Chapter 387 A Tuan
“Happy life, how can people seek you by ending you? If life is happy, you should stay in it. If you want to escape, then how can you talk about happiness? Just because people can escape from the sins they suffer through death, can it be said to be happy? "——"The Book of Lorgar"
The huge object that is more than ten meters high seems to be breathing? .
Its surface undulated like tiny water waves, followed by a deep murmur that snaked around the edges of the Space Marines' senses. A sour and bitter taste overflows with every breath of the object.
At the same time, various half-real and half-illusory emotional fluctuations began to try to mobilize the inner emotions of Astartes. The flames of anger licked the edges of the soul, while the tide of sorrow surged solemnly, as if It is touching the inner side of the nervous system within the body. Under the intense weariness, fatigue is making their hands and feet unwilling to move from the inside out.
Inside the helmet, the Word Bearer found that his eyes had become too wet, and some bitter tears kept rolling down his smooth face that had been wax-removed. The armor against his neck kept dripping, completely Unable to suppress.
"Turn off the respirator and turn on the backup oxygen supply." Kroger reminded, his voice was particularly dull.
From the breath of the giant, the Iron Warrior's armor immediately screened out dozens of compounds that act on the nerves through simple analysis. In addition, the weird thing is that whether it is serotonin, dopamine, endorphins, or various other chemicals, they can be produced by organisms such as humans and aliens themselves.
The Word Bearers followed the guidance of their temporary squad leader.
Before they left the Law of Faith, the True Worder himself summoned them at the Wandering Temple and told them to be willing to listen to the Iron Warriors. Only the Iron Warriors are willing to pursue the guidance of the Star of Faith with them, even if they do not respond directly to it verbally.
After isolating the external chemicals, his tears quickly dried up and his mood returned to basic calm, but those tiny whispers and sobs still continued.
“Can you hear the whispers of the aliens?” the Word Bearer asked directly.
Other Space Marines responded one after another: "No."
"It should be a psychic effect, be careful, brother." Luna Wolf said with concern, "Your psychic powers The talent is better."
"Perhaps you should ask the Fifteenth Legion for training in advance," Kroger said solemnly, not dwelling on this matter.
Through the photoelectric imaging system, he could see that the huge mass in front of him was still a disgusting cluster of flesh and blood, but this time, it - or they, were so tightly integrated internally that they could not be clearly separated.
Through detection, it can be seen that every structure in the giant object is so well integrated with each other that all the original skin and membranes are dissolved, and the bones turn into calcified powder under heavy pressure and acid erosion. The new outer skin and exoskeleton are completely wrapped around its outside, protecting the soft flesh and blood like internal organs.
The Iron Warrior was thinking about whether to shoot rashly, not sure what negative effects it would have and whether his limited number of bullets would be enough to destroy this whole mass of giant things that didn't even have a core.
“The blessing of receiving dispels fear and hesitation, my brothers,” said the Word Bearer. “Bathed in faith, no evil evil can invade our hearts. He is with us. "
He recited some prayers for protection and approached the huge object in front of him without fear. The power hammer wrapped in the force field glowed with flowing light. Moon Wolf wanted to step forward to stop him, but Dark Angel raised his buzzing arm to signal Moon Wolf to wait.
"By His divine grace, we walk in the light and drive away impurity, evil seed, evil thoughts, and heresy." A trace of deep disgust gradually emerged from the Word Bearer's mouth. He held the power hammer in both hands, and his blows were fierce. It was completely contrary to his usual quiet behavior.
After a blunt blow like thunder, cobweb-like cracks immediately appeared on the gray-yellow exoskeleton on the surface of the giant object. The Word Bearers immediately caught up with the second blow, and the entire exoskeleton collapsed. , scattered into several solid plates more than a foot thick, exposing the material wrapped inside.
The Word Bearers tacitly stepped aside and moved to the side, while the Deathwing at the rear immediately fired a single missile into the breach, tearing the breach further and also scorching a surface layer. flesh. A round object that could be fused inside the flesh and blood structure rolled out during the bombardment and landed next to the Word Bearer's boots. He immediately recognized the head of an Astartes. Before he could control his actions, a roar erupted from his mouth through the sound grid. It was specially designed to amplify the sound of the war cry, and in the dim space echoed in despair.
"Hashem!" Kroger rarely called out the Word Bearers' name. After confirming that the other party heard his words, he continued: "You verified the close range Feasibility of attack. We prioritize using melee weapons to save bullets.”
His command was like water that doused the Word Bearers' anger.
“You are right,” he calmed down and looked down at the brown juice stained on the power hammer. “The bodies of our former brothers were sacrificed here, and their souls have been removed from the place where they once lived. Leaving in the mortal container, what remains is just the alien's declaration of war against Him."
He paused, "I'm just worried about what they suffered during their lives. Before the end of their lives, they suffered too much sin and pain for no reason."
"I really can't imagine if you were a Harhabat, and you could still be here with us rationally. Talk." Shadow Moon Wolf breathed a sigh of relief, "Let's start dismantling this pile of things - it's such a big thing, I hope it will be useful no matter what."
"This is not just heresy, my brother, this is unequivocal blasphemy against the artifacts we serve," the Word Bearers spoke slowly, raising his power hammer and speaking rhythmically between blows. "Mulistan's tolerance is not unlimited. There are in-betweens between friends and enemies, but an enemy is an enemy."
"I understand what you mean," Moon Wolf said, moving his power claws, inserting the tip of the claws into the gaps between the armor on the outside of the giant structure, penetrating to the soft and malleable part inside, and striking hard tear it apart. The giant construct trembled like an aching tree, unable to fight back any more. The Astartes breathed a sigh of relief after this was verified many times.
If this whole mass of flesh decided to turn into flesh giants and fight back, it would be too difficult to let the five Astartes escape alive, let alone destroying this thing.
"There are not only Astartes here," the Dark Angel said after a while, "but also mortals, and local animals."
"Yes." The Luna Wolf continued He said, throwing down a ball of things that might have been fur in his hand, "Why does Ran Dan stuff everything into it?"
"Actually, there are plants." Another Iron Warrior said, "Observe those There were vacancies left by corrosion."
The Word Bearers had already dug a long way in alone and quickly, and there was no time to talk to them. The whispering in his ears became louder and louder. However, he did not pay any attention to these unexplained noises.
"The song of justice will lift us up and give fear to the unclean enemy..." He continued to read, and when a picture flashed in front of him that seemed not to belong here, he immediately blocked it , recalling the Emperor's light with all his strength.
Maybe that image will work in the future, but not now.
The entire excavation and dismantling process took about two hours. They dismantled at least thirty layers of flesh and blood covering each other, and dug out countless nerves and incompletely digested hard bones. , and this still subtracts part of the volume of the internal cavity.
When a piece of soft tissue that was not abnormal at all from a visual point of view was shattered, the entire giant thing suddenly erupted with a terrible shudder, and then quickly collapsed downwards, like a dark bite of a giant mouth, and several people located in the All the Astartes on the inside of its structure are buried underneath.
A few minutes later, the soldiers crawled out of the pile of dead meat one by one, staggering to their feet, covered in mud and dirt, panting and exhausted.
"Are we... done?" Luna Wolf said uncertainly, "I just dug my claw casually. Did it hit a major artery? If it did."
Krog stared at the collapsed mass of meat that almost occupied the entire bottom floor of the room, and nodded: "Use the flames to burn one more circle, and then we leave."
(End of this chapter)