Chapter 887 Heading into the Thief’s Nest
“We accepted an order from Blue Ant to deliver supplies to the mining station here and transport the precious minerals from the warehouse. It was supposed to take four months. , but the senior management of Blue Ant seems to have heard something and is anxious to get rid of these precious minerals."
Listening to Rosen telling the story like he was pouring beans, Talos nodded slightly.
“So, do you know where the blue ants’ nest is?”
“Uh——”
Seeing Rosen hesitate again, Talos waved his hand.
"Sablin, cut off his left ear and serve me wine."
"Yes."
Hearing the sound of a knife and footsteps coming from behind, Rosen quickly covered his ears with his hands and shouted:
"I know! I know!"
"Then can you take us there?"
"Yes, yes! I've long been unhappy with those thieves, vampires, and bastards! They are a disgrace to the empire! Just looking at them has tarnished my faith. The pure soul of the God-Emperor——"
With a bang, the dagger was inserted an inch in front of Rosen's knee, scaring him to retreat quickly.
“Shut up.”
Taros stood up from the throne and looked at Sabourin and others.
"Now that you have done it, do it to the end. There is no need to keep this blue ant."
The headquarters of the blue ant is located in the Engels galaxy, a small galaxy with only four or five planets. Its stars are larger than most Stars are dim and appear inconspicuous even on star maps.
But the star thieves did not choose this place just for concealment. The Engels system is located in the center of the Storm Star field, with convenient transportation, which is very conducive to their transportation of minerals, and it is also close to the star system where space warriors are stationed. , relatively safe in all aspects.
So after choosing a place, the star thieves spent decades building a huge space station in the galaxy.
It contains microgravity factories, trading areas, soilless planting areas, storage areas, trading areas, residential areas, etc., and is home to hundreds of thousands of people. It is almost a space city.
Every once in a while, the merchant fleet belonging to the Blue Ants will leave here loaded with refined precious metals and go to the black markets in various star regions for trading.
Blue Ant’s fleet not only includes merchant ships, but also several small frigates, which are more than enough to deal with ordinary pirates. However, in order to avoid provoking the Ministry of Justice or other law enforcement agencies in the empire, Blue Ant’s armed fleet rarely leaves their posts. , will only accompany the merchant fleet.
But no one could have imagined that these frigates would be controlled one by one before the alarm sounded.
In other words, no one can tell what exactly happened in the first hour.
So when the defense array failed, all the detectors failed, and the entire space station instantly became deaf, blind and defenseless, everyone just thought it was a malfunction.
"The external scanners appear to be operating normally, but we have detected some unknown signal, somewhat similar to an electromagnetic storm, my lord."
"Please repeat."
A voice answered in the communicator .
Wedev, the chief mechanical priest of the Blue Ant Group, took a deep breath, lowered the breathing mask surrounding his face, and repeated his words word by word.
“That’s great news, gentlemen.”
On the other end of the communicator, the CEO of Blue Ant Group made a slightly dissatisfied voice.
“So we are gentlemen now?”
Next to Vedev, his apprentice Ike whispered.
"Then I assume that all systems are temporarily unrecoverable, right?"
Even though frost had condensed inside the helmet, Vedev smiled.
"Yes, my lord."
He didn't say much more that most of this kind of systemic failure actually takes several months to repair.
“Gentlemen, you are the most outstanding mechanics in the group. I hope you can understand that the headquarters cannot afford to have the system offline for even one day. This will result in a loss of approximately 12.3% of monthly turnover. This It is the responsibility of all of us.”
“I know, I will contact——”
Suddenly, the voice stopped.
"Gentlemen?"
The CEO's voice sounded, but the communicator had fallen onto the outer shell of the space station.
"Where is the person?" Ike hit the ground first, his face slapped hard on the metal, he said nothing and did nothing, except for the silent flow of blood.
The fighting knife that passed through his head killed him instantly.
Vedev was still alive when he fell. He stretched out his blood-stained hand towards the emergency rune button of his announcer, but did not have the strength to press it down - the blood-stained fingers caused chaotic patterns to be painted on the surface of the button. .
"Gentlemen?"
The executive asked again.
"Police——"
When Vedev took his last breath in his life, he roared with all his strength, and then became silent again.
In a gorgeous office of the space station, the white-haired CEO in a decent uniform looked at the director of the Security Department. This former colonel of the Astra Militarum and a nobleman of a certain hive city was fiddling with something. The hem of his robe.
"There seems to be some interference. This is wired communication."
The director of security took a breath and replied nonchalantly:
"Otherwise, what else could it be? ?”
“I heard someone screaming, seriously.”
The head of security tried to force himself to smile, but was not entirely successful. Out of respect for the elderly, even though the old man, one of the founders of Blue Ant, was not as hearing as before, everyone knew that he had to repeat his words to the CEO. What was said.
"I believe this is a disturbance."
The young noble said again.
"Maybe so."
The executive stretched out his hand and scratched his white hair, and took another breath.
"If communication between the two gentlemen has not been restored in ten minutes, it would make me more comfortable to send out a search party. You heard the noise and the screaming, it's too bad..."
"The Adeptus Mechanicus are not that It's easy to get into trouble, sir."
"We should find them whether alive or dead."
Suddenly, the voice channel flickered again, and it seemed that it was adjusted.
“It does seem to be interference.”
said the old man, but paused as his fingers reached for the dial.
A voice sounded from one end of the communicator, but the speaker's voice did not sound like a human being. It was too low, too vague, and too cold.
"Hide in your dens, mortals, lock your doors, hug your families tightly, and then wait to hear our roar. Tonight, we are here for you."< br>
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With chaos on the streets, Blue Ant middle manager Yann Coy reaches for his pistol without expecting it to do anything. , he just thought that there was no one on the street, so he planned to go home to find his wife and children.
But he was wrong.
As soon as he went out, he caught a glimpse of the creature, which was nearly one meter taller than an ordinary person and was dressed in armor that looked like something from mythology.
At the feet of that thing were three human bodies that were still bleeding. Each body was in pieces and shapeless, with ashes staining the exposed muscles black.
Ion raised his pistol in the bravest moment of his life.
Then the warrior suddenly turned around, holding a chain saw stained with blood and a gorgeous bolt pistol in his hand.
Then there was a loud crack of lightning and thunder.
Ion felt something hit his abdomen like a truck. He couldn't even scream, and then all the air in his lungs was squeezed out.
He didn't even have time to fall down before his abdomen exploded, and was exploded into pieces in just an instant.
He saw stars twinkling and buildings shaking. When his chest fell to the ground, he fell into darkness. The light of life in his eyes disappeared when his head fell to the ground and shattered, and his internal organs were scattered on the ground.
Until his death, he did not realize when the killer appeared.
(End of this chapter)