The excavation work went smoothly, and after three hours, Inquisitor Lennart Meyers was preparing to lead the team into the largest crevice, while Melissa was left above.
She observed two teams gathered at the edge of the pit. These were battle-hardened mercenaries and stormtroopers. Not only could they have the combat power of the Astartes, but they could handle most physical threats.
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They attached themselves to rappelling ropes and entered the pit, fully armed and ready for battle.
The Inquisition team quickly jumped into the pit. Lennart Meyers, as the commander, was the last one to enter the cave, while the others stood sentry at the entrance of the cave.
It was pitch black below, and Lennart Meyers began to jump down from the stone wall.
Did the stone wall twitch beneath his boots? Did his heels dig in, as if on flesh? Did it writhe like a snake's nest?
No, none of this happened.
He wished he could be sure of this.
However, he keenly felt a primitive disgust.
He descended another dozen meters, jumped off the wall, and landed on a wide ledge, where two teams were waiting.
Below, the pit plunged into silent darkness, and the ledge in the wall was a projecting terrace.
"Cheer up, everyone."
Lennart Meyers looks toward the entrance.
"We all serve Him and must not fail."
Other aspects of the building's entrance facade are equally unsettling. Lennart Meyers didn't know whether he was facing a window or a doorway. It rises into a pointed arch, but the sides are asymmetrical, curved and crisscrossed.
Looking directly at it, the entrance looks like a crack in the stone. Looking out of the corner of your eye, it seems to be a natural crack.
The arch was very narrow and slightly tilted from the vertical. It took the inquisitor a certain amount of time to look through it.
"This road is blocked."
The arch is a gradual line, the two sides eventually intersect and shrink to a gap - it is just a sham.
"This is impossible, my lord."
A certain tech-priest attendant said affirmatively.
"That must be a crack."
"No."
Another person held the same opinion as the inquisitor. When his bionic eyes scanned the building surface, there was no buzzing sound.
The highly mechanized mercenary then adjusted the wavelength of his prosthetic eye to suit the low-light environment and amplified his vision.
"I believe that the Lord Inquisitor is right. The cracks have become part of the decoration, extending upward."
The technical priest also turned his artificial eyes towards the arch and said suspiciously:
"This building is divided into two floors?"
"It's worse than that."
Lennart Meyers points to other openings from left to right, each with its own unique shape, as if it had been melted after it was built, and gaps similar to arches can be seen in the shadows.
The facade initially appeared to be seamless, but upon closer inspection, it was revealed to be a network of tiny gaps, vaguely suggesting a three-dimensional mosaic structure.
"How can this be?"
The Tech-Priest spoke again, but now his denial was an expression of fear. This construction process was truly miraculous.
"It was originally built on a hillside and then supported by the sunken crust."
The sill is at the widest point in the center of the opening, and its edges are a curved, tapered cylinder twice as tall as the Space Marine.
It looked like a giant fang, reaching into the empty air of the pit, and the Tech-Priest took a few steps forward to examine it. His servo arm turned on the light, illuminating the black stone and illuminating similar structures around it.
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It looks like a spreading crack, but unless the aesthetic itself has power, nothing will stop this thing from shattering into pieces.
"My lord, I cannot think of any reasonable explanation for what we have seen."
"It's a subspace influence."
A one-eyed old mercenary replied like this.
"We shouldn't be surprised that this area is being affected more severely."
Another mercenary also expressed similar views
"This kind of existence is not a problem. This is a designed organizational form. Some kind of subspace power has shaped this shape...and no matter what, as long as it appears in the physical universe, then he can
Destroyed."
On the other side, several stormtroopers had been jumping down and were now back on the ledge, the flash of their helmets illuminating the darkness.
"How about it?"
Stormtroopers are actually the most trusted force of Inquisitor Lennart Meyers. His attitude towards other mercenaries is the same as before, refusing to provide anything beyond basic courtesy, but he will give more respect to the stormtroopers.
The leader of the stormtrooper team shook his head.
"Sir, as far as the entire fissure is concerned, they have the same structure, but some structures are still buried. We have no more information."
"There is no more important rift than anywhere else?"
"No, on the contrary..."
The Stormtrooper squad leader hesitated.
"Each opening was completely different from the others, but I was impressed that they were also replicated."
"copy?"
"I don't want to say that this building was created by copying."
"But that's what you just said."
"Like I said, I didn't want to say it."
Lennart Meyers grunted.
"Let me see."
He walked toward the rift, the team following behind him.
Passing through the rift was like passing through a membrane, Lennart Meyers entered a narrow tunnel, and then the team entered a wide room.
From scratch, there seemed to be only weak lighting in the room, and a blood-like dark red liquid filled the entire space, modifying the faint light from the outside.
The ceiling is a huge dome, and all the pillars have a certain inclination with the vertical direction. The wall is located two hundred meters away. After advancing fifty meters, it is still empty.
The rear walls correspond to the rise of the plateau, and behind them, the rock wall is filled with rows of twisted arched entrances.
"Where's the augur?"
"Nothing found."
The tech-priest answered immediately.
"No energy source?"
"nor"
"Then what can you tell me?"
"Uh... Sir, even in this space, I can't give a universal explanation. The readings are contradictory and constantly changing."
Lennart Meyers nodded.
"Something shaped this place, and what it created is stable, so we're going to keep looking until we find the root of it all."
They continued to move forward, and near the back wall, there was a ramp leading to the next level.
The slope is steep, and people follow the ramp into a room identical to the one above. There is also a ramp here, which takes them to another room, which also has a ramp.