Chapter 2659 Timely Rescue
Soon the two arrived at the lookout post of the stronghold. The armed servitors here were already on alert. Hu Ge looked in the direction pointed by the apprentice, and sure enough he saw something in the dark. On the ridgeline, there are several lonely figures moving, about a thousand meters away from here.
From a distance, they indeed look like skitarii, but they seem to have just fought a fierce battle. The robes and armor on their bodies are all in pieces, and there are even remnants of flesh and blood hanging on them, but the helmets It was basically intact, and the weapons were dragged to the ground by them, like a defeated army.
"Which army is this? Didn't they send a request for instructions?"
"No, there was no response to the identification we sent."
"Did the strange thing retreat all the way here from other war zones?"
"Try sending another communication request?"
Topping then turned on his portable communicator and issued a communication command. But he immediately realized something was wrong.
“Their communication device is not turned on at all.”
“Is it damaged?”
"I'm not sure. Well, wait, what's the sound on the channel?"
Topping adjusted the listening channel of the communicator with doubts, and soon a large section appeared intermittently amid a burst of static noise. Incomprehensible gibberish.
However, as the sounds gradually merged into vague words, a strange sense of fear appeared in the hearts of the two mechanical priests.
At this time, the strange team had reached a distance of less than 500 meters. After the two looked at each other, they both saw the panic in each other's eyes.
“Block them!”
When all the weapons and servitors of the stronghold were activated, the Alpha Skitarii walking at the front raised his head high and lifted his "hood", revealing the metallic, bald and ferocious face underneath. , and bared a set of jagged fangs.
At the same time, the walls of the camp began to flash, lasers and small artillery shells flew towards the target point, followed by sparks generated in the explosion, illuminating the ridges and rocks in the night.
But the dense bullets did not knock down the enemies, but only peeled off their camouflage - the skin and flesh of the dead Skitarii, revealing their terrifying and true shapes, shiny metal skulls and skull-like bodies. The body, as well as the huge claws and weird metal bone spurs, seems that the only purpose of their appearance is to cross the gap of time and convey the message of death to all races.
“What the hell is this.”
Hu Ge’s eyes widened and he tried his best to observe the strange creatures that began to run in the fire. Their metal bodies seemed to be in the forging world. It's not special, but that kind of flexibility is definitely not comparable to that of robots, and their actions are more similar to beasts.
"Is it some sage's out-of-control experiment?"
"No, I don't think so. Do you remember the rumor? There seems to be an ancient ruins underground in Scorch Oven City."
At this time. , Hugo discovered something and opened his portable cogitator.
The screen flashed, showing a grid with moving icons. Hu Ge glanced down and took a breath of air.
"The augur discovered something. There are eight energy sources there, six hundred meters away on the west side"
Then the screen flashed and the icon appeared.
"There are eight more, also at six hundred meters, approaching from the southeast, they are luring us to spread our fire, I think. Yes, here, the third group of intruders is six hundred meters to the north "
Toppin has taken out his weapon, a plasma gun. "So, we are surrounded."
"Stop taking the gun! Send an emergency signal quickly!"
At this time, the heavy fighter servitors also began to defend themselves with plasma firepower and armor-piercing missiles, knocking down these skeletal ghosts. However, most of the monsters were very fast, and the servitors' hit rate was very low.
Just as the two people hurriedly sent out a distress signal, a mechanical undead unknowingly climbed up on the wall they were on.
“Be careful!”
As Toppin screamed, Hugo turned around in time to attack. He first felt the creature’s claws making a cut on his cheek. Then he shot through its body with the melta pistol in his hand.
Even though its chest was pierced and it fell down against the wall, the thing was still howling with a harsh rattling sound, raising its bloody claws and scratching randomly in mid-air.
When he turned to look at the camp, he found that a monster had broken through the defense and ran in. A lifeless apprentice was lying next to the tent, and a metal monster was lying on the corpse, scooping up a large piece of flesh and blood with its claws, and holding it high. , and then brought it to the lips full of sharp metal teeth. However, when it chewed, the minced meat just dripped down its metal ribs.
"Strange. They are obviously machines, why do they behave like this?"
At this time, the exchange of fire in the camp reached its most intense moment. The monster with its claws tearing at the armed servitor opened fire and said loudly:
"Don't do your research! Save your life first!"
At this moment, a unique roar sounded in the sky, followed by two The Storm Claw flew past rapidly, and missiles were drawn out from the short wings of the fighter plane, blowing up or completely destroying the mechanical monsters. At the same time, the heavy explosive bombs under the Storm Claw's nose also continued to fire, hitting the bodies of those monsters. Damn, even their solid adamantine shells couldn't withstand such ferocious firepower.
As the Storm Claws circled and attacked, two Thunder Eagles also roared over. Warriors in white power armor jumped down from them, and immediately used power swords and chain saws to quickly eliminate these twisted enemies amidst the battle cry.
“This is.”
As soon as the Tenth Company Commander of the White Templar, Sherroe, jumped off the Thunder Eagle, a mechanized skull-like creature rushed directly towards him, covered in stains The red robe was flying up and down. The company commander thought it was a crazy Skitarii at first, but soon he caught a glimpse of the alien face under the broken hood.
"Necrons?"
The alien lunged towards Sherroe, an incomprehensible shriek of static and alien language coming from its open mouth. Call. ,
Sherroe fired two plasma shots first, breaking the screaming metal monster into large pieces. Then he turned his power sword smoothly, with a series of explosions, and cleanly chopped off the other end in an attempt to sneak attack. The two limbs of the monster, and the moment the opponent fell, he split its head in half with a backhand sword.
The battle ended quickly. Chéroët came to the two frightened technical priests and immediately asked without any nonsense:
"Where did they come from."
“Come back to me, sir, we don’t know either. We just know that these monsters are approaching the stronghold wearing the skin of the Skitarii, but the direction they are coming from is probably some mountain caves.”
Xie Luoai frowned and turned around to look at the battlefield. The soldiers were collecting the corpses of the twisted monsters.
"I understand. The defense of your stronghold has been defeated, so give up now. We will take you back to the base camp in the war zone, and you can list out the detailed battle report."
After he finished speaking, he Then he turned around and walked towards the landing Thunder Eagle. The two technical priests glanced at each other. For the first time, they truly felt what luck was. Then they sighed in unison:
"Omnisiah bless you." ”
(End of this chapter)