Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 319: Clone Empire

"Lori and your son should be five years old this year, right?"

"Lao Qin... Xiao Youchuka is here, can we not talk about that?"

"He already knows. Besides, Yochuka isn't a kid anymore."

"..."

Kamath heard the Lord of the White Knights and the gladiators chatting as they walked.

The battle was still very fierce, with constant gunfire. The think tanks provided protection.

There were more and more invisible robots, but the gladiators never stopped shooting or chopping.

But the gladiators were at ease, chatting while killing.

Their movements were precise and swift, and they never stopped, but their tone was understated, giving Kamas the feeling that the gladiators were like killing machines, and that someone else was speaking at the moment.

"Besides, it can't be hidden." Qin Xia added, "Yochuka has already noticed that something is wrong with you three."

"Okay. Indeed, our three sons are five years old." The gladiator who spoke smashed the oncoming robot with a punch. The Terminator Armor turned with a roar under the control of its strong body and shot the robot of the think tank who was rushing towards it and cast a psychic barrier.

"By the way, whose son is yours?" Kleist asked.

"It could be his." The gladiator pointed to his companion who was fighting side by side with him.

"Why do I feel like it's yours?" said the companion.

"Is it possible that you two built it together with Lori one night?" Yochula said with a smile.

The gladiators all burst into laughter.

The think tanks were all surprised when they heard this gossip. They didn't know what the customs were on Nuxing, but it was really shocking for two people to marry the same person.

"There's really nothing we can do about it." The gladiator said, "Les and I both like Lori, and neither of us is willing to give up. We can't bring ourselves to duel according to the Nu Star customs, so what else can we do... we can only live together."

"Lori is also a remarkable woman." Qin Xia said.

After raising his hands to eliminate the defensive positions in the passage ahead, Qin Xia recalled what happened in the late stage of the Nuxing Uprising War.

At that time, Lori was in charge of the logistics allocation in the Guards' front-line combat headquarters, and then the Guards sent a small force to assault the transport convoy.

A person named Lori was in the convoy and was pregnant at the time.

When the convoy was attacked and the battle was fierce, Lori pushed away the soldiers who were protecting her and rushed to an anti-aircraft gun mounted on a vehicle, operating the anti-aircraft gun to fire at the enemy.

Soon reinforcements arrived near the convoy. Qin Xia was among them. He saw with his own eyes Lori riding on the artillery control seat with a bulging belly, roaring and firing at the enemy. After the battle, she picked up a machine gun in one hand and walked up to the captured Guards officer and started firing.

All I can say is that no one who survived at that time was a weak person.

"..."

Yochuka looked at Kamas and said, "Don't be surprised. We often chat while fighting. When we stop talking and just focus on killing people, it means we have encountered a real battle."

Kamath nodded.

The battle with the assistance of the security guards looked fierce but was actually easy, and everyone chatted as they went deeper into the giant ship.

The robots kept trying different methods.

Use more advanced weapons and set up better defensive positions in the channel, but the best defense in this giant ship is never the army or weapons, but the various defense mechanisms that the warships themselves are equipped with.

However, the Brotherhood of Destruction did not understand the many functions of the giant ship, and they even only set foot on the periphery of the giant ship. As a result, the only difference between them and the away attackers was that they stayed here longer.

After a full solar hour, the unstoppable advance gradually came to a halt.

It was not because the robots finally found a way to stop Qin Xia and others, but because a reason emerged that forced them to stop.

Near another defensive position directly in front of him, Qin Xia saw several figures quickly eliminate all the enemies on the position and then stopped.

These figures all look identical, with no difference in size.

In the dim light, they killed all the robots in the blink of an eye, then turned and looked at Qin Xia and everyone behind him.

The gladiators were facing a formidable enemy.

But Qin Xia was very familiar with that figure.

"Brown?"

At Qin Xia's call, all the Browns gathered together and walked towards Qin Xia: "It's me."

"How come you haven't received any news in two weeks? I thought they caught you!"

"Your own communication device can't reach the White Knight, so why don't you use the large communication device of these robots to contact the warship?"

"What have you been doing all this time?"

Qin Xia asked one question after another.

Brown walked up to Qin Xia and pointed to an area behind his head. "I found the core of the ship on the first day, but when I tried to connect to it, it was hacked and a virus was implanted. Now I can't connect to any equipment."

Brown recalled what happened just after he boarded the giant ship.

After failing to connect to the database in the secret room, he left the secret room, killed and searched all the way, and finally found the core of the ship.

The core of a ship is constantly changing; sometimes it is above the ship, sometimes below it, and sometimes near the hull armor.

This is a typical defensive measure, used to prevent invaders from finding the core of the ship too easily.

But Brown still found it and tried to connect, and then what was said to Qin Xia happened.

"One of my clones was active nearby, and I rushed over immediately after spotting you," Brown said.

"Can the virus be cleared?" Qin Xia asked.

Brown nodded: "Did you bring the master control device, which is used to control the iron men?"

Qin Xia handed over the master control device. Brown took it and connected it to his brain, then activated the secondary function of cleaning the virus for the Iron Man and the Stone Man.

The virus implanted into the interface disappeared in an instant.

After returning the master control device to Qin Xia, Brown led the way: "I have been looking for it for the past two weeks... I have discovered many things... This giant ship is not an industrial ship at all, but a colonial ship."

"There are ancient people here?!" Qin Xia was shocked.

"There are indeed ancient people, but they may not be what we imagined." Brown continued to lead the way.

The gladiators found that all the robots on Brown's way had been cleared out, and those monsters were turned into parts scattered all over the ground.

This was the first time that everyone saw Brown display his full fighting power. Although only the results were shown, the process could also be inferred from the results.

I thought Brown had run into trouble aboard the giant ship, but it turned out he had been killing people inside the ship for two whole weeks… This result was both surprising and reassuring.

Following Brown's path, everyone quickly went deeper into the ship and walked into a cabin under Brown's leadership.

Inside the cabin are rows and rows of tanks filled with nutrient solution, in which are soaked the dormant people.

Qin Xia immediately walked forward and checked each jar one by one.

There is no doubt that the person in the jar is an ancient person.

That golden age of humanity.

But unlike the ancient people Qin Xia imagined when he learned that the ship was a colonial ship, all the humans in these jars were deformed.

A huge head, a hunched body, a scoliotic spine, and limbs of varying sizes.

What's even stranger is that they all look the same.

"What's going on?" Qin Xia patted the jar and looked at Brown. "Human experiment?"

"No, they are the ancients," Brown replied.

Under Qin Xia's surprised and disbelieving gaze, Brown raised his hand, projected some pictures, and then began to explain.

"In the past two weeks, I have explored about one percent of the ship and found that it is full of these cabins where dormant ancient people are stored."

"Even in the areas controlled by the Brotherhood of Destruction, they are everywhere... They worship these ancient people as gods, offer sacrifices to them, and wipe the jars containing them every day."

"I just found out the origins of these ancient people a week ago."

Brown shows the information he has collected.

Those deformed humans.

The freak who wears gorgeous aristocratic clothes and calls himself Emperor Codico who can be seen everywhere on various instruments.

"Caudico."

"A man from the Golden Age."

"He was born on a ship. His mother felt uncomfortable while pregnant with him while passing through the warp. She then endured the discomfort and worked near the ship's engine. In the end, she gave birth to a deformed child like him."

"Kodiko is extremely smart and was admitted as a biology major by the Federal Academy of Sciences as an exception."

"He was discriminated against and insulted from childhood to adulthood, until one day he could no longer bear it, so he sold all his scientific patents and used his huge wealth to buy a colony ship."

The picture Brown showed contained some additional information.

Above are Kodiko's diary and autobiography.

"Kodiko felt that he was the most beautiful, but the lower people could not understand his beauty, so he wanted to build a country of his own."

"He cloned himself, created countless clones, and these are the deformed monsters we see."

"Caudric will take them to create a world with only Caudric, an empire of clones - the Caudric Empire."

"..."

Listening to what Brown said and looking at the information Brown showed him that he had collected in the past two weeks, Qin Xia felt extremely complicated and couldn't say a word.

The gladiators and think tanks looked at the surprised Qin Xia and Brown in confusion.

They didn't think there was anything weird about this, just a bunch of freaks.

But there is another thing they don’t know yet, that is, if these ancient people were not a group of freaks, but a group of normal people, how much change they could bring to this era.

Without hope, there will be no disappointment, and you will not understand the feeling of loss when discovering a "golden human" turns into discovering a "clone freak".

Brown fiddled with the controls next to the canister.

A picture popped up.

"Want to release the dormant Caudicos? Kneel down to pay homage to His Majesty Caudico!" A deformed freak sitting on the throne shouted to everyone in the pop-up screen.

Qin Xia looked at "Emperor Kodiko", was silent for two seconds, raised his hand and burned all the Kodikos in the jars with a flame.

Brown shrugged helplessly: "At least we might get a colony ship from the Golden Age. At least this colony ship has production equipment and a small factory for shipbuilding."

"Are the Brotherhood of Destruction the descendants of the Kodikos who awakened earlier?" Qin Xia asked.

"They are cloned Kodikos who were previously doing maintenance work on the ship."

Brown replied.

"The warlords of the Brotherhood are some of the people who entered the ship later. They obtained the bio-transformation technology from the ship, and then transformed the Kodikos who were doing maintenance work here into robots."

"Whenever the warlords of the Brotherhood feel that they are short of soldiers, they release some clones and then transform them into mechanical warriors."

"Theoretically, the Brotherhood of Destruction has an endless supply of robots."

(End of this chapter)