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To make matters worse, with the exception of battleships, the hulls of most cruisers were damaged to varying degrees. Some unlucky cruisers had their propellers damaged. After sailing slowly for a period of time, the propellers stopped working, and they could only despair. Stay where you are and get set on fire.
Some warships who did not want to die in humiliation during the evacuation chose to stop retreating, slowly turned their direction and launched a desperate charge towards the Tai Lung warship closest to them, ignoring the attacks on the hull and ramming it as fast as possible.
A battleship that is fast enough can use the angle of impact to smash the energy shield of the Tyron battleship, but it can only smash the shield. After the impact, the hull will violently shake and deflect, and the crew of the battleship will be shaken regardless of whether they are prepared for the impact or not. He was thrown away, his body shattering faster than the hull of the ship.
Abaddon in the bridge of the Vengeful Spirit observed the overall situation of the fleet, and then speculated to Typhons, who was in contact with him: "At least forty cruisers will be destroyed during the evacuation."
Typhons said something very angry after hearing this, but this sentence was covered up by the explosion that echoed in the bridge.
Typhons, who was far away in the bridge of the Terminus, saw that the entire bridge of the Vengeful Spirit was shaking violently, and Abaddon stabbed his power claw into the throne to maintain balance.
Typhons wanted to ask what happened in the Vengeful Spirit, but just as he was about to speak, he heard a more violent explosion on the image.
Abaddon knew what was going on without sending anyone to investigate.
The Vengeful Spirit was hit on the port side before the decision was made to evacuate. This attack caused a fire near the point of impact. It is possible that the crew failed to contain the spread of the flames, which then detonated the ammunition magazine.
This kind of collateral damage is very common in wars. Nearly 10,000 crew members may have been blown away in the two explosions just now, but it doesn't matter. There are at least hundreds of thousands of crew members left on the battleship.
Any little trouble on the Vengeful Spirit is enough to make Abaddon worried, but he is still more concerned about the situation of Blackstone Fortress, because whether the next war can be fought depends on whether Blackstone Fortress can evacuate with the fleet. .
Abaddon looked at the image in the bridge and found that the two black stone fortresses had just finished another round of bombardment. They began to retreat while accumulating subspace energy, but they stopped and walked.
The Blackstone Fortresses were fighting against the crews controlling them, apparently not wanting to retreat.
"Did you notice those black stone fortresses?" Abaddon asked Typhons. "I have never seen them so... so active... I didn't even know if they had any attack methods other than vortex cannons before. , but now they are so active fighting for me."
"If you also give me a Blackstone Fortress, maybe I can study them and answer your questions." Typhons said.
Abaddon did not follow Typhons' words. He turned his head and glanced at the porthole, and found that the Spirit of Vengeance and the Rift were close at hand.
"Laila." Abaddon looked at his strongest lieutenant, "Go to the Eternal Will and make sure it won't be destroyed by gang members before evacuating."
Laila immediately prepared to teleport.
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Subspace teleportation technology is not very stable and easy to use, but due to the existence of subspace rifts in the galaxy, the teleportation distance and accuracy are far beyond normal levels. Even though the thickness of the Blackstone Fortress is much more than five meters, Laila can accurately enter the Eternal Will. control room.
This is a cubic space of about 4,000 square meters in Blackstone Fortress. No one knows what its original purpose was. Now this space is used as a control room.
When Lyra appeared in the open space in the control room, the Dark Mechanicus priest responsible for providing technical support for the Eternal Will was giving orders to his subordinates, ordering them to rush to various places in the Blackstone Fortress to add propulsion devices.
"What's going on here?" Laila stepped forward and asked.
The priest glanced at Laila and issued a series of orders before answering him angrily: "I don't know."
The Dark Mechanicus are members of the Mechanicus who betrayed the Empire. They have a strong interest in all technologies prohibited by the Empire, but there is not much difference in personality between the two.
If it had been anyone else, Laila would have immediately drawn her sword and chopped it into 666 pieces, but helplessly, the priest in front of her was found by the Warmaster.
"Why does the propulsion device always stall? Does the same for the newly added propulsion device?"
"It's really damn, this damn Blackstone Fortress, this damn propulsion device."
"..."
After hearing the priest's complaint, Laila could roughly understand the current situation, that is, the propulsion device installed on the Blackstone Fortress always stalled for no reason. This happened even with the newly installed propulsion device.
The people of the Dark Mechanicus were helpless to do anything about this situation, and Laila was even less able to intervene.
"There's something I can do." The priest summoned a servo skull and motioned for Lyra to look at the skull.
After Laila's eyes met the two holes emitting light in her skull, a picture appeared in his brain.
It was an image in a passage on the edge of Blackstone Fortress, and the recorder was another servo skull.
This servo skull followed five thousand mortal servants and ten Chaos Space Marines from various warbands patrolling the passage. After traveling a certain distance, they suddenly saw hundreds of blue cracks appearing directly in front of them, and a star emerged from each crack. warrior.
Finally, a man wearing an unprecedented power armor walked out of the crack, and an alien holding a light-emitting device kept waving the device in his hand as soon as it appeared.
Those Space Marines are the Lamenters Chapter.
Lyra recognized the markings on the Space Marine armor; he had even fought against them.
However, these Wailers were completely different from what they looked like in the past. They all wore Terminator power armor and opened fire on the patrols as they advanced.
The vast passages in the Blackstone Fortress are suitable as battlefields at the spatial level, but there is nothing in the passages that can be used as a bunker. Hundreds of mortal servants are beaten to pieces every second, and those space warriors cannot hold out for long.
"It's really outrageous..." Laila was a little confused. The last time he saw so many Terminator power armors was during the Great Crusade 10,000 years ago.
Lyra again reported the situation to the Warmaster and asked for his support.
During the report, Lyra suddenly thought of a rival named Kayon. It would be great if the unlucky guy who had to intercept the Weeper now was Kayon.
Unfortunately, Khayon was even more unlucky.
Chapter 211 Battle of Passage
While waiting for reinforcements to arrive, Lyra devised a simple plan.
No matter how many Space Marines the Warmaster would send and how many defenders there were in the fortress, he would only bring about thirty Space Marines to attack the enemy.
Facing more than a hundred enemies wearing Terminator armor, thirty Space Marines are too few, but even if there are three hundred, they will not be able to win.
The function of these thirty Space Marines is to attract the enemy's attention and create an opportunity for faster, more agile and stronger people to get close to the enemy.
The person who is faster, more agile and stronger is naturally Laila herself.
As for what to do after getting close...
Laila remembered that there was an Eldar alien in the image she had just seen. The alien was holding a luminous device, which should be something that could guide the way.
So the goal is to kill the aliens and destroy the guide device.
After quickly formulating a plan, Laila prepared to find a suitable ambush location in the fortress.
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The Weeper Chapter is still advancing in the passage. They have been walking for a long time, killing tens of thousands of enemies and even destroying several tanks along the way, but there is still no end in sight for this huge passage. I don’t know how long it will take.
Behind the Lamenters Astartes were Gray and Thrall, walking at the rear.
Thrall holds a wraith bone device in his hand that exudes a guiding light. His duty is to guide the way, but he has not opened his mouth to point the way since he was teleported into the Blackstone Fortress, because the wraith bone device shows this passage with no end in sight. That's the correct route.
Gray beside Thrall did not participate in any battle. His duty was to protect Thrall.
"How much longer do we have to go?"
"We just received a communication. The enemy fleet in the system has begun to evacuate. The Blackstone Fortress where we are is evacuating very slowly, but sooner or later it will enter the rift."
Gray kept conveying the latest battle situation to Thrall along the way, intending to remind him that if there is something in the bottom of the box that can allow everyone to go to the core of Blackstone Fortress immediately, then now is the time to use it.
However, Thrall had no way of pressing the bottom of the box. He could only follow the guidance of the wraith bone device and move slowly, because the wraith bone device did not know where the core was now, but was constantly collecting signals to deduce the core's location.
"It seems that there is a high probability that we will have to follow the Blackstone Fortress into the subspace." Gray had to make the worst plan.
"We cannot enter the subspace." Foros, who was walking in front, looked back at Gray, "We must leave before the Blackstone Fortress enters the subspace, we must!"
"Why?" This was the first time Gray heard Fros speak in a stern tone. He didn't know what was in the subspace, but he had heard some relevant information before.
Like Gray, almost all Tyrones either knew nothing about the Warp or knew a little but not much.
"The traitors usually don't use the Geller Stand, which can isolate subspace creatures. If we follow the Blackstone Fortress and enter the subspace, we will be finished."
Although what Foros said was very vague, Gray still realized the danger. He no longer thought that even if the Blackstone Fortress entered the subspace, he had to complete the task, but planned to go as far as he could, and buried his body when leaving the Blackstone Fortress. transmit beacon.
"We still have some time." Thrall said and looked around. "It didn't want to leave, so it deliberately slowed down, otherwise it would have entered the subspace."
Others did not pay attention to this sentence and continued to move forward.
The light emitted by the spirit bone device became more and more dazzling, and finally an upward slope suddenly appeared in the unchanging straight passage ahead.
Everyone except Thrall was shocked by the scene before them. Foros was relieved when he recalled the subspace rift in the galaxy, and Gray was relieved when he recalled the various supernatural phenomena he saw on the Forge World.
After walking up the slope, everyone came to a very strange-looking space.
There are many entrances here, and various slopes and steps extend in a slightly twisted way to each entrance.
Both the Grays and the Astartes felt a little dizzy, but the Eldar had senses that could adapt to this kind of space, and Thrall was at home here.
"Follow me." Thrall came to the front of the team and continued to lead the way. He moved nimbly up the stairs and slopes, glancing at the wraith bone device from time to time, and led everyone towards an entrance in the middle of the space.
The light of the wraith bone device was even more dazzling, and Thrall seemed to be holding a searchlight.
After climbing up a new staircase as nimbly as before, Sal looked back at the other people behind him, who were crawling slowly and awkwardly on the stairs.
It’s not that Gray and others are slow and insensitive, it’s just that the steep slopes and stairs at weird angles make their senses very uncomfortable.
Just when Sal looked back at the others, there was a sudden gunshot from the entrance. Sal felt something very fast flying out against his head, and an explosion sounded a few microseconds later.
A Lamenter Astartes who had just climbed the stairs was hit by a bolt that Thrall dodged, but the bomb failed to penetrate the Terminator Armor.
The Astartes watched calmly and saw thirty Black Legion Space Marines running over quickly. They did not bring any mortal servants with them.
More bombs followed.
The moment Thrall saw the enemy, he hid behind the Astartes and was not affected by the bomb.
More and more Astartes have climbed up the stairs to participate in the battle. As the two sides exchange fierce fire, the distance is quickly closing, until Thrall, who is hiding behind the Astartes and observing secretly, sees a figure holding two swords. He is incredibly fast and incredibly dexterous.
It was Lyra who traveled among the Space Marines.
"Be careful!" Thrall warned.
At this time, Lyra had already rushed in front of the Wailers, slashed the arm of the person who was about to fire at her with a knife, and then rushed towards Thrall.
Thrall was shocked the first time he formally saw Laila. He saw the surging murderous intent in Laila's eyes.
While Thrall was stunned, Foros and Gray passed by him, swinging their chainswords and thrusting their power spears, but Lyra dodged these attacks.
Laila's body rotated like a graceful dancer, and she swung the knife at Sal's neck while avoiding it. The knife was so fast that even though Sal saw it, he could not react in time.
At the critical moment, Gray used bullet time to approach and cut off Lyla's arm. Foros's power spear followed closely and cut off Lyla's other limbs.
Laila didn't realize what happened after falling to the ground. He felt that his limbs were still being slashed with the knife instead of being chopped off.
Lyra could do nothing now. She could only watch the thirty Space Marines she had brought over being annihilated by the Weeper one after another.
The plan failed.
"My next communication will determine your fate." Gray put his arm on Laila's head, and then contacted Qin Mo in the celestial engine bridge.
I wrote three chapters late today and posted them all, and I posted the remaining two chapters as I wrote them.
If I say I will update five chapters, I will update five chapters. Anyway, I don’t have to go to work tomorrow and I can write until ten o’clock.