Warhammer 40 A New Hope

As the commander shouted loudly, a Celestial Army soldier carrying a communication device ran in.

"Notify everyone to enter combat readiness! Have the ships out for reconnaissance return as soon as possible!" he ordered. "We are likely to be attacked in a short period of time..."

Buzz－－!

A blood-red light flashed by, and a huge blood-red sphere appeared in the visible range of the space station. At the same time, the mental pollution indicator instrument that had been set up also made a shrill buzzing sound.

It's a blood moon!

"Everyone! Stay at your posts! Go and notify the Necrons! We need them to send some of their men to guard the command post to ensure that our command system does not collapse due to the influence of the blood moon!"

"Also! Notify the researchers who are still studying the giant red snake divine seal No. 12! They need to evacuate!"

"The stationed ships will do their best to intercept the blood moon that appears! We can't let it get close to the space station!"

"Go now!"

As soon as the blood moon appeared, the strike cruiser that had been stationed nearby immediately turned to meet the enemy, and the light spear array with a longer range opened fire and fired torpedoes.

The blue beam hit the blood moon, but it seemed to be blocked by a shield on its surface.

"Detected energy of unknown nature, weakened the attack of the light spear array."

"Torpedoes approaching target!"

Boom boom boom!

When the four torpedoes were about to hit the blood moon, several flesh and blood tentacles suddenly stretched out and blocked the incoming torpedoes.

"The torpedo did not hit the target directly!"

"Detecting energy fluctuations, the opponent is about to attack!"

A blood-red light flickered on the blood moon. The next second, the blood-red light spread out, instantly sweeping over the Empire's ships and the Titan Space Station in the distance, causing some electronic equipment to lose response.

At the same time, some people who were not wearing targeted protective equipment and had weak wills fell to the ground with blood coming out of their seven orifices after the blood-red light passed by, and were transformed into zombies after wailing and struggling in pain.

"Report the damage to the ship!" The captain of the strike cruiser shouted the order after shooting and killing a crew member who was transformed into a zombie because of his lack of determination.

"We received multiple types of energy shocks, including EMP shocks." A crew member reported. "Our ships have been specially protected and will soon recover from the impact..."

"Some crew members and servitors were affected and turned into zombies. The garrison troops are currently handling them."

"Captain! The enemy is moving again!"

A clear crack appeared above the blood moon, and a large number of flying zombies flew out of it, attacking the ships and space stations.

At this time, a large amount of dark green metal emerged from the space station and met the flying corpses that were attacking the space station - the Necrons' ghost beetles.

These purely mechanical creations, usually only the size of a Space Marine's palm, are the lowest-level maintenance units in the many Necromancer tombs.

But even this kind of Necrons maintenance unit still has their own unique device that can decompose matter. When these tiny beetle-like creatures hide in numbers, they are still a military force that cannot be ignored.

The underworld beetles like locusts attacked the group of zombies, and Blood Moon, who was controlling everything, couldn't help but be stunned. The current situation was just like when the Tyranids encountered the greenskins, or when they encountered the Mechanicus on the Forge Planet. This was the first time that they were at a disadvantage in numbers.

Several teams of densely packed ghost beetles grabbed the bodies of the zombies tightly and began to cut them. Soon the targeted zombies were split apart and lost control in space. At this time, the ghost beetles began to further destroy these enemies.

So far, every step in the game has been beyond Blood Moon's expectations. It did resist the first round of attacks, but this consumed a lot of its energy, and its counterattack did not play the expected role - did it work? Yes, but only a little.

Just like the intelligence he had obtained before, the food this time was different, and he also knew them very well and had made a lot of preparations to deal with them.

At this moment, several sickle-shaped dark green warships appeared in the space, forming an encirclement with the previous Human Empire strike cruiser, surrounding the blood moon in the middle.

Squeak--whoosh!

The strike cruiser's lance array opened fire again, and the blue beams flew across a long distance and hit the huge body of the Blood Moon. This time it failed to completely block the attack.

The spear of light pierced through its mental shield, turning a large piece of flesh and blood into charred black, and this also made Blood Moon clearly realize that this time the target was capable of destroying itself.

At the same time, the smaller sickle-shaped warships on the other side also shot green lightning at it, piercing through his shield and destroying part of his flesh and blood.

This smaller blood moon is actually a vanguard sent by the Blood Moon Fleet to confirm the situation here and judge the strength of this suddenly emerging civilization - cannon fodder in short.

But on the other hand, this is also an opportunity. If the forces here are not so strong, it can enjoy everything here alone.

Judging from the current situation, this master who suddenly appeared is indeed difficult to deal with, but it is not impossible to deal with.

"Space fluctuations detected! We're locked!"

"Turn the rudder! Lower the baffles to reinforce the hull and prepare for impact!"

Ding--whoosh!

The blood moon, surrounded by several ships, disappeared with an obvious energy fluctuation, and appeared in front of the strike cruiser of the Human Empire the next moment, and the two collided with each other.

The strong mental influence from the 'death space' of the divine seal immediately appeared on the entire ship. The zombies that had not been eliminated in time began to undergo even more outrageous mutations, and most of the crew members who were still in human form suffered brain shocks from the sudden approach of the blood moon. Some were killed on the spot, and others lost the ability to move and could only hold their heads and wail on the ground.

The macro cannon opened fire at zero range, and the huge shells pierced through the Blood Moon's mental shield and exploded on its flesh and blood, but even so, the Blood Moon had no intention of moving away. Instead, it continued to twist its flesh and blood, trying to completely engulf the strike cruiser.

At the same time, the blood moon also released several red divine seals at sub-light speed in the direction of the Titan Space Station - he knew these emotional carbon-based creatures very well. They had emotions and intelligence, and sometimes they were individuals and would distract their attention for people who were "irrelevant" to them, or even give up the opportunity to defeat them.

As long as the target is set on the civilians, they will be affected to some extent, and this will give the Blood Moon an opportunity to take advantage.

Normally, compared to creatures with collective thinking, the action patterns of humans or other human-like species are indeed not efficient, and they are affected by many factors.

The social structure and way of life of humans or similar creatures means that they cannot completely ignore other people. They need a plurality of people to develop and live. This means that no matter how cold-blooded a race is, it is impossible to completely ignore other people.

Even slave owners in a slave society cannot say that they don't care about the life and death of slaves at all - if the slaves die, who will help them farm and make money?

As the blood of collective thinking, we can be complacent about this, but...

This does not mean that there will be no outrageous things under this kind of social structure, let alone in the 40K Warhammer world - there is a lack of everything here, except outrageous things.

Things seemed to be developing in the direction predicted by the Blood Moon, and at this moment, the strike cruiser that was about to be swallowed by it, with power from nowhere, began to leave its body.

No! This didn't seem like something the spacecraft could do with its own power. It was more like a pair of big hands grabbed it and the ship separately, and tried to separate the two.

The next moment, the blood moon was surprised to find that its power was suppressed. It could no longer freely influence the thoughts of nearby creatures. The black divine seal within its body seemed to be grabbed by something and was being dragged outwards.

No! This wasn't an attempt to pull out the black divine seal, but an attempt to... crush it!

[You seem to want to treat humans as food? ]

A voice sounded from the spiritual world of the Blood Moon, and it saw a cold and angry sun!

[You messed with the wrong person! Alien! ]

Click!

465. Aggregate: Don’t come near me! !

Tafrantis

At this time, the orbit of this icy planet was already filled with a large amount of fresh ship debris.

It is unknown where the news came from, but the Unification Church members came to the vicinity of the planet and attacked the "Unknown Hope" which was docked in the orbit of the planet Tavrantis.

Fanatical believers are often not afraid of death. Even though this ship is several times larger than any ship they have ever seen, these Unification Church members still launched a fearless charge towards this behemoth.

But the result will not change because of their fanaticism. Even if the Unification Church has more ships, even if Zhang Yi and his men only have one big ship, this ship is ridiculously large.

Their fanaticism did not allow them to cause any harm to the Unknown Hope, and the divine seal they believed in did not help them either.

This was also what the group of divine seals on Taflantis had planned. They no longer cared about these new cannon fodders, nor did they think they could cause any substantial damage to this powerful enemy. All they wanted was to delay the Unknown Hope.

Things seemed to be developing as they expected. The [Unknown Hope] that posed a huge threat to them was temporarily delayed, and Zhang Yi and others who posed a great threat on the surface of the planet were separated from Isaac.

This is an opportunity. As long as they can control the lone Isaac and release the alien device from the freeze on the blood moon, the densely packed divine seals on this planet will be able to bring surprises to these stupid carbon-based creatures, just like countless times before.

In order to accomplish this goal, the Divine Seal mobilized almost all the zombies that could still move on the planet, vowing to capture Isaac alive.

Among them is a second-level zombie unit, the Aggregate, which is of the same level as the one on the Ishimura before and commands all the zombies in this area of ​​the planet.

Because of the harsh natural environment of the planet Tafrantis, the shape of this aggregate is also different. Its appearance is more like a combination of a centipede and a spider, and like the corpse-morphing snow monster, its body is covered with a thick shell.

Now, the huge monster has completely emerged from its dormant state and has come near Isaac, ready to capture the chosen human.

As the ground began to tremble violently, the twisted and huge body of the aggregate appeared in front of Isaac and roared at it.

"I should have guessed it earlier." Isaac said as he backed away from the huge corpse-morphing monster in front of him. "The Ishimura has this thing on board. How could this planet, which has been controlled by the Divine Seal for so long, not have this thing?"

The huge front claws smashed towards Isaac, but were dislodged by the latter using the jet device on his armor. Isaac then raised the high-power ion cutter in his hand and fired at the aggregate in front of him.

The attack of the cutting body successfully left deep marks on the thick carapace of the aggregate. Unlike Isaac who did not have heavy weapons in the original plot, he had no way to deal with a series of large zombies with heavy carapaces. Now, if he did not consider the consumption of energy and ammunition, he could completely defeat the opponent with his defense.

As Isaac shot again, a thick shell was shattered, causing the aggregate to roar again, and then a large amount of corrosive liquid sprayed towards Isaac.

"As expected of 'The Strongest Engineer in History', this movement is so charming."

"Is he really just an engineer? His shooting accuracy is pretty good."

"This aggregate is quite capable of fighting. Oh? He can even spoof the knife."

While Isaac was fighting fiercely with the aggregate, Zhang Yi and others were watching this round of BOSS battle from a distant location.

"Are we just going to stand here and watch him beat the BOSS, Boss?" Kerr asked.

"It's not like we didn't do anything. At least we helped him clean up all the monsters." Zhang Yi responded. "And we have more important things to do."

"The more important thing is to watch him kill the BOSS alone?"

"A small planet-splitting ship can have a huge aggregate on it, so why do you think there is only one aggregate on this planet that is still controlled and occupied by the Divine Seal?"

"More of this stuff?"

"Even if it's not, there won't be only the types of monsters in the game. You have to know that many people have landed on this planet and died here."

"Not to mention that an entire race was previously influenced and controlled by the Divine Seal."

"Aren't those all part of the blood moon?"

"Have you forgotten that there are still some people who were not affected and activated the freezing device? Their bodies will not be wasted."

During the time when Zhang Yi and his offspring were chatting, Isaac had already caused considerable damage to the twisted aggregate in front of him with various weapons prepared in advance against heavy units. One of its forelimbs had been broken, and the bright yellow tumors located in various parts of its body had been shattered one by one.

After Isaac once again used the weapon in his hand to pierce the shell of the monster in front of him and damaged its body, the aggregate let out a shrill scream, and then its entire huge body smashed onto the platform in front of it.

The next moment the entire platform collapsed, and Isaac fell downwards.

"The boss battle is over~" Zhang Yi said as he looked at everything in front of him. "Let's go and finish it off."

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Bang--!

The huge aggregate fell to the ground and twisted on the ground like an insect.

Even if it had experienced a fierce battle and fell from such a high place, the damage it suffered could not be regenerated immediately.

At this moment, a white light appeared not far from it, and Zhang Yi and others walked out of it unharmed.

"Am I the only one who thinks this thing is small?"

"This one looks about the same size as the Ishimura."

“It still feels small~”

The twisting aggregate on the ground raised its upper body towards Zhang Yi and others and let out a threatening roar at them.

But soon its intimidation turned into astonishment, because... its connection with the divine seal was broken.

This was the first time that, on this planet full of divine seals, this aggregate was completely unable to sense the existence of divine seals, as if they had all disappeared - but how was this possible? !

At this moment, the narrow space around gradually expanded, and a circular venue appeared, and the aggregate was in the center of the venue.

Zhang Yi opened another portal and shouted to the inside: "There are high-level zombies here, are you interested?"

. . . . . .

With the help of the jet device on the armor, Isaac landed steadily on the ground, but this also made him completely deviate from the original route.

This also allowed him to find the remains left by aliens on this planet, which he had only heard about from Zhang Yi's oral narration before.

As mentioned before, this alien race whose technological power far exceeds that of humans also encountered the Divine Seal. Like humans, they were bewitched by the Divine Seal, and sects that worshipped the Divine Seal emerged. They also copied the Divine Seal on a large scale and placed them in the center of the city.

They paid the price for their actions, the entire race became part of the blood moon, and the entire planet was occupied by the divine seal.

Although a very small number of sober people activated the device, preventing the blood moon that was about to take shape from leaving here, this also led to the extinction of this race.

Looking at the huge statues and buildings in front of him, which symbolized the former glory of the alien civilization, Isaac became more determined to destroy the seal of God.

Continuing to go deeper, he found the path left by previous colonists when they excavated and studied this place, and followed this path all the way to the target colony.

The extremely low temperature made the entities here remain in their previous appearance. For some reason, these corpses were not transformed into zombies.

According to the information in the colony, if you want to shut down and restart the alien device, you need to find the decoder, then go to the designated location to obtain the corresponding data, and then install the decoded decoder on the corresponding device switch.