You're Right, But Numerology Is

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"I hope what she studied wasn't numerology," Zhou Yun blurted out instinctively.

Lena froze for a moment, then blinked. "What numerology?"

"Uh..."

Zhou Yun blinked, unsure how to explain it for a moment.

Was he supposed to tell Lena:

Numerology was a brand-new open-world adventure game independently developed by Mortarion, set in a fantasy world called the "Warp"?

That awkward little primarch Mortarion had definitely inherited The Emperor's stubborn refusal to admit anything.

He had clearly already joined Chaos, and Nurgle and a whole group of Great Unclean Ones were standing right in front of him, yet he still tried to use the "science" of numerology to explain the Warp.

He even turned around and condemned others for being superstitious.

"What I use is numerology. What you use is superstitious witchcraft!"

"It's an advanced field of study that uses mathematical logic to explain the Warp." Zhou Yun took a deep breath and explained.

Lena could not help frowning. "That sounds like something blasphemous."

"The mathematician I'm talking about doesn't study that kind of improper nonsense."

Lena explained:

"She is an actuary from the Upper Hive. She usually helps noble factories calculate their accounts, and studies mathematics in her spare time."

"How is an actuary and mathematician supposed to help you find the Warp engine?"

Zhou Yun's eyelid twitched slightly as a bad feeling rose in his heart.

A mathematician. In this galaxy, studying mathematics was hardly a safe profession.

"Don't tell me she calculated it through rigorous mathematics?"

Could she have been corrupted by Tzeentch and received revelations from numbers?

Zhou Yun did not voice his thoughts.

"Why are your thoughts all so blasphemous?" Lena looked somewhat horrified.

She hurriedly lowered her head and softly prayed a few words, asking The Emperor to forgive her for hearing such blasphemous words.

"Her ancestor was the route recorder on Asford's first colony ship and possessed an ancient route archive passed down for over ten thousand years."

Lena said to Zhou Yun:

"As long as we obtain that archive, we can find the approximate location where the Asford colony ship landed in the past and determine whether the Warp engine has been dismantled."

"How do you know that actuary and Navigator has that archive?"

Zhou Yun frowned even more deeply.

"Don't tell me it was another revelation from The Emperor?"

Lena's gaze shifted slightly at Zhou Yun's words. "It wasn't."

The suspicion in Zhou Yun's eyes only deepened.

"I have a reliable source of information." Lena's voice brimmed with confidence.

Noticing that Zhou Yun's gaze was still filled with deep doubt, Lena placed a finger on the Scripture of the Word tattoo on her cheek again.

"I swear to The Emperor that my source is absolutely reliable and does not come from revelation, prophecy, or Warp hallucinations."

Zhou Yun withdrew his suspicious gaze, but the doubt in his heart did not lessen in the slightest.

"So what do you want me to do?" Zhou Yun looked at Lena and asked.

A smile curled across Lena's lips. "Originally, I only wanted to hire you to go to the Lower Hive and retrieve the Warp engine."

"After all, you seem to have some ability to transport large objects. Don't deny it—the pile of automatic infantry guns wasn't small or light."

I didn't deny it, Zhou Yun complained inwardly.

"But now that I've seen what you can do, I want you to come with me to the Upper Hive and steal that archive," Lena said.

"You and me, going to the Upper Hive together?"

Zhou Yun's mouth twitched.

This leader of the Ark Gang always managed to give Zhou Yun countless things to complain about in a single sentence.

"First question: why you and me together?"

"Second question: how do you plan to get to the Upper Hive?"

Zhou Yun stared at Lena as he spoke.

The PDF guarded the passage between the Upper Hive and the Lower Hive.

Granted, both Lena and Zhou Yun had some degree of strength, and Lena's beguiling words had an advantage against organized forces.

But... an illegal psyker forcibly breaking through the checkpoint between the Upper Hive and Lower Hive—

How was that any different from openly rebelling? What, did she want to taste the iron fists of the Cadian Shock Troops?

The Astra Militarum stationed near Asford were the famed Cadian Shock Troops.

Forget an illegal psyker like Lena—even if a Chaos Daemon showed up, those Cadian supermen would dare charge it.

"Why me? Because only I know where that archive is."

Lena answered, but she hesitated somewhat when faced with the second question.

"I'm trying to open up a route. There might be results soon..."

Unreliable. This woman was completely unreliable.

Zhou Yun quickly came to a conclusion.

Her so-called route was probably smuggling into the Upper Hive.

And they were going to the Upper Hive to steal something. Security there was nothing like that of the Lower Hive.

If she got caught and her identity as an illegal psyker was exposed—

Warning: Cadian iron fists!

"I'll pay more!" Noticing Zhou Yun's expression, Lena said without hesitation.

Faced with Zhou Yun's possible refusal, Lena chose to raise the price directly.

In her experience, as long as the pay was high enough, someone would always be willing to take the risk.

"You really are..."—Zhou Yun paused—"a terrible judge of people."

Lena immediately froze in embarrassment.

Zhou Yun looked at Lena with an indifferent expression.

Pay more? The whole reason he made money was to stay alive!

He stroked his chin as an idea gradually surfaced in his mind.

He had thought of a way to reach the Upper Hive safely and legally.

"I can consider it." Zhou Yun suddenly changed his tone and spoke.

After leaving the Ark Gang's hideout, Zhou Yun walked through the crowded streets of the hive city with his head lowered in thought.

"You seem troubled. Do you need an Emperor Tarot reading?"

As he spoke, the winged figure in the white light took out a deck of cards glowing with white radiance.

Zhou Yun glanced at him, thought for a moment, and said, "Does that woman truly have no signs of Chaos corruption?"

"No, but her psychic signature is very strange," said the winged figure in the white light.

"Strange?" Zhou Yun raised an eyebrow.

"Yes. Her psychic potential does not seem entirely innate. It is more like it was deliberately induced."

Listening to the winged figure in the white light, Zhou Yun fell into brief thought.

The winged figure in the white light gently beat his wings and asked the pondering Zhou Yun:

"What are you thinking? That child has not been corrupted by Chaos, but she is indeed somewhat abnormal."

"Me?"

Hearing the winged figure in the white light, Zhou Yun broke into a brilliant smile.

"I'll learn from Rag," he answered with amusement in his voice.

"Rag? That hive gang member?" The winged figure in the white light paused in surprise. "What are you learning from him for?"

"To be a middleman!"

Zhou Yun answered with a cheerful smile, stopping at a three-way intersection before the grand statue of Sanguinius.

More precisely, he stopped at the entrance to the Sharp Spear Tavern.