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"I agreed to Heliosa 54's proposal and gave them time to consider it. However, I didn't expect that when she was about to hand over the original mother copy to me, Heliosa 78 assassinated the leader of the sect and tried to seize the original mother copy and escape from the moon."

Luo Xi's eyes narrowed suddenly. It was obviously not much different from what he had guessed. It was impossible for the people of the Gene Sect to hand over the original mother copy willingly.

It’s just that he was assassinated... We can put a question mark here.

It is impossible to verify whether the so-called Heliosa 78 is a traitor who is truly dissatisfied with the Empire and attempts to defect to Horus' camp, or whether it is simply a self-torture trick staged by the Gene Cult on Cawl.

In Luo Xi's opinion, it was very likely that the genetic sect was unwilling to hand over the original mother copy, so it took the initiative to split into a faction with different opinions and directly sacrificed a sect leader to muddy the waters.

Then the original mother copy might be said to have been taken away by the opposition and hidden, so that even if the opposition was pacified, the treasure could still remain on the moon.

As for the Empire, they could only vent their anger. After all, their leaders were dead, and the one who destroyed the original mother copy was a traitor, which had nothing to do with them.

"And then?" Luo Xi continued to ask.

Colton paused, as if thinking about how to use the most appropriate words to describe it.

"Heliosa No. 78's power within the sect is second only to No. 54. Although No. 54 is dead, the insurance measures she left behind have played a role."

"No. 54 did not doubt No. 78's position and ambition, so she ordered Gene Witch No. 37 to hide the original mother copy. If she died unexpectedly, she should immediately hide the original mother copy with her. She must not let the traitor get this invaluable treasure."

"When we learned all this, serious civil unrest and war broke out among the gene cults on the moon. Heliosa 78 wanted to obtain the original mother copy and also wanted to kill us uninvited guests, so a conflict broke out between us."

From Kaul's detailed description, Roche figured out what was happening on the moon.

After the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, the Gene Cults on the Moon have maintained an ambiguous stance.

Some of them obey the rule of the Empire, while others believe that it is an unforgivable shame that the ancient and sacred sect has become a plaything of the Empire.

The struggle between No. 54 and No. 78 could have been maintained at a balance, but Kohl's arrival undoubtedly brought external interference.

No. 78 realized that if he delayed any further, he would lose all his opportunities, so he simply launched a rebellion.

The original mother was taken away by Tarabvita 37 and hidden in a corner of the moon. Cawl had to lead his troops to quell the sudden rebellion.

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"Originally, with the armed forces I brought to the moon, the Gene Cult would have no chance of turning the tables. However, the original mother was taken away by Tarabvita 37 and disappeared without a trace. I had to send most of my forces out to search for it, and I could no longer use highly lethal weapons such as Titans to intervene in the war."

This was also because Roche underestimated the tension of the situation on the moon. The troops that were originally intended to intimidate and deter the Gene Cult encountered unexpected changes and had to change their mission to fight the traitors without causing large-scale casualties.

After all, once the Titan fires a volcanic cannon, an entire area will probably be completely cleared out. Who knows if there will be accidental injuries, or even the hiding genetic witch will be directly evaporated?

As for the original mother, unless the leader of the gene sect was completely crazy, how could he do such a crazy thing as testing its solidity.

The best description of the situation is that they were afraid to use their weapons. Cawl, Sharokin and others had to mobilize the Imperial Fists troops to airdrop to the surface of the moon, and fight a low-intensity war with the mortal auxiliary forces and the rebel faction of the Gene Cult.

"So you were on the moon, fighting a counterinsurgency war against a rebellious gene-cult?"

"But logically speaking, when the Emperor pacified the Moon, he signed a restrictive treaty. The Selina Gene Cult is no longer allowed to have its own private armed forces."

Luo Xi felt that his logic suddenly became clear, and he actually underestimated these guys.

When the Emperor sent the 7th, 13th and 16th Legions to conquer the Moon, the Lunar Cult, which was at its peak, couldn't even hold out for six hours.

It was from then on that the Sixteenth Legion gained the reputation of the Luna Wolves.

You have to know that the moon is right under Terra's nose, and the Imperial Fists sent by Rogal Dorn to assist Cawl in carrying out the mission are absolutely elite, not those Cthulhane's quick-recruiting troops.

Moreover, the Mechanicus also strongly supported Cawl. Although the Titans could not exert their suppressive effect, at least the Crusaders and Knight Families that followed them could still be used.

But can the Selina Gene Sect actually hold back the imperial army for so long?

"Yes, sir. We have all underestimated these gene witches. They may be far inferior to the Mechanicus in terms of conquering cities, but their achievements in biochemical technology are indeed extraordinary."

"When we attacked the Gene Cult's fortress, the Gene Cult, unwilling to sit and wait for death, released a blight virus. A small number of Imperial Fists warriors who were unfortunately killed by the fortress's defensive weapons had their gene seeds contaminated by the blight virus."

"I didn't know how lethal the enemy's dying counterattack would be, so I slowed down the strangulation of the traitor and continued the offensive only after confirming that there was no problem."

"You did the right thing. You took cautious measures and minimized the risks." Luo Xi praised. If even the Fists of the Empire were infected with the blight, that would be a real problem.

But... blight?

Roche's mind suddenly recalled that when the Empire was still in the Great Crusade, the Third Legion of the Emperor's Children had encountered a terrible blight virus. Even before the return of the Primarch, only two hundred court swordsmen were left in the entire legion.

If Fulgrim had not returned and provided new gene-seed, the Third Legion would have been destroyed long ago.

"After retaking the Moon and signing a pact with Mars, the Third Legion met its own doom: one of their transport ships carrying a large amount of Emperor's Children gene-seeds mysteriously disappeared, and a blight disease broke out in the gene-seed bank on Terra."

"Not only will the precious gene-seed become waste, but even the Emperor's Children Astartes who have completed the transformation will become infected, their transformed organs will atrophy and degenerate, and they will die."

Some people also speculated that it was the revenge of the Lunar Gene Cult, but the Empire had no definite evidence, and the Gene Cult had already been cleansed and sworn to serve the Lord of Mankind. Could they still target these genetic witches?

"But when we eliminated the threat of the blight virus and continued to advance, these damn moon people released a troop of biochemically modified warriors they had secretly created."

"The traitors call them: 'our legions'. These are replicas of Astartes warriors that the gene witches are trying to develop. They are dabbling in forbidden areas that they should not touch."

Obviously, even the contract between the Empire and the Moon is not 100% binding, and they have already crossed the line.

"And the most blasphemous thing is that each of the twisted and deformed failures they created was extremely similar to the appearance of the Primarch. We paid a huge price to kill those horrible monsters." Cawl's tone was full of fear and shock.

After listening to Kohl's narration, Luo Xi was secretly horrified by these low-key genetic witches.

My goodness! Ever since it recaptured the moon, the empire has almost lost its vigilance towards its satellite that is so close to it.

After all, a technological separatist force that couldn't even last six hours was much weaker than those evil technological warlords on Terra.

You have to know that it took the Emperor several years to conquer a small country like Terra before he could finally complete the war of unification. You can imagine the value of the Terran technological warlords.

If we throw any one of those monsters into the galaxy, it is estimated that it can grow into a huge interstellar empire. The genetic sect on the moon is really not enough.

Luo Xi took the external memory storage device handed over by Cole, and after sensing it briefly, he knew what kind of monster Sharokin and the others had encountered.

In the hidden secret rooms of the Gene Cult's sanctuary, there are upright gene capsules everywhere. These densely packed gene capsules are like neatly arranged test tubes in a laboratory.

What are being cultivated in these gene chambers are some wet humanoid monsters that appear swollen and pale due to being soaked in potions for a long time.

Each of them is a natural monster that only appears in the most bizarre nightmares.

Even when curled up in the gene chamber, it was more than three meters tall, with twisted, swollen muscles and plastic limbs, and sharp bone spurs protruding from the body.

These monsters that were quietly dormant and developing were released by the genetic witch who was in desperate situation. Thousands of genetically modified monsters began to pour out of the sanctuary and spread.

One of the characteristics of the Imperial Fists is their extreme stubbornness, which also led to the fact that not all the Imperial Fists were equipped with the new equipment of the adamantine armor that Roche originally distributed to the Seventh Legion.

They stick to their traditions and never change.

Some extremely stubborn Imperial Fist Astartes still wore their original ceramsite armor, which meant they were almost torn to pieces alive by the escaped biochemically modified monsters in close combat.

Yes, the bodies of these monsters are so strong that they can directly tear apart the Space Marines, which is undoubtedly an extremely outrageous thing.

Those twisted, distorted, and abominable monsters were able to rely on their own flesh and blood to withstand dozens of explosive bombs without dying. Once they escaped from the gene chamber, they began to grow rapidly in size and even grew special organs similar to the black shells of Space Marines.

They even evolved bone plates with stronger defenses and various protective organs to counter the heavy firepower of the Imperial Fists, and their vitality is so tenacious that even if one of their heads is blown up, the remaining heads can still control the body's functions and tear apart the Astartes with their densely packed teeth.

Looking at the monster with spider-like compound eyes, six arms, multiple faces and heads in the memory storage gnawing on the corpse of the Imperial Fist, even the knowledgeable Roche felt his scalp tingling.

These ghost things are really... disgusting.

Blasphemy, so blasphemous, is this how these moon guys play with genetic technology?

Sure enough, those who play with genes have dirty hearts.

He glanced at the genetic witch named Tarabvita No. 37 in the crowd, and the latter glanced back at him without giving in.

Interesting, Roche is beginning to be interested in the Moon People.

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The conversation between Roche and Kohl just now was not hidden from the people around them, including some priests of the Advanced Technology Community, Wolf King Leman Russ and several Wild Wolf Warriors, as well as the loyal genetic witch Kohl brought back from the moon, all of whom heard the content of their conversation.

When it came to the fact that the Selena Gene Cult had broken the Emperor's ban and secretly researched and created biological weapons that imitated the Astartes, Leman Russ became completely serious.

Not to mention those damn genetically modified monsters mentioned later, all of which had faces similar to the original gene, which made the Wolf King feel a strong sense of blasphemy.

Perhaps the Imperial Fists and Mechanicus forces under Cawl also killed the monster with the face of Leman Russ?

I wonder how the Astartes of the Imperial Fists faced an enemy with Rogal Dorn's face. These extremely loyal warriors must have had very complicated feelings.

"All-Father, what blasphemy!"

"Burn them to death!"

The wolf guards were furious and shouted that they wanted to teach these moon witches a lesson.

"Be quiet, everyone, and don't make loud noises." Leman Russ, on the other hand, quickly calmed down after his initial anger. He promised Roche in the name of the All-Father that he would remain restrained, and he would naturally keep his promise.

"See, ma'am, these wolves are eager to tear you to pieces."

Luo Xi took a few steps towards the direction of the Gene Sect and came to the leader, Tarabvita No. 37.

It was she who accepted the order from the Sect Master and took away the Original Matrix to prevent it from being taken away by Traitor No. 54.

It was also she who chose to stand up and hand over the treasure to the empire after Kohl led his men to wipe out the rebellion.

Of the twenty or so remaining remnants of the Selina Gene Cult, the one with the highest status and prestige is Talabvita 37, and she has become their leader by default.

"Yes, I can see it clearly. This is a common problem of this type of genetically modified creatures. When their fathers created these superhuman warriors, they infinitely magnified their highly aggressive male characteristics. This is their advantage, but also their disadvantage."

"He ignored our recommendations on genetic code concentrations and forced his way past the boundaries, causing these Astartes to become even more volatile and unstable."

"Compared to our creations, these Astartes may be the real monsters. After all, the monsters we created were easily pacified by the Space Marines. It goes without saying which one poses a greater threat."

Hearing the almost provocative words of the genetic witch, the wild wolves were almost unable to suppress their rage.

How dare she, compare the great Space Wolves to those foul monstrosities.

"Are you trying to provoke me, ma'am?" Luo Xi asked back.

The last leader of the genetic sect had an extremely smooth head, and his three-dimensional facial features were free of any trace of hair. The proportions of his facial features were almost perfect, giving people a very sacred feeling.

What is even more attractive is her temperament. Whether facing the Space Wolves or their Primarchs, she did not show any fear, but only calmness and peace.

Tarabvita No. 37 just stared at Luo Xi and observed him carefully, then shook his head gently.

"I don't have this idea. I'm just telling the truth. After all, we also participated in the creation of Astartes, and now I realize that there are still many flaws in it."

"Kawl used many flattering words about you, and I wanted to see if what he said was true."

Luo Xi raised his eyebrows slightly and asked back.