amaotonovel Chapter 350 My Brother, the Imperial Regent and the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guards
Chapter 350 My Brother, the Imperial Regent and the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guards
Chapter 350 My Brother, the Imperial Regent and the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guards
War is a disaster for ordinary people. No one expects the coming of war.
For the soldiers, it is a deadly grindstone standing in the way, sharpening true warriors from a group of young soldiers who have been disillusioned with the idea that they can survive to achieve great military exploits.
After undergoing a series of simulated combat missions specially prepared by the Alchemist Sergeant, including behind-the-enemy-lines destruction, beheading, puzzle-solving, annihilation, etc., the first few recruits of the Sword of Revelation who had completed the surgical transformation entered the most brutal and shocking battlefield combat simulation.
During the Great Crusade, the Astartes were the main force of the human empire, and the other mortals served as auxiliary forces; after the Great Crusade, this situation was reversed:
Billions of mortal Astra Militarum soldiers have taken on the frontline of fighting against all kinds of monsters in the galaxy with their lives and courage, while the Astartes exist as a force that carries out highly efficient special operations such as decapitation, with clear division of labor in squad operations;
But this does not mean that the Astartes have no chance to fight on the front line of the battlefield. The loyalty and fearlessness to the Emperor that is engraved in their genes will always be the strongest line of defense on the battlefield. When the morale of the mortal army (the Astra Militarum is not all Krieg and Kashezen) is completely destroyed by all kinds of monsters and demons, the Astartes will still stand firm on the battlefield until the last moment of their lives.
As a legion of 100,000 men, the Sword of Revelation must stand on the front battlefield and pour out the Emperor's wrath on the enemies of humanity. Naturally, they must adapt to the cruel war in the future in advance. At the same time, this also made several confident recruits who had obtained the bodies of demigods realize that they were not invincible, and they experienced various ways of death -
On the front battlefield, they were overwhelmed by the number of enemies, bombarded by heavy firepower, trampled to death by Titans, or simply destroyed head-on by various terrifying enemies of a different level...
There are also cases where people and the airdrop capsule are torn to pieces by anti-aircraft fire during landing, or people are pierced through by spacecraft parts during an emergency landing by a gunship... and many other unfortunate situations where people die before they can even draw their weapons.
Lu Mingfei also participated in the simulation, because the battles he experienced when serving in the Weepers could only be considered "small fights"; the battlefield environment simulated this time was projected by the Emperor's will himself, and it was a horrific war involving multiple divine machines.
In short, in the first few days after the battlefield simulation, except for Lu Mingfei, the other four people developed different degrees of post-traumatic stress disorder——
The feedback of the severe pain before death, the blood flowing out of the transformed and strengthened body, the two hearts stopping beating... They truly felt the cheapness of life in the face of war; the one who was hurt the most was the Genji girl. The remaining psychological shadow of the first time that the Fengjian Liuli personality used the "Dream Tapir" to enter Lu Mingfei's dream and was finally blown off by a brain worm resurfaced.
However, the fearlessness engraved in their genes when they underwent the transformation surgery will soon heal all of this; this kind of battlefield simulation will not become a daily routine, and its main purpose is to hone the fighting will of the recruits rather than destroy it - after all, on a battlefield of that level, the direction of the war is no longer something that can be controlled by individuals.
All they can do is adapt to death, get used to death, and destroy as many enemies of humanity as possible before they die.
In addition to fighting, the acquisition of knowledge is also essential. In that world, knowledge is also a weapon - the types, weaknesses, and coping methods of various monsters and enemies; the general history of the human empire, the current political system, the common language, and so on.
Interestingly, the Human Will of the Lord of Mankind once called Chu Zihang, Finkel, and Caesar to come and ask them about their impressions of the Human Empire;
It was useless to use false euphemisms in front of the Lord of Mankind, so they all spoke out their negative comments bluntly, and they were just short of saying things like "It's hopeless, it's exhausting, it's time to be destroyed."
The boy on the throne remained calm after hearing these comments. After all, the human empire had indeed become what he least wanted to see. He could foresee how sad, angry and painful his returning descendants would be when they saw the current empire.
But there are exceptions.
Chu Zihang said that although he did not have any reason to fight for this human empire that seemed to have been maliciously stuffed with all the worst political systems, this empire still had positive highlights that he recognized very much: resistance to aggression, national independence, firm belief, fearlessness of death... especially for him.
The boy nodded, thoughtfully.
After the transformation surgery process was completely perfected and the power armor casting "intelligent (alchemical energy)" assembly line was maturely operated, the male hybrids who survived the chaos of the Secret Keeper in the safe haven, the action team of the Beowulf family, the guard team of the Gattuso family...
More hybrids were sent to the City of Miracles, ready to undergo transformation surgery to become new Astartes; their inner uneasiness about the unknown, their desire to pry into secrets, and other different thoughts were all unified at the most basic level during the initial stage of deep mental hypnosis at the operation.
Fight for humanity.
What followed was the indoctrination of knowledge. The history after the Great Crusade of the Human Empire was simplified and downplayed, and the image of the Human Empire was shaped based on the bright spots mentioned by Chu Zihang, slightly downplaying the worst aspects of the Empire's religious fanaticism and bloated and corrupt political system...
Fighting for humanity - you cannot rely on slogans and brainwashing to ask warriors from another universe to devote their entire lives to a war that may never end. Instead, the warriors themselves need to have a firm ideal to fight for.
Even with the power of faith, it is still the same.
As a fragment of human will, reflecting after the great rebellion, the boy is very clear about this.
As a result, there appeared some hybrids who failed the mental screening, but fortunately their number was not large, and in the end, more than 200 hybrids passed the Lord of Mankind's will test and entered the stage of undergoing transformation surgery.
However, Lu Mingfei was somewhat worried that the legionnaires who did not understand the "rules" of the empire might offend the Inquisition and be targeted, just like the Weepers who were ostracized and embarrassed everywhere.
But the boy just said to him calmly:
"You can ask your brother the commander and your brother the regent to solve this kind of thing later."
Lu Mingfei was a little confused - Commander Brother... did he mean the commander of the imperial guards, Valoris? But the soldier didn't look very friendly when he looked at me... And who was the regent brother?
……
After the grand narrative and expectation of fighting for humanity in another universe, Lu Mingfei's thoughts returned to his hometown.
He had to deal with things on this planet first - the Dragon King behind the scenes, the Black King who had not yet awakened, and the remaining soul of the Ever-changing Demon Lord whose whereabouts were still unknown.
In the realm of the "different clock", the nearly twenty years of surgery and transformation time for Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang combined was only equal to less than half a month in normal time in the outside world; so when Chu Tianjiao saw Chu Zihang again after a few days, he was horrified and shocked to find that he had to look up at his son;
Just when he wanted to find Lu Mingfei to argue, he saw Lu Mingfei who was as tall as a floor... He swallowed back what he wanted to say.
The worst thing is that his son even sent him a conscription invitation.
"Dad, join the Sword of Revelation Legion, be transformed like me, become an Astartes and fight side by side; together we will go to another universe, pour out the Emperor's wrath on the enemies of mankind, and fight for mankind."
"You...you can't still be thinking about going back to disturb your mother, right?" Chu Zihang's voice was a little lower when he said this.
Chu Tianjiao's mouth twitched, and he said angrily:
"You actually still remember your mother? If you go back like this, she will be scared to death! And you are going to another universe... What about your mother? You are her only son!"
Chu Zihang was silent for a while, and then he said silently: "I will find a way."
Lu Mingfei did not interfere in his brother's family affairs - he also had his own "family affairs" to deal with.
When Lu Mingfei bent down and walked into the door of the college's medical department ward, Qiao Weini, with a haggard face, was sitting beside the bed with a dazed look - Lu Lincheng, who was supposed to be lying in bed recuperating, was gone.
When Qiao Weini saw Lu Mingfei, a glimmer of spirit returned to her dull eyes - but then the shock and confusion she should have felt due to the huge change in Lu Mingfei disappeared.
But when Lu Mingfei half-knelt on the ground and held her hand with his broad hands, this heroic woman who had dared to go against the world for her son finally couldn't help but burst into tears.
Perhaps he didn't want to face the fact that he was being tortured by the devil, or he didn't have the face to face Qiao Weini and Lu Mingfei - his nominal father chose to end his life early not long after waking up from treatment.
The career she devoted herself to was completely shattered, and the son she treated as her own son was left alone to face the cruel truth behind the scenes. She was mentally attacked by the devil, and the person she loved chose to end his own life after being humiliated by the devil... The successive blows have almost made Giovanni collapse.
If even her son was going to leave her, then there was probably no point for her to stay in this world.
Lu Mingfei silently comforted his mother. He glanced at the white paper on the bedside table. There were only two simple lines of words on it. They should have been left by Lu Lincheng:
"I'm sorry, Mingfei. I'm not worthy of being your father. Take good care of mom."
Lu Mingfei didn’t want to sigh or reprimand anything. He really had to take good care of his sad and crying mother.
For this reason, he stopped thinking about the legion and the combat simulations in the next few days and stayed with Joveni until she recovered from her past mental trauma.
……
"First, I hope I didn't disturb your warm time with your family. Second, I can only feel the pressure you bring when we are in close contact."
In the Valhalla conference room, Angé looked up at Lu Mingfei and couldn't help but exclaim "Wow".
"There's no need to be so polite between us, Principal. Just speak directly if you have something to say," Lu Mingfei said calmly. "Also, there is no age limit for the transformation surgery in our army. As long as you are willing, you can return to your youth at any time and become even stronger."
"... Let's get back to business," Ange waved his hand, "An abnormality suspected of dragons awakening was discovered in Japan. I think you and your dragon slayer army should be interested in this."
Is this chapter a bit of a personal message? Because I always see people using Warhammer to metaphorically describe politics, or speculating that those who like Warhammer and worship the Empire are XX...
What I want to say is, no one would really like this bad world view that was deliberately set up mainly for selling chess pieces, right?
Including myself, I feel that most readers in China know about Warhammer because of the brave and loyal image of Space Marines. They like the Warhammer world because they selectively extract the shining aspects of the human empire as the main body, such as "fearless leader", "resistance to aggression", "national independence", "firm belief", "fearless of death", and "finding hope in the darkness", and use them to shoulder their own hopes and dreams for national independence and self-reliance (such as the popular domestic fan group Renzi).
Instead of dwelling on the devilish darkness of the universe and the corruption of the empire, it also hints at the reality and politics (which, in my opinion, is simply too stupid).
This can be regarded as building up armor for myself in advance. After all, I will definitely return to Warhammer in the future. The current outline has reached the Plague War, and the Fourth Expeditionary Fleet against Angron, and the competition between Lao Tang and Wa Banxian in battlefield micro-manipulation are still in my mind... Recently, I have also been reading the books of the authors of the Warhammer fan inner circle group to learn.
(End of this chapter)