In the occasional flickering picture, a strange creature hangs in the dark void.
If you look at it from the front, this is a dead, round asteroid, and you can even clearly see the craters scattered on it. But as the camera turns, something truly terrifying emerges.
On the back of the star, densely packed tentacles of different sizes were slowly fluttering in the void. As the camera moved, the picture gradually began to blur, and a large number of snowflakes appeared on the screen, which seemed to be seriously disturbed by something.
"It may look scary, but this is the picture captured by the reconnaissance drone we sent ten minutes ago..."
Even if it is disturbed, the camera is still trying to get closer to see more details. Among the tentacles that are as thick as weeds, you can also see more irregular limbs, sharp claws like dead branches, and huge pincers.
, eel-like mouthparts, and other indescribable things, as if the regularity and nature of living things have been completely broken, and were stuffed into a furnace and cast at will.
Finally, the camera captured bright yellow things, and then everything turned black.
"...The interference in the entire galaxy is very serious. It is not only subspace interference, but also physical level. Electrical signals, optical signals, and even gravity are all distorted in some way. Our existing methods cannot directly enter it.
It can quickly cut in from outside the galaxy at normal cosmic speeds, but it is obvious that these interferences come from this kind of thing, and at least six of these things have been detected around and inside the galaxy. If you break in rashly... the risk factor
Very high, very high."
Soshiyang frowned and pondered for a moment, then asked:
"Is the signal interference coming from these things?"
"It's unclear, but it's possible. We haven't dealt with the Tyranids much, but we've never seen this..."
"Is this also a Tyranid biological ship... But it seems to be combined with an asteroid, with this size and volume..."
Soshiyang raised his head and looked at the picture of the planet-level Tyranid creature that was constantly playing back on another big screen. He originally thought that the largest Tyranid creature was the hive ship, but he didn't expect that there was something even more terrifying.
With the size of this thing, if it appeared on the battlefield, it would not need to do anything at all. It would directly hit a planet. Humans now have almost no means to stop it.
"But they didn't appear in the Tyranid fleet...Is it because they can't move quickly?"
Thinking of this, Soshiyang's eyes lit up.
"Yes, this thing is probably a fixed sentinel. They cannot move with the Hive Fleet and can only serve as guards in a certain area."
Byrno nodded.
"I agree with this point of view, but this is a real trouble for us, because we don't know what they are and what capabilities they have. But since the Tyranids chose to use them to surround this galaxy, it means that they will not be easy to deal with.
something.”
"Can it be destroyed from a distance?"
"It's unrealistic. If you look at its structure, I guess most of the body is hidden inside the asteroid. What's exposed is probably weapons or sensing organs. With the fleet's existing firepower, it's necessary to blast away a person hiding in the asteroid's thick crust.
The giant Tyranids among them will be very difficult, and it’s not sure whether the opponent will fight back.”
Soshyan was lost in thought. After taking two steps back and forth, he came to the floating tactical screen on the left.
"Has there been any trace of the Tyranid fleet so far?"
"That's not the case."
In fact, from Baierno's words, Soshyan could also guess what the other party was thinking. Although they were hired and said that they were at Soshyan's command, the Hearthborn did not really want to go all out. After all, they had
Life must be earned and life must be spent. This is the case with mercenaries. The fierce and fearless attitude of the deep rock berserkers is very rare.
Now the other party has not said it directly, but his attitude has been shown, and he does not want to take too many risks.
Regarding this, Soshyan didn't want to complain. After all, his original idea of hiring the Hearthborn was just to take advantage of the other party's navigation skills that were not easily interfered with. To put it bluntly, it was just a boat ride.
"Let's do this, Captain Byrno, command the fleet to sprint towards Sondheim V as quickly as possible. There is no need to fight during this period. When we reach the high orbit of the planet, we will directly airborne. Then the fleet can quickly go to the edge of the galaxy.
Wait in a safe area, and after about... 72 hours, you can lead the fleet back to orbit and pick us up."
This plan must be extremely risky for Soshyan, which means that they must fight alone in a world full of Tyranids without any support, performing a mission that is almost suicidal.
But this is the plan that can best reduce the risk of the furnace descendants fleet, and it is equivalent to placing all lives on the conscience of the furnace descendants. If the furnace descendants run away midway...
After hearing this, Byrno was secretly happy, but also a little embarrassed. After all, others hired them to fight. After hesitating for a moment, he said:
"Is...is this too dangerous?"
Soshyan shook his head with a smile.
"Danger is synonymous with breathing in the Astartes dictionary. You don't need to worry too much about us."
"In this case, there are a number of orbital support satellites in the Nagasu-class arsenal. We will launch them all while you are airborne. They can provide a certain degree of orbital firepower. We will also launch a fully automatic communication and command vehicle for you.
The vehicle can create a stable communication channel for you and conduct command and dispatch of satellites in orbit."
"That's great. Let's get started now. Let's go to the flight deck to prepare."
"Okay! Wait for the signal from me."
Soon, the entire fleet began to accelerate. Relying on the powerful engines, the Hearthborn ships quickly reached their ultimate speed and plunged into the fallen star system like a fired bullet.
At the same time, those dead-like "Tyranid jellyfish" finally reacted. Their originally fluttering tentacles began to twitch non-stop, and soon they began to disconnect on their own, turning into squirming flesh sacs.
, and quickly burst, revealing a creature with fangs, claws and huge mouthparts.
When Byrno in the bridge saw this scene, he immediately understood something and hissed:
"It turns out those are not tentacles! They are... dormant Zerg biological ships!"
For an instant, the entire galaxy was like an enraged swarm of bees. A large number of biological ships appeared in the originally empty space. And although these biological ships were not large in size, they all had one characteristic, that is, they had many biological ships on their rear bodies.
High-temperature sulfur gas is constantly ejected from the pores, making them much faster than normal biological ships.
After releasing a large number of biological ships, the huge Tyranid satellites began to move slowly and sprayed out a large number of void spore mine clusters. The craters on the outer shell of the asteroid also turned into pitch black.
The cave, then various huge biological weapons strangely emerged from it, and began to release weapons such as biological plasma and biological torpedoes. At the same time, it also created stronger disturbance signals. If viewed from subspace, the entire galaxy would almost become
It became a bottomless "black hole", in which there was only boiling malice and hunger, and even the demons could not avoid it.