Chapter 598 The Criminal's Planet

In the orange-red atmosphere, flying sand mixed with rolling heat waves swept the sky. This is a land of death. Gobi deserts and deserts stretching for thousands of miles are spread all over the continent of the planet. Only a few low mountains and deep rifts that separate the earth add a little difference to this place.

This planet is difficult to survive. According to the editor of the Ministry of Political Affairs, this is a death world and can also be used for torture. In fact, this place has been used as a torture world for exiling criminals many years ago. It is remote and desolate. No ships will arrive here or even find it, so there is no need for walls and guards, and criminals have no way to escape.

So in fact, this planet is a whole prison. The empire exiles all kinds of criminals here year after year. There are real murderers, rapists, and thieves, as well as artists, intellectuals, or idealists who are just not liked by the governor or any senior officials. This makes this place a hodgepodge. You can find any component of the empire here.

Since the Ministry of Political Affairs and the Ministry of Justice were too lazy to manage this place, the entire planet was in a free-range state all year round, and there were no permanent officials here to rule. Therefore, naturally, the criminals formed their own free kingdom here. The environment here was very harsh, so various gangs and criminal groups killed each other constantly, competing for the remaining resources.

This process lasted for several centuries. The desert of the entire planet was filled with a large number of predators and barbarian gangs riding off-road vehicles and motorcycles. They fought everywhere on the yellow sand, robbing resources, slaves and everything you can think of in this wild world.

Those who were originally barbaric became more degraded in this environment. The better ones became desert predators who still knew how to use machinery and weapons, and the worse ones directly became primitive people guarding the caves, bowing to the totem murals on the walls.

Only a few city-states retained civilization and rationality, but over the long years, most of these city-states were captured by the more numerous barbaric settlements. The civilized people became slaves or food for the truly barbaric cannibalistic tribes. The traces of civilization seemed to be about to disappear from the planet and be truly abandoned by the empire.

But at this moment, a sudden meteor shower came. They fell from the sky and hit the heads of those barbaric settlements. The meteor shower lasted for several days, almost annihilating the barbarians. The only ones left fled to more desolate corners and survived. The only civilized people left on the planet found extremely rich and precious rare metals from those meteorites. They used this as a condition to send a message to the empire. Sure enough, these descendants of criminals who were originally abandoned were immediately revived by the empire after they possessed these God-given resources.

The Mechanicus's exploration fleet returned here at a fairly fast speed and conducted in-depth surveys here. It was only then that they discovered that the entire planet's underground was filled with a large number of rich mineral deposits, all of which were left by the meteor showers that hit the planet many centuries ago.

The meteor shower that brought rich resources once periodically hit the planet's surface, but it stopped many centuries ago. The planet itself gradually became desolate and eventually became a barren land, and then became a place of exile. But now, the meteor shower suddenly returned. The Mechanicus could not explain this completely weird logic of stellar movement, but the locals, those in the religious city-states that escaped from the barbarians, and the devout believers insisted that it was the Emperor who bestowed a blessing on them.

Anyway, the meteor showers are back, which has filled the desert of the entire planet with a large amount of precious resources. The Empire and the Mechanicus have also changed their contemptuous attitude towards this place and immediately moved back. Excavation towns, government buildings, and corresponding defense facilities have all been built, and even a star port has been built in the orbit of the planet.

The remaining city-states have been transformed into huge nests. They are huge and towering. The huge structures go deep underground and connect to the mineral veins for development. In order to rebuild the imperial order here, the Ministry of Administration directly appointed the locals in the city-states to form the imperial government, seemingly completely unaware that they were once criminals exiled by themselves.

In this way, history has changed 360 degrees. A desolate death world, a land of exile, has become the apple of the eye and the sweet cake of the empire overnight, and its own exile residents have also transformed themselves into dignitaries or at least legal residents of the empire. Isn't it interesting? Many of them were sentenced to be deprived of their citizenship for generations before arriving here. It seems that the laws of the empire are also very flexible, right?

In the sky with red dust, under the scorching sun, the local native flying creatures soared in the sky. There was no end in sight, and the earth was also visible. The entire red land was exposed below, with many large pits and the remains of asteroid excavation left below.

The flying creatures flapped their wings and soared in the sky. They formed a formation that spread out to both sides. With the help of the airflow raised by the high temperature of the planet's surface, they could fly in the sky without much effort without flapping their wings.

But just as good at taking advantage of this, there is the shuttle that descends from above. Its surface is flashing with a billowing halo, and its surface reflects the surrounding environment, so that these sensitive creatures cannot Discovered its existence until it actively lowered its invisibility field.

A wave of particles appeared on the surface of the machine. They seemed to appear inexplicably from the sky. They surged from one point and quickly rolled around. Creatures flying at close range were immediately frightened by those particles. They spread out in all directions and headed towards Those sudden grainy whinny warnings.

But soon, as the particles fell from the arc-shaped surface, the propeller at the end also reappeared in the tumbling waves, and ignited a powerful flame. The flying creatures were instantly frightened and fled around. , their feathers were flying around the shuttle, rising and falling with the rolling heat waves. The shuttle flew down, passed between the feathers, and flew towards the red land.

The surface of its fuselage reflects the surrounding sky, as well as the deep rifts flashing backwards below, the huge craters, and the huge excavated rifts caused by the Mechanicum exploration ships all over the continent. A piece of flat ground, it looked like a man who had been sieved by a machine gun, lying on the ground without an inch of skin intact.

"Technician, where should we land? There is something wrong with the shuttle's sensing system." In fact, it has nothing to do with the Skyhawk. Its sensing and scanning systems are completely normal. It's just that Ye Ta was listening to the sky after the original crossing of the line of fire. After the explosion, she actively cut off her empathy with the Aquila.

Fortunately, she cut it off in time. Even now, Yeta can still feel a burning tingling on her skin and an even more painful touch in her brain. Her ears are ringing, as if they are about to bleed. I really don’t know what happened to Vito. Driving it, flying through those more noisy scenes.

"According to the information we have obtained, there should be an abandoned town on the Pontar Meteorite Plain. There is flat land somewhere to park the mining trucks." "What? Over there?" "Over there. ”

The technician pulled up the seat belt of the fixed seat in front of him. He walked through the cabin with the data board and came to the cab. He pointed out a hand from behind Yeta, pointing to the barren land in the distance. Yeta nodded, "Received." , this is over, damn it, I have to get up and move quickly, my butt seems to be about to burst."

"Aha, but I can get up first!" The King of Destruction was quite happy and opened the fixed seat with a show-off tone. He jumped up, patted his buttocks, then moved his arms, and Hanging from his waist was a full-caliber heavy-duty logging gun. That thing was originally fixed on a cart, and it took several people to move and deploy it.

But obviously, the King of Destruction's strong physique allowed him to lift it up by himself. He moved the arms used to lift it. He waved his arms widely and almost hit the crosshairs behind him. He also opened the chair and stood up. He got up, took the sniper rifle and approached the window behind the seat, and looked down.

"I didn't see any green skins." "Indeed, the green skins are not active here, which is why we chose to land here. The mineral veins here have been developed long ago. There is no point for the green skins to come here." "You are indeed You have chosen a good place, technician, but it is also a deserted place. The more dangerous it is, the temperature here is ridiculously high. If you stand in the sun, it will be cooked in just a few minutes." "Then you should be grateful. The carapace armor and its internal life-support circulation system can ensure that you will not be burned to death. Speaking of which, Commander, we are also ready for your armor. "

The technician said, pointing to an equipment box on the side, with the logo of the Mechanicum branded on it, and another eye-catching logo below, which is Kuza's logo, which means that the equipment in it comes from those related to Huangquan 8 is also famous far and wide. Please allow me to say that it is not a very famous forging world.

"That's so considerate, technician." "Hey, I brought that up." "Yes, yes, thank you too, King of Destruction, how about this?" Ye Ta playfully blew a kiss to the King of Destruction, who had his hands on his hips and was happy He laughed out loud and hit the technician next to him with his fist. The latter rolled his eyes and picked up the data pad in his hand to check it.

"My information also shows that there are some saboteurs operating locally. They are moving around in the desert, but I believe they will not cause any unnecessary impact." "Even if they come, we can solve the problem." "Of course. "Hunter, of course we can, and Destruction King, I guess you can't wait anymore?" "Isn't that right? I'm so stiff that I have nowhere to move." "Then you have a chance to move." "

Yeta said, there was an ups and downs shaking feeling inside the shuttle. Several people looked at each other, and then they were attracted by a wave of blazing fire, and lowered the hatch on the side. The air, along with the dazzling sunlight, instantly entered the cabin.

Outside the light, there was a local creature lying on the barren land. It was hunted, and the hunters stood on it, tore off a piece of flesh and looked at the few people in the Skyhawk cabin, The predator on its back devoured the torn flesh in one gulp, then roared angrily at the passengers of the Skyhawk.

Sitting on the fixed chair closest to the cabin door, he opened it backwards and the man in a black coat stood up. His scarlet mechanical eyes stared at the creature outside, "Are you ready?" "I'll accompany you at any time."

Yarick asked, and in response was the sound of a gun being loaded. Yarick also raised the bolt gun in his hand, and he used his power claw to pull down the bolt, "Welcome, Il Mon. .Sesri.”