red light flashes in the dark space. The cold decks, unknown huge buildings, and piles of material boxes are illuminated by the shining red light. Along with the light Continuously scratching across their surfaces, the harsh sound of steel friction came from behind the door.

There was a roar of gears and lifting cables, a dull and steady landing sound, and hydraulic gas spurted out of the gap under the door. Under the red warning light, the steel door slowly opened to both sides, so white. Cold light shot out from between the cracks in the door, and as the door was fully opened, it completely illuminated the space outside the door.

The warning light used red to set off the cold white light, and a man walked out of the incandescent light. He was wearing a black jacket, with a bolt gun and a phoenix sword on his waist. The silver patches on his boots clicked with his footsteps. Noisy, holding a bottle of champagne in his hand? .

Vito walked out of the elevator. He stood in the cold white light and looked at everything around him. The dark space was still turbid. If it was smeared with a layer of grease, it would be completely difficult to see what was in it. There was only a rough outline. They are in a trance within the limit of what can be observed by the human eye, like shadows.

The elevator door behind Vito began to close again. As the iron door closed, the pale white light gradually became thinner. Vito looked at the ominous darkness surrounding him very calmly, as the heavy closed door creaked. Slowly closing it, Vito's lips held the straw in the glass.

Vito took a few sips of the wine in the glass, and the door behind him was completely closed. As the explosion-proof door of the lift was completely closed, all the light disappeared until it completely disappeared.

Vito When the last ray of light went out, Vito walked around holding a champagne glass, his boots inlaid with silver armor clanging on the hard ground of the lower deck.

Vito looked around at the dark spaces around him. Everything here was shrouded in a layer of turbid darkness. Only the corridor lights that appeared after walking a certain distance could illuminate a little area. The rest of the space was completely shrouded in darkness. among.

Vito's footsteps echoed among the surrounding containers. Those long-forgotten boxes remained silent in the deepest darkness. How many decades? Or hundreds of years? Vito didn't know. After all, when he took over the ship, it had already left the starport and had been serving in the Imperial Navy for many years.

There is an unwritten consensus in the Imperial Navy that the older a warship is and the longer it has been in service, the more popular and trusted it will be, because this means that the ship is more reliable and powerful, and that its machine soul and all parts have experienced The test of time.

Captains like this kind of ship, and sailors also like to be on this kind of lucky ship. They believe that it is the Emperor himself who bless this kind of ship, traverse the dark galaxy and dangerous warp storms, and its luck will also bless them. Everyone else in this boat.

But many people have also forgotten one thing. The older a battleship is, the more it has experienced many years. There will be many dark corners that are not remembered by people. Those places are like the dark alleys in every city. There is something hidden in it that people fear, and the same is true here.

Vito stopped and squinted his eyes slightly, looking at a shadow on the ground in the dim corridor ahead. The thing looked quite big and it lay across the middle of the road.

Vito subconsciously pressed the hilt of the Phoenix sword on his waist. He looked at the thing carefully and found that the thing was lying completely motionless on the road. Vito raised his eyebrows slightly, and then walked up slowly.

He gradually approached the thing from the hazy darkness. Vito walked to the thing that fell on the ground. He gently snapped his fingers with his right hand. In an instant, a golden lightning flashed between Vito's fingers. Those golden The arcs collide and merge together, eventually forming a small sphere of lightning.

As the lightning ball formed, the golden lightning quickly illuminated the thing on the ground, and Vito's eyes looked at the deformed creature on the ground.

It looked like a hybrid between a mantis and a wild wolf. Its head, which was completely disproportionate to its body, collapsed on the ground, with a saliva-covered tongue hanging between its split teeth.

The spine seems to have a few more vertebrae than normal dogs, but its body structure is obviously unable to support the disproportionate body, making the spine twisted and rickety.

But the most eye-catching thing is not its unreasonable body structure, but its forelimbs, which are not a paw, but a pair of hands, a pair of human palms protruding from the black mane, which look like someone wearing Similar to a person wearing a rough doll suit.

But Vito knew that there was no one inside, and if there was anyone, they would have been smashed to pieces. Vito looked at the blooming flesh and blood that was completely sewn together with the fur. The abdominal cavity of this thing was torn apart by something. It directly penetrated its thick fur and exploded in its abdomen, exploding its intestines, internal organs and ribcage bones into a pile of mixed mud.

Vito looked at the hole in the beast. His head suddenly turned around due to an unusual sound. His head slightly glanced into the darkness behind him. There was something approaching in the darkness that was invisible around him. .

The patter of footsteps moved on the cold deck, and the sound sounded like a human's. Vito listened to the approaching footsteps, the human-like breathing, and the words.

"Sir, are you alone?" the male voice said. Vito turned his head slightly to look in the direction of the voice, and his peripheral vision scanned the darkness where the voice came from.

"It's dangerous around here, sir. There are wild beasts roaming around. We will protect you from leaving." The voice got closer and closer, and the patter of footsteps became more and more human-like. The tone, tone and sentences were all similar. Personally, Vito knew one thing. Cole did not send anyone to patrol here. Secondly, the people on this boat would not call him sir.

"Yes, thank you for reminding me. Now I know where those beasts are." Vito said, gently raising his palm, and his fingers slipped from the butt of the bolt gun, and his index finger gently Pulled on the trigger.

"Beast? Now, I don't know what you're talking about, we're the only ones around here."

"Yes, because you are them." Vito said and suddenly pulled out the bolt gun. He raised the bolt gun with a wave of his hand like a western cowboy. The pitch-black muzzle was instantly pointed at the darkness behind him, and his fingers pointed downward sharply. He immediately pulled the trigger, and with the crisp sound of the trigger hitting, bright fire suddenly erupted from the muzzle of the gun.

A rotating bomb roared through the darkness, and a shot hit the thing in the darkness. As the fire of the bomb exploded, the explosion illuminated the "person", the rickety man who spoke human words. Upright wolf.

The explosive bomb instantly lit up everything around it, illuminating the monsters following the beast. Those beasts did not have sharp claws or terrifying fangs, but each of them held a weapon. The human weapons made of scrap steel were illuminated by a brief flash of light, and the humanoid beasts rushed up from the darkness.

Vito stood next to the body of the fallen beast. He threw the ball lightning over his head. The flash of the sphere illuminated the ground around Vito, and soon the bolter fire turned the light into a brighter.

Roaring bombs roared into the darkness, and the beasts that rushed towards them with scrap metal weapons were shot in the head. Their horrifying screams mixed with wild wolves and human roars echoed in the darkness, and pairs of beasts rushed with each other. Human-like feet stepped on the steel ground and rushed towards Vito.

Vito quickly turned the muzzle of his gun and fired at the beasts. He stood under the electric light of the lightning ball and raised his long arms. His footsteps followed the rotation of his arms and he kept shooting. The shining firelight repeatedly illuminated the dimension. Tuo's face also illuminates the anthropomorphic monsters around him.

They all look humanoid to varying degrees. The beasts that are closest to human form are almost human. Except for the slight hair covering their skin and their slender arms, they are completely fake.

But no matter how much they looked like humans, they couldn't fool Vito. The only response they could get was a bomb. The human face of the beast was instantly pierced and exploded, and the shattered skull sprayed brains onto the surrounding ground. .

Vito walked backwards, his arms facing the entire side and rear in a fan shape and firing continuously. The heavy recoil of the bolt gun was transmitted through his right arm to the champagne held by Vito's left hand. The calm surface of the wine was reflected on the bolt gun. There are constant ripples under the roar.

Vito's eyes were calmly aimed at the muzzle of the gun. The flashing green indicator light was constantly aimed at a humanoid beast. As Vito's fingers clicked, the bolter would turn them into enemies with the emperor's wrath. For the smoking rotten flesh that fell to the ground.

The shining firelight illuminated Vito's face, and his eyes were staring ahead, but behind him, a beast suddenly rushed out from the darkness. The monster crawled on the ground on all fours and ran up quickly. It roared and rushed forward. The scrap metal blade in his hand was aimed at the back of Vito's head and stabbed.

But Vito in front of it suddenly turned around quickly. He seemed to have known that the beast would come. Vito let go of the bolt gun in his hand, and as the gun body fell, he held the Phoenix Sword. Then he instantly pulled it out and slashed out with his sword. The blade flashing with blazing light instantly cut off the beast's entire body from the shoulder to the waist.

The beast's separated body fell to the ground with a crash, and he screamed in a human voice. The sound was so vivid, but this would not bring any mercy to it.

Vito turned the hilt of the sword in his hand with his backhand, then stabbed it hard through the head. The skull was penetrated and shattered almost instantly. The part of the creature that may have been the brain was also instantly destroyed under the hot blade. Burnt.

Vito drew out the Phoenix Sword. While steam was rising from the cranium of the creature, Vito had already wielded the Phoenix Sword with one arm to kill more beasts that rushed towards him from the surrounding darkness.

He waved the Phoenix Sword with his arm, and the blazing sword with the glow of fire stuck to his arm, and dexterously rotated in a large circle with each swing. The arc of death cut off a pair of arms and torsos, tragically The screams echoed in Vito's ears one after another, the screams of human beings.

He wielded the Phoenix Sword with one arm, and his steps were in perfect harmony with the blade. The fighting skills seemed to be engraved in his instincts. Every swing and turn he made seemed to be an instinct, and this instinct was It allows him to kill each beast with the most accurate way.

That's right, with one arm, Vito was still holding champagne, and the water was placed steadily in the glass. No matter how fierce the battle was, not even a drop of wine was spilled from it.

Vito held the wine glass and cut off the neck of a beast next to him with a backhand sword. The sword blade cut through its trachea, and a huge amount of blood spurted out from the gap in an instant.

At this time, a beast rushed from the side. It was very fast. The beast rushed over just in time for Vito to cut off the head of one of his own kin. This cunning beast planned to take advantage of Vito's sword. The blade turned forward and stabbed the scrap metal blade into Vito's neck.

It obviously knew that it was human weakness. It was a cunning and cruel beast, but it made a mistake, a fatal mistake. The man standing in front of it was not an ordinary human being.

Vito's reaction nerve arc reacted instantly at an extremely alarming speed. He leaned back to avoid the scrap iron blade that was stabbing him. Vito looked at the gray-maned arm whizzing past him, holding the Phoenix Sword. He turned his wrist and then slashed upwards, and the blazing blade instantly cut off the beast's entire right forearm.

"Ah!!! The Emperor! It hurts, it hurts!" It screamed and yelled, covering its bloody broken arm. After Vito stood up, he looked at the beast and raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"It's funny, an alien is calling the Emperor." Vito said and chopped off its head with a backhand sword. Vito held the Phoenix Sword and looked at the beasts emerging from the darkness in front of him. They roared and rushed from the shadows. Come, the scrap iron blade flashes with a cold light under the ball lightning above Vito's head.

Vito smiled and looked at the beasts in front of him. He suddenly poured the drink in his hand over his head. The champagne liquid rushed from the rim of the glass into the sky, and Vito also threw the glass to one side at the same time. As soon as the glass was released, Vito took the Phoenix Sword from his right hand, and with a slight tip of his toe, he lifted up the bolter on the ground.

Vito grabbed the flying bolter, flicked his hand and pointed the gun at the beast charging ahead. He looked at the roaring humanoid face of the beast and was about to pull the trigger.

But suddenly the beast's head exploded, blasted open by a bolt. Vito looked behind him in shock. He saw a yellow-armored Space Marine walking out of the shadows, holding a bolt pistol in one arm. He fired at the beasts in front of Vito, and the rapid fire shattered several beasts in an instant.

Next to the yellow-armored Space Marine, a blue-armored Ultramarine stepped out. He picked up the bolter in his hand, locked his eyes in a straight line with the baseline of the gun body, and then pulled the trigger. The bolter instantly became like a sniper. Such exquisite artillery fire was fired at those beasts.

The heads and bodies of the beasts were exploded into smoking minced meat. The superb marksmanship of the Ultramarines was like the death scythe in the darkness, but soon the real death scythe appeared.

A space warrior wearing cyan armor rushed past the Ultramarines and the yellow-armored Imperial Fist. He rushed past Vito with a chain sword in his hand. The tall giant rushed in front of a beast. The moment the beast's human-like eyes looked at the giant, the roaring chain sword slashed down.

The beast's face was shattered by the chain saw, and its entire body was cut in half by the sword's head. The space warrior did not stop, he struck the next blow almost instantly, and the roaring chain saw instantly cut the beast into two pieces. The next beast's shoulder was chopped into pieces. The beast screamed and looked at its shattered shoulder, and then the entire collarbone was shattered and severed.

Vito smiled, inserted the Phoenix Sword into the scabbard, and then stretched out his palm to catch the falling wine glass. The flying wine also fell perfectly into the glass, not even a drop of excess liquid. Not spilled on the ground.

The green-armored warrior raised his chain sword. The scarlet eye glass on his helmet stared at the beasts in front of him like a god of death. The chain saw whizzed down and killed another beast. Its body melted under the heavy blow. For rotten meat.

The remaining beasts collapsed completely. They screamed in human voices and turned and fled into the darkness. They rolled and crawled away from the tall god of death. The space warriors in green armor stood up with chainswords and prepared to catch up. But Vito hit him on the knee with the bolt gun in his hand.

He lowered his head and looked at Vito beside him. The latter smiled and gently raised his finger and waved forward. The ball lightning rushed up instantly. The ball roared over the heads of the fleeing beasts, and then exploded instantly, with countless blasts. Lightning swallowed up half of the corridor in an instant, and the roaring lightning flashed quickly among the beasts. All the beasts were scorched from the inside out by the lightning bombardment.

Vito watched the beasts all fall to the ground, hitting each other like overturned bowling pins. He drank the champagne in his hand with satisfaction.

"It looks like you guys are quite busy down there." Vito smiled and turned to look at the Captain of the Imperial Fists walking behind him, who was walking towards him holding a chainsword in one hand and a bolter in the other. , Eisenstein inserted the bolter back into the holster, and then took off his helmet.

"Marshal." Eisenstein said and stopped in front of Vito. He nodded to Vito as rigorously as ever, and Vito nodded to him with a smile.

"It seems that even though you didn't attend the banquet, you also found something to do." Vito shook the wine glass, and then carefully tasted the rich aroma of the wine. What else could be better than dealing with a large number of aliens? After a good fight, what would be more relaxing than a glass of wine?

"You can use your psychic lightning to kill them all from the beginning. Marshal, why do you need to fight these beasts hand-to-hand?" Bell said and took off his helmet. He stood behind Eisenstein and shook his head. The short blond hair on the top of her head also swayed.

"I just had a meal and I have to digest it." Vito looked at Loken who also took off his helmet. He nodded to the last Luna Wolf Captain, who also nodded to Vito.

Vito savored the aroma of the wine on his tongue, then put down his glass and turned to look at the corpse of the beast lying on the ground. The thing was emitting wisps of steam, and the broken and rotten meat was like a defective product thrown away by Mario's kitchen.

"Tell me, what are these ghosts?"

"We believe they snuck up along the exhaust pipes when the Rogue Trader's Mayflower docked alongside us for repairs."

Eisenstein said, pointing his chain sword at the corpses on the side, "We initially speculate that they are some kind of alien alien, something the Empire has never come into contact with."

"Well, indeed, aliens who can speak human language and simulate human appearance, these Rogue Traders running around the universe can really bring surprises to people, although most of the time they are the kind that people don't want."

Vito took a sip of wine. When Rogue Traders travel around the universe, they always bring with them some strange aliens that humans have never come into contact with, or viruses, plagues, etc. of some kind. God knows where they are. How many more of these are hidden in the lower decks?

Their ship-based guards are unable to clean the bottom deck. They can only seal and disinfect it after each docking, using "insecticides" such as nerve gas to clean the bottom deck. As for normal times, they can only pray that the bottom deck is tightly sealed. .

So if you find a Rogue Trader's space hulk in space, you'd better be honest and don't go there out of curiosity to pick up some treasures. Otherwise, I wish you good luck.

"So what exactly are these things?"

Vito asked. He looked at Eisenstein, who nodded to Bell. The Ultramarine Pharmacist walked out from behind Eisenstein and came to Vito. He pressed it gently from his belt and popped it out. A small reagent jar. He handed the reagent to Vito, who took it and looked at the blood and flesh slice samples stored in it.

"Did you get it from those beasts?"

"Yes, I tried to analyze the cerebral cortex samples I cut from them, but they only contained part of human genes. The equipment on my power armor has limited computing power and cannot conduct further analysis, but I believe that Omega must have a way to figure out what these monsters are."

Vito looked at the reagent and nodded. He shrugged slightly and put it in his arms, "What about you? What are you going to do?"

"Completely eliminate the threat here. We cannot return to Terra with these aliens, and we must not let them pollute the throne world!" Eisenstein clenched his fists and said sternly.

"As expected, then, I wish you a happy hunting." Vito smiled and nodded slightly, then walked towards the elevator. He raised his wine glass and shook it at the edge of darkness in the distance.

"If you are hungry, the banquet is still open, especially Loken. Your favorite Owen steak is there." Vito said, disappearing into the shadows with laughter, Loken looked at the The direction pursed his lips with his tongue, then turned to look at Eisenstein behind him. The latter put on his helmet without saying a word, then turned around and walked into the darkness with his chain sword.

"Come on, guys, we've got work to do."

Loken and Bell looked at each other and smiled bitterly, then put on their respective helmets and stepped into the shadow.