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It's obvious that her action just now was intentional.
This teammate is great; he started helping with the next step without me having to give any orders.
Thinking this, Lynch nodded to Lappland, then walked over to Monger and pulled up a chair to sit down.
"Tell me about your relationship with the top floor of Nest City. Didn't you say you could help me get a residence certificate for the top floor? Don't tell me you could do this without connections."
"Do you... know... who you've messed with?"
Monger did not answer Lynch, and even chose to make a threat.
"You...aren't you a wizard...? Why don't you dare to pry into my memories...?"
Lynch looked at Monger and rolled his eyes.
The tactic of goading someone doesn't work these days. Lin Qi isn't stupid; he knew from the faint red lines flowing through Meng Ge's muscles on the battlefield that this kid was probably related to that second brother in the bronze suit.
If I were to pry into his memories, not only would I fail to find suitable supplies and intelligence, but I might also end up in trouble and end up reporting to my second brother's bronze throne.
There are other ways to get an enemy to talk besides psychic powers, and I'm not a useless person who can't do anything without psychic powers and abilities.
“I really don’t dare to pry into your memories. After all, from various perspectives, there should be quite a few problems with your soul and memories.”
At this point, Lynch walked over to Monger and whispered in his ear.
"So, if you don't cooperate, I'll find those madmen in the bottom nest and have them sacrifice you to the Prince of Pleasure."
Lynch spoke in a low voice, making sure that everyone present, except for Lappland, could hear him.
Gao Wen remained expressionless, as if nothing had happened.
Monger's breathing became rapid in an instant. He stared at Lynch in shock, a deep sense of fear appearing on his face.
“You…you can’t…you can’t do this…this…this doesn’t conform to the sorcery…this doesn’t conform to the teachings of the God-Emperor…”
"Then you choose for yourself, and see if I dare to."
Lynch sat back down in his chair. For a Khorne believer, there was probably nothing in the world more disgusting and terrifying than throwing his soul into the hands of Slaanesh or Nurgle.
This... is probably the ultimate insult to them.
Sure enough, after seeing Lin Qi's serious expression, which didn't seem fake at all, Munger deflated like a punctured balloon.
He spoke with a bitter expression, looking at Lin Qi.
"I said, I'll tell you everything you want to know, just give me a quick answer and don't hand my soul over to those lunatics."
"Of course, I always keep my promises."
Lynch looked at Monger and smiled faintly.
Chapter 10: The Plans (The Contract is Signed!)
With a "crack," Monger's neck was snapped, and he died a quick and painless death as he had wished.
Lin Qi looked at the corpse on the ground, took out the promethium he had prepared in advance, and poured it all over the corpse.
"that's all?"
Looking at the burning corpse, Lappland couldn't help but ask.
"That's it, what else can we do? He's already told us everything we wanted to know, there's no point in keeping it up, and I don't have a penchant for deriving a sense of accomplishment from torturing heretics."
Lynch looked at Lappland and asked with some curiosity.
"You haven't met someone like this before, have you? Like a certain judge?"
"After all, our family has been wandering the stars for a long time, so we have naturally seen a lot."
Lappland said this, clearly reluctant to talk about what happened before she came to Badab.
Lin Qi shrugged and didn't press the matter. After all, everyone was on the same side now, and they should respect each other's privacy.
Moreover, the name he's giving the other person is just a made-up pseudonym.
but……
There's some trouble.
"Colonel PDF at the top of the hive, the head of the finance department, the second-in-command of the political department... these people are actually the people behind the Brotherhood of Blood."
Lin Qi said with a sigh, shaking his head.
Who is behind these three people?
A silence fell over the room; in fact, everyone could guess what was going on without it being said.
On an Astartes Chapter's homeworld, who else could be behind mortal officials supporting such blasphemous acts as heresy?
However, this alone is not enough to serve as evidence of differentiation.
Lin Qi sighed slightly; things were indeed not that simple.
"What's your plan?"
Lappland spoke up, asking Lynch about his next move.
"Go to Shangchao, find those officials, and see if you can get any information out of them."
Lynch replied, looking into Lappland's eyes.
"Our ultimate goal is to prevent the conflict that could break out at any moment. If we can find evidence that Huron is a traitor and thus break up his alliance, that would be even better."
Lappland's eyes flickered, and it was unclear what she was thinking.
"Your family's notebook is most likely in Huron's hands. Although obtaining this notebook could be used as evidence to prove his identity as a human traitor, since he wants it so much, he will definitely keep it safe, even two hundred years later."
Lynch continued, while observing Lappland's reaction.
He sensed that the white-haired girl probably wanted to say something to him, but perhaps due to some concerns, she chose not to speak directly.
"For now, we'll continue along this line, go to the upper levels of the Nest City to find these three people, and see if we can get any information out of them."
"You must have your own base, right? But I suggest you go back and pack up properly and move here. We have empty rooms to accommodate the next person, and it will be easier to help out if anything happens."
After saying that, Lin Qi strode towards the passage leading to the basement.
"Wait a moment."
Lappland spoke up, stopping Lynch who was about to leave the basement.
“There will be a banquet in the upper echelons of the city the day after tomorrow. Most of the officials and nobles will attend, including those three.”
coming.
Lynch looked at Lappland, waiting for her to finish speaking.
“We can infiltrate this banquet. If we interrogate them one by one, even if they don’t know it was us, it will inevitably alert them and make them suspicious.”
"Do you have a way to get us into that banquet? Wasn't your family completely wiped out by that Huron two hundred years ago, and then falsely accused of being traitors?"
“I have my connections. If you’re willing to trust me, come with me tomorrow, and I’ll take you into the upper levels of the Nest City.”
Lappland turned her head away, seemingly unwilling to say anything more.
Lin Qi didn't bother to ask any further questions. He called Gao Wen over and they went upstairs to a secret room.
"If I asked you to infiltrate the Throne of Thorns and find that notebook, how confident would you be?"
Upon entering the secret room, Lin Qi went straight to the point and began questioning Gao Wen.
If Lin Qi were alone, he would never dare to make such a move. However, he had a retired Imperial Guard by his side. Even though the veteran was no longer at his peak due to the ravages of time, he still possessed formidable fighting power.
More importantly, Lynch knew that the Royal Guards often held a competition called the "Blood Game" inside the Terra Palace, where a portion of the Royal Guards would be selected to play the role of the enemy and attack the palace.
During this competition, the Imperial Guards' stealth capabilities were honed to an extraordinary level. In the Astartes Legion, apart from the three legions that excelled in stealth attacks, the other legions were completely inferior to them in terms of overall stealth capabilities.
So even though the chances are slim, Lynch still hopes to get an answer from Gawain.
"It is impossible to guarantee that everything will go perfectly."
Gao Wen replied in this way, while letting out a helpless sigh.
"I'm old, you see."
Gao Wen pointed to his gray hair and the wrinkles on his face that indicated his aging.
“I am already three thousand years old, child. Even if I don’t want to admit it, my body is not what it used to be. Of course, I can still kill those Astartes and sneak in unnoticed, but once I face those organized teams, I can hardly guarantee that I can escape unscathed.”
It wasn't unexpected, but I was still a little disappointed.
"What if we had the equipment? I can get you the Imperial Guard's power armor and weapons. Can you guarantee everything will be foolproof?"
Lin Qi spoke again, saying that the Imperial Guards with equipment and those without equipment were completely different concepts. The former could be enhanced to a terrifying level in terms of both attack power and reaction speed with their equipment, which was worth a whole planet.
Gao Wen also fell into thought. After a while, he looked at Lin Qi and slowly nodded.
"If you had the equipment, then perhaps it would be possible, but can you withstand the soul pressure of extracting a complete set of equipment?"
"You were able to successfully extract the fragments of Horus with the help of our Lord. In fact, most of the pressure was borne by our Lord, and less than one ten-thousandth of it was borne by you. Even so, you were kept unconscious for a full thirteen days."
Gao Wen spoke with some concern, looking at Lin Qi.
"We'll see once we try. Let me look at your memories first and try to extract some... If it doesn't work, I'll stop on my own, so there won't be any risk."
Lin Qi rubbed his hands together, eager to speak.
Chapter 11 Wow! Bald!
Gawain relaxed his mind and allowed Lynch's psychic powers to probe his memories.
As the perfect genetic engineering of the Emperor, the Royal Guard contains no trace of subspace energy. Not only in terms of physical attributes, but they also possess considerable resistance to psionic energy.
Coupled with their unwavering loyalty to the Emperor, over the course of millennia, high lords may betray them, Astartes may betray them, mortal soldiers may betray them, but...
The Imperial Guard never betrayed them.
However, it's true that they were just sitting around doing nothing in the palace.
If Gawain hadn't voluntarily allowed Lynch to spy, Lynch wouldn't have been able to forcibly examine his memories with his current psychic abilities.
Lin Qi was somewhat excited. A member of the Imperial Guard could extract a lot of good stuff, especially now that his abilities had improved considerably after the Emperor took him to extract Horus's soul fragments, and he even gained more functions.
Previously, one of the strict conditions for him to extract things was that he had to spy on a person's memories, that is, he had to maintain a state of psionic spying in order to extract them.