They were in a huge valley at the moment. The tops of the mountains on both sides were covered with snow that never melted all year round. The dark rock walls were vertically descending from the tops of the mountains, and they were bottomless.
In front, there is a small landing pad embedded in two-thirds of the rock wall, and a rather crude guidance device is ready to guide any aircraft to land.
Going down the tarmac, you can see a row of low parapets, covering a metal door. Rozim guessed that there is probably no place in the entire Paiji Planet that is more inhospitable than this place.
"I can't believe it."
Hank Evans also made a sound of exclamation.
After following a cultist patrol for three days, they came across this place. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a hidden stronghold.
"What the hell is this place?"
Rozim touched his chin and asked confused questions. Kelen on the side groaned and couldn't explain, but Sinlata still kept his arms folded because he couldn't be seen wearing sunglasses.
expression.
"Observation Station——"
"Don't bullshit me here. It's obviously not the case. Why do thousands of people need to live here? What is there that needs to be guarded here? We are in the center of a damn mountain now."
"Uh...arsenal?"
"If you have water in your head, put the arsenal here and prepare to transport it out with birds."
"Then boss, tell me, what should we do?"
Rozim stared at the metal door, then looked around.
"If you really want to know what's inside, you have to go in and take a look, but the entrance is just like this -"
"uncertain."
Suddenly, Xinlata spoke.
He raised his hand and pointed to the area about one kilometer ahead.
"There's a cave there, I guess it might be connected to it."
Rozim looked over but saw nothing.
"Really? Why didn't I see anything?"
"I saw."
"you sure?"
"Sure."
Rozim frowned and thought for a while, and finally decided to trust this person for once. Although this guy always gave people a mysterious feeling, he was basically right every time he spoke.
"Okay, let's go take a look."
After trekking for nearly half an hour, they finally arrived at the area pointed by Xinlata. Rozim was surprised to find that there was indeed a half-meter-high cave behind a rock.
Standing at the entrance of the cave, you can feel a slight breeze and a slightly warm atmosphere. It is obvious that the inside is open.
"Here, my god, have you installed mechanical eyes?"
Xinlata did not reply, but directly bent down and got in alone.
After that, the other three got in one after another.
After entering, they found that the space inside was much larger than the outside, and there were still some artificial traces. It was obviously not a completely natural cave.
Going all the way inside the cave, they soon discovered a passage similar to a mine tunnel, but the artificial traces inside were almost erased by time, obviously after many years.
After that, they passed through tunnels that gradually narrowed and became more and more inclined, as if they were about to be swallowed up by the bedrock deep underground.
At first, in order to avoid being discovered, they only used lighting sticks, but as the terrain became more and more rugged, this lighting was no longer enough, and Rozim fell twice.
"Fuck...turn on the lights."
So Keren and Evans both activated the illuminators on their heads and chests, and since they didn't have to worry about tripping, the entire team sped up.
As the texture of the rock wall and the feeling on the soles of the feet changed, a cave entrance appeared in front of them.
This was a huge cave that could accommodate a dozen people, and it was here that they encountered the enemy again.
They were rebels wearing uniforms. They were not the local residents of Paidu, but the renegade Astra Militarum brought by the Black Legion from outside the void.
There are a total of twenty people, and this seems to be their camp. Some people are sleeping in tents, some are eating, and some are chatting. There is a passage not far away, which shines light outside.
"How to say?"
Hank Evans looked at Rozim, and the Chapter Chef counted the people on the field with his fingers.
"There are six active ones in total. The only lighting is the bonfire on the ground, but it's very dark and there are shadows everywhere."
Hank Evans blinked, realizing what Rozim meant.
"Boss, you won't-"
"Of course we have to do it, why don't we do it? These cultists protect them so tightly, there must be something terrible in there."
After speaking, he looked at Karen and Xinlata.
"One for each person, one more for me, and one more for you, Xinlata, is that okay?"
The two men nodded in response.
Soon, they quietly slipped out of the hiding place, moved quickly in the shadows, and approached their goals.
The first signal is the slight crunch of broken bones.
Karen simply broke a guy's neck from behind and dragged him into the shadows.
"Um?"
One of them seemed to notice something, but before he could fall, his other companion died.
Rozim's huge body jumped out from the shadows, covering the opponent's mouth and nose while stabbing the opponent's chest with the dagger continuously.
Evans put a cloth bag over a person's head, and then pressed the heavy bag on the other person's head until there was no movement from the other person.
Sinlata's movements were even more astonishingly fast. He appeared like a ghost and directly pierced the chest of a soldier wearing crimson armor with a dagger.
When he was dismembered from the hips to the collarbone and the blood spattered on the rocks, he could not make a sound because his throat was cut.
Then five seconds later, the second unlucky guy was beheaded directly. He had just lit a cigarette and still had it in his mouth.
"What to do with the rest, boss?"
"What do you think we should do? Is it possible that you still want to X first and then kill?"
"Well--"
Rozim had quietly opened the tent's curtain, and then threw a plasma grenade he got from somewhere inside.
Evans just had time to close his eyes, but a strong light passed directly through his eyelids, the pungent smell of ozone replaced the smell of blood, and the unique sound of ionized air echoed in the space.
When he opened his eyes again, Rozim was nodding with satisfaction.
"poor guy."
Through the curtain, he saw that there were only twisted and charred corpses in the tent. Those guys were killed in an instant. In a sense, it was quite easy.
After taking care of the enemy, they scoured the battlefield, took away useful things, and even used the remaining campfire to make some food, even though there were bloody corpses more than ten meters away from them.
After that, the expedition team continued to set off and went deep into the luminous passage.
It wasn't until he entered that Rozim realized that this passage with extremely smooth cutting surfaces was extremely narrow, barely allowing one person to pass through. There were lighting balls embedded in the walls.
In desperation, they could only move forward in a row quietly like pipe rats. Rozim was used to it, but Evans had no similar experience. In this small space, every footsteps and coughing sound
, curses and clicking sounds caused by collisions between equipment will be amplified without limit.
But for Rozim, the different echo patterns in the cave can point in the right direction, as can the illuminator on a soldier's gun.
Because of this, he was the first person in the entire team to see a vague shadow in the darkness ahead. That thing was not much clearer than a black spot in the night.