PFC Chapter 711 Vulcan Lives Forever!
Chapter 711 Vulcan Lives Forever!
Chapter 711 Vulcan Lives Forever!
Cauda, orbital space.
A strike cruiser loaded with a company of jet bike cavalry broke away from the Iron Pagoda's fleet and headed for the other side of the mining world, the side that had not been whipped and stripped by the gravity storm, to search the surface for the Primarch.
At this moment, in the bridge of the battleship Supremacy, a crew member sitting in front of the detection array suddenly looked up and reported:
"Khan, a civilian spacecraft has been spotted leaving the surface and heading towards the Battle Moon. Should we intercept it?"
"Ok?"
Upon hearing this, Fu Qinghai looked at the screen in confusion.
The screen showed a small spaceship. With a size of several hundred meters, it was obviously an ordinary civilian ship that could not be equipped with a subspace engine. There were four huge cargo holds under the hull, which might be designed for transporting ore. Judging from the appearance of the spaceship, it was not equipped with any weapon system.
This small spaceship does not have the ability to navigate in subspace. The database of the Rectification cannot even find its keel number and hull code. One can only roughly judge from its appearance that it is probably an Imperial ship, a mining spaceship.
Why is it that a mining ship without any onboard weapons did not immediately escape from the mining world on the surface that was on the verge of collapse, but instead flew towards the battle moon?
"The Xiaolong Squadron dispatched three fighter jets to escort the flight."
Fu Qinghai raised his chin and ordered:
"Don't fire without my order."
"Roger that, Khan!"
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Three Swordtail-class interceptors rushed out of the battleship's hangar, drew a neat arc and quickly flew towards the wobbling mining ship. They circled to the sides of the civilian ship. The Space Marines looked through the interceptor cockpit at the civilian ship's main control cabin and turned on the onboard radio at the same time:
"Report your identity."
The mining ship was still flying towards the battle moon, and the Swordtail-class interceptor continued to accompany it. After a while, a dry and stuttering voice sounded in the communication channel:
"Sir, I am a cargo ship belonging to the Cordela United Mining Group, numbered KD-18."
"Tell us your purpose."
The Space Marine in the fighter plane continued to ask.
The communication channel fell silent again. The other party seemed to have no idea how to answer this clear question. After a few seconds, as if receiving some instructions, the dry and stuttering voice replied cautiously:
"To... to deliver a piece of cargo."
goods?
The Space Marines looked at each other across the cockpit cover.
The other party was obviously reluctant to answer this question.
"Land at the location we designated."
The leading Space Marine said. After that, the fighter plane under him rushed to the front of the mining ship and guided the mining ship to a temporary landing site built by the Iron Pagoda Corps. The other two fighter planes continued to fly on both sides.
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Battle on the moon's surface.
The mining ship landed on a flat area, surrounded by stacked boxes of ammunition and supplies. There were also five parked Thunderhawk gunships and Flame Raptor gunships nearby. A group of armed Space Marines had surrounded it and were ready for battle.
After the mining spacecraft came to a stop, the landing gear was lowered, and the telescopic hydraulic connecting rods supported both sides of the spacecraft's rear hatch. After stabilizing the hull, the huge square cargo hold under the belly of the ship slowly opened, and the rear hatch fell to the ground.
The Space Marines pointed their guns at the hatch.
In the dim light of the cargo hold, a tall and majestic black figure slowly walked out. He walked down the landing slope step by step until his entire body was bathed in light. Only then could the Space Marines outside the hatch see his full appearance.
Everyone held their breath for a moment.
This is a five-meter-tall giant, holding a golden dragon-headed warhammer, wearing dark green dragon-scale armor and a dragon-skin cloak with golden edges, and a ferocious white skull of some giant reptile buckled on one shoulder armor. His face is as black and gray as coal, and his pupils are deep red.
He glanced deeply at the Space Marines in front of him.
It turns out that this is the cargo carried by the mining spacecraft.
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Battleship Supremacy, inside the passage.
"Volkan is coming!?"
Fu Qinghai asked as he walked quickly.
"Yes, he is on the Battle Moon right now."
Qing Ming answered as he trotted beside him.
"Khan, the Thunderhawk gunship is ready."
A Space Marine came over and said.
"Too slow, give me a sword tail."
Fu Qinghai waved his hand and said as he walked.
Teleportation is a very risky thing in the Warhammer 40K universe. A large number of technicians are required to prepare the teleportation deck each time before it is activated, so he can't wait to use the teleportation deck to reach the surface of the battle moon. His men have prepared the Thunderhawk gunship, but he still thinks the Thunderhawk gunship is not fast enough.
Fu Qinghai came to the boarding deck, found a well-maintained Swordtail-class interceptor, stepped onto the gangway, turned over and sat in the interceptor cockpit, and skillfully started the fighter. Upon seeing this, the ground crew immediately began to evacuate personnel and clear the runway, and waved the sign in their hands to the commander of the regiment.
A Swordtail-class interceptor whooshed out of the battleship.
Fly towards the surface of the battle moon at an extremely fast speed.
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Battle moon surface, temporary landing site.
Fu Qinghai controlled the interceptor to land steadily.
Parked next to the small mining ship.
"Where are the Vulcans?"
Fu Qinghai turned over and jumped off the interceptor and asked.
"He went down."
The Space Marine officer who remained on the landing field pointed to the entrance of an underground tunnel nearby and said helplessly:
"We can't stop him, Khan."
You certainly can't stop a Primarch.
Fu Qinghai nodded in understanding, strode towards the entrance of the underground tunnel in front of him, and asked:
"Did you follow the Primarch?"
"I sent a tactical team to follow him."
The Space Marine Sergeant replied.
"Okay, notify the Vanguard Brigade to join me."
Fu Qinghai said as he walked into the underground tunnel:
"Also, tell the Hussar Brigade that the mission is terminated."
"Understood, Khan."
The Iron Pagoda Terminators of the First Company, the Traps Battalion, were the first troops to be teleported to the Battle Moon, and are still fighting hard in various places deep in the Battle Moon. Fu Qinghai summoned his personal guards and prepared to chase the Primarch. He had roughly guessed what Volkan wanted to do.
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At this time, the battle took place in a passage deep within the moon.
Joestar and Tristan are discussing the situation.
"Did you feel that, Old Joe?"
Tristan turned to look at Joestar and asked:
"There's something wrong with this battle moon."
"There is something wrong."
Qiao Shida wiped the blood from the power claw:
"Too easy. The number of orcs is wrong."
"You feel it, too."
Tristan nodded and said in a deep voice:
"Yes, we are equipped with Khan's new weapons this time. The new weapons are very useful, but even with the sonic shockwave cannon, we are advancing too fast. The battlefield statistics have not been completed yet, but I can clearly feel that the number of orcs is not as endless as we faced before. How many orcs have we killed? There may be less than 10,000, and they have already advanced to such a deep position."
"What do you want to say?"
Joestar looked at Tristan.
"I have a guess. This battle moon doesn't have a subspace portal. They can't send reinforcements continuously, so we advanced to the depths of the moon's core so quickly."
Tristan also spoke bluntly.
Qiao Shida pursed his lips and said nothing.
"Don't jump to conclusions yet. When the crow and the sea snake come back, we will know whether your guess is true."
Qiao Shida said lightly.
As soon as he finished speaking, No. 56 walked in alone from outside the passage. Blurry light and shadow flickered around him, and another Space Marine appeared from the air.
It was the chapter's chief assassin, Satfaran.
"Tristan's guess is correct."
Number 56 came straight to the point:
"This Battle Moon has no Waaagh Gates."
"So it's an inferior armed satellite?"
Tristan frowned slightly and asked in confusion.
"No, it's a more special type of armed satellite."
Number 56 shook his head and said.
The Sea Serpent Warrior took out an auspicious instrument and projected a miniature holographic projection, which showed the internal structure of the battle moon that had been explored. No. 56 pointed to several similar areas and said:
"The technical sergeant discovered before that the number of power stations and substations inside this battle moon far exceeds that of the battle moons we have encountered before. Not only are the number numerous, but the scale is also larger. The fleet's previous observations also show that the peak energy of the gravity storm created by this battle moon is higher. We reasonably speculate that this battle moon did not build a subspace portal in order to save energy for gravity storm weapons. This is a specialized battle moon."
"What is the purpose?"
Qiao Shida stared at the holographic projection and asked in a deep voice.
"To create a new battle moon."
Sartrefan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke:
"I captured a few young orc technicians. According to the interrogation results of Kalamanda and No. 56, they created this battle moon in order to create more battle moons. The orcs want to use gravity whipping and gravity siphoning to peel off the surface crust of the Cordra star, leaving a smaller but denser planet core. They will use this mineral-rich and harder planet core to create a new battle moon."
"The battle moon that made the battle moon."
Qiao Shida raised his eyebrows and said.
"I see."
Tristan nodded and said:
"Khan previously speculated that the orcs created battle moons by capturing natural satellites in the universe. Now it seems that they are no longer satisfied with the satellites they can find, or their technology has been further upgraded and they have begun to transform these planets without cores. We may need to speed up the pace of our expedition."
"We really can't give up on Cordra."
Qiao Shida narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice:
"If we abandon this mining world and take only the Primarch, the Orks will soon have another battle moon. The Khan is right."
"The people of the Mining World are just as important as the people of the Throne World. There is no distinction between high and low. You haven't given up on Holy Terra, so you can't give up on the people here either."
A loud voice sounded in the passage.
"Who is speaking?"
Qiao Shida suddenly turned around and asked sternly.
The Space Marines at the entrance of the passage moved to both sides.
A five-meter-tall black giant strode over.
Following behind him was a tactical team from Tiefutu.
The four senior officers of the regiments opened their eyes wide instantly.
This is, this is... the Primarch?
When did Vulcan come!?
Just when the four people were at a loss.
"Lord Vulkan, please wait a moment."
A voice sounded behind Vukan.
The Primarch heard the voice and turned to look back.
There was a rumbling sound of heavy footsteps in the passage, and Fu Qinghai led a large group of Terminators and rushed over.
"grown ups."
Fu Qinghai looked at the Primarch and said in a deep voice:
"We are here just for you."
"I know, Qingshan."
Vulkan stared at Fu Qinghai in front of him:
"Your warriors have told me stories of your deeds."
"Then you now..."
Fu Qinghai carefully tested the Principal's attitude.
"The orcs have caused indelible damage to this planet. Ninety percent of the people of Caldera died in this disaster. We must destroy this armed satellite immediately."
The Primarch said firmly.
After saying that, he took the auspicious instrument from No. 56 and skillfully operated this Imperial military detection device. The information summarized on the screen flashed across the Primarch's red pupils one by one: the internal structure of the battle moon, the routes that have been explored, the facilities that have been destroyed, the distribution of the orcs' forces...
"Your speculation is correct."
Vulkan Vulkan spoke up:
"The core of this Orc armed satellite contains enormous energy. Even though you have destroyed many power stations and substations on the periphery, the energy in the deepest part is still huge. Continuing the attack can destroy the gravity devices in the core... However, you cannot afford the consequences of destroying it."
Fu Qinghai's expression turned serious when he heard this.
"Then what are you going to do?"
Fu Qinghai asked seriously.
"All regiments, retreat to your warships."
Vulkan waved his hand and said, he clenched the golden long-handled square-headed war hammer in his hand and continued to walk deeper into the passage:
"Leave the rest to me."
Everyone watched as his huge and majestic figure disappeared.
"Khan?"
Qiao Shida and the other three all looked at Fu Qinghai.
The Space Marines of the White Scars and Last Wall had just destroyed the surface defenses of the Battle Moon. The White Scars chapters in particular had carried out a risky and dangerous boarding operation that was beyond the Orks' expectations. Now the Primarch asked them to hand over the positions they had fought so hard for to the Orks. This order was difficult for everyone present to understand.
Fu Qinghai stood there with an uncertain look on his face.
After thinking for a moment, he finally raised his head and said in a deep voice:
"Evacuate, notify the final high wall to evacuate together."
Fu Qinghai glanced at his officers:
"Order all Space Marines to withdraw to their respective fleets."
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Battleship HMS Regent, bridge.
Fu Qinghai and Kurland stood side by side.
Looking at the battle moon that obscured the entire porthole.
The lunar surface was littered with destroyed weapons facilities. Collapsed cranes lay across broken rails, ammunition depots occasionally exploded next to burning gun mounts, and rocket launchers were inserted upside down into anti-aircraft missile silos.
"Most of the orcs have been killed by us."
Fu Qinghai looked at the battle moon and said:
"We have confirmed that this battle moon has no subspace portal. Even if we give up all our positions, they do not have enough troops to reoccupy the entire battle moon."
"But even so..."
Kurland turned and looked at Fu Qinghai:
"What is the meaning of the Primarch doing this?"
Indeed... Fu Qinghai thought to himself.
Even if the energy contained in the core of the battle moon was too great and might explode, he could still adopt the method used to conquer the battle moon above the Endin hive world: deploy thermo-melta bombs and micro-nuclear bombs with delayed fuses, and after the deployment was completed, evacuate by teleportation and then detonate after evacuation.
"Ninety percent of Caldera's inhabitants are dead."
Fu Qinghai looked ahead and whispered:
"Volkan may need..."
Before he finished speaking, all the crew members in the bridge saw that the entire battle moon surface suddenly shook. This shaking came very suddenly and violently, and all the wreckage of the facilities on the moon surface collapsed and fell apart in the shaking. Then the moon surface suddenly cracked into several deep cracks, and the black cracks spread at a very fast speed. At the same time, these cracks erupted with dazzling green light and green flames.
Fu Qinghai and Kurland stared blankly.
The battle moon turned into a cracked sphere in the blink of an eye. The battle moon collapsed as it cracked, and the two ends of the huge crack were exaggeratedly misaligned. One side of the moon was as high as a cliff, and the other side was sunken like a trench. This satellite could only be considered a whole, and it did not completely break into pieces.
“…Maybe I need to vent.”
Fu Qinghai finally finished what he had not yet said.
"Relieving oneself at the cost of death?"
Kurland asked in shock at the scene before him.
"Qingshan, what's going on?"
"Qingshan, is Vukan in there?"
"What happened? The Primarch is dead? Qingshan?"
At the same time, the commanders of various chapters were also shocked by the scene before them. They sent inquiries from their respective flagships, and the communication channel became noisy for a while.
"No, he is not dead."
Fu Qinghai shook his head slightly.
"We're heading to the lunar surface right now!"
After Fu Qinghai finished speaking, he turned and left the bridge.
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The shattered and cracked surface of the battle moon.
On a huge raised piece of land, more than a dozen Thunder Eagle gunboats were parked in a crisscross pattern. Fu Qinghai and the chapter leaders of the White Scars and the Last High Wall stood on the edge of the land, overlooking the deep rift valley under the thousand-foot cliff, all with solemn expressions.
"No life signals detected."
A Space Marine holding a portable auspex.
"Do we need to search the entire ruins thoroughly?"
Mandulatu turned to Fu Qinghai and suggested.
"All the orcs were blown to death."
Bosimonde frowned and looked down and said:
"include……"
"Wait, there's a signal!"
The Space Marine suddenly shouted.
Fu Qinghai felt something and turned his head to look to the left.
I saw a huge black hand stretching out from the edge of the crack, with its five fingers digging into the edge of the cliff, and then the entire thick arm and the entire huge body rose from behind.
Vulkan Vulkan has reappeared.
The exquisite and gorgeous dark green dragon scale armor on his body had been mostly damaged in the explosion, and only a few fragments of the dragon skin cloak were left hanging on his back. The cracked power armor revealed his intact, carbon-black, strong muscles that looked as if they were new, forming a sharp contrast with the damaged power armor on his body. There was not a single wound or scar on Vokhan's exposed strong body.
Many chapter leaders were still stunned.
Fu Qinghai slowly knelt on one knee and lowered his head.
"Greetings to you, Lord of Fire Dragon."
Fu Qinghai lowered his head and spoke loudly.
The chapter leaders reacted and followed him in kneeling on one knee facing Vorkan. Unlike their previous reluctance in front of Lord Udo, this time, they all knelt spontaneously.
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