My Desperate Journey in 40k
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After Wang Ming finished the training, he went to the bridge and prepared to start their next action. It was mentioned before that the next action would be to counterattack the subspace, but before that, they still had to quell the war in the Imperial Holy Territory. In the Imperial Holy Territory today, there were still many enemies waiting for them to deal with.
Fulgrim and his men have been dealt with. According to the severity of the beating the Emperor inflicted on Slaanesh, this guy will not appear in the real universe for a long time. The only ones left are Magnus, Angron, and Perturabo. These three Daemon Primarchs are the biggest obstacles in this war. After all, these three guys are very strong… After all, those two guys are very strong, except for Angron…
After all, the other two demon primarchs at least have brains, and their IQs are very high. It is definitely not easier to deal with them than to deal with Fulgrim. Angron is just a brainless pendant of the Butcher’s Nails. It is very easy to deal with this guy. You just need to lure it to one place and then kill it with all kinds of heavy weapons.
To deal with this guy, you don’t need those sophisticated plans and careful tactical strategies. The only useful and efficient way to deal with this guy is to use the most powerful weapon at hand to hit it in the face a few times. As long as you smash this guy into pieces and banish him back to the warp, you will solve it. Although this warp monster will continue to refresh, this guy is easy to deal with.
After all, compared to the other two smart demon primarchs, this guy is really easy to deal with, so Wang Ming gave this task to the Second Regiment. For the Second Regiment, the task of solving Angron is very suitable for them. After all, for them, there is nothing more satisfying than pushing forward with the most terrifying weapons.
After handing Angron over to the Second Regiment, Wang Ming led the fleet directly to the world where Magnus was. Some brothers here may ask, how does Wang Ming know which world each demon primarch is in? This is actually a very simple matter. Look at the think tanks in the Sun Bastion who are used as humanoid prophecy machines. These guys are already suffering from the work of continuous prediction.
They kept asking the Emperor for various prophecies. Although due to their unskilled prophecy skills, their souls could usually only get one-word answers after coming into contact with the saint on the Golden Throne, but they used their own deaths to piece together several complete prophecies and managed to find out the locations of those demon primarchs.
The Emperor was also confused about this situation. He was also puzzled. If he needed to know about this matter, couldn’t he just ask Wang Ming to ask him? Was there any need to flash in front of his golden throne? The flash in front of the Emperor never stopped, flashing every few minutes. If the Imperial Guards hadn’t been notified by the Emperor of what happened, they would have thought that their great Majesty had stood up again.
Wang Ming also knew about this matter. After all, this task was assigned by Wang Ming himself. Due to the emergency situation at that time, when he went to fight Fulgrim, he had already issued orders to the think tanks of the Legion, asking them to predict the locations of those demon primarchs as much as possible during his absence. The think tanks in the Legion also completed the task very well. It’s just that they have been flashing in front of the Golden Throne these days, which really made the Emperor happy for a while.
Chapter 636 Dangerous Curvature Sailing
“Hmm… I feel like it would be better if we didn’t go down…”
Hu Jin looked at the world below the fleet. It was a world filled with chaotic forces. Above this world, countless demons were wreaking havoc. Although they had seen this situation more than once, the environment of this world was indeed a bit weird.
Everything in this world seems to be changing. The clouds in this world are constantly rolling, sometimes changing into one shape and sometimes into another shape. Even the continental plates of this planet are changing. The chaos pollution in this world has become so serious that it has become a demon world. If a landing operation is carried out on this world, the situation in this world may directly destroy all the imperial troops that have landed on it.
After all, no one can predict what will happen when they really land in this world. If everyone dies there just after going down because of the earthquake caused by the movement of continental plates, then it will be a waste of time. Tzeentch has a lot of underworld things. After all, when it comes to the underworld, no one can compare to Tzeentch.
“Just blow it up?”
Wang Ming looked at that world. He looked at the situation in that world, and then looked at the extremely chaotic data sent back by the detectors that had been released before. This world was already in complete chaos. It was really difficult to get some intelligence from it. After all the detectors were released, they all lost contact within a few hours.
The reason why these probes lost contact is without exception: they were all destroyed by external forces. However, this external force was not any enemy or the like, but the ever-changing geological environment on the planet. The ever-changing geological environment was the real culprit that destroyed those probes.
“Why not just issue an extermination order? If this world launches a landing war, we’ll be dead anyway.”
Hu Jin looked at the reconnaissance intelligence of the world on the holographic projection screen in front of him. He nodded to Wang Ming, then fiddled with the grenade launcher in his hand. Although he felt disappointed that he could not go down to fight, this situation was also a special one and they really could not go down.
“That’s it. Just blow up this world.”
Wang Ming looked at Hu Jin beside him, and then gave the order to the fleet. Just as Wang Ming gave the order, a huge figure suddenly raised its head above the planet. It looked at the lights in the sky and knew that it was the fleet anchored in the planet’s orbit.
“Look, how smart they are! Knowing that the combat environment is dangerous, they immediately stopped coming down. But whether you can come down or not is not up to you. My psychic power can extinguish stars, so pulling you down is not a problem.”
Magnus looked at the fleet in orbit. It held up its staff, with its wings stretched out toward the sky. A terrifying psychic force suddenly appeared beside it. The power from the highest heaven was controlled by it, and it rushed directly to the position of the fleet in the planet’s orbit from the surface of the planet.
“Warning, warning, an unknown traction force has been detected pulling the fleet. The thruster power of each ship is being adjusted to begin the escape.”
The moment Magnus exerted his psychic power, the fleet was immediately pulled up by its ability. However, the fleet’s artificial intelligence reacted quickly. After detecting that the fleet was being pulled by an unknown force, they immediately increased the power of each of the fleet’s thrusters, trying to escape the pulling force. However, Magnus’s power was still too strong. Even if the Sun Fortress turned on its engine power at full capacity, it was still falling.
Because of this huge traction, the interiors of a large number of ships in the fleet began to become chaotic. The interference of electronic equipment caused by the psychic effect shut down a large number of life support systems in the fleet, and some equipment was burned. On some ships, even the oxygen supply system and gravity system in the health system were directly destroyed. If there were no emergency plans, the crew members on those ships would probably have been suffocated to death.
But some ships were extremely unlucky. They were torn into pieces directly under the huge pulling force. The people on these ships were all exposed to the space. Their fate was already determined. Humans would die if they entered the space without protection.
“Psychic power… Damn it, it’s Magnus!”
Wang Ming felt the psychic spell that was pulling the fleet. He felt a familiar feeling. It was Magnus’ psychic spell, pulling the fleet towards the surface of the planet. There wasn’t much that could be done in this situation. He had to issue the extermination order first. In short, he could not just sit there and wait for death and let it really pull the fleet down.
“Send out the extermination order. All ships, follow my orders. Open fire on the surface of the planet and destroy this world!”
Wang Ming felt the huge psychic energy and he was also using it to resist, but his psychic energy was too weak compared to Magnus’s. Magnus had accumulated tens of thousands of years of experience in using psychic energy and accumulated a huge amount of psychic energy in the subspace. This guy’s psychic power could easily destroy a star. If he wanted to fight against this guy, unless the Emperor came in person, the terrifying existence of one of the two most powerful psychics in the galaxy was not something Wang Ming could deal with.
Wang Ming can only hold on now. He can only delay the fleet’s descent but cannot really solve the problem of the fleet being towed.
After Wang Ming’s order was issued, all the crew members on the ships began their work. Despite the impact of the destruction of various life support systems, they continued to carry out their work in the vacuum or weightless environment of the ship while wearing space suits. Attacks were fired from the ships and flew towards the surface of the planet. The perseverance of the Imperial Navy was revealed at this moment. They could persist in fighting under the harshest environment, and their courage was no less than those mortal auxiliary troops who faced the battlefield.
When those attacks hit the surface of the planet, they actually did not cause any damage, because the land of this planet is also changing, it is constantly changing, and all attacks hitting it will be resolved by its endless changes. Perhaps those attacks will cause some damage when they just hit the surface of the planet, but those damages will be covered up by the ever-changing scenes within a few seconds.
Endless changes are filling this world. It is basically impossible to destroy this world because it is constantly changing. Even if it is blown into pieces, the changes in those pieces will recombine it into a world. The whirlwind torpedo that went straight into the star core of this world is a very good example. This whirlwind torpedo did explode and destroyed the star core of this world.
However, within a few seconds of disintegration, this world suddenly changed into a complete world again. In other words, all physical destruction is useless in this world. This world has become a chaotic demon world. It already has some subspace properties, and it is basically impossible to destroy it with physical attacks.
“My fleet…, this thing can’t be destroyed…”
Wang Ming felt the powerful psychic spell. He looked at the planet that had just been broken and immediately turned back to its previous intact state. He was now numb all over. Physical attacks had no effect on this planet at all. The subspace form of this planet had completely changed. No matter how much physical damage was caused to it, it would immediately recover when the next change came.
“Fuck you, Jianqi!”
Wang Ming cursed Jianqi, but his curses were of no use to Jianqi, because Jianqi was happy to see Wang Ming getting frustrated after falling into his plan. It was really fun.
“The Solar Fortress is still falling, and so are the other ships… Just start the superluminal curvature engine and travel at twice the speed of light. Don’t worry about the gravitational interference of the planets, and escape first!”
Wang Ming kept thinking about how to get the fleet away from this dangerous area. Finally, he came up with a solution, a solution that was not a solution, an extremely dangerous solution. This solution would cause great losses to the fleet. After all, in this environment with planetary gravity, using a curvature engine for superluminal navigation is also a very dangerous situation for the fleet.
If one thing goes wrong, the curvature engine may self-destruct, or the curvature engine may overload and cause space rupture, leading to the disintegration of the ship. But at least this is better than being dragged directly to the surface of the planet and dying together. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, you can give it a try.
“Understood. The warp engine is being activated. May Om Messiah and the God-Emperor bless us!”
Wang Ming’s order had been received by the fleet’s artificial intelligence. After receiving Wang Ming’s order, the fleet’s artificial intelligence immediately began to execute the order. At the same time, he also humanely imitated the mechanical priests and prayed.
“Where did you learn this…? You don’t have a soul…”
After hearing the artificial intelligence’s life-long prayer, Wang Ming couldn’t help but think of it in his heart, but he still respected the artificial intelligence’s belief in the Emperor and Om Messiah, and did not say much. Instead, he quickly grabbed everything around him that could be grabbed, preparing to face the huge space distortion caused by curvature navigation.
After all, he didn’t know whether the curvature navigation under the planetary gravity environment would cause the ship to disintegrate. If the Sun Fortress was so big, it would be troublesome if it really disintegrated. It would be better to grab something to fix itself, otherwise it would float directly into outer space, which would be very troublesome.
“Fix yourself and adjust your mindset later, don’t…”
While securing himself, Wang Ming spoke to the mortal crew members around him, and then gave each of them an emergency survival kit, and notified all crew members in the fleet to wear fully enclosed space suits to deal with various dangerous environments that might arise. No one knew whether this would cause the ship to disintegrate directly, so they had to make various contingency plans to minimize casualties.
Just when everyone was ready, the fleet’s warp engines started directly. The warp engines of all the ships started together, as if a faint blue sun and a constantly twisting black hole suddenly appeared in space. Blue light radiated from the black hole, and the space next to the black hole kept twisting, making everything around it seem so unreal, like ripples on the water.
During this process, several strike cruisers disintegrated directly. They were not Federation-made ships and did not have such high structural strength. As ships that had the ability of curvature navigation after later modifications, it was very normal for them to disintegrate in such an environment. Fortunately, most of them had only a few mortal crew members who were time travelers, and the only non-time travelers had only dozens of working mecha servants.
Although it would not cause any casualties, the travelers on it were in trouble. The moment their fleet disintegrated, their bodies directly entered a curvature navigation state. The feeling was even more exciting than entering the subspace. They felt that all their senses were stretched, and everything nearby was slowed down. Their bodies were also constantly stretched in this twisted space, like a stretched gummy bear.
However, this state did not last too long, at least not too long on the time scale of the real universe. The bodies of the traversers began to disintegrate in this environment and turned into atomic-sized fragments. However, from the traversers’ personal perspective, they had experienced several months of struggle in that area before finally meeting death.
This situation can actually be explained by some theories of relativity, but the time travelers don’t actually know the specific principles.
The disintegrated ships and the explosion of the uncontrolled curvature engines on these ships caused the space above the orbit of the planet to distort. Fortunately, the curvature navigation of other ships was quite normal, otherwise they would be trapped in this large space distortion, just like the disintegrated ships.
When this space distortion appeared, Magnus’s expression changed on the planet. He looked at the distorted space above the sky with surprise. He was very surprised that Wang Ming would make such a risky move. He would rather escape with the risk of ship disintegration than let the fleet fall directly to the surface of the world and die with those mortals.
Chapter 637 Freezing Time
“You can’t escape, my brother. Since you don’t want to fight me in this world, I can only go to your fleet and have a good chat with you.”
Magnus looked at the distorted space above the sky, and suddenly smiled and said something, then gave up the use of his psychic spells, took his descendants and those Tzeentch demons to open a subspace portal, and instantly disappeared on the spot.
And at the moment they disappeared, the terrible impact of the warp power and the chaos of space mixed together, and a terrible force descended directly on this world. In an instant, the basic structure of this world was completely destroyed. It was torn into pieces by the huge explosion and scattered in the void. However, this did not really kill the world, it just made its warp properties become disordered.
Those fragments kept changing, and after a long time, they synthesized into several very small dwarf planets. After those dwarf planets were formed, they began to change again. Everything in this world has been thoroughly soaked by the power of chaos, and endless changes are its normal state.
“Count the losses, send all injured crew members to the medical area, pay attention to counting casualties, and reduce the death rate to the lowest possible level.”
Inside the Sun Fortress, Wang Ming looked at the holographic projection panel in front of him. He looked at the various data constantly coming out of it and spoke to the fleet’s artificial intelligence. The fleet’s artificial intelligence system also quickly compiled the information Wang Ming needed. The loss this time was not too great. Only a few strike cruisers were blown up, and the equipment on each ship suffered large-scale damage.
The losses are still within an acceptable range. There are actually not too many really huge losses. The fleet does not actually care so much about the loss of equipment. What they really care about is the loss of personnel.
This means that although the curvature navigation is relatively rapid and the environment of curvature navigation is also very dangerous, fortunately, the hull of the Federation ship is still very strong. Only those strike cruisers that were converted from Imperial ships were turned into pieces under the hasty curvature navigation.
In fact, this cannot be blamed on the fact that these strike cruisers are not strong enough. This function was not originally considered in their design. The superluminal navigation technology of the curvature engine can be regarded as a technology that uses physics to achieve superluminal navigation in the physical universe, but its speed is still too slow.
“Manpower losses… Hundreds of sailors were injured, and dozens of people were suffocated to death due to the failure of the life support system…”
Wang Ming looked at the holographic projection panel in front of him. He looked at the data and intelligence displayed on it. The fleet’s losses were not that great. Only a few hundred sailors were injured, and dozens of people were suffocated to death due to the failure of the life support system. These losses were still acceptable.
“Let’s sort out the situation on the ship again, we…”
“Report, subspace anomalies detected, illegal transmissions have broken through the fleet’s defense network!”
Just as Wang Ming was about to continue issuing orders, a think tank suddenly ran up to him and started waving a data tablet in front of him, reporting to Wang Ming what he had discovered while waving it. Wang Ming looked at the think tank in front of him, and his heart was filled with helplessness.
After hearing the report from the think tank, with his intelligence, how could he not know what happened? It was nothing more than those Chaos bastards trying to board the ship again. His fleet had been in trouble in the past few days. First, some warships were robbed by Abaddon, and then they were almost dragged to that terrible planet by Magnus’s psychic power.
And now those damn Chaos guys are definitely going to board the ship, but this time they have chosen the wrong time to board the ship. This time, Wang Ming is not only in the fleet, the old Federation guys he had sent to deal with the big demon before are also back. This time he can take those four old Federation guys, plus that scary psychic Chen Xu, and his new pet, to teach Chaos a good lesson.
Just as Wang Ming was thinking this, huge figures suddenly appeared above the fleet. They looked at the various equipment on the fleet and quickly began their own actions. They destroyed various equipment and facilities on the fleet as they walked. The light of psychic energy continued to flash above the fleet, and various spells continued to appear above the fleet.
The psychic wizards of the Thousand Sons boarded the fleet, and their terrible psychic spells continued to destroy everything on the fleet. All the mortal auxiliary troops and mortal sailors who encountered them were turned into ashes by their terrible psychic power.
“As expected, they came up. Damn it! They caught up with us so quickly. It hasn’t even been two hours since we escaped, and they’ve already caught up with us!”
Wang Ming was looking at the surveillance video on the holographic projection screen in front of him. He was looking at the Thousand Sons who were fighting with the mortal auxiliary army and the time travelers. Although he had expected that the Thousand Sons would catch up, he did not expect that they would catch up so quickly.
“It’s not a big problem…, notify the First Regiment to quickly engage the enemy, and at the same time have the Fourth Regiment guard the various roads on the ship, try to trap the Thousand Sons in one place, and then surround and annihilate them. At the same time, notify all the think tanks on the Sun Fortress to try to stabilize the space and not let any of these guys escape.”
While Wang Ming was observing the constantly changing tactical intelligence in front of him and watching the live surveillance from the front-line battlefield, he issued orders very calmly. A large number of orders came out of his mouth and were conveyed to various troops. The various troops on the Sun Fortress quickly began their own actions. While Wang Ming was constantly analyzing tactical strategies, a voice that was extremely familiar to him suddenly appeared beside him.
This voice instantly made Wang Ming alert. He placed his hand on the Yongcun sword at his waist, ready to strike the source of the voice at any time.
“My brother, although you have done a very good job in analyzing the situation quickly and coming up with a thorough response plan, you are still too slow compared to our brother Guilliman.”
Magnus stood behind Wang Ming. He looked at Wang Ming, who had tensed his body and was ready to stab him at any time. He chuckled and spoke to Wang Ming in a very relaxed tone, as if two old friends were meeting each other. There was no sense of tension at all.
But compared to Magnus, Wang Ming was not so relaxed. He looked at the mortal sailors around him and gave them a look. After seeing Wang Ming’s look, those mortal sailors immediately gave up the idea of drawing their weapons and they slowly moved towards the door of the command room.
When Wang Ming saw them moving towards the door of the command room, he turned around and looked at Magnus. His hand was on the hilt of the Eternal Sword at his waist. He did not pull out the Eternal Sword. He just stood there and looked at Magnus who appeared beside him at some point. He did nothing and said nothing.
“Let the mortals leave first. You are indeed a kind person, just like our brother Vokhan. I respect your kindness, my brother. After all, those mortals are powerless to participate in the battle between us.”
Magnus looked at Wang Ming who was facing it. It smiled at Wang Ming again, and then, with its size advantage, it looked down at Wang Ming’s golden eyes and spoke to Wang Ming. Wang Ming looked at the huge demon primarch, he still didn’t say anything, as if he had accepted his fate. However, Magnus, who had fought with Wang Ming several times, didn’t think so.
It knows what kind of person Wang Ming is. Wang Ming is a special immortal, and an immortal who doesn’t care how he dies. As long as he can achieve his goal, death is just a problem that can be counted for him. This guy can do anything, but the only thing he can’t do is sit and wait for death.
“I think you are being a little too confident to appear by my side alone. My brother, do you think you can kill me alone, or corrupt me with the help of your master?”
After a long time, after those mortals had withdrawn from the command, Wang Ming finally said to Magnus the first words he had said after seeing it, and the tone of this sentence was full of sarcasm, as if he didn’t take Magnus seriously at all. His relaxed attitude was even more relaxed than Magnus before.
When Magnus saw Wang Ming’s state, he was puzzled for a moment, and then tried hard to think about what means Wang Ming had to suppress him so easily. In his cognition, Wang Ming must have corresponding means to be so easy, and he must find out Wang Ming’s means.
“My brother, Lord of the Dark Crows, the King of the Shadows, you can take action now. Give our brother a surprise.”
While Magnus was thinking, Wang Ming suddenly said this sentence to Magnus’ back with a relaxed look. After hearing Wang Ming’s words, Magnus suddenly remembered the battle when Wang Ming and Clarks fought against it before. He immediately turned around and looked behind him, ready to defend against Clarks’ attack.
But just as it turned around, Wang Ming suddenly jumped up, and he chopped Magnus’ head with Eternity. Magnus did not expect this situation, and he looked at Wang Ming in surprise. Originally, he wanted to predict it in advance, but Wang Ming and Clarks had left him with a psychological trauma, so he really believed it.
But the price of believing in Wang Ming is to be cheated by Wang Ming. Magnus had been cheated once before, but Clarks really came out that time. Magnus would not make the same mistake. The only difference is that this time Clarks was not there at all. The whole process was just Wang Ming’s nonsense, and his purpose was to make Magnus turn his head.
“You believed it. You actually woke up! Hahaha!”
Wang Ming looked at Magnus’s stunned expression and couldn’t help laughing. The Eternal in his hand directly chopped at Magnus, but Magnus’s psychic shield still stuck Wang Ming’s hand. As for why it didn’t block the Eternal’s blade, it was because the Eternal’s blade had already opened the phase stance.
If this thing is blocked with a psychic shield, the psychic shield will also be cut. The safest way is to use psychic power to block Wang Ming’s arm so that Wang Ming can no longer wield the Eternal Power in his hand. But can this really stop Wang Ming?