The Astartes Family's Notebook

"Do you know what it means to be more trouble than good? The Governor's Office may not be able to help us accomplish anything significant, but it's very easy for them to sabotage our plans. Don't be blinded by small, immediate gains. If you want big benefits, you have to be willing to share the profits with others."

At this time, Qiong En lacked life experience and could not truly understand the leader's earnest teachings; he merely memorized them as famous quotes.

However, Trois became increasingly certain that the Samar brothers were definitely of Terran descent, as the natives of Caliban did not resemble them.

The penitent monk was in a real hurry; as soon as the war supplies arrived, he turned around and left without saying a word.

We may meet again someday, and if we return victorious, we will face any danger together!

Before parting, the penitent monk gave Kaz a power armor and two power swords.

The repentant monk accepted the blood duck's kindness.

However, the crows ultimately inherited their godfather's kind nature. The trolls, fearing that the Mechanicus would turn against them, planned to run away together after Kars collected the final payment.

"No need, we're all serving the Emperor and the Empire. You can go ahead if you're busy, it's no trouble at all."

Alright, the trolls haven't even had a break yet. They've been stuck for over three months because of this fleet resupply mission, so it's time for them to get back on their missions.

Since Blood Duck was confident he could escape, the insulters didn't mince words, gave Kaz a jump pack, and then left.

Now, Katz could finally unleash his full potential.

"Isera, do me a favor."

"I've already been generous enough by not blowing up your crappy Stone Village while you were having your Astartes gathering. And you still dare to ask me to do something?"

To be fair, although the Warmasters of the Eldar are more valuable than ordinary Astartes, killing over two hundred human cans at once, even at the cost of all his followers, is still a worthwhile trade.

But it's clear that Ysera is trying to blackmail them.

To avoid being exposed, the white bean sprouts on the Shicun ship have been holed up for so long, it's impossible for them not to harbor resentment.

"Stop joking around. Once I've finished this, I'll set off."

Having learned from the recovered Soulstones that Atansar could still be saved, Ysera couldn't help but sigh when faced with a matter of great importance concerning the safety of her homeland.

"what's up?"

"I'll return a batch of supplies to the oil guy in a bit. After the handover is completed, you can take these goods back."

"That's it?"

"That's it."

The Astartes were in a difficult position, and the Adarin were the perfect scapegoats.

Katz had no particular interest in those optical storage devices, and he didn't have a suitable reading device.

However, since the Mechanicus is willing to fight amongst themselves to obtain the Forge World, Kars has no choice but to entertain some unnecessary thoughts.

These white-bean sprouts eat their own food, use their own things, and then use the excuse of not being killed to morally blackmail me all day long.

Look at how capable you think you are.

Without saying a word, Ysera gathered her men and went to make preliminary arrangements.

For Atansar's elite troops, this kind of small task was not a high-difficulty challenge.

After all, the goods were handed over at the Governor's Office.

They were naturally unwilling to let the White Bean Sprouts storm the Temple of Forging and steal their goods, but ambushing them along the way was a piece of cake.

Katz wasn't in a hurry to set sail; he was waiting for the mastermind behind the scenes to contact him a second time.

"Trois, take two skilled men and quietly follow them. Don't get involved in the fight. I suspect that some members of the Motor Oil Gang might try to ambush them along the way. Observe them and see if you can find out their background."

"clear."

Katz wasn't acting out of greed; rather, he had figured out that while the potential risks were considerable, the rewards were also substantial.

It's not only Deathwatch that can contact the mother organization, Desolate Wings. If you get the key and go through the Mechanicus, Karz can also contact the Chapter Master Saladin.

The reason for sending away the penitent monks and the brothers from the tavern who were hurling insults in advance was to make it easier for the Ishimura to unleash its full fighting power.

"Qiong En, notify the entire ship to prepare for battle."

It's not like he's just started hanging around the human empire. The guy isn't going to let this go. A large-scale frontal conflict is unlikely, but a desperate boarding maneuver by elite squads is inevitable.

A traditional staple, you absolutely have to try it!

Ysera, that Eldar woman, has a lot of tricks up her sleeve. Even if Kaz sails the Stone Village away from its dock, these greenhorns will still have the ability to sneak back onto the ship.

The reason why they are not in a hurry to set sail is essentially because Kaz is playing hard to get.

If Kars doesn't give the old man in the ring a chance, how will he connect with the hidden world of forging?

If Astartes doesn't use its brain, it can only be a thug for life.

Uh, you can understand the meaning of this description; it's not the literal meaning of "eating brains."

Chapter 450 The Illness of Two-Way Trips

What kind of couple pairings do you think are the most popular?

Of course, it's the Emperor and Empress; anyone who sees them would have to kneel down and kowtow to them.

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"Help... Company Commander, automation isn't that easy. Have you heard of the skin effect? ​​Thicker metal wires aren't necessarily better. Under high voltage and high current conditions, electrons will accumulate on the surface of the wire instead of being evenly distributed across the entire cross-section."

“Qiong En, I wasn’t born an Astartes company commander. I also started as a recruit and worked my way up. I’ve done things like cleaning outer armor plates, let alone repairing heavy artillery.”

Katz spoke through a loudspeaker, which struck a chord with the defectors of the Astartes.

Which of the brothers who had worked in the Imperial Gang hadn't been assigned these "odd jobs" by the company commander and veteran soldiers?

Putting aside everything else, the individual combat capabilities of advanced Mechanicus units are certainly on par with those of Astartes.

The problem is that after the recruit period, Astartes' base attribute panel becomes the most useless thing.

Kaz was certain that the Mechanicus would retaliate, and then the Mechanicus actually came.

The Blood Duck team, who were well-prepared, unsurprisingly won 113 to 0.

In this high-attack, low-defense skirmish, it was only natural that the Kaz gang, with their first-strike advantage and intelligence superiority, would win, especially with their glass cannons.

Having experienced the mechanical slashing and round-headed banging of the Pocket Blade series, and even using tripwire alarms and gravity sensors, how could Kaz possibly be easily infiltrated and silently slaughtered by the Mechanicus?

The fact that elite troops are infiltrating means that they cannot carry large quantities of heavy firepower weapons and equipment.

Having lost the initiative, is it hard to imagine being wiped out by the veteran Astartes of the Blood Duck War Gang?

So when Qiongen came to collect the wreckage recycling equipment, he couldn't help but seriously refute Katz's grand vision of building an automated macro cannon on a whim.

This is really difficult.

It should be a double joy: the opportunity to modify the ship in unconventional ways, and the absolute trust of his brother, the leader of the Samar gang. Why does it feel so bitter when two happy things are combined?

What else can I do? I just can't do it.

Stop teasing Qiong En and Kaz returned to the bridge to wait patiently.

Almost simultaneously, Ysera and Troys's groups returned.

The captain was ordered to begin the normal departure process, and Isera was the first to approach Katz.

After making quite a scene, the Eldar female warrior tossed Kaz a strange, spherical device about the size of a mortal skull, and left without saying a word.

What is this thing?

Katz didn't have a personal grandpa with him, so when asked about this unfamiliar thing, he could only recognize that it had a human design style, but he had no idea what it was for.

Not wanting to appear weak, I decided to go back and "test" Qiong En.

After pretending to play with it for a while, Trois arrived.

"Company commander, we have successfully completed our mission and caught the tail."

Trois carried a high-precision long-range electronic observation and aiming device for the mechanical church in each hand.

Hey, Kaz recognizes this thing, it's good stuff.

Precision optical instruments with electronic components are not cheap. The Astartes tactical helmet integrates a large number of optical components, and the tactical helmet is the most expensive part of the entire power armor set.

Therefore, in units with the resources, honorary sergeants who have accumulated enough company points, especially those in command positions and those with eye injuries, like to customize their tactical helmets.

Motor enthusiasts always keep the best stuff for themselves; they're such a toxic bunch.

"What did you figure out?"

"I can't tell."

After passing on the video footage of the firefight he had recorded to Kaz, Trois did not try to do anything by force. This theoretically veteran of countless battles sincerely admitted that he was blind and had not been able to analyze anything useful.

Civil war is an expert. Your empire may be like this, but when it comes to internal strife, you really have a knack for it.

Ysera was not the first group to target the transport convoy. Before White Sprouts entered the fray, the Mechanicus's guards had already been targeted by at least four groups.

Hiss, Sir Humphrey the Prophet was right again. Indeed, the ship of the nation is leaking from the roof.

The Temple of Forging is very concerned about this batch of optical memory devices and has deployed a very high level of security personnel.

Unfortunately, it's easy to guard against a thief within your own ranks, but it's hard to guard against one day and night. Before Ysera left the field, the security personnel sent by the Great Sage had already suffered heavy losses.

So the white bean sprouts managed to get the items back without much effort.

Ysera even thoughtfully put them into storage ahead of time...

"So where did you get these two things?"

"There are many people observing the battlefield from a distance. Two Mechanicus observers are quite close to me. Since I'm already here, I can't leave empty-handed."

"Didn't capture them alive?"

"His suicide techniques were too sophisticated; I couldn't stop him."

"You've worked hard, go and rest. By the way, do you recognize this thing?"

"Never seen it before."

"It's alright now."

Theoretically, Katz's relationship with the local Mechanicus ended after he transferred the optical memory to the Governor's Office.

Therefore, the departure of the Ishimura has nothing to do with the Mechanic Church in any sense.

The ones who robbed you were Eldar raiders, what does that have to do with our Emperor's Death Angels?

The mechanical teachings reacted quickly, but unfortunately, the leadership ultimately wasted time on problem analysis and situation assessment.

The order from the oilman to stop people was only transmitted to the port authority after the Ishimura had already left the rail dock, departed from its berth, and disconnected from the physical connection.

They're all seasoned veterans of the imperial system; why would the port authorities and tax police bother Astartes with the gruff talk of a motor enthusiast?

As a result, the Mechanicus's pursuit ships had only just set sail after the Ishimura had already begun to leave the planet's gravitational pull.

Without proper justification and without substantial evidence, the oil enthusiast could not persuade the governor's office, which had received benefits from Kaz, to mobilize the star system defense fleet to participate in the encirclement and annihilation of the Ishimura.

See? That's why Kars is a leader. His skill in getting things done with money is something those Chaos Astartes could learn from for a century.

So instead of rushing to the mysterious planet Ysera wanted to go, Karz, to make the whole show of it, first ordered the navigator to arrange a warp voyage to the neighboring Empire world, and then turned around and took that thing that was hard to tell what it was to "test" Qorn.

"Huh? An external thought circuit? Where did you get this, Boss? It's a rare find!"

Ah, is this the cheat brain of the motor enthusiast?

No wonder I've never seen it before.

Ysera, that Eldar woman, is quite something. I, an Astartes, am already very professional at stealing hearts and livers and doing sweet nothings, but she actually managed to rip out the brains of the oil man.

He stayed in the foundry watching Qiong En tinker for a long time. Unfortunately, although the young technical sergeant recognized what the object was, he couldn't figure out the various port protocols after a long time. In short, he messed it up.

"No rush, no rush, take your time to study it."

Seeing that Qiong En's grip was getting heavier and heavier, and that the orthodox maintenance techniques he had learned from the Forging World were developing in the direction of the ancient methods of Holy Terra repair, Kaz also spoke up to comfort him.

There are too many inexplicable problems on this Xinshicun ship, too many strange and bizarre issues. There's no use in rushing, we have to take it slow.

The Mechanicus clearly possesses the subspace tracking technology that the Astartes Chapter has been keeping secret.

Although Kars didn't use the technique of continuously skipping across water, the fact that the guy managed to stick close to the Ishimura without losing track of it shows he has some skill.

Kaz suspected that the mole was on the pursuing Mechanicus ship, so he didn't make any extra moves and just kept the enemy hanging, while the Blood Ducks went about their business.

Whether to turn against them or to find a secluded place to switch sides and fight, the initiative was in Kaz's hands, so the big boss wasn't in a hurry at all; he would deal with whatever came his way.