After making the guess that it was Li who destroyed the Poisonous Thorns Chapter, more questions immediately emerged in Soshiyang's mind. What was Li's purpose for doing this?
To cover for the Astral Knights and the White Templars?
Not quite.
And did Pew discover the bloodline of the Eleventh Legion? How did he view the chief pastor's behavior at that time? There are many chapters in the Imperial Fists whose bloodlines are unclear. As long as the bloodline of a lost legion is not exposed, it actually means nothing. The Poisonous Thorns Chapter itself was only discovered after the fact.
But with Pugh's death, I'm afraid no one can answer all this anymore, or in other words, only one person can answer it——
plum!
This "brother" of the original body, who is shrouded in mystery and has a very strange position, has always been elusive to Soshiyang. Now the opponent's series of secret operations have made Soshiyang even more discerning. He always feels that there is something unknown inside. plan of.
"What have you been doing since you escaped?"
"In order to escape the possible pursuit of the Imperial Fist, we hid all the way in the Ghoul Sector. Fortunately, Mr. Li had already prepared a temporary base for us. While we were repairing it, we wanted to get information about the legion. Mr. Li They have provided us with information one after another. We know that the Star Knights and the White Templar are also our blood relatives. We also know that you are the current legion commander. We have wanted to come to you for a long time, but Mr. Li said that the time was not right. Yes, if we show up, it will easily arouse the suspicion of the Imperial Fists. After all, we have been trying to recruit new recruits while Pew was still alive, but the lack of gene seeds makes this very inefficient, and the Ghoul Sector is not safe. In this place, the materials provided by Mr. Li can only be used for emergencies. We have to find ways to solve the survival problem by ourselves. This causes us to have conflicts with those alien forces or Chaos war gangs from time to time. The number of brothers we lose even exceeds the number of new recruits we have added. Originally, we There were 264 brothers, and now there are only 221 left.”
After listening, Soshyan grasped a key question.
"Who told you that you can come to me?"
"Mr. Lee's attendant. He told us that Pew is dead. There is no one in the Imperial Fists who knows about this anymore. We can return to the Legion."
"Lee's entourage? Are you sure?"
When Soshyan asked, Texhar was stunned for a moment, then thought for a while before answering:
"I have indeed never seen that person, but he was able to find us, and we really wanted to reunite with our brothers, so we didn't ask about his identity in detail."
Soshyan took a few steps back and forth, calculating in his mind.
First of all, this matter can be deduced from the following points:
There is a high probability that Pugh and other senior officials of the Imperial Fists are not aware of the existence of the Eleventh Legion.
Li had at least a dose of gray marrow in his hands.
The tragedy of the Poisonous Thorns Chapter was most likely directed by Lee
The person who asked the Poisonous Thorns Chapter to look for him might not be Li. Besides Li, the only people Soshiyan could think of who knew about the existence of this group of people were the Malcador organization, because only they had the ability to do so. Continue to monitor this mysterious Li for such a long time span.
Taken together, things are weird.
What was Li's purpose in causing the tragedy of the Poisonous Thorns Chapter? What was the purpose of the person who notified the Poisonous Thorns Chapter to look for him? In addition, are all the words spoken by people like Teksar true?
But Soshiyang already had some vague guesses in his mind. At least based on the exchange just now, this group of people had a deep-seated hatred for the Imperial Fist. Then Soshiyang remembered something -
When he checked the information before, he saw that Priest Belisal of the Imperial Fists was finally killed in a battle against the Greenskins, and that battle seemed to have involved the Iron Warriors' Chaos Space Marines and other Chaos warbands. The target was very clear, and they headed directly towards the 2nd company of the Imperial Fists at that time, which was also the company of Belisal. After killing the chief priest, the traitors also dismembered the priest's body and chopped off his brain.
Soshyan suddenly looked at the skull pierced by spikes behind Texhar's armor.
"Texhar, you guys, killed Belisal?"
Texhar showed a cruel smile, and then exhaled with bared teeth.
"Yes, Legion Commander, we must avenge our dead brothers."
"So you chose to work with the traitors of the Iron Warriors."
"No, we took advantage of them, and then we killed them all and plundered their equipment and supplies."
Soshiyang looked at this Tekshar and became more and more sure that this was the "trouble" brought by Malcador's organization. These people's hands were stained with the blood of the Imperial Fist. Once their existence was exposed, Soshiyang would Shijan must face questioning and censure from the Imperial Fists, which is the last thing he wants to face - in any case, it was Lysander and Pew who helped him in the most difficult moment of the chapter.
But Texhar and the others are the blood of the legion after all, and their reason for revenge is also legitimate. The first company has heard everything, and as the legion commander, he can no longer ignore it.
Such cruel and vicious methods, this is simply a fatal dagger against his neck, reminding Soshyan that they can destroy everything he built at any time——
But to put it another way, this group of people is indeed a "baggage" hidden by Li. Now that they suddenly appear like this, Macado's organization has opened this "bag" in advance. Perhaps in addition to threats, it can also be helpful. Meaning, after all, if they continue to exist secretly, it's hard to say what trouble they might cause in the future.
This goes back to the original question.
Li, what exactly do you want to do?
He has always claimed that he represents Erda and the Emperor, but there is always a sense of distance and alienation in this man Soshyan's heart. No matter how fantastic the other person's words are, there is some kind of instinct that tells him to stay away from this man. Completely trust this person.
At this moment, I suddenly understood something that Kayon once said - the most vicious demons come from the most vicious people's hearts.
Is the human heart like the devil, or is the devil like the human heart?
However, these two hundred people are blood relatives of the legion after all. Although they know that this is a hot potato, Soshiyang cannot throw it away after all. It can only be said that some people really understand his psychology very well and can grasp it very accurately.
He turned to look at everyone and said in a deep voice:
"Let all past grievances go away. Here I would like to introduce myself again. My name is Soshyan Alexei, the chapter leader of the Astral Knights and the acting commander of the Eleventh Legion. Brothers of Simog—"
As he spoke, Soshyan opened his arms and solemnly shouted with a passionate and high-pitched voice.
"Welcome home."
In an instant, all the soldiers in the company took off their helmets, and Maximilian took the lead in shouting.
"Welcome home!"
Welcome home! !
All the warriors in the company chanted in unison, and the former warriors of the Poisonous Thorns Chapter also took off their helmets one after another. Some people even had tears in their eyes. After all, they have been drifting in the cracks for hundreds of years, and sometimes even had to associate with pirates and heretics. , if Texhar had not continued to inspire everyone with the flag of the legion, it is likely that they would have ended up as a group of stragglers and thugs like many fallen war groups.
(End of chapter)
