Chapter 1298 Friends of the Omnic
The scavenger excitedly put the oracle into a zippered pocket on his robe. When he approached the sand dune, he hung the gun on his body and climbed up on all fours.
Climbing the sand dunes was hard work and he was sweating profusely in the dry heat.
With great effort, the scavengers reached the top of the dune and began to clear the sand with folding shovels.
He dug in quickly, making the hole wider and deeper as he went.
Every half hour or so, the scavenger would take regular sips of salty water from his hide canteen, then pause and slowly clear the top of the dune.
The wind tried to thwart his work, blowing fresh sand and ash back into the hole, but after three hours of digging, his shovel struck metal, causing him to let out a grunt of delight— He didn't dare to make a loud noise for fear of attracting the creatures or similar creatures wandering around.
“Well, let me see what you are all about!”
He dropped the shovel and confirmed the discovery with his gloved hand.
It was indeed metal, fresh with no traces of corrosion or rust. The patina on the surface was burnt black, as if it had been scorched by high temperatures, but when he rubbed the edge of a shovel over it, Sometimes, it can be seen that the damage is only superficial.
He cleared away more sand and guessed from the curves of the exposed metal that the object beneath his feet was roughly spherical.
As the excavation went deeper, the scavenger frowned, and he saw the outline of a combat robot appearing.
There were three bubble-shaped metal balls in front of him, like sensor domes with no sign of life.
"God of all possibilities, what is this?"
The alarm of the auspicious device sounded, and the sound was very loud, which represented the emergence of another strong signal.
Puzzled, the scavenger pulled the device out of his robe and looked around for the source.
Soon, he heard the roar of the engine over the roar of the wind, but he could not determine the source. He quickly raised his gun and prepared to defend his discovery, but he could not see anything.
Suddenly a dazzling light shot from the sky above his head. The scavenger covered his eyes with his hands. The roar of the engine became louder and louder, and a powerful jet blew up a puff of smoke to cover it up. His sight.
He couldn't see anything in the rising ashes, but he still held the gun.
As the craft touched down, the pitch of the engines changed from a howl to a whine, and a moment later the steady light was replaced by the diffuse light of landing.
When the dust settled, the scavenger looked up and saw a group of people walking towards him from the belly of a heavy transport aircraft.
The dust blurred the outlines of the visitors, but no matter who they were, the scavenger swore that none of them would miss his discovery.
“This is mine!”
The scavenger shouted excitedly, slamming the barrel of the gun towards the sand dune.
“I found it, you can’t take it away from me! I have the right to salvage! I have a legal scavenging certificate!”
He hurriedly took off a metal plate from his neck, but the other party didn't seem to care.
When the scavengers saw a group of fierce-looking armored skitarii and a man wearing precious robes, their hearts sank.
The sage is wearing a thick red robe, next to a glowing green servo skull, with a black hat on his head.
"Actually you don't know."
The Sage said with a smile, one of his arms pointed at the machine under the sand.
“That machine is mine.”
“Who are you?”
“I am Sage Rakhi Bangura.”
“This— "
At this time, the servo skull next to Lucky Bangura flashed, and he said:
"Come on, it's time."
"I'm not going anywhere with you!"
"I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to my friends."
For a moment, the scavenger felt the sand under his feet shaking. He looked down in horror and found that the multi-faceted crystal on the sensor glowed yellow. When the dormant energy battery restarted and came back to life, there was a burst of energy conduction vibration. the entire machine.
It staggered forward. The scavenger lost his balance, fell headlong into the quicksand and lost control of the weapon. Only then did he see clearly that the machine was almost 10 meters tall and roughly spherical in shape. Many metal arms stretched out from the body, and there were all kinds of weird weapons on them, like a terrifying and deadly mechanical spider. And use some kind of anti-gravity device to float in mid-air.
The machine stood motionless at first, then suddenly opened fire on the vehicle where the scavengers were sheltered.
"No!"
The Scavenger shouted, standing up and crawling towards the Sage, but then his protest was drowned in a hail of gunfire and the machine's weapons like light.
The scavenger truck exploded, forming a smoking orange fireball, and the resulting shock wave knocked the scavenger to the ground.
He gasped at the acrid, noxious air and realized the explosion had ripped the respirator from his face.
He hurried to get his ventilator and turned over.
“No, mine, mine”
“What’s your name?”
Suddenly, he found that Raj Bangura had appeared in front of him at some point. In front of him, he gasped and said:
"Cinco Martini!"
"Martini, I'm deeply sorry for your loss. It may have been a little angry because of your previous reckless actions."
"What?"
Martini turned his head in horror and found that the mechanical crystal was staring coldly at him. He could even feel human hatred and disgust from the mechanical detector.
“It shouldn’t be one, one by one——”
When he found himself being dragged towards the machine by an invisible force, the scavenger grabbed at the gray air in panic.
"Ahhhh! Please! No!"
He screamed, his words gurgling and blood spurting from his mouth.
The next moment, the scavenger's body exploded into countless pieces.
Rach Bangura just glanced at the blood stains on the ground, and then turned his attention to the huge machinery.
"Mercer, the time for change has come."
The robot's cold gaze swept across the sage, and then the language system that had not been activated for a long time sounded after a burst of white noise.
"Bangura, I found that your body's heart rate is 5 measurement points higher than the normal value, and the level of neurotransmitters in the blood is also increasing. Is something wrong?"
< br>“Yes, I am happy.”
“What makes you happy?”
"Seeing you again after two hundred and thirty-nine years."
"Then should I also show this emotion? I will record it. If a friend hasn't seen you for a while, there will be something called The emotional factor of joy."
"Mercer, I have found an ally who can reverse the decadent customs and habits of this world."
"What is it?"
< br>"Astartes."
"Astartes. I remember these genetically modified products. They are violent and hostile to all of us with free thoughts. Yes, they almost destroyed me. My memory module was damaged a long time ago. The only thing left is a certain sharp point. The scream, that’s really scary.”
“Don’t worry, they are just tools to help me, and they don’t know your existence. As long as we use their hands to deal with those stubborn superstitious people, we will be free. ”
“The success rate of your plan is very high, I believe you.”
“Let’s go, old man, our time is coming.”
(End of Chapter)