Stars for the good Warhammer.

Chapter 117 Queen Thorin
  A swarm of insects appeared underground in Senn.

Such news naturally aroused Otto's great concern.

After all, this is just like discovering Xiaoqiang in the kitchen on the first day of moving into a new house, which is somewhat distressing.

Soon, when he led other members of the Ash Knights and a clone company that assisted the Knights in fighting, they arrived at the scene of the accident. Michael was escorting several panic-looking colonial workers out of the mine.

According to those workers, because the Eldar overloaded the energy system of the atmospheric stabilization device of Senn Planet in the previous battle, during the subsequent heat dissipation and cooling process, the heat released during the process caused part of the underground permafrost to collapse. collapsed, blocking part of the newly excavated mine tunnels.

Therefore, they had to use large-scale engineering equipment to clear the blocked areas and find ways to open up new connecting channels. However, they did not expect that after breaking one of the frozen soil walls, those strange creatures with carapace suddenly emerged from the hole. got out and attacked the workers.

Could it be that they are a group of Tyranids sealed underground by the permafrost? Did they suddenly wake up because of the increase in underground temperature?
  "What happened next? Did you eliminate them?"

While thinking, Otto shifted his gaze to Michael and his two brothers.

"The number of those bugs was not large. We cleaned them up very easily. After that, I took a rough look and found that there was a very complicated space behind the opened wall."

“It seems to be a naturally formed ice cave.”

"We didn't rush in because we didn't know what was going on inside."

Hearing this, Otto couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Oh my god.
  Could it be that the planet that we worked so hard to acquire and paid the down payment for was actually a huge worm nest?
  Who can bear this!

It seems that if you want to live a stable life in the future, a large-scale pest control operation is indispensable.

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  After simple preparation.

In the end, a specialized reconnaissance team, led by Michael, returned to the mine tunnel where the incident occurred and was responsible for investigating the specific size of the insect swarm.

Because the underground environment was too complex, Otto did not follow the team into the underground for safety reasons.

Instead, he sat in the colonial office and watched this special reconnaissance operation remotely.

Through the screen, it was a clone company walking in front of Michael.

They were a group of cheap soldiers born in cloning cabins for experimental purposes and merely instilled with warrior thinking.

Due to the deliberate restriction of some cognition and instinct, these soldiers do not know what fear is, which allows them to assist the members of the Knights in high-risk operations in order to minimize the casualties of the former. Generally speaking, He is a very suitable tool person.

Not long after the team marched along the mine tunnel, with the light shining on them, several insect corpses on the ground that had been bombarded by explosive bombs suddenly appeared on the screen.

But the moment he saw that thing, Otto couldn't help but frowned.
  It was a bloated worm about the size of a lamb. Its whole body was dark red like muscle, and its back was covered with a thick carapace.

At what seems to be the head, several tiny fleshy whiskers are still shaking slowly, and the sucker-like mouthparts are dotted with tiny teeth.
  At first glance, the plump and voluptuous body seems to be extremely juicy.
  At this moment, under Michael's instructions, two clone soldiers were carrying equipment to display the insect's appearance as clearly as possible.

But staring at the picture in front of him, Otto was entangled.

Could it be some species native to Senen? Because no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a traditional Tyranid creature.
  At the same time, he always felt that these things were so familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before.

At this moment, Hui Feng, who was also watching the scene, seemed to have thought of something and suddenly said subconsciously.

"Is it Thorin's protozoa?"

What?
  The moment he heard this name, Otto felt as if a certain thread in his head was broken.

Looking at the content on the screen, I didn't know how to react for a moment.

Thorin protozoa, which comes from the background setting of the stars, is a natural disaster creature similar to the Tyranid swarm. Relying on the number of people who cover the sky, it will devour and harvest all life on its path like locusts passing through. .

Just like those Tyranids, they are also a group of troublesome guys who basically only know how to eat and eat.

The Tyranid itself is already deadly enough, but now even the Thorin swarm wants to get in on the act?
  Oh my god, it’s really lively now.
  I don’t know what the scene would be like if these two foodies collided.
  Soon, after carefully analyzing the shape of the corpse in the picture, Gray Feng raised his chin and came to a definite conclusion like a detective.

"There is no mistake. This is a parasite that lives in the body of the Thorinworm. Generally speaking, only the large Thorinworms will carry them."

Gray Wind's words once again caught Otto's attention.

Does the other party mean that there is a large biological mothership nearby?
  Just beneath the frozen soil of Senn?
  Could it be that they were also destroyed by the ether phase engine?
  But this is wrong. Wasn't the Thorin swarm already wiped out in the game?
  With all kinds of questions, Michael's team on the other side of the screen began to advance deeper into the mine tunnel under Otto's order.

After stepping over the insect corpses on the ground, it didn't take long for them to arrive at the place where the incident mentioned previously occurred.

At this moment, an excavation equipment modified from an armored vehicle was seen abandoned in the center of the tunnel. On the ground, there were a large number of blood stains left by the bodies being dragged, and they extended all the way to the nearby tunnel. Within the cave entrance.

Apparently, the creatures living in it took advantage of Michael and the others' absence to take the corpses of the colonists back to their lair and enjoy them slowly.

After a moment, under Michael's instructions, still led by the clone soldiers, the team carefully stepped into the breach along the blood stains on the ground.

With the help of lighting from tactical equipment, just as Michael said at the beginning, there are several rugged and narrow tunnels behind the wall. The width and height of the entrance are very limited, and can only be used by an ordinary person lying down to crawl into them. , and the blood stains in the mine tunnel are derived from a tunnel.

Judging from the size of the cave entrances and the tiny claw marks on the surrounding ice, these tunnels seem to be insect holes carved out from beneath the permafrost by those weird creatures.

In order to find out how many secrets were buried underground in Senn, under Otto's instructions, the team dropped an unmanned reconnaissance equipment into it.

Soon, as the drone went down through the winding tunnel, I don’t know how much time passed.
  About nine hundred meters underground, using the night vision function of the drone, a naturally formed ice cave appeared on the screen in front of Otto.

As the camera gradually zoomed towards the bottom of the ice cave, in Otto's incredible eyes, a huge alien creature trapped in the ice suddenly appeared in his and Gray Feng's sight.

The next second, Hui Feng was seen taking a step closer to the screen, and then said in a confused tone.

"That is."

"A Thorin Queen?"

(End of this chapter)