Chapter 260 In the Name of Ashes, Cleaning and Rescue of the Occupied Areas

"Those angels of death who hold the truth granted by the Emperor will eventually return to this world on the day of judgment, led by His young sons who herald ashes and the fire of destruction."

--Communication Node 2885 of the Lyak Sector, Astropath Hubus Tansarion.

Buzz!

The low hum of the psychic teleportation array broke the silence on the ground.

As this power spread, a group of gray knights in silver-gray power armor crossed tens of thousands of meters of space and descended from the orbit of Wollaston to this long-lost imperial territory.

The storm brought by the teleportation array blew away the heavy dust accumulated on the commercial streets of the hive city. Pieces of faded brocade representing yesterday's splendor were startled by the storm and then shattered by the long-awaited window.

Crackle! Bang!

A human skull with white and yellow bones that had been lying on the road for an unknown period of time and had decayed was crushed by heavy ceramic steel boots.

In the shadows, several dazzling light sources pierced through the darkness from above, and then swept across;

A dozen nine-foot-tall silver-armored giants walked out of the darkness in the next moment, passing through this deserted street in an exploratory formation.

"Everything is normal in Hive No. 3, the upper water supply point has been checked, no abnormal energy reaction, no life reaction."

A faint psychic wave came from the leading arbitrator, and under the guidance of the psychic link, it brought the team's real-time information to the Legion's will covering the sky.

"Everything is normal in Hive No. 6, the lower food storage warehouse has been checked, and no life reaction has been found."

"Everything is normal in Hive No. 7, the middle water supply point has been checked, and no life reaction has been found."

"Everything is normal in Hive No. 9, the Ministry of Justice's weapons depot and food storage point have been checked, and no life reaction has been found."

The obscure fluctuations intersected in the sky and resounded in the ears of all the members of the Grey Knights' team.

The Grey Knights searching here are speeding up their pace, clearing all the resource nodes where humans can survive for a long time.

"Continue the investigation as planned."

Calvin responded to the deployed teams in the psychic communication channel, and then continued to move forward with his guards.

This was the third star system they had explored in the Lyak sector, but no survivors were found.

The Chaos's need for plundering the population could never be satisfied. After decades of cleansing, the hive cities here were left with only the remains of the Chaos invasion, and there was no trace of human voice.

"Beep! Captured a periodic low-frequency distress signal!"

"Beep! Captured a periodic low-frequency distress signal!"

The servo on the power armor began to chirp spontaneously, which shocked Calvin and he instinctively began to speed up his pace.

Buzz! Snap!

The accompanying paladins followed him silently, and the decomposition force fields of the Sky Punishment weapons were quietly opened in silence.

Boom!

The heavy armored gate was kicked to pieces, and Calvin bent over and led his team into the emergency shelter in front of him in the gap several meters high.

The corpses here were not densely packed, and their owners obviously did not die in battle.

They were distributed in their respective residences in a relatively stable posture. No food storage was found throughout the whole process, indicating that they died of hunger due to the lack of supplies after a long period of defense.

Buzz!

Calvin opened his psychic vision and checked the surrounding environment; the corresponding position on the other side of the subspace was also blank, obviously these souls had been dead for too long, and not even a trace of fragments was left.

Hmm?

Calvin's attention was attracted by the flickering light blue light in a room.

He walked a few steps and opened the door casually, and saw a withered skeleton sitting quietly on the chair facing the entrance.

The psychic fluctuations came from its chest, where a soldier's nameplate with a chip was hanging.

Because the tissue was fully corrupted after death, the entire nameplate had no obstacles and was deeply entangled with its ribs.

Calvin walked forward slowly to prevent the huge and heavy footsteps from shaking the bones of the deceased, and gently stretched out his armored right hand to gently take the nameplate out of the pale bones.

Bull Tang, this is the name of the deceased, and also the owner of this chip-type nameplate that was privately modified.

He was a soldier of the Imperial Defense Force. At the beginning of the invasion war, he was sent to the surface to communicate with the local government because of a material dispute between the regiment and the local government.

The chip on the nameplate obviously has two layers of data protection mechanism, and the information left on the surface is these;

The information hidden in the bottom layer of the chip is perfectly encrypted and can only be fully opened by its own owner.

"Go home... take me home..."

The blue light on the nameplate that can only be seen by psychics flickers slightly.

Obviously, this soldier is persistent enough to maintain his own existence and collect his last wishes on the nameplate after an unknown period of time after his death.

"I understand."

Calvin answered in a low voice, and the hand holding the nameplate tightened slightly, and the old remnant soul received his response and nourishment, and was then received into the city of his spiritual world.

This small transaction is very cost-effective. In the opened second layer of data log, Calvin finally knew what kind of tragedy happened in this relatively rich planetary world.

Bull Tang is not a native here, on the contrary, he was also drawn from other galaxies.

The 21st Heavy Armored Regiment of Wollaston was his last service unit in his military career, but not his first service unit.

This veteran had been recruited from his hometown for more than 80 years. He had participated in dozens of battles, big and small, in the wars of the south and the north;

The unit he served in was also reorganized several times after several heavy losses. The original name of the unit was no longer known. Only his last service unit could be found from the name tag.

But the useful geographical information was limited to this.

He had not received higher education and had long forgotten the location and name of his hometown.

Except for the windows with blue ribbons and the vague appearance of his family that appeared repeatedly in his soul, he had no other useful information to provide to Calvin.

"It's your luck..."

Calvin carefully read the log on the chip, thinking that when he returned to the battleship, he would find the information of this soldier in the military headquarters of Orpheus to fulfill his last wish.

But as the lines of cuneiform runes on the connected data board were brushed, his face began to become serious.

The time of the destruction of the world here was very different from what he expected:

This place was not destroyed in the initial invasion of Chaos as he thought;

On the contrary, it was destroyed less than a year ago!

The reason why it is so desolate is that a great demon held a blasphemous ceremony here that can accelerate the passage of time!

"Oh, an old rival, another child of Sin Liezhi!"

Closing the data board's pages and putting them back under the carapace at his waist, Calvin looked at another distant planet with a gloomy face and whispered.

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