Chapter 54: Let the Flame Evolve Everything
The first to land at Haven was not the soldiers of the Expeditionary Force but the Vikings of the Rangers, who became generous with the Expeditionary Force as allies after receiving a lot of funding.
From time to time, Swan gave Renault some new big toys, and most importantly, they were fitted with more Waaaagh gadgets, such as heavy assault guns and hot-melt missiles mounted on the Ranger Vikings.
The Expeditionary Force's assault guns are much larger than the Grimm machine guns in terms of caliber and power, as well as hot-melt missiles, which emit ultra-high temperatures as long as they explode, which are suitable for dealing with carbon-based creatures.
A team of Viking fighters quickly passed through the area infested by the phage and threw all the hot melt missiles in the cabin, and the missile's active seeker immediately locked onto the phage, which was constantly spewing venom, and then plunged headlong.
Boom, the fusion warhead detonated instantly, and the high temperature generated directly vaporized the phage and the surrounding viruses, and the high temperature of nearly 6,000 degrees Celsius made the area hit by the hot melt bomb a forbidden place for all life.
And this scene is repeating itself on Haven, the area infected by the phage is completely hopeless, and only fire can save those infected humans.
The areas where there are still survivors are left to the Space Marines and Ranger Marines, and the Thunderhawk gunboats or medical transports are loaded with the hermetically sealed warriors to these areas, and the uninfected refugees are returned to the transport ships in orbit.
"No, it's too inefficient, Thor, let the warriors on the surface set up a safe zone and land the transport ship directly."
Seeing the rescue work of the rangers, Horus frowned, if it continued at this efficiency, I am afraid that only tens of thousands of people can be rescued, and there are hundreds of thousands of Agril refugees on this planet, Horus must not allow this kind of thing to happen.
With Horus's intervention, the entire rescue operation became efficient, and the Space Marines from the Iron Warriors set up temporary defensive positions in several open areas on Haven for the transport ships to take off and land, and although the Iron Warriors were small in number and they had to deal with tens of thousands of mutants, they were still confident that they could keep all of them out.
"Even the Fist of the Empire can't build this position better in a short period of time," said the Iron Warrior Company Commander, who was in charge of directing the defense
Of course, the difficulties of the rescue work are far more than that, in addition to rescuing the survivors from the infected area, it is more important to identify the hidden infected people, as long as the hidden infected people enter the evacuation boat, then all the work will be lost.
"I think my think tanks can help."
Ignis walked up to Horus and said, "I studied the infected up close, and found that all infected beings had a special psychic fluctuation, and based on this, the think tanks could identify all those infected with the swarm virus. ”
Hearing Ignis's words, Thor finally breathed a sigh of relief, since the rescue work began for half a day, he had been worried about this matter, unable to screen out the infected, unable to let other refugees evacuate, and now there is finally a solution.
As long as the Think Tank stands at the gate and opens its psionic sense, all the lurking infected will have nothing to hide, and the infected who are screened can only be purified by the flames, and the Ranger's fire bats will take care of this.
Despite the smooth progress of the rescue and decontamination efforts, Dr. Ariel remained in the lab for several days until the rescue was almost over, when Renault, who was really worried about the Doctor, decided to go and see Dr. Ariel.
After standing in front of the experiment door and knocking to no avail, and a strange movement came from behind the door, Renault decided to force the door.
As the doors of the lab opened, Renaud finally saw Dr. Ariel, who hadn't been seen in a few days, now lying curled up next to the lab console, her expression contorted with pain, completely unrecognizable to the gentleness and beauty of the past.
To make matters worse, her white lab coat showed obvious signs of mutated limbs, which was already in the middle of the infection.
Renault gripped his Shattered Star Revolver tightly and approached Ariel, but it became more painful as he got closer.
"Oh, kill me." With a violent gasp, Ariel used the only remaining lychee to make Renault kill herself.
Looking at the infected doctor in front of him, Renaud gritted his teeth and raised his pistol, but just as he was about to shoot, Ignis stopped him by Ignis who appeared at the door at some point.
"Wait, Renault, I think I can save her life." Ignis stretched out his hand, and the powerful psionic energy directly covered Ariel's body, and as the power of the Chief Think Tank took effect on the Doctor, the mutation on Ariel's body was visibly contained and fell into a deep sleep.
After making sure nothing had happened, Ignis approached Ariel and picked her up.
"The mutation in her body is temporarily suppressed, but I need further research to solve the problem of infection." Ignis said to Renault.
Looking at this scene, Renault was amazed, "What a miracle, as far as I know, this twisted mutation is completely irrepressible, how did you do it?" ”
Hearing Renault's question, Ignis was silent for a moment, and then said, "This is the secret of a thousand sons. ”
After speaking, the chief think tank left with the person in his arms in his arms.
This episode did not affect the work of the expeditionary force at all, and with the last transport ship leaving the surface, Hywin was completely infested with viruses. and the purgatory of mutants.
"What are we going to do next?" Soltawitz asked.
"Burn this planet completely, just use up the spear this time, don't waste the atmosphere and burn the torpedo."
"Your will." Thor nodded, and then began to coordinate the fleet to carry out the "sanitizing work"
Signaled by the heavy spear turret fire on the Angel's Tears, the expeditionary force's fleet began to glass-burn the surface of Haven, falling on the surface with thick beams of light and igniting everything around it, whether mutants or phagophants, to become part of the crystallized surface.
"It's all over, and the navigator has put us on behalf of Haven." With an order, the fleet began to move in an orderly manner, ready to act according to the predetermined plan.
The expeditionary force's rescue on Haven lasted a total of 12 days, and a total of 230,000 refugees left the planet unharmed, but at the same time, nearly 400,000 people remained on the planet forever.
This is already the best that the expeditionary force can do, and the flames will consume all impurity and bring new life to the rest.