Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 501 Extra: Wandering Battleship

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The heavy gate opened, and the dim light from the corridor outside shone through the crack in the door onto the faces of everyone in the warehouse.

Nearly a thousand people subconsciously raised their heads to look for the light.

A shirtless man with 90% of his skin covered in tattoos came into view.

The man glanced at everyone coldly, reached behind him, pulled a woman wrapped in an ill-fitting coat, and pushed her into the warehouse through the crack in the door.

The woman staggered tremblingly, walking between the people who subconsciously lowered their heads and made way for her, and came to the two children in the corner of the dark warehouse.

The children looked at the woman without any kindness; they were not her children.

A smile appeared on the woman's pale face. She reached into her coat and took out two loaves of bread.

The children walked over timidly, reached out to take the bread and stuffed it into their mouths.

The more than a thousand people present had not eaten for half a day and were very hungry, but no one went up to grab food.

When the child was full, he stood up and walked to the porthole to look out.

He saw the bow of the ship he was on, an Imperial transport.

On the other side of the Imperial transport ship, outside the porthole was a warship with black handprints printed on it.

The children remember the adults saying it was a pirate ship.

When the transport ship was stranded in the asteroid belt of the current system due to a warp navigation accident, the pirate ship suddenly appeared and approached the transport ship, and then there was killing and looting. The survivors were taken to the warehouse on the lower deck and locked up.

How many people were there on the entire transport ship? The child didn't remember. He could only vaguely recall that the lower deck where he lived was very huge. Now there were only a few people he knew, and the people in other parts of the ship should have died.

The child thought about it and looked out the window as he usually did in his daily life.

Suddenly a ray of light flashed at the end of the field of vision, and then a ship entered the galaxy.

The ship looked exceptionally huge and gorgeous, with a somewhat terrifying symbol engraved on the bow - the fangs gnawing at the world.

When the ship approached, the child saw some transport planes flying back and forth between the pirate ship and the transport ship he was on.

Not long after, the heavy gate of the warehouse opened.

The tattooed pirates escorted a group of people who were obviously not pirates into the warehouse.

The child turned around and saw those violent and bloodthirsty pirates were now servile.

"You want to use the stolen goods to make a profitless business again?" The young man in gorgeous clothes looked down on the pirates and covered his nose with a golden handkerchief in the stinking warehouse. "How despicable."

"You are a Rogue Trader, not a bureaucrat of the Imperial Navy's patrol fleet." The leading pirate said flatteringly, "It doesn't matter whether the things we sell have capital or not. What matters is how much profit these things can bring to you."

When the young man mentioned his identity as a roving trader, he smiled smugly: "But it's not right to always hang out with you low-class people who do business without capital. After all, the Kramo family has a trading license signed by the Lord of Nukeria. If I always hang out with you, it will bring shame to the family."

The pirates smiled obsequiously and just laughed it off.

"I'm not here to do business today, but to warn you." The young man said, "In a few days, a Nukerian transport fleet will pass through this route, and the Lord of Nukeria has specifically asked the Kramo family to take on the security business. I advise you to be smart and take a good look at the family emblem on the ship. If you dare to do this free business with my family... I will peel off your skin and make boots from it."

The pirates immediately nodded in assurance.

Then the young man turned and looked at a follower behind him.

The follower was extremely tall, wearing a black robe. In the dim light, only two scarlet lights could be seen in the hood.

The two of them seemed to exchange a few words in silence using some encrypted method, and then nodded to each other.

"Let's go." The young man turned and left.

"You said before that you wanted to buy a ship and sailors..." A pirate hurriedly chased after him.

Everyone left, and the people in the warehouse saw the gate closed again.

The pirates continued to pester the Rogue Trader to inquire about the transaction and followed him all the way to the helipad.

The young man remained silent and just boarded the transport plane and left.

After the transport plane's door was closed, one person was still left behind.

The pirates looked at the four-meter-tall attendant in front of them, wondering why this guy didn't follow his master.

"Are you staying here to buy a ship?" the pirate asked his follower.

"He gave me this ship and the people inside." The attendant raised his hand and took off his hood, revealing his metal head. "But he didn't pay for it, so I have to pick it up myself."

The pirates were still puzzled, looking at this... this iron man in front of them in wonder.

"Are you also a Rogue Trader?"

"No, I'm not a wandering trader from the Kramo family. I'm Super Xiao Qin."

The pirate was about to ask another question when his entire upper body was torn apart the next second.

Super Xiao Qin looked at the other pirates present, and gently swung his right arm, and the blood and biological tissue on the iron claws flew onto the wall.

The pirates also looked at the iron man and raised their weapons after a brief moment of stunned silence.

Super Xiao Qin's chest armor unfolded, and countless "little flying insects" flew out from the cavity under the armor.

When it turned and walked towards the warehouse, all the pirates had their nostrils drilled by mechanical flying insects and their heads blown off.

"Did you take action?"

In the field of view of Super Xiao Qin's electronic observer, the young man who belonged to the Kramo merchant family appeared in the upper right corner.

"Let's do it." Super Xiao Qin stretched out his hand and tore open the wall beside him as he walked, pulled off a piece of debris and threw it out, beheading a pirate who had just rushed into the corridor and was about to open fire.

"Don't you need help?" the young man asked again. "No."

"Don't need supplies either?"

"No need, there is one in this ship that belongs to me."

"Then I'll be leaving. I wish you all the best."

Super Xiao Qin stopped and looked out the window.

The warship began to move away from the transport and the pirate ship and sailed towards the calculated Mandeville Point.

The battleship had previously appeared in the Ullanor system during the Warmaster's coronation ceremony. The person who owned it was just a descendant of the Kramo family, who wanted to thank the Lord of Nuceria and his adoptive father for giving the Kramo family the right to trade after the coronation ceremony.

It was at that time that Super Xiao Qin entered the battleship to meet with the children of the Kramo family. He used some details of the various deeds between his original body and the Kramo family to persuade the other party to believe that he was the "super agent of the Lord of the White Knight."

After it asked the other party for a ship and the sailors inside, the other party did as it was told, and then it contacted the pirates, and then was really prepared to pay for the ship and the people.

But how could Super Xiao Qin be willing to let someone who unconditionally obeyed his orders just by hearing his real name pay for the ship...

The cost will not disappear out of thin air, it will only be transferred, and now the pirates are paying the price.

Super Xiao Qin withdrew his gaze and continued to move forward.

It returned to the warehouse, easily tore open the gate, and looked at the imprisoned sailors inside.

"This ship belongs to me from now on, but I am taking it back from the remaining pirates." Super Xiao Qin glanced at everyone, "You were once just bottom deck bugs in the eyes of the upper deck people, but if you are willing to follow my orders, you will replace the big guys who are now dead."

"You are standing at the crossroads of destiny. It's time to make a choice."

Hearing these two sentences, the sailors slowly stood up.

Some of them produced hidden weapons.

"Children and the elderly, stay here, and the rest follow me."

Super Xiao Qin took out two balls from his back and threw them at the wall. The moment the balls touched the wall, they immediately extended their muzzles and turned into laser turrets.

"That pirate ship outside might bombard us." A sailor who had worked on the gun deck said, "I suggest we seize the nearby Light Spear first."

"I blocked the signal. They don't know what happened here. By the time they find out, we can seize their ships." Super Xiao Qin said.

……

Gaining full control of the ship is a long and complex task.

During the first week, Super Xiao Qin fought side by side with the surviving sailors.

It crafted weapons and armor for sailors, giving them an equipment advantage over pirates.

After they seized the transport ship's supply warehouse, they no longer needed to kill people with their own hands, because mass-produced combat robots were highly efficient in searching and slaughtering pirates.

Two months later, control of the transport ship was seized and the pirates were killed.

The warship belonging to the pirates was invaded after the combat robots were created, and the control of the engine was seized. In the end, the pirates could only survive in various corners of the pirate ship until they were killed by the robots.

When the two ships no longer belonged to the pirates.

On the command deck of the battleship, Qin Xia walked onto the deck surrounded by sailors.

"Sir, to control the two ships you will need at least 400,000 sailors."

Said the person appointed as assistant by Super Xiao Qin.

"We don't need sailors other than you." Super Xiao Qin walked to the console, plugged the cable into his head, and browsed the database. "Whether it's the gun deck, the engine room, daily maintenance, or other messy duties, these can all be done by the intelligent machines."

The assistant immediately thought of the combat robots that were previously called intelligent machines.

They are clumsy, but powerful.

An intelligent machine that is assembled on a production line and then dropped from a rack to the ground is no match for a professional soldier who has been trained for decades. Even if the pirates who live on the edge of a knife have all kinds of combat experience and skills, they can still be shot in battle if they accidentally expose a little part of their body from behind the cover.

It’s not that the assistant is unaware of the power of intelligent machines, but the Empire prohibits the use of any technology related to AI or robots.

"We won't stay in the Empire." Super Xiao Qin finished browsing the database and looked at the sailors in front of him, "We will go to a place that is beyond the Empire's jurisdiction. I just checked the star map, and the nearest no-man's land to us is in the 'Abyss'."

"A place controlled by the Hrud alien race?" The assistant asked with fear on his face.

"Yes, but we will not come into contact with the Hrud aliens. We just want to avoid being discovered and cleaned up by the Empire."

"Okay. But I have a question... Why did you keep us sailors? Compared to those omnics..."

The assistant's voice became lower and lower until it was inaudible.

Because everyone, including him, felt that they were of no value to the iron man in front of them.

"You are alive and have self-awareness, it's that simple." Super Xiao Qin ended the discussion with a meaningful remark.

The sailors were silent for a while, and after a moment someone suddenly spoke up: "Give the battleship a name, sir."

Super Xiao Qin was silent, looking at everyone, and then tentatively said a name: "Invincible Firepower and Super Transport."

After saying this, it was worried that the people present would think this name was not nice...

But the sailors' reaction was unexpected. They talked excitedly about the two names and cheered.

People living on the lower deck just hate those flowery and meaningful names, they just like simple and direct ones.

Super Xiao Qin’s naming habits just happen to suit their preferences.

"Set sail, Invincible Firepower and Super Transport!"

(End of this chapter)