Stars for the good Warhammer.

Chapter 299 Cyberlux (4K)

In the ruins on the outskirts of the city, the bleak air was filled with dim yellow gas.

At this time, Gerard, who was wearing a standard gas mask of the Astra Militarum, was staring in amazement at the innocent-looking Ogryn who appeared in front of him. When he saw clearly that the other party was holding three still-struggling plague zombies in his hands, the old soldier couldn't help but let out a duck-like scream.

"Big guy! You're such a bastard! You can't just pick that thing up casually!"

However, before he could finish his words, a small leather boot with laces had kicked the veteran in the crotch. Everything happened so suddenly, and the pain that made him sweat instantly made the overly excited Gerard shut his mouth, and he fell to the ground and couldn't utter another word.

The world became quiet again. The person who dealt the veteran a fatal blow was a girl named Lori in the team. After looking at Gerard who was rolling on the ground with a look that seemed to say he deserved it, the girl continued to speak in a slightly calm tone.

"We are now in the territory of those heretics. We must be careful not to attract them."

"Besides, this is not a big problem. We originally planned to catch a few cultists and ask them what happened here. We didn't expect these heretics to mutate on the way."

As she spoke, Lori raised her hand again to check whether the straps of the gas mask were loose. She didn't want to expose her nose to the air filled with the foul smell of marsh gas.

At the side, Mardo, who was a priest at this moment, had easily dealt with the three plague zombies in civilian clothes, and personally performed a simple mass for them. Looking at the other party's devout appearance of prayer, the girl couldn't help but ask again.

"Mardo, do you really think that there is something hidden on this planet that can change the situation of the war?"

After an unknown amount of time, Mardo, who was wearing a martyr's robe with blessing scriptures wrapped around him, just smiled and nodded.

In the eyes of most people, this young pastor is a taciturn person most of the time, and only becomes talkative when it comes to issues of faith.

"Let me guess, that's what the guy told you too?"

The girl Lori mentioned refers to a little girl who suddenly appeared on Parmenio recently and was called a "living saint" by everyone. No one knew her name, but when the demon army of the Father of Plague was about to break through the defense line of the Astra Militarum, it was that girl who suddenly appeared in the center of the battlefield and blocked the spread of the plague.

There was light bursting out from her body, like the sun falling into a battlefield surrounded by poisonous fog and vicious flies, which frightened the demons. Hundreds of plague chariots fired corrosive shells at her, but they turned into invisible dust the moment they were about to come into contact with her.

Her appearance helped Parmenio's garrison win the war. After that, the mysterious girl entered the battlefield hospital surrounded by people, and used her small chest to give gentle hugs to the wounded who were unfortunately infected with the plague. After that, the injuries that plagued the soldiers were miraculously healed.

After witnessing the power of the miracle with their own eyes, countless soldiers and civilians worshipped her as a saint, and some even regarded her as the incarnation of the Emperor, including Mardo.

To this day, Lori still cannot forget that scene. When the four of them heard the legend and rushed to the main city of Parmenio, a girl wrapped in golden light and who looked much younger than Lori suddenly appeared in front of them in the center of the crowded square.

"In my impression, the emperor should be a tall and mighty man. I don't think he would possess a little girl who looks younger than me. Don't you think this is strange?"

When she said this, Lori suddenly changed the subject.

"And I don't think that guy is a sacred being. That golden light is a bit chilling to me."

In fact, not everyone regarded this as redemption. As a staunch materialist fighter, Robert Guilliman, the Regent of the Empire, doubted the girl's identity. The Primarch had her detained and handed her over to the extremists within the Ecclesiarchy for a brutal witch trial.

Before that, the young man named Mardo had had a long conversation with the girl. Although he didn't know what the other party said, Mardo insisted that he had received revelation again.

——It is said that there is another powerful artifact underground in Parmenio, and this artifact is also related to the Ash Alliance.

This is also the main reason why a group of four people now appear in this strange land. Although Lori and Gerard have always been skeptical about the "Revelation" mentioned by Mardo, they have indeed helped the Alliance to retrieve a lot of useful technologies over the past period of time.

Since the Empire was wary of these pagans from the Alliance, and the Alliance warmaster Michael himself was not near Parmenio, their team's equipment was extremely simple. Apart from an infantry fighting vehicle equipped with [Machine Soul 3.0] that could move independently, there was no other support.

What's even worse is that after the few people entered the marsh gas plain in the armored vehicle with stealth function, the increasingly thick toxic air in the air even interfered with their communication and navigation systems for a time. Therefore, they could only move forward like a headless cockroach relying on Mardo's intuition.

Soon, Gerard was seen climbing up from the ground with his trembling arms and legs clamped together. Recently, he always felt that this little kid named Lori seemed to be deliberately targeting him. To be honest, sometimes he really wanted to teach this naughty little girl a lesson.

But when I think about it carefully, it seems that this matter is ultimately my fault.
Thinking of this, Gerard turned pale and glanced in the direction of Lori. Sure enough, the kid was still staring at him with a look full of contempt. Gerard, who felt wronged, finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"My eldest lady just used a little of your money before she left. I will return it to you later. If it doesn't work out, I will give you all of my salary in the league. What do you think?"

Just before the group set off for Parmenio, Gerard went to a tavern in the surface city alone in the name of replenishing supplies while the fleet was resting. After disappearing for a whole day and night and calling him many times without success, Lori, who was worried that something had happened to him, followed the positioning signal all the way to a hotel in the city.

However, when she kicked the door open despite the owner's obstruction, the first thing that appeared in front of her was the scene of Gerard, who was already drunk, hugging two naked women.

As for what happened next, Gerard himself didn't remember it very clearly. In his daze, he only remembered that a gangster seemed to rush into the tavern and attacked him. When he woke up again, the tavern he was in had turned into ruins.

Looking at the other party's shameless appearance, and then looking at the Ogryn's face full of clear and stupid expressions, Lori on the side just silently crossed her arms and sighed helplessly.

"I understand why you are so unpopular now. You can only deceive fools."

When she said this, Lori had obviously lost interest in Gerard and turned to look at Mardo who was looking straight ahead.

"So what's the next plan? Where are we going next?"

However, before she finished her words, Gerard on the side was obviously very unconvinced.

"I have a lot of friends, especially women who are fascinated by me! Even the daughter of a planetary governor has slept with me." When he said this, a look of pride appeared on the old soldier's face. But soon after he finished speaking, a simple and sticky voice suddenly came from the ruins of the bungalow behind Gerald.

"friend!"

“I love friends the most!”

As Gerard was looking extremely confused, he heard the sounds of falling rubble and collapsing walls. Not far away, in the toxic methane, he saw a fat figure staggering towards the four people.

It was a bloated Nurgle beast, like a slug with tentacles extended. At the moment, this extremely blasphemous beast had a morbid smile on its face. It opened its fat, herpes-covered hands towards Gerard, who was staring at it with wide eyes, as if to give him a big hug.

Suddenly, a strong smell seemed to penetrate the filter of the gas mask, so refreshing
"Let's make friends!"

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In the ruins of a city filled with poisonous gas.

With the roar of its engine, an infantry fighting vehicle with suspension function was passing through a desolate and silent street at high speed.

Bursts of lightning were occasionally spurting out from around the chariot, and the flashing silver-white light was lighting up the buildings on both sides of the street. From the beginning, the electromagnetic turret on top of the chariot had never stopped firing, spraying deadly electric currents at the Nurgle beasts that were chasing behind it.

Such a violent movement naturally attracted the attention of the chaotic forces entrenched in the surroundings. As wave after wave of plague flies gathered, the vast swarms of flying insects seemed to gather into dark clouds over the city.

"Damn it! Those things have blocked all the exits!"

As the battle continued, Gerard felt his scalp tingling as he watched the scanning data continuously sent back by the radar in front of the console. The hundreds of thousands of biological signals densely packed around him really made him feel numb.

Although the Alliance's reconnaissance infantry fighting vehicle has stealth capabilities, during the confrontation with the Nurgle beast just now, the opponent had spilled a mouthful of fermented intestinal fluid from its intestines on the body of the vehicle, as if wrapping the vehicle with a layer of green shell, and now is obviously not a good time to wash the car.

“We are surrounded.”

Surprisingly, looking at the distressed look on Gerald's face, Lori in the car was laughing and making sarcastic remarks.

"It seems that I underestimated you. Just now, that thing was chasing after you and wanted to be your friend."

"Now is not the time to joke! Those things can eat us at any time!"

At this moment, accompanied by the continuous shaking of the vehicle, a Chaos Astartes belonging to the Death Guard appeared on the street outside the window. The rain-like bombs struck deadly notes outside the thin alloy armor. At this time, Gerard felt that they were like sardines that could be opened from a can at any time.

"These damn stinky cans!"

Amid the old soldier's crazy screams and curses, Lori asked questions to Mardo, who was still mentally stable.

"This chariot is floating in the air. Is there no way to rush out directly?"

"That's too dangerous. Captain Turalyon once said that this is a reconnaissance vehicle with no special protection capabilities. It is almost impossible to force a breakthrough."

"That"

Just when Lori wanted to say something else, a polite electronic voice suddenly echoed in the car.

"According to radar measurements of the terrain structure, there is an 87.3% probability that there is a large underground space inside this city. Perhaps we can find a way to escape from there."

"An underground space? But how do we get down there?"

Looking at the thick metal ground ahead through the vehicle's observation window, Gerard obviously had no hope for this.

"Please leave it to me."

The next moment, the machine soul suddenly accelerated again. In Gerard's desperate gaze, the assisted controlled chariot actually rushed straight towards the plasma cannon that had been fully charged in the defending position, without any sign of dodging.

Mom!
The machine soul has gone crazy?
Gerard was shocked and wanted to use the manual mode to change the direction of the tank, but all the systems were completely locked under the control of the machine spirit.

At the moment the heavy artillery opened fire, the vehicle controlled by the machine soul suddenly turned the steering wheel. The huge kinetic energy caused the tank to change direction in milliseconds. As for the powerful plasma shell, it grazed the armor plate on the left side of the tank with an error of millimeters, and then triggered a chain explosion in the communication tower not far away.

As the superstructure continued to fall, a violent explosion caused the ground to collapse, and before Gerard and his companions in the car could realize what had gone wrong.

Without even a scream, the next moment the armored vehicle the group was riding in rolled to the ground, as if falling into a dark and unknown space.

At the same time, on an unnoticed screen in the corner of the chariot.

【New recycling options discovered.】

[Target: Cyberlux Arsenal]

(End of this chapter)