++ Think of the day: The clumsy will not move. ++

"There is no way to link the Ponderor Network, and it is impossible to investigate the specifics of this lab." The mechanical priest, who has always had a thin presence, uses his prosthetic eye to scan the mechanical skeleton emblem of the Cult of the Mechanicus in the ruins. The guy in the red cloak made of fireproof cloth had a servo skull hovering beside him, which looked unusually tall even when he was hunched over, and two servo robotic arms poked out of his hunchback, these two hydraulic robotic arms could be used as combat tools, although the reaction was a little clumsy, but as long as he exerted his full strength, even the armor of heavy combat vehicles could be destroyed.

"According to the Inquisition, there was a laboratory here about 1,200 years ago. The level of secrecy is not high, but due to geological movements, this underground laboratory is buried in the rock formation. Subsequent...... Well. According to Emperor Tarot's divination, there are only death and demons left here. ”

The Inquisitor closed his terminal.

The group stood at the entrance to the ruins of the lab, which had been dug up by the Tyranid Hive, which seemed to be in the center of the entire underground network node, like a wide underground plaza surrounded by caves of all kinds.

They never encountered another Zerg attack along the way, and just like that, they emerged from one of the ordinary holes. The ground of the square was still covered with a large amount of slime and arthropod crawls, but it was now empty. Several large pits on the ground seem to take the shape of abandoned digesters, and the entrance to the cleared passage of the experimental base is half-buried in the rock wall, and the geological movement seems to have flattened the steel passage, which has been dug through the rock layer by the Zerg's digging insects and beasts.

There is no other way to go. There are only two options to enter this base and turn around and fight to the death with the Zerg. Their current state really doesn't have the strength to deal with the Zerg's tidal attack. Even if Su Jing alone might be able to kill seven in and seven out in the sea of insects, but the other party has a leader-level zerg of the same level, and he can't protect the safety of the inquisitor team in this situation.

"They cut us off." Mary pressed her temples. Whispered in pain. Except for the most powerful psyker in the entire empire, Teclis, the chief think tank of the Ultramarines, no psyker dared to risk burning his brain to try to decipher the will of the hive, and the sniper only relied on the detection of life energy to judge the movements of the zerg.

"They deliberately forced us here." Su Jing's sense in this regard is also quite keen, he can smell the strong pheromones in the air, there were still a large number of Zerg gathered here ten minutes ago-and a considerable number of them are quite powerful elite Zerg, the kind of elite that can be comparable to the Star Marine.

Now they just broke into the pocket array laid by the Zerg all the way, as long as the Tyranid Zerg wanted to. The earth on the soles of your feet, the rocks on your heads, and the rocks that seem to be solid...... Tyranid soldiers can appear in every direction. If it's in a vast plain, even in a dense rainforest, they have the potential to kill the Tyranid node creatures through decapitation tactics. Upon the death of the leader, the Hive army will collapse immediately. But in the labyrinth of underground caves...... The terrain couldn't have been worse.

The black-haired commissar was crouching at the entrance, carefully discerning the graffiti on the walls and the bones on the ground. His face was very ugly, as if he had been reminded of some bad memories.

"Followers of Slaanesh, look at the hymns on it. It seems that they are worshipping a man named ...... Let me see how this is spelled...... Many...... Dolmin's Saanesh Demon. Well. Oddly enough, this noun doesn't seem to describe demons, but rather ...... Cultists. Why does a cultist use such a high standard of praise? It seems that at least it is the treatment of mid-level demons. ”

"This is the Lab of the Mechanica. A mechanical priest who has been lured into depravity by Chaos. It's rare, but it's not impossible, but it's ...... Slaanesh? For what kind of sorcerer will be seduced by Slaanesh? The Inquisitor frowned.

"The backlash of asceticism?" Su Jing interjected.

"Unlikely." The mechanical priest retorted in a cold, flat electronic voice, "The flesh is weak, but the machine lives on. Sensuality is an unnecessary murmur for all of us. Transcending the mortal body and transforming into a body of steel, most of the Martial Arts Priests looked forward to this. ”

"In short. There is little chance that a man who does not believe in the triumph of steel over flesh will become a mechanic. Space Wolf Da Lang smiled and said, "I don't believe in the mechanical gods. I guess I can't even run the machine. ”

"The wit favors the pious." Mechanical Priest said. In the Cult of the Mechanica, in order to achieve complete rationality, there is even a rather radical technique that completely removes the right brain, which is in charge of emotions, and replaces it with a new one. However, even in the Cult of the Mechanica, which is extremely rational and highly reverent, there are very few people who can go for this kind of transformation surgery.

"Anyway, let's go check it out first." Su Jing's force is also a first-class powerhouse in the realistic plane of this universe, and he is a natural person who is bold, and he walked into the ruins first. The rest of the members lined up in a tight queue as if they were walking into the maws of an underground beast.

Mugwort. Inquisitor Progaste walked at the very back of the line. As she entered the abandoned base, she glanced back as if by sense, and at the other end of the square, the tall, hideous figure of the Lord of the Swarm was half-buried in the darkness, and her green compound eyes glittered in the shadows like jewels.

The Inquisitor stared at the two compound eyes for a few seconds, but did not say anything. He just turned his head and continued to follow the group, his face never changing.

The air in the abandoned experimental base was very dull, as if it had detected the entry of living beings, and the lighting system was turned on suddenly, and the cold light illuminated the passage cold. Su Jing walked at the front, judging the degree of air use with his respiratory organs. More than 1,000 years into burial, oxygen levels are still around the average atmospheric level – about 3% lower than normal air oxygen levels. Although the air can be used, the long-term closure still gives the uncirculated indoor air a rotten feeling.

Su Jing took a few breaths hard, using his extraordinary sense of smell to analyze the molecular composition of the air.

"There are no abnormal germs, and the Zerg spores are close to zero. Can breathe directly. ”

The Tyranids aren't just claw-wielding, spike-wielding combatants. In many encounters with the Tyranids, the opposing side will attack the human forces in a very three-dimensional and comprehensive manner. Including virus weapons that can infect and kill you, even the most brave warriors will vomit out all their internal organs because of the virus.

The black-haired commissar took off his gas mask. He looked around at the blasphemous symbols and some of the distinctly mutated bones, and frowned in disgust. Some of the bones that hadn't yet decayed looked like they had a few extra hands. Others have a few more holes in their skulls that look like eyes...... All the mutations have a twisted, indulgent undertone. It's as if these mutations never follow any laws, but are free to distort trillions of years of evolution.

"Filthy bastards." The martial space wolf despised these sorcery the most, and Yarrow crushed a skull with two pairs of small horns with one kick, and cut the eight-pointed star symbol on the wall in half with another axe.

The sound of metal colliding spread far away in the empty corridor, and Su Jing was not angry at this reckless move, the echo of the emptiness formed a concise three-dimensional map in his ears, although there were still many places that were a little blurry. But it was enough for him to use.

"If I can find the cockpit, I can link to the system here. Query the local logging here. The mechanical priest dragged his red robe through the passage, his prosthetic eye scanning all the way. It seems that he is immersed in the exploration of the ancient monuments of a thousand years ago, and the calm and steady priest of the technique now seems to be much more excited.

"Maybe it's an occupational disease." Commissar Tang En walked behind Su Jing and teased with a slight ease, "Venerable priests are always very fanatical when it comes to discovering ancient technology. Hey. Maybe some precious STC fragments can be unearthed. ”

"Unlikely." The inquisitor calmly retorted. "A mere relic from 1,200 years ago, a laboratory buried by geological tremors, if there were really valuable STC techniques buried underground, it would have been dug up by the Empire long ago...... Besides, all the discovered STCs have backups on Mars, how can they ......"

Su Jing turned his head slightly to look at the side face of the inquisitor, with his understanding of this worldly realm, the inquisitor was the class that held the highest secret of the empire. But Progast's knowledge of the Cult of the Mechanicus seemed unusually profound, and the tone in which she spoke was unmistakable...... It's like I've been on Mars before.

Maybe it is.

Su Jing didn't bother to mind her business. The crowd walked through the empty passages of the base. Mary picked up the laser rifle left on the ground and tried to shoot it at the wall. The high-energy laser burns a red dot on the wall. It can still be used after thousands of years. The military products produced in the world are indeed durable.

Seeing Mary's actions, although everyone was not short of weapons, they still began to collect some ammunition batteries that seemed to be working from the pile of wreckage on the ground.

The deeper you go, the more visible the traces of the battle. The more exaggerated the stacking of corpses. At the back of the road, it seems that both sides of the attack and defense began to pile up the corpses of the dead to form bunkers, and the dense pits in the walls can be seen from the fierce fighting at that time. The group had to climb through various artificial bunkers and find a way through the blown passage - the Tyranids had already done most of the hard work before, so the process was not very difficult.

“…… It's here. ”

The road was unusually calm, and everyone came to the main control room. It seems to have been a fairly fierce battle, with the walls of steel blown away, revealing the long-withered pipes and wiring inside.

The Space Wolf stood guard at the door, and the rest of the people stepped into the main control room. It was unusually large and neat, with little to nothing but a cyborg skeleton lying on the ground...... It looks like someone has emptied this place.

The mechanical priest almost couldn't wait to pounce on the main control system, the wet part system was long dead, but the priest seemed to have another way to look up the information. More than a dozen pipes popped up from the bottom of his robe and connected to the system platform, and with a hum of starting, the entire system began to flash its various indicator lights, and as the flickering of the instrument gradually relaxed, the mechanical priest also sank into the reading of the information with full attention. The eyes of the servo skull floating beside him also began to flicker, as if the priest was uploading system logs into the skull.

At this moment, Su Jing was wandering around the main control room, and the judge was standing in front of a large instrument frowning and pondering. He leaned in and asked:

"What is this?"

“…… Static stasis force field. ”

The black-haired commissar had been observing the traces of the Tyranid along the way, and he noticed that one of the particularly deep nicks extended all the way to the stasis force field.

"That's how they got in...... And then walked away without doing anything? ”

"It's not that I didn't do anything." The Inquisitor took off his gloves and stroked a knife mark on the energy system next to him with his pale and slender fingers, this deep knife mark was very sharp, and just by looking at it, he could feel the unrivaled pure power and speed of the moment when he swung the knife.

"They...... Something was put out. ”

Su Jing smiled and bared his teeth.

"And this thing hasn't gone yet." (To be continued......)