Warhammer: Decided to take the route of stars surrounding the warp

"Hey, Xiaolan, are you going to participate in the selection too?" an eleven or twelve-year-old girl asked weakly.

This is the lower part of the lower hive of the Morning Star Hive City. To put it bluntly, it is where the most despicable people on the planet live. This place is not worthy of enjoying any resources of society. Most people make a living by picking up the garbage thrown by the upper class. .

People here want to survive, so most of them have joined various gangs, while a few are homeless and living a muddle-headed existence.

Xiaolan is a pickpocket, that is, a thief in an underground gang. Of course, you can't steal anything valuable here, mainly food.

"I will never continue to live like this. This kind of life where death can be seen at a glance is just rotten wood in a rotten swamp. I want to decide my life."

"Baby, what kind of life do you want to change? Isn't it good to live?" The owner of the steam bar, known as Dad, suddenly appeared from behind, startling both children.

"You are the greatest luck to be alive. Don't you see too few dead people on the streets every day? Let me tell you, the death methods of those participating in the Astartes selection are a thousand times more tragic than them. How many can be selected? What is the proportion? How many? Less than 0.001%! With your small body, you want to compete with those well-fed and well-fed aristocratic children? What’s the difference between it and sending yourself to death?”

"Nobles? Have they ever experienced the despair of being on the verge of starving to death? Have they ever experienced extreme reactions between life and death? Have they ever rolled in the mud? Have they ever begged for food in the garbage dump? I have, I have it every day , and never continue.”

The boss looked at the begging child with complicated eyes. His young body contained a strong heart.

This tavern owner was once an all-powerful hero and the leading fierce man in the Astra Militarum. However, after experiencing the tragic death of his comrade-in-arms, he was deeply affected by the military doctor who issued a mental health diagnosis sheet stating that he was not suitable for continued service. After leaving the army, he decided to live in the hometown of his deceased comrades, and eventually opened a bar here.

As a fierce man in the Astra Militarum, it was very easy to suppress the gangs in this small nest. Except for a few difficult "wizards", no one else could beat him. Opening a shop safely, he has seen many people come here to get drunk and dream, and there are also people who come here in despair to spend all their savings and then commit suicide. However, he does not see many people with such a strong will to survive, especially as a child.

"Are you really not afraid of a painful death? Think about your friends and this little girl. No matter what your future holds, you will never see them again."

"Is there any difference between my life now and my death? After I leave, I will leave the food I saved to them. Maybe they can live longer."

"Okay, I'll go to the Scarlet Blood Gang and tell them, just go. In a week, you have to climb up there and then run to the edge of the desert. If you want to go, you have to leave now."

Xiaolan distributed the few pieces of corpse starch she had saved to several similarly miserable children. The difference was that they no longer had the courage to fight to the death.

The owner of the steam bar gave him a few protein bars as a blessing.

Xiaolan set off with a little food and water collected on his back, and he had no other property.

The formal passage up from Xiachao was either guarded by gangs or subject to strict interrogation and exploitation. Xiaolan chose a faster and more extreme method, drilling a pipe to get to the outside world.

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In an ordinary school in Zhongchao, students study the Holy Word of the Emperor. If nothing unexpected happens, they will inherit their parents' careers after graduation and continue to be ordinary white-collar workers, working day after day in boring jobs. They will burn out their vitality, starve to death and be unable to save money, then go on a blind date, and the cycle will continue for the next generation.

Now, the breaking point has come. The Astartes recruitment has arrived here. Almost all the boys are high-spirited, as if they have become space warriors, giving the emperor's wrath to those evil enemies of the empire. Girls They all complained about why the Astartes did not have the technology to transform girls and restricted the ways in which they could express their loyalty to the Empire.

Everyone is eager to leave this boring life.

Except for one person, Enke, who is known as the calculator, after a set of complex calculations, he came to the conclusion that his chance of being selected as an Astartes is approximately 0. So what are you going to do? Isn't this going to end in death? ?

Of course, it is not a conclusion drawn by simply calculating the total number of people and the number of selected people, but by comparing the known information on the Astartes recruitment process, and comparing the courses and physical training intensity of other noble schools to get the comprehensive quality of the main opponent. and the rate of meeting the requirements, and then estimated the probability of other capable people in the middle nest and the lower nest, and finally came to the general conclusion that if all the students in the school participated together, the chance of producing an Astartes was less than 1%.

He was the only student in the whole school who was studying seriously and acted as if he had no interest in this activity at all.

"Enke, let's go together. The school said that it can organize a free shuttle bus to take us there, and if necessary, it can also provide all the meals before the game." Enke's friend Frosa is dragging him to participate in the selection.

"That's useless. I trust my data. I don't think the school's doing this will have any impact on the probability."

"Did you take into account the special characteristics of the Chapter and human psychology when calculating the data?"

............

"these things......"

"So I think your calculations are wrong."

"Data cannot lie, as long as the deviation is corrected..."

"I'm going to prove it to you. Do you want to come with me?"

"Frosa, you know you have no chance of success."

"You know, Enke, some things cannot be digitized, and we are not data. I am going to take a chance on the future."

Alas, Enke finally got on the school bus to the edge of the desert. To look at the "variables" outside the data.

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In the upper nest, in the luxurious mansion of Archduke William, a little boy was begging a richly dressed lady.

"Mother, please allow me to attend. This is not a matter of disgrace to my William family."

"No, do you know how high the mortality rate is in this selection? Don't you know that you are my only child? Even if you do nothing and live a good life, your future will be the Grand Duke. What do you want? Why? Going to participate in the selection?"

"Mother, I, a man of the William family, am not a coward who is afraid of death, especially if he dies fighting for the empire. The Grand Duke is not what I want, I only want my soul to return to the Golden Throne. Didn't you say that I can decide my own future? I The decision is to become an Astartes."

"Silly boy, how can you be sure that you will become an Astartes? In the last recruitment, the chance of dying during the Astartes selection was 89%. Many of those who survived were left with lifelong disabilities."

The little boy named William did not continue to listen to his mother's words and ran away.

"Oh, this kid, Xiao Wei Ding, keep an eye on him and don't let him run around."

A man wearing special black goggles appeared from the shadows, and then gradually disappeared.

William realizes that his test has begun, and now he has to avoid all the family's spies and arrive at the edge of the desert to participate in the selection.

William casually called a servant, "Take me to the toy room."

As the heir to a grand duke, William received a very intensive elite education since he was a child. Although he had all the toys he wanted, he still had very little time to play with them.

Archduke William is currently meeting with important people from other planets and is unlikely to come back before the Astartes leave, so strictly speaking there is nothing to control little William.

Little William was led by his servants to a building that could be called a small castle. It was full of various toys. William drove the servants out and then entered it alone.

Next, his activities are planned in detail according to three stages.

In the first stage, he must find a reasonable way to leave the mansion;

In the second stage, after successfully getting out, he must get rid of the monitor and eliminate all traces of himself.

In the third stage, he needs to prepare a bottle of water and quickly reach the edge of the desert before his family reacts.

This is a difficult task, but who can't even handle these tasks, who has the right to be an Astartes?

Little William makes loud noises in the dollhouse, tearing toys apart and scattering accessories everywhere as he searches for something to help him. After all, many of the toys here are decorated with real jewelry and rare metals to appear high-end.

After a long meal, he collected 5 real gold coins, a miniature player, which could simulate the sound of a magnetic car engine when pressed, and a silk thread with excellent elasticity, which could be stretched several times and bear his weight. He took off the clothes from the relatively normal-looking doll and put them on his own clothes.

After struggling for a long time, little William came out of the dollhouse.

"Hey, servant, clean up this place. I'm hungry and need to eat. Get me some snacks."

The servant led little William to the luxurious garden in front, where he rested in a small pavilion and brought a plate of exquisite biscuits.

These carefully crafted biscuits are made from the milk of a creature called Styg from Felicis, the most peripheral planet in the Calixis sector, which is very close to here in the Hazy Star. They are sweet and delicious, and all The flavors are locked into the biscuit to ensure the best sensory experience with the first bite.

Various translucent jelly-like snacks were then presented. These snacks used precious flavor plants from all over the empire. Each color represented some kind of ultimate sensory enjoyment. For example, this orange snack was sour and sweet. To the extreme, when people think about it, their saliva will secrete crazily.

While eating jelly-like snacks, little William secretly hid biscuits in his pockets. These were probably his only stable sources of food after his escape.

If this trip fails, then you will become a benevolent person.

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Yifeng was currently being annoyed by some messy "upper-class" banquets. As a chapter leader, certain political actions were necessary, and he also needed to come forward to contact the major nobles in order to gain more support.

Have a meal and chat all day long, armaments and supplies are coming in, making money and buying and selling.

Yifeng: "Hello, Grand Duke Kangor, it's an honor to meet you. Oh, you are in charge of food. It's a pleasure to meet you. The light of the emperor shines on you. What, your agricultural products were in the camera when I was giving a speech. ? That won’t work, the price will drop more, what, twenty years of food supplies, okay, put a cup of your trump card specialty drink on the table.”

Oops, I got so much food supplies, what a great leader.

During the week of publicity and selection, Yifeng traveled around the three hives, giving speeches and meetings one after another. Although the Astartes could fight without sleep for two weeks, such a 27-hour day (a day on this planet is 27 hours) It’s really hard to keep talking about it all the time.

At this time, the technical sergeant was pulling wires on the battle barge to make a homemade enhanced analysis device. Trying to analyze the STC fragments was not an easy task and required a lot of preparations.

The pharmacist is also very busy at this time. They estimate that in the future, they will park the two battleships together and build a temporary passage to connect the recruit training areas of the two battleships. It may be common for him to run back and forth alone. .

Big think tank: Huh~huh~huh~

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At this time, little William was clamoring to go to the toy store in person. Most of the toys in the toy room were broken. He did not want toys customized by craftsmen. There were no surprises at all. He must go to the toy store to see for himself.

Although it is troublesome to go out at this time, because there is no low-level industry such as a toy store in the stable Shangchao, only Zhongchao has it, and at this time, the streets of Zhongchao are full of people going to the desert. However, the influence of Archduke William quickly cleared a street, which was a street of toy shops, selling everything from dolls to Astartes models.

Little William wandered around various toy stores, and it was very difficult to get rid of the troublesome manager and bodyguards.

Finally, after looking around, he found an excellent toy store. The top of it was directly connected to the wall of the next street, and next door was the snack street.

So where will the toy street and snack street be opened? Yes, a place with many children.

So where are there many children? That's right, it's in front of the school.

At this time, the snack street was crowded with people, and the school buses formed a long row. Students and parents were saying goodbye and boarding the buses under the guidance of teachers. There were reluctant parents and shouting vendors all around.

For example, ice cream in the shape of Astarte, sure-hit balls, lucky rice cake soup, anyway, if you replace the snacks that are sold every year before the entrance examination with auspicious signs into Astarte, the sales will definitely be good.

At this time, little William entered the Astartes store and prevented the bodyguards from entering.

"You have no right to appear before the great Space Marine, even if he is a model."

The bodyguards were speechless, it was just a toy.

The chief steward followed little William in, and other bodyguards guarded the front and back doors of the toy store.

Little William's plan has now entered the most difficult part, how to get rid of this hateful general manager.

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After leaving the nest, Xiaolan finally crawled out of the smelly sewage pipe. She was dirty all over her body. She walked upstream along the river for a while, and finally saw water that could barely be called "clean". It was a pleasure to go in. Take a quick shower.

After coming out of the river, wringing out his clothes and eating some food, he will continue on the road. Others start from the edge of the desert, but he started as early as setting down his nest.

We can no longer follow the river ahead. If we go to the edge of the desert, we need to cross the great plain ahead. This is not an endless wilderness. There are several kinds of ferocious beasts lurking here. Although for humans hiding in hard mechanical creations, It is said that there is no danger at all, but for the defenseless Xiaolan, it is indeed fatal.

Xiaolan picked up a long wooden stick, sharpened the front end with a stone, and used it as both a walking stick and a spear.

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Enke was waiting for the bus with his friend Frosa, when he suddenly saw a ruthless man on the roof across the street, wrapping himself with silk thread and swinging into the alley next to the street like a swing.

"Who is this? So fierce."

"Based on his flying posture and the toughness of the silk thread just now, from my calculations, the chance of him falling just now is 89%, the chance of his foot landing and spraining his foot is 6%, and the chance of his elbow landing and being bruised is 88% .”

Sure enough, after a while, the twelve or thirteen year old boy came out of the alley with obvious scratches on his elbow. After he came out of the alley, he looked around as if he was looking for something.

"Don't look at him, it's time for us to get in the car."

Enke and Frosa finally boarded the school bus, just as the teacher was about to close the door. Little William got into the car door like flying.

"How did you..."

Just as the teacher was about to say something, Little William immediately put two gold coins into the teacher's hand.

"I'm sorry, teacher. I'm late. It took me a while to convince my grandpa."

"Ah, oh, oh, go find a seat and sit."

It's just a hitchhiking, what can happen, right?

Little William is now wearing the clothes that he took off from the doll before, so he can be considered integrated into the middle nest. He walked to the very back of the school bus, where there was a tall deck making it less likely to be captured by street cameras. Finally, two children, Enke and Frosa, sat.

"Hello, my name is Weaver, come here and take a ride."

The two children looked at him with interest, and soon they started chatting.

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Xiaolan is now experiencing the most dangerous crisis in her life! ! !

I can't eat anymore, ugh.

I thought this wilderness was very dangerous, but as soon as I went out, I saw a huge strange creature with a big horn on its head. It looked so scary, and its whole body seemed to be wrapped in a massive bone carapace. The two looked at each other, and Xiaolan's hair went up. This was too scary.

Xiaolan subconsciously clenched the spear. Years of experience in crawling around in the nest made him realize that he must not show his cowardice, as this would put him in extreme danger.

And...I didn't know that his carapace looked like paper.

Little knowledge: Although the horns of the pseudo-armored rhinoceros are very hard, the carapace on its body is only used to scare people. It is a camouflaged herbivore.