Foundation Exusiai, Containment Breach! Chapter 39

Chapter 43: An Angel Who Seemed to Have No Problems [1st Update]

Slaanesh's avatar paused for a moment, then chuckled softly.

"What a pity." She withdrew her hand and straightened lazily. "But... we'll meet again, little angel."

She took several steps back, her figure gradually turning transparent before finally dissolving into a wisp of pinkish-purple mist.

Only her final whisper remained in the air.

"I look forward to seeing you again, hehehe..."

Xiao Huasheng slumped to the ground, cold sweat soaking her back.

She looked up at the Silent Orchestra and found the Conductor quietly watching her.

"What is it..." Her voice gradually weakened. Having Slaanesh's avatar press so close to her had not been a pleasant experience.

The Silent Orchestra's Conductor made a request instead. "We cannot reach that place. Take us to a concert. In exchange, we are willing to follow your arrangements, little performer."

As it spoke, it took out a dazzling little crystal bead and placed it in Xiao Huasheng's palm.

"Consider this the payment," said the Conductor.

"This is..." Xiao Huasheng looked at the bead in confusion. The Orchestra had never possessed something like this in the game.

[It is the source of energy sustaining the entire Silent Orchestra. Even if the Silent Orchestra ultimately leaves us, as long as we have this bead, we can still extract energy from it.]

Angela provided the answer.

After hearing that, Xiao Huasheng nodded and pressed her hand against the Conductor's chest.

"Then promise me this: you're not allowed to casually hold concerts inside the company. I'll let you out to perform, since many people in the company simply can't withstand your singing."

"In fact, we must also prepare for this concert. To offer our audience a new experience, we need to compose new scores. It is unlikely that we will be able to hold a concert anytime soon," the Silent Orchestra's Conductor said with a smile.

"Of course, we do not mind if you come learn our music. You may also visit us when you have time. You have the talent to become a performer."

Clearly, even the Silent Orchestra considered Xiao Huasheng's ability to sing along to be exceptional talent.

After she returned the Silent Orchestra to Lobotomy Corporation.

The entire planet finally fell completely silent.

When she sensed that all the gazes upon her had vanished.

Xiao Huasheng let out a long breath and looked up at the sky.

"...I can't stand this damn place for even one more second."

[You were actually looking forward to it, weren't you?] Angela's voice chuckled softly in her mind.

"Who was looking forward to it?!"

Xiao Huasheng's cheeks turned red like a cute apple as she closed her eyes and protested with all her might.

At that moment, a ship slowly approached from above.

Xiao Huasheng, who had originally intended to leave, immediately felt herself being watched again.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Before long, three drop pods suddenly landed beside her, sealing off every route of escape.

"Croak?"

Xiao Huasheng's eyes widened as she stared at the scene in confusion.

There were more experts?!

In an instant, she saw three blue giants charge out of them and seize her without the slightest courtesy.

By the time Xiao Huasheng realized she had been captured, an absurdly heavy pair of handcuffs had already been locked onto her wrists. She could not even lift her arms.

"Target secured."

"Is this a Living Saint?"

"Doesn't look like one."

After being instantly captured by the three burly men, Xiao Huasheng had almost no room to resist.

Before she could even react, an enormous chunk of iron had already been fastened onto her.

She was yanked straight onto the ground and could not help crying out.

"Who are you people?! What are you doing?! Wuwuwu... Let me go."

The red-haired angel was pinned to the ground, wriggling pitifully as she wailed in a voice sad enough to break anyone's heart.

"First, I got tricked into coming here for no reason, then I got beaten up for no reason. After seeing all those disgusting scenes, I got molested in the end, and now I'm going to be imprisoned too? Why am I so unlucky? Wuwuwu..."

The moment Xiao Huasheng thought of her miserable fate.

She could not hold it in and began sobbing quietly.

The angel was crying.

Seeing this crying... possibly pitiful "girl?"

Strange thoughts arose in the Ultramarines' minds.

The angel before them clearly possessed wings of light and a halo, looking every bit like a Living Saint.

Yet what she had done just now made it impossible for the Ultramarines to believe that a Living Saint could have been responsible.

Not to mention that the angel before them lacked the traits of a mortal.

She did not possess the organs necessary for human reproduction. Even Astartes retained those organs.

That inhuman appearance, coupled with the angel's compassionate face, made it difficult for the Ultramarines not to wonder what exactly had happened here.

Then the captain looked across the battlefield, becoming even more certain of his suspicion.

He silently held his Boltgun and stood atop a mound of corpses.

The light of the sun pierced through the thin atmosphere behind him like blades, dyeing the entire battlefield scarlet.

As far as the eye could see, the earth itself had vanished.

In its place was a horrifying tableau paved with corpses and blood.

The massive bodies of Orks were piled into mountains in all manner of twisted poses. Their green skin had been torn apart, and muscle fibers hung from their skeletons like scraps of rags.

Many corpses had lost their heads, leaving only jagged stumps at their necks.

Even stranger, the remaining corpses seemed to express something through their limbs, most of them spreading their hands and raising them high toward the sky.

Sunlight shone upon those corpses, and the eerie sight sent a chill through the captain.

At the final moment before death descended, they had still been immersed in some ultimate ecstasy.

Blood gathered into rivers that wound across the scorched earth, reflecting the sunlight and turning the whole land into a hellish pool of blood.

The air was thick with the stench of rust. Every breath felt like swallowing death itself.

And at the center of that mountain of corpses and sea of blood.

Xiao Huasheng was held down by three Ultramarines. Her red hair was scattered messily around her, and her wings of light drooped weakly, like a captured bird.

Tear tracks still hung on her cheeks, and her lips trembled faintly, as though she might burst into tears again at any moment.

The Ultramarines' captain silently swept his gaze over the surroundings.

"What happened here?" His deep voice came through his helmet as he questioned Xiao Huasheng.

All of this was the work of the angel before him.

Although she looked so frail, almost no different from an ordinary girl.

This outcome was impossible to conceal.

Xiao Huasheng looked at the tin cans before her, and suddenly her memories were stirred.

She seemed to have seen helmets in that style before.

That was right, in front of that portal!

Those same blue helmets!

Although she still could not make sense of the situation, that faint sense of familiarity made her slowly speak up.

"I let the Silent Orchestra out, and then they died. I thought they were so strong that they could hold on a little longer."

"?"

Question marks arose in the Ultramarines' minds.

Soon, she was draped in cloth and escorted aboard the ship.

Xiao Huasheng did not want to struggle anymore. Right now, she needed to properly understand this world.

Otherwise, she had no idea how she was supposed to return.

Learning from this group might be a good choice.

And she would be personally interrogated by the Ultramarines.

Chapter 44: Weak, Pitiful, but Can Eat [2nd Update]

"Report the current situation, Brother."

"We have withdrawn the request for Exterminatus. A cleanup fleet will arrive shortly," an Astartes Brother replied.

After taking Xiao Huasheng away and explaining the situation, the ship withdrew its request for Exterminatus.

However, there appeared to be a large amount of residual Warp energy here, and a great number of Orks had died on the planet.

Therefore, if the Imperium wished to reactivate this planet, it would likely need to consider the purification process.

After inexplicably completing the mission, the captain was also deeply puzzled.

Why had the Emperor's angel appeared here...

A suspected angel of the Emperor, because that foolish-looking girl did not resemble a Living Saint no matter how one looked at her.

Yet the halo remained above her head, leaving everyone baffled.

"Could she be the product of genetic modification?"

In the end, an Ultramarine voiced his idea.

In this universe, countless civilians believed in angels, and some had even seen Living Saints.

Perhaps this girl was a mascot created by this planet to resemble an angel.

Such situations were not uncommon.

"Impossible. We cannot extract any genetic material from her at all."

Thinking back to what had happened earlier, the captain rejected that idea.

Every time they tried to collect genetic material, they could barely remove anything from her body—not even a speck of skin.

If they used a little more force, the area became as hard as if they had struck ceramite.

The captain requested that the ship remain here temporarily and had the Librarian from their homeworld use psychic power, hoping to learn something.

But when psychic power was applied to her, she remained as steady as a massive stone. No matter how much psychic power approached her, it simply flowed around her.

Like a boulder in a current, resisting the influence of psychic power.

The Librarian also admitted that there was nothing he could do.

Her characteristics had rendered every interrogation method gentle.

This gave the ship holding her a headache.

"Have you gotten anything out of her besides what she already said?"

"Not yet, but we examined her skull. It is normal," the Brother replied.

"Then leave it for now. We'll deal with it after we return to Macragge." At last, the captain gave his response.

Suddenly, the Brother responsible for the interrogation spoke again.

"Oh, there is something else I need to report."

"What is it?"