Utterly Idle

In the eastern sector of the T'au Empire, Lin Fan suddenly sneezed, causing his operation to capture the fleeing Hive Tyrant to fail.

"Who's talking about me?" Lin Fan muttered, kicking a pouncing Hell Executioner away.

The Hive Tyrants on the Macragge battlefield had evolved to the point where they could cleave apart Dreadnoughts and ram Leman Russ tanks aside.

But the Hive Tyrant here had clearly evolved in another direction. It had become more agile and harder to detect; even Lin Fan had needed to put in considerable effort to catch this cunning tyrant.

The buzzing roar of a motorcycle came from the sky. Khan had pieced together an anti-gravity bike suited to his tastes using T'au Empire weapons and equipment.

Logically, an anti-gravity bike should not have made such a loud noise, but Khan claimed that riding a bike without hearing its engine was no fun, so he had deliberately installed wind whistles to imitate the buzzing roar of a motorcycle.

"Hey!" Jaghatai greeted Lin Fan before speeding off in another direction.

Had Jaghatai spotted some other bug he liked again?

Rubbing his chin, Lin Fan thought about how, ever since the fighting in the eastern sector of the T'au Empire had eased, Jaghatai had become obsessed with catching and training bugs, like a trainer collecting Pokémon.

"Ah... a man who lassos bugs." Sitting atop a pile of insect corpses, Lin Fan casually grabbed a chunk of flesh and stuffed it into his mouth. He was not hungry; he just found having an empty mouth rather boring.

The Rippers in the corpse pile did not dare approach Lin Fan, and Lin Fan could not be bothered to kill bugs that he could crush by the dozen with a single step.

These bugs had become very clever lately. The