Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 234 Tacit understanding

"I can't leave now."

Just when Howard had given up on coaxing the Battle Sister, May unexpectedly said this.

"What do you mean?" Howard was puzzled. He thought to himself that this Bean Sprout had no reason or position to consider the Battle Sister.

Howard's decision not to continue coaxing the Battle Sister did not mean that he chose to watch the Battle Sister die. The Battle Sister was an important part of the negotiations. At least she had to act as a middleman in the negotiations with the top leaders of the empire to be successful. Otherwise, if he, an inexplicable human and an inexplicable Eldar, found the door of the supreme commander and said, "Hello, we have something to talk to you about," they would probably be blasted out with promethium flames.

Howard just wanted to make this combat nun suffer a little. Even if the combat nun held on and her injuries worsened, it was unlikely that she would die suddenly. When her injuries worsened to the point where she lost her ability to move, there would naturally be time for her to rest. At worst, he could just cut off a few more pieces of meat to feed her.

But it was a bit abnormal for Mei to say this suddenly.

"When I went to investigate, I discovered unusual activity among the orcs nearby. I spent some time figuring out their patterns and movements. If we had set off before you fell, we would have had just enough time to leave the area before the orc army. But now... I'm afraid we can only wait for those orcs to pass by first," Mei explained calmly.

Seeing Gloria still looking skeptical, Mei decided to spend some more time talking. "Human, there's no need for me to lie to you. I'm very aware of your physical condition, but I don't care. Even if you collapse on the way, I can still take your nerve center out. Once we leave this damn place, I can rebuild a new body for you. I'm really not saying this because I care about your injuries."

Although it sounds a bit weird, for the elves and even humans with existing technology, reshaping a body is not a difficult task. In the past, the elves could even pull themselves up after playing themselves to death, so reshaping a body is a piece of cake for them.

"Reshape the body?" But Howard realized the problem: "Reshaping the body is not something that can be done with bare hands. Do you have a base outside?"

Mei was stunned for a moment, then replied, "Yes."

Howard and Gloria looked at each other. He and Gloria could not be considered friends. Even if all the things that happened in between had not happened, their personalities and values were completely incompatible... But compared to this elf, the relationship between them was still closer.

"How long will it take for those orcs to leave?" asked Gloria.

"Two hours."

"Perhaps within these two hours, we can try to figure out the reason for their unusual activities," Gloria said again.

"That's exactly what I was planning," May glanced over, then at Howard. She then scanned the mine, which was stained with orc blood and flesh. She paused for a moment over the pit that the orcs and Howard had dug together. Then she said, "We can't stay here any longer. Please follow me. I'll take you to a safer place."

Twenty minutes later.

Mei brought the injured Gloria and Howard to what she called a safer place—a freight elevator mounted outside the smelting tower that had long been out of service.

This place is indeed very safe. There are no orcs within a radius of 500 meters. The closest orcs to them are the orcs in the orc vehicle flying right below them.

However, the process of getting here was very unsafe. Normal roads would not lead to this forgotten freight elevator. Along the way, Mei used ropes and nails to open up a path on the almost vertical wall. The Eldar walked on the thin and shaking rope as if it were flat ground, but Howard walked with fear.

After reaching a safe place, the Battle Sister removed the armor plates on her abdomen. The cloth she used to seal the wound was completely soaked in blood and stained with some mucus secreted by the body. When she lifted the cloth, the mucus was stretched.

Howard knew that May was actually still helping to coax Gloria, because at the beginning when May was planning to cooperate with Howard's performance, she had a very obvious intention to go back. She probably wanted to stay in the mine and wait for Gloria to recover before leaving, but Gloria didn't appreciate it, so May made up an excuse to let Gloria stop and rest.

While Gloria was treating her wounds alone, Howard walked over to May. At this time, May had her hands on the edge of the open-air freight elevator, looking into the distance, apparently enjoying the scenery.

But the scenery here is really nice. The sky and the earth in the distance are dyed orange by the sand and dust. Ferocious and magnificent orc spires rise from the ground, and directly below them, the mechanical structure goes deep into the ground, with no bottom visible at all, like the open esophagus of a huge monster covered with spikes, weird but with a peculiar beauty.

"Thank you." Howard whispered. The only reason May did this was because she was considering his thoughts.

The elf, who had always been indifferent, turned his head slightly to glance at Howard, then continued to look into the distance.

Howard glanced at Gloria again and thought to himself, "Sister, the tacit understanding between you and me is not as good as that of an elf who has just known each other for less than ten hours and has spoken no more than twenty sentences."

Just now, in order to coax the Battle Sister to stop and rest, although Howard was throwing a tantrum and whining like a child, in this incident, the one who was most like a child was actually the Battle Sister.

Although Howard was making a fool of himself, his purpose was very clear, and this purpose was in everyone's interest after rational thinking.

On the contrary, the combat nuns were determined to show off their strength in order to prove themselves. Even if the humans and the elves gave them face in the end, they still had to expose the matter.

It is estimated that when the Battle Sister exposed Howard's lies, her heart was full of justice, and the sword of the empire disdained the mercy of the liar.

The Battle Sister was certainly not stupid, how could she not understand that she needed to stop and rest, but she didn't.

Being driven by emotions is not the mentality of a mature person.

But it is very strange that this battle sister is willing to put aside her honor and cooperate with the Eldar for the sake of the overall situation.

Howard thought about it for a while and finally came up with a more reasonable explanation.

That is, this combat nun has a martyr mentality in her subconscious.

Such people need a goal that seems noble and great, and then suffer for this goal to gain spiritual pleasure. The more painful the torture they suffer, the more great and noble they feel.

Based on this mentality, the Battle Sister is willing to tarnish her own honor and cooperate with the dirty aliens in her eyes, and will also take the initiative to act with injuries and torture herself... It's a bit like a colleague in the company who is severely pua and insists on going to work despite having a high fever. At that moment, he must feel that he is very great.

In the original world, Howard would definitely think that the Battle Sister was a lunatic, but this is Warhammer, and Howard can only say that it fits.

After all, the combat nun organization in this world has abstract things like the Redemption Mecha.

Just as Howard was letting his thoughts wander, an unusual noise came from underground. Howard saw many orcs crawling out of buildings and fortifications like ants, heading in the same direction.

This is probably the unusual activity of the orcs that Mei detected.