They chose the passage on the left, which seemed smaller and sloped downward.
While the surrounding surface remains black, the strange text is now a striking silver color, glowing dimly when the lighting passes by.
Soshiyang found that his breath began to form mist in front of the eyepiece. This was not a good sign, indicating that there might be a problem with his oxygen circulation system. The World Engine is an environment where only Necrons can survive, with no oxygen and no moisture.
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"Enter the enemy."
Suddenly, Axel in front stopped and everyone in the team quickly got into battle formation.
While Soshyang was alert to the surroundings, he looked over Axel's shoulder and looked ahead. At the same time, a rustling noise rising from the edge of his hearing was approaching.
"Stop firing."
Occam's voice sounded over the communication channel.
"Everyone, don't move."
Soshyan obeyed his arrangement, as did the other team members, and they immediately saw the thing that made the noise.
At that moment, the Sosh man admitted that he was indeed shocked.
Countless mechanical insect swarms emerged from the darkness and passed around them. They moved like liquid mercury, and the light of the lighting reflected on the exoskeletons of tens of thousands of beetle creatures.
They quickly flooded the surrounding passageways, covering walls, roofs and floors like a moving tide.
The first person to come into contact with them was Axel, then Soshyan, and then the people behind.
They separated and then gathered together, occupying every inch of space around them, and the friction as they passed was like a whisper.
Judging from their appearance, no matter what they are, at least they are not organic. Each one is smaller than the thumb of a Space Marine, but it is entirely composed of metal materials.
As the tide sweeps through the channel, each beetle is a perfect mirror image of the coordinated movements of its neighbors.
In just half a minute, the waves turned into streams, and the peak of the strange insect tide passed just like that, turning a blind eye to the motionless Space Marines.
As the rustling sound gradually weakened, the insect tide also disappeared into the darkness behind the team.
Seeing millions of little clicking metal legs walking past him, Axel finally let out the breath he had been holding.
"what are they?"
Axel asked.
When Soshyan remained silent, he turned to Occam, who shook his head.
"A kind of blasphemous intelligence, used by these aliens as maintenance workers. They will attack when frightened. Trust me, you don't want to know how they look crazy."
"Keep going, be careful."
They walked lower, but the tunnels they followed were no longer uniform, and there were many sarcophagi scattered along the walls.
About twenty minutes later, they began to descend, when Soshyan noticed something strange in the communication channel, and an irritating pop of static electricity filled his ears.
And more importantly, some data of the power armor also began to fail - they seemed to be stuck the moment they reached the surface of the world engine, and other team members also reported the same thing.
Soshyan didn't expect any answers, he knew there wouldn't be any.
Soon, the passage reached the end. In front of them was a hall and two passages leading to the far end. The mark on the wall became larger and in the form of a silver relief, while the roof arched like an array of black spines.
stand up.
"Is this place marked on the auspicious omen? Occam."
"Yes."
The veteran lowered his head and looked at the auger.
"It seems like the left hand side here leads to a larger hall at the back."
"Good, keep it tight."
They quickly moved to a larger space. Although there were traces of battles here, there were no corpses, whether they were Space Marines or aliens.
In the middle of the empty hall, there was only a giant base, with clusters of thick wires coiled around its sides like pythons, connecting it to some kind of silver-skinned statue on top.
When Soshyang first looked at it, he thought it looked like some kind of giant, metallic spider, or an enlarged version of the tiny creature they had encountered earlier.
Its shoulders are equipped with artificial crystal clusters, which glow faintly when the lighting beam sweeps across it.
"Don't go near it."
Occam issued a warning, and the team members quickly took up positions around the hall, aiming their weapons at the pedestal and the statue above.
"It's dormant."
The veteran added, like that explained everything.
"Let's move on."
"An enemy is approaching from behind!"
Suddenly, Nad, who was at the rear of the team, issued a warning, and all the Space Marines turned around at the same time with incredible coordination, raising their bolters to cover the arch they had passed through before.
Then they heard a noise, the sound of footsteps.
It sounded a lot like the sound of a Space Marine walking by, a heavy clang of metal on metal, except that the steps were limping and scattered.
As the beam of light illuminated the dark passage, a moving flicker appeared, like a pale skin.
"what is that--"
Axel wanted to speak, but the words were quickly stuck in his throat.
At the same time, the figure limping toward the hall appeared at the edge of the archway.
It is a tall humanoid creature, but it is severely hunched over. It looks like it is made of metal, but it is slightly different.
Because it wore bloody human skin like a cloak, long strips of flesh coiled around its shoulders and shrugged behind it, the scarlet blood soaked most of the silver exoskeleton, and its red trophies were still dripping with blood.
, the same goes for the evil long claws that serve as its hands.
What's even more creepy is that a human face hangs on its skull like a nightmare mask, with two green eyes burning in the empty sockets.
But it did not obtain the spoils without cost. Looking at the broken right foot and the wounds all over the body, you can see what kind of counterattack the deceased made. Maybe it was originally very flexible, but now it is just a target.
"Shoot! Destroy it!"
The sound of the alien's footsteps was quickly drowned out by the thunder of bolters, and the moment the creature dragged its feet into the hall, it was enveloped in terror.
With the sound of a hammer hitting an anvil, the explosive bomb smashed into its metal body, tearing apart the moist skin and the active metal underneath.
The terrifying skull-like creature quickly disintegrated under such a violent attack. While the metal flew away, sparks and smoke emitted from the circuits.
It stopped its intermittent progress and fell to one knee, going into convulsion as its system was destroyed.
Subsequently, a bomb hit the side of its skull and exploded, exposing a portion of the damaged terminal block.
Eventually it collapsed, blood still forming a pool around the victim's flayed human skin.
"Die, monster."
Soshyan approached and fired one final shot into its head, blowing it into a cloud of sparks.
"what is that?"
Putting down the gun in his hand, Soshyang stared at the wreckage on the ground. He recognized the broken face as belonging to a soldier from the Fourth Company.
"A curse, maybe that's why these Necrons have become so crazy."
Occam walked up and took a look, his tone revealing a hint of exhaustion.
"curse?"
"I have also heard that there is a plague-like curse among these aliens that will make them look like this. Maybe the owner of this tomb became crazy because he was aware of the spread of this curse..."
"No matter what the reason is, they are all aliens and must die."
After saying that, Suoshiyang suddenly noticed something strange happening in the auspicious instrument.