Chapter 414: Expedition Road: Betrayal or Loyalty

Night has fallen on the red land, and darkness is shrouded between the mountains and the broken valleys of this desolate land, on the red desert, but tonight is destined not to be peaceful, because in the sky, the restless The fire did not cease.

Raging flames burned in the sky, and the entire night sky was lit by firelight. Those flashes of light continuously illuminated the entire land, illuminating everything here under the fierce battle on the orbit, where the wreckage of the battleship Falling into the atmosphere from the outer orbit of the planet, the shattered hull turned into countless fragments and scattered to the earth.

Vito leaned on a rock, looking up at the falling fireballs above his head. The flaming fragments leaped across the sky across the world, and the long fire tail pulled out a straight dense fire network at its end. , they weave in the air, forming an obvious path of fire.

The fire in the sky shone on Vito's body, and also lit up the desolate rocks around him. His face suddenly flashed in the light, then quickly dimmed, and then was illuminated again, over and over again, just like the entire world. Same.

"The battle in orbit should be coming to an end soon. Irio said that the Chaos Fleet is evacuating the planet. These unlucky ones who have fallen down now should be the last batch."

Yiyanna's voice rang in his ears. Vito smiled and lowered his head. He took out the key to the medieval world with his elbow and said, "Your communication is still faster than ours because of the electromagnetic interference from the explosion." , Reina or Spier haven’t contacted me yet.”

"Although our race is also in a state of half-death, in any case, we are still the eldest sons of the ancient saints, aren't we?" Yiyanna walked out from Vito's side. She walked out of the shadows between the red rocks and stood with her hands behind her back. Under the light of the fire.

Vito glanced at her, and then raised the key in his hand so that it could be seen more clearly under the firelight, "So, did you tell him that you found this thing? And, are you going to take it back?" "

Iyana stared at Vito, then stood beside him with her hands behind her back, looking up at the huge piece of debris that fell from above her head. The piece of debris flew over Iyana's head with blazing flames, and rushed towards him. The outdated flame flow disturbed her hair, causing the crimson hair to dance wildly in the wind.

The flames illuminated Iyanna's face and Vito's beside her, but as the wreckage fell to the ground there was a heavy explosion, and the shadow enveloped them again.

"No, I told him that the artifact is not there. It is just a trap left by the ancient saint, specially designed to deal with tomb robbers. There is nothing in it except various deadly mechanisms."

Yiyanna said calmly, while Vito on the side laughed silently. He shook the key in his hand and watched the thing swaying under the firelight, "You lied to your own people, why did you keep this secret? ? Let me have a tryst with your sister Helen at any time?"

"First, Helen will not have a tryst with you. Second, I don't care about the dirty thoughts in your mind, you old pervert. Third, I have my own reasons."

Yiyanna said in the same accent as Vito. It sounded like Vito thought it was him talking to him, but he didn't say anything, he just held the key and leaned against the firelight.

The bolides pouring down from the sky passed over their heads, outlining a beautiful long line of flames in the sky, and Yiyanna stood under it all, her rose-red eyes looking up at the sky, flashing with flames of flash.

"The ancient saints chose to believe in you, Vito. They handed over this key to you by name, and the entire new world. This is a great trust. My father believed in you, so I also believe in him. choose."

"What? You chose to leave this thing to me just for the prophecy of a guy you have never met?" Vito smiled and shook the key. The key hanging in the air kept reflecting the flames. It was projected onto Vito's face, causing his features to flicker with shadows.

Yiyanna glanced at him, and then smiled softly. The sound was as ethereal as a wind chime in the dark night, "No, I didn't believe it entirely because of the ancient saint's predictions. I'm not one of those pious people." Damn it, Eldarad might, but I won’t.”

Although Vito wanted to say that the words Eldarad and piety are not even related, this guy's daily behavior is more heretical than heretical, and it can make Chaos say that this is too chaotic, but well, he doesn't want to fight Cut off Iyana.

"I believe you because I understand you, old pervert. You are an idiot who is never reliable, but, hum, I understand you, and maybe I am one of the people who understands you best in this universe."

Under the firelight, Yiyanna smiled with a slightly raised corner of her mouth. Next to him, Vito also leaned his head on the rock with a smile. He looked up at the rain of fire above his head and smiled.

"At least it can be ranked in the top three. The one before this is the Emperor and Lily." Vito said. He seemed to subconsciously rank the Emperor first, that old bastard, but it was indeed the case. Perhaps Vito could also be ranked number one on the Emperor's side. After all, these "good brothers" have known each other for fifty thousand years, so it's hard to say they don't understand each other.

Yiyanna was still smiling. She nodded slightly with her hands behind her back, "Should I say it's an honor? I can be lined up with these two, two gods, and I am just a mortal."

"I don't think the girl I brought out can be considered a mortal, right?" Vito smiled on the side, while gently touching the key in front of him with his fingers. As the fingertips slid over, the reflected luster on the surface of the key It dimmed briefly as the fingertips slid, but soon shone again after the fingers left.

The stream of light shone on Vito's face, and Yiyanna, with her hands behind her back, stood beside him under the firelight. Vito stared at the little girl next to him with his peripheral vision, looking at her side face lit up by the fire. That profile face looked particularly beautiful in the firelight.

She has grown up, Vito knows. She was still a little girl when she first followed him, but now she has grown up, much taller and more curvy. Vito rarely feels the passage of time, but looking at it, she has grown up. Looking at Yi Yangna on the side, he felt that it had been a long time since he had seen her.

To him, one hundred years was just a blink of an eye, but when she stood beside him, Vito could feel how much a hundred years meant to a mortal.

Yiyanna is only over a hundred years old. As an Eldar, she is very young even for many humans, but her talent is extremely outstanding. The Phoenix Prophet who is more than a hundred years old, in the history of the Eldar It is probably the first of its kind, and there will probably be no others after that, but this is not the biggest advantage of Yiyana compared to others.

The most unique thing about her compared to others is that she truly understands Vito and knows what kind of person he is from all aspects. It only took a few decades to achieve this and become Vito's close friend. One of the friends, and the same thing, it took Eldalad almost a thousand years to do it.

But it’s no wonder. After all, Eldarad has not grown up with Vito since he was a child. He has followed him around the galaxy, gone to all places, and experienced all kinds of crazy adventures with him that ordinary people can’t even imagine. This is what is unique about Yiyanna, and what is unique only to her.

This unique girl looked up at the rain of fire in the sky. Her entire face was lit up by the flames, and the firelight outlined on her body made her body appear concave and convex.

"The Emperor knows you. He sent you to the first place, and you must be the first one on his side. You know what kind of person he is better than Macha, and better than anyone else."

"So, you should also know that the emperor in the past was a person who put rationality and calculation before all human nature, and now, the "Emperor" sitting on the throne has become a human being without anything. The human God, the way he thinks now, is divine, not human.”

Yiyanna said this, she lowered her head and looked to the side against the backdrop of the firelight in the sky, "You know better than any of us that the person sitting on that golden throne is no longer the same person as before, and so do you. More clearly, his madness and paranoia.”

Vito didn't speak while leaning on the stone. He just leaned there and stood silently. Yiyanna looked at him standing under the dazzling flames. She was silent for a while, and then slowly turned her head.

"You still don't want to kill him, right? Even now, when you have a way to truly replace him, you still don't want to kill him, right?"

Vito didn't speak, he just stood aside, the firelight illuminated his front half, while the back half was shrouded in darkness behind a clear shadow boundary. He leaned silently, silent under the light and shadow.

"The Emperor doesn't care about life in this galaxy, Vito, he doesn't care about humanity, not even his own. He just wants to continue civilization, not the life in it. When that finally comes, you know what he will do. "

Iyanna's words echoed among the rocks. She knew about the Emperor's "Great Battle" plan. Vito told her, told her everything. There was no point in hiding it from her anyway. Vito estimated that she had passed it long ago. She knew the general meaning of the prophecy, and the words of the ancient sage and her father had already allowed her to guess the truth further. She was a smart girl, and it was pointless to lie to her since she was a child.

So Vito told her everything. Vito didn't know why he told her to himself. Maybe he just wanted to find someone to chat, and Yiyanna happened to be beside him, so everything It just happened naturally.

But she was right, the universe will die, just as the Emperor said, when everything dies and returns to tranquility, all intelligent life will die, and the evil gods who rely on their emotions will also disappear, and everything will The end is zero, and after that, everything begins again.

No one will see that new universe, and all the old things will exit together when the curtain falls, including chaos, aliens, humans, and even himself.

"You don't believe him, right? Vito, in your heart you have never believed him. You have known from a long time ago that he was lying. He stole power from the subspace to create the original body. You know that he is actually a little bit... He became a god, but you have always chosen to avoid him and blindly follow him. Is this the case now? Even if you know what he will do this time."

Iyanna continued to speak, her voice echoed under the light of the flames, echoing in Vito's ears again and again. He stood under the constantly shining light, the shadow of his lower body, and more than ever. Deeper.

He knew that the Emperor was lying. He was lying to himself in the throne room. He said that when he returned, he would lead the remaining humans to rebuild the galaxy, but Vito knew that he would not. He would destroy all intelligent life in the galaxy. He asked himself to bring back the Primarchs, just to delay time before the lie was revealed.

They would be abandoned, Guilliman, and everyone else, all of humanity would be abandoned, because the Emperor wanted to completely end all threats, and it was not enough for all the aliens to disappear, because the huge population of humans and their emotions would still allow the evil gods to exist. As long as this was the case, the Emperor would not be able to kill the evil gods.

The only way to destroy the evil gods was to end their source of power, all the emotions of intelligent life, and this naturally included humans, or rather, humans themselves were the biggest source of food for the evil gods.

The Emperor would destroy all life, including humans, and when everything in the universe came to an end, the evil gods who relied on their emotions to survive would also be wiped out. In that new universe, there would no longer be any chaos. As he said, all threats would disappear.

"Vito, even so, do you still choose to believe him and carry out everything according to his plan? Even if you don't want to in your heart, you used to be his executioner, executioner, you killed many people for him, Thunder Warriors, Primarchs, and even your friends. This time, will you continue for him? Kill all the people you love once."

Iyanna will die, she knows, but she is not afraid. She showed unexpected calmness in the face of the doomsday, just like the people beside her. They stood under the sky of blazing fire, as if they were talking under the coming doomsday.

Beside him, Vito was still silent. He knew that Horus chose to rebel for this reason, the Emperor's betrayal and deception, he would purge all the Primarchs after the Great Crusade, and chose to rebel against the rumors of their legion.

And now, Vito is standing at the same fork in the road. There are two roads. Horus once chose one of them. Now, Vito is also standing at that intersection. He needs to choose a road, a road that determines the fate of the entire galaxy and even the universe.

Iyangna turned around and looked at Vito beside her and was silent for a moment, "You don't want to kill him, right? Because he is your friend?"

"Brother, best friend." Vito said slowly, his voice was very low, as if he squeezed out those words, those words full of affection.

After hearing this, Iyangna sighed deeply. She walked up and stood beside Vito under the firelight and looked at him. The flames shone on their faces, creating a flickering ripple.

"Think about what the Emperor would decide if he stood in your position." Iyangna said so. Vito looked at her and said nothing. He knew the answer and what the Emperor would decide.

Iyanna sighed deeply and reached out to hold Vito's hands. She put the key in his palm and covered his palm, letting him hold the key tightly.

"No matter what you decide in the end, keep this last and final secret. When everything is over, use it to make a choice."

"But before that, you must hide its existence from the Emperor. You can't let him know its existence. This is your only bargaining chip when you decide to show your cards. Whether you are willing to do that or not, Vito, keep this secret."

"Also, keep it secret from Lilith. You know why." Iyanna said softly. Vito nodded. He knew that even if Lilith herself would not do anything, her soul was connected to Slaanesh, and the latter would know the existence of this key and the medieval world from Lilith's eyes.

The four gods must not know the existence of that place. When the Emperor opens the end and the final battle against Chaos comes, that place will be the last hope for everyone, and that place must not be the escape place of Chaos. They must not escape there with everyone and take root in the new world, otherwise all sacrifices will be meaningless.

But this also means Lilith. He must abandon Lilith. She is one with Slaanesh. If she lives, Slaanesh will also live, so Lilith must die.

Vito stood silently, and Iyanna beside him also lowered her head. She sighed and stroked her palm on Vito's face, "No matter what you decide, I believe in you, Vito."

"Father." Iyanna said in the smallest voice, but Vito could hear it. He showed a slightly surprised expression and looked at Iyanna who walked away from him. She walked into the shadow of the wasteland, and her back quickly disappeared under the shadow of the doomsday fire, in the bottomless darkness.

Father.

Vito thought about the word. He looked at the key in his hand and fell silent. But soon he raised his head and looked at Lilith who walked out from the direction where Iyanna disappeared. She stood with her hands behind her back under the firelight and looked at Vito from afar.

"The girl is gone, so, did you find anything there?" Lilith asked. Vito looked at her and after a moment of silence, she stretched the hand holding the key into the shadow behind him, the deepest shadow on him.

"No, nothing, nothing was found." Vito said as he walked up. He brushed past Lilith, as if he didn't even look at her. This made Lilith turn her head slightly surprised. She looked at Vito's back with some confusion, but then she shrugged her shoulders quickly.

He wouldn't lie to herself, Lilith knew, and she believed him.

Lilith followed him, with her hands behind her back, and followed behind Vito. "Malakin and the Lamenters have returned to the track. It seems that something big has happened. They are in a hurry. Maybe we should set off too?"

"Yes, we should go."