Stars for the good Warhammer.

Chapter 26 Nano Swarm
  In the afternoon, inside the sunny Governor's office.

When Otto opened the door and walked in, the young woman named Raya was sitting in the adjutant's exclusive seat, concentrating on auditing a trade record document sent by the star port administrator. The warm sunshine reflected on her The long pale golden hair on her head makes it dazzling like luxurious fine gold.

Hearing the footsteps, Raya first raised her hand to brush the hair that fell around her ears. Her amber-like eyes looked towards the door. After seeing Otto, there was a hint of darkness in her originally calm eyes. A look of panic flashed through.

"Lord Otto, I'm sorry I didn't know it was you."

"what"

As she spoke, the woman stood up quickly. Due to her nervousness, she accidentally touched the ink on the table. The dark ink instantly spread all over the table. This obviously made her very embarrassed. She looked at it from a distance. It is not difficult to find that cold sweat has broken out on the other party's forehead.

Standing in front of the door and watching everything happening in front of him, Otto couldn't tell for a moment whether this girl was born with such a silly roe deer-like character, or whether it was all just a show from beginning to end. A clumsy performance that deliberately numbs oneself.

While he was thinking, he walked quickly in the direction of Raya without saying a word. While the other party was still looking for the tablecloth and trying to clean the table, Otto grabbed the woman's hand. This sudden movement almost made Raya almost He jumped up, his eyes full of confusion.

And in the process of interpreting the woman's eyes, Otto somehow saw a hint of it.
  expect?

There is a problem, there is definitely a problem here.

Since last night, he could vaguely feel that Raya's appearance had become a little strange. Some kind of intuition told him that there must be some secrets hidden in the other person's heart that he didn't want him to know.

"Stand still."

Under Otto's command, Raya stood up straight obediently. Perhaps due to excessive nervousness, she simply lowered her eyelashes and stared at the tabletop wet with ink, trying her best not to think about that kind of thing. .

However, what made the girl feel a little strange was that after waiting for a moment, the scenes she expected did not happen. The young noble in front of her just lifted her long hair with his hand, and looked at her. His face and neck were wandering back and forth.

That serious look was like a serious inspection.
  After an unknown amount of time, Otto finally let go of his hand.

Seeing this, Raya finally plucked up the courage to ask the questions in her heart.

"Sir? What happened?"

Not long ago, after receiving Mina's reminder, combined with the information obtained from the panel, he had to be concerned about Raya's condition.

If, as Mina suspected, the other party was a hidden Chaos Wizard, then the threat it could pose was almost unimaginable.

However, through direct physical contact, he did not feel any obvious malice from the other party, nor did he find any obvious subspace variations or noteworthy features.

For a moment, Otto replied in a nonchalant tone.

"It's nothing, let's start today's report."

While thinking, Otto turned and looked at the desk located in the center of the room. On the table were placed today's reports. Most of them were submitted by representatives from all walks of life in Zhongchao and Shangchao. After sorting Finally, it was presented in front of him. This behavior was quite similar to the old emperor reviewing the memorial. Although she was very concerned about what she had just done, looking at Otto's serious look, Raya naturally did not have the courage to continue questioning. Seeing this, she had no choice but to pick up the document she had just rescued from her seat. After sorting it out, he handed it to the Governor's desk.

"Regarding the meeting you mentioned today, I have notified the five major families in Haven, but until now, two families have not responded."

I didn't expect that new problems would arise so soon, but this was within Otto's expectation. After all, Raya's report had already mentioned it earlier, and the Sayles family's dominance in Haven was still there. It is far from affecting the entire planet and all its industries.

For example, in Haiwen's most important planetary mining industry, nearly half of those excavation barges that can carry out independent excavation operations belong to the assets of Trinity City, southwest of the hive city. After conversion, at least 47% of the profits are not into the hands of the Sellers family.

In an industry where there are not many businesses in Haven, this is a considerable profit. However, it is worth noting that Trinity City was jointly established by three business families, and its leaders were from the Sellers family. A separate collateral bloodline.

Trinity City is the second largest force in Haven besides Otto's Sellers family. Unsurprisingly, one of the two forces that did not respond to the meeting invitation was them. , as for the other one?
  Looking at the strange name in the file, Otto turned his attention to Raya again. Until now, the other person still looked a little uneasy.

"Can you explain to me what's going on in this family called Gray Sand that's worth noting recently?"

"Hui Sha? They are still the same as before. The head of the Hui Sha family is still obsessed with excavating that gray desert."

"You mean the gray desert on the north side of the hive?"

"I'm curious as to what that is."

Hearing this, Raya, who was standing across the table, thought for a moment.

"Actually, I just heard that the gray desert that appeared on the surface of the planet Haven had already appeared there during the first colonization of the Cyrus family, but at that time, the desert did not cover such a large area. area, and every six months the entire planet will experience a gray storm.”

"Over the next hundred years, the gray desert continued to expand, as if it was reproducing itself."

Such an introduction naturally aroused Otto's interest. In the past few days, he had stared at the silver-white sea of ​​sand in his bedroom more than once. He felt that it was so beautiful, as if he was deeply attracted.

"You mean that desert has a life of its own?"

"I have read relevant records in my family history. The Mechanicus sages from Ota have conducted research on the gray desert of Haven. According to the content of the records, it seems that the gray desert that makes up that piece of gray desert is a special kind of of nanomechanical bugs.”

"It is still unknown how they were formed. The sages once speculated that this might be a technology from the Golden Age. However, after years of testing, they found that those nanomechanical bugs were simply unconsciously expanding themselves. After confirming that there was no harm, they just took some samples and left."

"As for the Gray Sand family."

"They seem to firmly believe that there must be secrets that have not yet been discovered in that desert, and they still refuse to give up exploring it, even though the place has been dug up to the ground by the Mechanicus."

Gray nanomechanical insect swarm.
  Could it be that that would be
  (End of this chapter)