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The soldiers who had been teleporting to snipe the Plague Marines before were teleported in front of Valens and put a collar-like thing around his neck.
"Your mask is damaged."
Valens heard the short soldier say to himself, and at the same time, the collar extended upward like a membrane of energy, wrapping his entire head.
The damaged mask was melted and turned into a black substance flowing in the energy film.
"Tyrone people?" Valens looked at the symbol on the chest of the short soldier, "The reinforcements mentioned by the Lord of Five Hundred Worlds have arrived?"
"No, the Tyrone reinforcements are still gathering. We are just the advance team sent out." The short soldier said and took off his helmet. He also wore a collar-like equipment around his neck, and also had an energy film.
This was clearly a Letling.
"Captain of the Letling Sniper Team of the 44th Infantry Regiment." The Letling man stretched out his hand.
Valens shook hands with the Letling man in a daze. He originally thought that the other party was going to perform the aquila salute.
After saying hello, Captain Leitlin put on his helmet and teleported to a hill on the side of the position with the rest of the team to observe the situation.
Talon soldiers armed with flamethrowers began to clear the trenches of corpses, setting fire to both friendly and foe alike.
The drone flew over the position and started spraying disinfectant, and the green gas lingering around the entire position was cleared.
Logistics machinery flew to the rear of the position and began digging holes to build underground facilities.
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After a while.
Soldiers gathered in the underground facility that had been built.
This facility, built at an unimaginable speed, has accommodation and catering, and the facility also has internally circulated air where soldiers can take off their masks.
Valens and Burroughs sat at a table in the corner of the cafeteria, and a logistics machine floated over to provide them with a hot meal each.
Burroughs immediately devoured it, while Valens ate while looking at the officers gathered at the dining table on the other side of the mess hall.
The officers were talking to the Tyrone army officers.
"I said, we are just the advance team."
"The 44th Infantry Regiment has now been dispersed to various positions in Espandor. Captain Grote should be meeting with the Governor and Space Marines responsible for managing Espandor. I am just a company commander."
"Coming with us are the engineering troops, Taiwei's soulless medical team, and a huge amount of medical supplies. They are going to Yax."
The Tyrone officer explained the situation.
Then they exchanged pleasantries and complimented each other, one thanked the reinforcements and the other thanked the reinforcements sent by Five Hundred Worlds back then.
After such a set of procedures was completed, an officer stood up and looked around, finally focusing on the table of Valens and Burroughs.
Valens realized something and immediately lowered his head to eat.
The officer walked straight towards Valens.
"Valens, Private Burroughs. Stand."
The officer stood in front of the table with his hands behind his hands and gave orders to the two soldiers.
"Yes, sir." Valens and Burroughs immediately put down their chopsticks and stood up in the heat emanating from the lunch boxes, standing tall with their heads held high.
"You two just came into contact with the Plague Marines, right?" the officer asked.
Valens didn't want to answer because he heard that soldiers who had direct contact with the Plague Marines on the battlefield of Espandor would be sent out of Espandor and never come back.
"We are not afraid of death, but we are afraid of meaningless death, sir." Valens lowered his head, "If you need us to usher in death, I want to hold a melta bomb and die together with the Plague Marines in the next invasion."
Burroughs nodded vigorously to show that he thought so too.
"You know this is the 500th world, and you are all members of the auxiliary army like me, right?" The officer raised his eyebrows and said, "So don't think nonsense. According to the rules established by the original body, you two can no longer stay in the position. After going down, you must immediately take the supply ship and go to the Yax Hospital World for examination and treatment."
"Bless the Primarch, I hope you two are as okay as you seem and don't get poisoned or anything."
"Anyway, let's go to the hospital world and get treatment."
As he spoke, the officer took a folded pamphlet from his pocket, then took off his gloves and began writing on the spot permission to send Valens and Burroughs to Aix.
"Yax? Garden World Yax?" Valens couldn't believe it. "Why...I heard that that's where only officers can go..."
"Ax is now a hospital world. Anyone who may be infected or has been infected must go to Ax for treatment." The officer tore off the permission from the pamphlet and handed it to Valens. "In the name of the original body, I Granting you temporary relief from the hell called Espandor."
Valens took the note. He didn't really want to go to Yax, because he felt that he still had the responsibility to fight.
Burroughs was much more excited than Valens: "Praise the five hundred worlds, praise the Lord of Ultramar!"
Chapter 534 An Ningxiang and Yax
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The hospital ship transporting five hundred wounded soldiers from battlefields around the world slowly sailed out from the star gate of Yax's system.
Valens, who was sleeping on the deck of the hospital ship, was woken up by Burroughs, and then the two hurried to the porthole to look out.
Yax.
This breathtakingly beautiful garden world is just around the corner.
After the dimensional energy surrounding the ship gradually faded, Valens could see the garden world more clearly.
As ordinary soldiers, Valens and Burroughs would probably never have the opportunity to go to the Garden World in their lifetimes, unless one day the Garden World was attacked and they were ordered to protect it.
But when that time comes, the garden world will also be destroyed and not so beautiful.
Now that Yax has been designated as a hospital world by the original body, Valens and Burroughs have the opportunity to go to the garden world.
Just seeing the appearance of Yax was enough to make Valens and Burroughs feel healed in their hearts, and next they would go to the surface of Yax, which made them tremble with excitement.
"Yax! Yax!"
“My mother’s lifelong dream was to go to Aix, even if it was just for an hour.”
"But she obviously didn't have as much luck as I did, so I had to save money so that one day I could place her urn in the cemetery in Yax."
Bruce said excitedly.
Valens suddenly remembered that Burroughs was always reluctant to spend money, and the reason might be because of what he said.
Being buried in Yax is also an unattainable dream for civilians.
"Since you want to save money, why did you get out from under the Plague Soldier's arm to kill him and almost be crushed to death by him? Aren't you afraid that you won't be able to save money if you die?" Valens asked.
Burroughs still looked at Yax excitedly, his eyes shining: "If I die, my pension will be enough for my mother to be buried in Yax Cemetery."
This sentence suddenly made the atmosphere heavy.
Valens lowered his head and remained silent.
"You have to die behind me." Burroughs smiled and looked at Valens, "I also want you to tell the leader on my behalf to use my pension and savings on Yax. Bury my mother.”
"Don't say such heavy words, man." Valens rolled his eyes at Burroughs.
Burroughs didn't think it was anything heavy. He had always been open-minded.
In Burroughs's words: "Those of us born in the 41st millennium can only count one day as long as we live."
The two good brothers were lying in front of the porthole, staring at the beautiful Yax.
The two people did not know that Yax, who was so beautiful in their eyes, was a thorn in the side of an evil god in the subspace.
This beautiful hospital world simply exists to give a middle finger to the dark gods.
Hospital ships approached Yax one after another and docked at the star port established by Tyrone's engineering force.
Then comes the lengthy inspection process.
Doctors from Yax will enter the hospital ship, use drones to disinfect every place on the hospital ship, and then check one by one whether the people on the hospital ship are infected with the disease, what disease they are infected with, and how to treat them.
The transport will then pick up the soldiers on the hospital ship to the ground. Before and after the people in the transport plane come out, the doctors will disinfect the apron twice and conduct a second inspection.
In the billowing white smoke, Valens slowly walked out of the transport plane door. Fortunately, he was not infected with any virus, but he still had to stay on Yax for re-examination until it was confirmed that he was in good health regardless of his mental or physical state. After reaching the top, we will return to the front line.
This set of procedures seems cumbersome, but according to the calculations of Tyrone scholars who cooperated with Five Hundred Worlds, the existence of Yax has actually increased the war efficiency on the front line by about 10%. Paying attention to the psychological and physiological problems of soldiers is always can get good results.
"Valens!"
Burroughs caught up with Valens, followed by five other men.
"Not only did we survive from the Plague Marines here, but so did they." Burroughs introduced the other five people. "They all also encountered the Plague Marines, but they all survived. We are all legends!"
"Oh." Valens didn't care much and turned away.
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Guilliman had nothing to do with Qin Mo's prophecy about the fall of Yax, because even if the seven chosen people in the prophecy were physically erased, Nurgle's lackeys would only have to pick seven more people.
Guilliman and Qin Mo also hoped that nothing would happen to Yax until Tyron's reinforcements were assembled, but if things didn't go their way, they couldn't wait to die.
Tyrone's engineering ships and engineering troops, as part of the advance team, have arrived at Yax together with the soulless doctors.
The most dangerous patients are treated by the soulless doctors. In the face of the subspace plague that can drive doctors from five hundred worlds crazy, the soulless doctors seem to be favored by gods. Their existence is a threat to the subspace. Containment of the Plague.
Engineering ships floated in the orbit of Yax, splashing "pen and ink" to draw giant fortresses on the beautiful mountains.
The engineering troops are building huge underground projects under the city of Yax.
All projects were built with one goal in mind, that is, if the demon army of Nurgle appears directly on Yax, the defenders and wounded of Yax must persist under the protection of the fortress and underground city until reinforcements arrive.
The star gates in the galaxy coordinate the coming and going of ships and supplies. The person responsible for managing the star gates is the star gate manager who was appointed by Guilliman in anger and will be trained by the original body himself.
Since the Star Gate is still controlled remotely by people from the Tyrone Star Sector, the manager has to stay in the Star Gate staff's office and dormitory in the building at the bottom of the Star Gate, and stand aside to learn the entire process of controlling the Star Gate.
Five Hundred Worlds has already sent out students. The manager's task is to manage the Star Gate students who will return after completing their studies. However, this does not mean that he does not need to understand the things he manages. He has to learn far more than the students.
"Have you learned the step of stargate directional towing of the ship that I just demonstrated? Lord Tigurus?"
"I...I haven't learned it yet, but I have taken notes. I will study hard."
"Keke, you are very serious, Lord Tigurius."
"You...you don't need to call me sir."
Fifteen-year-old Tigurus studied alone in the huge Stargate office. The person in charge of being his liaison was a woman with a nice voice.
This woman is the star gate manager in the Tyrone sector. Perhaps because she has nothing to do, she always likes to make fun of Tigurus. Calling Tigurus "sir" is just a tease.
"Alas." The woman suddenly sighed, "You people in the Five Hundred Worlds are all too serious, and so are your students. They are all quite boring."