Chapter 043: Tyranids, Genestealers!

The Tyranids—one of the Imperium's enemies.

No one knows which galaxy they came from, but they are known as the cosmic locusts.

They devour vibrant planets one after another, leaving entire star systems like dead zones.

Though the word "bug" appears in their name, it would be a mistake to assume this race lacks intelligence.

On the contrary, this species is cunning and extremely intelligent.

They not only tear apart enemies with their claws but also use biochemical weapons for ranged attacks.

Their invasions often consist of countless warrior organisms and biological warships that blot out the skies, flooding and devouring everything like a tidal wave.

They ceaselessly do one thing: consume all organic matter, then breed, breed, and breed again, constantly evolving to counter resistance.

The Genestealer is a special type of Tyranid unit.

They are terrifyingly cunning enemies, specializing in infiltration—blending into human populations and quietly expanding their numbers.

Their method of reproduction involves implanting their genetic material into other life forms to reproduce using host bodies.

After infection, victims fall completely under the control of the Genestealer's newly formed psychic waves, becoming puppets—human traitors.

The Genestealer's physiological characteristics are then passed down through the victim's descendants, creating hybrid offspring completely under the control of the progenitor Genestealer.

These malformed descendants will, after five generations, reproduce pure-blooded Genestealers.

P1 [Patriarch] is the initial infected individual, followed by five generations: F1 [Filial Generation], F2, F3, F4, and pure-blooded F5. The P1 infected individual remains a controlled human, while P1 and F4 retain completely human appearances.

From F1 to F4, they gradually become more humanoid, with F5 showing atavistic features.

Therefore, once they reach the F4 generation, their appearance is almost indistinguishable from humans, making it easy to deceive and blend into human society.

They take countless occupations within the Imperium—from miners, demolition workers, or stevedores to slaughterhouse employees and PDF (Planetary Defense Force) volunteers—gradually replacing normal humans with cult members.

They are patient and extremely cunning.

They do everything possible to infiltrate various departments of local institutions, spreading the poison of corruption to vital departments, waiting for the right moment to trigger rebellion.

They also develop religions to entice locals to join.

The object of religious worship is the Imperium's highest ruler—the Emperor—essentially "borrowing the tiger's skin as a banner."

This is why they are considered extremely cunning creatures.

The individual that just attacked Ejie was obviously a P1 or P2.

The appearance of this thing, plus the elevator above seemingly filled with large amounts of blood—how massive a slaughter must this be?

This gave Ejie a headache.

If this was the work of "chicken thieves" [a wordplay on "Genestealer"], it meant they no longer needed to hide, which was a major problem.

This suggested a very bad situation might have developed—a Hive Fleet was likely already on its way to this planet, probably arriving soon.

So the Genestealers had stopped hiding and were openly causing rebellion, creating chaos across the entire planet to facilitate the Hive Fleet's easy invasion, using all organic matter on this planet and even the star system as food.

Hopefully, the situation wasn't that dire.

Hmm?

He was getting close—almost at the top of the elevator shaft.

But Ejie's heart grew increasingly heavy.

It was like a large piece of meat, which would be coated with sauce to make it more delicious.

The sauce would naturally cover more surface area and be thicker at the top.

As residual sauce flows downward, it would become progressively less.

Now, all four walls of the elevator shaft were covered with sticky fluid.

It was impossible to determine what blood or liquid it was.

There was also a feeling as if he was entering the interior of a massive organism, with the surrounding walls resembling some kind of mucus on the surface of internal organs.

With a grappling hook, he successfully anchored himself to the bottom of the elevator car, then installed melta bombs like one would install C4 explosives.

Swinging to one side, accompanied by a small noise, a blinding light vaporized the sticky surface and metal, penetrating to the space above.

Finally, with a swing, Ejie passed through the burned hole into the elevator car.

At this moment, the scene that entered his vision was even more nauseating and horrifying.

If earlier he had a misconception of entering some kind of organism,

The current scene was almost no misconception at all.

....

Ruri Gokou felt she was developing another psychological trauma.

Clearly seeing the sticky appearance around him as he approached the top, it obviously indicated there would be an even more horrifying scene above, and she was very afraid—she should stop watching.

But, still unable to resist her cat-like curiosity, she continued to watch.

When he swung himself through the blasted hole to the space above, the scene that appeared—

At this moment, intense fear, terror, nausea, and more filled the black cat's mind, making her look like the female lead in a horror movie who's been scared senseless.

No, she looked even more pale with fear.

When she slightly came back to her senses, she decided she would probably be vegetarian for some time.

Dismembered human limbs were everywhere, chunks of flesh were everywhere, but unlike the situation underground, these numerous dismembered parts were being digested.

Yes, digested.

The surroundings visible to the eye seemed like the stomach of some monster, with walls that appeared to be alive and writhing.

No, "nest" would be a more appropriate description.

Because numerous eggs were visible—no, using the cute word "egg" was inappropriate; "cocoons" would be a better description.

Some cocoons were somewhat transparent, seemingly about to hatch, and the twisted, strange figures inside were visible, with some parts resembling insect structures.

Cocoons of various sizes were everywhere, pulsating and growing larger as they absorbed what appeared to be nutritional fluid from digested human bodies.

Seeing such a hellish scene, the black cat wanted to faint, then wake up as if from a nightmare and forget everything.

Ah, suddenly there was a massive mining truck in front?

How big? The mining truck's rear dump was probably twenty meters long and ten meters wide, tipping its contents into this place.

As the rear dump emptied, what was inside made the black cat's scalp explode—she really was about to vomit—they were all human corpses.

Ah, some were still alive, squirming.

Just dumped in, meant to become nutrients for this place.

What kind of hell world was this that he lived in?

It felt like even true hell would shed tears at the sight.

No, she really couldn't hold it anymore, still retching, her mouth couldn't stay closed—she needed to go throw up.

Ah, she would also need to change her panties.

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