Personal rest cabin and bathroom.
Fu Qinghai dipped a sharp knife into the black viscous liquid in the bowl and made gestures on his face in front of the mirror.
Where is the best place to draw?
Fu Qinghai looked at his handsome face in the mirror and felt a little reluctant to do anything.
Think carefully about the handsome guys you know who have scars on their faces.
Ribery, the scarred man, scratched from the corner of his eye to his mouth? The person was injured accidentally, and he himself is not handsome.
Hatake Kakashi, through the entire eye socket? My eyelids are so thin, what should I do if my eyeballs are poisoned?
Harry Potter, a Z on your forehead? What should I do if I go to JK Rowling's universe and am mistakenly killed by the men of a bald and noseless man?
After thinking about it, Fu Qinghai finally made a shallow, diagonal cut in the middle of his tall nose.
As soon as the black mucus on the blade touched the skin, it made a small hissing sound and white smoke rose from the wound.
Faced with such pain that corroded flesh and blood, Fu Qinghai, who had been mentally prepared, just frowned.
The movement of holding the knife in his hand is still stable and precise, without any influence.
After the scar was cut, Fu Qinghai looked at himself in the mirror and nodded with satisfaction.
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The next day, Wo Kuotai frowned and looked at the small scar on the bridge of Fu Qinghai's nose with an unhappy expression, and said:
"What, are you afraid of pain?"
Fu Qinghai chuckled and scratched his head without explaining. He knew that Wo Kuotai would not get hung up on such a trivial matter.
Wokuotai said angrily:
"Come to the war room with me."
The two came to the small war room, which was empty.
Wokuotai sat down casually and motioned to Fu Qinghai to find a seat as well.
"Qingshan, you are now an official member of us. I know you have many questions in your heart. Regarding the goal of our operation this time, I can also reveal some things to you about what happened before."
Fu Qinghai nodded.
Wokuotai leaned back in his chair and said slowly: "This has to start when we break away from the Death Guard's battleship from the Condax system..."
It turns out that Ogodei and his company, the Falcon Brotherhood, have many Terran members who aspire to the Warmaster. Their numbers were severely reduced during the White Scar Civil War that broke out in Prospero's outer orbit. They are no longer With a full company, the Primarch Jaghatai Khan assigned him a secret mission -
Detached from the large fleet and took a frigate alone to escort the geneticist and biological sage Master Quinto to Mars.
This is why there are no other White Scar fleets in outer orbit of Cheslatan.
After the Battle of Ullanor in the 544.M32 period, there were no longer many large-scale battles between humans and Orcs, and more of them were purification operations against local planets. The warmaster dispatched to the remote Condax system The White Scars are the last legion that has a chance to fight the Orcs on a large scale.
The Mechanicus of Mars attaches great importance to the Orcs, an alien race that once posed a major threat to the empire, and has been studying ways to restrain the reproduction of orcs. Quinto Anastasio was specially sent by the Mechanicus. An alien expert who went to the Kondax system to study the Orcs.
And all of this was disrupted with the arrival of the Horus Heresy.
Rebellion and counter-insurgency have become the top priority of all legions, including Mars, which is also caught in a civil war.
As for why he wanted to escort Master Quinto to Mars, Ogedei didn't know.
Fu Qinghai recalled the powerful academic factions in the academic and scientific research circles on Earth in his previous life. He guessed that Master Quinto was not alone on Mars. He must have his disciples in the Mechanicum, and he himself supported the Emperor. The loyalists, Chagatai Khan may want to use his influence on Mars to tilt the balance of victory a little towards the loyalists.
Never mind it, it's not my job as a new recruit to protect the emperor, Fu Qinghai thought to himself.
"Then what?" Fu Qinghai asked next, he was more interested in what happened next.
Wo Kuotai took a deep breath and said: "When we were sailing to this galaxy, the auspicious array suddenly detected the signal of the Sons of Horus. A lone Firestorm-class frigate was heading towards a star on the star map. An agricultural planet marked 17-974 is heading towards..."
Then Wokuotai came up.
The loss of brothers in the White Scar Civil War made this man heartbroken. A full two-thirds of the number of personnel was reduced. He had never lost so many Space Marines in the Condax system when facing Orks ten times his own size.
Not to mention, these soldiers did not die on the glorious battlefield, but died in the rebellion that humiliated the legion.
Ogedei blamed all this on the rebellion of the Sons of Horus.
Talal repeatedly advised him to put the mission first, but Ogodei insisted on giving the traitors some color.
As a frigate, the Firestorm-class frigate has a size and firepower configuration that far exceeds that of the Broadsword-class frigate (the Gladius is the Broadsword-class). Everyone on the Gladius knew at just one glance that it could not engage in space naval battles.
Not to mention that the important figure Master Quinto is on board, even if Quinto is not taken into account, compared with the number of light spears and the macro cannon array, there is a high probability that the Gladius will not be able to defeat the Firestorm-class frigate of the Sons of Horus in a space naval battle.
So the stubborn Wo Kuotai made a bold decision. He handed over the command of the Gladius to Talal and personally led a tactical team to conduct a torpedo jump!
This is the choice of many Space Marine legions when fighting space naval battles.
But it is also very dangerous. The danger level of torpedo jumping is far greater than tactics such as orbital airborne. It can be called the combat operation with the highest death rate.
An uncharged torpedo can carry two Space Marines. After being launched, it must overcome the blockade of heavy laser arrays and macrogun arrays and accurately insert into the enemy ship. The boarding Space Marine team must also be surrounded by enemy anti-boarding forces. Break out of the siege and destroy the power core of the enemy ship.
This process sounds fraught with difficulties.
Another thing to mention: there is no recovery device for boarding torpedoes.
Therefore, unless the enemy ship can be completely captured, torpedo jumping gang is basically a desperate battle with no return.
But Wokuotai still succeeded, although he paid the price of the death of all members of the tactical team and the loss of his own legs.
At that time, the Gladius frigate took advantage of its advantage of detecting the opponent first and hid in the asteroid belt outside the planet Cheslatan. It quietly approached the frigate of the Sons of Horus and suddenly rushed out just as the opponent was about to lower the landing craft. Caught the opponent off guard.
But he fired a few shots casually, and after firing the torpedoes, he slipped away, sneaked back to the asteroid belt and hid, waiting for the result of the jump of the tactical team led by Wo Kuotai.
The battleships of the White Scars Legion were specially modified by the Mechanicus in accordance with the requirements of the original body Jaghatai Khan. Some of the ammunition and firepower configurations were reduced, and the output power of the engines was increased. Therefore, the battleships of the White Scars are better than others. Legions are all fast and are very suitable for raids.
After Wokuotai and others desperately destroyed the power core of the Firestorm-class frigate, the frigate fell into the atmosphere under the pull of the planet's gravity.
The space itself, which was located above the colonial stronghold, crashed into a place not far from the Richeslatan colonial stronghold.
Only then did the subsequent events occur.
Fu Qinghai finally understood.
It’s really a series of twists and turns.
As he was talking, other Space Marines came in one after another.
After everyone took their seats, Wo Kuotai in the wheelchair said in a deep voice:
"Everyone, Marco Van Leer just gave me the news that the subspace storm covering this area has weakened, and it is expected that subspace jumps can be carried out within the next two weeks."
Hearing this, the White Scar warriors were stunned for a moment, and then cheered.
After drifting in the vast and empty universe for two years, I can finally speed up.
Wokuotai also smiled and continued:
"Compared to the subspace storm covering the entire star region, this is just a gap, but by seizing this short gap, we can quickly move closer to the destination. We are getting closer and closer to the area where the traitors are intensively active. Everyone, please do Be prepared."
Everyone agreed.
"Let's go." Wo Kuotai patted Fu Qinghai and walked out of the war room.
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