Warhammer: I am the Hammer of the Empire.

Chapter 247: Peeling off the soil from the first bunch of sprouts

Heavy-duty agricultural machines spit out smoke rumblingly, and the giant force-feedback sensing device is simulating the arm movements of its operator. It is 30-[-] meters long. The brown shovel is not comparable to Krieger's engineer shovel, like Hagrid Si descended to earth and stirred up the huge open space in the inner court.

The soil was scattered everywhere, and the vibration of the shovel smashed the hard rocks and turned them into minerals that nourished the crops. The scorched soil on the surface of Skadi was also crushed by a huge external force, turning into a nutritious black soil suitable for wheat and corn to take root. land.

The roar of heavy equipment is in the castle all day long, constantly reclaiming a land that is too huge for a single mortal to complete in a lifetime.

Such operations have been going on in the land for a week, and the mentally debilitating work has not stopped after the arrival of fertilizers, seeds, water, soil and heavy equipment from the agricultural world.

No one knows whether plants will grow out of this land. Skadi has not had life for too long, especially on the cold and difficult surface. The large white greenhouse equipment installed half a month ago is passing through the castle. Geothermal energy protects crops from Skadi's cold winds, just as Alan Bair protects this precarious world.

While Alan Bayer is debating this matter, many rulers who used to be the nobles of Skadi found this new dignitary, and angrily commented that the reclamation work on Skadi at the moment is a waste.

The huge sum of money to mobilize heavy equipment should allow factories to resume work, water and soil, even low-corrosion fertilizers, and temperature control equipment to be repaired later should also be stopped, and priority should be given to people with more life guarantees, and they still miss their own During the period of the actual territory, they were dissatisfied with the lord's throwing supplies on an uncertain thing. In any case, farming is not what this fortress world should do.

They can use money and apply for supplies from the empire to fill the warehouse. As long as the maelstrom is still there, Skadi has the value of being thrown money by the empire. They should not waste materials on reclamation and casting arsenals. Doubt whether they have the intention to rebel.

The ridiculous thing is that they are right. Although those noble families may be vegetarians, those who survive now are definitely not. After going through hardships and invasions, they have changed a lot, but nobles are nobles after all. They are now The main desire is to restore Skadi's industrial capabilities, and start helping other worlds with foundry and other income-generating behaviors again.

In essence, they just use their favorite method to help Skadi. If it is on the empire side, the proposals of those nobles are the "model".

Alan Baier has no opinion on this, but many situations he has experienced will always tell him that although the empire is powerful, one day the empire will be overwhelmed by itself, and then Skadi must survive by himself.

And at the moment, the former Supreme Commander of the Imperial Guard, who is the Governor of the Planet, is in a bad mood right now.

Alan Baier put down the thick kraft paper in his hand. It was the order of the empire to stop the war. The stupidity of those empires finally arrived here, and the king of Skadi had no patience for those short-sighted nobles.

"roll."

The nobles showed surprised expressions, or couldn't believe it or wondered what they heard. Some people asked this superman who was quite gentle and a little too popular in their concept. "What?"

"I tell you to get out." Alan Bayer's tone was very strange, tough but without much emotional fluctuation, and the nobles could only leave. After a slight creak and footsteps of the wooden door being opened, looking at the request for a truce, Scar Master Di sighed.

No matter how clear it was that this event would happen, Alan Baier's emotions fell to the bottom when faced with its real arrival.

Bad things keep coming one after another, no matter how majestic he is, those advices like flies will continue, although the strength of the army is definitely in his hands, cleaning up those guys is only a few bullets, but for Si Cardi, they don't have the energy to do that anymore.

Soon, the garrison regiments from each star area will leave, and Skadi will have to face the situation that space navigation control is completely dependent on himself or the arrangement of the local military affairs department. Alan Baier chose the empire, so he must ensure that Skadi The homeland never falls.

Build a new internal arsenal and carry out agricultural production in the manor to ensure basic supplies and still have good combat effectiveness even when the supply line is monopolized by the enemy.

Alan Baier still remembers the hellish situation when he took down the castle. People bit and killed each other. When material things are not enough, then humanity is empty.

And when the war ended, the King of Warriors, who had relied on this matter for a long time to act and live, also felt confused. When he recovered, it was as if he had been cursed, and he was still preparing for war.

Alan Bayer doesn't know how to live in this dark universe. At least in the next hundred years, chaos will come as promised. When the dark side of the empire comes, Skadi, who is close to the maelstrom, will definitely face another catastrophe. disaster.

"I am not wrong. When those days come, the Skadi people will thank me even more, and even most of the worlds in this star area rely on Skadi to prevent the invasion of Chaos." He said to himself, responsibility, Victory, goals, and many things that do not see results in a short time make fighters who are strategically fast-oriented confused.

He is very powerful, this is an undeniable objective reality, but the real strength of a warrior lies in putting down his sword, which is also the most powerful part of the star warrior. Those supermen can transfer to education and other industries anytime and anywhere, and become the lighthouse that leads mankind. One day, the war in the entire universe will be extinguished, and it will be the warriors without swords, not some general, that will make mankind out of the difficulties...

But in the current situation of the empire, probably only true warriors can lead people out of difficulties. Unfortunately, as a mortal, there are still a thousand years to go. Alan Bayer can't witness the return of the Primarch, and he has no interest in going to Terra for a pilgrimage. It's just that this huge pitch-black universe didn't give him time to breathe.

When Lord Scardi knocked on the table, he looked bored, with filth hanging on his thick winter clothes, and he had the appearance of a planetary governor, clearly a tramp.

He sighed, and looked again at the small radio in the office, which was buzzing now. "This is the Second Lieutenant of Skadi's Fourth Infantry Regiment, I heard the answer."

Alan Bair replied. "Boy, stop arguing and hear me." He asked again. "Have you found it? The remains of the Space Marine in the ground."

The lieutenant replied. "No, since I witnessed him falling from the heights and the fortress and leaving the ground, the warrior seemed to have disappeared suddenly, and his body was vaporized by the engine of the castle?" He just came back from the ground to complete the task arranged by the Sun Lord, but unfortunately, He found no evidence of the enemy's death.

"Obviously he's not dead, a chaotic and filthy emperor warrior, I really hope he won't go crazy and do stupid things." Alan Bayer sighed, those supermen don't need food, he can't steal food like this Find this warrior first, and those giants are good at all kinds of tactics, so it is even more impossible to find him in the wilderness.

The second lieutenant was silent, and then Alan Baier's mood fell after his improvement just now. How happy is a lurking Chaos space warrior?
The second lieutenant also felt uncomfortable and said. "I will lead the troops to search for him and try to find that guy during this time."

"No, no need, finding him is impossible to bring real benefits. No matter how powerful a space soldier is, he is no more than one person. Obviously, he cannot overturn the sky. Now our energy should be focused on planning internal production and ordnance. Heavy-duty Machines can allow very few people to meet the food needs of the entire fortress, but only production requires a large number of people." Alan Baier extremely rationally stopped the second lieutenant's impulse, and the young man also gave up the matter outside the radio.

"Then I'm back, boss, haven't the first batch of greenhouses sprouted yet? I think you're still not very happy. Can't Skadi grow plants?" the second lieutenant asked. Whether a world can grow plants means Whether it is habitable in terms of pollution and soil nutrition, and Skadi obviously meets the standards. After tragic death and sacrifice, it meets the standards...

At this moment, the second lieutenant couldn't help but ask. "Is Skadi dead?" As a person living here, the most worrying thing for him is nothing more than that. If Skadi still cannot produce plants, it means that this former hive city world still needs to import water, air, and food, and it is impossible. There is animal husbandry, and there is no possibility of being invaded by the enemy's monopoly materials for a long time.

"She didn't!" Ellen Byer yelled. "She won't die either. When the fertilizer developed by a new batch of genetic sages arrives, things will get better. Those things contain most of the nutrients, and even if they are put in water, they can make plants germinate..."

"Boss, is that still a child of Skadi? We admit that Skadi is the only creature in this world other than moss and mice. It is impossible for her to give birth to a new life, even if you sprinkle the seeds all over Neither is her soil."

The words of the second lieutenant were even more sad than the words of the nobles combined. Alan Bayer subconsciously clenched his fist, and the weak radio also burst into flames due to superhuman power, and then abnormal smoke burst out very quickly. With the sound of hissing and electromagnetic sound, it stopped running.

Alan Baier looked at the messy desktop. He had to admit that there was nothing perfect in this world. It was the most difficult thing for him to bring Skadi back to the embrace of the empire, let alone make her come alive again?

Alan Baier sighed, and walked out of the room, ready to issue Skadi's order to give up farming plants, but today, the interior of the castle was particularly noisy. When he opened the door, a golden shadow ran around and hit the ground. he.

As a veteran, I only felt tightness in my chest when I came to him. I rubbed my thick winter clothes, but the child who bumped into him needed more attention.

For the first time in her life, Ms. Judge felt what it was like to hit a wall. Although she is a woman, she has been fighting and training all the year round. Her strength is even stronger than most ordinary people...

"God, what did I hit?" Rova rubbed her red nose, and Alan Baier asked. "What's wrong, so restless?"

Seeing the castle owner, Rova said subconsciously. "Master Sun Lord! There are sprouts in the greenhouse!"

Alan Baier did not correct her words, but said urgently. "Sprout? Sprout!" He smiled, this can be said to be the best news he knew during this time,

"Then you don't need to be like that, plants can't run!" He joked with a smile, but Luowa replied panting. "There is an Astartes, the unknown Astartes is in the greenhouse, no one is allowed to get close to the sprout, and they don't speak, and we want to inform you, but the radio is not working!"

Alan Bair immediately thought of the madman. "Hagrid?" Then he walked towards the courtyard very quickly, and the judge immediately followed behind...

In the courtyard, outside the first batch of greenhouses, white polymer materials and temperature control equipment wheezed to help the germinated seeds survive the severe cold. At the same time, a large number of soldiers surrounded the outside of the greenhouses. fighters, but worried about the destruction of the young shoots, those seeds may be the first, or the only varieties adapted to the Skadi environment...

If it is destroyed, and they can't find that variety of wheat to breed again, then Skadi's hope will be extinguished.

And when the soldiers were at a loss, Alan Byer came over, and those Skadi veterans immediately stepped aside and saluted the venerable hero, and when Alan Byer saw Captain Phraxia driving several Lemanus When I came, I couldn't help scolding. "Crazy, a space warrior, how did you get all this stuff!"

Sergeant Catachan responded immediately. "Sorry, we were worried about damaging the plants inside, so we could only use Lemanus to block the side of the greenhouse, and soldiers surrounded the front to prevent the enemy from escaping."

"That damned heretic threatened us with crops..."

Alan Baier became more and more urgent at this moment, he walked into the shed after listening, and the moment he entered it, the Catachans were stopped by Alan Baier. "Don't follow!"

The military order was hard to disobey, those soldiers watched their hero lord walk into it, and Alan Bayer stepped inside, first felt the soft soil, the warmth brought by the focused sunlight, the warmth of about 16 degrees, and the long-lost Yes, the smell of green grass and earth.

And in that soil, the old man, the Astartes wearing tattered armor, the two-meter-tall old man with white hair, was slowly watering the crops with a watering can, maybe it was his care that made those plants germinate.

He saw Alan Bair approaching, not angry, not mad, just continued to water the crops until those soils were moist, and little greens sprouted in the brown hell, with dewdrops on the green leaves, in Skadi, in this universe , this is the most beautiful scenery...

Alan Bayer took out his sidearm, and Hagrid became vigilant. His Terminator armor was completely damaged. The huge armor was only less than 30% of the normal condition. It was almost a piece of torn clothes. Any shot, and Alan Bayer's actions made the old man's vigilant nerves tense!
But the Skadi Lord just dropped his weapon, lay the thing on the ground, raised his hand in kindness, and asked.

"Did you do this?"

Hagrid nodded.

"I used to live in the agricultural world and take care of them every day. In my eyes, those were the most comfortable and stupid days of my life, but now, I miss it very much."

Alan Baier said again. "You were discovered because of them, and I'll kill you, understand?"

Hagrid was just spreading manure, replied. "Brother death and war got me no years, for a space marine, no difference, I'm dead."

Alan Baier said. "Then join my castle and take care of the plants in the last few years of your life. I want to grow white grapes for the world to make wine in my lifetime!"

Hagrid looked at the young man in disbelief. "I'm a heretic, and I believe in the Chaos Gods!"

The Skadi King replied. "You're just an old man who likes crops!"

Alan Bayer is so crazy and careless. Maybe one day he will suffer and have problems because of his stupidity, but he is still willing to give all human beings in this universe a chance. Compared with the silver light of the emperor, he only has flesh and blood The body is warmer.

Hagrid put down the kettle, hesitated for a long time, and touched the soft ground with the knee that had never knelt for the enemy in countless battles, and the old knight knelt on one knee.

"I am willing to redeem myself, but I understand that it is impossible to settle the killing of my compatriots, and I am not willing to believe in the corpse emperor, and I will not join a group, nor will I enter the castle."

Alan Baier replied. "I will make a house for you in a greenhouse. In the future, you will not be able to step out of the agricultural area, carry weapons, or wear armor, and you will need to wear restraint equipment all the time to reduce the power you can emit. At the same time, you can become a A special farmer."

Hagrid, the old soldier nodded. "I do, lord, I am a mortal again." He said mockingly.

(End of this chapter)