Oedmeir activated the Warp engines once more. With the experience of Warp-surfing the first time, it took far less time to find the raging waves on her second trip in.
The warship was hurled a great distance by the waves. Oedmeir guided it out of the Warp and returned to the Big Hotel Galaxy.
"Just over a week. We didn't waste too much time."
Oedmeir told Rebecca to remain aboard the colossal ship for now. Once she had built the production line and installed the Gellar Field, Oedmeir would write a new AI operating system for the ship herself.
Watching Oedmeir hurry down from the shuttle, Lin Fan felt that she was simply too busy. He could only hope Delia would soon understand the several books Oedmeir had given her, or that the stubborn Perturabo would decide to lend Lin Fan a hand.
As he thought of Delia, Lin Fan spotted her running toward him from afar. She was still wearing the red robes of the Adeptus Mechanicus, looking both excited and awkward, like she had done something wrong.
"Hi!" Lin Fan raised a hand to greet Delia, but she did not respond. She only hugged him tightly.
"Cough, cough... You need to come with me right away. I did something... not very good?" Delia lifted her head, uncertainty written all over her face and in her voice.
Lin Fan raised an eyebrow, unsure what Delia meant. He gestured for her to wait a moment, then dragged Perturabo, who was locked inside a stasis field, out of the shuttle.
"Is that a freezer?"
"It's a stasis field, though it does look a lot like a freezer."
"This is... a naked Space Marine?"
"Shh." Lin Fan motioned for Delia to lower her voice. "This is a traitorous primarch. We happened to