Since the ship has been in service for two thousand years, the internal structure of the ship has changed a lot, and the original drawings are not completely applicable. Jacob led the team to turn several times along several passages before arriving at the location they needed to inspect. .
The patriarch is a big thing, and he will definitely not be able to stay in a place where there are many people and many eyes.
The storage area, lower deck, or some maintenance areas are the most likely places it will stay.
Bahram has led the team to the bridge to take control of the ship. He needs all monitoring to remain on, and has the accompanying Mechanic Priest start checking the genetic status of everyone on the bridge.
After carefully searching the E storage area, Jacob found nothing, except for a few warehouse managers who were frightened.
"Have you noticed anything strange recently?"
But Jacob suddenly thought that he might be able to ask something from these people, but when he saw Astartes for the first time, they could not stand up That's right, there's no answer at all.
Looking at how trembling they all were, Jacob did not waste time and prepared to go to the next location.
But as soon as he turned around, a boy who looked less than sixteen years old suddenly said:
"Angel! I.I."
Jacob turned around and stared at the other person with the dark eyepiece, and the boy froze immediately.
“Say.”
“It’s in the dispatch area below. Some people I don’t know often come in and out, and there’s a strange smell”
“ Oh? The dispatch area?”
Jacob thought for a while and immediately realized that they had overlooked one thing. This ship was actually part-time in the smuggling business like most imperial civilian ships! All its warehouses are actually connected. The owner of the ship has established a dispatch area under the storage area specifically to transport various "shady" goods to avoid inspection by the Ministry of Justice, and that place is definitely not there According to the ship structure diagram, it is actually a "mezzanine" between the storage area and the equipment area, so there must be no monitoring equipment!
So when the boy mentioned the dispatch area, the expressions of several people around him changed instantly.
Suddenly, fierce gunfire rang out, and then dense barrage splashed everywhere and covered the team's position. Jacob had already reacted in advance, grabbed the boy and hid him behind him, but the others were unfortunately hit by bullets. , accompanied by boiling and ruptured organs, several workers staggered and fell down, wailing.
The soldiers fought back immediately. They came to Jacob, ignored the bullets hitting the armor, and used precise shooting to kill the gene stealers who climbed onto the containers one by one. .
Jacob turned to look at the frightened boy.
“How to get to the dispatch area?”
Seeing that the boy didn't respond, he bent down and gently patted the boy's face with his hand.
"Hello? Can you hear me?"
The boy blinked, then nodded with a pale face.
“How to get to the dispatch area?”
“Ah uh. On the far right, in the green button area, press 1919810, and a downwards button will open under the red container. Slope.”
Jacob turned his head and took a look, and found that the place was hundreds of containers away, and he could vaguely see something sneakily hiding nearby.
He looked at the boy. "Go and hide in a safe place until everything calms down. Don't be curious about any movement. There are very dangerous things on this boat."
The boy wanted to run away a long time ago. After hearing this, he immediately left the place, and Jacob also connected the communication with Bahram.
"Company Commander, we found the area where the target is hiding. This ship has a smuggling black cabin, which is connected to all storage areas."
"Received, the bridge will immediately close all the storage area doors, and other teams will immediately focus on your location."
"The enemy has discovered us, and the target is likely to flee. There are many on this ship Civilians, if he is allowed to enter the passenger area, it will probably cause great casualties. I want to hold him back first."
After a moment of silence, a response came from the communicator.
"Okay, pay attention to safety. The team closest to you will arrive in five minutes."
"Copy that."
After turning around, Jacob said to the others who were still shooting:
"I will break through from the center, and you will divide into two teams to outflank me from the left and right."
After saying that, Jacob will He put the melta pistol back on his waist and pulled out the bolter pistol, then switched the pistol to the left hand holding the shield, and then pulled out the force field sword with his right hand with a snap, as the bright blue energy field appeared. When the sword was on the edge, the sergeant of the 10th Company raised his shield and rushed forward with an arrow. His team members immediately scattered around.
When passing those containers, you can see many cannibalized broken arms scattered around, as well as filthy dark purple blood. Many of them have the same appearance as humans, but their souls and genes have been deeply corrupted by the aliens.
It wasn't until he rushed in that Jacob realized there were so many of them, just like cockroaches. When he saw five or six, it meant there were hundreds of them around.
Genestealers fit this pattern perfectly.
Intense bullets were fired at him, and six sneaky figures appeared on the top of the containers on both sides leading to the key area. They were gene stealers wearing crew uniforms and only carried original With live ammunition, Jacob faced their wild bullets with armor, and from time to time used his pistol to fire precise and deadly shots.
In just a few seconds, he covered a distance of several hundred meters, and the corpses of the genestealers around him fell like rain from the containers.
At this time, realizing that this goal was unstoppable, the gene stealers still rushed towards the giant with desperate fanaticism, wielding welders and chainsaws.
Jacob swung the blade, made an arc forward, and cut off the head of a gene stealer. The sword passed through flesh and bone almost effortlessly.
With this swift blow, Jacob aimed his pistol at the other two targets, hitting their chests and causing their entire upper bodies to disappear in the blood mist.
Even before the corpse fell to the deck, Jacob had already smashed an ugly bald head with his elbow.
At this time, the two teams also used crossfire from the side to deal with the gene stealers who tried to resist with grenades and explosives. At this time, Jacob came to the location pointed by the boy and entered the corresponding Numbers, and then heard the sound of metal friction.
When I turned around, I saw that the huge container had "cracked", revealing a dark slope on the ground.
Jacob came to the top of the slope and stared at the darkness dozens of meters away.
In an instant, he raised his combat shield at an astonishing speed and deflected three large-caliber sniper bullets.
The armor-piercing warhead was bounced away with a crisp sound, scattering sparks from time to time, and then quickly disappeared. I saw that a bunker had been piled up with various debris at the end of the slope. Behind the bunker, there were three people holding weapons. Genestealers who modified sniper rifles, surrounded by a large group of genestealers and their bewitched mortals.