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Chapter 26 Retreat successful
The retreat went relatively smoothly. After blocking the pursuing swarm of scarabs with several fragmentation grenades and a thermal bomb, Chen Xi and Olivia successfully returned to the mine with their gains.

"Blow up this place and don't let those aliens chase us through the tunnel." The first thing Chen Xi did after coming out was to ask Olivia to seal the breach.

Olivia hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted her teeth and agreed.

The last melta bomb brought was placed in the breach. After a burst of explosions, the collapsed rubble blocked the passage leading to the Undead Tomb. The passage could no longer be used until it was cleared.

However, even so, Chen Xi did not let down his guard. He said to Olivia, "These aliens have phase shuttle technology. They can pass through buildings or entities. Simply blocking the passage may not be enough to prevent them from sneaking in.

I will dispatch a regiment to station outside the mine to prevent these aliens from invading the planet."

"I understand. I will deploy more automatic turrets and armed servitors here." Olivia didn't want to talk about this at the moment. All her attention was attracted by the harvest they brought out.

With Olivia's persistence and efforts, the mining servitors dismantled the key equipment of the stasis tomb and part of the stasis sarcophagus, and brought back more than a dozen bodies of undead warriors.

In addition, there are three underworld spiders and two tomb ghosts. Although their bodies have been smashed to pieces, they still look intact overall, enough to be used to analyze various key data.

At this time, Olivia no longer cared whether the Necrons in the tomb would crawl out to cause trouble. She just wanted to return to her workshop and laboratory to study these precious gains.

However, Chen Xi stood in front of her and said to Olivia, "Regarding this harvest, Sage Olivia, what are your plans? I know you can't wait to study these things, but I have to ask, are you capable of studying them independently?
As an exiled biological sage, you don't even have an apprentice to work for you, nor even decent servitors or slaves. Do you really have the ability to study them?"

Chen Xi's words somewhat exposed Olivia's shortcomings.

Indeed, as a sage of the Mechanicus, she doesn't even have a working apprentice under her, which makes it hard for people not to doubt her ability.

Even if she is indeed a sage, without the corresponding treatment, the value of this sage...

However, Chen Xi brought up this matter at this time not to poke Olivia's lungs, but to grab some spoils from her.

After all, given the nature of the Mechanicus, Olivia would definitely want to keep all the spoils for herself and would not give Chen Xi a single cent.

If you can't make a fortune at this time, you will suffer a big loss.

Although Olivia promised to give Chen Xi a thousand sets of combat nun equipment, Chen Xi doubted whether she had the ability to pay the bill.

Moreover, if these things are not finalized now, Chen Xi doubts whether Olivia will still recognize him when the time comes. Although the credibility of the oil man is not as good as that of the DA people who have no secrets, or as good as the mysterious Bai Douya, at least in some aspects it is difficult for people to trust them.

Facing Chen Xi's questioning, Olivia hesitated for a long time, but finally knocked on her forged axe, deployed a silent force field, and said to Chen Xi: "Although I have indeed been deprived of everything, it does not mean that I have nothing left."

"So? Do you have a secret lab? Or a hidden forge?" Chen Xi wasn't surprised that Olivia had a backup plan; he was simply curious about what she had in store for him. "Since you know who my teacher is, you should know that a forge on a forge world in the Mariupol sector wouldn't be surprising given his status," Olivia said with a slightly embarrassed tone, referring to her teacher, Belisarius Cawl.

"Great Sage Kaul has a furnace in the forging world of the star zone?" Chen Xi showed a look of surprise, but then he felt that this was actually very reasonable.

Belisarius Cawl was commissioned by the Primarch Roboute Guilliman ten thousand years ago to carry out a plan to improve the Space Marines.

Over the course of ten thousand years, not only did Archmagos Cawl complete his work perfectly, he also buried nearly a million Primaris Space Marines wrapped in stasis fields, along with their accompanying equipment, in many locations throughout the galaxy.

After Guilliman returned to the Empire, these became the main force for him to launch the Indomitus Crusade.

On Mars alone, Cawl hid at least hundreds of thousands of Primaris Space Marines.

When Guilliman launched the Indomitus Crusade, Cawl even mobilized the forces of eighty fully equipped chapters at once.

This reminded Chen Xi of a very funny yet very practical question that was widely circulated in Cloud Hammer: "What if the High Lords Council or the Emperor knew that I had hundreds of thousands of Space Marines?"

Chen Xi didn't know how others answered this question, but Cawl, who really had hundreds of thousands of Space Marines, said that he didn't want to be a Martian forging general.

According to Olivia's explanation, Belisarius Cawl once stayed on the forge world in the Mariupol sector for a long time, and presided over the construction of a furnace of his own, leaving behind a student and a team to maintain the furnace.

The student was naturally the exiled Olivia, but the furnace and the team that maintained it were still there.

Not only that, but the furnace is now in the hands of Olivia's rival.

"The furnace has fallen into the hands of your competitors. Are you telling me this because you want me to help you take it back?" Chen Xi touched his chin. If he could really help Olivia take back the furnace, he would be very interested in searching the underground of the furnace to see if there were any Primaris Space Marines buried there.

Judging from Dora Kaur's habit, there might really be tens of thousands of Primaris Space Marines wrapped in oil paper buried here.

However, just as Chen Xi was thinking about how to help Olivia regain the furnace, she shook her head and said, "No, I want to take back the teacher's furnace with my own ability! I told you these because my competitor can actually cooperate."

"The other party is your competitor and has taken away your teacher's furnace, and now you say you can cooperate?" Chen Xi showed a puzzled expression, not quite understanding what was going on.

"It's nothing, actually. She and I are both foundry apprentices from the same industrial world. We used to be best friends, but I was lucky enough to become the teacher's apprentice, while she could only become the disciple of an ordinary sage in the foundry world." Olivia told Chen Xi a story that sounded a bit melodramatic.

(End of this chapter)