Along the way, the team led by Sosh Yang passed through several dim passages and small mausoleums and palaces, but did not encounter any enemies.
Occasionally they could hear gunshots and explosions coming from afar, but due to the special environment on the World Engine, they were unable to judge the direction and source of the sounds, so they could only ignore the subtle movements and continue moving forward.
There was still no movement in the auspicious device as always. Axel kept complaining that the things in his hands could not play their role. Soshyang really wanted to shut him up, but if he was not allowed to speak, this guy would probably take the time to do it.
The bird fortune teller was crushed to pieces by one foot.
So he would rather put up with this complaint.
"etc!"
After walking for another minute, just when Soshyang began to consider whether he was looking in the wrong direction, Axel held his shoulder.
"Finally something is happening with this piece of crap!"
"Aksei, I have to remind you, never let the forging master hear these words, he will teach you a lesson with an axe."
"I'm serious! Look."
Sosh Yang took a look, and it was true.
The flapping light spots on the oriole revealed that there were several comrades less than 500 meters away from them.
But the question is, who will be in this position?
"Come over here!"
Zahnas struggled through the main control hall. The ground made of black stone shook under his feet. A small group of aliens had already fallen under the bolt gun.
The noise that would make an ordinary person surrender irritated his eardrums, but the captain of the 8th Company suppressed the discomfort and moved closer to the enemy.
He cut down an advancing undead, severed its sternum and decapitated it with a sweep.
The roar of bolter fire was metallic, echoing through his helmet.
These creatures swarmed everywhere and soon surrounded him.
The intermittent flicker of muzzle flash from his weapon illuminated the horrific destruction he wreaked, and the scream of his chainsword led a high-pitched chorus of metal-ripping din.
He walked with difficulty among this despicable mob, approaching its source, and it happened to be approaching him, and he felt the pressure on his mind increasing.
So he quickly called one of his comrades.
"Garlin! Did you hear that?"
Garlin just got rid of an alien holding his arm, and then smashed it with his weapon, the power sword cutting through the fragile metal bones like air.
"Hear that! Company Commander!"
With that, he pointed his bolt pistol at the other and pressed the trigger, blasting the creature into a shower of metal shards and silvery liquid.
Then the soldier pounced and crashed into the third one.
Its smooth head collided with his battle helmet, and the entire face was dented in an instant. Some metal fragments blocked his vision. Garlin wiped the helmet clean with the back of his armored hand.
With its head destroyed, the alien creature seemed to lose control of its body and collapsed, collapsing to the ground.
They were just a simple puddle of metal. Garlin had fought against more powerful enemies, but such a large group was draining his energy. Even his genetically enhanced muscles were burning in such a real battle.
.
For every three Astartes killed, six more rushed up, like a swarm of ants pouring out of the ground.
Realizing his anxiety, Garlin chopped down another one, but he was gradually forced back.
In the melee, he caught a glimpse of Carlo. The adjutant of this company was also suppressed, and he was surrounded by metal fragments flying from his violently flying chainsword.
He couldn't see his comrades from other companies, and Garlin could only assume that they had been swallowed up by this group of metallic nightmares.
"Garlin! Come closer to me! Everyone, you can see it!"
"yes!"
Just as Garlin was about to go to support Carlo, he was suddenly accompanied by a tormenting soul, an earth-shattering sound of tearing and dislocation, and Garlin felt the deck under his feet tilt, as if it was twisting its body.
In the blink of an eye, a large piece of the floor was torn off, as if being bitten by invisible jaws, it broke apart, and the fragments tumbled and slid into the void.
A towering black alien pyramid appeared, and a vehicle that looked like a giant scorpion carried a whole team of undead. They looked much more difficult to deal with than these cannon fodder.
"Garlin!"
Zahnas fought his way through a horde of undead toward the entrance of the main control hall, where the surviving company members gathered.
His armor had been scratched and dented by their claws, and his body was trembling from exhaustion. At this time, his strong body could no longer save them, and he could only maintain the rigor of his mind.
"what happened!"
"Company Commander, a strange... black pyramid, it blocks our way to the energy node."
He spoke calmly through the helmet communicator.
According to the previous plan, the company commander would lead a group of soldiers to attract the attention of the undead, while Garlin and another adjutant would lead a combat team to destroy the energy nodes.
At first everything went smoothly, but as the number of undead increased, they found that they had misjudged the opponent's reaction, and the Eighth Company, which was divided into two, fell into a hard fight. In the end, after more than an hour of fierce fighting, they only managed to destroy a few of them.
The uncritical secondary node and the most critical primary node have become an elusive goal.
At this time, there were only 21 soldiers left in the Eighth Company.
“Find a way to fix it!”
In response to these words, the top of the alien pyramid began to gather a beam of light, and then fired it towards a point, and all the energy was poured into the company's adjutant.
In an instant, the infused energy seeped out from every joint and gap in the power armor. The adjutant didn't even have the chance to cry out in pain, and was just wiped away without leaving even a trace.
Rage seized Zachnas, and all he could do was kill more, keep fighting until he became the next target.
"Team 5, move forward!"
As if divine soldiers descended from the sky, a small team suddenly burst out from the right side of the pyramid. The leader of the soldiers held a bolter in one hand and brandished a chain saw in the other, and charged towards the Necron vehicle that was loading and unloading soldiers.
Feeling that an enemy was approaching, the suspended vehicle began to turn around, but just as a Necromancer was about to jump off, he was disturbed by the sudden shaking of the vehicle. Half of his body slipped sideways, causing him, the ground and the vehicle to form a trap.
The angle caused the machine to shake violently, and it was unable to turn around smoothly.
"bomb!"
Naturally, the emperor's warriors of justice would not miss such a great opportunity, and several grenades fell in arcs around the Necron vehicle.
Boom~!
A storm of fire shot straight into the sky, instantly clearing away all the dead souls. Then Soshyang raised his hand and fired another round of shots toward the top of the pyramid.
The explosion penetrated the window at the top of the building, and the node exploded with sparks. The circuit on the front side of the pyramid flickered for a while and then fell silent.
But it didn't die, energy was still gathering.
"Eighth Company! Advance!"
Seeing the opportunity, Zahnas also threw down the warriors and launched a surprise attack. They fought all the way towards the pyramid, knocking over all the undead like stones on the way.
"Kill it!"
After realizing that the pyramid had gathered energy to a dangerous level, Soshyan signaled to the team's heavy weapons hand, who immediately raised his heavy bolter and aimed it at the target.
Only a roar was heard, and the top of the pyramid withstood a storm-like bombardment. As the circuits on all sides continued to go out, the pyramid eventually fell into complete silence.
"Captain Zachnas, I am from the 7th Company -"
"Sergeant Soshyan, I know you."
While other warriors were still resisting the counterattack of the Necrons, Zahnas came to Soshyan, holding a melta bomb in his hand.
"Thanks to you this time."
The company commander took off his helmet and forced a smile on his face.
"The chapter leader is in that direction. You can find him by going over here, but I have to remind you that that is the core area of the alien fortress, so be careful."
"But here..."
Soshiyang hesitated for a moment. He saw that there were very few soldiers left in the Eighth Company. The corpses on the ground here were enough to prove how fierce the earlier battle was. So how could he bear to leave?
"This is our mission, soldier, you should complete your mission."
Patting Soshyan's shoulder, Zahnas limped towards the flashing energy node.
"let's go."
After glancing at the opponent's back, Soshyan turned around and led the team members towards the direction pointed by Zahnas before. At this time, he noticed that this so-called world engine seemed to be trembling...