Chapter 519 Dark Tide, but Death Watch

Zerita, the fifth hive city of the Farr Agricultural World, is also the current capital of this world after the first four generations of hive cities were abandoned due to disrepair.

Flood Zone, No. 11-72-18-19.

A living area that was once used to serve the middle-level technical workers of the hive city. With the construction of the hive city, this small town less than two kilometers from the surface has long been filled with more and more pipes from the upper layer.

When the entire hive city was in operation for the second millennium, the complexity of the pipelines here has exceeded the maintenance capabilities of the managers.

The disrepaired pipelines began to rust and break, and sewage and filth were rampant.

Rotting maggots and anaerobic fungi gradually occupied everything here, and those losers who continued to fall from the bottom of the hive city, together with the mutants of unknown origin, occupied the living space that once belonged to humans here.

All the production materials here come from the garbage of the upper layer, and the monthly large-scale sewage discharge has become a carnival for scavengers.

Feces, sewage, food scraps, discarded daily necessities, all the garbage you can think of will appear in the dark brown "flood" after the gate is opened.

And under the deliberate management of the "indigenous residents" here, most of the pipelines here have been destroyed and intercepted.

Hundreds of tons of sewage did not flow to the seashore hundreds of kilometers away as planned, and the valuable materials in these sewage and garbage became the source of life for the people here.

The flood zone got its name from this, but unlike the literal positive meaning of this name, the "flood" here is obviously more dirty than the upper-class residents can imagine...

Flood zone, flood...

This word is full of wonderful irony in the land of the hive city - it is describing the source of life for the people living here, and it is also describing the people who are born and die here but flow endlessly.

Like all the dark corners where the sun does not shine, the order of the hive city is destined to be unable to touch this lawless land.

But does order really not exist? The answer is no.

In a sense, order is also a necessity for intelligent creatures, and when one order cannot fill the space, another order will naturally be born.

So it is in line with the "proverb" of ancient Terra: "Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes."

When the "order" of the human empire represented by the upper layer of the hive city cannot be spread here, violence, the most primitive and effective force, becomes the most stable order here.

So the family appeared, because the violence of one person can never match the violence of a group of people.

Then soon, the violent group in the form of a family was replaced by a gang with more mobilization ability before it reached its peak in less than a hundred years.

Because compared with the primitive "family" system, although the gang is slightly less stable, as a violent group with the same purpose and plan (no harmony patch), its mobilization ability is far beyond the former.

Deserters, criminals, bankrupts, contraband dealers, heretics and even more dangerous people...

Gangs are not afraid of these dangerous people who cannot survive in the sun. And driven by the same, or temporarily the same, interests, the power these people possess is bound to eliminate the family.

But the same reason can be used again - when an organization with greater mobilization capabilities than the gang appears, the former will also be like the "family" eliminated by it, destined to be destroyed by the same reason.

Corruption is always born in dark corners, and so is heresy.

There are thousands of worlds in the empire, each different.

And in these worlds separated by billions of light years, the standard building complexes for human settlements - hive cities are always surprisingly similar.

The bottom of each hive city is full of criminals, and if the local Ministry of Justice and the Inquisition do not perform their duties faithfully.

Then another thing will also be born here - cults.

Yes, a large number of cultists.

Although the local inquisitors of Zerita have worked hard enough, even tirelessly, to increase the frequency of cleaning the bottom of the hive from once every hundreds of years to once every hundred years.

But when the alien civilization invaded and the galaxy government lost contact with the star region, those heretical beliefs that were full of vitality like weeds would always revive after losing the cruel eradication methods of the Inquisition.

The seeds of corruption grew from nothing to ten thousand.

From hiding in a corner of the bottom of the hive city, to spreading to the bottom of the entire hive city in just a few months.

Nearly a million people were quietly corrupted in silence.

Among these people who have already stood on the opposite side of the Empire and humanity, there are also many extremely dangerous people including mutants, Ogryn, veterans and even wild psykers.

They wander aimlessly at the bottom of the hive city like rotten corpses, and they will surge to the ground like a tide at the command.

They are a bomb that has not been detonated yet, and as long as the time is right, it will explode with scars that will cause pain to the whole world.

And the Death Watch is facing such a threat now.

The alien war on the ground has won a decisive victory. The galaxy governor and his guards had completely lost their command in the first wave of decapitation attacks.

The Death Watch that arrived later was already a drop in the bucket in the face of this situation.

But a task from the state religion and the sisters of battle about the transfer of the "holy object" delayed the launch of a vortex torpedo that had been prepared.

So, a team of death watch was sent out.

Their task was to cooperate with the sisters of battle to find the sanctuary and then transfer the holy object safely.

The second half of this task was not difficult for an Astartes team with rich combat experience and will.

But if a search was added to the original "transfer" task, the time-consuming and practicability of this task would become a question mark.

But Sura had no choice, or the Astartes had always been the backup plan for the empire in critical moments.

In most cases, they did not have the power to choose the battlefield, and this time's mission was just one of countless "passive choices" with an unremarkable resume.

But the battle was not smooth from the beginning.

The first problem Sura faced after getting in touch with the ground was how to enter the ground safely under the watchful eyes of the alien civilization fleet.

The battle barge he was riding on was converted from a frigate.

Its hardness was obviously not enough to support the intensity of this mission, so after a surprise attack that could be called a "death landing".

Sura and his team members finally reached the upper level of the hive city at the cost of the frigate and all the members on board being killed.

Who am I? Where am I? What should I do?

Sura, who was dizzy from the impact caused by the deployment of the airdrop pod at an ultra-low altitude, obviously had no time to think.

He and four Astartes warriors hurriedly searched and downloaded the structural diagram of the hive city on the public channel, and were driven away by the alien civilization chasing from orbit.

The situation of the battle sisters and the location of the holy relics were a mist in his eyes, and what he didn't know was the more outrageous "tide" he would face on the way to the mission...

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