God Emperor’s Angel of Death

The journey to the abandoned mine was as unremarkable as Soshian had expected.

Since they left the city, they were only attacked once by blind and angry rebel farmers, and occasionally there were native wild animals that were hungry or stupid enough to attack the Astartes.

If Soshian calls a mortal guard to let the mortals take care of everything, the journey will be much easier, but in this way, the news will also spread quickly.

They will be known before they find the target.

In the end, he judged that it was better for them to enter on their own, but only asked West to send a few people and a steward, and ordered the other party to keep their appearance and itinerary strictly confidential until they allowed it to publicize.

Soshian believes that, at least for a short time, that person will not dare to disobey his orders.

This mine called the "Dead Mandile" is a typical primordial vertical excavation site. Its main body is located under a mountain range with an average altitude of thousands of people, after passing through the passage for workers to enter and exit. , The living area of ​​the mine that can be seen is located on the edge of a huge pit. The weak spot on the top of the huge cave provides extremely limited illumination, which is far from enough to illuminate the entire huge pit.

A large number of wooden tracks and lifting secrets are placed on the edge of the giant pit. Workers go down from here to the bottom to dig out the minerals that are exposed to the rock.

In addition to iron ore, precious metal minerals such as copper ore, lead ore and gold and silver are also produced here. According to West Steward, this mining area once had 30,000 miners, regardless of Mining these buried treasures day and night.

Although this is an Agri-World, the most basic smelting industry is still available. Many of the minerals excavated have become farm tools or living utensils, and precious metals have become a show off for the families or individuals of the landlords. .

However, several decades ago, accidents began to occur frequently in mines. Miners often disappeared underground for no reason, and the output of mines was getting lower and lower.

Finally, after the disappearance and death of a large number of miners, the owner of the mine abandoned them, and the miners lost their jobs and left.

In order to prevent accidents from continuing, nearby landlords chose to close it, which is the roadblock made of rocks and wood that Soshian had piled up at the entrance before they came in.

"There is a hole there."

Standing on the edge of the huge crater, Armin suddenly pointed to the rock wall one hundred meters below.

"It looks like it was chiseled out, but...it may not be too smooth."

"I can see it."

Soshian Kick a cobblestone down the cliff, and it should have fallen to the end after ten seconds, but the never-ending sound of the nearby underground river swallowed any possible echoes.

"Be careful."

Saul followed Soshian carefully to the cliff.

"I guess the bottom must be at least two kilometers deep below this."

"I wish there was a ladder."

Soshian sighed, trying to make others Thought he was joking.

Of course, there is no ladder.

But at the end of the cliff, there is a lift that can be used according to Steward, which extends down to a series of rock platforms, forming a simple and irregular passage.

This makes Soshian relaxed.

It's too deep here to tell whether it is rock or extremely old concrete, but no matter what, the surface is loosely covered with a layer of moss, and every time you fall, you will get a little slippery.

Looking at the lift gently swaying in the breeze, Soshian was a little uneasy, but after checking the power system, he found that it could still be used normally, so he was relieved.

Fortunately, this thing was very sturdy when it was repaired. Someone had nailed rivets on it as a fixation. It was easy to stand up to the four Astartes. It was supposed to be a freight elevator used to transport minerals. .

"Leave two people on it. The others will go down in two batches. Sol and I will take the lead, Calvin and Levi’s will follow, and Armin, you will take the second batch."

After a simple deployment, Soshian boarded the lift with three other people.

As soon as Astarte stepped on, the iron elevator squeaked in pain, and a large amount of rust and dust fell from the unused support for many years. On the silver-gray armor.

Soshian stood for a few seconds, and after confirming that there was no problem, he nodded towards Sol.

The second Space Marine stepped up, and the elevator platform suddenly sank a little.

But it persisted.

The third and the fourth follow.

After confirming that there were no more problems, Soshian made a gesture to Alminbi, and the other party immediately activated the lift.

Along with the roar of the engine and a large amount of black smoke from the exhaust vents, several decades of sleep have fallen asleep. The power system has recovered again, and the winch is rotated, and the cable that is thick enough for an adult's forearm is slowly lay down.

The lifting platform also slowly sank.

Everything went well, two minutes later, they arrived at the first rock platform.

From here, they had to walk with their feet, and the miners built many small railroad tracks for transportation.

There is at least one kilometer below the depth.

After the elevator was pulled up, Soshian stayed at the Rock Terrace High Level for a while, and the three people led by Almin arrived here soon.

"Which way do you think we should go?"

Soshian looked towards Sol beside him after observing the terrain.

The road branched off. The main road continued to descend along the railroad tracks, while the other narrow and broken, barely able to stand on the trail, stretched out into the darkness roughly horizontally.

"I propose to follow the main road."

Saul was silent for a moment, then said his opinion.

"The trail is not even a road. Our team will betray and form a line that cannot be supported back and forth."

"Agree."

Al Ming nodded

"This seems to be just a crack in the rock, which makes people mistaken for another road."

"Wait a minute."

Soshian uses him The tactical lights of his helmet shone down the trail.

"There are traces on the road. It looks very fresh. Someone may have walked along there."

"Sir, there are also footprints on the main road."

Armin also pointed to the main road with lighting equipment, and there were indeed some traces of footprints on it.

"It still looks like a complete footprint, not those traces on the trail that may be just falling rocks."

"Has anyone been here recently?"

Soshian has a new question, but every moment they hesitate, the time to complete the task will be delayed.

Then he shone the light into the depths, hoping to illuminate more trails.

There is a faint reflection coming from a pool filled with mixed sewage and a poison qi. There are obviously some shadow spots on the cliff wall, which shakes disturbingly outside the scope of the beam of light. NS.

Soshian turned the beam of light outward and found a long string of stepping stones across the pool.

"We need to be careful, it seems that the pools are not shallow."

"No doubt."

Sol agreed.

"I estimate that the average depth is between ten and twelve meters."

Soshian turned around and decided to continue walking down, then he stretched the beam of light across the cliff wall and finally Check the downward route at a time.

Suddenly, he found that a large cliff seemed to be moving. He thought it was a landslide at first, but then he realized that something else had actually happened.

"Enemy attack!"

Before he finished speaking, he had already pulled out the explosive pistol.

At this time, the shadow spots he had noticed before were climbing up the cliff at an almost unreasonable speed. He used the helmet's lighting to aim at a shadow spot to confirm his guess.

"It's a group of underground creatures!"