Chapter 384: Expedition Road: New Troubles
Kloreo had just been appointed as the captain of the guard team of the pirate base. This was a good job. He didn't have to risk going to the physical universe to fight those barbaric and backward races. He didn't have to face those human tin cans. Kloreo had heard the rumors about the Astartes. The brothers who came back from the physical universe told him.
The speed of the Astartes was much faster than those ordinary humans who were slow to death. It was almost close to the reaction speed of the Eldar. Every time they encountered those guys called Space Marines by humans, the predators would suffer heavy losses. Even if they could bring back the goods, they would have to leave behind the bodies of many unlucky guys.
So Kloreo was very happy that he didn't have to be the unlucky guy who fell on those primate monkey planets. He only needed to lead the team here, stand guard and patrol with a little wine. Occasionally, he could go to the detention area to see the newly captured slaves and maybe find some fun.
Although the salary is not as good as those guys who go to galaxy to plunder, Kroreo prefers to live and spend money to enjoy, so he is very satisfied with his current job until today.
Today, Kroreop walked out of the bar as usual, holding a bottle of wine in one hand and holding his pants with the other hand. He was originally enjoying the wonderful night that was about to come today, and he was going to play another round or something, but soon he heard an explosion around him. When he was about to run away and find a place to hide until the crisis was over, he was pulled over by the passing captain.
Captain Kararius ordered him to be here, with the young Eldar who had just been recruited from Gomor, to surround the entrance square of the star port. To be honest, Kroreop didn't want to lead these blind soldiers and generals at all. These young people probably just came out of the Haemonculus culture tube not long ago, and their brains are not very useful. Their main job on weekdays is to find fun and make trouble everywhere in the base. Kroreop doesn't mind playing with them, but leading them to hold the position? Forget it.
But obviously, it was not up to him. After Captain Keralis put the muzzle of the gun against his forehead and persuaded him "with affection", Krorip reluctantly agreed and took this group of young idiots and some of those stupid alien mercenaries to hold their positions here.
Krorip was very nervous at first, because he heard that the attackers were Astartes, those terrible warriors that he could hear about every time he drank. When he first heard about them, Krorip had already started to think about how to escape, but soon he heard from the communication that those guys had no weapons.
That's good. Krorip immediately decided to stay and take his men here to block the Astartes and humans who rushed over. Although these idiots under his men were not reliable at all, it was not difficult for them to shoot all their firepower into a narrow alley under Krorip's roar.
So when the Astartes and the humans appeared, Krorip happily began to suppress the enemy with firepower. He listened to the news on the radio that the two wings had surrounded him. He happily sat on a chair in the square, drinking a drink and looking at the box that was hit by the firepower. He didn't need to do anything. He just lay there and let his men continue to shoot into the box. Then maybe he could get a commendation or reward. Or maybe not. Krorip didn't care. He only cared about whether he could get away from here as soon as possible and have a good time before the night was over.
At first, it was true. Krorip lay on a chair, drinking a drink and singing, waiting to finish work and get off work, but soon with a burst of gunfire, he knew that he would probably have to work overtime tonight, or retire permanently, a permanent retirement in biology.
When the greenskins howled and rushed into the square, the young idiots under Krorip could not stop them at all. The fire suppression and waiting for reinforcements that could be solved with a flick of the finger turned into a bloody close-range melee and meat-chopping battle, and it was with those melee barbarians who were best in the whole galaxy.
So when the first gunshot rang out, Krorip fell off the chair and quickly hid behind the stone steps behind the fountain. Now he was sticking his head out from the edge and peeking out, looking at the bloody square.
The violent greenskins howled and rushed into the square. Their burly bodies collapsed in an instant, slaughtering the entire edge of the square, waving those machetes and broken guns with bullets flying everywhere and rushed into the center of the square, leaving blood everywhere and their roars.
Oh, and bullets. Of course, stray bullets from the random start were also flying all over the square, randomly harvesting the lives of the unlucky people. Krorip was lucky. A bullet whizzed over and only hit the main statue of the fountain next to his ear, and in the blink of an eye, the statue became a hole.
In the flying debris and wreckage, Krorip squatted back. He quickly pulled out the communicator on his waist and yelled at the intercom, "Hey, hey, hey! People on the side, what have you been doing?! Have you been drinking and fishing?! We need support, immediately!"
Krorip shrank his head suddenly, and a bomb whizzed over his head. He crawled to the edge of the fountain stone pier and peeked out, looking at the Astartes rushing into the edge of the square. The White Scar warriors rushed into the square with orcs' bolt guns and chainsaw swords, and started shooting in the blink of an eye. Their accuracy was much better than that of the greenskins, and every shot meant a piece of blood and flesh flying.
Behind him, more humans filed into the square. Mortal warriors rushed out from behind the Astartes with guns in hand and shouts. They almost started shooting with guns, using fierce and superb marksmanship. Shoot the newcomers in the square who were in chaos.
The fallen newcomer dropped his weapon on the ground, allowing the humans without guns to have weapons. Immediately, the firepower ratio between the two sides was reversed, and the Eldar became the suppressed party, and very quickly. A party that will soon be eliminated.
"Those Astartes, humans, didn't you say that they would never cooperate with other aliens here?! Who said that! They obviously cooperate very happily! Damn it!"
Crorip cursed in his heart. He cursed the guy in the bar with the most vicious curses, telling himself that human beings were stubborn and would never cooperate with any race other than their own. He really hoped that that guy The idiot is here too, take a good look to see if this is the case, and then be shot to pieces by those Astartes!
But now, he might be the one who was destroyed for that idiot. Crorip cursed angrily and sat up, leaning against the fountain with his head shrunk to avoid the fire. He shouted into the intercom at the top of his lungs, "You idiots." , where are you hiding? Captain Claris asked us to hold our ground! If you lose it, you will be fed to the twisted abomination!"
Crorip shouted loudly, shouting to the intercom amidst the chaos of gunfire and screams around him. He was eagerly looking forward to what sound came out of it, telling him that reinforcements were coming, and the intercom did. There was a voice, which didn't keep Crorip waiting for long, but the voice over there didn't make him feel any joy at all.
The other side of the communication channel was the same as the situation around him. There were gunshots and screams. The only exception was the shouts of the greenskins in the background and the voices of humans shouting for the emperor. It was replaced by the roar of a beast and the scraping sound of claws running across the ground.
"What's going on over there?!" Crorip shouted at the top of his lungs, and the answer came from a panicked man after a burst of screams and a series of panicked shots.
"We were attacked by Tyranids! Damn it! Why are the bugs here?! And that big guy, damn it! Stepp shoots! Kill that flying parrot!"
The man shouted, but Stepp in the background did not answer him with gunshots, but a scream. The scream was also mixed with the sound of broken bones, countless rubbing claws and jaws. There were toothy things surrounding it, and it kept rubbing the ground with its claws, making a rustling sound.
"Fuck! You can only hope for your own good, idiot!" the person on the other end of the intercom yelled. Crorip looked at the intercom in surprise, suddenly lifted it up, and yelled into the microphone in a panic, "You're asking for a lot of ghosts! Those Gemo idiots are about to be killed! I need support, any kind will do!"
"I said, you have to get away you bugs! Get away! Ahhhhhhhh!" On the other side of the intercom, the voice suddenly stopped. There was a rush of fire, and a burst of claws rubbing against each other. In the sound of bones breaking, all sounds were covered by the rustling of the insect swarm.
"Damn it!" Krorip yelled, and he punched the edge of the ground where he was sitting. He was in a very bad mood, and there was no part that could be called pleasant at all. Tonight was considered a smash, and He might have to smash himself too.
But unlike Crorip, the man standing at the edge of the fountain behind him seemed to be in a good mood. His deep laughter attracted Crorip's attention. He looked up and first saw the man standing by the fountain. He was wearing silver armored boots, and when he looked up, he saw the burning phoenix Ji'an hanging down, and then when he looked up, he saw the palms with golden lightning beating.
The man looked at himself with a smile, and the lightning in his hand rotated around his arm. He smiled at Crorip and nodded politely, "Good evening." "Ah, shit."
Crorip showed a helpless expression. As soon as he finished speaking, his head was suddenly exploded by lightning. The golden lightning instantly pierced his face, and in the blink of an eye, the lightning shot into it spread out to all sides, blasting the The head exploded alive.
The broken skull fragments stuck to the fuzzy brain, smeared on the stone pillars of the fountain, and also on the man's boots. The latter used the Phoenix Sword to fiddle with the disgusting stains on the boots in disgust. Sweep the slime off his boots.
"It seems that the situation over there with Pony is not bad, that kid is still so reliable." Vito said, slowly raising his head, and calmly raised a hand to shoot out a bolt of lightning, instantly throwing the flying bird into the air. A snake man came up and was beaten to ashes.
The body of the snake man instantly collapsed and exploded into a large piece of powder, which splashed forward and sprinkled on Vito's shoulders. The latter patted his shoulders and raised his golden eyes with a smile, with lightning in them. Beating, he suddenly lifted Phoenix Ji'an up, slashed forward and fired an electric blade.
The whizzing electric light instantly cut off a stone platform at the end of the steps in the distance. The thing was cut in half in the blink of an eye. The young Eldar pirates behind it were also blown into pieces by lightning in the blink of an eye. the flying coke.
Their bodies turned into pieces of burnt charcoal, which fell to the ground and rolled, leaving a trail of black dust. Vito smiled and turned around on the fountain. He swung his arm and shot a huge lightning bolt to the other side. The lightning bolt roared and shot towards the mercenaries and elves on one side of the square.
The lightning bolt roared and exploded above their heads in an instant, breaking into countless small arcs that fell from the sky like a rainstorm. The dense lightning covered half of the square, turning all the people standing on it into ashes. Their bodies stood and twitched violently, and then turned into dust on the ground with screams.
Sumani looked at the collapsed body. His body disintegrated and disappeared little by little from the head downwards, turning into dust and ashes on the ground. The captain frowned and looked at the initiator of the lightning. Vito stood on the fountain, constantly turning his body and shooting golden lightning of death around.
The lightning seemed to have wisdom. The captain saw with his own eyes that the lightning whistled away and made an amazing right angle of 90 degrees in front of a scrapped armored vehicle, bypassing the armor and accurately bombarding the enemy hiding behind it. The Eldar screamed and stopped fighting instantly.
With Vito as the core, countless lightnings shot out from him to all directions, just like a group of smart hounds running to find prey. No matter where the prey hid, it could not escape the hunting of the lightning hounds.
Sumani frowned and looked at Vito shining in the distance. A dim disc seemed to appear behind his head. Sutai, who was beside the captain, rushed up with a green-skinned grenade launcher. He stepped forward and shot the captain's side. A lizardman mercenary who was about to sneak attack him, the alien monster with his tongue sticking out, immediately blew up the entire upper body.
Su Tai held a gun and came to the captain who was staring at Vito with his comrades behind him. They also looked over and looked at the Inquisitor who released dazzling golden light on the fountain.
"Emperor, I have never seen such a powerful Inquisitor. Even as a Chapter Chaplain, I have never seen such a powerful psychic." Su Tai exclaimed as he looked at the golden lightning passing in front of him. The lightning whizzed past and instantly pierced through several enemies like a spear. They were stunned on the ground. After their chests were instantly pierced by the golden lightning, they watched in horror as their hands disintegrated downwards and disappeared until their whole bodies completely collapsed.
Those people stood side by side and turned into ashes and fell to the ground together. Su Tai looked at the people who saw their bodies turned into powder with their own eyes. Even if they were aliens, Su Tai felt a tingling sensation, as if the lightning had hit him, and that feeling was enough to make Su Tai tremble all over.
"This Inquisitor is very wrong, Captain. He first cooperated with the greenskins, and now he has shown powerful psychic powers that have never been seen before. If the Inquisitor is really such a strong person, we should have heard of it long ago." The corporal behind Su Tai approached the captain and reminded him quietly and cautiously. The latter glanced at the corporal behind him with his peripheral vision, and then turned his head to look at Vito who jumped into the fountain in the distance.
He watched the "Inquisitor" just snap his fingers, and a circle of lightning burst out around him, instantly turning the alien enemies around into flying dust. "He said before that he also has a title, Marshal."
"Marshal? Captain, I have never heard of a mortal marshal with such powerful psychic power." The corporal said in surprise, and Su Manni glanced at him, and after a moment of silence, he turned his eyes back to the place where the golden light was shining.
"Among mortals, yes, but among gods, there is one." The captain stared at the figure in the golden light, frowning and staring at Vito who was walking. He walked leisurely, turned around and swung a sword to cut a transport vehicle parked on the side. The fire rose from the square, and he just stood there, looking at the rising flames with a joking look on his face.
The corporal was stunned for a moment, and after looking at the man, he turned his head and looked at the captain in disbelief, "What do you mean." "He calls himself Vito Constantine. This name is exactly the same as the legendary Supreme Marshal, and the power he shows is almost the same as the legend."
The corporal looked at Vito in the distance in astonishment. Of course, he had heard the legend about the Supreme Marshal. All Space Marines were told those stories when they were recruits. No matter what world they came from, what kind of identity and knowledge they had, they would be told the legendary story.
Legend has it that Vito Constantine is the brother of the Emperor. He and the Emperor are known as the twin gods of the Empire. One represents reason and knowledge, development and peace, and the other represents strength and courage, endeavor and war. They are almost the two sides of the same coin that incarnate human civilization itself.
All the Space Marines know that Vito Constantine is the founder of all the armed forces of the entire Empire, including the Astartes. In a sense, he is also one of the fathers of the Astartes. So yes, the sergeant certainly knows the legend.
"But I thought it was just a legend, Captain. This is incredible. The Supreme Marshal reappeared in the world, but appeared here to save us?" The sergeant asked in disbelief. The captain stared at Vito, with lightning and lightning reflected in his eyes. He frowned slightly and stared at the jumping figure in it.
"If this is a coincidence, just a person and the marshal are exactly the same in name, power and psychic display, then this coincidence is too incredible."
"So you think he is the Marshal himself?" Su Tai asked, and Sumani looked at him, and shook his head after a moment of silence. "Maybe, maybe not, but this is not a problem we need to consider immediately."
"We must go to the star port immediately, organize the refugees to move forward, and cooperate with the mortal warriors to protect the flank." The captain turned around, raised the chainsaw sword in his hand and pointed to one side. The two Astartes in front of him nodded affirmatively, and then ran back with guns to the mortal team behind them.
The mortal warriors holding guns were organizing the panicked refugees to move forward. Women were holding children, and men were crowded around them and walked between the warriors. Soldiers held guns and spread out on both sides to form a line of defense. Astartes were also among them, standing behind the mortals and aiming and shooting at the surroundings with grenade launchers.
But in fact, there was almost no visible threat here. The few Eldar and alien mercenaries were almost killed by the charging greenskins. The violent beasts set off a shocking waaaaaaagh, turning the enemies in the entire square into broken limbs and bloody debris.
Sumani looked around at the orcs around him. They raised their weapons and roared into the air. The chain saws rotated violently above their heads and roared. The grenade guns and machine guns fired wildly at the air, accompanied by their howling, forming a victory song full of wildness and wildness.
The greenskins shouted excitedly, but the humans behind them were not so happy. They held their guns and stared at the greenskins around them vigilantly, their fingers on the trigger, tightly holding the muzzle of the gun almost pointing at the carnival green people around them.
The same was true for the Astartes. No one believed these greenskins. Although they were allies fighting side by side now, all the human warriors present had fought countless battles with these orcs before, and sacrificed many close comrades, so they would not believe these alien enemies at all.
But what made Sumani relieved was that no one was shooting at the greenskins now. Although they were full of suspicion and hostility, the Astartes and mortals still maintained enough rationality, and now, everything will soon be over.
Sumani turned his head and looked at Vito behind him. He stood in the square with a sword in one hand, looking at him with a smile on his face. The petite girl in a black wide windbreaker also walked to Vito from the side with a smoking gun muzzle. There was blood on her windbreaker, but Sumani believed that it was not her blood.
The company commander nodded slightly to Vito. Although he didn't know who this person was, he helped himself and his brothers after all, so he should have enough respect for him.
After seeing the nod, Vito also nodded politely to Sumani in response. After the two exchanged pleasantries, Sumani turned his head to look at the refugees behind him who were escorted by the soldiers to the square. They formed a long line and walked slowly from the ground of the square.
Sumani looked at them. The captain was holding a chainsaw sword and was about to move forward to meet his brothers. He suddenly heard a sound, a small sound. The captain's specialized hearing let him know where the sound came from. He slowly lowered his head and looked at the ground under his feet.
The small stones and dust on the ground began to vibrate. They kept jumping around Sumani's feet. The captain looked at the ground and listened to the approaching vibration source for a moment, then looked forward with his ears following the source of the sound.
At the end of the dark alley, at the corner of the far end of the street, a hunched figure rushed in. He looked around and turned his head suddenly, facing the square with his faceless face.
On his face without eyes and nose, a bloody mouth suddenly split open, roaring at the crowd in the square. In the roar, more monsters poured into the alley and rushed towards the square in groups.
"Marshal! What should we do now?" Su Tai held the grenade gun, aiming in the direction in front of him, and turned his head to look at Vito behind him. Everyone looked at him like him.
Vito stood in the square, looking at the humans and greenskins in front of him. He took out the golden pocket watch from his arms and looked at the time, then looked up at the monsters rushing towards him and gave a simple answer.
"Let's run."