Immortal, My Desperate Journey at 40k

Chapter 693: Planetary Defense System Still in Operation

"This amount of radiation can turn a mortal into a pool of pus."

A group of time travelers were walking in a large area of ​​ruins. They were a reconnaissance team investigating this world. There were hundreds of reconnaissance teams like them. They landed in this world in teams and started their own manual reconnaissance in various areas of this world.

It's not that Wang Ming did not use the reconnaissance equipment on the fleet to investigate the situation in this world, but because a certain defense system is still operating in this world. This thing can actively interfere with everything. Any equipment that dares to struggle with the situation in this world, even if it is the equipment of the Human Federation, without a security code, will be directly judged as an enemy by the automatic defense system of this world.

It is very difficult to crack this security code. No one knows what happened in this world or what kind of enemies they have fought against. Their electronic defense system is extremely powerful. Although the orbital defense system has aged over tens of thousands of years, there may still be several orbital defense system arrays that can be operated. The fleet does not want to take the risk and directly park in the orbit of this world.

Who knows whether the orbital defense system of this world will directly attack them after identifying them? Although they don't know how many orbital defense system arrays are still operational, everyone knows the principle of "it's better to be safe than sorry", so now they can only send these small forces to this world for reconnaissance.

When this reconnaissance team landed on the ruins of the hive city along the way in this world, the residents of the local world immediately noticed them. In their eyes, these things falling from the sky should be similar to meteorites or shooting stars, or the wreckage of satellites that had been operating in orbit. No matter what fell, it was very precious to the residents of the local world.

In the current culture of the local world, things that fall from the sky often represent the starry sky, or relics of their lost civilization. However, for the alien cultures in the local world, things that fall from the sky are natural mineral resources for them. There are not many reusable metal resources in this world.

The Human Federation has been operating in this world for a hundred years and has built such a huge hive world. Naturally, the mineral resources of this world and even this galaxy have been completely exploited by humans. If the humans and aliens in this world want to use metals or technological creations, they can only find them from the remains of those hive cities. However, most of the remains of those hive cities carry huge radiation.

These things are used to make weapons, and sometimes, they are not even collected and are killed by radiation as soon as they enter the radiation zone. Some of the things that have already been cast still have high radiation levels, which leads to the fact that the average life expectancy of the soldiers among the local residents of this world is not very high.

The only metals that can be used safely are those at the edge of the hive city and the satellite wreckage that falls from the sky from time to time. This time, "satellite wreckage" began to fall almost all over the world, which made the residents of this world very excited. They rushed to the falling sites of the "satellite wreckage".

There was naturally nothing wrong for the humans who went to the places where those things fell, but the aliens were more pitiful. None of the aliens that fell in the entire network had ever come back, as if something over there had left them there completely.

Now let us turn our attention to the previous team of time travelers. They are constantly advancing in the ruins, using the servo skulls they carry to continuously draw the surrounding terrain in real time, and then form a simple navigation map according to their own position. They now need to find creatures in this world, whether they are humans or other things, but their primary goal is to find humans. After all, this world was once a human world, and they naturally want to see if there are still remnants of the federal era in this world.

"The voice of Terra is reporting to you, there is a ..."

"What is it?"

The vanguard of the time travelers listened to the words in his tactical helmet. He still had some concerns about the things that the brothers of the First Engineer Corps had compiled on the spot. After all, basically none of the things developed by the First Engineer Corps could be used safely from the beginning, and this thing was obviously one of them. When he came down, he personally saw the brothers of the First Engineer Corps programming.

"ditch."

"Go? Damn it!"

The time traveler was so focused on listening to the sound in his tactical helmet that he did not pay attention to the route ahead of him. He did not notice that there was a huge pothole on the road he was walking on. The time traveler stepped on empty air and fell directly into it.

With a very crisp sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, the travelers behind him looked at the squad leader who fell into the pit, and directly chose to turn off the navigation of Terra's Voice, choosing to determine their own position based on the map. This navigation seemed to have a lot of bugs, and at least there was a certain delay. Using this thing might cause them to get lost or step on something they shouldn't step on.

After some effort, the team rescued the traverser squad leader and continued to move forward. Just when they were about to reach the edge of the hive, the traverser squad leader who was acting as the vanguard suddenly stopped. He made a tactical gesture to the traversers behind him, and then the entire team went on alert.

Just as the traversal team began to be on alert, a green-faced, fang-toothed alien suddenly rushed out from the ruins. It looked at the Astartes in front of it. It had no knowledge of these three-meter-five-tall creatures wearing heavy armor. It looked at these Astartes, and was stunned for a moment, and then a large blue psychic light burst out from its body.

At the moment when the spiritual light burst out from its body, the traverser squad leader quickly grabbed its head, and then punched its head into its chest with a punch, while a traverser beside the traverser squad leader took a grenade launcher and fired a burst of bullets at its still twitching body. "Record, an alien race was found, its form is humanoid, characteristics..., killed too quickly to have a complete record, it has psychic talent, I don't know if it is an individual or the whole race, ok, keep moving forward."

After killing the alien, the traversers began to record quickly. They quickly recorded the characteristics of this alien race, and then continued to move forward. Due to the interference on the planet, they could not accurately convey the news to the fleet. They could only record it first, and then wait for the traversal team that destroyed the planet's defense system to destroy the planet's defense system before conveying all the news to the fleet.

And just as they continued to move forward, the team of traversers that was heading directly for the planetary defense system also arrived at their location.

Hu Jin looked at the huge metal gate in front of him and the radiation index that kept flashing on his tactical eyepiece. The radiation index here was the highest in the area. It might be that the nuclear reactor inside exploded, or there might be a leak of nuclear materials in some heavy industrial areas. But it didn't matter. The New Astartes' Renaissance Terminator power armor could completely block the radiation. What was more difficult for them now was the problem of this gate.

I don't know what metal material this door is made of. It is extremely tough, and even the power sword has very limited ability to cut it. This thing is obviously an anti-power weapon. It is extremely difficult to open it, but this difficult problem can be solved.

By having a traverser resurrect and teleport to convey the message to the fleet, a batch of phase weapons landed directly beside them through the orbital airdrop capsule. With phase weapons, which can directly cut through space and dimensions, this metal gate is no longer an obstacle to them. Although it took a lot of time, it was still very fast like cutting tofu with a knife.

One by one, the travelers quickly tore the metal door into pieces, and then directly entered the center of the planetary defense system of this world. As soon as they entered here, they felt the difference from the outside world. There was almost no radiation inside this huge planetary defense system center, not even a little leakage. The situation was completely different from the outside world.

Just as they were about to carefully check the situation here, the automatic defense system in the center of the planetary defense system was suddenly activated. Various automatic weapons quickly smashed the first batch of traversers who entered into the system into pieces. These things were very deadly to the Astartes. After all, no matter how fast a laser is, it can never be faster than the speed of light.

"Like the defense system on the fleet, this thing's laser can quickly burn through our power plant. We don't have much reaction time in front of this kind of weapon. We can only use the old tactics."

A time traveler looked at Hu Jin in front of him. He was one of the time travelers who had just entered the command center. He gave Hu Jin a brief report on the internal situation and then told Hu Jin his thoughts.

After hearing the words of the time traveler, Hu Jin didn't say anything. He just nodded to the time traveler and agreed to his plan. After getting Hu Jin's permission, the time travelers began to enter the command center side by side. This tactic was very simple. They used the bodies of their comrades as shields to block the first wave of lasers, and then quickly destroyed the automatic laser turret. The operating principle of this thing was the same as those automatic defense systems on their fleet, and they might even be products of the same series.

As a time traveler who has spent hundreds of years on the fleet, he is very familiar with these things and naturally has ways to deal with them.

They acted very quickly. A series of volleys of grenade fire rang out inside the command center. Then, with a voice saying that it was safe inside, all the traversers entered.

Inside the door of the command center is a very large space, similar to a square. Through the furnishings inside, time travelers can see the style of federal technological creations that they are very familiar with. Those things were made by some unknown means, but they are still as good as new after tens of thousands of years. This proves the power of the federal technology. At least their creations can really be passed down from generation to generation.

Just as they were slowly going deeper into the core of this huge orbital defense system, they suddenly saw signs of human presence. It was a packaging bag, a food packaging bag. They were very familiar with the appearance of this packaging bag because their mortal auxiliary army was also using this federal standard military ration. This was a food packaging bag that had obviously been thrown away not long ago, at least the remaining food residues in it had not deteriorated.

Through this discovery, the time travelers also learned one thing, that is, there are definitely humans in the core of this orbital defense system. This inevitably made them wary and made their search faster. They needed to find the humans in this world and understand the current situation of this world.

It didn't take them long to search for the humans in this world. When they opened the control room of the planetary defense system's command center, what came into their eyes was a group of terrified children. These children were wearing human federal military uniforms that were totally inappropriate for their body shapes, holding weapons that were much larger than them, and were looking at the time travelers who broke into the control room in horror.

Some of the children were not even as big as the weapons in their hands. The older children protected the younger children behind them, and the younger children also held some explosives in their hands, as if these half-grown children were ready to die together with their enemies, just like soldiers of the Human Federation. However, judging from their terrified expressions, these soldiers were just a group of children.

The time travelers looked at these children, but they did not choose to open fire on them because they were not enemies. With the wisdom of the Astartes and their knowledge, they could imagine what had happened. These children were the descendants of the federal soldiers in this planetary defense system. They had been guarding this huge orbital defense system control center that was like a city, just like their ancestors, guarding this world.

"Soldiers, you have completed your mission."

Hu Jin looked at the children. He took off his helmet and showed his human appearance to the children. These soldiers had completed their mission that had lasted for thousands of years, and now their blood relatives had returned to this human world.