Chapter 815, We all have little secrets
The industrial core area of Luku Star was filled with poisonous miasma, and the humming of the power armor's built-in breathing and circulatory system was particularly clear in the dead silence.
This is a world located in the Ardan space, at the forefront of the Dark Side Expedition. While the planet is facing the problem of islandization, an orc fleet invades this world.
After decades of breeding, the planet's orc problem has become quite serious.
However, the addition of the Orcs alleviated the Chaos corruption problem on the planet of Ruku. The local rebels, Orc warlords, and loyalists who were corrupted by the Chaos cultists started a protracted battle around the planet's industrial zone with abundant production capacity.
After making contact with the Loyalists, the Alliance sent ground troops and space vessels several times, hoping to wipe out the Orcs and Chaos rebels at the same time, but they failed after six months of fighting.
After further evaluation, the planet's severity level was raised several times, eventually reaching a point where the Southern Front Command took it very seriously.
A new army group was sent over.
This army group alone is not enough to solve the problem, but if a space marine unit is added, it will be different.
And the Space Marines who lead the team come from the Unforgotten Oath.
Milorila's combat boots crushed the last alien skull, and the scarlet cranial fluid condensed into ice crystals on the ceramic steel surface. He looked up at the direction of the orbit, and the outlines of four frigates were vaguely visible outside the gray-white atmosphere - they were the monitors sent by the Alliance to "assist in the battle".
"Grandmaster, the purification process has been completed." A hoarse electronic voice came from the communication channel. Chief Think Tank Uther walked out of the shadow of the ruins, his bone-white think tank armor stained with charred flesh and blood. "But you shouldn't participate in this kind of cleanup mission in person."
Milorilla is a serious person.
He could smell the faint fragrance beneath the Librarian's robes, a scent signature that only members of the Bloodsworn Circle could discern. When the Chapter Master turned on his private frequency, the dark gold wing emblem on the inside of the Librarian's breastplate suddenly glowed - the ancient symbol of the Fallen Angel Hunter.
"Let's talk in the confessional." Milorila turned and walked towards the half-collapsed church. The broken stained windows cut his shadow into mottled blood clots.
They stepped through the bronze door melted by the ion cannon. Deep in the stone chamber engraved with secret codes, twelve holographic projections had been waiting for a long time.
"All members of the inner circle are present." The projection of Chief Priest Kasim spoke first. He was currently leading the Third Company to carry out another Alliance mission in the Border Star Region. "According to a secret report from our Silent Hunter brothers, the remains of the Black Armor were found at the bottom of the hive city on Gamma VII."
The holographic image suddenly switched, and the blurry battlefield record showed that a giant wearing black power armor was hit by a plasma beam on the left shoulder. Miloriela felt a sharp pain in his neural interface - the inside of the broken shoulder armor was etched with a torn Imperial Skyhawk.
"The Emperor!" A projection said excitedly, "This emblem... is of the Fallen..."
"Silence!" Milorila slammed his fist on the stone table. "Uther, verify the intelligence level."
The think tank director took out the crystal skull from his robe. When the blue flames burst out from the eye sockets, the twelve projections knelt on one knee at the same time. "Through the psychic resonance of the holy skull, it is confirmed that the genetic sequence of the remaining armor fragments matches the defector we found thirty years ago."
A genetic spiral map emerged from the flames, and a certain base pair marked in red made Milorila's pupils shrink - that was a mutation mark unique to the offspring of the Angel of Death.
A projection suddenly flashed: "The Chapter currently has 237 trustworthy Bloodsworn Brothers, 443 Outer Layer members, and 288 Alliance bastards... It is recommended that the Seventh Tactical Squad be dispatched to Gamma VII in the name of eliminating the Chaos remnants."
"Not enough." Milorila's fingers carved deep marks on the stone table. "We need at least two hundred blood-sworn brothers, and the Sword of Atonement from the Holy Relics."
"But the Alliance just took over our heavy equipment bay three months ago under the name of 'unified logistics'."
Deathly silence enveloped the stone chamber.
Uther's power armor servo suddenly made a sharp friction sound. "Those new bloods that the Alliance stuffed in... Three more were promoted to combat squad leaders yesterday. The outer brothers reported that they were secretly investigating the gene seed storage room."
Reverend Kasim's projection suddenly split into two images - this was a sign that he was exercising mental suggestion on an outer layer member in reality.
"Grand Master, perhaps it's time to make a decision. Let the outer brothers continue to play the role of the good dogs of the alliance, and we will go to Gama VII with the holy relics and the blood sworn brothers."
One person said, "But abandoning the mother planet fortress means giving up the underground sanctuary we have been operating for hundreds of years! Those confessor prisons, genetic scrolls..."
"We have to leave it to the Alliance." Miloriela stood up, the iron chains of the Confessor behind him rattling. "When they find that the Sanctuary 'happens' to contain evidence of the Chapter's collusion with Chaos... when the Outer Brothers sadly admit that they have been deceived... when the hyenas of the Inquisition pounce on us like they smell rotten meat, it will prove that we have already 'fallen'... Only in this way can we truly escape."
"It shouldn't be possible for the alliance to discover the inner ring. The bastards they stuffed in here don't know anything yet. But why is it that everyone from the alliance center to that Gu Hang seems to have determined that there is something wrong with us and keeps targeting us?"
"Don't underestimate him. Maybe he has some special methods."
"I agree with the Grand Master's order. We are carrying the highest secrets and must not disclose them to the outside world. If we continue like this, sooner or later we will lose the secrets."
“The parent group will help us build another layer of identity.”
"Communication with the parent group was reestablished yesterday, which is the guarantee of our operation."
…
The holographic projections began to flash at a high frequency, which was the psychic disturbance caused by the intense debate among the inner circle members.
Listening to the discussions, Milorila felt the blood pumping from his heart begin to heat up. This was the ancient gene lock of the Blood Oath Ring taking effect. When he untied the neck armor to reveal the dark red scar on his throat, all the projections simultaneously revealed the same mark - that was the holy mark from the mother group at the beginning of the group's establishment.
Everyone was silent. The Grand Master had made the final decision.
"Three hours later, there will be a 47-second gap when the orbital surveillance fleet changes guard." Miloriela called up the star map, and the coordinates of Gamma VII were as dazzling as blood. "We will fake a warp fluctuation alarm and take advantage of the chaos to activate the 'Wing of Ashes' battleship hidden on the back of the satellite. Cassim, inject loyalty serum into all outer brothers; Cassim, implant a level 3 chaos pollution report in the database of the mother planet; Uther... prepare to activate the sanctuary's self-destruction program."
The projection of the Chapter's Grand Apothecary Orion suddenly distorted: "Those outer brothers... after all..."
"They wear the armor of the angels of death, but have never known the weight of secrets." Miloriela pressed his palm on the Book of Truth in the confessional, and the spikes on the bronze cover pierced into the flesh. "When the flames of the Inquisition purify this place, the surviving Outer Brothers will be reborn - as a chapter truly loyal to the Alliance."
Uther suddenly raised the data tablet of a new member of the Alliance: "But the battle-brother named Alvin, he has already..."
"So you're going to accidentally leak the escape plan to him." Milorila wiped the blood off his palm and carved the final instructions on the stone table. "When our outer brothers bravely prevent us from defecting, and when the mother planet fortress is reduced to ashes in the 'crossfire', Gu Hang will only be relieved that he has one more loyal dog. And we, like our ancestors, will hide in the darkness and continue the eternal hunt."
The Chapter Master drew out the Sword of Atonement and cut his palm. The twelve projections made the same movement simultaneously, "Eternal Hunt!"
When the bell in the confessional rang for the thirty-seventh time, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded in the orbital fleet.
…
Alvin Reinark's retinal projection was bleeding. He was staring at the data stream jumping in the tactical eyepiece at this moment - those were the abnormal parameters collected by the 'Pure Fire Brotherhood' he secretly established in the past three months.
He is a member of the Alliance and one of the earliest warriors to join the Unforgotten Oath Chapter.
After joining the regiment, he quickly demonstrated his excellent level and was quickly promoted internally. Now, he is the flag sergeant of the third company. According to tradition, if his company commander encounters any accident, he will be the closest person to take over as the company commander of the third company.
For a new recruit who has been in the regiment for less than five years, this promotion speed is really outrageous. No matter who sees it, it cannot be said that the Unforgettable Oath is internally squeezing out new blood from the alliance.
Everyone in the regiment seemed to be very polite. The captain respected him, and the soldiers under his command trusted him and fully executed his combat orders.
All in all, everything seems to be normal.
However, he himself felt otherwise.
The atmosphere within the group was alienated. The relationships between everyone seemed polite but distant.
At first, he thought it was a kind of battle group culture, and he actively integrated into it and remained cautious.
But soon, he couldn't bear it anymore.
It seemed like an instinct coming from deep in his genes that made him want to unite some of the warriors to dispel the uneasiness in his heart.
And who can he choose?
Of course, they are the new bloods from the alliance just like him.
He secretly established a society within the regiment.
This is the origin of the 'Pure Fire Brotherhood'.
Originally, he was quite uneasy about such behavior, always wondering if he had done something disloyal, and even wanted to confess to the regiment priest.
Of course, he didn't do it in the end. After hesitating again and again, he remained silent. It wasn't until a private letter from Gu Hang, which was burned after reading, was given to him through the "Space Warrior Coordination Committee" under the "Dark Side Control Committee" that the conflict in his heart was immediately eliminated.
In the letter, Gu Hang expressed his concerns about the internal problems of the Unforgotten Oath Chapter, believing that there were some unknown problems and hidden dangers within the Chapter, which might lead to the end of the Chapter and affect the fate of the Alliance and human society. On this basis, Gu Hang instructed Alvin to investigate all the unusual things within the Chapter and report them as much as possible. Only in this way can the purity of the Chapter be guaranteed and the Chapter be prevented from going further and further down the road of no return.
After hearing these words, Alvin Reinak completely put aside his concerns.
In fact, I didn't have much concerns at first.
He may just need a reason to convince himself.
He happily developed his Pure Fire Brotherhood within the Unforgotten Oath, so that the total number of people in the brotherhood has reached 126.
This almost accounts for half of the new Alliance blood in the regiment.
The remaining people who have not been introduced are a group of targets that need to be tested. They must also be contacted step by step by the Brotherhood to make sure that they can keep the secrets of the association before they can be introduced.
The mission of the entire association is to investigate secrets that may be hidden within the chapter and to fight for the alliance and for the human race.
However, recently, Alvin made some new discoveries.
It seemed that some secret societies had been formed among the more than one hundred new members of the alliance who had not been introduced into the society, but they were generally not very large in scale; further, he even discovered that some small secret societies seemed to have been formed within the Pure Fire Brotherhood.
He is very calm.
It's normal. Everyone has their own little secrets. We can tolerate it.
He also joined two of his own.
As long as everyone's mentality and goals can be consistent within this large association of the Pure Fire Brotherhood, that will be enough.
He is quite confident about this, and the brotherhood is still very united.
In terms of investigating the secrets within the regiment, they have gradually achieved some results.
The first was to investigate the Chapter's gene-seed storage, which took quite a bit of work, but finally yielded some results: they found that the Chapter had retained some gene-seeds, which was not the right thing to do. If the Chapter was truly loyal, they should have handed over all of their gene-seeds and not kept any of them.
He had already found a way to pass this information back to the people in the Space Marine Management Association who were specifically liaising with him.
New orders were sent back from the Alliance Center. First, they commended them for their intelligence, which they considered to be very important.
Otherwise, they are asked to hold back for the time being.
This alone is not enough to convict the Unforgotten Oath Chapter. It would be best if we could find some new and decisive evidence.
The Brotherhood began to review some past records of secret operations within the regiment, hoping to find some clues.
But this step was quite difficult to do. Because during the Dark Side Expedition, they began to frequently undertake combat missions. Alvin also noticed that the probability of death and injury in combat missions for all the new bloods of the Alliance, and even the brothers of the Brotherhood of Pure Fire, was far higher than the average casualties of other regiments except them.
This made him realize that there were indeed many secrets within the regiment. No matter how reasonable the combat orders were, the final result was like this, and they were the ones who were deceived.
This gave Alvin a greater sense of urgency, so much so that he took the risk of doing some "tricks" on several senior members of the regiment so that he could track the target at any time.
Within the Brotherhood, there is a battle brother named Shaka who has outstanding psychic talent but concealed his talent when joining the chapter and did not enter the chapter's think tank. He can help do this.
Just now, Shaka suddenly found him and told him an urgent matter: the senior members of the regiment suddenly made unusual movements. They gathered together abnormally, and without any orders from the Alliance military, they boarded the spacecraft and headed to the back of the first satellite of Luku Star.
Just when he was hesitating about this, an order came from his company commander, asking him to lead his squad, assemble and act together.
(End of this chapter)
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