Lena noticed Zhou Yun's gaze,
It was the look one gave a fool, full of pity, amusement, and mockery.
Lena could practically read the words in Zhou Yun's eyes: What a nice kid. Too bad she's an idiot.
Before Lena could speak, Zhou Yun scooted his chair forward and beat her to it.
"Do you eat sunflower seeds?" he asked Lena with utter sincerity. "Where I come from, after teasing a fool, you usually have to buy them some sunflower seeds."
Looking at Zhou Yun's earnest expression, Lena felt her anger rise, her face burning hot.
"I'm serious." She gritted her teeth. "You should be a little more serious too."
"I am serious. Actually, I have an idea too."
Zhou Yun could not help smiling.
"Why don't we save up some money and build a border wall at the edge of Asford, keeping all those Tyranids outside?"
"To support future tourism, we could even cover the wall inch by inch with tiles."
Lena clenched her fists, her face flushing crimson.
She took a deep breath and said through gritted teeth, "I really want to fire a Psykana cannon shell and turn your mouth into minced meat."
"Then you'll have to get in line." Zhou Yun smiled.
Lena snorted and looked at Zhou Yun. "I'm already building that ark."
"Hm?" Zhou Yun raised an eyebrow.
"Seven or eight years ago, following a prophecy, I found the wreckage and blueprints of an ancient slave transport ship."
Lena looked at Zhou Yun.
"The structure of a slave transport ship isn't complicated, and it has very few weapon systems. It was used by merchants in the past."
"As long as there are enough of them, even hive workers can build one."
"Ever since the Ark Gang was founded, I've been organizing people to construct this ark. It's nearly complete now."
As though trying to prevent Zhou Yun from interrupting with questions, Lena continued almost without pausing for breath.
"That slave transport ship was designed to carry as many people as possible. If we squeeze in a little more, it can hold the population of the several districts currently ruled by the Ark Gang."
"I'm not planning on traveling a long distance, only making a short trip to the Baal System. The voyage won't take long, so supplies won't be hard to deal with."
Seeing Lena's serious expression, Zhou Yun could not help rubbing his brow in frustration.
Something was off. Very off.
Although there were flaws everywhere in this plan, it did have some feasibility.
Provided one ignored the biggest problem.
"You're not planning to fly from the Material Universe to Baal using conventional engines, are you?"
Zhou Yun lowered the hand from his brow, tapped the table, and asked,
"Which do you have: Navigators, a Gellar Field, or a Warp engine?"
"No Navigators."
Lena shook her head.
"But the Stygian System isn't very far from Baal. This is only a short voyage. Many merchant ships navigate through complex and tedious astronomical triangulation."
"I received a systematic mathematics education, and quite a few hive workers have mathematical foundations. The Baal System is also nearby. If we work together, we can calculate precise coordinates."
"As for the Gellar Field, I have my own way of solving that."
At this point, Lena paused.
"Do you know what a Gellar Field generator draws upon to operate?"
Zhou Yun froze when he heard that.
"Psykers. It extracts the power of unconscious psykers."
Zhou Yun spoke softly.
"Psykers can weaken the barrier between reality and the Warp, which manifests in reality as the Warp invading the Material Universe."
"But conversely, within the Warp, psykers can also create a tiny bubble of reality."
"There's a psyker sitting right in front of you." Lena pointed at herself.
She said quietly, "We don't have a Gellar Field generator, but if we continuously extract my psychic power, we can still create a Gellar Field sufficient to sustain a short voyage."
Lena spoke very calmly.
But without a Gellar Field generator, crudely pouring out psychic power to create a Gellar Field was an extremely dangerous act.
It was practically the same as using a psyker as a disposable item.
Even for a short voyage, Lena would most likely descend into madness or die outright once it was over.
"Are you planning to cosplay The Emperor?" Zhou Yun asked Lena in an even tone.
"No one can imitate The Emperor. What I intend to sacrifice is insignificant compared to what He has already sacrificed."
Lena lowered her head slightly and gently stroked the Scripture of the Word tattoo on her cheek.
"..." Zhou Yun studied Lena for a while, then nodded slightly. "That's true enough."
"A good child, full of kindness." The winged figure within the white light spoke softly by Zhou Yun's eye.
"Many terrible things in the galaxy begin with a little kindness."
Zhou Yun spoke to the winged figure within the white light in his heart.
"For example, Magnus's psychic cannon, Angron being fitted with the Butcher's Nail to protect his companions, and the Ultramarines and Word Bearers at Calth..."
The winged figure within the white light did not argue.
Zhou Yun withdrew his gaze from him and looked at Lena before him. "Then what about the Warp engine?"
"Don't tell me you plan to tear open a gateway into the Warp from thin air with your own psychic power."
Lena shook her head. "I don't have a Warp engine yet, but I know where one is."
"At the very bottom of the hive, the Warp engine from the first colony ship that colonized Asford is still there."
"Where did you learn that?" Zhou Yun frowned.
The first colony ship of Asford? Asford had been colonized back in the Dark Age!
"An enlightenment given to me by The Emperor." Lena raised her chin, looking completely confident.
Bang!!!
Zhou Yun drove his fist into Lena's head, producing a crisp sound.
Did it sound good? A good sound meant a good head!
"Ah! Why did you hit me?" Lena clutched her head and looked at Zhou Yun with an aggrieved expression.
"You didn't call me here because you wanted me to go into the lower hive and find you a Warp engine that may not even exist, did you?"
Zhou Yun said with a twitch of his mouth. He deeply regretted not putting in a little more effort earlier and simply beating this idiot illegal psyker, whose brain had been ruined by religion, to death.
"That was the original plan." Lena said quietly.
Zhou Yun raised his fist again.
"Don't hit me, don't hit me, don't hit me!"
Lena hurriedly waved her hands.
"I wasn't planning to make you go directly. I only wanted to talk to you first."
"After all, even if you went, there's a ninety-percent chance you wouldn't be able to find the engine's location."
Lena paused.
"I know someone who can confirm whether the Warp engine exists and can also determine its location."
Zhou Yun frowned. "Where is that person?"
Lena raised a finger and pointed at the ceiling.
"She's in the Upper Hive. She's considered a mathematician."
"I hope what she studies isn't numerology."
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