Chapter 65 Silent March and Mourning

Daily Thought: It is never the darkness that is frightening, but the unknown that darkness represents.

After leaving Brother Sanchis and the entrance to the hive, the Grey Knights began to follow the route that Calvin had chosen before.

Considering the scanning array of the strike cruiser in orbit, which is many times more powerful than the auspicious instruments on the Grey Knights, and its scanning results of the life signals of the hive.

This information finally made Calvin decide to give up the main elevator that leads directly to the upper level, and also give up the passage of the freight elevator, and choose the narrow and cramped maintenance passage on the periphery.

The advantage of the first main elevator is that it can go directly to the upper level of the hive, and the second freight elevator is similar, and the carrying capacity can also ensure that the Grey Knights can enter the elevator together.

But their shortcomings are also obvious. The overly wide space and the passage and the core position close to the central pillar of the hive have increased the risk that the Grey Knights will bear by more than double.

The maintenance passage on the periphery may be small, and the connection between elevators is also intermittent.

But this cramped space itself can ensure that when the huge monster that may exist appears, it cannot fully utilize its size advantage to cause crushing damage to the Grey Knights.

Just for this little advantage accumulated in advance, it is worth Calvin's careful consideration at the moment.

The history of the Rasthord Hive is not too long. This huge building has been less than 2,000 years since its birth.

The reason is that after this planet was selected as the capital planet, in order to match its political status, the local nobles, led by the then governor, reached a costly deal with the Forge World: to build a new hive to match SATA No. 1 as the district capital.

After several centuries of construction, the new hive was finally completed. At the governor's order, the original population and equipment in the old city, as well as all valuable things, began to migrate to the new city.

And this kind of migration involving hundreds of millions of people is a huge and desperate system-style project in any era.

The so-called broken home is worth a fortune, and you don't know how many things you have until you move, this is the truth. It is so painful for ordinary people to move, let alone the hundreds of millions of people in a hive city?

The number of tragedies and regrets born during this forced migration cannot be counted, and no one will count them.

But the pain they left behind must have left a deep impression on two or three generations of people at that time.

So when the new hive city was opened, it inherited the name of the original hive city "Hod", and the then governor added the prefix "Last" which means "the last time", which is not surprising.

Of course, the speculation about the meaning of the change of the hive city name is just their local statement to the outside world. As for whether it contains other meanings, Calvin could not know from the brief information he received.

Under the leadership of Calvin and the Arbitrator, the Grey Knights successfully arrived at the boundary between the inner circle living area and the outer circle industrial area.

According to the information displayed in their hands, they found the door to the secret mezzanine between the inner and outer layers of the hive city from a maintenance cabin.

After accessing the data interface, the door was quietly opened.

The reason for emphasizing silence is that on the way to the central area of ​​the hive, the Grey Knights have seen traces left by a large number of hive residents, a kind of trace they don't want to see:

As the Grey Knights walked along, they always had a question:

How many people are there in the entire hive, and how many can really escape when the disaster comes?

If they escaped only a small number of people. Then, what about the majority of hive residents who failed to escape? Where did they end up? What is the final result waiting for them?

Now, I'm afraid that the Grey Knights have some possible answers to this question.

Starting from entering the scope of the industrial area, with the lighting equipment carried by the Grey Knights, in the momentary light-up pictures that occasionally swept across the ground during the exploration.

Calvin and his comrades have already found some traces that are different from the area near the exit of the hive: clothes, sets of clothes everywhere.

This situation is not noticeable when one or two pieces appear sporadically, but when the Grey Knights approached the residential area and saw large pieces of clothes piled up on the streets of the residential area, it aroused their highest vigilance.

Calvin sent a team to conduct a simple search in the houses on both sides of the street. The returning Grey Knights shook their heads at Calvin, indicating that they did not find any signs of fighting or struggling in the houses of these civilians.

That is to say, these people were caught up on their way to emergency shelter after receiving some advance notice.

The scattered clothes on the ground showed that these enemies were different from the humanoid or larger purely physical destructive enemies that the Grey Knights had faced in the past.

Since they could kill these civilians on a large scale without damaging these clothes (note that they killed them, not took them away, because taking them away did not require deliberately leaving clothes behind), it itself showed the special nature of the opponent's form.

These details derived through reasoning were very useful to the Grey Knights.

Through the process of piecing together such details, they gradually became clear about the outline of the unknown enemy they were about to face. Before really facing these enemies, the more information like this, the better...

The Mezzanine of the Nest City is usually inaccessible. Unless there is a need for repairs to the corresponding parts, other than the engineering staff, this place is only used for black market transactions between gangs in the dungeon.

In the mezzanine, relying on the huge invisible top wall of the inner hive, and on the maintenance stairs that repeatedly bent one section after another, the Gray Knights were still moving forward silently.

This kind of staircase was designed based on the size of a mortal from the beginning, so the width of the staircase only allows the Gray Knights to stand in a single file and climb up.

Seen from a distance, these formations, which are usually as majestic as sculptures, look as small as a worm lying on a huge oil drum in contrast to the huge hive wall.

The surrounding environment was eerily quiet. Apart from the heavy reverberation of the power armor hitting the metal steps, only the breathing coming from the helmets of the Gray Knights proved that there were still people here.

The silence brought by silence seemed to have no end, and the boring footsteps continued.

The entire team of Gray Knights did not have much desire to communicate during the march, and they just moved towards their goals. Until Calvin in front suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" After confirming that there was no enemy, Gavins behind Calvin asked Calvin.

The battle before entering the hive was too fierce, and Gavins really didn't have the energy to pay attention to Calvin's condition during his charge after charge.

He was worried that due to his own negligence, Calvin was injured in the battle without his knowledge.

"Brother Sanchis, died." Calvin turned back and looked in the direction of the entrance to the nest.

Looking at the soldier who was no longer aware of how far away he was, he was called company commander for the first time in his life.

Just now, the psychic mark that Calvin secretly left on Sanchis when he said goodbye to him failed.

In this environment, apart from Sanchis encountering the enemy again after they left and eventually dying in a fierce battle, Calvin could not think of any other reason for his beacon to be disabled.

Calvin's words were not loud, but in the quiet environment, they were still clear enough for the entire team to hear.

Except for the two teams of Champion Terminators, no one else among the Gray Knights knew the basis for Galvan's conclusion.

But they still chose to believe in their commander. In previous battles, he had used enough ability and determination to build the soldiers' trust in him.

All the Gray Knights turned around at this moment, looking in the direction of Brother Sanchis in the distance with their hands on their chests. They collectively chanted in a low voice:

"He was born in battle, and he uses his silver sword to defeat prisoners;

Si died in battle and took death as a festival.

If loyalty is your life, the emperor will show mercy;

Taking purity as the law, I am honored to serve the king.

When heaven and earth may come to an end, we will fight endlessly.

All spirits have proof, and they are said to be immortal throughout the ages. "

Every Gray Knight knows that his destiny is to die in battle, but not every Gray Knight is lucky enough to return covered in horse leather. ,

The mission is not yet complete, the Emperor's mission still awaits them to be carried out, and the people of the Empire still await their salvation.

They had no time or opportunity to recover Brother Sanchis' body, so this was the last rites the Gray Knights could give him.

After everyone observed a three-minute silence, the Gray Knights continued to raise their silent steps. The battle has not stopped, and the mission will continue.

The fallen Brother Sanchis will not discourage the Gray Knights, because in their eyes, it is just a first step.

One day, they will meet again under the throne. That day may be far away, or it may be now...

After nearly 4 hours of long march, Calvin and his team finally saw the sign marking the upper level of the hive appearing at the end in the dim field of vision above their heads.

Just as the group was rejoicing at the emergence of this phased target node, the oriole on the Terminator power armor worn by the champion swordsmen who had been walking at the forefront broke the silence along the way and began to sound alarms one after another. .

"Warning! Multiple vital signs were detected above, 100 meters away!"

"Warning! Multiple vital signs were detected above, 100 meters away!"...

Not only the scanning array on Calvin, but also with the arrival of other Terminators, the oracles on them seemed to have reached the effective range of scanning, and began to join the ranks of Tian Noisy.

The entire team stopped and turned their attention to Calvin, who was at the front of the team and at the top.

Calvin's gaze looked there as if through the hatch far above his head. After comparing the target location information of the life detection in his hand, he turned back to his comrades and said:

"Let's go! Time doesn't allow us to take a detour, let's meet these guys."

The Gray Knights behind them said nothing after receiving Calvin's instructions. They silently sorted out and counted weapons and ammunition under the leadership of their team leaders. After confirming that the combat status was complete, they followed Calvin's footsteps. Go to the door that is destined to be unavoidable.

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