Chapter 184 Black and Red, Plans in the Shadows (33) The Dead
"Is this photo of you?"
"this is me."
"Yeah?"
"It was me...at that time, I...was still alive..."
Calvin stood in the Titan's command room, looking at each other through the glass of the life-saving cabin with a silver-clad man. The data of the last captain was displayed on the data servo screen between them.
Thanks to Constantine, Calvin didn't stay in Krieg for a long time, but he had a systematic study of various Titan structures.
Therefore, after he split the armored church with Imperial Truth, the Emperor-level Titan could no longer pose a threat to the invader.
The rest of the matter was easier to handle. Calvin walked through the hall and into the desert, and the Titan's several attempts to seal the passage were ineffective under the influence of Helios' rope.
.
It took the original body more than an hour to reach the core of the Titan - the command room where the captain was located. The most troublesome thing for Calvin along the way was actually the selection of the line.
Yes, even the largest creation of the Adeptus Mechanicus on the ground, the incarnation of the Machine God in the Titan Legion, the space inside the huge Titan for the passage of people is still narrow and cramped.
There were so many passages that even a human-sized pilot would have to hunker down to get through them, let alone a body like Calvin's.
But fortunately, this Titan still needs maintenance. It is necessary for every Titan to reserve passages for large equipment to pass through, and the God of the North Wind is certainly no exception.
So there was a conversation between Calvin and this creature who claimed to be the pilot of the North Wind God.
Of course, the communication process was not so smooth, especially when they first met, this creature made of metal showed extremely strong aggression.
But fortunately, Calvin is not a vegetarian. He used his martial ethics, currently ranked among the top two in the empire, to fully teach this creature the necessity of peaceful communication.
The two giants had a brief but friendly "communication" in the small command room, and then after the creature decided to return to the channel of civilized communication, it returned to the place where they first met and started the current conversation.
"So you're dead?" Calvin asked.
It was also the first time for him to see this way of life existing, and the composition of the other party's body was quite familiar to him - it was the liquid metal he had seen on the previous space hulk.
"I...confirm." The metal creature, or rather the former pilot of the Borei and the First Lord of the Empire, Gyanendra Speyer, also looked confused.
Although Calvin's appearance made him feel a long-lost threat, a person who could withstand the firepower of an Emperor-class Titan came to him and had a fist that could calm him down. After all, he would be the first person who could
The object of peaceful communication.
The linear thinking brought about by this kind of communication was what he lacked most when he was in a trance state before.
"Then what's your current state?" Calvin asked again.
Due to the sensitivity of his job, he naturally screened Speyer from the psychic level at the first opportunity. The fact that the two people can continue to communicate also shows that Speyer's state at this time does not have subspace.
characteristics of life.
Then this matter is very interesting. Although Calvin had received clear guidance from the Bell of Erebus before coming, what he encountered here was still beyond his expectation.
He fully thought that he would find some more ancient objects on this Titan, but in fact, after he actually arrived here, all he found was the person in front of him who could not determine the life form.
"I don't know either..." Speyer spoke faster and faster. Communication with creatures from the same civilization obviously accelerated the recovery of his consciousness. Memories finally began to appear in his mind in a linear logic, and about
The memories from before his death also came with him.
"I only remember that my body had an obvious genetic collapse in the final battle, and the out-of-control North Wind God swallowed all of me. I was completely integrated with the machine soul, and our enemy—
—The traitor’s head was completely torn into pieces by us with an incineration cannon..."
"Then what?" Calvin continued to ask.
Narrating is the best way to sort out memories, and he was also aware of Speyer's state at this time, and began to follow Speyer's words in an attempt to obtain more information.
"Then?" Spier fell into memories. "Then there was the cyclone torpedo shot down from the orbit, followed by the earthquake, the shattered earth and the magma that filled the field of vision..."
"So you failed?"
"No!" Spier obviously thought of more specific details.
"We had no chance of succeeding. The Warmaster betrayed us, and half of the Legion chose to betray us. We wanted to leave the fleet, but the remaining brothers kept being split up. We were waiting for a chance to resist, and soon
Unfortunately, they are too..."
Warmaster
This was the first time-conditioned information from Speyer's mouth, and Calvin roughly understood Speyer's origins through this passage.
Titan Legion, the group that directly participated in the 64th Expedition Fleet, half of the Legion members rebelled, and this guy in front of me is the remaining group that was cleared...
But there was more than one forging world that cooperated with Horus, and there were even more Titan legions serving in the main fleet. The details in the command room had given Calvin enough information, but he still maintained a cautious attitude and wanted to
Hear the answer yourself from Speyer's mouth.
"Your legion and position?" Calvin asked softly.
"Storm Lord, fifth battle group host, master control pilot." Speyer replied subconsciously.
Yes, this is the right number.
Calvin looked at Spier and fell into thinking. The information this man said could match the intelligence he knew. The former Storm Lord Legion was indeed torn apart during the Great Rebellion and hated each other.
The two factions loyal to the Emperor and Horus fought to the death on the battlefield, and the once glorious legion never recovered.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The traitors eventually perished in the history of internal strife and war, while the loyal faction until now is said to still have some sporadic members active in revenge against Chaos.
But no matter what, this legion no longer exists. The Titan and its driver in front of them have also been excavated from history in the re-established Forge World after sleeping for nearly ten thousand years.
"What era is it now?"
"39 Thousand Years."
This time the questioner became Speyer, and Calvin told him about the current time.
"Oh, so..." This person who has already died once obviously has enough ability to accept it, but even so, there are still things he can't let go of.
"We..." Spier looked at Calvin and asked in a difficult tone. This was more of a trial than a question.
"I mean... did he... win?"
"No! We won!" Calvin's answer made Spier breathe a heavy sigh of relief, even though he could no longer use this function.
"That's good...that's good..." Spier kept repeating this sentence, but Calvin remained silent.
"But the price is heavy..." This was what Calvin didn't say. He didn't know how to face this warrior, let alone how to explain the current status of the empire to him.
"How long have you been awake?" Calvin changed the subject pretending to be relaxed.
"It's been about twenty years, and I may have become conscious earlier. But the complete awakening should be an earthquake, or a precise blasting of a mine. In short, I woke up, and from that time I regained the power of the North Wind God.
control."
Speyer replied, and Calvin also turned his attention to his current state. The information he gave was roughly the same as that provided by Hepper, but what Calvin really wanted to know was what made this dead man
reborn.
"Where is the opportunity?" Calvin asked, he wanted to know what the Bell of Erebus in his arms was guiding.
This strange thing has fallen into complete silence since it arrived at Hepe, and Calvin didn't find any other clues except coming here according to the information from the Honor Guard.
But fortunately, he came right. Speyer's condition is obviously related to the inheritance in his hands. His current body is made up of the psychic liquid metal that Calvin collected before.