Chapter 2684 The Killer and the Revenant (Part 1)
“Are you all ready?”
In the darkness, McCarty held a heavy needle pistol and made a sound that only his kind could hear, and followed The four dark figures around him nodded in agreement.
"No fire without orders. Our mission is to find the enemy commander and determine their possible size. This is a reconnaissance mission."
Then he covered himself with a towel That inhuman face, compared with normal humans, the flesh on his face is pale and dull, there is a protruding forehead plate in the middle of the head, the eyes are matte black, and he is wearing fine combat uniforms, arms, and legs. The body and torso are additionally protected by flexible bulletproof materials, and a black cloak is draped behind him.
They are the most mysterious killer species in the cult. They are an improved breed of the third generation, produced by the best genes among believers. They have super sensory abilities and can keenly perceive changes in the world around them.
The rapidly firing neurons in the Killer Species' predatory brains allow them to enter transcendent bullet time - in which enemies appear to move at an extremely slow speed, allowing the Killer Species to move in the blink of an eye. Calmly change bullets and calmly aim the barrel at the target, and then harvest lives one after another. In addition, enhanced pheromone detection and heat-sensing vision allow the killer species to accurately hit the target even in dark environments, and the exquisite ear vestibule The system provides balance and coordination of a superhuman physique.
All this makes them excellent assassins and highly skilled scouts.
However, this mission is still a challenge for them, because what they want to detect is not those sluggish mechanical soldiers or stupid mechanical slave owners, but those soulless metal skeletons hidden deep underground. ——The cult calls it the metal devil.
Some superstitious opinions believe that these things are the souls of people who were brutally persecuted and took revenge on the living with grievances. However, the senior leaders of the sect or rational people scorned this, including McCarty. Inside.
Because he had investigated the underground laboratory of the mechanical slave owner, he knew that these were machines, just special machines, and they should be very ancient.
It’s not that the cult has never had the idea of taking these things. After all, their technology seems to be very advanced, but the results are disastrous. It seems that their behavior angers the other party, and what follows is terrible revenge. With massacres, even the Order was driven from their former homeland.
But now, there is no way to stay on the ground. There are not many choices available to the Order. The bishops choose to withdraw most of the personnel and equipment underground on the one hand, leaving only a few guerrilla fighters on the ground to contain the empire. On the one hand, they can understand the specific situation underground. If the number of these mechanical monsters is not large, they may be able to concentrate all their efforts on driving them away in a desperate fight. The cult has accumulated a considerable number of weapons through the riots, unlike before. So weak.
So, their task is very heavy, and after going down, their spiritual connection with the bishop will be cut off, and they can only deal with emergencies on their own.
This is also the reason why the killer species is chosen. Not only are they physically flexible, but their brains are also flexible enough.
After confirming each other's status, the five-person team climbed all the way down the shaft. There was originally a transportation channel that led directly to the underground laboratory of the mechanical slave owners. The bishops judged that the metal devil first appeared from there. .
As he got closer to the target, McCarty saw faint lights. These dim lights also enlarged his silhouette, casting weird shadows that were no different from weird arachnids.
But suddenly, McCarty stopped, and in each other's hearts, he reminded his companions in a slow and dull tone.
"They come from below and move very fast." With the extra arm, they can climb and use weapons at the same time. After getting the news, the killers immediately spread out and scanned the dark shaft.
In the end, it was McCarty's needle pistol that fired three extremely weak shots, and something below immediately emitted a mechanical and angry sharp blast. Every member of the team had already been well-trained and comfortable, and did not need any instructions. Fire in an orderly manner as a unit.
The scurrying figures rushed towards them along the shaft. Several limbs allowed them to climb up the walls and walls of the tunnel effortlessly. The heat blasted by the bullets tore the approaching figures into pieces. And throw their broken remains back into the abyss, but these attackers are surprisingly resilient, and the impact absorbed by the artificial bodies covered with armor is enough to turn ordinary soldiers with only flesh and blood into a ball of wet rags.
Soon, a mechanized skull-like Skitarii rushed directly towards McCarty. The stained red robe flew up and down. The killer caught a glimpse of the pipelines and lenses under the hood, and there were stains on his armor. The pattern of skulls and gears is clearly visible.
He was very familiar with these slave soldiers of the Mechanicus, but they were different at this time.
They seemed even more crazy.
The Skitarii rushed toward McCarty, and an incomprehensible scream composed of static electricity and machine language came from its sound array grille. The killer fired two shots, gouging out the opponent's breastplate. made a crater.
But this thing remained unmoved and tried to hit him like a wild beast.
McCardy turned to the side with a flexible posture, then clasped the wall with one hand, and with the other hand he drew a short curved blade from his waist that had killed more than a dozen slave soldiers.
With a series of explosions, he neatly chopped off the two limbs the Skitarii was waving about, and then slashed its head in half with a backhand slash.
Despite the fatal blow, the highly mechanically modified Skitarii continued to twitch until it was kicked off its feet.
"These slave soldiers are very strange. They seem to have lost the ability to use weapons."
Just as McCarty was trying to figure out the weird details, another skitarii screamed and rushed towards him under the firepower of the killers. Up, the air filled again with the murmur of battle until it was cut to pieces.
Then there was a dead silence, and the killers were silent because they had communicated their feelings to each other in their hearts.
Like McCarty, others also find it strange. Because they need to travel inside the enemy all year round, they have developed the habit of doubting everything. The behavior of these slave soldiers is very abnormal, and they are not normal. They should appear here.
Unless they were here from the beginning, in the laboratory below.
McCarty was deeply impressed by that place, especially the chaotic scene at the end of its destruction. He couldn't figure out what happened. But after that, the place was designated as a restricted area by the cult, and he didn't look at the mechanical slaves inside. The master and the slave soldiers came out again.
But now they seem to have appeared. Did you discover them, or did you just bump into them?
(End of this chapter)