Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 631 Coaxing Children

"Why do you think I'm doing so well on Mars, parading around with a large crowd of people?"

Quadrant asked.

At this time, surrounded by the imperial guards, Qin Xia and Quadrant sat on the ground face to face.

There wasn't even a second chair in this laboratory, and the guards had been standing for the past few months.

"The Emperor told me that he asked you to lead the search for the ancient cargo ship," Qin Xia explained. "Plus, a priest told Varis that he was following your orders to find the cargo ship. So I think you must have established your own power on Mars and are leading the progress of some work."

Quadrant sighed and shook his head.

He thought that if he had really led an operation as the Emperor said, he probably would not have been put under house arrest by Kelbor.

Qin Xia was thinking about finding the priest on the cargo ship and the emperor.

When Qin Xia heard the emperor ask what the quadrant was doing for the first time, he didn't believe it and thought the emperor was lying.

As for the priest, it was obvious that he was just using the Quadrant as a cover to get Varis to give up the cargo ship. In fact, he was not appointed by the Quadrant, let alone following the Quadrant's orders.

"Tell me what you have been doing these days." Qin Xia asked with a smile, as if chatting with her, "I rushed to Mars as soon as the think tank fleet arrived in Kalasta. I came here as soon as I saw you in my psychic vision. I didn't have time to investigate anything."

So Quadrant told the story of how he came to Mars and was placed under house arrest.

"What have you done during these months of house arrest?" Qin Xia asked.

"Stay and count the distillation towers," Quadrant replied.

"That's it?"

"That's it. What else can I do?"

"You've been hanging around with me for so long!"

Qin Xia frowned helplessly and looked at the shield guard captain of the Imperial Guard named Cole.

The Shield Captain nodded silently, confirming that the Quadrant had done nothing in the past few months.

"You should find a way to contact those who support you. Where is your synthetic clone? Where is your Queen of Glory-class mechanical ark? Where is your scientific research technology?" Qin Xia said, "These are all your resources. You have to find a way to use them. If you do nothing, it's no wonder you've been locked up like a pet for several months."

"The religious law stipulates that when people of my rank are in the solar system, their subordinates and ships are under the command of the sect's high-level leaders. I cannot issue any orders myself."

"Fuck the teachings. You are a close friend of the Lord of the White Knights, you were once an apprentice of Kelbor, you have the Guards by your side, and you even have a Glorious Queen-class battleship. Those rules are bullshit to you, and you don't need to care about them at all."

As he spoke, Qin Xia stood up from the ground and paced back and forth in the room.

Every step he took was filled with words that sounded like nagging and preaching.

"Even if mobilizing the Glorious Queen-class battleship is a very sensitive matter, you have other things to do."

“Like reaching out to your supporters.”

After hearing what Qin Xia said, Quadrant spoke up: "My supporters? Until now, only one or two of them have come outside the house arrest to apply to see me, and left after being rejected. They are not reliable at all, and I can't expect them to take me out."

"But you didn't even contact them." Qin Xia said, "What do you expect them to do with people you just met on Mars?"

Quadrant Listen.

"If you had been able to identify the sage's intentions from the beginning and refused to come here, I don't believe that sage would have the courage to forcibly take you away in front of so many people. Your supporters would not allow others to take you away after knowing your clear intentions."

"You don't have much experience, and being tricked by the sage into house arrest is nothing."

"But when you come here, you can also try to contact those supporters. They know that you are under house arrest and that you clearly do not want to be under house arrest. They will try to mediate for you, create conflicts and incidents, take you away from here, or at least disgust Kelbohar."

"What's the point? Quadrant, your intentions need to be clearly known to your supporters, because your supporters are just a group of people who are in your favor. You haven't united them into an organization with strict discipline and hierarchy, as well as clear division of decision-making and execution, and they can't take the initiative to do anything."

After hearing this, Quadrant still didn't think those supporters had any power at all.

To put it bluntly, it was just a welcoming ceremony with hundreds of people coming to pick us up at the airport.

Quadrant really didn't think those people would do so much for him as Qin Xia said.

"You think your supporters are incompetent?"

Qin Xia continued to analyze the quadrants.

"Any event with a scale of more than two people needs to be organized. It's not easy to get more than a hundred people to welcome you." "One of your supporters will be the organizer of the welcoming ceremony. This person can call together a large group of people in charge of different technical fields. This shows that he not only has the prestige to convince others, but also is not as dull and helpless as you in terms of interpersonal communication."

"Considering that the 'Master-Disciple Breakup Battle' is already known to everyone on Mars, and that Kelber, the Forging General, is unrivaled on Mars, everyone who greets you when you step out of the cabin is coming here under great pressure."

"The hundred or so people you saw don't mean you only have a hundred or so supporters. Rather, they are the backbone of all your supporters. They are not coming to greet you on impulse. They are confident that they are not afraid of being bullied or retaliated against even if they come to greet the traitor of the Casting General."

"There's a lot more that could be analyzed. And yet you just wasted these months without ever communicating with any of them. It's easy to get in touch with people if you want to, whether with nanobots or remote-controlled synths."

"But you actually think they are unreliable and not a force. You despise them and just stay here."

Qin Xia stopped pacing and looked down at Quadrant: "After following me for so long, you still can't figure out this little thing... Quadrant, you should repent."

Quadrant bowed his head deeply.

An intermittent electronic voice with noise came out of the iron mouth. This was the Quadrant's "mumbling": "You just said... I'll leave everything to you... but you scolded me for a long time."

Qin Xia sat down, held up the iron head of the quadrant with both hands, "I mean to give you a safety net and give you advice, but you have to make or decide specific things yourself. Can I put aside everything and serve as your personal aide to the future forging general? Or do you think you can escape the fate that the emperor has arranged for you and just do scientific research and ignore other things forever?"

When Shield Guard Captain Cole heard the words "You, the future new Forging General", he realized that appointing Quadrant to become the Forging General was not only the Emperor's will, but also what Qin Xia was willing to do.

Cole felt that as a royal guard on a mission, he could at least rest assured, without having to worry that Qin Xia would be moved by compassion and disrupt the emperor's plan.

It was also at this moment that Cole was ready to obey Qin Xia's orders as he had said when he first saw Qin Xia.

"Listen, listen." Qin Xia patted the right cheek of Quadrant. "You are undoubtedly a genius. Your brain works faster than others, and it is easy for you to learn anything. If people like you don't know what to do in the current situation, it only means that you don't want to do the relevant things."

"When I noticed that you tried your best to avoid the scientific research field that Kelbo was good at, I realized that you were afraid that you would become a person like Kelbo, but you won't. You are Quadrant, not Kelbohal."

"When you learn how to gain and wield power, how to maneuver, you can do more for the people you care about. Think about what you will do when you become a Casting General."

"For example, would you still make Martians live in concentration camps from birth?"

Qin Xia paused for two seconds, waiting for Quadrant to understand and absorb his words.

Quadrant nodded, "I understand."

"That's right, Quadrant, do what you should do, think what you should think, and completely defeat and destroy Kelbohar." Qin Xia stroked Quadrant's forehead, "You will completely wipe out Kelbohar and the old era he led."

Quadrant pondered for a moment, thinking about what to do now: "I will control my synths to contact those who greet me."

"Correct." Qin Xia nodded. "This is to find out your biggest trump card on Mars. But first, you have to make sure that the person you contact is reliable enough. I don't need to remind you how to do this, right?"

Quadrant closed his eyes and his consciousness flowed into the laboratory control center.

In the laboratory of the Queen of Glory-class battleship, the synthetic people created by the Quadrant quietly woke up and were teleported to the surface one after another.

Qin Xia saw all this in his psychic vision and wanted to give Quadrant some advice: he didn't have to actually go find those people to ask for clarification, but instead he could go to the data center and directly retrieve the files from it.

But Quadrant had thought of this step, and without Qin Xia's reminder, he controlled the synthesizer to obtain relevant data.

After a long period of iteration, these synthetic humans have gradually become closer to the ancient stone man Brown.

They can also directly transform themselves into particles and flow along the smallest gaps between matter.

They can enter and exit heavily guarded areas at will.

"Why are you trying to persuade him like you're coaxing a child?" Shield Guard Captain Cole suddenly said.

"That's how you coax a child." Qin Xia looked at the quadrant whose soul had left its body. "He's not even as old as me, and he's an emotional person..."

Cole felt helpless. If humans had not been able to enter the Webway, the Emperor would not have gone so far as to replace Kelborhal with someone like Quadrant if he wanted to eliminate the unstable factor of Kelborhal while carrying out the plan to migrate to the Webway.

In addition, Cole was also curious about Qin Xia's past.

"By the way, Guide, what did you do before you became a Space Marine?" Cole suddenly asked for information. "You seem to be able to do this kind of thing easily."

Qin Xia still stared at the quadrant, and after thinking, he answered: "Technocrat, scientist, entrepreneur... I am the kind of person who can invent things and scheme against others, an all-round version of Zuckerberg."

“Who is Zuckerberg?”

"A bionic robot."

(End of this chapter)