"Your Majesty, the Emperor, would you like to hear my story?"
Lu Mingfei was naturally overjoyed. As an Astartes who might be the only one who had the opportunity to talk to the Lord of Mankind after the Great Rebellion nearly ten thousand years ago, there were never too many such opportunities.
He immediately adjusted his clothes - even though he knew he was not in the real world, he still had to do the necessary solemn etiquette.
"Snapped!"
Lu Mingze snapped his fingers. When Lu Mingfei lowered his head, he found that his clothes had suddenly changed into Astartes power armor, and it was painted in a familiar bright yellow style.
"Brother, you are more accustomed to wearing this, right?" There was a faint smile on his delicate face.
Lu Mingfei nodded noncommittally, but when he raised his arm, his face suddenly darkened:
The mark on the thick shoulder armor is not the familiar black and white stripes and tearful red hearts, but a clenched black fist on a white background.
"This is the symbol of the first battle group "Imperial Fists". Do you deliberately want me to embarrass Holy Leth in front of His Majesty the Emperor? "
Lu Mingfei said coldly.
"Oh, I'm sorry, there was a mistake." Lu Mingze smiled slyly like a child who had succeeded in playing a prank. "Recently, I was studying brother's "battle camouflage". It's normal for me to accidentally mix it up." . "
He snapped his fingers several times, and the color and style of the power armor worn by Lu Mingfei kept changing, blue, dark green, red, white...
"Brother, if you are free, help me collect some shoulder armors from other battle groups. Of course, it would be better if you have a full set of power armor. I think it would be interesting to use it as a figure. By the way, you should remember "figure" What does it mean? "
The sly smile on Lu Mingze's face was like that of a child who succeeded in playing a prank, and it wasn't until the end that Lu Mingfei's power armor was transformed back into the style of the Weeper Chapter.
"It can't be done." Lu Mingfei said with a dark face.
For the sake of the other party being suspected of being the "Emperor's Herald", he had been putting up with Lu Mingze's pranks and disrespect towards the major founding battle groups.
And he began to doubt whether Lu Mingze was really the "Emperor's Herald" because he seemed to lack enough respect for His Majesty the Emperor.
"Okay, don't keep His Majesty the Emperor waiting."
Lu Mingze turned his head and continued to focus on his fishing under the moonlit night.
Lu Mingfei suppressed the anger and doubt in his heart and refocused on the upcoming audience.
On this endless snow-white ice field, a simple cabin stood like this. Lu Mingfei took a deep breath and gently knocked on the door of the cabin.
"come in."
The boy's dull voice came from the room.
Lu Mingfei opened the door and the first thing he saw was the boy sitting at the wooden table, holding an ancient instrument and grinding something.
Different from the first time we met, the scene inside the wooden house has changed again - it has become more ordinary, like a cabin where hunters live in the mountains. The utensils inside are all made of ancient stone or wood, and there are no technological creations. There are no religious tokens either.
"Hello, Lu Mingfei. Take a seat."
The boy looked calm, his eyes still focused on the gray powder he was grinding.
"This is my honor, Your Majesty."
Lu Mingfei felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, and his body almost trembled with excitement - to be able to talk face to face with the Lord of Humanity on an equal footing, this is probably only the Primarch who has such qualifications and honors.
He first solemnly performed the noble etiquette of the Astartes, and then sat cross-legged opposite the boy.
However, Lu Mingfei soon discovered a new problem. When the two-meter-tall Astartes sat opposite the Lord of Humanity, he had a condescending feeling. This manner was quite disrespectful and not as good as that of a mortal. Shape.
He had no choice but to lower his head.
"What year was it in the Imperial Calendar when your soul was summoned to the Imperial Universe?"
The boy didn't pay attention to Lu Mingfei's inner drama. He slowly moved two wooden cups, pinched some ground gray powder with his fingers and put it into the cups.
"This is the year M41.872, Your Majesty."
Lu Mingfei answered truthfully.
The movement of the boy's hands slowed down a little, as if he was thinking about a certain moment in his endless years in the past.
But he quickly returned to normal and continued to sprinkle the powder into the cup: "Tell me how you became a Weeper warrior."
"Understood, Your Majesty."
When Lu Mingfei heard the words, he quickly gathered his thoughts. While recalling the past of that cold universe, he told the Lord of Mankind how he became a member of the Weeper Legion warriors in a balanced speaking speed and as concisely as possible:
After spending three hellish years on the industrial planet called "Thothis" that was occupied by green-skinned orcs, in M41.875, a company of the Lamenters Chapter discovered these human slaves; because they had once The accident at "Colchis Slaughterhouse Three" cast a shadow over the lives of the Lamenters, so they decided to fight to the death to save them.
It was at that time that Lu Mingfei, who was 10 years old, was saved from the green-skinned orc's chain ax by the warrior named Katos at the cost of his own life.
Lu Mingfei trained hard and learned combat skills. Two years later, he became a mortal armed recruit of the Weeper Chapter.
This is a common thing in that universe where fighting happens all the time. It is said that on the fortress world "Cardia", the first thing a child has to learn is to disassemble a laser rifle before walking.
In M41.880, the Lamenters Chapter began to observe and select recruit candidates. In an extremely unstable area near the ancient "Maelstrom" at the center of the galaxy, the Weeper Chapter, which already had insufficient personnel, had to seize the time to replenish new recruits.
Chapter Master Malakin Foros (Mki)
Realizing that his thoughts were wandering, Lu Mingfei quickly calmed down and continued to tell the emperor the next story:
In the same year, after his injuries healed, he lay in a blood coffin and began undergoing Astartes transformation surgery.
Soon after, Huron, the "Despot" of the Maelstrom, leader of the Star Claws Chapter, and later the "Black Heart King", rebelled, and the "Badab War" began.
The Weeper Chapter was kept in the dark and fought on the front line for the traitorous Hurons. At that time, the Weeper Chapter only thought that this was a provocation and attack against the leader of the Astartes Chapter, so they chose to protest. ;
In addition, Huron is indeed a "good guy" on the other hand - as a warband that has been wandering around the borders of the Empire since the founding of the army, the Weeper gained the power of Huron and his warband after joining the Maelstrom Guard. With the support, it has become a quite powerful military strike force, with eight integrated companies of Astartes, inexhaustible light combat vehicles and ammunition.
When the Weeper Chapter woke up, it was already too late. The Minotaur Chapter with all its strength from the Empire severely damaged the Weeper Chapter after nearly twenty hours of attack. The Chapter Master disappeared. In order to prevent the Weeper Chapter from letting the Chapter Their bloodline was completely cut off, and the more than 300 surviving soldiers finally chose to surrender.
Lu Mingfei had completed the transformation surgery at that time and was in the stage of scouting new recruits. Although he did not participate in the battle directly, he witnessed the tragic situation of the battle group with his own eyes. No matter how angry and unwilling they were, their Chapter's behavior had already brought shame to the Gene Father and made the Emperor angry.
"From what I can see now, there are indeed many things that make me angry about this kind of battle from top to bottom." The boy said calmly. He picked up the wooden cup and took a leisurely sip of the water in the cup.
Lu Mingfei lowered his head in fear and told the last paragraph of the story:
After the war, the Lamenters Chapter was forgiven by the "Emperor" because they did not directly side with the rebellion, but they were still sentenced to a one-hundred-year atonement expedition, and all their fleets and territories were returned to the Minotaur War. All of the group.
In the state of the Lamenters Chapter at that time, directly carrying out the Atonement Crusade was no different from going to die to destroy the group. With the risk of death from an Inquisition Inquisitor and the lobbying of several Cardinals and Archbishops of the Ecclesiarchy, the Lamenters received additional benefits. After several years of training, the founding group Salamander Chapter also gave them a batch of "obsolete" "old equipment".
It was at this time that Lu Mingfei began to officially serve and became one of the battle brothers of the Lamenters. In order to commemorate the card
Toss and his belief replaced the chapter leader and allowed Lu Mingfei to inherit the name and glory of Katsos and embark on the road of redemption expedition.
As for the rest of the story, the tragic battle he experienced, the return of the missing chapter leader Malakin... Lu Mingfei did not say much, because those were not within the scope of what His Majesty the Emperor said.
"A very good story, Katos." The boy nodded, with no emotional fluctuations on his calm face. "Also, do you think the request I made today is strange?"
"No, this is your will. Astartes was born to implement your will." Lu Mingfei quickly lowered his head.
"Yeah?"
The boy's eyes lit up and went out, like the rise and fall of a star:
"When I was here, I always had this thought in my mind - if I made this request to a few more other children, would the outcome of the matter be completely different?"
