Chapter 385 Assault
“The so-called initial goodness of the body is easily destroyed by the loss of limbs, the stillness of the body, and the bending of the trunk. The so-called initial goodness of the mind, that is, sensibility and reason, are not Permanent. If a person loses his senses, becomes deaf or blind, he loses his sensibility; if a disease makes him mad, he no longer has reason.
And these things can happen to anyone. On the body. In such a helpless body and mind, can we not understand the truth?" - "The Book of Lorgar"
The stars are broken in the sky.
At first, there were some tiny sparks, like the coronal halo that was invisible to the naked eye, entangled and lingering on the surface of the gray-black metal satellite. Sometimes they set off a trace of fine feather-like debris on the surface of the war satellite's alien void shield. The bright light, and the accompanying subtle ripple-like tremors, spread out layer by layer and dissipated step by step.
Gradually, the firepower poured into the torpedoes and light spears coated the surface of the satellite with a hot burning shell, roasting the planet like an incandescent molten iron ball, and was about to drip droplets of molten gold and iron in the dark sky.
Then, at a certain moment, a tortuous but sharp golden thread suddenly penetrated from a corner of the satellite and gradually penetrated to the core; the red fire followed the thread and ignited from the inside out, like a pair of The invisible double blades of flame pry the satellite from the inside along the closed gap like an oyster.
Then, all the light suddenly went out, the fire fell silent, the light returned, and the metal satellite turned back into a condensed and gray sphere, quietly blending into the endless darkness in the deep night.
The flash disappeared, and the flowing molten mist solidified, as if all offense and defense had come to an end, and nothing was going to happen.
Only time continues.
The first second. Second second. The first hundred seconds, ten thousand seconds, until the dawn climbs the skyline of the main star, painting the dim edge of the world with pale white light, and gradually brightens, swallowing up the light occasionally reflected by the defense modules on the surface of the war satellite. .
The satellite disappeared into the daylight.
Then it appeared again.
The dazzling light seemed to be absorbed suddenly and violently from every corner of the entire pale dome to the surface of the war satellite hanging high in the sky. The light is continuously enriched, breaking through the limitations of stellar sunlight during the day, and piercing the sky's envelope with a brighter, needle-like flash of light.
And this bright white spot continues to become brighter, even brighter, until the light contained within it not only circles the outline of its metal, but also blurs it, erases it, and removes its The sidelines were violently chopped, dismembered, and torn apart, allowing the torrent of bright light inside to pour out, illuminating the entire skylight in a brief moment that was so dazzling that it was difficult to see.
In the light that was nurtured to the extreme, the satellite shattered, and thousands of fragments spread wildly in all directions from their original positions, forming a cloud-like structure that stretched thousands of miles outside the atmosphere.
Part of the fragments are entangled and twisted with each other, turning into a broken and disordered spider web, which is tied to the outer surface of the main star and covers a large area of the sky. Another part of the fragments burns through the atmosphere, carrying scalding fire. The rain and wake dragged out arrow-like rays of light, one after another piercing into the fragile inner part of the main star.
The stable orbit, rotation speed and inclination of the planet, which relies on war satellites, were severely affected. Tides oscillated on the water surface. The land edges distributed along the water body were swallowed and smashed by huge waves. Countless observation points were shaken. The earth's crust was overturned, and countless flammable areas erupted into rapidly spreading fires under the falling meteors from the sky. This planet on the northeastern border of the Milky Way, once shaped by humans and once occupied by aliens, was about to be destroyed by human hands. .
In this rain of fire, taking advantage of the chaos of the magnetic field and the temporary loss of control of the orbital defense and monitoring system, the drop capsules carrying the joint rapid assault teams also fell into the atmosphere and penetrated into the main star. surface. Before the occupation mission is completed, they will serve until death and remain loyal even in death.
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After the Terran Dark Sky in the team used some kind of scissors to easily cut the barbed wire fence outside a training base on the planet, Iron Warrior Kroger first climbed up the tower close to the blind spot of the outer wall, leaning against The guard at the fence, who was looking expressionlessly into the distance, grabbed his neck, pulled him out of the fence, and threw him down.
The Word Bearers waiting at the base of the tower caught the fallen guard accurately. If Kroger hadn't completely crushed his neck, the impact of the impact on the Astartes ceramite armor would have been enough to take away the opponent's life. The Word Bearers fixed the body on a metal plate they had plundered from the freight station and threw it silently into the surrounding ditch, covering up the traces of their infiltration.
Kroger climbed over the railing and climbed inside. A few minutes later he reappeared from the tower and gestured downwards.
Soon, this temporary five-man team consisted of a Word Bearer, a Dark Angel, a Luna Wolf and two Iron Warriors, excluding the Deathwing Terminator. All appear on the top floor of the tower. They are all from the assault teams of various legions and have no military ranks.
At first, they decided that the squad leader would be the soldier from the 16th Legion. After all, they liked the tactical style of squads and associations.
But it didn't take long for the Iron Warriors to take over the command, because they were too good at accurately finding loopholes in surface military structures - well, maybe this had something to do with the flashing calculation data inside their iron-gray helmets, which were famous after all. The auxiliary system equipped by Perturabo, the master of war manipulation, for the Iron Warriors collective.
"Before we come here, we should visit more mortal army training bases in various places, so that we can know which warehouse their laser cannons and tanks are in." The Luna Wolf muttered, skinny The face is hidden inside the helmet. The radio system in the tower has been hacked by two Iron Warriors, who are replacing the local rebels to send signals to the control tower.
"There is no need." Another Iron Warrior said, "The defenses are different in each place. They will only build trenches according to their respective military levels and environmental factors. Maybe there are traps - just Like the razor webs we encountered outside the base."
"You have measured the location of the traps, friends, and I am once again honored to work with you," the Word Bearer said. The gray helmet of Sutra was facing the direction of the iron gray armor of the two Iron Warriors at the same time.
After saying that, he turned his helmet to the window, looked at the broken energy shield and the gray cloud-filled atmosphere in the sky, and sighed: "Being able to penetrate the defense line of this group of blasphemous creatures also makes me - —”
"Where is my honor?" The Luna Wolf reached out and patted the Word Bearer's shoulder suggestively, "Dear cousin."
"Although I am not Harhabat, This does not mean that I agree with the endless pursuit of glory, because it symbolizes your desire for vanity that the Lord has not given you, and that is a bad virtue that needs to be corrected and removed..."
"I understand, I shouldn't provoke you," the Luna Wolf took a step back and raised his hands, "Dear Mr. Scholar, the Word Bearer."
"I'm glad you can learn from the wrong things. ——”
The sound of explosions began to rumble inside the base, and automatic shells roared through the base, making the ground tremble. Just as the Luna Wolf was about to cheer and celebrate the Iron Warriors' success in allowing the base to self-bomb, he suddenly noticed a beam of fire approaching and quickly lowered his body.
"Go!" Kroger shouted, "We have been discovered!"
Another Iron Warrior quickly fired a string of explosives at the floor, blasting through the narrow entrance and exit, and the team members jumped one by one. Entering the hole with a blackened edge, after accelerating their fall for more than two floors, they directly relied on the mass of the armor to smash through the floor, achieving an even faster fall.
The earth and rocks were broken, the steel bars collapsed, and half of the top of the tower was blown away by missiles. They descended to the ground and stood guard at the base of the tower, followed by Deathwing warriors with crossed swords carved on their pauldrons. The pursuit of artillery fire proved that they had been locked by this base. Unknown lasers combined with alien weapons penetrated the air from high altitudes, burning the land in the kill zone, chasing every footprint they left.
“What the hell!” the Shadow Luna Wolf roared. He believed in the prudence and reliability of the Iron Warriors. The invasions along the way had proven this, which caused them to be suddenly defeated by the sluggish soldiers. The discovery turned out to be bizarre.
“Watch your words—” shouted the Word Bearer.
More shells sizzled around them, lightning pulses whipped the earth black and broken, and the artillery systems scrambled by the two Iron Warriors and the forces still controlled by the Renegades clashed in a chaotic interweaving.
The Deathwing warrior raised his hand-held missile launcher and tried his best to aim at the source of a laser beam while running. The iron feather-like armor on the shoulders of the Terminator reflected the flowing iron luster.
At the same moment when the missile was launched, the explosion shock wave that exploded near the team flipped him to one side. Regardless, a string of red and black fire exploded from the targeted laser turret. The fort seemed to be a floating metal ball.
The Luna Wolf, who successfully escaped the explosion, pulled the Dark Angel up. Ahead, the Iron Warriors shouted in the channel: "Bunker!"
They stepped on the mud-covered ground. The steel plates rushed behind the solid wall of a warehouse that was part of the entire complex building complex. The metal plates under their feet reflected their footsteps with a hollow echo. A large amount of gunpowder shot from another angle was blocked by the main body of the huge building complex, but Various flying fire platforms and some soldiers were still chasing them, including the pursuing floating laser turret.
The Iron Warrior raised his hand cannon, and deadly ammunition spit out from the launch tube. One bullet was enough to bite off the entire body of the former mortal soldiers from the hips up. Screams and roars exploded above them, and dazzling plasma fire shot through the thick smoke from the front. The Word Bearers found the location of the tank and detonated the reactive armor in advance. The metal jet from the main warhead of the armor-piercing projectile penetrated the tank's main armor very quickly. Orange-red flames instantly lit up, followed by denser gray-black smoke. The Iron Warrior immediately added firepower and detonated the magazine, causing the armor of the vehicle body to explode in all directions.
"What is that!" the Luna Wolf shouted loudly from behind, his voice vibrating in the turbulent air through the helmet visor.
“Tank!” Kroger replied, unwilling to question why his companion would ask such a stupid question.
"No, I mean! That thing that's flying! That turret!"
"Go first!" Iron Warrior shouted.
The son of Horus did not stop running. In the gauze-like smoke that was about to dissipate, he could see some viscous liquid dripping from the inside of the metal ball flying in the sky. , he ensured that the image was recorded in the optical imaging system of the helmet, and then caught up with the forward speed of other team members, while firing to defend against surrounding surprise attacks.
The Dark Angel aimed at the spherical laser turret for the second time. The damage this time was superimposed on the previous round of destruction, completely tearing apart the outer armor of the laser turret. The burning modules were peeled off piece by piece, exposing the interior. The structure - it seems to be a group of dark pink substances that are mixed together.
More of some kind of liquid was burned dry by the flames, but there were also some viscous substances falling down in lumps. After the carapace completely fell off, the laser turret quickly lost its ability to float and fell to the ground in piles, turning into a puddle of reddish-brown gelatinous mud mixed with some hard bones and indistinguishable objects. Apparently its anti-gravity capabilities come from an area of the external armor.
"For His sake!" The Word Bearers were surprised when they saw the thing crash.
In the previous battles, they were basically fighting against renegade humans who were slaves of the alien empire. This was the first time these Astartes warriors saw alien biological structures that had broken away from the definition of human beings in the Randan realm.
In a sense, this is actually a good thing, because it means that they are starting to delve deeper into the real Ran Dan Empire and touch the corner of the puzzle.
"Trigger the cannonball, Moon Wolf." Kroger said on the channel. Even in combat mode, his voice was just a little thicker. "This is not a load-bearing wall."
< br>"Me?" the Luna Wolf grunted, rushed to Kroger's position, slowed down his running speed, and was well prepared to get out of the way before the multi-tube melta of Deimos Rhino caught up with him. The flowing firelight hit the outer wall of the warehouse. The two Iron Warriors quickly coordinated to attack multiple points around the wall. The solid outer wall of the warehouse was broken open in an instant.
Moon Wolf quickly turned back and dodged into the room. The surrounding air-conditioning instantly formed a layer of frost mist on the surface of his hot armor. The adsorption compound with small holes on the bottom of the boots immediately fixed him to the smooth ground. .
Soon, others followed suit and entered the room. Behind him was the Word Bearer, who blasted the second armored vehicle of the day after Rhino's bulldozer got stuck in the outer wall of the warehouse, blocking the passage.
The noise from the outside world temporarily faded away. Several people avoided the scope of the rhino lighting and took a breath in the cold indoor light.
"It was right to let you take command, Kroger." Luna Wolf said generously, while scanning the shadows inside the warehouse for anything that was moving quietly.
"Yeah." Kroger simply responded, surveying the warehouse environment they entered.
More specifically, this is a cold storage. The temperature control system of the power armor has begun to buzz. The cogitator adjusts the temperature environment to retain more heat for the Space Marines inside the armor.
The interior of the cold storage is extremely wide, probably more than a hundred meters long. Judging from the distribution location, it should be converted from a small training platform.
The cold lighting system makes the walls inside the cold storage glow with a dark blue light. There were multiple rows of iron cabinets arranged in the space. The Iron Warrior walked to the farthest iron cabinet and carefully opened one of the cabinets. No signal is sent out as a result, which is relaxing.
In the opened iron plate, even in dim light, the Space Marines could see clearly that there was a frozen human being who had stopped breathing. Judging from the clothes he was wearing, he should be a logistics assistant. personnel. Kroger grunted heavily and pushed the cabinet back.
"Did they freeze humanity here?" the Word Bearer said softly, a little sadly. "Why do this?"
"Alien behavior." said the Dark Angel of the Deathwing. Like their current six-wing commander, Lieutenant Colonel Hou Guin, the entire Death Wing gives the impression of being taciturn to outsiders. And maybe a little leisurely.
"You're right," Luna Wolf muttered, his gauntlets resting near his power sword. "Continue to walk inside? Well, at least let us avoid the artillery fire in this section and walk further into the base."
"Check our weapon data." Iron Warrior said, "Confirm the remaining ammunition Quantity..."
His voice suddenly stopped in the audio system, replaced by low and steady breathing.
The frost crackled quietly everywhere, and some slight scratching sounds were caught by the enhanced hearing of the Space Marines, just like some small objects were moving inside thousands of walls, rubbing and knocking the space that binds them.
When a sharp collision suddenly exploded from the iron cabinet, the Space Marines had prepared their weapons and opened fire immediately when the cabinet slid outward along the rollers, in conjunction with the waving and poking of their respective power weapons. Stabbing and bludgeoning.
Every corpse that crawled out of the cabinet fell easily to the five warriors' attacks that were too fast to be seen, but there were more corpses stored in the hundreds of rows of hard iron cabinets.
Kroger compared the situation inside and outside and made a decision quickly. "Keep attacking," he growled.
It's always easier to blow up a dead man than kill a tank. He turned sharply towards an approaching figure and severely shattered the fragile purple face of the figure with one punch. At the same time, he removed the corpse's shoulders, then kicked its frozen legs to pieces, stripping off all movement. and attack possible. The laser weapon fell from the corpse's hand and hit the cold ground.
"Krog!" shouted the Luna Wolf, "that-"
His voice was drowned out by a burst of overlapping, loud and harsh shouts, it is difficult to imagine that mortals Such a scream of pure pain could erupt from his throat. Kroger kicked off the dead body holding his leg armor and turned around. The scene in front of him made him suddenly horrified.
At the end of the iron cabinet, some corpses crawling out of the container were twisting and squeezing each other, blending into a pile of formed flesh and blood among the broken bones and skin, and pouring them into a set of damaged Space Marine armor. , forcefully holding up the armor that was empty inside.
Subsequently, through some unknown method, the artificial nerve center that was supposed to be connected to the central nervous system of the Space Marines completed the interaction, and the entire set of brown power armor was forcibly activated.
From the changes in the indoor electromagnetic environment, we can know that this is not an isolated case.
"Blasphemy!" the Word Bearers spat, raising their flamethrowers.
“Stop even thinking about blasphemy,” shouted the Luna Wolves, “even if they fucking dare touch our fucking Second Legion’s fucking power armor!”
Kroger made a decision, "Look for the emergency exit here! There must be isolation doors around the training platform."
"Keep going." Dark Angel said hoarsely.
“Continue!”
(End of this chapter)