Chapter 193 The Day the Stars Go Out
Quiet, deadly, blood flowing, like a metal hell, those disgusting fatal tormentors somehow learned how to keep their victims alive and bleeding profusely. If it hadn't been conveyed by the Chaos Gods, then...
Alan Bair drives and shoots the heretics on the streets. This team is composed entirely of Skadi's strongest combatants, including the second lieutenant, First Class Leitlin, Catachan Master Chief, and several others, about 10 people. The elite Imperial Guards on the left and right.
They don't know what they are going to do, where they are going, what they are going to save, but it is their destiny to perform the mission, nothing more.
Alan Bayer didn't emphasize the reason or the specific situation, but rather than being confused, they trusted their superiors more.
Although the second lieutenant was still joking in the cramped armored vehicle. "Why doesn't the boss want to say anything?"
Wright is quite a natural person, but because of his personal odor problem, he could only use additional partitions to block the interior of the car. Fortunately, the Chimera has a large interior space and can withstand the tossing, and this Chimera has become a His "special drive".
But even so, his smell was still vague. This was not a real smell, but the fate of the untouchables. Their mutated DNA created a black hole in the subspace, constantly pulling at the souls of the mortals next to them, and he could only buzz. buzzing answer.
"Don't worry, no matter where we go, it's just an order to defeat the enemy."
They have to admit that war and soldiers are such things. They are both tools, tools for the continuation of mankind, and also a curse. It is the huge base of the Imperial Guard that has plunged this huge empire into a resource black hole that lasts for ten thousand years.
Soldiers are both tools and necessary for survival, but they are also the root cause of human stagnation for thousands of years. If the human empire is willing to throw away a large number of places that are of little value but allow the empire to station a large number of places.
Or shrink the empire's huge territory. Many people think that the empire has never expanded after the Great Crusade, but in fact, the empire's huge military power has continued to annex many planets in the galaxy and form star sectors throughout the entire ten thousand years.
Among them are Space Marines, Imperial Guards, Rogue Traders, many Imperial forces and endless exploration of the dark galaxy, because this universe is not only the commonplace problems of Orks, Eldar, Tau, Necron, and Zerg, but also Many small aliens, who may not have realized the concept of the universe, were destroyed by the Empire's cannons, or were captured to study their value.
At the end of this dark 40th millennium of human civilization, the Empire is still the largest and most ferocious war weapon in the galaxy.
But war cannot bring development. It is extremely ferocious. Its huge bloated body is like a swollen corpse floating in the universe, and the many aliens and heretics are like flies. From time to time, they take away a piece of carrion to fill their abdomen. .
But this corpse no longer has the power to discharge its own corpse energy and peel off the carrion. It can only endure the constant feeding of maggots on itself. However, the Great Crusade and countless heroes have conquered countless worlds, as well as the nobles and religions involved. , the Imperial Ministry of Internal Affairs and many other forces, even if the Primarch returns, it cannot be said that the Empire can remove the carrion without breaking the bones.
Because that place has been the territory of the human empire since ancient times, whether it is now or in the future or in a more distant time.
The Astra Militarum is both the hammer and the curse of the Empire. Hundreds of billions of people live for the war, and countless waste and sacrifices follow.
"There is no room for complaining!" the sergeant scolded, and he said it sincerely. No matter where they were going now, or how the empire expanded, they had no room to complain.
The Chimera slowly stopped the roar of its engine, and when the soldiers realized that the Dark Eldar hiding in the ruins in the distance became more vigilant.
Getting out of the car, the smell of promethium, blood, and the body odor of his comrades, the chaotic atmosphere is enough to overload the head, and the situation here is not worse than the Imperial Guard imagined, and is even unexpectedly comfortable, so that they use the standard It looks funny to get out of the car with a gun in a combat position.
"The area is safe." The Ratling still reported after a simple patrol, but he did not see the Dark Eldar. This was not because he was stupid, but because the Eldar body loomed behind the ruins with a force called Flickerfields. The defensive equipment of the family vehicle is hindered.
These advanced optical force field shields are mounted on the external equipment of the Eldar, allowing the user to appear and disappear, confusing the enemy's perspective. This stealth force also follows the Imperial Guard in this way, making people unaware of it. .
The heavy equipment is also driven by a special energy engine, and the gems handed over by a certain unlucky empire gang member are also among them. This shows that this is not the first time they have done this, and it probably won't be the last time.
Those evil alien beings saw the Imperial Guard enter a place with a small sign carved and the words "Tavern" written in Low Gothic. It was so remote and inconspicuous, why did they need to go to war?
Things were going to be different when things went wrong, so the team kept moving forward to suppress it, but Alan Bair didn't know anything about it. Even though he thought there was a heresy affecting this area, he didn't realize that the Eldar race might exist. First of all, it was him Trusting the auspicious scouts and previously the Dark Eldar used their devices, the Mimic Engine, to pretend to be their Ark cousins.
Relaxation is the biggest problem. Although the Ark Eldar are still powerful, those poor people are actually far less crazy than their Comorian cousins.
And the mission was still very important. Alan Bair got out of the car urgently. He chose to walk for the sake of concealment when he was quite far away from the destination, and he emphasized.
"Second Lieutenant, follow me. The Master Chief and the Letling boy are waiting here. Turn on the radio. We will be back soon."
"Yes, sir."
"Yes, boss." They answered, and they executed, while Alan Bair also moved forward slowly. Although they seemed to be doing it perfectly, the looming nightmare was looming beside them. It was obvious that the aliens had not left.
After passing through the ruins and death, the distance was not very far, at least it took a short time. When Alan Bair found that the door of the tavern had been smashed open by the heretic's weapon, he had to curse. "Damn..."
He whispered, asking the Emperor to protect the loyal ones, and stepped inside, but he soon saw a mess, an empty tavern, a plan to have the Red Corsairs seduced by the Imperial Guard, intelligence from spies, the Empire's only resistance The core information of the Red Pirates seems to be gone at this moment!
He stepped over the cracked objects, wooden boards, or wine bottles, and searched the smashed counter, but both the Imperial Throne Coins and most of the inorganic materials that could be recovered were taken away.
"Boss, although I don't know what happened, are we late?" The second lieutenant was not sure, but he also understood that it was not a good thing for a person to show such an expression. Alan Beyer just rubbed his temples. "It's okay, it's okay, there's always a way out..."
He was indeed a little excited, but what could he do otherwise? Opportunities for victory were already rare, and now they were lost again, because of his stupidity and slowness, he missed the opportunity...
But when his thoughts were confused, a metal arm stretched out from the floor behind the counter. The silver-white veteran's prosthetic body poked out from the fine gold and alloy, waving. If it wasn't a ghost, or there was an iron man buried under it, Next, Alan Bayer probably understood.
"As expected of being an intelligence agent!" No matter how happy he was, he couldn't resist the feeling and the smell of hope coming from the slowly opening lower stairs and the hidden mezzanine driven by gears and pistons.
How could the Imperial Guard build such a place on the ground of adamantine and asteroids in just one year? Obviously, this place was once one of the little secrets of the Mechanicus. There are still many unknown heavy machines and equipment underground, but now it is covered by It was covered with photos, brown paper, and many complicated documents.
In addition to the tavern owner, there is also a female intelligence officer wearing glasses, covering her figure with a thick cloak, and working here. The owner told them familiarly. "Welcome."
Alan Bayer looked at the dense information here, all in Gothic, which the gangsters here couldn't understand. This is probably why they could enter so easily. Obviously Skadi and the others It's been figured out.
There was only the second lieutenant's puzzled expression and the commotion caused by running around, but his body was flexible and he would not hit anything because of his stupidity.
The boss said. "I'm sorry, I have to observe who you are for a while. There are many strange situations in this city during this time, especially I discovered the flashing people, the kind of things that can turn into gangsters, civilians, and interact with those strange people." Human"Imperial citizens who come into contact quickly go crazy."
"This is not normal, but the chaos prevented me from having time to investigate this matter, but looking at the current situation outside, you probably know it."
Alan Bayer had to nod and admit. "I didn't expect there to be such hidden dangers so close to us. With the Emperor's blessing, luckily you have no problems."
"The data has been transferred and copied. This small memory unit (wetware) can store most of the information. Before it rots, we will indeed lose some things, but let's burn this place." The intelligence officer said from her chair He stood up and picked up the seemingly high-tech iron box, but it was actually just a human brain USB flash drive that had been completely modified to store memories, and the memories could even be confused.
"Evacuate, the Chimera is ready." Private Leitlin was waiting on the Chimera. In order to ensure safety, the sergeant was also on standby. Everything was settled, and all he needed was a handful of flames, but the second lieutenant was reckless and suddenly He fell, and his abnormal flat fall forced Alan Beyer to scold him.
Those precious information, such as kraft paper, photos and other information about the enemies of the empire, are scattered all over the ground. In this dark universe, they are treasures that can save countless lives. Their value even exceeds the gold, silver and jewelry in the world. If you really want to To describe it, it is a world, and the intelligence here is enough for the empire to spend a world for it!
"Are you a child? These are the secrets of the empire. What if you destroy the information?!"
The second lieutenant blushed, but said again. "I suddenly fell down, as if there was something. I swear in the name of the Emperor."
Alan Bayer was a little helpless. He usually pampered this boy too much, but he suddenly realized that the things scattered on the ground were moving slowly because of the fall. At this moment, the things in his mind seemed to be fragmented for an instant, and his own experience was Get in touch.
The Eldar, the Dark Eldar, those aliens, those nightmares from Commorragh, the remains of the nobles of the universe.
"Damn it!" He pulled out his weapon and shot there immediately. The looming light showed its prototype due to the strong weapon rays. It was a damn alien wearing a mirror helmet.
Mirrorhelms are helmets worn by gladiators of the Witch Spirit Sect. They have built-in sensory amplifiers that can reflect the opponent's various tiny movements and even predict the opponent's trajectory.
And therefore, he dodged the shooting at the limit. At such a close distance, he could even act like a prophet, making it difficult for people to guard against him.
Although the second lieutenant was usually unreliable, he was one of the few elites in Skadi. Almost instantly, he took out his power weapon and slashed at the enemy. His destructive stance buzzed, and a small-caliber automatic weapon ejected from the tavern owner's arm.
Bang bang bang, hiss, buzz, the slashing of power weapons, the volley of small-caliber automatic firearms, even with a mirror helmet, it is not something that a normal person can react to in this narrow house of only 80 square meters.
The tall, slender warrior held the Blade of Hecate and used a method unimaginable to a mortal to deflect his own gun and at the same time jump and fly away from the second lieutenant's slashing attack.
Unbelievable, this is the technology of the Eldar, but even the mirror helmet has its limits. The simultaneous attacks of three people pushed his processor to the edge of performance. When Alan Bair fired the second super-fast and extremely accurate super-level detonation The beam of fire burst out, and before returning to the ground, the Spirit Clan warrior from the Shaman Sect was slightly slow, causing the mirror helmet to fall apart.
With his thick smoky makeup and sky-high braids, his resentful eyes revealed murderous intent and madness. The man, who was as beautiful as a woman, was a tall murderer who watched in disbelief as a mortal smashed his armored face.
"Monkey! (The Eldar's disparaging name for humans refers to a savage and powerful creature that once appeared. It sounds like a monkey in English, but it is not.)"
But he won't be willing to fight, he needs to gather his strength to seize the information storage in the hands of that woman.
He ran out of the room, followed by Alan Bair. His speed was not inferior to this guy, which surprised the Eldar. He left the tavern and closed the distance. Without the mirror helmet, this guy had no way to escape!
But when Alan Bayer was about to shoot, the sky suddenly dimmed. After the flash, the light disappeared. When Alan Bayer activated the night vision device he carried and looked at the area with black and white eyes, the enemy had disappeared. .
This area usually relies on stars for power, but asteroids do not have weather or rotation. In other words, something covers the stars...
At this moment, the huge Tau fleet has arrived in the void, and countless "fish-shaped" "merchant ships" are crowding the sky. This is for the sake of the higher good, and for the future of Tau. Those noseless ones are starting a war! (End of chapter)