At the rear of the squad, another squad's response was drowned out by another burst of bolter fire.
It was obvious that an ambush was coming from both ends of the passage.
Beside Agnes, Sister Giovanna Freeman was cursing loudly - it was almost impossible to see in this chaos and bad lighting.
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From the blasphemy of the fallen...]
The prayer inspired Yanis' determination. She regained her standing position and tried to gain a clear vision among the chaos.
At this time, somewhere in the darkness, a low and chaotic voice came, and began to form a strange and dirty song.
Then the sound broke away again, and laughter began.
The unknown enemies became more and more crazy as they laughed, attacking the nuns regardless of casualties.
As the commander, Velez was also confused. At first, she thought this was a group of predators.
But then she realized that things were not that simple. These almost humanoid creatures were actually completely different from humans. They were too deformed and weird, and they were not the outlines she could recognize at all.
She had seen countless enemies of humanity on the data pads in the academy, but never like this.
But no matter what, they are all alien species and invaders of the empire.
So they will all die!
Velez fired a shot, and the bullet passed by a nun's shoulder. When the bullet hit a creature covered in spikes, she heard a cry.
She then ordered the heavy weapons crew to continue firing, and asked the team to move forward, step by step under cover.
Through the communicator, she heard Team Erin singing a prayer fiercely and vigorously, and then saw the flamethrower spitting out tongues of flame - the walkway was completely washed away by its instantaneous explosion.
Howls of anger and pain began to echo, followed by explosions.
Later, she heard one of the sisters hissing due to the sudden pain, but she could not tell which one it was.
"The walkway is blocked by corpses!"
This time the voice comes from Jenny.
"We can't go any further!"
"The elevator is on the left, you hold the enemy behind first!"
Jenny obeyed, turned and ran, the sisters behind her doing the same thing, their armor gleaming in the dance of firelight.
But they slipped after taking only a few steps, their steps sliding due to the splattered blood. The entire space seemed to be filled with fighting and roars, mostly from the group of creatures with muscles and metal.
Suddenly, a huge clawed hand grabbed Velez's shoulder. Without thinking, she turned around and fired a bomb into the thing's head, then walked up the steps to the top.
"Throne!"
When they reached the lift, Velez cursed:
"Where did they come from?"
Outside the firelight, a large group of monsters emerged from the darkness. They were undisciplined and rough, and they all tried to push their way to the front. The largest one among them had three arms, and each arm was equipped with an ax with a notch.
, when it waded forward among the beasts, it smashed the small ones in front of it to pieces.
Just as it reached the steps, Velez's bolt pistol fired a clean blast into its face.
But the other party didn't take it seriously and walked straight towards her, roaring loudly.
But it didn't notice that there was a round metal object under its feet. When it took out its legs again, the detonated grenade tore off its entire lower body.
"Along the lift
keep going!"
Velez's tone turned cold as he dealt with his opponent.
"Stay alert, sisters, there is more out there!"
The nuns beat all the monsters along the new corridor. The prayers in their mouths did not stop, and they still maintained their enthusiasm and tension because of their concentration and anger.
Suddenly, the offensive of these monsters began to stop. They abandoned their fallen counterparts and seemed to be retreating, but their rough and harsh roars never disappeared.
"More of them will come, now, go!"
The team started running, passing through corridors and cranes, turning around and arriving at a staircase suspended above a bottomless pit.
The cold air blew across their faces from below, a breath of death coming from some vast and empty space,
"Down here is the engine room, but why—"
Velez smelled moisture, which meant there might be water underneath.
With doubts, Velez led the team down.
Sure enough, there was a dark pool of water at the end of the stairs, and Velez frowned.
There will indeed be a lot of cooling water in the engine room, but it will never leak out all at once. Then there is only one possibility - the people inside used the water to block something.
So did they succeed?
After thinking for a while, Velez took the lead and stepped into the sewage.
The water was not deep, reaching up to her waist at most, so the team began to wade forward.
This empty space is undoubtedly very huge. Velez feels like a small and squeaky creature straddling the underbelly of a giant beast. No matter where she goes, her position is always different.
The lights of her armor and the waves raised by her movements clearly mark it out.
Suddenly, something hit her calf in the thick and dirty water, as if something was about to attack her.
She swallowed the nauseating feeling and glanced down, but the dark water completely absorbed the light, making it impossible to see what was under the water.
So she could only choose to pass them quickly.
【You will punish these heretics...】
Velez keeps telling herself: She knows what to do, she knows how to apply everything she learns, so that her players can trust her.
However, this is all just theory.
She cannot shake her confidence, the current situation does not allow her to do so.
Velez walked to the front of the line and used her tiny light to illuminate the route as much as possible, but the situation remained the same. She saw nothing. It felt like she was being swallowed alive by something. She didn't even have a clue.
Are you heading in the right direction or are you just going in circles?
There are no signs or convenient guidance down here.
【You cannot forgive them...】
But now she had no choice but to force herself to continue wading forward, exploring the boundaries of the water with growing fear for any possible survivors.
However, when she pushed forward, pushed forward, and pushed forward again, there was still nothing in front of her.
The desolation of the place began to spread around her, vast and cold.
This made her dizzy, as if a sharp breath streaked across her throat.
It seems that this is not the interior of the space station at all, but a lightless void filled with scratching sounds, metallic groans, and harsh friction sounds.
These sounds echoed with fear, the creaking murmur was like an endless wail of pain, like an invisible threat crawling on the ground, stretching out around it as if it had no boundaries, like
Her pocket watch chimed on the hour - a faint, familiar chime echoing across the water.
The ticking sound brought Velez back to her thoughts. She stopped and listened with bated breath.