Warhammer 40: Gods Of Mortals

Chapter 139 I Bet It's Misfiring

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Compared with the meeting with Kaul, Qin Mo's meeting with Judge Horst was much more formal.

It's like having a meeting.

Qin Mo, the lord of Tyrone, Admiral Adam of the Tyrone Fleet, and Gray, who represented the army and the imperial guards, attended the meeting together.

This meeting cannot decide the fate of Tyrone's entire galaxy, but it will decide whether a total of 170 billion people in the three worlds will go to war with their own kind.

In the conference room of the command building in Xincato, Horst and Qin Mo sat opposite each other.

"I know that there was a brutal war in the Talon galaxy a year ago. The loyalists were against the heretics. I know that most people in this galaxy don't want to go to war."

Horst's voice was calm, he looked down at the documents on the desktop, and made a very plain explanation.

"But you've gone too far."

"Of course, you can express objections to the investigation of the Tribunal, but you can't intercept the Inquisitors at the edge of the galaxy, or even send an entire fleet against the ships they are on."

Horst glanced at Adam as he spoke.

Adam was extremely tough during the confrontation, and he issued a well-known order: If the target ship crosses the line, we will destroy the ship before the fortress.

"From the beginning of the investigation until now, everything you have done has added fuel to the fire."

Having said that, Horst snapped his fingers at the entourage beside him.

The attendant immediately took out a box from his waist, and opened it respectfully.

Qin Mo saw that the box contained a revolver and six bullets with engraved patterns.The pistol is very exquisite and beautiful, but it is an ancient revolver with a slightly sci-fi appearance. It is probably a collectible.

"This used to be a tyrant's weapon. I killed him and kept this weapon as a collection." Horst said as he took out the revolver from the box, pulled out the magazine, and filled it with bullets.

Horst made his case while reloading.

"What you're doing is like loading this gun."

"Such as intercepting Inquisition ships, such as holding the Wailers Chapter, who are supposed to be on an expedition. Every thing that goes too far is putting a bullet in the gun."

Horst stopped when five bullets were loaded, and then slid the magazine to swing the gun body. The magazine of the revolver returned to the firing position, and the whole gun was ready to fire.

"If I pull the trigger at this time, the bullet may or may not be fired. It all depends on the probability. With five bullets loaded, the probability of the bullet not being fired is very low," Horst said. He aimed his gun at Qin Mo.

Gray and Adam watched Horst but did not stop him, because they knew that if the two sides fought, Qin Mo would not need anyone's protection.

Qin Mo stared at the muzzle of the gun and understood Horst's meaning.

It's like playing roulette on Terra in ancient times.

And what Horst said is that every time you do something to resist the court, you are filling the revolver magazine with bullets, and the survival rate is getting lower and lower until you die.

"This pistol is for you." Horst's hand holding the gun was slightly loose, and the revolver slid in his hand, with the muzzle facing down.

"Thank you." Qin Mo took the pistol and pulled out the magazine, then stood up and picked up the last bullet and stuffed it into the magazine.

The magazine is now fully loaded.

Horst looked at Qin Mo suspiciously, not knowing what he wanted to do.

Qin Mo flicked the pistol to return the magazine to its place, and then pressed the muzzle of the gun against his head: "I understand what you said, but I choose to bet it jammed."

"No... this weapon won't jam," Horst explained.

"Then I'll stop it from firing." Qin Mo pulled the trigger.

Horst's entourage hurriedly stood up to stop him, while Horst remained motionless, but slightly nervous.

After the trigger of the revolver was pulled, no bullets were fired, as if it had really misfired.

Qin Mo pulled it a few more times, but no bullet came out every time.

Horst felt that Qin Mo had used some kind of force to prevent the ammunition from being fired, and then realized that what Qin Mo meant was that he could silence the trial court.

This is a bit crazy, but Horst also thought that if Qin Mo was wrong, he would not have come to Hive Capital World to announce the verdict of the Tribunal.

"You are lucky, the trial court thinks you are innocent." Horst took out a piece of parchment and handed it out, "You are now the new governor appointed by the empire, and you are the ruler of the three worlds of the Tyrone galaxy with tens of billions of people , the well-deserved Lord of Tyrone."

Qin Mo took the parchment and put it down.

Horst went on to talk about some things, such as what is the duty of the governor of the empire to the empire, including responding to the call for war, sending out manpower to form the Star Militia Corps, and tithes.

The point is tithes.

Before Horst came, he participated in a meeting. The high-level tribunal and the High Lords Council discussed tax collection together. The final result of the discussion was that the tithe must be paid, but how to pay it could be discussed.Now there are new crises emerging all over the empire. If the Tyron galaxy makes trouble, it will be really difficult to suppress.

"The Tailong Galaxy will only pay one kind of tithe, and that is the Dimensional Engine." Qin Mo said.

"You mean the new navigation technology that isn't based on the Warp?" Horst asked.

"That's right." Qin Mo nodded.

After thinking about it for a while, Horst felt that it was very feasible.

This steady stream of new navigational technology is vital in gradually weaning the Imperium off its dependence on the Warp.

At first, Horst was worried that Qin Mo would not promote the dimension engine, but now this doubt has been dispelled.

But Horst still has a question: "Why did you offer to use the dimension engine as a tithe?"

"Because the subspace is a cesspit, human beings can no longer dive into the cesspit and swim deeply, and then bring a whole body of shit into the material universe." Qin Mo replied.

Hearing this, Horst feels that Qin Mo is indeed on the side of the entire human race, and whether he is on the side of the empire is yet to be considered.

However, the dimension engine does not mean that promotion can be promoted.

"The vast majority of people don't trust your technology very much. There are many people who think your technology is heresy poison in the trial court. The progress of promotion may be very slow, but as long as your dimensional engine is really easy to use and not adulterated If it is a private product, then it will definitely be able to replace the subspace engine in the end," Horst said.

After talking about the tithe, Qin Mo didn't say anything more, he had already said what he wanted to say.

But Horst still has something to say: "I'm investigating a strange plague, and I need your assistance. The reason is that there are only two places where this plague is raging, one is the Obscure Star Field where Cadian is located, and the other is your Tyrone. and surrounding galaxies, which is very strange."

Qin Mo frowned when he heard these words, and a bad guess popped up in his heart.

"This is the result of my investigation into the plague with my colleagues..." Horst took out a stack of documents written by himself from his entourage and handed them to Qin Mo.

Qin Mo immediately inspected it carefully, and found that there are two characteristics of this plague-ravaged place.

One is that there are plague walking corpses.

The other is the emergence of new sects in the places where the plague was ravaged. These sects claim that the empire has betrayed the will of the emperor, and the plague is the punishment of the emperor.

Before the plague began to rage, the number of space hulks appeared more and more frequently, as well as the raids of alien and heretical ships.

"The plague of unbelief." Qin Mo put down the document and stared at Horst very seriously, "An expedition against the Cadian Gate is about to begin."

(End of this chapter)