Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords! - Chapter 438

“This is my daughter Lina, you have met her before.” With his signature smile on his face, Lord Colonel Elphinstone pulled the uniformed girl aside and said:

“She will serve as the intelligence officer of the first attack squadron, using the new “Secret Keeper” cipher machine that was previously installed in small batches to exchange encrypted intelligence with the mothership.”

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“It’s nice to see you again, Major Cochrane.” The girl wearing gold-rimmed shrapnel glasses said in a calm tone without any emotion.

She just looked at the man in front of her, just like looking at others, without revealing the slightest emotional fluctuation.

“Well, welcome, Miss Elphinstone.” Although Horatio didn’t know why the girl was always expressionless, he still welcomed her warmly.

“Long time no see, Lina.”

Farida, standing aside, smiled and saluted her female companion who grew up with her.

The cold-faced girl looked at Farida and finally smiled: “Me too.”

Another friendly soldier arrived at the battlefield, which made Sister Farida very happy, and she couldn’t hide her joy on her face.

Recently, she was struggling to survive in the gap between a group of “little foxes” and “big foxes”. This strong pressure made her who wanted to maintain her position as the queen a little breathless.

Now she finally has a real person of her own.

This made her no longer feel alone in emotional issues.

After a brief welcome to the new technical talents, the Epic began to make final preparations for its first voyage to the war zone.

“The power system is normal! Pressurization is normal! The shadow field generator is normal!” Leidos reported.

“The escort route has been drawn, and our ship will accompany the reconnaissance on the outer periphery of the left wing.”

Horatio sat on the command throne made entirely of fine gold. When the neural plug on the back of his head connected to the machine soul of the Epic, almost all the parameters on the ship appeared in front of his eyes.

‘Identity verification in progress…’

‘Horatio Cochrane, Lieutenant Commander of the Imperial Navy’

‘Position: Captain’

‘Welcome, Captain. ’

The voice of the Epic was crisp and cold.

The tone was stiff and mechanical.

It could not be as autonomous as the machine soul of the Indefatigable, and could not even express its own emotions.

But as a brand new warship, it was acceptable.

After all, all Imperial Navy warships were required to be able to operate even without neural plugs.

[Will it be better if I use machine soul affinity on this new warship? ]

With a try-it mentality, he activated the machine soul affinity skill once. As the pulse of the built-in source circuit in his body surged, it was injected into the warship command throne through the dendrites on his knuckles.

‘Detected——·Unknown source circuit··’

Suddenly, a wave of undercurrents was fed back to Horatio, and the command throne, which was still a little cold, gradually warmed up.

Through the thick nerve plugs behind his head, Horatio closed his eyes and felt the leap of the machine soul.

He was in a different dark vision.

As the affinity unfolded, the machine soul gradually became agile from the initial indifference and coldness. The invisible texture wrapped around Horatio’s body and became more active as his fingertips leaped.

‘Captain, please give your orders. ‘

It was like a newly adopted cat, from vigilance to familiarity, and then began to wag its tail affectionately and ask for rubs.

Cat——————-? Well, this metaphor is really appropriate.

“Captain! There is—.””

Horatio felt someone calling him. At first he thought it was the call of the machine soul, but soon found that the sound was getting louder and louder, making his eardrums vibrate faintly.

That was Archie’s voice.

“What’s wrong? “Horatio suddenly opened his eyes, returned to the real world, and looked at his first mate.

“Just now, a boat boy who was checking the ventilation duct of the bridge was scratched by a half-cat man. I think you need to avoid it first. This may be a precursor to the alien assassination plot.

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“What?”

Just when I thought of cats, why did a half-cat man suddenly come? ? ? ?

Horatio was puzzled by this, and went directly to the scene of the incident regardless of Archie’s dissuasion.

In front of a ventilation duct on the west side of the bridge, the grille was opened from the outside. Old man Joe’s thorny youngest son was sitting on the ground, gasping for air. There were three bright bloodstains on his hands. He was obviously frightened by the sudden attack.

The armed sailors on both sides turned on the strong light flashlight and pointed it into the duct.

I saw a half-cat girl with her pupils contracted into a terrible vertical slit, curled up in the duct.

From her expression, she was also shocked and scared.

“Come out! Mutant! You have three seconds to come out and confess your intentions! Otherwise I will shoot you to death!” an armed sailor threatened.

Louise also rushed over. As the commander of the armed forces, she carefully held the bolt pistol and squatted at the entrance to be vigilant.

? This half-cat man seemed to have seen it before. She was vaguely familiar with this mutant.

After a small commotion on the bridge, Horatio finally rushed over.

“What happened?”

“Sir, a mutant is hiding in our battleship. I don’t know if he is smuggled in. We are carrying out the clearing procedure.

Hey, come out!

Two!”

He squatted in front of the pipe, and Louise hurried forward to cover him.

“Yo Yo????”

Yes, this half-cat man is the stray cat lady he put into the labor gang.

“It’s okay, Louise. This is the catman we carried out the mission to help us keep track of. He is my former subordinate.” Horatio said in Louise’s ear.

Louise nodded and signaled the sailor to put away his gun and disarm him.

“Boss————.” After the half-cat girl saw Horatio, her vertical pupils slowly relaxed and her body became less tense.

Instantly turned into big, watery, round eyes.

“How did you——·how did you get on the warship?”

“Yoyou hasn’t seen the boss for a long time, and only the boss treats Youyou as a human being.

We saw the boss recruiting people, but the recruiter didn’t want subhumans and almost arrested me as a mutant. So we secretly followed the space elevator and slipped into the starport, found the boss’s ship, and came in to nest. “

“Ah—that’s it——·

Heck, if you can get through the heavy security of the Imperial Navy, pass five levels and kill six generals, and not even be caught by the Death Watch Raven Guard, then you are incredible. Horatio did not know for a moment whether to express his anger at the vigilantes;

You should still feel lucky that you are one of your own.

“Archie, are half-cats legal demi-humans in the Imperial Navy?

She was in Port Abyss before and was a subordinate that I personally recruited into the gang. We’re already here, and if we throw her down, she won’t have a hard time in a place she’s not familiar with. “

“According to the Imperial Code, strictly speaking, cat people are indeed legal demi-humans in the empire, and half-cat people should be considered even more legal demi-humans.

As for whether you can stay on the warship, according to legal regulations, as the captain, you theoretically have all the power of life and death on board your warship. “

Horatio’s eyes turned around. Since ancient times, cats have been kept on ships on ships.

Not only because cats can catch mice, but also because they herald good luck.

In line with the principle that although he didn’t know if the spirit would work, but in case it was a real spirit in this world of monsters and monsters, he decided to keep Youyou. After all, this was a void attack aircraft that had to go through a life of nine deaths.

“Listen, Yoyo.” Horatio squatted in front of Yoyou who climbed out of the pipe with messy hair and disheveled clothes. The tip of her white nose was stained with black engine oil when she drilled the pipe. With its cute baby face and trembling cat ears, it really looks like a cute little kitten.

This half-cat girl who still looks thin and has clear bones looks like a little girl who has made a mistake.

He squatted down at the mouth of the pipe, not daring to move as he listened to the boss’s instructions.

“This is a warship. Do you know what a warship is?” Horatio said earnestly.

The half-cat girl just nodded ignorantly, not saying whether she understood or not.

“What the warship means is that we are all in the same group. If we are not careful, we will die together. In short,

This place is different from the hive gang. Here, there are very strict rules. “

“Whatever the boss says is true, and we are not afraid of death.” The half-cat girl hugged her knees with her hands, turning her thin face to the side and humming.

Facing the half-cat girl who completely lay down and gave up thinking, Horatio sighed.

“If you want to stay on the warship, you must abide by the rules I have set and must not violate them.

You can usually look around and learn, and it is best to find a job. If you really can’t, you can just find something to do, or do odd jobs, but you must not be idle, especially not stealing, you know? “

Youyou sat up and nodded.

In fact, Horatio didn’t expect this half-cat girl to be able to do much, because humans have some discrimination against demi-humans.

It is inappropriate to specify which department to go to, both sides.

And she was too thin to do much physical work.

If that doesn’t work, let’s just pretend there’s a cat girl on the ship and serve as the warship cat mascot.

It’s not a bad meal anyway.

“Miss Yin, the planning officer, take her to wash, and then pick out a set of crew clothes from the warehouse for her.”

“Yes, Captain. Please come with me, Miss Yoyo. The Captain is very busy. You can’t trouble the Captain too often. I will teach you what you need to pay attention to on the battleship -“

Yin Shuyao is no stranger to this half-cat girl.

after all.

The encounter between Yoyo, Horatio, and her happened in front of her shop, didn’t it?

Youyou nodded and followed the girl who had given her a delicious meal obediently. While swaying her long cat tail, she seemed to be listening to the girl’s explanation attentively.