Chapter 142: If You Can Come Earlier
"No thanks." Foros crouched down and looked at the girl, "What's your name?" ”
"Tessa." The girl replied.
Foros nodded, "Okay Tessa, we'll try our best to keep those terrible monsters out, but you have to take care of yourself and your sister and don't fall behind." ”
"I see." Tessa nodded vigorously, a smile appearing on her little face, which had regained some blood.
After a short rest, the group had to move on.
The front and back doors of the corridor have been blocked, but there is still a secret door on the wall, and Foros is familiar with opening the secret door and leading everyone to continue shuttling in another corridor.
The whole underground city is like a labyrinth, and after a few steps you will come across a fork in the road, and there are no signs on the fork in the road, but Foros always leads everyone to the right way, and even not only rushes, but also searches all the rooms where there may be survivors.
In addition to having Foros as a guide, it was a good thing that there were no plague walking corpses coming to attack, and they were probably isolated in the hallway.
"Captain Foros, you seem to be familiar with this place?" The Praetorian Guard walked up to Foros and asked.
"I lived in a similar city when I was a kid." Foros looked around, "This kind of underground city is like an oversized dormitory built underground, and I suspect that a similar city was a large military barracks facility a long, long time ago. ”
Hearing this, the Praetorian Guard looked around and felt that it was really like what Foros said.
Although the surrounding environment has been corroded by time, and the walls in the hallway are covered with patches, it is clear that this is a barracks-like structure.
"There's an underground factory in the Tyrone Nest World, and it seems to be a factory for building giant war machines."
"And it's like a barracks......"
The Praetorian frowned and thought about it, feeling that the two places seemed to be connected.
Soon the howls from the plague walking corpses interrupted the Praetorian guard's musings, and more and more walking corpses poured out from all directions like a tidal wave.
Despite the protection of eleven imperial angels and one janissaline, the civilians present were still trembling with fear, but the girl named Tessa clenched the dagger in fear, but the dagger used by Astarte was too heavy for her to maintain a lifting posture, but this dagger did give her a sense of security.
"Go ahead, I'm on top here!" The Praetorian Guards shouted to the crowd and rushed in the opposite direction of the route and the most walking corpses.
Foros wanted to stop him, but he and his men opened fire on the walking corpses in front of him to clear the way, and took the time to look back at the Praetorian Guard.
The Praetorian Guards were overwhelmed by the corpses, and there were even walking corpses under the floors and in the ventilation ducts, but the walking corpses could not rush to the Praetorian Guards, as they were instantly crushed as soon as they entered the gravitational shield's area of effect.
On a normal battlefield, the enemy would not besiege the Praetorian Guard, but the walking dead have no fear.
"Come all here!" The Praetorian Guard raised his hands and shot the walking corpses in pieces, while his shoulder cannon spun around and fired a beam of the guards to vaporize the slime that some of the walking corpses had spewed.
Eventually, the Praetorian slammed through the wall, attracting the walking corpses to another route.
Foros turned his head and continued to focus on the battle, leading his men to fight their way forward, while also searching the nearby rooms as before.
……
The entire rescue operation lasted four days and four nights.
The civilians were not as strong as Astarte, so Foros led his men to clear a safe area and leave them all behind, while he continued to advance and search the underground city, but never encountered more civilians.
Until two o'clock in the morning on the fifth day, Foross still found nothing, and met the person he wanted to see most now - the Praetorian Guard, who had restrained a large number of walking corpses for everyone.
The Praetorian Guard walked through the corridor opposite, not bloodstained at all, except for the shrapnel laser weapons on his hands that were slightly deformed from the constant firing.
"There are no more people alive here." The Praetorian Guard walked past Foross and turned off the gravity shield at the same time.
"I don't think we should ......"
"I have footage of the battles I've been searching every area of the city these days, please check if what I'm saying is true."
The Praetorian played the footage of the battles of the past and took off his visor and handed it to Foros, signaling that he could check if what he said was true.
Foros believed in the Praetorian Guard, and he was just a little hard to accept.
There are at least billions of people in a world like the one today, but less than one in 10 million people are rescued by themselves.
Foros felt a sense of powerlessness, like the same powerlessness he felt decades ago when he watched his flagship destroyed by the Minotaur Warband.
"You are an angel, not a god." The Praetorian Guard patted Foros on the shoulder and comforted him, "At least you have saved more than two hundred people, and these two hundred or so will pass on the story of the Emperor's Angel who came down from the sky to save everyone. ”
Hearing this, Foros was silent for a while before responding: "The Imperial Angel descended from the sky and saved more than two hundred people on a planet with billions of people, is this glory or shame?" ”
"Is it possible that you are not here to save billions of people, but to save the last two hundred people in a world where there is no need for help?" The Praetorian said as he quickened his pace.
Foros quickened his pace, and the two of them returned to Astarte and the civilians together.
Ten well-supplied Astartes would have had an easy time protecting a group of civilians, who could only hear gunfire and howls for days, but could not see the walking corpses.
When Foros rushed back, people were imagining what life would be like after safety.
Tessa and her sister are embraced by a very kind Anglican priestess.
"We might go to the surrounding galaxies to continue our existence."
"But I can't watch your sisters live on the streets anyway, and I have two people to take care of from today. May the Emperor bless us. ”
Sister Tessa seems to know the priestess, and the other civilians are also very kind to this priestess, and it can be seen that she has a lot of prestige and has done a lot of good things for these commoners.
"You're probably going to Tyrone, hurry up and pack your things and get your family out of this hellish place." The Praetorian Guard walked up to the crowd and urged them, "It must be the God's Emperor who blesses you, so that you have the opportunity to bask in the mercy and bounty of the Lord of Tyrone. Hurry up guys. ”
The people happily packed their things and took their families with them, and left the underground city and returned to the surface of the planet under the escort of Astarte and the Praetorian Guards.
After the Praetorian Guard called the transport planes, the battleship that had completed the reconnaissance mission and docked in orbit immediately dispatched ten transport planes.
The planes passed through the atmosphere and descended over the people's location, where they gradually landed under the hopeful and joyful gaze of civilians.
"Your Excellency...... It's your ......"
Foros heard someone talking to him, and he looked in the direction from which the voice came from and saw that it was Tessa holding the dagger in both hands and trying to return the weapon.
"Thank you for keeping it." Foros squatted down and took the dagger that gave the girl a lot of security, and then stood up and thanked the priestess, "Thank you for taking care of them, thank you very much." ”
"Yes, we should thank you for your help." "I'm not a very rich man, but I'll make sure to give them everything I can." ”
"Thank you." Foros returns the favor.
The transport plane landed on the ground.
Everyone entered the cabin after the hatch opened, soldiers in power armor armed with laser rifles patrolled the cabin, and a white drone began to scan everyone's flesh one by one to confirm that they were not infected by the plague.
Foros stared nervously at Tessa as the drone stopped in front of her and released a green scanning beam.
If the plague is detected in the girl's body...... Foros could not have imagined the consequences.
But luckily, the drone flew in front of Tessa and her sister to scan the next person.
Foros breathed a sigh of relief at this, but in the blink of an eye, the drone stopped next to the priestess and sounded an alarm.
The soldiers immediately ran up to the priestess and motioned for her to walk to a metal compartment in the corner of the cabin.
"The plague isn't incurable, but you'll have to stay in there, sorry." Said a soldier.
The priest reacted from his daze, nodded flatly, stroked Sister Tessa with a blessing gesture, and then calmly walked to the cubicle.
The Praetorian Guard looked at Foros helplessly: "Maybe the Governor will come up with a more powerful medicine." ”
"If ......," Foros gritted his teeth, "if you didn't need to worry about the dangers of war that shouldn't exist, and if those bastards who see everyone as a heretic could get out sooner, then our fleet wouldn't have to be in a system for a possible enemy, and we would have been here sooner." ”
The Praetorian Guard was silent and didn't know what to say, until the Governor was appointed Governor today, the entire Tyrone fleet would have to wait for a pessimistic but sound strategy, and could only do its best to defend Tyrone.
"Send me to another world in this galaxy." Foros said in the communication channel.
This was passed to the captain, who immediately responded: "We don't need to go, because the second world in this galaxy has been destroyed." ”
Hearing this, Foros immediately walked to the porthole of the cabin.
The transport plane had already flown out of the atmosphere and was getting closer to the cruiser, and at this time it was possible to see another world orbiting the stars.
The world is already green.
"I've been ordered to head to the next galaxy, and someone else will clean up this big." The captain said.
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