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"She's right," Chiron agreed, "I thought I was the only one alive... Sanguinius bless us, and we are reunited."
Foros and his company commanders saluted Bellona respectfully.
At this time, Foros recalled the battleship that had just appeared in orbit and escaped into the dimensional space.
That battleship obviously belonged to Bellona.
After saluting, Foros asked: "Are you actually willing to use the dimension engine?"
"I'm not that conservative." Bellona said indifferently, "I think if you want to accomplish something, you have to do whatever it takes, no matter the cost."
“The end justifies the means, no matter the cost.”
Bellona repeated it again.
The unscrupulous and unscrupulous words spoken by the inquisitors often mean that they have to help tens or even hundreds of millions of people make sacrifice decisions.
Foros didn't agree, but he had a good impression of Bellona who found and brought back Chiron, at least he wouldn't treat her coldly.
"Let's talk alone." Bellona looked at Chiron.
Chiron immediately stepped forward and left with the company commanders.
Only Dante, Foros, and Bellona were left in the meeting hall.
"The purpose of my visit this time is to help Barr repel the swarm of insects." Bellona's voice echoed in the empty hall.
Dante was surprised and didn't know where this judge had the confidence.
All the descendants of angels and nearly 30,000 space warriors are defending Baal. There is no hope of victory yet, but Bellona said that she would help Baal repel the swarm.
But as the saying goes, don't hit the smiling person. After all, they are here to help. Dante still smiled and nodded to express his gratitude.
"I'm not kidding." Bellona looked at Foros, "I left halfway not only to help you bring Fearless back, but also to bring some goods."
"What cargo?" asked Foros.
"Psykers," Bellona answered. "Two hundred psykers."
As soon as he finished speaking, Mephiston, the chief think tank of the Blood Angels who was hiding in the dark, immediately walked out and scolded Bellona severely: "Two hundred psykers? How dare you do this? Do you know if they are used? , will be able to release billions of... that kind of thing on Baal."
Mephiston was referring to demons, but he didn't say so directly.
"Besides the Chapter Leader, you are the think tank here. You can just say the word devil." Bellona said indifferently, "It is no secret that demons are rampant in the Battle of Cadia."
"What does its secret or not have to do with the possibility that the psykers you bring could be used?" Mephiston said.
Bellona wanted to continue to argue, but the words did not come out. After taking a deep breath, she adjusted her emotions and ignored Mephiston.
Then Bellona took out a small glass bottle containing golden liquid from her pocket.
"What is this?" Dante asked.
"It has no name." Bellona shook the liquid inside. "This is a kind of medicine. It is very complicated to say, but in a nutshell, it can give the psyker who swallows it a brief burst."
Mephiston immediately realized that the bottle of medicine was not simple. It was definitely not brewed from a substance in nature. There could only be one source of material.
Psykers.
When looking at the glass bottle, Mephiston's mind pictured many psykers soaked in petri dishes. Their bodies were curled up in a state of unconsciousness, and the muscles of their limbs had degenerated because they had not been out of the petri dish for too long. .
"I will give this drug to the two hundred psykers on my ship, and then deploy them like bombs in the Hades system."
Bellona began to tell her plan.
"Psychics will emit collective psychic screams, and the huge psychic energy released can do many things, just like gunpowder. It all depends on how we use them. It can even close the Eye of Terror."
"The Eye of Terror is now only half its size, but my plan still has room for action."
"What do you think will happen if you do as I say, Master Thinker?"
At the end of the sentence, Bellona looked at Mephiston, the think tank director.
Dante and Foros also looked at Mephiston, expecting his answer.
As a professional, Mephiston responded after thinking for a while: "It may explode a new Eye of Terror in the Hades galaxy, or it may kill all the psykers in the sector, but in any case, the control of the insect swarm is Stuff will be affected by it.”
"It's a bit biased, but it's roughly correct." Bellona nodded.
Dante originally thought it was feasible, but after hearing Mephiston's words, he immediately decided not to do it: "Between the destruction of Baal and the explosion of a new Eye of Terror, I choose the former."
"Master Think Tank is exaggerating. I don't know how the Eye of Terror was formed, but I know that it was definitely a spiritual power as powerful as the God Emperor that caused the Eye of Terror to appear. Only two hundred psykers Can you open another Eye of Terror? With all due respect, your think tank is too confident in psychic powers." Bellona smiled.
Dante looked at Mephiston again, who nodded, and felt that what Bellona said actually made sense.
Now it's Dante's turn to make the decision.
Dante was not a very decisive person. He thought for a long time and finally said slowly: "We can try it a little bit first."
"Okay, I need Chapter Master Foros to assist me." This is exactly what Bellona wants. She firmly believes that she can demonstrate the effect of the psychic plan in her attempt.
Dante did not give orders to Foros, but looked at him.
Foros nodded: "I will assist her and supervise her."
"Give me some time to prepare. When I am ready, you will know how correct today's decision is." Bellona turned and left the meeting hall. Her young apprentice was waiting outside the meeting hall.
Mephiston discovered that the apprentice was a very special psyker.
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Chapter 267 Iron Will
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While the defense battle for Baal was fierce, a fierce war was also going on in the Hades galaxy.
This is not a war between humans and swarms, but between Iron Man and swarms.
The Leviathan Iron Man Mothership is hidden in the dimensional space, and the tens of thousands of insect swarm biological warships in the galaxy have nothing to do with it.
The Hive Mind could only watch as the Iron Man Mothership extracted minerals from planets on the edge of the galaxy, then extracted stones, and finally even the blazing core of the earth was grabbed.
The Hive Mind immediately defined the Iron Mothership as a predator like itself.
A predator far more ravenous than himself.
When the Iron Man Mothership used the captured resources to mass-produce Iron Man troops, the war began.
Hades One was the scene of the first major war between Iron Man and the Swarm.
Since this was their first contact, the master intelligence controlling Iron Man did not want to decide the outcome in the first war, but wanted to test the upper and lower limits of the insect swarm.
Therefore, the main control intelligence believes that the next war will be a quality war-level war of attrition. The two sides will compare who has the highest resource and energy utilization efficiency.
[The first tentative attack begins. 】
[Enable Nano Swarm. 】
The main control intelligence transmitted the information to all the iron men in the mothership. The newly created iron men all stood upright with their hunched bodies, and their eyes lit up with red light.
But these iron troops specializing in ground warfare were not the main force in the first attack. When the order from the main control intelligence spread, a newly developed steel army was quickly dispatched.
On the surface of Hades No. 1, all the active bugs stopped moving and looked at the sky.
A thick white fog is spreading from low-Earth orbit to the surface of the planet.
Everything that appears within the synaptic creature's vision is uploaded to the Hive Mind.
Through visual analysis, the Hive Mind believes that the white mist may be a biochemical gas, but this possibility is doubtful. Reconnaissance is required to determine what the white mist is.
So a flying war beast was driven by the Hive Mind towards the white mist.
The flying war beast got closer and closer to the white mist, until its body was only about ten meters away from the white mist, and it began to decompose.
The flesh and blood on the body gradually fell off, and was decomposed in the process of falling off.
The end result of this flying war beast was to leave only an empty chitin carapace, and it failed to observe what exactly made up the white mist.
However, the sensory information of the war beast before it died allowed the Hive Mind to analyze what the white mist was.
Those are some bugs, bugs that are made of organic matter and resemble biological machines. Their biological principles are not like living things, and their cell structures form a machine-like structure.
To put it simply, they are robotic creatures made of meat.
When the flying war beast approached the white mist, it seemed that the white mist did nothing to it, but in fact, this was not the case. Some bugs that were much smaller than cells had already flown to the war beast and began to devour its cells.
There are only a small number of these bugs at first, but they obtain material and energy in the process of phagocytes and are able to divide and multiply.
One becomes two, two becomes four... When the flying war beast is completely decomposed, the 40 billion bugs are multiplying into 160 billion.
As for why the flying war beasts cannot be seen to be affected in any way... By the time there are enough bugs to appear as white mist in the field of vision, they have multiplied to trillions.
The white mist drifted to the surface of the planet and spread in all directions along the horizon. All organic matter along the way was eaten up by them, becoming resources for their proliferation and expansion.
The white mist quickly went from a cloud of gas that looked like fog to a storm, like a giant sandstorm that swept across an entire continent on a desert planet.
The number of biological robot bugs contained in this white storm is too large to be counted.
With the number and devouring efficiency geometrically superimposed, the first continent of Hades 1 quickly turned into a bare stone plain.
The Hive Mind realizes that hostile predators are creating an environment that is extremely unfavorable to themselves. They take the lead in consuming all the organic matter on the planet before the insect swarm, lest those organic matter become resources for the expansion of the insect swarm.
But if the insect swarm would be defeated as a result, they would not be qualified to survive until now.
All the bugs still alive on Hades 1 were ordered to be rushed to the digester. These bugs were turned into resources for expanding the bug colony. A new type of bug was being produced by the queen hiding in the dark.
This is a kind of insect that can devour and digest nano bee swarms and is also very small in size.
When these bugs swept toward the white storm, they and the nanobugs devoured each other.
Standing on the surface of the planet, you can see black and white storms entwining each other.
The main control intelligence quickly responded and replaced the nano-swarms made of organic matter with metal materials. These metallic nano-worms cannot divide and proliferate by swallowing organic matter, but their numbers are still huge and they have special functions.
When the Hive Mind discovered that its Devouring Worms could not eat the new Nanobugs, it chose to let the Queen Breed the Iron Devouring Worms.
The storms between the two sides were still clashing on the surface of the planet. When the iron-eating insects devoured many new nano-worms and then returned to the digestion tank to be turned into biomass, the Hive Mind suddenly realized that something was not right.
There is a special virus in the metal structure of those new nanobugs, which will destroy the genetic material of the insect colony, causing the newly bred bugs to suffer from sclerosis and turn into semi-metals that can be eaten by the new nanobugs.
The Hive Mind responded again and began to destroy the digesters and Zerg individuals contaminated by the virus.
The Tyranids' ability to adapt and adapt surprised the Master Intelligence, and it began to design new, more effective nanoswarms.