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Chapter 36: The Eager Thief?

According to standard time, it is already late at night.

But there is no night or day in the underground of the hive.

This place is buried deep underground. Except for some hive areas and abandoned hive areas near the edge of the hive city, the poisonous binary stars of Asford are absolutely invisible.

Here, night and day are more of an artificial concept to distinguish between workers' shifts.

The workers walked towards the residential area with deep fatigue, and got a brief relief from the day's work.
Those walking towards the factory had just barely recovered from their previous job and were staggering towards the next one.

Zhou Yun watched the flow of people in the night until the lights in the hive city's residential area went out one by one, briefly giving everything to the darkness.

The workers either went into the factory to work all night or went home to take a short break.

The streets of the hive city were also briefly empty.

Zhou Yun walked on the narrow streets of the nest city, heading towards home.

He glanced down the shadowy alley,

From time to time, wailing sounds could be heard from these alleys, and from time to time, members of the Ark Gang could be seen hurriedly passing by.

We can even see some gang members from other regions invading the local area.
This short night belongs to the gangs, who will engage in bloody fights in the dark alleys.

There is some order in the chaos, which is the tradition and tacit understanding among the gangs.

But Zhou Yun still noticed that the vendettas and fights at night were not as bloody and violent as before.

The wailing in the alley ended with only a few sounds.

Other gang members running down the street would be dragged into the alley in the blink of an eye.
All the fighting in the dark was proceeding in an orderly manner.

Although Reina is a bit smart, the gang she built is indeed efficient.

After all, while other gangs were still focusing on primitive, rustic wolf culture, she had already started focusing on religious beliefs.

Nothing can unite a group of people better than religion, and the empire was glued together by religion.

"If Horus could see what's happening now, he would mock us."

Zhou Yun murmured softly,
I remember that the Warmaster once accused the Emperor of pushing all of humanity into the abyss of religion and superstition.
The Four Gods showed the Warmaster the future of the Empire, the true future of the Empire.
Horus could not accept such a future, but the four gods lied to him with the truth.

It was because of the great rebellion he launched that the empire had to become what it is today.

"Good intentions. Many bad roads in the galaxy were originally paved with good intentions."

The winged figure in the white light trembled slightly and repeated Zhou Yun's previous argument:

"I dare not imagine how desperate Guilliman will be when he wakes up one day and sees what he sees."

"But I still hope to bring some hope back to this galaxy a little bit."

The winged figure in the white light vibrated its wings, and the figure seemed to become clearer in front of Zhou Yun.

"To Baal, my friend."

"You must find my descendants, tell them that you came here at my request, and let them take you to the corpse—"

"Stop!" Zhou Yun waved his hand and quickly rejected the tempting proposal from the winged figure in the white light.

“You just said that many bad roads are paved with good intentions.”

"Even if I could resurrect you - which I cannot do now, of course - would it necessarily be Sanguinius who would return?"

"Could it be that the Four Gods created a corrupted version of Sanguinius? They have fragments of Sanguinius' soul in their hands."

"Could it be that the one who has returned is Horus, who has returned in the body of Sanguinius?"

"Could it be that a certain sub-space being has descended upon us?"

Zhou Yun fired a series of rapid-fire shots at the winged figure in the white light.

The winged figure in the white light fell silent for a moment.

"And is your prophecy reliable? I'm going to Baal now, and there's really no way to resurrect Sanguinius." Zhou Yun said, glancing at the winged figure in the white light.

The most important thing is that he can't go to Bal for the time being.

Even if you try your best to sneak to Baal, you will still not be able to escape the clutches of the Zerg in the end.

I have to find a way to raise money for the portal in Asford.

"Maybe, probably, it could be accurate."

The winged figure in the white light whispered:

"Your future is too confusing, like three destinies intertwined."

"I saw you and the Emperor aboard the Vengeful Spirit a few times, and then I turned around and saw you and the Emperor aboard the Macragge's Glory."

"Perhaps, as you said, resurrecting me will take a little longer."

Looking at the winged figure in the white light that fell into silence, Zhou Yun did not continue to ask questions.

He turned a corner, walked through the archway made of scrap iron, and headed towards his home.

Zhou Yun saw the light,

While the light shone so hot that it burned the eyes,
The light splashed in front of the heavy iron door of his house, and molten iron flowed slowly down the door.

"What the hell?!"

Zhou Yun widened his eyes.

He saw a small figure in a cloak holding a flame cutter, standing in front of a house and cutting a steel door.

That seems to be the door of his house.

Zhou Yun blinked, and instantly remembered the eager thief that Old One-Eye and Reina had mentioned.
A thief who uses a flame cutting machine to cut doors or walls to enter and steal, and has not been caught so far.

"Damn, this is stealing from me."

Zhou Yun's eyes twitched, and he silently took out a superpower hat from his pocket and put it on his head.

He focused his attention on the little man in the cloak.

A powerful mental force was like an invisible hammer, smashing heavily at the eager thief.

However, the eager thief suddenly stopped the flame cutting machine just before Zhou Yun made his move.

He turned around and ran as if he had expected it, avoiding Zhou Yun's mental power.

"Want to go?"

Zhou Yun's figure turned into a residual image and disappeared on the spot, and instantly appeared behind the eager thief.
"Any evil will be brought to justice!"

"You are breaking the law! Come on, follow me and turn yourself in."

Zhou Yun reached out and grabbed the eager thief by the back of his neck.

However, the eager thief was as slippery as a loach and slipped away from Zhou Yun's hands in an instant.

Zhou Yun only had time to see a pair of black eyes with a hint of gold above the cloak.

The eager thief dodged and passed under Zhou Yun's arm.
He ran into the darkness of the alley, and Zhou Yun caught up with him.

But the figure of this eager thief disappeared in the complex and chaotic streets in an instant.

Zhou Yun looked at his hand which failed to catch the Eager Thief, and then looked at the direction where the Eager Thief disappeared.

He remembered what Reina said, that the Eager Thief seemed to have some kind of predictive ability.
"Damn, there seem to be too many talented people in Asford."

"This isn't another smurf account opened by some big shot, is it?"

(End of this chapter)