Chapter 543 The troops are divided into two groups
Standard tactical timing: 00.17.21
Throwing aside the corpse wearing the long sword, Soshiyang continued to run, while glancing at the sensor—— Most of the enemies are gathering in the direction of Mark's team.
Obviously, after the initial trial, they knew which target was easier to attack.
The Terminator increased the energy output to his legs, and gradually increased his running speed. His heavy footsteps trampled the metal deck all the way around the corner.
The passage he was in intersected with the corridor where Mark's team was at a T-junction, and the promethium flame shone brightly all around.
As soon as he raised his head, he saw a monster contracting its muscles, preparing to pounce on his position.
At this time, the soldier behind him opened fire instinctively, and the storm bombs began to roar before consciousness entered his mind.
Then the alien's legs were torn off and flew to the side.
Another monster appeared from the corner of the fork in the road. It jumped off the wall and turned towards Soshyan. It made no attempt to hide and shortened the distance entirely by relying on its extremely high speed.
But the tactic failed as its head and body were blown to pieces by a barrage of explosives.
“Establish a defense line!”
Following Soshiyan’s instructions, the burning trails of explosive bombs crossed the forked road, and the sound of explosions suddenly echoed in the metal maze.
"Mark."
Soshiyan shouted at the communicator. He could hear the roar of explosive bombs and the roar of aliens inside.
"We are at coordinate 13D. You lead the team and gather here quickly!"
"Roger!"
One punch smashed the head of a certain alien, and Mark took the lead and rushed into the darkness. Behind him, the Terminators moved and fired.
Single or pairs of gene stealers occasionally rushed out of the shadows, or leaped from the pipes to launch sporadic attacks. The Astral Knights easily killed them with neat shots.
But the increasing number of light spots on the sensor showed that more enemies were rapidly approaching their position.
The team quickly arrived at the double intersection and joined Soshyan's team. Mark then turned around to cover the rear of the team, and the other two people spread out to defend the passages on both sides.
After confirming that no one was left behind, Soshyan continued to move towards the target highlighted in the helmet display, firing the storm bombs in his hand towards the heavy door at the end of the passage.
The thumb-sized rocket shredded the metal barrier, revealing the room.
There are some dimly shining screens in the hall, and underneath there are a large number of keyboards and buttons.
This is the launch control room of the escape capsule - the primary mission target.
He must destroy the control room beyond any possibility of repair to ensure that no lifeboat can be launched.
"Brother Harry."
Hearing the order, Harry raised the heavy flamethrower in his hand, while Mark's bolter roar announced the enemy's arrival.
The promethium element exploded into the launch chamber, blowing the glass screen data display into pieces.
As Harry quickly dumped his weapon's fuel canisters into the air, sparks erupted from the melting cables, and thick black smoke billowed from the room in giant waves along the lines of hellfire. The created rising heat surged, shrouding the team in darkness.
Soshyan's automated senses flickered through different spectral options before finally settling on thermal imaging.
In the reflected light of the burning control room, he could see through the thick fog as easily as if it wasn't even there.
The metal cabinet turned into molten iron and re-solidified on the broken floor. The charred ancient circuit could never be repaired, and the thousand-year-old piston hung like wet paper.
"The first task is completed."
Soshiyang announced loudly.
Then he turned away from the control room and looked at the sensor display. Ring-shaped green light spots were flashing in front, and their number was increasing.
The Genestealers and Terminators are trapped in this space hulk together, and the real battle is about to begin.
The data room is still two hundred meters away from here, and dozens of enemies are blocking the Terminator. Soshiyan ejects the magazine from the storm bomb and inserts a new one.
“Brothers, stay vigilant and keep moving.”
Everything went as expected, the team continued to advance deep into the space hulk, and the two technologies under protection The priests are constantly assessing the condition of the surrounding structures to prevent landslides.
However, the enemy's reinforcements are also very fast. The dozens of bright spots before have now become a dense mass.
"Team Mark, control coordinates 80-O." Soshyan's concise order came.
"Stop enemy reinforcements trying to pass through the Nexus."
He had to stop the siege of Genestealers somewhere, if they were in a tight passage The consequences of being besieged by such a large number of enemies would be disastrous.
Therefore, he could only separate the team again, allowing Mark's team to occupy key nodes, while he led the team directly to the data room, obtained the target in the shortest time and then left.
"Understood, coordinates 80-O."
Mark replied quickly, and then growled at the team members.
"Form an attack formation and move forward."
He raised the power sword in his right hand to signal the team to set off, and he walked at the head of the team, holding the storm bombs flat and ready to fire at any time.
The Terminator armed with heavy weapons walked behind him, and the six-barreled assault gun rotated slowly as if he had a premonition that the battle was about to begin.
The team soon separated in a small transit cabin. Mark's team will defend this node with three passages alone.
"Potential invasion point."
After a brief inspection, Mark pointed to an alcove in the wall.
The assault gun then turned towards the invasion point, but there were no caves or roads in the alcove that could be attacked.
"It's hard to imagine that so many monsters could escape from this abandoned ship without any material supplies."
A soldier sighed in the communication channel.
“They don’t seem to need to eat at all?”
“This does raise a lot of puzzling questions for our understanding of the gene stealer species, and it also educates us "It's arrogant to think you know everything."
Mark's voice was still calm, as if he was in a training ground rather than a battlefield.
"We should just blow up the entire hulk with torpedoes."
A certain soldier said as he walked back to the team from the rearguard position.
"That might miss the opportunity."
Mark shook his head.
“Some of these ships may belong to the Dark Ages. Who can tell what secrets they hide? What kind of things of great value do they contain?”
"So what can we find this time?"
"We will find out when the Chapter Leader comes back. Now everyone remains vigilant."
Suddenly, a beeping alarm sounded, Mark He glanced at the tactical display, and then calmly ordered:
"Snook, occupy the position on the left, Mir, you defend the right wing, and the others disperse into skirmish formations to guard the passage."
The team dispersed according to the company commander's order, and the soldiers escaped into the darkness to occupy their assigned positions.
On the fifty-meter line, they stared ahead, waiting for the enemy.
In the sensor, the green blur dispersed into independent signals, and the enemy surrounded Mark's team from three directions.
On the other side, Soshyan advanced about a hundred meters in a short period of time.
Almost that far ahead, a dark cloud-like thing is appearing under the Terminator's scanner. It is impossible to identify a single life form at the current distance, but Soshyan estimates that it cannot There will be less than a hundred.
They were moving, but he could see no intention in them.
He could only lead the team forward.
But soon we encountered a tangle of steel frames and compartments, which seemed to have been formed by the strange subspace wave that had kneaded the two passages together.
Like fault lines in the planet's bedrock, wide, tall doorways and twisted floors provide more space for the Terminators.
Soshyan immediately quickened his pace.
And the rustling steps in the darkness and the scream of sharp claws rubbing against metal are also close to my ears——
(End of this chapter)