Chapter 37: The Sacrifice

Gurt leads the Stinger Squad's Space Marines as they navigate the inside of the transport.

Reaching the fork of a pipeline, Gurt pulls out a tactical slab.

On the screen, several small green dots are constantly approaching the transport ship from all directions, and this is the arrival of the extreme fighters of other squads.

As the first team to break into the interior of the transport, Goult maintained plenty of caution and patience.

The team searched the interior of the transport ship in a tactical formation, and Gurt occasionally raised his hand to confirm that the signal on the tactical board was stable.

In particular, the signal of the transmitted coordinates is stable.

Fortunately, from the feedback received from the cruiser, there was no problem with the transmission, and the Sosalan was ready to send the fighters back to the battleship.

Fu Jinghai was in the center of the line, and as the team marched, he felt a little strange.

The Abomination Worm is a transport, and it doesn't need as many servants and crew to maneuver.

But there are too few of them.

Unlike the fortifications and formations that the Wai Men had built improvised on the terrain outside the ship, the Stinger team had not encountered any resistance inside the transport, and the enemy seemed to have placed their defenses on the periphery of the transport.

The entire defensive circle on the surface has turned into three hollow buns with thick skin and small fillings.

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At this time, inside another transport ship, the main control room.

Unlike the hustle and bustle of gunfire outside, it was unusually quiet, and Claufa sat in his seat and thought quietly.

A warrior of the Whisperers, whose armor was stained with blood, walked in, took off his helmet, got down on one knee, and said:

"My lord, all the Ultramarines have broken through our outer defenses."

"Great, it's time to start planning for the next step." Claufa tapped his fingers on the armrest of the chair and said with satisfaction.

The Whisperer, who was kneeling on the ground, hesitated and asked:

"Your Excellency...... Are we really going to sacrifice all of them? ”

"Huh?" Claufa's yellow eyes sharpened suddenly, "Are you questioning my decision, DeWitt?" ”

"No, it's not...... The Whisperer warrior who knelt on one knee was a little panicked, he quickly denied it, quietly raised his head to look at Clofa's face, and said cautiously:

"These are the sacrifices that Lord Ari Bass has appointed to request, and if we sacrifice them here, I'm afraid...... I'm worried about the ...... of Lord Ari Bass."

DeWitt said and said, and then stopped talking.

"Hmph." Claufa snorted coldly, "Do you think I don't know the purpose of these sacrifices? ”

Claufa's voice deepened, "Listen, Devit, I don't care what you had to do with Ari Bass, I'm the commander of this transport fleet. ”

"Yes, yes...... My lord. Devit hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to look into Clofa's eyes

"That's right, I know that these sacrifices are what the Terra front desperately needs, so now I ask you to use your rigid head and think about how we can fight the Ultramarines with our meagre strength and three transports without cannons, spears and torpedoes without these sacrifices? If the Ultramarines intercept them, or if we are stranded on this damn planet with these three transports, for Lord Eri Bass in the solar system...... Is there a difference!? ”

When he said the last sentence, Claufa was almost roaring.

"No, there's no difference...... DeWitt lowered his head.

Looking at the obedient Devitt in front of him, Clova snorted coldly, stood up, paced back and forth a few steps, and asked:

"Is the altar functioning properly?"

"The technocrats of the Dark Mechanics are staring, everything is normal."

"Are the sacrifices ready?"

"Ready, sir."

"Hmm......" Claufa, pacing back and forth, touched his chin and thought, and made another decision:

"You bring the psyker who can block the teleportation of witchcraft to the main control room, and the other psionics and mutants are sent to the ambush point. By the way, you can sift through the weaker and useless guys, and sacrifice them as well. ”

"Yes, sir." DeWitt replied dryly, got up and took the order.

As Devit walked out of the hatch of the main control room, Claufa's deep voice came from behind him:

"Remember, DeWitt, regardless of whether the solar system is considered the front line of the battle or not, for us, where the enemies of the four gods exist, it is the front line!"

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Hiroshi Tateshita stayed in a cabin with many reincarnators.

Traitors are the ones who are most likely to suspect betrayal, and the traitor legions don't fully trust this group of psykers and mutants who run to the door and claim to be believers in the Four Gods.

Although they were in the same transport ship, they were not allowed to move around freely.

The sound of battle as the Ultramarines burst into the interior of the transport ship was already faintly heard, and some of the weaker reincarnators had begun to tremble.

At this moment, the hatch opened, and DeWitt, covered in blood, led several Whisperer warriors into the cabin with the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke that had just returned from the battlefield.

Two or three reincarnators hurriedly stood up and looked at Devit with flattery, like dogs waiting for their master's orders.

Devitt's cold goggles looked around, and a voice came from the loudspeaker in the neck armor:

"You, you, and you, follow him to the ambush point."

DeWitt raised his hand and hit several reincarnators.

Among them was the woman in black who carried a cloth wrapped around a stick.

Several men got up and followed one of the Whisperer warriors out of the hatch.

"You, go to Master Clofa's main control room."

DeWitt pointed at Hiroshi Tateshita.

Hiroshi Tateshita hurriedly got up and followed a Whisperer warrior out.

"The rest, follow me." With that, DeWitt turned and walked out of the cabin.

The rest of the reincarnators looked at each other and hesitantly followed Devit out of the hatch.

And the brown-red bearded Belensky and the hunchbacked masked woman were among the remainders.

The bearded Belensky did not forget to cling to his metal jar wherever he went, and the hunchbacked woman quietly followed him.

Several reincarnators followed Devit, walking in the dark corridor, the miserable white lights above their heads flickering indistinctly, reflecting the tall backs of the Space Marines in front of them.

Walking and walking.

"No, Belensky, it's not right!" The hunchbacked masked woman suddenly grabbed the bearded middle-aged man and said in Polish in a low voice.

Belensky stopped, turned his head and asked:

"Huh? What's wrong, what's wrong? ”

The hunched masked woman slowly slowed down, and her vigilant eyes under the veil looked directly at the leading Whisperer Star Marines in front of her, and said:

"I don't know, but my gut tells me it's wrong."

She turned her protruding head from side to side, and her mouth made a "hissing" inhalation.

"The smell of blood is getting stronger, and we are walking towards a place where the smell of blood is strong." The hunchbacked woman leaned into Belensky's ear and whispered.

Belensky was stunned, and for a moment he didn't know whether to continue walking.

The hunchbacked masked woman, on the other hand, looked around very shrewdly, and before DeWitt turned to check the situation, she grabbed Belensky's hand and burrowed headlong into a hole in a nearby pipe.

Belensky was pulled by the hunchbacked woman and stumbled into the narrow pipe, lying on the wall of the pipe.

The hunchbacked woman was strangely on all fours, running forward with agility and speed like an animal, not forgetting to turn back and shout:

"Get up, run, Belensky, run!"

The bearded man, who was already an ordinary person, hurriedly got up, holding his long metal can in one hand, kneeling on the ground and crawling forward with his hands and feet.

And DeWitt, who turned to check the situation behind him, happened to see the scene of the hunchbacked woman pulling the bearded man into the hole in the pipe.

A whisperer next to him, a Space Marine, saw the same, and he immediately pulled out his blaster and asked:

"Sir?"

DeWitt raised his hand and pressed the subordinate who was about to pass, stood still and said:

"Let them go, the sacrifice matters, don't waste time on these two people."

As mentioned earlier, the passages and pipes inside a spaceship are very intricate, and many narrow places can only accommodate machine servants, slaves, and mortals lying on their stomachs, and they cannot enter at all with the size of a space marine.

Now that some of the Ultramarines have hit the inside of the transport ship, instead of wasting time and manpower searching for two inconsequential ordinary people, it is better to hurry up and get down to business.

The subordinate nodded, and he retreated to the end of the line, and the two men continued to walk forward with the reincarnators one after the other.

The sudden change made the rest of the reincarnators look at each other, and they didn't know why these two people suddenly ran away, but they always felt that it would not be a good thing.

But under the front and rear of the two heavily armed Astartes, everyone had no choice but to continue to walk forward silently.

And the bearded middle-aged scholar and the hunchbacked masked woman disappeared into the deep labyrinth of pipes of the transport ship.

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