Chapter 349 We All Have One Mother
If you ask how big the Blacklight is, every Blackwatch can tell you that it is a space ship that is 21 kilometers long and ten kilometers wide, equivalent to the size of a county town.
If you ask how heavy the Blacklight is, almost no one can calculate it, because no one is stupid enough to think about the weight of a space battleship, but ordinary asteroids will be affected by the gravity of the Blacklight.
But Hogg can now tell you clearly that the Black Light is very heavy, so heavy that it could smash him into the rock, smashing him to pieces and almost causing him to die.
The crash of such a huge warship was a rather terrifying thing. Fortunately, Hogg did not dissolve the dimensional shields on the soldiers, otherwise, everyone would have been torn to pieces on the spot by the huge impact.
What's even more ridiculous is that due to the extremely high level of automation of the Blacklight, the personnel inside are basically all Blackwatch soldiers, so that in the battle just now, they were either airdropped to the ground of Baal in advance, or participated in boarding and fighting with the Zerg.
There were many casualties in the whole attack. Apart from the culprit Leon who was broken into two pieces, the four Tyranids who hid in the kitchen to steal food and were then crushed by a giant ice cream machine suffered the most. The others could be resurrected a second time even if they died.
Looking at the Blacklight with a big crack in the middle in front of him, Hogg burst into tears out of heartache. His precious ship had not suffered any damage even after ten thousand years, but now it was driven away by that bastard Leon and had to drop anchor and shut down.
When Hogg thought about the astronomical amount of money that would be spent to resurrect the crew, he felt as if the sky was falling and he collapsed to the ground.
The battle in the orbit was still fierce, and war cries were heard in the mental network, but Hogg only felt it was noisy and wanted to be alone.
Luo Jia wanted to go over to comfort his big brother, but Hogg, who was less than three minutes old, stood up again, summoned his flying corgi, and rode the big dog towards the Leviathan mothership above the orbit.
Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor! Hogg could settle accounts with the culprit, Leon, later, but if it weren't for the Leviathan in the sky, his Black Light wouldn't have fallen.
It is not clear where this corgi came from, but it flies very fast. After a while, it brought Hogg to the side of the Leviathan mothership, and then hid obediently in a corner. It is truly the best dog.
After jumping onto the mothership, Hogg aimed at the consciousness he sensed and dug down. Not only did he dig, he also ate meat while digging holes. A large number of tentacles were stuffed into the mothership by Hogg through the holes.
Like Behemoth before it, the strength of the Hive Will varies according to the number of Zerg under its command, and now that Leviathan is isolated and helpless, it is at its weakest.
Unlike ordinary brainless bugs, the hive mind that commands the fleet not only has a brain, but also possesses different levels of self-awareness. Seeing Hogg entering its body, Leviathan immediately sent out the Zerg in the mothership to obstruct it.
But Hogg, who was already furious, didn't care about that. He used the dimensional lightning at full power and was determined to roast this flesh and blood mothership, which was bigger than the Blacklight, until it was half-cooked, even if he became disabled.
After realizing that he could not stop Hogg, Leviathan actually wanted to beg for mercy, but Hogg would not accept surrender. He endured the energy interference that could trigger the subspace shadow and swallowed Leviathan alive.
"What the hell, you dared to attack my ship? What country bumpkin from outside the Milky Way dared to mess with me? I think you don't know how to write the word death!"
Although his anger had subsided, Hogg was not feeling well after swallowing Leviathan. He had not completely digested the Void Dragon, and now he had eaten another being comparable to a lesser god. His whole body was bloated and uncomfortable.
While the corpse was still warm, Hogg quickly used psionic energy to infect the flesh-and-blood battleship and took over the command of the Zerg who were still fighting stubbornly.
At this point, we can see the difference between the Mind Network and the Terran Network. Although both rely on cluster computing power to enhance the mother body, one is a Gestalt layout and the other is a distributed layout.
Hogg, who was connected to the Tyranid network, felt even more uncomfortable. Countless noisy information flowed into his consciousness. He was unable to accurately command these huge numbers of insects, so he had to stop them from moving.
Seeing that Tyranids stopped attacking, Blackwatch, who received orders from his father, turned to clean up the battlefield, hoping to recover the losses of this battle. But just like the insects who were unwilling to fight the devil, Blackwatch found that there were no valuable items to be recovered. The entire battlefield was only filled with insect corpses, and the Zerg themselves had some.
This means that Blackwatch not only consumed a huge amount of supplies, but was unable to even recover the costs of cleaning up the battlefield. It was a completely loss-making business.
At this point, Hogg could only order the recycling of biomass and use the insect corpses to fill the impending financial deficit. He also wondered if he could make the Tyranids into food and sell them. After all, demons could be canned, right?
Back on the surface of Baal, the four brothers gathered at the foot of the Blacklight to discuss what to do next. Simply put, Sanguinius hoped that his brothers could lend him a hand and provide some assistance to the impoverished Blood Angels.
If it were in the past when Hogg was still a wealthy man, he would have naturally started spending lavishly and taken on the reconstruction work without the angel asking.
But things are different now. The landlord has no surplus food, the Blacklight needs to be repaired, Blackwatch needs to expand its crew, and even the dead and injured crew members need to undergo a resurrection ceremony. The things that were looted from Mars before are simply not enough.
Luojia is devoted to religious cause. To win people's hearts, he cannot just talk big. He also needs to spend money to seek benefits for believers. This money must not be saved. It is the top priority of the empire's future plans.
Not to mention Roland, who doesn't even have any offspring and relies on Hogg for food, clothing and other expenses. He is a disgrace among the Primarchs.
Just as Hogg was thinking about whether to use his last treasury, the always late Ultramarines finally arrived above Baal.
Compared with the Ultramarines who were full of energy and had not a single stain on their armor, the three legions that had held out for half a month were like mud monkeys crawling out of the ground. Even the images of the four primarchs were not decent.
Such a sharp contrast naturally aroused everyone's dissatisfaction, and the crowd began to talk. Even the ordinary leaders of the Astra Militarum were saying things like "ambitious" and "sweeping primarch".
Facing the unfriendly looks from everyone around him, Guilliman asked the four people who were deep in thought:
"Brothers, am I here at the wrong time?"
"No, you came at the right time!" ×4
He thought he would be ridiculed by his brothers, but when he heard that the four did not blame him, Guilliman hurriedly explained why he was late, blah blah...
But the four of them couldn't listen any more at this time. In their eyes, Guilliman, who kept talking, looked so cute for the first time. He was like a walking piece of gold, exuding the smell of money everywhere.
Guilliman felt goosebumps all over when he was looked at by his brothers in strange gazes. He felt as if he was going to lose something. Then three arms pressed his shoulders tightly, and Hogg even hugged his waist directly, as if he was afraid that he would run away.
Then he heard Sanguinius say:
"Brother, does Mrs. Euton still need a son?"
The four most crazy people in life: playing with guns in front of Khorne's throne, drinking soup at Nurgle's table, dividing the spoils in Tzeentch's room, and having sex on Slaanesh's bed:
The four great sorrows of life: playing with a gun before the throne of Khorne - a rifle; drinking soup at the table of Nurgle - thick soup
Tzeentch's house was divided up - lost everything; Slaanesh's bed was Porn - fucked
(End of this chapter)