Chapter 952 An Unexpected Encounter

For Duanmu Huai, this scene was too familiar.

Accompanied by the collision of metal pipes and the sound of footsteps, monsters with alien-like heads and four arms jumped down from all directions. They opened their big mouths full of sharp teeth and let out blasphemous roars and curses—they are Genestealers, one of the most destructible aliens in the world.

Genestealers are one of the notorious units of the Tyranids, and are also the most troublesome and annoying infiltration units for players, because... this group of things is really omnipresent.

Moreover, they are extremely good at camouflage, and can even spend hundreds of years to gradually disperse into the crowd.

The existence of Genestealers is very strange. First of all, they appear in the form of insects, which is also the original primitive race form. Then these insects will take advantage of the night to go deep into human cities, capture human women, and give them the "kiss of death"—well, the reason is very simple, because the tongue of the Genestealer is the ovipositor.

That is, "get pregnant by kissing" in the real sense.

The first generation of gene stealers that human women give birth to after pregnancy is the first generation. Although most of this generation of gene stealers are still in the form of insects, they have gradually acquired a human-like appearance.

Then let the first generation capture human women again, and give them the "Kiss of Death" again, giving birth to the second and third generations. After the fourth generation, the offspring of gene stealers are almost indistinguishable from humans. Only pale skin, bald heads, and occasionally sharp teeth can barely show their true form.

Then things will become very scary.

The fourth generation of gene stealers can easily infiltrate any human department, and then completely break out the rebellion. In addition to a large number of gene stealers that mimic the same as humans, gene stealers will also evolve into various lords and elite units. Even if a well-trained Astartes team encounters them, it is inevitable that they will be completely wiped out.

After all, it is really difficult to tell whether it is an alien or a human who asks you for help.

Of course, if there is anything to say, it is that the Genestealers are the kind of rats that everyone shouts and beats, and even the evil god cult will not let them go.

The reason is simple. The Genestealers are part of the Tyranid swarm. Perhaps after a long period of reproduction, they have forgotten their original origins, but the swarm's spiritual network is still with them. This makes all the Genestealers do the first thing after awakening to find a way to contact the swarm and summon the Tyranid swarm to their world. In the hearts of the Genestealers, this is their final destination.

Well, then they were eaten by the descending swarm.

It is precisely because of this that the Genestealer cult believes in the Terra Swarm, not the Chaos Evil God, and the Chaos Evil God cannot get the power they want from the Genestealers. The meaning of the existence of the Tyranid swarm is to eat everything, no matter what you don't let go. For the Chaos Evil God, only when life exists can they get enough soul nutrients. If they are all eaten by you, then we will starve to death, right?

Therefore, the Tyranids and Chaos Gods are naturally incompatible.

Of course, if it falls into the hands of players, since it is not certain whether there is one or a million Genestealers on this planet, the best way is to directly issue an extermination order.

After all, you can't be sure whether the refugees who escaped are Genestealers? What if they run to another planet and start spreading the kiss of death everywhere?

In Duanmu Huai's opinion, if there are Genestealers in the space wreck in front of him, then the reason for the destruction of this warship is very clear. It is obvious that the lower level of this warship may have been infiltrated and replaced by Genestealers. A standard configuration of a moon-class warship is about 100,000 crew members, most of whom are lower-level crew members. And ordinary captains and senior officers will not care about the slaves under the warship, so once the entire lower-level crew is replaced by Genestealers, and then rebel, the warship will be directly overturned.

Judging from the unlucky look of this warship, maybe when it was crossing the subspace, the Genestealers rioted and attacked the commander and senior officers of this ship, and then——then they were at a loss.

The Tyranids are still very powerful in the real world, but they don’t enter the subspace.

So these Genestealers are equivalent to finding that they can’t contact their parents after the battle, and then they can only drift pitifully with this waste ship in the subspace.

After all, even the evil gods don’t want Genestealers.

And the reason why Duanmu Huai is sure is that these Genestealers have now developed atavism characteristics, which means that this group of hybrids have nowhere to find humans, and can only hybrids and hybrids breed and then create pure-blooded Genestealers...

Forget it, no matter what, just kill it!

Duanmu Huai raised the warhammer, and the thunder entangled and exploded on the warhammer, and then smashed it hard. At the moment when Duanmu Huai smashed the warhammer, lightning scattered and turned into countless light snakes that almost illuminated the entire factory. The lightning bolts were like poisonous snakes, biting at the Genestealers coming from all directions. Anyone who was touched by the lightning bolts would instantly turn into a pile of charcoal.

Ogis sat steadily on Duanmu Huai's shoulders as always, with her arms open. The invisible silk threads formed an indestructible protective barrier. Any gene stealer who dared to rush over would be cut into pieces like ham.

Mary and Medea on the other side were just playing soy sauce. After Duanmu Huai's roaring thunder bombardment, they had nothing to do. They could only shoot or send a few beams to show their presence.

The gene stealers kept rushing forward, being smashed, rushing again, being smashed, and again...

The entire warship became silent again.

"What happened?"

Mary held the gun in her hand and looked around in confusion. There were lightning and thunder just now, and monsters kept coming. How come they disappeared in the blink of an eye?

"Seeing that the idea was difficult, I retreated and thought of other ways."

Duanmu Huai sneered. Although the gene stealers were bugs, they were thinking bugs. They not only thought, but also set traps to lure the enemy deep into the depths, and then use the advantage of manpower to defeat them one by one.

Of course, all tricks are meaningless in the face of absolute power.

But since there is a thief here... well...

Duanmu Huai thought for a while, and then contacted Ecot.

"Ecot, destroy the back half of this ship, and keep the front half."

"Yes, uncle."

"——————!"

Soon, the sound of fierce gunfire sounded, and the entire space wreck began to tremble slightly. On the contrary, Duanmu Huai was relieved.

"Fortunately, there is no oiler from the Mechanicus, otherwise it would be a real trouble."

"Oiler?"

"A group of garbage collectors who want to pick up everything they see."

In the game, the Inquisitor represented by the player often clashes with the Oiler of the Mechanicus, and many times it is because of similar things.

As an Inquisitor, the player received a piece of intelligence stating that a blasphemous space wreck appeared in the territory and asked how to deal with it.

Then what? For the player, it must be blown up directly with a cannon!

However, the oil man was unwilling to do so. According to him, there might be some sacred relics of Omnissiah on these space hulks, and they had to go aboard to investigate. If you don't let me go, we won't play with you anymore!

This made the players very unhappy, and the result was that they had to enter the space hulk together, and then encountered a bunch of strange things, and then--if they were lucky, they could come back, but if they were unlucky, they would be wiped out.

So the players hated the oil man the most. I could solve all my problems with one shot, but you insisted on making it more difficult for me!

After all, no one knew what was in the space hulk, gene stealers, mutants who believed in evil gods, unclear subspace creatures, and maybe even chaos demons...

If there was an oil man here, he would definitely try his best to stop Duanmu Huai from destroying the precious treasures of the space hulk, but unfortunately Duanmu Huai didn't have an oil man under his command, so no one could say anything about him. Besides, for Duanmu Huai, the real treasure should not be destroyed even by the macro cannon. If it can be blown into pieces at will, how can it be considered a treasure?

For him, this is how to deal with the space wreck, just blow it to pieces, and then look for anything floating in the starry sky. If it can survive, it must be a good thing.

"Okay, let's move on."

With most of the space wreck blown up, the original microgravity gradually disappeared. I don't know if it was because Ekot's artillery destroyed the reactor or hit the gravity generator, but the gravity in the warship was gradually decreasing. Duanmu Huai turned on the magnetic device and walked in the passage step by step.

Then he saw a faint light in the passage next to him.

Maybe they are hiding here?

Just when Duanmu Huai was about to turn around, Mary suddenly spoke.

"Mr. Duanmu? What are you going to do?"

"I plan to go to the fork in the road here."

"Fork in the road?"

Mary stretched her head out and looked ahead carefully.

"There is no fork in the road here, Mr. Duanmu, there is only one road ahead."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai was stunned for a moment, and then he looked again---as expected, there was only a cold steel wall over there just now, and there was no intersection at all.

"………………Okay, it seems that I still have to rely on you to show me the way."

In the space wreck, illusions are everywhere. Every steel plate and every space here are stained with the evil and curse of the subspace. To make an analogy, it is like this battleship has fallen into nuclear sewage. There is no clean place on the body, and it is emitting radiation everywhere.

Fortunately, Mary is still there.

In the eyes of Duanmu Huai, Ogis and others, the passage of this ship seems to be changing all the time. The previous second there was a staircase in front, and the next second it became a fork in the road. But under the gaze of Mary's golden eyes, these illusions seemed to have never existed. They went forward all the way, and then came to the end of the corridor.

There is only one open elevator door here, and of course there is no elevator inside. But Duanmu Huai didn't care about this. He stepped in, walked on the wall, and continued to move upwards - then, Duanmu Huai suddenly stopped.

He looked at the auspicious instrument, then gestured to Mary and Ogis, nodded to Medea, and then silently changed direction and aimed at a nearby wall. The auspicious instrument showed that there was a life signal response behind this wall, and there was more than one.

Duanmu Huai clenched his fist, pointed at the wall, and then swung it hard!

"Boom!!"

The iron wall exploded, and Duanmu Huai strode in. Then only a few gunshots were heard, and then the bullets hit Duanmu Huai's armor and bounced off, and then a familiar voice sounded.

"Hey, stop, stop! It's one of us!"

Duanmu Huai reached out and fanned the dust in front of him, only to see Brother Shepard holding a sniper rifle and standing behind several boxes. This seemed to be a warehouse, and behind several other boxes, there were several Star Alliance soldiers hiding. It seemed that they had already regarded this place as their temporary base.

"Your Excellency the Inquisitor, I didn't expect to see you here."

"Your sister asked me to come. It seems that your caution saved you."

"It's not just caution. In fact, we met a helper."

"Helper?"

Duanmu Huai frowned, while Shepard's brother nodded and waved to the side. Then, Duanmu Huai saw a woman wearing black armor, with a thin body, thin hands and feet, and a face like a shoe horn with pointed ears coming out from the side.

The moment he saw it, Duanmu Huai tightened the hammer in his hand. At the same time, after seeing the sky eagle and skull logo on Duanmu Huai's chest, the woman was also stunned.

"Despicable heretic bastard!"

Duanmu Huai roared and raised the hammer and smashed it towards the woman. The latter was faster. It was seen that it almost dodged and hid behind Shepard's brother, and at the same time took out a dagger and pressed it against Shepard's brother's throat.

For a while, both sides stopped.