Warhammer 40 A New Hope

These genetically modified creatures, which were originally used for mining, changed their targets and surrounded the wild boar. The next moment, the wild boar made of ice exploded, and a large amount of broken ice particles splashed in all directions.

The ice particles shot out at high speed pierced the shells of the surrounding insects, and a very small number of insects were hit by the flying ice particles in the eyes and other unprotected parts of their bodies.

At this time, the surroundings were filled with blue ice mist. The swarm of insects were roaring and looking back in the direction of the gap.

boom!

Another gunshot was heard, and a rifle bullet knocked down a giant spider, followed by intensive fire from the gap.

Unlike the guns in the game, these targeted ammunition made for the Zerg shells of the Ringworld can easily penetrate their hard shells and kill ordinary Zerg with one shot.

A few minutes later, the last giant beetle fell at the gap. At this time, Zhang Yi stuck his head out and lit a ball of light in the air, illuminating the frozen hibernation chamber occupied by insects.

"You guys are quite skilled." Looking at the bugs that were all killed, Zhang Yi looked at Ruby with a smug look on his face and said, "Praise me more."

"Of course. I have memorized all the possible enemies here and how to deal with them," Ruby responded proudly.

"So she stayed up late again?" Zhang Yi asked her sister Yang.

"Two all-nighters, Weiss was with her." Yang said, looking at her sister with a helpless expression of 'I can't stop her'.

"Sis, didn't you drag Black to train with you a few days before you left?" Ruby countered.

The act of exposing each other's secrets made the whole team noisy, and Zhang Yi just watched them.

"If nothing else, it's a good thing that this scene can be maintained." Zhang Yi muttered to himself. "Shut up, old man."

Zhang Yi signaled Ruby and others to follow him, and under his leadership, they were brought to a huge insect nest.

The larvae of the small insects were twisting and turning in the insect nest, while Zhang Yi pulled up a small glowing object near the insect nest.

"Here, the luminous cocoon, it will dissolve itself after a few weeks, but it can be maintained by continuously injecting specific biomass. It is also a rare item." Zhang Yi handed the luminous cocoon to Ruby and said, "Then you can also hand in this big insect nest. This thing is actually a living thing. Those oil guys also collect such things."

"But you probably can't move it."

"And then... it happened!"

Ruby and the others watched Zhang Yi walk to the huge insect nest and seemed to be picking up something. Ruby put the glowing cocoon in her hand on the ground and moved forward.

"This is... um!"

"This thing is not poisonous, and its nutritional value and taste are quite good."

"Mmm - delicious!"

"Ruby? You guys are..."

Ruby flew out as a red whirlwind, and quickly stuffed the green glue substance in her hand into the mouths of the other three people.

"Try it, this one is delicious."

"(chew and swallow) Hmm? Really, it's a bit like shaved ice, cool and soft."

"It's delicious, but could you please not put it directly into my mouth next time, Ruby?"

The other three people ate the gelatinous substance given to them by Ruby without seeing the entity. At this time, Zhang Yi controlled a pile of green gelatinous substance and walked out from behind the insect nest.

"Shellac is the main food source for these insects and is produced in the insect nests," Zhang Yi said. "It has a very good taste and nutritional value, and it tastes even better after cooking."

"It just doesn't look that good." Zhang Yi said to the people in the Rwby team. "Anyone else want to try it?"

Looking at the large lump of green gelatinous substance, sisters Yang and Ruby wanted to have some more without any hesitation, while Black hesitated for a while and followed suit - after all, this thing tasted really good.

Weiss, who still had something in her mouth, stood there in a daze. On the one hand, even she had to admit that it tasted really good, but on the other hand, the soft green appearance made her feel a little uncomfortable.

"(gulp/swallows the shellac in mouth) I hate you guys..."

503. The Expedition of the Human Empire (Part )

With Weiss looking sad, the team members finished tasting a large lump of green shellac. Zhang Yi then sent the remaining shellac and the entire hive back to their ship through the portal, along with all the rare creations in the cryogenic hibernation chamber.

All the people who were in cryogenic hibernation in this cryogenic hibernation chamber died. Some of them suffocated due to the failure of the hibernation chamber, while others were dug out of the machine by insects and eaten while they were unconscious.

After doing all this, Zhang Yi led the RWBY team through the cryogenic hibernation chamber hidden in the mountain and continued forward.

Zhang Yi, acting as a human excavator, dug a straight tunnel in the thick mountain, and after dozens of minutes, he successfully opened a hole in the mountain.

"This will save more time than walking along the road." Zhang Yi said as he looked at the gradually setting stars. "I'll help you move your car over. It will only take a few dozen minutes to drive from here to your nearest neutral settlement."

“Besides, you can also see a nice scenery~”

. . . . . .

The roaring jeep engine was turned off, and Ruby and others and Zhang Yi came to a lake surrounded by trees.

A tree that was completely different from ordinary trees stood alone by the lake. Near the tree, several small green creatures were hiding behind the tree, looking at Ruby and others who suddenly appeared.

"I know this! This is the Dryad Mother Tree and the Dryad that lives with it!" Ruby said excitedly. "So cute."

Ruby, who was always irritable, flashed and appeared near those tiny tree elves with rose petals, looking at those tiny berry tree elves with shining eyes.

"Can I touch them? Is it okay?" Ruby turned her head and asked Zhang Yi.

"Tree spirits have almost no offensive capabilities, and most of the time they are willing to live with humans." Zhang Yi looked at Ruby and said, "Feel free to touch them."

"yeah!"

After the cheers, Ruby picked up a tiny berry tree elf and rubbed her body against it.

“So cute and furry!”

"Ruby~ You should know that except for a few individual tree spirits, other tree spirits are very fragile and have little strength." Yang walked to his sister and reminded her.

"Sister, you can try it too." Ruby handed the berry tree spirit in her arms to Yang and said, "It's really nice to touch~"

Taking the berry tree spirit handed over by his sister, Yang looked at the still somewhat confused little creature in his hand, and had to admit that this creature was indeed very cute and felt really good to the touch.

"How did you find this place?" Black asked Zhang Yi as he looked at Ruby and Yang who were holding the tree spirit tightly.

"Look at the map~" Zhang Yi replied. "This kind of place is relatively rare even on this planet. There happens to be one nearby, so I'll take you to see it."

"It's a good opportunity to let you guys relax. It must be hard to see that kind of thing."

"Please don't remind me of that anymore." Weiss said.

At this time, the stars in this galaxy have completely set, and darkness has shrouded the lake. Now, fireflies appear in the sky.

As mentioned before, because the Ring World is at the edge of the Milky Way and the galaxies are relatively far apart, there are many places that are uninhabited. That is why all the magnificent scenery has been completely preserved.

At this moment, Zhang Yi suddenly signaled Ruby and the others to be quiet. They then saw something like glowing branches moving in the woods.

It was a huge male deer. Unlike ordinary deer, it was not only huge in size, but its antlers also emitted a faint green light in the dark, which looked extremely dreamy.

"What...is this?" Weiss walked gently behind Zhang Yi, looked at the male deer that was much bigger than their jeep, and asked.

"Some special creatures created because of some people's hobbies or for some reasons." Zhang Yi replied. "You should know that this world has very powerful biological transformation technology, so all kinds of strange creatures that appear on various planets may have been created because of this."

The huge stag slowly came to the lake, began to drink water and looked vigilantly in the direction of Ruby and others. Then, as if it noticed something, it began to walk slowly along the shore.

"What does it want to do here?" Weiss asked again nervously as she looked at the giant creature gradually approaching.

"He probably has no ill intentions. Maybe... he wants to pet the cat?"

"???"

Zhang Yi's answer stunned Black, a Funa man with a pair of cat ears. And then, just as he said, the huge male deer with a pair of glowing antlers came in front of her and began to sniff her scent.

[You are different from us] A voice suddenly came from the direction of the deer. [You are naturally produced]

"Oh my~ Can this thing speak with psychic power?" Zhang Yi said.

Zhang Yi's words made the huge creature look at him. Ruby and others could clearly see the disgust on his face.

【Filthy things...】

"Be polite, do you think I want to?"

[But, you smell like the knocking beast, and you are loved by the knocking beast]

【you...】

Halfway through his words, this huge fantasy creature suddenly raised its head and looked into the distance. The next moment, colorful spots of light appeared around it, and then its huge body was covered by these spots of light, and finally disappeared from the sight of Zhang Yi and others.

"Was it scared away by the uncle?" Ruby asked.

"Probably not, I guess..."

"Something bad is going to happen."

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What had just happened made Zhang Yi and others no longer want to stay here. The jeep took them out of the forest and headed towards the nearest neutral gathering place.

Interstellar empires, or united empires or something similar, these so-called dukes, viscounts and earls are mostly just rulers of a small area. As for how powerful the empire they speak of is, or whether such a huge empire exists, and whether he is really a noble of this so-called empire, it is all unknown - most of the time no one confirms this.

In this area far away from the prosperous central galaxy, it is difficult for different galaxies to communicate quickly, various materials are difficult to circulate, and similarly it is difficult for ships and soldiers to reach other galaxies.

This means that as long as you have a complete ship with a certain military nature, certain industrial supporting facilities, or some high-tech weapons and equipment that are difficult to produce in the current ring world area, then you are fully capable of dominating a galaxy and demanding tribute from small and medium-sized settlements in the galaxy.

Even in the game, without turning on the developer mode for adjustments, it takes a long time for ordinary colonists or castaways to select power armor and weapons that can effectively damage power armor (not considering headshots with wooden spears), and it also takes a lot of time and resources to manufacture these weapons and equipment.

In reality, most colonists and castaways cannot manufacture a series of advanced weapons and equipment such as power armor and pulse rifles with just time and sufficient resources like in the game. Most colonies do not have the production capacity, and they can only go to larger settlements to buy general weapons to defend their own settlements.

From this point, we can see that the royal power armor, ion swords and other weapons under the so-called earls and viscounts are so valuable that ordinary settlements may have never seen them, but they can equip their subordinates with these weapons on a large scale.

Zhang Yi's target, the neutral human settlement, is the most common small settlement in this star region. There are only a hundred people living here. Their defense force consists of only a few purchased small automatic rifle turrets, dozens of bolt-action rifles and a few automatic rifles. Hunters sometimes use bows and arrows when hunting.

Zhang Yi and others arrived here, and Ruby and others began to inform this neutral settlement of the arrival of the Human Empire.

For these middle and lower-level settlements, it has almost no impact on them who manages the planet or the entire galaxy, and who they need to pay tribute to - those super-large settlements with rulers, so-called earls and viscounts, do not care how these remote small and medium-sized settlements are doing, and the so-called tax collection troops usually do not come to these remote areas to collect taxes - the harvest from a trip may not even be enough to cover the travel expenses.

Most managers treat those remote settlements on the principle of voluntary contribution. After all, most of the settlements cannot provide them with many useful things, and the lack of a complete set of industrial and agricultural facilities also means that the "big cities" where they are located cannot support many people.

After learning about the actions of the Human Empire, the manager of this neutral settlement did not care. He just thanked Ruby and the others for informing them and warmly invited them to stay overnight - they did not care who the nominal ruler of the planet was, and most of the so-called rulers were unable to take care of all the settlements.

Apart from anything else, there are still hundreds of unregistered small and medium-sized settlements on the entire planet.

At this moment, in this settlement, the only long-distance communication device transmitted an order claiming to be from Count Gaza, the ruler of this planet, an unprecedented order.

[All neutral settlements near Bastan (the main large city controlled by Earl Gaza) immediately abandon their settlements and move towards Bastan. This is forced conscription.]

[Anyone who resists or disobeys orders will be regarded as an enemy and will be cleared out by the Royal Guards later. For those who obey orders, their settlements will be burned down later, leaving no supplies for the upcoming enemies.]

[This is an order! Everyone must obey, otherwise they will be regarded as enemies. The Royal Guards wearing royal power armor will annihilate all enemies without exception.]

If this were in the Warhammer world, this order would be normal. When resisting foreign attacks, no one can stay out of it. If major cities or important nodes are breached, what the survivors will face next may be more terrible than death.

But if it was this ring world, it would be shocking enough - how long has it been since a decent war was fought in this area?

The neutral settlement manager who received the news was also shocked. At the same time, he began to remain calm and glanced at Ruby and others out of the corner of his eye.

"This is a big trouble..."

504. The Expedition of the Human Empire (IV)

Regarding the names in the previous chapter, those two names were just something the author came up with on the spur of the moment and have nothing to do with reality (the author is terrible at naming).

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Count Gaza is the nominal ruler of Planet B04, famous for his tough and bloody methods.

He claimed to be a high-ranking noble of the so-called Interstellar Empire, with a small armed fleet capable of orbital bombardment, and a complete production line of power armor and supporting weapons.

This series of things have become the strength for him to consolidate his position and the guarantee of his current dominance.

But it is said that he is not satisfied with this. He wants to become a real imperial earl or even a powerful king in this area.

Therefore, he would not bow to anyone, would not allow anyone to stand over him, and would not allow anyone to disobey him.

It is also because Count Gaza does not like to instruct others, and he has spent a lot of time learning how to be a qualified leader, otherwise there would be more bloodshed on this planet.

The emergence of the Human Empire and their demands undoubtedly touched the reverse scale of Count Gaza, so he was willing to implement a "scorched earth policy" and fight to the end with the Human Empire, which might have powerful combat capabilities.

Even if the so-called human empire is just a silver spear and wax tip, the earl can use it to strengthen his rule and take this opportunity to bring more neutral settlements under his control.

If the Human Empire is really as powerful as they advertise, then Count Gaza will turn every inch of habitable land on this planet into scorched earth during the resistance, leaving these outsiders with nothing!

If I can't get it, no one else can get it!

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The administrator's declaration on Planet B04 caused changes to the original plan.

The expedition fleet sent out a high-speed fleet and set off here in advance. At the same time, with the help of Zhang Yi's portal, the Will [Midnight Lords] Space Marine team led by Curze has arrived at the ship docked on planet B04.