The Death Guard, who did not receive a response from Rust, briefly anchored in subspace, but received another faint distress signal compared to Just's slow response.

After identifying the dynamically encrypted signal as using the ciphertext of the Mechanics, Master Forge Hades was able to decipher the signals and follow them to find its source, a small Mechanic ship that was close to shattering.

The boat drifted silently in the turbulence of the subspace, this was not a ship specially designed for subspace navigation at all, the Geiger force field on it was close to nothing, it was obvious that it was an emergency entry into the subspace, and through the spray paint on it, the death guard judged that it was a ship from Just.

The task of retrieving the ship and its characters was tasked with, and considering that the Mechanic ship could be contaminated by subspace, the Death Guard sent a team led by Hades-

That's not right.

Hades stood silently on the deck of the small ship, which showed obvious signs of contamination due to the lack of necessary subspace protection.

Generally speaking, if you enter subspace without protection, if you are lucky, you will be fine, and if you are unlucky. With the crew mad and the ship with a long mouth, the subspace will bring out the deepest fears of humanity's nightmares, driving any sapient creature into madness.

So Hades was actually ready to see a shipload of twisted creatures, but—

The ship's corruption is clearly tendentious.

Swarms of flies crowded the deck, buzzing, pus oozing from the gaps between the sampans, smoothing the ground, shiny colored particles piling up on the walls of metal, rust gnawing at every nook and cranny of the ship, the dim and rough bumps wriggling like some kind of living slime fungus, steel turning into dirty particles like dirt as they crawled.

Hades was silent, this is a clear trace of Nurgle, is it too late to run now?

And what the hell is this good fight Ran Dan?

Could it be that the space of this subspace is close to the realm of Nurgle? Again, it was just a coincidence, but when Death Ward and Nurgle were in the same area at the same time, it couldn't be too careful.

The vivid image was faithfully transmitted back to the command room aboard the Stoic by the airwaves, and Mortarian watched the swarm of flies in silence, the original body breathed hard, and raised his hand to signal Garo to put all the Death Guards on alert, and the Geiger field of the Death Guards was turned up to the maximum, and at the same time ready to forcibly jump out of subspace at any time.

Hades, act according to your own judgment, and be ready to retreat if you sense danger. 】

Standing on the edge of the ship's deck, Hades silently crouched down and swiped his hand across the already fertile floor, the thick moss breathing on the rust, exuding a beautiful and dangerous green, but where Hades brushed, these lives instantly withered, revealing the original deck below, the metal was gone, replaced by a thick layer of rust.

Now that they are still in the subspace, Hades is not sure of the consequences of using the massive black domain here now, and it is likely that when these subspace phenomena disappear, he will also be thrown out of the subspace.

Well. But now that the main fleet of Death Guardians is still anchored in subspace, the only news they have about the Straight system is the ship where Hades is located, and if nothing else, the Death Guard can only choose to forcibly open the Mandeville point in Straight and continue the Empire's orders, or disobey the orders to return to the previous system.

But if there is no valid reason, it is not a good choice to directly disobey the order and retreat, at least there must be a reason, but you can't directly use Nurgle to tell the lion king Ryan that the death guard will not fight, right?

Hades looked at the moss on the ground, and after briefly feeling the subspace power here, Hades got up and began to deploy.

It can be explored that the subspace aura here is not enough to support large-scale psionic creatures and summoning circles on the ground.

[You can try it first.] 】

Hades replied.

The ship was too small for the knights to enter, so Hades deployed a ghost knight on the deck near the Death Guard landing ship to weaken the subspace forces near the landing ship, at least to ensure the feasibility of retreat, and then Hades called out a dozen veterans and entered the depths of the ship with him.

If you experience any mental discomfort, including auditory and visual hallucinations, you must report it to me immediately. 】

The veterans replied to Hades seriously, and they also realized the unusual nature of this mission, the picture in the nightmare, and the Hades who suddenly became serious, they all knew that this mission had encountered unexpected changes.

But the good news was that as they walked together through the corrosive ground and the crew lounge infested with humanoid fungus, they encountered no enemies except the flies that flew in the humid air, and the fungi that seemed to be breathing.

Hades took a deep breath and clenched the obituary, and the unusual image of no enemies made him even more alarmed.

The ship was small, and Hades and the others made it to the deepest corner of the ship, where they found the source of the signal.

Fungus, rust, and moss crawled all over the room, and the dense moths of flies were like scales on the wall, and the fungus was densely piled up in the corner of the room, and the scarlet cloth that had been soaked in the viscous liquid and faded could be seen in the fat roots of the fungus, and the traces of the drying up of the fungus were splashed on the wall.

The signal came from that "fungal pile".

After making sure there were no other threats or ambushes in the room, Hades strode over, poured the Black Domain into the obituary, and carefully and quickly cleaned up the mushrooms on the surface—a tattered explorer appeared in front of them, fungus bursting out of his belly full of parts, and red and blue wires comically wound around the mushrooms.

He was dead, and Hades, as a master foundry, could easily tell that this foundry had died of an electrical disturbance that had been disconnected by himself, in other words, he had committed suicide.

What the hell is going on, could it be that the lost New Star system has been invaded by Nurgle's forces? But now is the time node of Ran Dan, is it too early for a large-scale invasion of the four gods in the physical world at this time?

Hades frowned unconsciously, scrutinizing the explorer, hoping to get as many clues as he could.

Got it.

On the Explorer's current recorder, Hades saw traces of the Mechaman's common ciphertext, which had been hidden deeply, and the Explorer used these small unnatural tremors to record the message he hoped to convey.

Through the recording of radio waves, the explorer also tried to send this information out at the same time, but the frenzied fungus growth prevented the attack, leaving the explorer to send only the simplest distress signal.

If you compare it to a normal human, it can be said that this person controls his heartbeat and transmits information with his own electrocardiogram.

Bizarre and ingenious behavior, the kind of bizarre behavior that only Mechonists can do, but also makes them miserable enough, and the erratic current will make them involuntarily tremble, vomit, lose their intelligence, and finally struggle to watch their engines burn out and perish.

What exactly did he have to pass on after enduring such pain? Hades frowned and began to disassemble the information in the waveforms.

[First Mine Star Explorer 08.]

fungus, pain.

The Lust system, the alien Memanic attack, is about to fall.

Request for reinforcements, reinforcements, reinforcements, Just, large planetary furnace, request for reinforcements.

Memanic, large fleet, three types of aliens, weak psionic ability, Mandeville Point, unblocked. 2.3，4.3，5.7.

Escape, subspace, seek reinforcements.

Reinforcements, fungi, reinforcements.

Attacked, attacked, fungus, green, white, space marine.

fungus, pain, reinforcements, I don't want to die, bacteria, pain, pain, pain.

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts.

Just asks for reinforcements!!

】

The dense reinforcements and fungus twined together and became the explorer's last words, and until the last moment, he was still trying to call reinforcements for the model, and the recorder was lined up with records of forcibly mobilizing signal transmitters.

Hades took a deep breath and mourned for the explorer in his heart, "May the soul return to the god of all machines", and at the same time he opened the communication channel,

[Unconfirmed news, Ready was attacked by the weak psionic alien Memanik fleet and was about to fall. 】

[Also,]

Hades looked unkind, and he lowered his voice, [In the explorer's last words, it was mentioned that he saw the white-green space marine. 】

Motarian on the other end of the channel was shocked and stood there in disbelief.

[Hades, retreat now.] 】

Motarian's voice came from the other end of the channel unmistakably, everything was too weird, and he didn't want anything to go wrong now.

Hades found a hidden database on the ship based on the numbers in the explorer's last words, which contained maps and battle conditions of the Just system, as well as information about Memanic.

After making sure that no other information was missing, Hades and his party chose to evacuate immediately, and Hades used the obituary to bring sleep to the few fungal piles that were still breathing, perhaps they were just machine servants, and Hades did not want to think about their identities.

After Hades' ship left, the main fleet of the Death Guard couldn't wait to saturate the ship, and the Pale Lord was eager to let the ship disappear outright.

The sudden and strange scene once again plunged the fleet of the Death Guard into a long silence, and the subspace could not stay for a long time, but advance or retreat? The urging from the First Legion also arrived at the Death Guard at this moment.

According to the last words of the explorer, they only encountered the Nurgle force after entering the subspace, so does this mean that there is no subspace force in the physical universe, after all, it is still very difficult for the subspace force to penetrate the physical universe

- Or is Nurgle's eyes fixed on this?

Nurgle has been circling them like a fucking fly, and Hades wants to curse today, and he was in a good mood to fight the aliens, but the devil knows why the dirty thing found itself.

Yes, code!

(End of chapter)