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Chapter 642: How did corruption occur?
There were some quarrels between the commanders-in-chief on the northern and southern fronts of the empire's suppression of the rebellion.

To be honest, in the public opinion field throughout the empire, Gu Hang is definitely the one who suffers.

What kind of reputation does the Black Crusaders’ fleet marshal have? What kind of reputation does Gu Hang have?
Although in terms of status, both of them are theater commanders; in terms of actual power, the two are also very different. Gu Hang's assets are all his, unlike Le Luwa, who is actually just a temporary leader. Le Luwa has the powerful Black Crusaders behind him, but he is not the Supreme Marshal of the Black Crusaders, while Gu Hang actually controls three star regions, and two more star regions are about to be conquered. In total, he has more than 2,000 worlds under his command, which is definitely stronger than Le Luwa.

However, he is a Space Marine and the famous Fleet Marshal of the Black Crusade. His fighting figure has appeared in many places in the Empire, and his battle stories have been widely spread and recognized.

In this regard, Gu Hang is far behind.

Gallardo did use various methods to promote Gu Hang on Holy Terra. The stories about him defeating the big devil, saving the world, and defeating the green-skinned orcs were really good. His actions were even more artistically arranged, emphasizing heroism.

But what the people of the empire love most is the brave and fearless warriors.

Space Marines are simply cooler than psykers; pure military commanders are simply more popular than politicians who stand in the back and point fingers, hiding countless conspiracies.

What's more, Gu Hang's deeds were limited to the eastern part of the empire's eastern border. He was nothing like the Black Crusaders, showing off his power everywhere.

They are also a war group with thousands of years of history, and they have accumulated an unknown amount of reputation, which is something Gu Hang cannot compare to.

Gu Hang’s voice was not loud enough to compete with the other party.

However, Gu Hang did one thing right: not falling into the trap of self-justification.

When it comes to "confrontation", you should never make excuses. If someone scolds you, just explain that you didn't do it, and don't talk nonsense, or you will be scolded for the rest of your life.

The person who is speaking opens his mouth, and the person who is arguing has to talk until his mouth is broken.

This is especially true when there is a gap in the volume of voices between the two sides.

The first to hear Le Ruwa scolding Gu Hang were people from various chapters, commanders of different star armies, people from the Inquisition...but when Gu Hang spoke, his own men could hear him, so the volume was lower outside.

At this time, you have to spray back and spray at the person.

You say that I am seeking separatism and preserving my strength, then I will scold you for only caring about your head and not your butt for the sake of military merit, which will lead to failure.

It's not just about accusing each other, Gu Hang really thinks so.

Ever since the Iron Armor Regiment defeated the Phoenix on the western front and entered the Magre Universe, their actions seemed quite strange to Gu Hang.

As for offensive, there was indeed one. In a very short period of time, they almost swept through thousands of worlds in the Magre Universe, as if the main force was split up and they attacked here and there.

The momentum was huge, especially with the reputation of defeating the Phoenix before, it was really frightening.

But Gu Hang still felt it was strange. Their mighty momentum was like duckweed without a foundation. Without a strategic focus, they just kept expanding the area of ​​attack. Sooner or later, they would have to vomit out everything they had eaten.

Even if Gu Hang could understand that they were trying to spread the Zerg infection and turn more worlds into a source of soldiers for direct biomass conversion, they did do so to a certain extent. However, each planet had resistance and would not be willing to be eaten so easily. Since the Iron Armor's power was too dispersed, the resistance of many worlds could not be suppressed quickly due to insufficient power.

How far can the Zerg infestation spread? And how much biomass can it eat?

Facts proved that Gu Hang was right.

When the Western Front was reorganized and the Ortopis Regiment led by Salilius returned to the battlefield as the core, large areas of the Magre Realm were quickly regained and the Iron Armor was completely wiped out.

According to reports from the Western Front, Ironclad's forces were widely dispersed, and they caught Ironclad several times on small battlefields, most of which ended in victory.

But after carefully analyzing their report - which he obtained from Gallardo - Gu Hang believed that the situation on the Western Front was far less optimistic than what Salilius had reported.

The Ironclads were beaten to silence, and the main forces on the Western Front were indeed advancing triumphantly. However, hidden beneath these brilliant battle reports was the fact that they had never annihilated the main forces of the Ironclads in a key battle in an organized and large-scale manner. Even their victories in small-scale battles, if you look closely, were mostly against rebels, cultists, and clusters of infected people that developed on the home planets of various planets. The few records of exchanges of fire with the elite of the Princess Legion or even the Ironclad Space Marines were all written about in great detail, but if you look closely, you can see that the words such as "rout" and "expel" were used between the lines, and there were relatively few words such as "eliminate" and "kill".

This is what Gu Hang saw, ignoring the fact that the battle report was inflated.

Can battle reports be so accurate? To be honest, even the well-disciplined Alliance army can't do that.

Not to mention the deliberate dilution, battlefield statistics themselves are quite complicated, with many situations, and sometimes some estimates are needed - to put it bluntly, they are made up.

Even Gu Hang, with the alliance's battle reports, had to compare them with the battle reports given by his system after each war in order to confirm some data.

Gu Hang didn’t think the report submitted by Salilius would be reliable.

Combined with the information Gu Hang got from Varuk, he pieced together a very likely fact.

There must be something seriously wrong with the Queen's larva that the Iron Armor Legion got hold of back then.

After it was handed over to Varuk for research, some results were achieved in the beginning. The Queen of Zerg, which was gradually growing, seemed to be controlled by the equipment developed by Varuk, and was able to help humans control the Zerg swarm as Iron Armor and the Alfonzo sect hoped, forming a chain of humans controlling the Queen of Zerg and the Queen of Zerg controlling the Zerg swarm.

Since then, Iron Armor has achieved unprecedented development. They can not only obtain a large amount of resource support from the Empire through the threat of the Zerg, but also build their own independent kingdoms in the Princess Star Region and even in various places in the entire Spider Web Universe without any worries.

If anyone disobeys or refuses to comply, release the swarm of insects.

The reason why the Zerg cooperates so well is naturally because of their control.

This was true even for the center of the empire.

Holy Terra doesn't believe what we said about the Zerg threat? Then let you see for yourself. After seeing it and believing it, the necessary resources will be allocated, and then Iron Armor will take action - there is no need to fight desperately, just use the Zerg Queen to divert the Zerg away.

At this stage, both Tiekai and Alfonzo still felt that everything was under their control.

They didn't think about expanding the size of the Zerg to the limit, let alone respecting the Zerg. In Tiekai's view, the Void Zerg was just a tool of his own, a biological weapon. Alfonzo also believed that it was a huge source of scientific and technological progress. By studying the structure of the Zerg and raising the Zerg, precious biological materials could be obtained; by studying the organization of the Zerg, new technological inspiration could be obtained; by studying the extreme individuals in the Zerg, whether it was the powerful Hive Tyrant or the Brain Tyrant, research in biochemical machines, psychic machines, etc. could make great progress.

Some of the biotechnology developed by Varuk even leaked out.

Members of the Mechanicus always have the habit of modifying their bodies. Normal Mechanicus believe that machinery is a kind of beauty, binary information is a noble evolution, and flesh and blood are not worth mentioning. However, there are also some sects that are proficient in genetic modification and biochemical modification, and go in the direction of mutation.

The original Alfonzo sect was a relatively normal Mechanicus, but the high-level biotechnology that gradually spread out aroused the interest of many people. They used some cultivated Zerg materials to make some mechanical and biological body structures and modified their own bodies.

The sect also developed some potions that could greatly improve physical fitness and mental concentration after injection, giving people incredible strength and almost no side effects. These precious injectable drugs were also used as combat drugs within the Iron Armored Regiment.

So far, everything is good.

But when Gu Hang heard it, he felt a little cold.

Use the bodies and gene fragments of the Zerg to build materials to modify yourself... Use the genes of the Zerg to make medicines and inject them into your body to strengthen your body...

My goodness!

If you don't corrupt, who will?

After hearing this, Gu Hang was not surprised at all about the subsequent complete loss of control.

But in reality, no one knows when all this got out of control.

It wasn't that one day, the Queen of Insects suddenly appeared out of nowhere and took control of all of them.

Gu Hang speculated that it was more like a silent process.

Using the Zerg to force the Empire is always dishonorable, and it is highly confidential within Iron Armor and Alfonzo, and only a few people can access it. And it is precisely these highest levels of power that are corrupted first.

Their understanding of the Queen of Insects, from the beginning, was a tool, a biological weapon, they only valued and were wary of it, but slowly, it turned into respect, thinking that it was very useful, and that the Queen of Insects was always gentle and well controlled. Later, they worshipped her, thinking that the power of the Void Insect Swarm was very great. Until finally, they were completely controlled and called the Queen of Insects "the Princess".

Naturally, if there is a princess, there should be something higher.

Varuk called it the 'Supreme Mother'.

He repeatedly said that the Supreme Mother was about to descend upon this universe, and that she would devour everything and take away all living things. Everyone who believed in the Supreme Mother would become a part of the Supreme Mother, and everyone would be able to obtain eternal life, and everyone would be an ascended god, forever indestructible. Those who did not believe in the Supreme Mother were the lowest of the lowly bugs, who would only be devoured and digested, and eventually all traces and meanings of their existence would be wiped out from this universe.

The above information was all dug out by Gu Hang from Varuk.

The excavation process was quite difficult.

Gu Hang initially planned to use psychic power to directly search the brain of this great sage, but failed.

As a great sage, Varuk's body modification is very high. Generally speaking, the Mechanicus is relatively tolerant of body modification. The bottom line is that you cannot modify your brain, and you are only allowed to put a chip inside. Of course, there may be many people who secretly cross the bottom line. If they are discovered, there will definitely be big problems, but as long as the things in your brain are not exposed too obviously, who would do a craniotomy to check it out for no reason?

Who dares to examine a great sage?

Varuk's brain had changed a long time ago, and he would certainly use the biological technology he got from the Zerg on his own brain.

When dissected, the shape of the brain is completely different from that of a human brain.

Moreover, he - or should I say 'it', can no longer find a clear soul. The image he projected into the subspace was more like a shadow, a black hole, a part cut out of the subspace, unlike a normal creature, whose soul was bound to the material basis.

The biological structure is different and there is no soul. Even if Gu Hang wanted to piece together the facts completely from his memory, it would be impossible.

But fortunately, this guy has been getting more and more crazy since he was captured. Although it is quite difficult to communicate with him, and he often speaks incoherently, the best thing is that you can still talk to him, and if you ask him some questions, he will always answer them from a weird angle.

The above information was slowly pieced together from his crazy words during such difficult questioning.

There are bound to be many places that are inconsistent with the actual situation. But, overall, it should be quite credible.

The last time Gu Hang communicated with Gallardo, he told his political ally in Holy Terra all the information he had obtained and expressed his concerns.

The two discussed it and made a decision.

First, a ship will come from Holy Terra. A team of the most elite from the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Military Affairs will come to pick up the Great Sage Varuk. The Church of Mars is very interested in him, and the High Lords of Holy Terra are also very interested in publicly trying and punishing such a great traitor.

A living Varuk could fetch a high price, and in this rebellion his value was probably second only to that of the great traitor Humphrey Paul.

In addition, Gallardo also expressed his attention to Gu Hang's warning.

But he also said tactfully that he could not control the actions on the northern and western fronts. The two commanders-in-chief had the greatest authority. He could only package the intelligence and tell them.

(End of this chapter)