Chapter 286 The Primarch Rises: What to Expect on the Lower Deck?

The flashing red warning light flashed in the dark space. The cold decks, unknown huge buildings, and piles of material boxes were illuminated by the flashing red lights. As the lights kept crossing their surfaces, the harsh sound of steel friction came from behind the door.

With the roar of gears and lifting cables, a dull and steady landing sound, and hydraulic gas spraying out of the gap on the lower side of the door, the steel door under the warning red light slowly opened to both sides, and the pale cold light shot out from the gap between the doors. As the door was fully opened, it completely illuminated the space outside the door.

The warning light set off the cold white light with red. A man walked out in the incandescent light. He was wearing a black jacket, with a grenade launcher and a phoenix sword on his waist. The silver patches on his boots clicked with his footsteps, and he was holding a bottle of champagne in his hand? .

Vito walked out of the elevator. He stood in the cold white light and looked at everything around him. The dark space was still turbid as if it was covered with a layer of grease, making it completely difficult to see what was inside. Only the general outline was vague within the limit of what the human eye could observe, like a shadow.

The elevator door behind Vito began to close again. As the iron door closed, the pale white light gradually became thinner. Vito looked at the ominous darkness surrounding him very calmly. As the heavy closed door creaked and slowly closed, Vito's lips held the straw in the glass.

Vito took a few sips of the wine in the glass, and the door behind him was completely closed. As the explosion-proof door of the elevator was completely closed, all the light disappeared until it disappeared completely.

When the last ray of light went out, Vito walked with a champagne glass in his hand, and his boots inlaid with silver armor plates clanged on the hard ground of the lower deck.

Vito looked around at the dark space around him. Everything here was shrouded in a layer of turbid darkness. Only the corridor lights that appeared after walking a certain distance could illuminate a little area, and the rest of the space was completely shrouded in darkness.

Vito's footsteps echoed between the surrounding containers. Those long-forgotten boxes were silent in the deepest darkness. Decades? Or hundreds of years? Vito didn't know. After all, when he took over the ship, it had already left the starport and served in the Imperial Navy for many years.

There is an unwritten consensus in the Imperial Navy. The older and longer the warship has been in service, the more popular and trusted it is, because it means that the ship is more reliable and powerful, and its machine soul and all parts have experienced the test of time.

Captains like this kind of ship, and sailors also like to be on this kind of lucky ship. They believe that it is the Emperor himself who blesses this kind of ship to cross the dark galaxy and dangerous subspace storms, and its luck will also bless others on this ship.

But many people also forget one thing at the same time. The older the warship is, the more dark and forgotten it is. Those places are like the dark alleys in every city. In them, there are some things that people fear. It is the same here.

Vito stopped and squinted his eyes slightly, looking at a shadow on the ground in the dark corridor in front of him. That thing looked big and it was lying in the middle of the road.

Vito subconsciously pressed the handle of the Phoenix sword on his waist. He looked at the thing carefully and found that it was lying completely motionless in the middle of the road. Vito raised his eyebrows slightly and then walked up slowly.

He gradually approached the thing from the hazy darkness. Vito walked in front of the thing that fell on the ground. He gently snapped his fingers with his right hand, and a golden lightning flashed between Vito's fingers in an instant. Those golden arcs collided and intersected with each other, and finally formed a small lightning sphere.

As the lightning ball formed, the golden electric light quickly illuminated the thing on the ground. Vito looked at the deformed creature on the ground.

It looked like a hybrid of a mantis insect and a wild wolf. Its head, which was completely disproportionate to its body, collapsed on the ground, and a tongue covered with saliva hung between its cracked teeth.

The spine seemed to have a few more vertebrae than a normal canine, but its body structure was obviously unable to support the disproportionate body, making the spine twisted and hunched.

But the most eye-catching thing was not its unreasonable body structure, but its forelimbs. It was not a claw, but a pair of hands, a pair of human hands sticking out from the black mane, which looked like someone wearing a rough doll suit.

But Vito knew that there was no one inside, and if there was, it would have been smashed into a pulp. Vito looked at the flesh and blood that was completely sewn together with the fur. The abdominal cavity of this thing was torn apart by something, which directly penetrated its thick fur and exploded in its abdomen, and its intestines, internal organs and sternum were all blown into a pile of mixed mud.

Vito looked at the hole in the beast, and his head suddenly turned because of a strange sound. He glanced slightly at the darkness behind him. Something was approaching in the darkness where you couldn't see your hand in front of you.

The sound of footsteps moving on the cold deck sounded like a human. Vito listened to the footsteps approaching, the panting sound like a human, and the words.

"Sir, are you alone?" the male voice said. Vito tilted his head slightly to look in the direction of the voice, and his peripheral vision scanned the darkness where the voice came from.

"It's dangerous around here, sir. There are wild beasts roaming around. We will protect you and leave." The voice was getting closer and closer, and the clattering footsteps were becoming more and more human-like. The tone, tone and sentences were all like a person, but Vito knew one thing. Cole didn't send anyone down here to patrol. Secondly, the people on this ship would not call him sir.

"Yes, thank you for your reminder. Now I know where those wild beasts are." Vito said, and his palm was gently raised. The finger slid down from the butt of the grenade gun, and the index finger gently pressed on the trigger.

"Beast? Now, I don't understand what you are talking about. We are the only ones around here."

"Yes, because you are them." Vito said as he pulled out the grenade launcher. He raised the grenade launcher with a cowboy-like movement. The dark muzzle instantly pointed at the darkness behind him. He pulled the trigger with his finger downward. With the crisp sound of the trigger hitting, bright fire instantly shot out from the muzzle.

A rotating bomb whistled through the darkness and hit the thing in the darkness. As the fire from the bomb exploded, the explosion illuminated the "man", the hunched and upright wolf that spoke human language.

The bomb instantly lit up everything around, illuminating the monsters following the beast. Those beasts had no claws or terrifying fangs, but each of them held a weapon, a human weapon made of scrap steel. The moment the short flash illuminated them, the human-shaped beasts ran up from the darkness.

Vito stood beside the fallen beast's body. He threw the ball of lightning at his head. The flash of the ball illuminated the ground around Vito, and soon the gunfire from the grenade launcher would make the light brighter.

The roaring bombs whistled into the darkness, and the beasts that rushed in with scrap metal weapons were shot in the head one by one. Their terrifying cries mixed with the roars of wild wolves and humans echoed in the darkness, and pairs of human-like feet stepped on the steel ground and rushed towards Vito.

Vito quickly turned the muzzle of the gun and shot at the beasts. He stood under the electric light of the lightning ball and raised his long arms. His footsteps kept shooting as his arms turned. The shining fire repeatedly illuminated Vito's face and the anthropomorphic monsters around him.

They all looked human to varying degrees. The beasts that were closest to human form were almost the same as humans. Except for the few hairs on their skins and their slender arms, they were completely indistinguishable from the real ones.

But no matter how much they resembled humans, they could not fool Vito. The only response they could get was a bolter, which instantly pierced the beast's human face and exploded, and the shattered skull sprayed brains on the surrounding ground.

Vito walked backwards, his arms facing the entire side and rear in a fan shape and firing continuously. The heavy recoil of the bolter was transmitted through his right arm to the champagne in Vito's left hand. The calm surface of the wine continued to ripple under the roar of the bolter.

Vito's eyes calmly aimed at the muzzle sight, and the sight with a flashing green indicator kept aiming at a human beast. As Vito's fingers pressed, the bolter would turn them into smoking rotten meat falling to the ground with the emperor's wrath.

The gleaming firelight illuminated Vito's face. His eyes were fixed on the front, but behind him, a beast suddenly rushed out from the darkness. The monster crawled on all fours and rushed up quickly. It roared and stabbed the scrap metal blade in its hand at the back of Vito's head.

But Vito in front of it suddenly turned around quickly. He seemed to have known that the beast would rush over. Vito let go of the grenade launcher in his hand. As the gun fell, he grasped the Phoenix Blade, then pulled it out and slashed it with a sword. The blade flashing with a blazing light instantly cut off the whole body of the beast from the shoulder to the waist.

The beast's body fell to the ground with a bang. He screamed in a human voice, and the voice was imitated very vividly, but it would not bring any mercy to it.

Vito turned the hilt of the sword in his hand and stabbed it through its head. The skull was pierced and shattered almost instantly. The part of the creature's brain that might be the brain was also instantly scorched by the hot blade.

Vito drew out the Phoenix Sword. As steam billowed out of the creature's skull, Vito had already wielded the Phoenix Sword with one arm to kill more beasts that rushed in from the darkness around him.

His arm wielded the Phoenix Sword. The blazing sword flashing with fire was attached to his arm. With each swing, it turned in a large circle nimbly. The arc of death cut off a pair of arms and torsos. Screams echoed in Vito's ears one after another, the screams of humans.

He wielded the Phoenix Sword with one arm, and his footsteps were in tacit cooperation with the blade. The fighting skills seemed to be engraved in his instinct. Every swing and turn of his seemed to be an instinct, and this instinct allowed him to kill beasts in the most accurate way.

That's right, one arm, Vito was holding champagne, the water was placed steadily in the glass, no matter how fierce the battle was, not even a drop of wine was spilled.

Vito held the glass and slashed the neck of a beast beside him with a backhanded sword. The blade cut through its trachea, and a huge amount of blood gushed out from the gap instantly.

At this time, a beast rushed over from the side. It was very fast. The beast rushed over in an instant when Vito cut off the head of one of its own kind. This cunning beast planned to stab the scrap metal blade into Vito's neck while Vito's blade turned forward.

It obviously knew that was the weakness of humans. It was a cunning and cruel beast, but it made a mistake, a fatal mistake. The man standing in front of it was not an ordinary human.

Vito's reaction nerve arc reacted instantly at an extremely amazing speed. He leaned back and dodged the stabbing scrap metal blade. Vito looked at the gray mane arm whistling in front of him, holding the wrist of the Phoenix Sword and turning it upwards. The hot blade instantly cut off the entire right forearm of the beast.

"Ah!!! Emperor! It hurts, it hurts!" It screamed and covered its bleeding broken arm and roared. Vito stood up and looked at the beast with his eyebrows raised in surprise.

"It's really interesting, an alien is calling for the Emperor." Vito said as he chopped off its head with a backhanded sword. Vito held the Phoenix Sword and looked at the beasts emerging from the darkness in front of him. They roared and rushed from the shadows. The scrap iron blades flashed cold light under the ball lightning above Vito's head.

Vito smiled and looked at the beasts in front of him. He suddenly poured the wine in his hand over his head. The champagne liquid rushed into the sky from the mouth of the glass, and Vito also threw the glass to one side at the same time. As the glass slipped out of his hand, Vito took the Phoenix Sword from his right hand. His toes gently lifted the ground and lifted the grenade launcher on the ground.

Vito grabbed the flying grenade launcher and swung his hand to aim the muzzle at the beast rushing in front of him. He looked at the roaring humanoid face of the beast and was about to pull the trigger.

But suddenly the beast's head exploded, blown up by a bolter. Vito looked behind him in surprise, and saw a yellow-armored Space Marine walking out of the shadows. He held a bolter pistol in one arm and fired at the beasts in front of Vito. The fierce gunfire instantly smashed several beasts.

Next to the yellow-armored Space Marine, a blue-armored Ultramarines stepped out. He held up the bolter in his hand, locked his eyes with the gun body baseline in a straight line, and pulled the trigger. The bolter instantly fired the sniper-like exquisite gunfire at the beasts.

The heads and bodies of the beasts exploded into smoking pieces of meat. The Ultramarines' exquisite gun skills were like the scythe of the god of death in the dark, but soon the real death scythe appeared.

A Space Marine in cyan armor rushed past the Ultramarines and the Imperial Fists in yellow armor. He rushed past Vito with a chainsaw sword in hand. The tall giant rushed to a beast. The moment the beast looked at the giant with human eyes, the roaring chainsaw sword swung down.

The beast's face was shattered by the chainsaw, and the whole body was cut in half by the sword blade. The Space Marine did not stop. He almost instantly slashed the next blow. The roaring chainsaw instantly cut the shoulder of the next beast. The beast screamed and looked at his broken shoulder, and then the entire clavicle was shattered and cut off.

Vito smiled, inserted the Phoenix Sword into the scabbard, and then stretched out his hand to catch the falling wine glass just right. The flying wine also fell perfectly into the glass, without even a drop of excess liquid spilling on the ground.

The blue-armored warrior raised his chainsaw sword, and the scarlet eye glass on his helmet stared at the beasts in front of him like the god of death. The chainsaw whizzed down and killed another beast, and its body turned into rotten meat under the heavy blow.

The remaining beasts collapsed completely. They screamed in human voices and turned to flee into the darkness. They rolled and crawled away from the tall god of death. The blue-armored Space Marine stood up with the chainsaw sword and prepared to chase him, but was shot in the knee by Vito with the grenade launcher in his hand.

He looked down at Vito beside him. The latter smiled and gently raised his finger and waved forward. The ball of lightning rushed up instantly. The ball whizzed to the top of the fleeing beasts, and then exploded instantly. Countless lightning swallowed half of the corridor in an instant. The whistling lightning flashed quickly between the beasts, and all the beasts were burned from the inside out under the bombardment of lightning.

Vito watched the beasts all fall to the ground, crashing into each other like overturned bowling pins, and he drank the champagne in his hand with satisfaction.

"It looks like you guys are having a lot of fun down there." Vito smiled and turned his head to look at the captain of the Imperial Fists who was walking behind him. The latter was holding a chainsaw sword in one hand and a grenade launcher in the other. Eisenstein put the grenade launcher back into the holster and took off his helmet.

"Marshal." Eisenstein said and stopped in front of Vito. He nodded to Vito as always, and Vito nodded to him with a smile.

"It seems that even though you didn't attend the banquet, you have found something to do." Vito shook the wine glass and then savored the rich aroma of the wine. What could be more pleasant than having a glass of good wine after a battle with a large number of aliens?

"You could have used your psychic lightning to kill them all at the beginning, Marshal, why did you have to fight these beasts in close combat?" Bell took off his helmet and stood behind Eisenstein, shaking his head, and his short golden hair on top of his head also shook.

"I just had a meal, I need to digest it." Vito looked at Loken who also took off his helmet, and nodded to the last captain of the Luna Wolf, who also nodded to Vito.

Vito savored the aroma of the wine on his tongue, then put down his glass and turned to look at the corpse of the beast lying on the ground. The thing was emitting wisps of steam, and the broken and rotten meat was like a defective product thrown away by Mario's kitchen.

"Tell me, what are these ghosts?"

"We believe they snuck up along the exhaust pipes when the Rogue Trader's Mayflower docked alongside us for repairs."

Eisenstein said, pointing his chain sword at the corpses on the side, "We initially speculate that they are some kind of alien alien, something the Empire has never come into contact with."

"Well, indeed, aliens who can speak human language and simulate human appearance, these Rogue Traders running around the universe can really bring surprises to people, although most of the time they are the kind that people don't want."

Vito took a sip of wine. When Rogue Traders travel around the universe, they always bring with them some strange aliens that humans have never come into contact with, or viruses, plagues, etc. of some kind. God knows where they are. How many more of these are hidden in the lower decks?

Their shipboard guards are unable to clean the bottom deck. They can only seal and disinfect it after each docking, using nerve gas and other "insecticides" to clean the bottom deck. As for normal times, they can only pray that the bottom deck is tightly sealed. .

So if you find a Rogue Trader's space hulk in space, you'd better be honest and don't get too curious and think about picking up some treasures. Otherwise, I wish you good luck.

"So what are these things?"

Vito asked. He looked at Eisenstein, who nodded to Bell. The Ultramarine Pharmacist walked out from behind Eisenstein and came to Vito. He pressed it gently from his belt and popped it out. A small reagent jar. He handed the reagent to Vito, who took it and looked at the blood and flesh slice samples stored in it.

"Did you get it from those beasts?"

"Yes, I tried to analyze the cerebral cortex samples I cut from them, but they only contained part of human genes. The equipment on my power armor has limited computing power and cannot conduct further analysis, but I believe that Omega must have a way to figure out what these monsters are."

Vito looked at the reagent and nodded. He shrugged slightly and put it in his arms, "What about you? What are you going to do?"

"Completely eliminate the threat here. We cannot return to Terra with these aliens, and we must not let them pollute the throne world!" Eisenstein clenched his fists and said sternly.

"As expected, then, I wish you a happy hunting." Vito smiled and nodded slightly, then walked towards the elevator. He raised his wine glass and shook it at the edge of darkness in the distance.

"If you are hungry, the banquet is still open, especially Loken. Your favorite Owen steak is there." Vito said, disappearing into the shadows with laughter, Loken looked at the The direction pursed his lips with his tongue, then turned to look at Eisenstein behind him. The latter put on his helmet without saying a word, then turned around and walked into the darkness with his chain sword.

"Come on, guys, we've got work to do."

Loken and Bell looked at each other and smiled bitterly, then put on their respective helmets and stepped into the shadow.