Chapter 1101 The Infiltrator
Since the launch of his infiltration operation, he has been on standby in the void for more than a standard Terra hour, and the invaders began to act.
It is difficult to pass through the outer hull of the Eternal Loyalty. This warship is so huge that it is simply a chaotic city in space, carrying thousands of souls, and the defenders have no control over their homeland. Very alert.
But fortunately when performing ground bombing missions, the battleship's detection system would be in a relatively weak state. In the end, the single-person aircraft he piloted found a knuckle-shaped protrusion hanging under the main engine. , a hulking mass of iron clinging like tumors to the huge engine casing at the bottom of the Eternal Loyalty.
That's the detector's blind spot, the slightest weakening of the void shield's coverage - just enough for a void boat to slip into the shadows and break through.
But his ship failed to reach the interior of the Eternal Loyalty. Although it contained a lot of incredible technology, it was only designed to get him close enough to carry out the boarding process, and then retreat, eliminating the possibility of his invasion. The possibility of being detected by some unusually diligent servant.
One hundred meters in the open void, an insignificant distance. He was wearing power armor and used his jetpack to cross this distance like a bolt fired from a bolter.
The steel-gray hull was speeding towards him. He hit the armor plate and climbed on it with his magnetic claws. After scanning the situation, he crawled towards the nearest access hatch like a spider.
Set two door-breaking bombs, then retreat briefly, followed by a silent explosion.
A few seconds later, he entered, climbed through the internal metal grid, grabbed the support rod, and drilled towards the sealed area.
He found an angle between two support beams, completely dark and surrounded by thick metal plating.
This place is thirty meters away from the penetration point and is full of the stench of oil and bilge water. The nearest inhabited deck above is at least a hundred meters away.
Here he waited, enduring the tremors of the Eternal Loyalty's orbital bombardment.
More than once, an idea flashed through his mind: This battleship was enough to shatter the planet, but in that case his mission would not only be short-lived, but also meaningless.
Soon, the roar of the secondary engine speeding up told him that the flagship was changing course and heading to another location in the orbit.
He listened to the starship's interior creak under the pressure of the steering and waited for the hour to run out.
During this period, he did three things.
First, he checked the special equipment carried by the armor: anti-scanning resonance generator, enhanced aphrodisiac unit, silencer power mechanism, and the armor's painting was consistent with the silver gray of the Astral Knight, and the identification friend or foe logo Will reveal that he is a soldier of the Fourth Company.
This disguise cannot withstand strict inspection, but it is enough to allow him to move briefly in public places only for mortals.
Second, he loads a positioning readout into the cogitator in the helmet, which plots a route to the destination.
There was no doubt that the interior of the Eternal Loyalty was very different from the structures of ships he was already aware of, but since the Revenge was based on a similar template, that gave him some assurance.
Third, before taking action, he activated the encrypted transmitter fixed under the power backpack and checked that the encrypted data burst could pass through the Eternal Loyalty's void shield and reach where it was supposed to go place.
It cannot be detected by anything other than its corresponding receiving array, and even if it is intercepted, the encryption is designed to mimic the erroneous output of a malfunctioning augury node, as opposed to a conventional warship There may be dozens of such nodes.
The timer showed that the hour had run out, and he took a moment to gather his thoughts.
Now he is buried in the steel guts of an extremely huge starship, and the soldiers around him will kill him if they find him - alone, alone and lightly armed.
By any standards, even those of his former regiment, this was a dangerous mission.
But the war situation was what it was, and no matter what, he could not be discouraged. So when the appointed moment came, he slipped silently into the shadows for which he was born.
The intruder opened his way upward from the penetration point, crawling quietly and steadily.
The route he chose was safe, so for more than an hour he traveled between decks unimpeded.
Eventually he found a damaged, dim corridor and entered open space, his path illuminated by a number of grimy lighting spheres scattered throughout the starship's lower areas.
No one paid attention to him, the crew was busy, and no matter what the circumstances, the crew rarely raised their eyes to stare at an Astartes, and if they did, it would not find anything disturbing them thing.
He breathed the air in the cabin, and he had to say that the smell on this deck was unpleasant—the smell of ashes and engine oil, as thick as smoke.
After that, he continued to move. The interior of the ship was like a maze, with corridors that turned back regularly. Most of the decks seemed to be built in concentric circles, with various rooms distributed outward along the central spokes.
As he went deeper, he gradually understood the overall shape of this layout.
Soon, one of the two targets had entered the range of the bird.
He began to accelerate, moving along the route leading to the communication station, the target on the acupoint screen getting closer and closer with every step he took.
Almost there.
There are dozens of communication stations distributed within the huge interior of the Eternal Loyalty. Each one is a node on the overall network, distributed like ganglia in the human body, and finally converged at the center of the command bridge. , where every signal and data is processed.
The pinnacle of the entire system is the battleship's Astropath spire, which is filled with blind warp wanderers and protected by layers of sensitive security systems in concentric circles.
Breaking in there is almost impossible, not enough and not necessary, since intruders can find what they want just enough on low-level sites.
He pressed his body against the wall and slowly walked down the steel corridor in front.
Finally, five meters away from him, there were two security doors, tightly sealed.
Although there was nothing in front of him, he could already hear the rhythmic sound of boots coming from below.
He moved forward softly. The wall in front of him was lead-lined and equipped with low-level sensor baffles, but he could still pick up fuzzy signals from the other side.
He estimated there were six men inside, none of them Space Marines, but all armed.
Then, he took out a wide-angle cortical isolator from his thigh. This is a nerve blocker that can cause people to coma within a diameter of ten meters - the bolt gun is too loud and is not suitable This kind of work, so it is always kept in a holster.
He walked slowly to the door, made sure that he was not being followed, and then entered a password on the door lock device.
He had many combinations to try, most from the mid-level officer he knocked unconscious six decks down, and others from the listening equipment he placed next to the unguarded communications station.
The first code failed, and so did the second, but the third showed a green rune of passage, and the door's locking structure clicked away.
The heavy door slid open, and he walked in like a true astral knight.
(End of this chapter)