Chapter 204, The Great Unclean One
Everyone who saw the scene inside the living tank could not bear the psychological shock.
Even if you ignore the soul impact that rises under the evil spell, just this scene will make anyone who sees it feel uncomfortable if they have even a little bit of empathy.
They have already reported the specific information.
After receiving the news, Martins didn't say anything on the communication channel. He just said: "The fourth batch of support will arrive soon."
The so-called fourth batch of support was led by Martins himself.
Three groups of people landed in front of them. These heroic mortal warriors not only stabilized the situation at the landing site, they even penetrated the sea level part of the entire building complex, creating a direct path to the core building. , multiple defense nodes have been established in the middle, and neither monsters nor cultists hiding in various other areas can cut off this passage.
This situation has already been achieved, so why should there be any hesitation?
To be honest, Martins felt that he was a bit ashamed of himself.
Where had such a battle been fought before during the Atonement Crusade? Those Imperial commanders did not regard the Space Marines in the Atonement Crusade as human beings. They just airdropped them into the enemy group and that was it. Even after the mission is completed, if you want to evacuate, you have to fight your way out, clear the enemy at the evacuation point, and only when it is safe will the friendly forces responsible for evacuating them come down.
And now?
The alliance special forces have cleared the landing site for you, opened the road to the target location, and secured the evacuation passage for you. The evacuating fighter planes are hovering in mid-air, and can be summoned with just one order...
At a certain moment, Martins really wanted to give La Crocha an order to lead his team directly into the blocked, downward door inside the central tower, and solve the problem himself. When reporting back to the superiors, he will not insult the input of these soldiers. The credit is all yours.
However, he ultimately did not choose to do that.
Military exploits and other things are secondary. Who knows what else is under the central tower?
There is a difficult monster, not to mention whether it can be solved, but Martins is not happy to have more dead people.
He knew that his Lord Governor had put a lot of effort into this special force.
What's more, when the people below discovered the Despair Living Jar, this possibility increased significantly.
After landing, he and Pastor Rizzo went to take a look at the opened living tank.
With the strength of their spirit and will, this little thing is nothing. Even if they were affected by the soul impact of evil magic, their brows did not move at all.
The superhuman spiritual will cannot be affected by this overflowing evil method.
As for the mental impact of the scene itself, it's not that the Space Marines don't have the ability to empathize, it's that they've seen so much that they're a little numb.
When fighting against those Chaos Cults, I have seen many tragic things, and many kinds of breakthroughs. This one right now is just one more thing.
They can still analyze the situation with a calm attitude.
"This is the evil law of chaos." Pastor Rizzo gave the exact answer, "Our previous guess was correct."
After saying this, he raised the holy symbol hanging on his waist, closed his eyes, and began to recite the prayer silently.
It was also magical. When he began to recite silently, the surrounding special operations soldiers felt that the mental shock that had been there before, and the vague feeling of nausea that made them want to vomit, dissipated a lot. But after the prayer ended, that feeling simply disappeared.
At this moment, the wailing sounds in the tank gradually subsided.
Someone who was brave enough came up to take a look.
"Everyone is dead." The soldier turned around and said this.
Rizzo opened his eyes and explained: "They should have died a long time ago. Those Chaos cultists tortured them, put them here, and used evil methods to forcibly maintain their lives, just to make them unable to die. The painful emotions are gradually amplified and absorbed to achieve their evil goals. I am just praying to the emperor to dispel the influence of evil laws, and these people can finally rest in peace."
Everyone around Pastor Rizzo immediately accepted what Pastor Rizzo said.
This fits the reality they see.
Those people in the tank warehouse are indeed hopeless and cannot wish to die. Death is not a terror to them, but a relief.
After a brief explanation, Rizzo said to Martins: "We may be in trouble. If these..."
He pointed around and saw that there were many large and small tanks like this around him. "If they are all like this, so much despair will ferment. Combined with the previous information, there is a spiritual gas field below, with sufficient energy." Psychic, we can't tell what's waiting for us behind that door."
He was warning Martins very seriously.
Of course, Martins would not ignore the warning of this old priest with four hundred years of combat experience.
He thought about it carefully and decided to take action.
"We cannot shrink from an unknown enemy."
"I know, I just remind you to be careful." At this point, Pastor Rizzo paused and couldn't help but add, "The new blood of the battle group still needs your leadership."
Hearing about the new blood, Martins' heart softened a little.
But immediately, he returned to his role as a field commander.
He turned his head and said to La Crocha: "Master Chief, I need you to lead people to prepare for the explosion. Next, we will act together."
"Yes!"
……
The bottom floor of the maritime ruins, the lowest part of the central tower.
Here are the three most important core facilities established by the Nature Salvation Society.
The first is a set of Linghua gas field refining equipment.
The second is the shield generator.
Both items are from the pre-war era, but are now obsolete products. Thanks to Govaga's technological capabilities and the evil laws of Chaos that distorted reality, they were repaired, functioning again, and connected to each other. The pure spiritual energy extracted from the spiritual gas field is poured into the shield generator, providing the latter with almost endless energy.
In addition to these two things, there is also a Demon Engine.
The so-called demon engine refers to a certain abyss demon who combines his spiritual will with a certain machine, thereby obtaining an entity in the real world and being able to move.
That thing looked like a moldy machine with flesh and blood growing on it. It stood quietly not far from the shield generator.
Gawaja is also here.
At this moment, he closed his eyes tightly and sat opposite the demon engine.
The devil's voice is constantly echoing in Gawaja's soul.
"...Accept the gift, accept the gift completely."
"...Only the loving Father can save this world, and He will grant immortality to all life on the planet."
"...The followers of the false emperor are approaching. Do you want to return the world to the hands of that cruel empire?"
These sounds constantly stirred Gawaja's soul.
At the same time, there was another weak voice echoing in his heart. "Don't believe him!"
"Think about those people who are put into the tank. Can they be called immortal and alive?"
"Come back, let's end this."
……
Listening to the voices on both sides tugging at his mind at the same time, Gevaga himself slowly opened his mouth.
"I said, if you keep arguing, I will sacrifice you."
The voices on both sides suddenly became quiet.
After a while, the voice in his heart sounded again: "Would you rather believe in these demons that once destroyed our world than the empire?"
"It was the Empire that destroyed our world."
This is Gawaja’s understanding.
He didn't intend to pester him any further.
He raised his hands in a gesture of devotion.
And at this moment, the devil's voice, which had been silent before, sounded again.
That weird laughter echoed in his heart and penetrated deep into his heart. The laughter was very hearty, as if a hunter had finally found the prey he had been longing for for a long time, and he couldn't wait to open his fangs and devour it.
At this moment, the voice in Gevaga's heart had become extremely weak and insignificant.
He left his last words: "Believe in humans..."
Gawaja also gave his final response: "I believe in a loving father."
"Hahahahaha!" The devil's strange, heavy laughter kept echoing in his heart, and had completely occupied the deepest part of his heart. "Yes! That's right! You must believe in a loving father! Only a loving father is the best." The final destination of everything in this universe”
With the laughter of the devil, the "gospel from the kingdom of heaven" that Gawaja could hear in his ears became louder and louder; his body began to undergo drastic changes, and many sarcomas grew. These sarcomas continued to swell, then rupture and ooze pus, and soon larger ones grew out of them.
During this process, his size continued to grow larger and more distorted.
Eventually, he became a man nearly six meters tall, with three horns and three eyes growing out of his head, almost touching the ceiling.
His body developed laterally and turned into a big, yellow-green, fat man covered with abscesses; then, his swollen belly exploded with a bang, and a large amount of blood flowed out, revealing the contents inside. intestines.
But he was completely unaware, and there was only a ferocious smile on his huge face.
"I am Gawaja!"
"I am...the Great Unclean One!"
Two different voices echoed throughout the space from his mouth.
……
This is what Martins, Rizzo, and La Crocha saw when they entered this space.
A huge, foul-smelling monster stood in front of it, making up a large part of this six-meter-high, already quite spacious space.
After they blasted the gate, they encountered some obstacles while moving downward.
Many demons appeared among the enemies.
A true devil.
A monster called the Plague Bearer has a distorted humanoid appearance, with three eyes and three horns, as if it is a thin, smaller version of the Great Unclean One.
These plague bearers, together with some plague monsters, formed a group of demons, and together with some gun-wielding cultists who were tortured by the plague but were still alive, they were blocking the raid of human troops.
The firearms in the hands of the cultists looked like ordinary locally produced kinetic energy rifles, but when they were actually fighting, the bullets fired from them had some kind of special psychic effect, and their destructive power was greatly increased.
And those who hold the plague are even more terrifying.
He spat spit like bullets at them, which contained highly toxic and violent corrosive effects. On ordinary special operations elites, the ceramic steel plated armor plate installed on the outside of the exoskeleton has a very limited effect. It will be corroded into a hole in a second or two, and then the soldiers inside will will die quickly.
Even a Space Marine is not willing to use his power armor to withstand such a disgusting attack. Even though it would not be easily penetrated by corrosion, they did not want their precious armor to be pitted.
According to common sense, after their forward attack was blocked, they shouldn't be too hasty. The enemy obviously has no retreat, and is not worried about escaping. It only needs to use the terrain and bunkers to gradually advance, and then use some heavy firepower to eliminate them step by step.
However, during this process, they felt a very disturbing aura coming from deep within the building and from further below.
Martins only briefly consulted Pastor Rizzo for his opinion, and finally decided to attack with all his strength, even if it cost more casualties.
They have to speed up their pace, otherwise, they always feel like something big is happening below.
For this reason, Martins, as the strongest, took the lead.
His terminator power armor is almost a perfect shield in such a small space. The Terminator's protective power is a level higher than that of ordinary power armor, making it almost harmless to the firepower.
What's more, Martins is not a target. After putting on the Terminator, his mobility is indeed slightly worse than that of ordinary tactical power armor, but he can still barely do some dodging and maneuvering without letting all the firepower fall on him.
And the heavy bolter he held in one hand was like carrying a small rapid-fire artillery, ruthlessly destroying all the enemies in front of him.
The three Space Marines accompanying him also used bolters to quickly clear out the enemy, alleviating the pressure on the Chapter Master. The special operations elites further back are not weak either. They cannot withstand a shot from the Plague Holder or the Cultist, but after overloading the laser rifle in their hands, they can defeat the enemy with one blow.
However, they were still a step too slow.
Looking at the already formed and extremely huge demon in front of him, even Martins, wearing Terminator power armor, was like a child in front of him.
What's more, Martins fully understood what he saw.
This is...the Great Unclean One, a being known as the Great Demon.
Why would such an enemy appear on Raging Owl Star? ! Is there any soil here where the big devil appears?
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Today’s update is here.
I finally found time to write in the evening...
I am currently on a business trip, and for the next week or so, I will try my best to ensure that there will be no shortage of 4,000 words of updates every day, but I can't fix it at noon.
(End of chapter)