"She ate a whole month's worth of our rations just for an interrogation."
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Munch, munch, munch.
The metal bulkhead reflected a pair of constantly working cheeks.
She just held the energy bar like that, biting into it piece by piece. Although it was hard, she still ate it.
Xiao Huasheng sat cross-legged in the center of the interrogation room, the packaging boxes of the energy bars piled up beside her almost burying her shoulders.
With every bite she took, the crisp sound of the energy bar created a peculiar echo in the confined space.
A Ultramarines servo-skull hovered at the doorway, its optical lens constantly adjusting its focal length.
It had already recorded the entire process of the target eating continuously for seventeen hours.
Those condensed nutrition blocks, which were supposed to support the high-intensity combat of the Space Marines, were vanishing into that seemingly delicate mouth at a rate of two per minute.
"So hard, and way too sweet—sweet to the point of being a bit bitter."
Xiao Huasheng muttered complaints while continuously devouring the energy bars.
Visible to the naked eye, even though Lobotomy Corporation was temporarily inactive, her energy bar kept rising.
After eating some weird energy bars, her energy quickly rose to the level of 77%.
"Looks like my mouth isn't entirely useless, after all."
Xiao Huasheng rejoiced that she could still normally acquire energy through food.
By the time she shoved the last energy bar into her mouth, amidst a crunching sound, her energy stopped at the 80% mark.
I think you can try the iron box on the ground; who knows, these things might also turn into energy? If things that aren't food can be eaten too, maybe we won't have to worry about dying.
Angela offered a suggestion.
Realizing that this place was entirely a spaceship, this piece of news—which practically exceeded Xiao Huasheng's comprehension—also made her understand one thing.
Running away was useless anyway, unless she wanted to keep company with the silent deep space.
Xiao Huasheng thus abandoned the thought of escaping and sat there honestly to serve her time.
Now the more critical thing was to find some other ways to provide energy.
Eating food with her mouth was a feasible approach.
Xiao Huasheng had forcefully eaten her energy bar straight up from 40% to 80%, and had that big blue guy not stubbornly refused to provide her with food anymore,
she felt she could have eaten all the way to 100%.
Looking at the iron box on the ground, Xiao Huasheng hesitated for a moment before finally biting down on it.
Crunch, crunch, she tossed the iron box into her mouth, but lacking the strength to bite through these iron boxes, she could only waste her effort.
"Can't bite through it."
The servo-skull also saw the scene of her biting the iron box.
Angela's voice rang out as she friendly recommended a new function to Xiao Huasheng.
Although the Anti-Memetics Department hasn't researched it out yet, I did research a new thing during this process.
"What thing?"
Reality Bender Mode. I discovered that we possess reality-warping abilities. They were previously suppressed by the Reality Stabilization Anchors, so we failed to notice them. Being able to casually pull out guns was precisely because of this ability, but this ability consumes a lot of energy, so I turned it into a mode.
"Reality Bender Mode?" Xiao Huasheng actually knew what this meant.
It meant whatever you thought of would instantly manifest.
For instance, if Xiao Huasheng thought the world ought to be loving, then it would be loving toward Xiao Huasheng.
Of course, this process was continuous and required consuming a massive amount of Xiao Huasheng's energy.
Moreover, once Xiao Huasheng turned off this mode, she would lose this ability.
However... the changes she inflicted on others would not revert to their original state.
Unless the other party was near a Reality Stabilization Anchor, clearing away her influence.
Turn on this mode and just think that you have the strength to bite through this box. I've also capped the energy consumption of this mode at 90%, leaving us with 10% so we won't instantly drop dead.
"Got it."
Nodding, she casually activated the Reality Bender's ability.
She opened her mouth and slowly bit toward the iron box. Almost instantly, the iron box was bitten right through by her.
The box that she previously had no way of biting open went straight into Xiao Huasheng's mouth in a split second.
Yet with just this single bite, her energy dropped from 80% to 79%. This was quite a massive consumption.
Even firing 100 destructive explosive bullets simultaneously wouldn't consume as much energy as this single bite.
This frightened her into hastily turning off this mode. So much energy consumption!
The Angel is exploring her own body!
Chapter 45: Blood Ravens Broke into the House [3-in-1]
However, at least the iron box went into Xiao Huasheng's belly, and she swallowed it.
Yet the anticipated increase in energy did not appear; instead, she felt like she had eaten a whole lot of nothing.
"Eh."
She stuck out her little tongue, wanting to spit the iron back out, but it seemed to have vanished entirely.
"Where did it go?" Xiao Huasheng was immensely shocked.
Inside me.
Angela responded. Clearly, she found a severed piece of the iron box inside Lobotomy Corporation.
Amidst her confusion, Xiao Huasheng saw the fragments of the iron box she had just eaten appear in her own hands.
Could her stomach be connected to Lobotomy Corporation?
After a while.
She tried to start gnawing on the iron box again, but the anticipated super-strong bite force did not appear.
Crunch, crunch, she still couldn't bite through it.
It seems that even if this body is affected by its own reality-warping ability, it will revert to its original state once the ability is removed.
The red-haired angel said nothing, merely chewing blindly on the iron box.
While she was crunching and grinding on the box like she was grinding her teeth,
clatter.
Suddenly, the mouth of the conduit above her head fell off.
Nobody knew why there was a conduit inside the prisoner-holding room, nor did anyone know which genius designed it.
But anyway, this opening just dropped right out like that.
From inside it, a head poked out. Raising her head, Xiao Huasheng saw nothing but a red helmet.
The two stared at each other in blank dismay.
(PS: In the official episodes, there really is a rescue via a conduit—roughly a plot about the encounter between a mortal rat and two Space Marines.)
The next second.
Xiao Huasheng felt her hand grabbed, and her whole person vanished into the conduit.
"Quack! What are you doing?!"
Xiao Huasheng was snatched away on the spot by some inexplicable person. She was tied around his waist like that, hauled along as he carried her.
At the same time, she watched as this person dragged a large sack behind him while traveling through the conduit.
She instinctively felt this fellow was acting sneaky and didn't look like a good person at all.
Right at this moment, this guy painted entirely in red stretched out a single finger toward her and spoke.
"Shh, I'm here to rescue you."
"Re—really?" Xiao Huasheng asked a question, and the man nodded with absolute certainty.
Thus she also covered her mouth and stopped moving.
Angela silently complained.
I reckon this guy is a thief; he's here on this ship to steal things.
"Never mind all those things, just tell me whether you brought me out of prison or not." Xiao Huasheng similarly muttered under her breath.
Seeing that Xiao Huasheng had no sound either, the man didn't bother with much else, abducting her as he ran.
Within the complex conduits of this gigantic ship, this fellow seemed to have conducted prior reconnaissance; every time they were about to be discovered, he evaded detection by just the right margin, slipping away completely unnoticed.
If he was a thief, this guy was definitely a saint of thieves.
"A distress signal has been transmitted from Macragge."
At this moment, a voice rang out, but what followed right after was inexpressible intelligence.
"What?"
All the Ultramarines gathered around, and soon they witnessed a scene they had never seen in their lives.
The footage transmitted through the comms channel plunged all the Ultramarines into a brief, dead silence.
In the orbit of the defensive planets surrounding Macragge, several massive battle moons were suspended.
These terrifying celestial bodies pieced together from Orks technology had surfaces covered in crude turrets, rocket arrays, and buzzing energy fields.
Their gravitational disturbances even warped the planets' atmospheres; storms raged across the oceans, while Orks drop pods slammed into the cities like a rainstorm.
"This is impossible..." a warrior whispered, his voice sounding exceptionally muffled beneath his helmet.
"What is that? How could Orks build such a thing?" Another person gripped their boltgun, their knuckles turning white from exertion.
Their homeworld was burning.
Deep within the Ultramar Core Sector.
Merely letting the Orks approach their cities broke the hearts of these Ultramarines.
In the projection, the defensive array of the Ultramarines was driven back step by step under the Orks' overwhelming firepower. Orbital defense platforms exploded one after another, transforming into burning wreckage that plummeted toward the surface.
Orks warships blotted out the starry sky like a swarm of locusts, and what was even more unsettling was that those battle moons didn't seem to be mere weapons of war.
Those battle moons would devastate entire planets, extracting useful materials from them while spraying the excess material toward the ships.
The captain roared, his voice echoing in the comms channel, "You've got to be kidding me?!"
"We must warp back to reinforce them immediately!" a veteran roared, his power fist buzzing with anger. "With every single second of delay, brothers are dying!"
"All hands, combat stations," he ordered. "Upon translating from warp, all operational gunships and assault craft are to immediately organize a vanguard force to force their way into the atmosphere. We will not let the Orks defile our homeworld, even if we fight to the last man."
The Ultramarines roared in unison, their oaths echoing through the comms channel.
"For the Emperor! For the Primarch!"
They would not wait.
They would not retreat.
With steel and fury, they would reclaim their world.
The Orks' battle moons had already ascended over Macragge, and in an instant, this galaxy was submerged by the green tide.
Yet soon enough, their hot blood was doused by a basin of cold water.
The Chapter Master, the current Lord of Macragge, Saul the Unyielding, patched into this channel.
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