Chapter 108 108, Pest Control

The compound eyes of the insect could no longer suppress its appetite. There was a huge wound on its abdomen, which was the wound left by the previous battle with the blood knights. It was very weak now and urgently needed energy replenishment.

But just when it was about to eat the human in front of it.

"Bang!"

The roar of the grenade gun sounded in this narrow passage. A series of explosive bullets hit its body, cracking its armor-like heavy shell.

The gene stealers who were still performing some kind of ritual stopped their actions immediately. They looked angrily at the direction of the gunshots. Although they didn't understand how these people came here quietly, anyone who dared to destroy this sacred ritual would be hated by them.

They firmly believed that under the gaze of the "angel", they would defeat all enemies.

But what they didn't notice was.

When the giant who was almost three times their height appeared, their "angels" were all retreating.

The ugly and huge head quietly shrank into the dark cave entrance.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

The sound of the grenade launcher continued to ring, and the Genestealers waved their claws and rushed forward fearlessly.

Although most of the firepower was directed at the "angel", their bodies were still shattered in the dense firepower network.

The purple-skinned patriarch waved his bone staff. He seemed to want to use some special ability, but was instantly hit in the head by a bomb, and his brain mixed with dirty alien blood splattered everywhere.

What happened here had already made the Imperial warriors furious, and the Doom Soldier charged with Duker.

The alien that looked like a five or six-year-old girl stretched out six arms, trying to protect their angel.

But her height of only about one meter was too small, like a real bug, she was trampled into meat paste by the running Space Marines.

"Want to run?"

Duker's voice was full of murderous intent.

It turns out that searching for the underground mines in this world was the right thing to do. Just a little bit more, these ugly aliens would have a chance to survive right under their noses.

Combined with the information he had learned from the Blood Knights before, the Primarch had roughly understood the current situation - the Blood Knights were entangled by a small group of Zerg during their evacuation and fell into this world together.

The Blood Knights joined forces with the Planetary Guard of this world to fight the Zerg. At the same time, the Genestealers who sensed the arrival of the Zerg also crawled out of the sewers and launched a rebellion under various names.

In the end, the human side won the war with difficulty after paying a painful price, but the Zerg did not completely die out.

After judging that they could not devour this world at present, these bugs immediately lurked. Once they were given the opportunity to make a comeback, not only would the creatures of the entire world be destroyed, but they might even attract the main fleet of the Zerg.

The Primarch was awed in his heart. These bugs were smarter than he thought. They had a rigorous and efficient invasion strategy.

They were not as foolish as most people thought.

And this seriously injured creature, which was being sacrificed by the Genestealers, should be a high-level node creature like the Swarm Lord.

"Hiss!——"

When the alien hidden in the cave saw the original body rushing towards him like an angry bull, it suddenly let out a worm-like roar.

In this sharp cry, the miner's tunnel bulged one after another, and then the soil and rocks were broken, and smaller but equally ugly insects came out.

Like an endless spring, countless insects poured out from these broken holes, and in just a moment, they filled the miner's tunnel like a tide.

These insects looked strange and different. Some were like huge worms with spiral mouthparts; some stood up and even held bone blades in their hands.

These summoned insect tides swarmed towards the original body, and they used their mouthparts and bone claws to continuously attack Dukel's armor.

But this scale of insect tide alone is not enough to cause trouble to the Primarch.

With red flames burning, Duker rushed all the way, crushing like a mud truck.

The bodies of these low-level insects, which are made entirely of flesh and blood, are so fragile in front of steel armor, and the power contained in the Primarch's majestic body is even more impossible for them to resist.

This is a real mantis trying to stop a chariot.

When these insects touch the Primarch, they are either crushed by the unstoppable brutal force or swallowed by the flames.

With almost no obstacles, Duker broke through the blockade of the insect tide and jumped into the hole where the node Zerg retreated.

His figure burning with red flames was so fast that even the Doom Soldier could not see his movement trajectory clearly - it was only a few seconds after the Primarch jumped into the dark hole.

"Boom!——"

The huge power was vented deep in the earth, and the entire underground space was shaking violently.

If the human empire's mining technology was not mature enough, and it took into account the huge kinetic energy impact that it would also have to withstand when blasting the mine, it would have such a solid underground structure. Otherwise, this mining area located several kilometers underground would have collapsed directly.

After the loud roar, the previously orderly swarm of insects suddenly became chaotic.

They no longer had a clear goal, but ran around like headless flies, and even started to bite each other.

This should be one of the few shortcomings of the hive network. Once the node insects in charge of command at the upper level of the network were killed, the insects at the lower level that lost their goals would be controlled by biological instincts and fall into chaos.

The Doom Slayer and the Psychic Guards jointly cleaned up these swarms that had lost their goals.

In the next few days, Dukel found the imperial officials of this world and completely took over this world.

He had to conduct a comprehensive cleansing to completely eliminate those bugs that deliberately hid. Once even one bug egg was left, the bugs would revive in a short time and even call upon the tentacles of the bugs roaming in space.

Duker mobilized the remaining planetary guards and mortal armies such as the Astra Militarum, and even sent down the auxiliary troops on the battleships.

With the help of psychic energy, this careful cleansing and investigation lasted for 22 days.

This was the last effort that the Primarch could make for the humans of this world.

If this still couldn't clean up the bugs in this world, then the only way was to use the extermination order to purify everything in this world.

Duker hated the Zerg so much that he was rarely harsh and adopted a strategy of killing the wrong ones rather than letting them go.

Any person or building suspected of being infected by the 'Gene Stealer Church' would be ruthlessly destroyed.

The bodies of the Zerg were gathered together and incinerated, and the stench they emitted even drifted into space.

One after another, human settlements suspected of gene stealer activities were evaporated under the coverage of heavy firepower.

After 22 days of cleaning, Duker issued an order to conduct a final round of inspection.

On this day, the orbital weapons on the battleship were fully charged and ready to go, and even the cyclone torpedoes were loaded into the barrels. If traces of Zerg activities can still be found in this final inspection, Duker will ruthlessly issue an extermination order.

A few cyclone torpedoes will completely cleanse all life in this world, leaving only a ruin of death.

On this day, countless civilians looked up at the sky helplessly, mothers hugged their young sons, factories stopped working, schools were on holiday, and even busy planetary government officials ushered in a rare holiday.

For the people of the empire in the dark ages, holidays are a rare luxury, but during this rare holiday, everyone is immersed in great sorrow.

They looked up at the sky gloomily, and occasionally saw the majestic god-like figure on the flying vehicle suspended in the sky. At this moment, everything they had was waiting for the judgment of that person.

There can be no softness in the war with the Zerg.

The Empire will even exterminate all the human worlds along the way ahead of the Zerg when the Zerg is about to arrive, just to prevent the Zerg from replenishing the loss of biomass.

These imperial people also understand this. Even if they don’t know it, they should know it in these 22 days of cleansing.

Therefore, they don’t hate Dukel. At least the son of the God Emperor did not abuse the extermination order. He could destroy everything directly. This would not only save time and effort, but also be more efficient.

But he didn’t. Everything he did during this period was trying to save them, or trying to save more imperial people.

They were just mourning their own fate.

"Praise the Emperor, praise mankind"

Countless humans prayed silently in their hearts.

On Dukel’s side, with the assistance of various instruments, the force field generated by the mind matrix was also expanding over a large area, jointly checking every corner of the planet.

Maybe it was the prayer that worked, or maybe it was the result of the 22-day cleansing. Even though every corner of this world had been checked, not a single suspicious location was found.

Although it was expected, after seeing this result, Duker was relieved. Every habitable planet is the wealth of mankind, and every human is the currency of the empire. If it is not necessary, who would be willing to destroy them?

When the battleships of the original body roared, broke through the barriers of reality, and returned to the coordinates of the expedition fleet.

All the humans in this world were immersed in great joy - finally, once again, they got the right to survive.

Even to commemorate Duker's efforts for their survival and to remember those dead compatriots.

A festival called "Insect Killing Day" was born on this planet.

On this day, all the Imperials would burn various insect creatures under the huge statue of the Primarch to express their loyalty to the Empire, and believed that through this behavior, the benevolent demigod Primarch would bless them.

While the battleship was returning,

Duker tried more than a thousand ways in his laboratory to torture the Zerg living samples he had captured.

"Ahhhhh!!!!"

Under his torture, these insects that had never felt, never known pain, never had mercy, and had no reason, all made sharp explosions of pain.