Chapter 147 The Destruction of Gyges
“Let’s all die...”
Before the green-skinned tech master died, he suddenly let out a hoarse laugh.
Then, with his last breath, he sent a remote signal.
What followed was a violent tremor in the earth, and everything under Soshyan's feet seemed to fall apart.
"This alien must have activated some kind of self-destruction program. We have to leave as soon as possible!"
Just as Thor spoke, the ground under their feet began to twist and deform.
The several-meter-thick steel floor was torn apart like paper. Violent and greasy steam shot out from every crack in the floor. The solid walls of the hall began to collapse inward, with large chunks Debris rained down from the ceiling.
In the next few seconds, the ground began to crack, and the greenskin who lost his balance fell into the huge crack, falling towards the fiery core of the broken world.
"Quick! All personnel retreat! Evacuate to the landing point!"
Knowing that something bad was going on, Soshyan immediately led the team back along the original path. No matter what the alien did, their nest would definitely be destroyed.
Either themselves, or the fleet in orbit.
As they moved, the earthquakes became more and more severe. If the Astartes had not had magnetic locks on their boots, they would have been unable to stand long ago.
But even so, their actions seemed to be faltering.
While running, Soshyan saw the tall towers around him that were used as position generators collapsing one after another, like toppled building blocks, and smashing the buildings below into pieces.
A long time ago, he witnessed a layer of slums being demolished by blasts.
The tall pyramid-shaped nest city is simply a mountain of landfill. It has stood in that valley for sixty generations. The residents and protesters entrenched in it were finally eliminated by the planet. The governor drove them out completely.
A valuable refinery will take its place.
With the efforts of engineers, fixed-point blasting turned the entire huge building into a landslide. Countless houses suddenly collapsed, and the buildings were stacked up like playing cards.
The destruction that shook the earth and the deafening roar stunned Soshyan, who was already an Astartes.
But what alarmed him most was the amount of dust kicked up by the ghetto's obliteration.
But that scene was nothing compared to now.
It seems as if entire continental plates are beginning to crumble, scattering trillions of tons of rubble and debris into the fissure abyss.
Noise and tremors merged into one, indistinguishable, joining forces to smear their vision into a hazy state.
The orange-yellow bricks and beams exploded into clouds of flour-like dust that covered the sky, forming a curtain wall in the sky.
Even Thor felt this desperate urgency and quickened his pace with a heavy expression.
In order to ensure that the team could leave safely and quickly, Soshyan asked Sol to lead the way, while he stood behind the team to prevent any accidents.
The team quickly rushed towards the tall buildings where they had been.
Their return journey is quickly turning into a violent landslide trap, and everything is forced to escape into that terrifying bottomless pit.
Suddenly, there was another violent tremor, and Soshiyang was caught off guard and almost fell down.
When he raised his head, he found that the ground in front of him was rising high, and he was in an upward climbing posture.
Amidst the deafening roar, a huge boulder that once belonged to a certain building rushed towards him. It must have been this huge stone that made an important contribution to the final collapse of this piece of ground.
Facing the unstoppable boulder, Soshiyang jumped up quickly to prevent himself from being crushed into a long blood stain on the floor.
He barely landed on the top of the stone, holding tightly the broken base of a stone sculpture with both hands. Although this also made the base overwhelmed, he was able to gain a foothold after all.
The stones continued to slide down.
He stabilized his steps, leaped again, and landed on the sloping platform behind the boulder.
In order to prevent the platform from overturning, he hurriedly climbed up, while the soldiers who had arrived at a relatively safe area looked at him nervously.
They were still yelling something, but the noise was so loud that Soshyan could not hear anything
Fine rubble struck his shoulders and helmet from time to time, and the force of one of the rubbles was considerable. , leaving a crack on the left side of his goggles and making him dizzy for a moment.
The roar of the earth shattering gradually reached its climax. He slammed into something like a headless fly, and then discovered that it was a wall.
"Up! Up!"
Saul's roar sounded, and Soshyan instinctively stretched out his hand, and sure enough he caught something. Then he pulled himself up with a sudden force.
This is a relatively intact area, the team is in front, but there is a widening gap between them.
Soshiyang didn't even think about it, just accelerated and jumped up.
Before one of his feet could hit the ground, a strong arm grabbed his shoulder armor and dragged him up.
"Thank you."
Nodding towards Sol, Soshyan looked back.
Most of the structure of the energy node they fought at earlier was gone, leaving only a bit of fragmented concrete interspersed with broken steel bars and exposed cables.
The dust raised by this scene of destruction covered the sky and turned into a strange flour-like haze in the air.
And the location they were in was just a ruined platform less than two meters wide at most, allowing everyone to survive and stand on it without falling into the bottomless abyss.
All the Astartes are huddled here, their armor caked with yellowish dust.
"Thunder Eagle! The Thunder Eagle is coming!"
Suddenly, Armin's excited voice sounded. Soshiyang looked up and saw the Obsidian Legacy slowly descending from the sky. , its hatch has been opened.
In the end, with the foresight prepared by the technical sergeants, all the soldiers safely evacuated the ground.
It was a very successful operation without any loss of life.
When they ascended into space, Soshyan noticed that the huge void shield had died, which meant that the fleet's destruction plan would soon be implemented.
But what should they do when there is harassment from the Ork fleet?
Soon, the fleet commander gave Soshyan an unexpected answer.
He plans to use the greenskins' own weapons against him.
After most of the troops on the ground evacuated, the squadron used a series of sizable bombardments to push a meteorite assault ship that had been basically completed by the Greenskins out of a stable orbit.
It dragged behind it a large mass of fragmented metal debris, shining in the dazzling light, crossing the surface of the vast orange world, like a tentacle firmly tied by gravity. of miniature twins.
This crude weapon made by green skins finally embarked on the path of inevitable destruction after eight revolutions.
The large amount of debris ejected from it has left behind fine brown tracks around the planet, just like the graceful rings around the giant gas planets.
Soon, the frictional resistance of the atmosphere ignited the surface of the meteorite and began to eat away at its overall structure.
It shimmered, like an iron ingot in a furnace, first dark red, then bright pink, and finally white hot.
Both the arc path of its fall and the steady contraction of its orbit are appetizingly slow.
It's like a shooting star.
After people waited long enough, it crashed into the greenskin's large stronghold city.
A fleeting light suddenly flashed, and then turned into a rapidly spreading blazing brilliance, as if a star was rising from beneath the ground.
Immediately afterwards, the brilliance continued to expand, spreading in all directions like a blazing dome that could not be seen directly, causing everything around it to instantly vaporize, uprooting the majestic tower with a devastating force.
The violent impact also created a deadly pulse of infrared radiation.
The huge amount of dust and atomized sulfuric acid that rose into the sky left a dirty black cloud in the atmosphere. When the fireball hit the ground, it exploded and splashed with hot debris, and then rained down, adding to the raging fire storm that swept the earth. .
On the boarding deck of the Starfire, there were several giant screens used to broadcast mission briefings. All the soldiers involved in the operation saw the fatal blow that penetrated the enemy's body.
Servants and deck staff also gathered around, some of them holding tools or rags, or even repairing half-cleaned weapons and firearms.
As I watched the meteorite slowly fall, there was almost silence everywhere except for a few impatient murmurs.
The moment the impact finally occurred, the Astartes burst into life.
They stamped their armored feet and beat their breastplates with their fists.
“Destroy the aliens!!”
Nothing makes them happier than seeing the enemy of mankind destroyed, even Soshyan is no exception.
(End of this chapter)