Since setting off, the first casualty the team has suffered is one dead and one seriously injured, which makes Soshyan a little annoyed.
He stepped forward to inspect the body, while Talos had been squatting on the ground studying it for a long time.
To be honest, when he first saw the true identity of this thing, Soshyan was a little unbelievable, because it was neither a demon nor an unknown alien.
This is a green skin!
Although its appearance is slightly distorted, there is no doubt that it is a green-skinned one.
At first glance, it is not very big, almost the same as an Astartes, but its originally green skin is covered with fine silver threads, which is somewhat similar to the energy circuit of the Mechanicus. At the same time, a large number of them can be seen under its skin.
There are protruding metal pipes and huge sharp blades on its limbs.
Behind it, there was a smoking spiral machine with many pipes extending from it, which penetrated into the back of the greenskin's head and spine.
"This thing is a bit interesting."
Talos flipped it over for a while, then used a dagger to cut off the spiral-shaped machine from the green skin's back, holding it bloody in his hand for inspection.
"What's this?"
"I guess it's a green-skinned technology that allows this guy to switch between existence and non-existence."
Soshyan blinked, somewhat confused.
Talos immediately explained.
"I once encountered an alien creature that looked like a jellyfish. They could switch between physical and quantum states. They were very disgusting and difficult to deal with. But fortunately, no civilization developed. They acted more like beasts. After that, the planet was destroyed by us.
The attack mode of this green-skinned creature is very similar to theirs. I'm not sure if the two are related... However, this kind of creature is often the most vulnerable when attacking, because they have just transformed from the quantum state.
When you come back, you can’t switch back immediately.”
Soshyan immediately frowned.
"This sounds like a very profound technology, greenskin-"
"Ulanor's greenskin technology is extraordinary."
At this time, Angelica walked up. She glanced at the body on the ground and whispered:
"We have encountered this kind of creature before, but we didn't know what it was. We escaped after using an instrument to attract them."
"But you didn't tell me beforehand."
There was a hint of anger in Soshiyang's voice.
"The loss of any soldier is unacceptable to me."
"I'm sorry...I, because I'm not sure whether it will appear again. At that time, our judgment was that it might be some kind of beast underground."
"Then will we meet again in the future?"
Angelica shook her head.
"I am not sure."
In this environment, this kind of elusive enemy is the most troublesome. If they appear in groups, Soshyan will even move closer and he will have to change his route.
But Talos then added.
"There must be some flaws in this thing. I took a look at the inside of the green-skinned skull. It's all turned into paste. I'm afraid that after using this thing, I will lose my mind... Although the green-skinned one doesn't have much sanity, and even if
Transformed into a quantum state, but if you use spiritual energy, you should be able to discover them."
"But as you said, we don't have a think tank here."
At this time, Talos suddenly raised his chin, and Soshyan followed the other person's gaze and realized that he was referring to Loken.
So he walked over and said to the Mechanicus priest:
"Lorken, we need a psychic waveform scanning device now, do you have one on hand?"
"of course not!"
Loken immediately shook his head in denial.
"How could I have such a heretical thing? This... This is simply a blasphemy against the Omnisiah!"
As he said this, he also glanced at Angelica secretly.
"Don't deny it in a hurry, we need this very much now, it is related to the survival of the entire team."
Seeing Soshyan being so serious, Loken hesitated for a while, and finally carefully took out a butterfly-shaped instrument from under his robe. It looked like an ancient navigation compass, but it had several crystals inlaid on it.
"This...this is just for research use, research use."
After starting the instrument, Loken wiped the sweat from his forehead, and the thing immediately bloomed with a green brilliance, and Soshyan could see an outline similar to terrain emerging on it.
"How does it perform?"
"Should, I guess, be able to detect organisms within two kilometers."
"very good."
With that said, Soshyan turned around and looked at the people on guard around him.
"Let's keep walking."
With the help of Loken's instrument, everyone set off again. After walking for less than ten minutes, Loken's hands started to shake.
Because there were three or four obvious bright spots on the instrument, but fortunately they were all motionless, but when the team approached them, they would show signs of movement.
"The range of perception of these things seems to be very low."
Soshyan made such a guess.
"Everyone turn off all lights, try not to make any noise, and adjust the power backpack to cold cycle mode."
In an instant, the long dragon with flashing lights disappeared in an instant, and the entire team fell into silence and darkness.
Just as Soshyan guessed, without light, heat and obvious noise, those things immediately fell into a state of motionlessness.
For some reason, seeing their behavior pattern, Soshyan couldn't help but think of the zombies in mortal superstition legends, an undead spirit that chases the breath and sounds of the living.
They are simply the undead that remain from ancient times to this day.
Legend has it that in Terra's distant past, when ancient kings died, they would turn their bodyguards into immortal monsters to guard their tombs forever.
So is the buried Orc Empire and their tyrant the same?
With great curiosity and trouble, Soshyan led the team deep into the end of the isthmus. In addition to avoiding those weird and unpredictable "green-skinned quantum zombies" along the way, they also constantly used night vision equipment to observe the surrounding situation.
The deeper they went, the more traces of the past appeared. Everyone saw huge collapsed buildings, huge war machines that were almost rusted into slag, and totems that were blown to pieces.
The war back then seemed to have gone deep underground.
They even found fragments of ancient power armor. Although the markings on it were unclear, it was enough to further prove that the Empire's army had already set foot here when the Battle of Ullanor broke out.
Finally, they saw a huge arch at the end of the isthmus. Traces of ancient wars could be seen everywhere around this arch, including a large amount of equipment debris. Loken was so excited that he almost jumped up, and rushed forward regardless of the danger.
Pick up trash.
Soshyan's attention was focused more on this door, for the simple reason that it looked so familiar that he had even seen one not long ago.