Chapter 59

"Pay attention to our current identities and don't ask any further."

"Yes, Chapter Commander."

After his curiosity faded like a tide, the Weeper Technical Sergeant, who realized that he had almost embarked on a dangerous path, returned to a state of quiet observation, while the Astartes who had just used two titanium-implanted reconnaissance drones The drawing made Surma no longer think that there was something fishy about the matter. The technical sergeant major casually snuffed out the feedback from Surma team to report to the Tau fleet that "there are Astartes activities here", and then looked at the floating screen in front of him. The fool started to operate, and as a series of news that the Tau action team could not be sure to be false was organically inserted into the real message chain of the Tau team, the mouth of the terrible trap slowly opened to the These alien shapes open -

Not just against this squad.

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From the perspective of tactical defense, this cave is indeed a very good place. Whether it is the relatively narrow entrance, the winding roads inside, or the clear sound of water collected from the echo of the cave, all illustrate this For a small group of people, the cave is indeed an easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack place - but!

Now that humans have dispatched beings like the Astartes, and there is a high probability of heavy firepower in the future, isn't stationing in such a cave looking for death? Is his friend stupid, or does he have no choice? still......?

Wait! ! !

Surma was horrified when he thought of some more outrageous possibility. However, before he could give the order, continuous gunshots were heard from outside the cave - the sound was very close, and the rock next to him It has been blown out of the pit by that weapon called a bolt gun!

"Despicable human - taking advantage of my friend's situation and letting him fall into such a despicable trap! Everyone, take cover!!"

All kinds of abnormal information merged into one in his mind, and some extremely cruel possibility appeared in front of Surma. Things were wrong! It is true that those humans chose to follow the Greater Good because they were afraid of the Astartes. However, those humans who 'sought refuge' in the Greater Good did not even inform their friends of the existence of the Astartes! After putting himself into the state of mind of Leah Radel and thinking about it for a while, Surma had to admit that after suffering a series of blows but still seeing the hope of returning the world to the Greater Good, he might not be too harsh. Pay attention to some 'less serious' details - and this will give the Imperial Astartes an opportunity to take advantage of. The Astartes I saw before were not the team searching for my friends at all. , but to call for reinforcements at the encirclement point! Judging from the communications maintained between his friends and himself, it is hard to say that until now, Li Radel thought that the empire had not found his stronghold yet!

Of course, although the current situation is indeed very unfavorable, the titanium champion still forces himself to enter a fighting state. Taking control of his battle suit, he turned around and blasted several rounds of special ammunition for cover in the direction of the distant ammunition. Surma immediately ordered his drones to try to find a temporary retreat path around them to avoid falling into the trap. However, a bunch of dense red dots quickly appeared on the map, completely extinguishing the champion's optimal combat expectations.

"Everyone! Enter the cave! Wait for support!"

While blasting out another round of ammunition to counterattack a firepower point that was relatively close to him, he used the corner of his eye to look at the cave drawn by the drones he had previously sent into the cave to join Lee Rader. local map. Knowing that he had no choice now, Surma gritted his teeth. After sending a message to the flagship asking for help, he took the lead and rushed into the cave. However, the Titanium Champion did not know that the message he sent was still blocked by the Technical Sergeant Major. He intercepted the flow with the drones that had sneaked into his team. What he didn't even know was that there was a real horror waiting for him in this cave... something that could make him completely despair, something he could not imagine at all. Great horror.

In the preparation area of ​​the projection disk in front of a certain hammer guy, there are several chess pieces of the Titanium force quietly placed, and the types and quantities of these chess pieces are impressive...

Exactly the same as Surma's team.

14. The Weeper—Ti’s Unfortunate Day

Face pinch function.

This is a feature that most games with RPG features may have, and to some extent it has a considerable impact on the evaluation of the game itself - a game with a good face-making system, even if the gameplay itself is only passable , will attract a group of people who are happy to play with some interesting operations in it. A game with a face pinching system but the face pinching system is not easy to use, no matter how good the game performance is, it will make players feel that something is missing. ....

However, if you encounter this kind of face-squeezing thing in reality, then it will bring nothing but terror to its prey, except despair...

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"The Greater Good, the Greater Good—"

In a dark path downwards in the cave, a Tau fire warrior whose left arm has been broken is stumbling under the guidance of the drone floating beside him, while desperately trying to connect with his own. The captain got in touch and relied on the drone's

The remaining map in the database tried to find a way to escape - although the cave structure behind him had been explored, he didn't dare to look back.

Because he knew that once he was caught by "that thing", there would be no possibility of survival! ! !

However...

Just when he thought he had opened a certain safe distance between himself and the hunter, a sound of the operation of the combat suit that he was familiar with entered the sound capture system of his combat suit from the front of him and clearly reached his ears. A figure that he was extremely afraid of walked from the darkness in front of him to a place where he could see clearly, and slowly approached him.

"! ! ! ! Damn it! How did it get in front of me! ! ! "

After confirming that the existence blocking his way was the terrifying unknown existence that was hunting him, the fire warrior gave his drone an order without hesitation, letting it take him back from the original route. However, what he didn't expect was that his drone did not follow his order to clear the way for him, but guided a beam of light... to his legs! The strange creature in the distance also stood still and raised the pulse rifle in his hand.

"No - I didn't give this order - Gah!!"

The marking light came on, and the fire warrior, who had realized what he was going to encounter, exclaimed and tried to stop his drone from doing this. However, his efforts were in vain. Although the defense of the fire warrior's combat uniform was acceptable, the defense level of his combat uniform was undoubtedly insufficient in the case of being shot at by pulse weapons. So, after a shrill scream, the fire warrior with one leg broken fell heavily to the ground and began to struggle desperately.

"Order - Adjustment - I need to stop bleeding! - Ether!"

However, no matter how the fire warrior gave orders to his combat uniform, no matter how the fire warrior ordered his drone, things still slipped away little by little in the direction he least wanted - his drone flew to the existence that had been chasing him and looked no different from a normal fire warrior, and then parked behind the strange warrior in a very standard posture.

"What on earth are you? Why are you hunting me? Judging from the way you dress, you have at least followed the Greater Good, right? Can we talk?"

The moment he was shrouded in despair called death, the Titanium Fire Warrior calmed down. He stared at the thing that was definitely not his own race and was walking towards him, questioning his soul - in his cognition, the only race that could wear this most standard combat uniform was Titanium, and the body of the being wearing this combat uniform was also Titanium, but its performance was not Titanium!

"..."

The strange Fire Warrior did not answer him, but slowly walked to the Titanium Fire Warrior whose life had begun to count down, half squatted down, stretched out his hand, and skillfully opened the helmet of the Fire Warrior's combat uniform, and then, after a one-second pause, opened his own helmet - in an instant, the great terror struck again, fiercely grasping the heart of the Titanium Fire Warrior.

What did he see? What did he see? He...he saw himself! He saw a picture of something with himself standing in front of him! !

"I am you."

This was the last sentence the Titanium Fire Warrior heard before his consciousness dissipated.

The voice was his own voice.

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Things were bad. He was sure that he and his entire team had fallen into a trap with Eli Radel and 'there are humans following the Greater Good' as double baits. The humans were very likely to closely monitor his friend's actions and follow his friend's ideas to attract the elite warriors of his fleet. Surma knew very well that the fire warriors he was leading were almost half of the elite in the fleet. If he and his warriors were all lost here...

"Captain, we have locked the direction of the signal source."

The report from his team members restored the Fire Clan champion to the state of a frontline team commander. Although this intelligence, which was closely related to his team's main mission, was no longer of much use, it would not be a bad thing to reunite with his comrades first. After all, those humans who had led his friends and himself into this trap and defected to the Greatest Good were all with him. Although he was not from the Shui family, he had a rough understanding of the act of negotiation. If he handed those humans over...

Thoughts turned over and over in his mind, and his feet did not stop, Surma and the team members who stayed with him soon entered a cave that seemed a little empty - however, in this cave, except for a dozen of his team members who had already arrived here and seemed to be on guard against something, and a transmitter that had previously belonged to Li Radel's camp, there was nothing!

"?"

Just when Surma wanted his drone to scan the cave again to determine whether his judgment was wrong,

The drone floating next to him suddenly turned around and directed a marking light towards the vulnerable area of ​​his battle suit. In an instant, sparks flew everywhere. Surma staggered on the spot due to the impact, and almost Didn't fall to the ground.

"!!! What are you doing? There are no enemies here!"

Surma, thinking that one of his team members had made a random move because he could not bear the pressure, shouted loudly. However, what frightened the Tau champion was yet to come, and he had not yet determined his opportunity. The condition of Bee and the damage to his battle suit, the light of several firing weapons that he was very familiar with lit up in this dark cave. With the help of the sudden and intensive guidance light, on him When a string of sparks exploded again, the team members around him also fell one by one because of this sneak attack - the drones around them also chose to betray like Surma's drones, so that these were not expected at all. The fire warriors who were attacked by their teammates were killed without the ability to fight back.

"you???"

Surma, who was completely unable to understand how things could develop like this, activated the emergency response system of his battle suit to deal with the damage it suffered, and loudly asked his team members in the communication channel whether they were crazy. However, the answer In addition to the more rapid firestorms of ammunition, he also had a fusion cannon attack that completely blew off the right arm of his battle suit.

"I am you, Champion of Surma."

Surma's extremely familiar voice came from the communication channel, and a certain creepy feeling began to flow on this battle-experienced Tau champion. The situation was revealed, and he was forced to look with his own eyes at the 'face' in the combat uniform that he was very familiar with when he walked in front of him.

"You are not me, you are just a pretender."

Concentrating his mind with all his strength, the Surma champion put all his courage into his eyes and throat, and quickly started to use his wisdom. Although his battle suit is now half-paralyzed, this does not prevent him from using language to try to obtain some information - there are many weird races in the galaxy, and it is not surprising that some of them have the ability to mimic, as long as he can identify the intruder By knowing what its ontology is, it is possible to gain a chance of survival.

"I am you."

The facial area of ​​the battle suit standing in front of him was uncovered. Sumar saw his own face as perfect as reflected in a mirror, and saw the recognition of his identity by the scanning device of his battle suit. He was indescribably horrified. The emotion shattered the Tau champion's mental defenses, causing him to become incoherent.

"No...that's impossible."

"For the Emperor."

The words that completely froze Surma's expression reached the champion's ears, and the sound of several pulse weapons firing rang out, pouring a pile of firepower on his face, causing the titanium champion warrior's His face was vaporized like an ice cube falling into molten iron - after completing this matter, the other information collected from Sumar was used to completely 'replace' the chess piece of Sumar's identity in the arrangement of the hammer guys. Next, the communication with the flagship of the fleet to which he belonged was connected.

"This is the Surma Champion, and I have important information to report."

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sluggish.

Confused.

Don't know how to evaluate it.

All in all, I think this is quite heretical, but it's hard to say it out loud.

In the end, because it was a foregone conclusion that he had boarded the pirate ship, he had no choice but to accept the reality first.

After the Hammers successfully implemented the first step of their infiltration plan, they turned all the landed Tau detachments into pawns in the cave and allowed them to briefly communicate with the flagship of the Tau fleet. After confirming that the Tau Fleet had not discovered anything unusual about their team, the Hammers immediately started the second phase of the plan - originally, in theory, according to the Hammers' plan, the second phase was also The Lamenters Astartes didn't have much to do with it. However, after the Hammers discussed it and discovered that this was actually a form of bullying that was unique to the Lamenters Astartes, they made the second stage. The decision to bring the Wailers along for the ride.

The Blood Angels Astartes chess piece that Zhu Yan changed to the Death Watch went to explain to the Lamenters Chapter Master to reduce his confusion.

However, although Chapter Leader Malakin was very willing to talk to his blood brothers, he had previously made the decision not to dwell on too many issues. However, after listening to what Zhu Yangai said, the Hammer guys were not surprised to receive Malakin's rare emoticons, a bunch of expressions that would never appear on an Astartes' face under normal circumstances. A look appeared on the face of the Chapter Master of the Lamenters - after all, from all angles, the battle plan the Hammermen were planning was too un-Astartes - no, it could even be said to be too un-Imperial!

"Is this... really no problem?"

Although he knew that this outrageous battle was like "there is a high support when the sky falls" for the Weeper Chapter, Malakin couldn't help but worry about whether this matter would happen because of the Weeper Chapter's consistent experiences. Will the loss of control cause the Lamenters, who are already burdened with the identity of the Redeemer, to fall into an even more miserable abyss? The Astartes battle brothers of the Dark Angels actually believe that the aliens will lead the warriors of the Empire to destroy them.

fleet? This is not logical at all!

"No problem, for some historical reasons you don't know, the battle brothers of the Dark Angels have always had some special plans to do some incredible things. Things like this are not an out-of-bounds operation for them - of course , it is best to keep these things in your stomach, let alone have any extra curiosity about it. When you encounter the Dark Angels again in the future, it is necessary to pretend not to know about this cooperation. After all, it is with us. Like the Sons of Sanguinius, every founding group has some..."

Zhu Yangai did not say the second half of what he said, but Malakin, who understood the terrible fate that the son of Sanguinius was burdened with, already understood what his battle brother meant.

"When do we leave?"

Malakin took a deep breath and put himself into combat mode and spoke - the matter was over, and all he could do now was fight as a pure Astartes.

"at any time."

15. The Weeper—The Controlled Manta

"The target area has been determined and there are no abnormalities in ground conditions."

Captain Qi Manta, who was sitting in his captain's seat, looked at the series of communications that ended with the color representing safety on the display screen in front of him, and let out a slightly relaxed breath. , adjusted his seat to make his sitting posture more comfortable. After receiving the order from the elder, knowing that the matter was urgent, he immediately got Manta out of the suborbital flight state, and flew as quickly as possible. He quickly rushed to the area marked by Surma - now it seemed that everything was still under control.

"Captain, we have made contact with the Surma Champion."

Just when the captain of the Manta wanted to drink something, his deputy's voice came into his ears, making the Tau man of the Air caste reluctantly give up the idea of ​​taking a rest and cheer up. Entered working status.

"Plug in."

"yes."

As the communication link was successfully established, the light curtain lit up, and Surma's face appeared in front of Captain Manta, looking at the champion in front of him who had become dusty because he was involved in a relatively intense encounter. On his face, Captain Manta couldn't help but feel respect in his heart.

"Champion Surma, we are close to the scheduled location."

"We have marked an area where Manta can land. In addition, if possible, we need your ground fire support."

The voice of the Surma champion was mixed with the sound of firing some Tau clan weapons and the very dull sound coming from the distance. At first glance, it was clear that it was not the weapon of the Tau Empire. It was obvious that the champion was leading his people. While retreating to the area he marked for himself, he counterattacked the pursuers of the Human Empire behind him.

"Understood, I'll have all ground weapons teams ready."

Just when Surma seemed to want to say something, the density of gunshots in the background of the communication sound suddenly increased, and the communication between Surma and Manta was also interrupted after a burst of interference. He probably guessed that he The intensity of the battle that the champion at home was going through had increased to another level. Captain Manta immediately reached out and quickly slid his fingers on the control panel in front of him a few times, anchoring the landing zone that Surma had just provided for him. .

"Everyone, return to your posts immediately! For the sake of the Greater Good!"

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The leader of the Malakin Chapter wore a brand new power armor, holding his weapon tightly, and lurked in a dense forest with his battle brothers, looking at the sparsely planted open space in the distance with vigilant eyes, and Those aliens that were wandering around in the open space still seemed to be quite threatening - in fact, if it hadn't been for the repeated warnings of the Son of Sanguinius in the Death Watch, never come out of the ambush before getting the order. Attack inside, Malakin has already led the Lamenters up to drink the blood of these abominable things...

"Chapter Commander, I swear, this is the weirdest alien extermination battle I have ever experienced."

Behind Malakin, a veteran of the Lamenters Chapter spoke in a subtle tone on the communication channel - Malakin heard that the veteran was grinding his teeth, and the son of Sanguinius was eager to charge in a glorious charge. Cut off the alien's head instead of watching those alien monkey tricks without meaning here.

"Our blood brothers have repeatedly warned us that if we cannot hold back our fighting spirit, our best position in this battle is logistics - so, wait a little longer."

Malakin, who knew very well that the battle brothers under his command were all in a state of confusion, had a little helplessness in his tone - after his brother who served in the Death Watch left, the First Legion was also sent. He gave himself some overt and covert warnings - well, strictly speaking they were not warnings. However, those words were a bit hurtful to Astartes...

"Yes, Chapter Master - wait, over there?"

As soon as the Lamenter veteran responded to Malakin's order, some kind of sixth sense gained from being on the battlefield for many years made him slightly raise his head and look at the clouds in a certain direction - huge ones, coming through the clouds. The aircraft caught his sight, and it was slowly descending in this direction.

"That's...

....The titanium alien's large armed transport aircraft, Manta! It's coming in our direction! "

Because of the recent training, the veteran who was already familiar with a lot of Tau Empire equipment whispered in the communication channel.

"It seems that is part of the battle plan of the Dark Angels' battle brothers - this is Malakin... What? Got it."

The communication from the Dark Angels suddenly connected to Malakin's channel, and before Malakin spoke, the next battle plan was poured into the ears of the Weeper Chapter Master without any explanation. Malakin, who heard the next stage of the battle plan clearly, was slightly stunned for a moment, and then nodded slightly to show that he understood.

"Chapter Master, are we going to take action?"

Seeing that his Chapter Master suddenly made some actions other than ambush, a Weeper Astartes who had been suppressing his fighting spirit hurriedly asked in the channel.

"No, we have to ignore a round of ground attacks from the alien mantas first - and ignore the strange behavior of the aliens."

"?"

Because the words of the Malakin warlord were too incoherent, the weepers present had question marks on their heads, but the next moment, they knew what the warlord wanted to express -

All the aliens who were squatting there stood up as if they had received an order, and pulled the trigger in an orderly manner in a direction where there was nothing at all, and they "fell down" from time to time, as if there was really something in the woods in that direction fighting with them. And the alien aircraft soaring in the sky suddenly deployed a large number of firepower points on its body, and fired at the direction where there was nothing without hesitation. For a moment, the sound of explosions swept the air, smoke rose, and flames blazed.

".......What are these aliens doing?"

Except for Malakin, who knew how outrageous the First Legion's tactics were, and sighed in his heart that it was indeed worthy of the First Legion, and the tactics were superb, the other Astartes of the Weepers were already stunned - firing randomly on the battlefield, and firing at the same time in the sky and on the ground. Are these aliens who made such stupid operations really something that a civilization can develop to this level?

"Just wait - our battle brothers will give us a signal."

"But those aliens are walking into their aircraft! Should we let them retreat?"

"The order is to wait."

Malakin, the captain of the battle group, who had already trusted his blood brother to succeed in the counter-common sense tactics he told him, gently opened the safety of his gun and secretly increased the engine power of the power armor a little - according to the intelligence he knew, this was already the penultimate step of the second phase of the battle plan. Soon, he and his battle brothers in his battle group would have the opportunity to charge into battle.

And there would be an opportunity to board and seize the ship.