Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

The bright lighting searchlight swept across the dark coffins. There was no light refraction on the black stone surface. Green light strips streaked from the edge of its black outline, and strange flickering cables connected the coffins to the huge black wall behind them.

Bell looked at the coffins one by one. The searchlight on his helmet moved with his field of vision. There was nothing in the black coffins. The "corpses" that were once in them had long since left. Yes, corpses. Bell was completely I don’t think Necrons can be considered “living creatures”

These creatures are even more advanced than the Mechanicus. Their souls have disappeared into the body of steel. You will not get any response when you talk to them, and their words are blurred and distorted, more like a violent data noise. , or more like some kind of shrill scream.

Bell walked vigilantly on the corridor with a bolt gun in his hand. His eyes scanned and alerted the surroundings, and the muzzle of the bolt gun was alertly aimed at every shadow and coffin in every position.

The Astartes walked together, with Lancelot and Ragnar walking on both sides of the team holding melee weapons. They held bolt guns or plasma pistols in the other hand. They also vigilantly monitored those who were heading towards the top of the dome. It seems to be a sea of ​​coffins that extends infinitely.

The black coffins are arranged one after another in layers. They climb and meander upwards along the green light strips. A strange green light flashes around each coffin. Those light strips extend towards the black corners of the location until they completely disappear. within sight.

It is quiet here, which should be a good thing, because it means that what Vito said is true, and they will not encounter any interception or resistance here, but this silence is more like some kind of poison at this moment, turning into a cold dagger Poison that creeps closer to the heart.

There was no sound in the dead space, and the footsteps of the Astartes were deliberately suppressed to avoid making loud noises that would attract the attention of possible enemies.

Of course, what do you think? Although the Astartes power armor is large and heavy, this does not mean that they move like a Mercedes-Benz Leman Russ tank. On the contrary, most Astartes armor is equipped with silent motors and transmissions. Connect the system and it can be made almost completely silent.

The best among them is the Raven Guard. They are like terrifying daggers in the darkness, appearing from every shadow to ruthlessly harvest the lives of their enemies.

Rumor has it that even if only a few Raven Guards appear on the battlefield, it is enough to make any enemy feel fear and fear, even those traitors who fled into the Eye of Terror. In this galaxy, there are few people who are not afraid. Hidden in every shadow are these terrifying existences, ready to harvest life at any time.

But it is precisely because of the absolute silence that the Death Watchers can hear their own heartbeats. The thumping heartbeats echo in their ears, and the strong beating of the two strengthened hearts echoes like muffled thunder.

Every beat of the heart brought tension and fear, and the chill shrouded the dark corridor and the surrounding coffins arranged upward.

Bell's eyes were staring outside through the display glass. His pupils were constantly enlarging and shrinking as the flashlight light changed in distance. His specialized eyes peered into the darkness and the black stones that absorbed the light.

This corridor seemed to never end. They had walked here for a long, long time, so long that time seemed to have disappeared surrounded by darkness, but Bell knew very well that on the time display buoy on the inside of the helmet, everything Only four minutes have passed.

"I said, do we need to worry about Vito?" Ragnar's voice rang in the communication band. He spoke on purpose and everyone knew it, but it could indeed ease the tense atmosphere.

To his side, Lancelot was using the searchlight on his helmet to scan a larger coffin. The cables and pipelines were casually hanging on the edge of the coffin. Obviously, the former passengers had left long ago, and all the undead souls were gone. Same.

"Him? Did he ever need us to worry about him?" Lancelot said with a joking smile, "We fought with the Catachan Jungle Warriors on Wingergate-2 to fight against the Tau and Klansmen. When he was a Ritter, he also disappeared in that hellish place where everything eats meat, and even plants are eager to bite you."

Bell remembered that place. It was a planet located on the edge of the Extreme Star Field. That place was not a colonial planet of the Empire, but there was an Empire's Knight World and Foundry World nearby, so its value and strategic value were very high. The Empire had been there for a long time. Observation stations and military stations were set up above.

So when another Tau expansion began, the aliens had to take over the planet, and they and the Imperial forces needed to hold on to it.

"That damn place is just like the Catachan people's hometown, but he still showed up out of nowhere. At that time, we were fighting a fierce battle with a group of Kroot and Tau battlesuit troops, and Vito suddenly drove up. I don’t know where one was robbed from, let alone why he drove a Hammerhead tank in.”

Ragnar laughed and shook the chain ax in his hand twice slightly, "Yes, I still remember that he drove the Hammerhead Shark and knocked away the group of Tau people wearing large armors. Then he fired around like a lunatic, and just used his momentum to scare away those noseless cowards."

Everyone in the communication channel laughed, including Bell, who recalled the happy scene at that time.

Vito drove the Hammerhead Shark. In order to prevent Colonel "Iron Hand" Stricken, the leader of Catachan's 2nd Regiment, from thinking they were alien aliens, they also spent some time painting on the surface of the Hammerhead Shark. The aquila symbol of the empire, although Ragnar's painting skills are considered violent, that is actually unnecessary.

After all, there are four Astartes standing on the Hammerhead Shark. From a distance, they can tell that they are the Empire's own people. Although in the end Vito did not explain why he opened the Hammerhead Shark and used the Tau. weapons.

"Wow, we were beating those blue-skinned idiots with no noses around. Their melee combat skills were simply despairing. To be honest, they were wearing such cool armors, so they couldn't beat them without even wearing shirts. Catachan Jungle Warriors.”

Ragnar joked, "Only the Kroots can barely take a look. The rest of the blues, eh! Didn't their Greater Good teach them how to fight?"

Lancelot also smiled sarcastically, "Indeed, they are too weak. The four of us, plus the two Astral Legions of Catachan's Second Regiment and Sixth Regiment, just put the entire Tau invasion force on the ground. They had to go around and around, and finally Vito took us to the landing site and beheaded their commander."

Well, yes, Bell remembers the commander at that time. He and his men fought back hard, but were eventually wiped out. Afterwards, Cole also came over with the Imperial reinforcements that had been assembled on the Knight Planet. They came back and forth. The pincer attack completely wiped out the Tau invasion fleet, and the alien survivors fled back to their sad hometown across the Gulf of Damocles with their tails between their legs.

It is indeed useful to recall these happy past events. Several people walked out of the coffin corridor. They walked out of a gap door that extended to the towering dome.

The Astartes scanned the wide hall with bolt guns vigilantly. There was no one here, and there was an arch not far away. Behind the arch with a black band of light, was a long black bridge.

Several people nodded to each other and then all walked up. They walked on the long bridge in groups. It was a deep well space. The vast cylindrical closed space was surrounded by deep well walls that extended infinitely upward and downward. They flashed on those buildings. There are green spots of light.

In front of them, on the suspended platform at the end of the long bridge, there was a giant sphere. Countless steel rings surrounded the sphere flashing with green lightning. There was a powerful energy core in the sphere, and the energy was constantly flowing. The ground changes its posture, as if it is an amorphous gas.

Bell came to the ring. He looked at Olaf as if asking for advice. The old wolf walked to the sphere and stared at it for a moment before nodding affirmatively, "The energy is as powerful as the sun. This is the energy core of the phase converter. Destroy it." ""clear."

Bell put the bolter aside, and took out a folded plasma disk bomb from his back. He opened the folded bomb layer by layer, and finally turned into an arc-shaped object larger than a manhole cover. .

Bell tried to find a suitable blasting point. Several brothers stood behind him and watched the pharmacist work, but suddenly they heard a commotion.

Everyone immediately turned around and raised their bolt guns and aimed them in the direction of the door. It was an undead head that fell on the door, and the flashing green light on the head was immediately extinguished.

The green decomposition beam flashed outside, and the Tesla arc jumped and moved in the space. Two things appeared somewhere, two red things.

The Astartes looked closely, and they saw clearly the two mechanical objects with disc-shaped heads and holding folding knives. There was no doubt that they were infiltrators of the Mechanicus. These silent assassins of the Mechanicus did not know when. Entering the tomb, he was currently fighting fiercely with the undead guards.

Their speed is so flexible that they can dodge and move in the blink of an eye. Their whirlwind-like blades slash and dance, breaking down their positions and killing each undead to the ground.

The surrounding undead soldiers moved slowly, and these soulless bodies collapsed and fell to the ground under the lightning attack. The Mechanicus obviously sent infiltrators here for the same purpose as them.

But just when a few people thought that the infiltrator was about to win, an infiltrator suddenly stopped. His manipulator pulled out a melta gun and fired continuously, but the huge shadow appeared in front of him, and the Mechanicus assassin shot toward that A shot was fired from above the thing, but the answer was a razor-like iron foot.

The iron feet pierced the body of the Adeptus Mechanicus assassin, and then trampled his limbs with another foot. Another assassin rushed forward with a decomposing blade, and with his flexible body, he leapt and slashed at the shadow's head. department.

The Adeptus Mechanicus assassin disappeared for a moment, and then the Astartes heard the sound of machinery shattering, but that was not the voice of the Shadow Master.

The owner of the shadow appeared at the gate, with several razor-like legs under his huge body. He walked through the gate with heavy steps, holding a decomposition battle ax flashing with energy lightning in his hand.

The green eyes stared at the few people on the long bridge. The huge mechanical creature raised the battle ax with one hand, and a mechanical distorted howl burst out.

The Scorpion Lord, the monstrous reaper of the Necron.

"I'm sorry," Ragnar said.