Chapter 38 Slaughterhouse

The silence inside the transport ship was eerie.

Not only Fu Qinghai, but also the leader Gourt felt something was wrong.

He slowed down on his own initiative.

The Space Marines armed with various weapons searched carefully in the dark corridor.

At this time, Fu Qinghai couldn't help but wonder: What kind of materials are the people with the words transporting using this transport ship?

Guns and cannons? Ammunition supplies? Or armor?

Combat information such as the transport ship's internal structure diagram has been projected onto the Space Marines' goggles.

This is a standard Imperial transport ship with a unified internal structural design.

In theory, as long as they follow the arrows on the eyepiece, the Stinger team can find their target - the engine control room.

Unlike the Moon-class cruiser which has several power control halls, the Abomination Worm, although not much smaller than the Moon-class cruiser in size, has only three engine control rooms in total. If two of them are destroyed, the transport ship will no longer be able to fly into space.

However, things don't always go as planned.

The Stinger team was stopped by a wall.

The Word Bearers not only decorated the hull of the transport ship in a mess, but also modified its internal structure.

According to the combat information, this should be a passage. After turning three corners, we will reach the engine control room.

"Explode." Gult made the decision.

The temporarily modified bulkhead would certainly not be as thick as the hull of the spacecraft, so Gult did not choose to take a detour.

Several Ultramarines were securing high-explosive bombs to the steel bulkhead, which was covered in blasphemous paintings.

Technical Sergeant Fu Qinghai had no need to do such a small job. He looked up to see what the traitors had painted on the bulkhead.

The top one is an "Ⅷ" symbol.

There was a wall full of densely packed spells engraved on it. Fu Qinghai looked through them, but couldn't understand most of them. Only a few words seemed to be written in High Gothic.

When entering the Warhammer 40K universe, Fu Qinghai, like other reincarnations, had been given the skill of High Gothic.

Fu Qinghai looked at those words and silently said in his heart:

Praise... the great... brass... the Lord of Brass?

Fu Qinghai was startled and reacted immediately.

"VIII" is the Roman numeral 8.

Known as the Lord of Brass, the one with the holy number 8... Khorne!

This bulkhead is engraved with prayers to Khorne, one of the four evil gods of Chaos!

Fu Qinghai didn't want to count the number of words in the prayer to see if it was exactly a multiple of 8. He had a bad feeling in his heart at this moment -

What's behind this bulkhead?

"Stand back and prepare to detonate." Gult shouted.

At this time, Fu Qinghai didn't know whether he should stop Gulte. This was in a Chaos Space Marine transport ship. It was normal to see texts worshiping Khorne. It was normal to see texts worshiping any Chaos evil god.

You can't say that you were scared by a wall.

Fu Qinghai followed the Extreme Warriors and retreated to a safe distance.

"boom--"

The dynamite exploded.

Without waiting for the flames and smoke caused by the explosion to dissipate, the members of the Stinger Squad followed Gult and quickly rushed into the flames.

Gult, who was rushing in the front with a chainsaw sword in his hand, almost stepped on empty air after breaking through the smoke and dust. Fortunately, Fu Qinghai behind him grabbed his shoulder.

But Gult had no time to turn around and say thank you. He looked at the scene in front of him in horror, stunned.

Fu Qinghai stepped past a soldier and came forward, and was also stunned by the situation before him.

What a hellish picture this is!

Behind the broken bulkhead, the Word Bearers converted it into a huge and complex slaughterhouse.

Countless naked humans were placed on a killing assembly line. They had already died, but their bodies still had to pass through the rotating flying blades, being cut into pieces and thrown into the gears of the crusher that slowly turned inwards, and were crushed into meat paste.

Dripping blood flowed through the gaps of various equipment, overflowed from the crusher, and dripped on the sharp blades.

The blood fell onto the floor and flowed along the intricate and mysterious grooves on the floor, gathering into streams of blood.

"They are all psychics." Gult said in a deep voice.

Fu Qinghai was awakened from this scene by Gult's words and turned to look at him.

Gult pointed to one of the bodies and said:

"Look, there is an eye on his forehead."

Fu Qinghai looked in the direction of Gult's finger and found that it was indeed a member of a navigator family.

These corpses all have some physical mutations to a greater or lesser extent.

It turns out that the so-called "supplies" transported by the Word Bearers... are living people.

Fu Qinghai understood.

During the Horus Heresy, in addition to using Warp Storms to disrupt the Imperium's transportation and communications, the Traitors gradually began to try to directly allow the power of the Warp to descend into reality to help themselves.

Through the mass slaughter of civilians, supplemented by dark magic left over from the ancient era of barbaric technology, and a series of complex sacrificial rituals, the Word Bearers achieved their goal. They were also the first legion to summon the demons of the Warp into reality during the Horus Heresy.

Compared to ordinary humans, psykers who are born with the ability to communicate with the Warp make better sacrifices and can be sacrificed in smaller numbers.

Otherwise, if the traitors wanted to summon an ordinary Khorne demon bloodletter, they might have to massacre the city.

These grooves form a complex pattern on the floor and eventually converge in one direction.

This is a precisely operated blood altar made up of gears, drive shafts, spells and evil rituals.

Fu Qinghai raised his head and looked past the piles of slaughtering equipment to the direction where the blood was gathering.

The goggles automatically zoom in and focus.

At the end of the pool of blood, Fu Qinghai saw a Word Bearers Space Marine tied with iron chains and fixed in a human-shaped groove on the wall.

The area around the groove in the wall is filled with all kinds of twisted and evil reliefs and totems, fangs, spikes and skulls. Outside the head of the human-shaped groove are two "U"-shaped devil horns.

The two human-shaped grooves next to it were empty.

Fu Qinghai stared at this scene intently and said loudly:

"This is an altar! They are offering sacrifices, they are going to summon... enchanted warriors!"

"No~ Our name is... The Blessed Sons!"

A sinister voice sounded nearby.

Fu Qinghai quickly retracted his gaze, drew his sword and slashed in the direction of the sound.

"bite!"

There was a crisp bang and sparks flew everywhere.

Fu Qinghai's power knife was clamped by a crab-like big claw.

Fu Qinghai drew his sword and retreated.

"Keep the formation and fire!" Gult shouted beside him.

The monster that appeared on the side of the passage raised its large crab claws to block the incoming bombs and quickly pounced on the Stinger Squad.

This is a Chaos Space Marine with a terrifying appearance, with two curved horns piercing through the helmet and growing out from both sides of the head. The entire power armor has been distorted under the influence of the surreal power of the warp, and is stuck to the swollen and proliferating blood-red flesh.

Countless bone-white keratin spikes grew out from the armor and the jet ports of the power backpack. The wedge-shaped grille breathing valve on the visor had been twisted and transformed into a big mouth composed of sharp teeth, with a long purple-black forked tongue swung out of the big mouth.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

One hand turned into a huge, slender red claw, and the other hand turned into a crab claw covered with serrations and thorns.

This enchanted warrior was not afraid of a one-on-many battle at all. He charged into the Stinger Squad's formation waving his claws.

The mass-explosive bombs could only cause minor damage to his body, while the enchanted warrior's slender claws had already penetrated deeply into the weak spot of an extreme warrior's neck armor.

Fu Qinghai ducked to avoid the swinging giant pincers and chopped off the two red claws of the enchanted warrior with a diagonal strike.

"Use melee weapons!" Fu Qinghai shouted.

The Ultramarines threw away their bolters and drew out their chainswords and power swords.

"Buzz", the sound of rapidly spinning sawteeth was heard, and the extreme warriors of the Stinger Squad formed a well-coordinated close combat formation and surrounded the enchanted warriors.

"Ugh... Ugh... Hoo~ Hoo~"

Accompanied by an indescribable low roar coming from deep in the throat.

A twitching and staggering enchanted warrior appeared at the entrance of the passage again.

Another one! ?

Fu Qinghai cursed inwardly, turned around and withdrew from the battle with the first enchanted warrior, and headed towards the second enchanted warrior.

"I'll take care of that!" Fu Qinghai yelled.

He knew that the Extreme Marines who were good at tactical coordination must have their own close combat formation. If he insisted on joining in, it would disrupt the close coordination of the Stinger Squad soldiers. It would be better for him to hold one off by himself first.

I dare not say I will kill him lightly, I can only try to delay him!

The second enchanted warrior who appeared at the entrance of the passage seemed to have not yet completely merged with the demon in his body. His neck twisted to the left and right at an exaggerated angle, and he stood there trembling and twitching.

This is an opportunity!

Fu Qinghai strode towards him. He did not have the gentlemanly manner to wait for the enemy to fully transform before starting the fight.

Fu Qinghai held the knife with both hands and stabbed the opponent's head with the tip of the knife.

Take this from me... "Ding!"

Two twisted, ugly bony claws formed an "X" shape to block the blade.

"Ah~ Blood God..." The enchanted warrior, who had crossed his claws to block Fu Qinghai's fatal blow, raised his head. Scarlet blood light burst out from the protruding goggles, and a low growl came from his mouth with fangs and sharp teeth protruding outwards.

Fu Qinghai drew his sword and stepped back, ready to fight again.

The enchanted warrior in front of him seemed to be unable to speak normally, and could only make "ho~ho~" panting sounds and a few simple repeated words.

But the way he attacked was not at all sloppy.

He bent his knees, gathered strength and kicked forward, then opened his two big claws and pounced towards Fu Qinghai.

This kind of fighting method with the goal wide open was the first time that Fu Qinghai had seen it. He was even stunned for 0.01 second.

Fu Qinghai quickly dodged sideways, and while avoiding the enchanted warrior's pounce, he switched his long sword to the backhand and slashed it along.

A streak of blood spilled from the gap in the enchanted warrior's armor at the waist.

The enchanted warrior fell to the ground with a thud, turned around and rushed towards Fu Qinghai again.

While Fu Qinghai was trying to defend himself, he took a closer look and saw that the light red hyperplastic tissue on the wound on the opponent's waist was constantly wriggling like small buds, and was about to heal.

No wonder this thing was fighting with me in a completely reckless and injury-for-injury manner.

This self-healing speed is faster than the health plate of the Space Marine. How to fight it?

Fu Qinghai blocked the opponent's claws with a knife and urgently recalled the information of the enchanted warrior in his mind.

There is a barrier between the Warp and the real universe, which can also be called a veil. It is difficult for Warp creatures to pass through this veil to interfere with and influence the real universe. The Word Bearers are looking for a container for these demons to live in - a Space Marine who is willing to dedicate himself to the Chaos God.

That is to say, at least during combat, it was a Warp Demon, not the Space Marine himself, that controlled this body.

Fu Qinghai probably had a guess in his mind. He couldn't gradually weaken the enemy's combat effectiveness by accumulating damage one by one. The energy of the subspace that distorted reality brought amazing repair ability. His attack must be aimed at the opponent's brain or heart to form a one-hit kill, directly breaking the container of the demon soul!

But it was so difficult for a person to withstand the attack of the enchanted warrior. In addition to the bug-like self-healing ability of minor injuries, the opponent's strength was greater than his own, the opponent's speed was faster than his own, and he was not afraid of pain and was determined to fight for his life.

Fu Qinghai was forced to retreat step by step, his magnetic shoes making heavy noises as they stepped on the corridor floor, and he could never find an opportunity to kill with one blow.

A long sword against two claws, facing an enchanted warrior alone, Fu Qinghai wielded the power sword tightly but could not be invulnerable and retreat without injury.

With one stroke of his knife, he cut off the curved horn growing on the side of the enchanted warrior's cheek, just a little bit short of cutting the opponent's head in half.

The price he paid was that the enchanted warrior scratched his breastplate with his claws.

Large pieces of ceramic steel plates were torn off by the bone claws, and the multi-layer composite power armor blocked the attack for Fu Qinghai.

The outer shell of the power armor is a multi-layer composite armor of ceramic steel and plastic steel. Like the teeth of a chainsword, it is a battlefield consumable. However, given the frequency of the enchanted warrior's claws swinging, even the most durable consumables cannot withstand such consumption.

If he took two more heavy blows, Fu Qinghai's armor would be scratched through.

Fighting and retreating, Fu Qinghai gradually got farther and farther away from the Stinger Squad, and after turning a corner, he was out of sight.

The enchanted warrior leaped up from the ground again, and swung his big claws towards Fu Qinghai's head.

Fu Qinghai raised his knife to block.

The bone claws pressed hard on the power sword, and the blade covered with a dark blue cracking force field pierced deeply into the palm of the bone claws.

The tremendous force was transmitted from Fu Qinghai's arms down to the soles of his feet.

At that moment, the rusted corridor floor shattered with a "bang" under the pressure.

Fu Qinghai and the enchanted warrior both lost weight at the same time and fell into the space below the floor.

The time is now!

My mind was not disturbed by the momentary weightlessness.

Fu Qinghai found the chance he had always dreamed of!

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(End of this chapter)