"People are needed...well, company commander, a deck gun position previously commanded by Karoni is now empty."
"I understand, I will let Iztok take his place, after all, he is Karoni's executioner."
Eli Dazardon's words can easily make people mistakenly think that they are killing each other internally, but it is not all because of the curse that plagues the Crimson Sword.
After the Umidia Massacre, individual members of the battle group found that they could not properly sort out their thoughts, and no amount of silent prayer or meditation seemed to work. Due to the genetic seed organs and genetic modifications they implanted, Space Marines did not sleep as most people knew, but instead entered a coma, recharged their brains even if their bodies remained awake (fake sleeping is not a substitute for normal sleep).
However, the soldiers of the Crimson Sword failed in their attempts again and again. They could not relax in their fake sleep, and the cruelly murdered faces appeared in their minds, as if they were once again in the cruel massacre.
In an increasingly uneasy atmosphere, the most intense warriors began to hear some voices—whispers from the slaughtered ones.
Those voices were coaxing, mocking or begging, while others screamed endlessly, or recited incomprehensible words that sounded painfully.
As time goes by, this sound becomes clearer and clearer. Only the massacre can temporarily disappear, which has become the most important reason why the Crimson Army transformed into the Scarlet Slayer.
After leaving the betrayed brothers, the fourth company's combat brothers were once away from the whispers, but they would still return in battle or praying to try to drive these loyal warriors crazy.
In addition to using long-term prayer and meditation to fight those whispers, the soldiers of the Fourth Company also established a "executioner" system, where everyone can choose a brother they trust most as their "executioner". If one day they can no longer support them or can no longer suppress the urge to massacre, then he will let the "executioner" bring him the last kindness and loyalty.
This is the path of redemption chosen by the Crimson Swords, fighting the curse with death and fighting the fall.
During the period when he rebelled from the original battle group, seven soldiers had chosen to accept the execution of their brothers.
"Company Commander, the enemy's fleet has begun to change formations."
They seemed to be really despised by the Emperor, and bad news came one by one. In this nebula belt located on the edge of the extreme star domain, the relatively calm void was flooded by glued and dusty nebula. The stumbled strike cruiser sneaked into the quagmire nebula, and the strange fleet followed closely, and the environment here did not provide them with any protection.
Soon, the frigate of the strange fleet began to advance in formation, and its engines shone like fireflies in the void. Then the counter-interference bomb was fired out, like silver fireworks, making the bridge display of the Logong Pride full of thin filaments from the interference sensors.
Then, a giant ship rushed forward, separated the small boats in front like an icebreaker, quickly spreading the side guns to one side, and the rest of the fleet circled around it, and a battleship of the same size floated on the right side of the flagship.
Then a large number of bombers set out from the flight deck that looked like slender cylinders, and the interceptors gathered around it, like fruits on the vines, spinning through the cloud-like nebula, and the squadrons of the explosion bombers charged forward.
The electromagnetic fields crackle between them, forming observation blind spots where the fighters will be in a safe state until they start attacking.
The huge flagship looked down upon everything under the protection of its frigate, and a strange blue light flashed around the muzzle of a new star that stretched out from the bow.
Eli Dazardon only needs to look at the Bird Buyi to know how bad the situation is. Although most of the automatic loaders have been repaired with the efforts of the crew, many huge side guns still need to be loaded manually.
Because he was worried about the artillery problem, he temporarily left the bridge and went to the artillery deck.
A soldier was standing next to the nearest cannon, commanding a squad to drag a tank-sized shell into the huge breeze of the cannon.
"Company Commander!"
A warrior shouted:
"What are our enemies?"
"We'll find out soon, what's the trouble you have now?"
"The No. 8 macro cannon also needs a strong arm."
A soldier was dragging a shell towards the No. 8 macro cannon. This was originally something that the servient should have done, but they did not have so many servients and the anti-aircraft gun positions could not be filled.
Eli Dazaton joined the man, crouched down his strong legs, raised the shell, pushed it through the last few meters, stuffed it into the barrel, and the other Space Marines slammed the rear hatch door.
"It's ready!"
The mortal gun master squatted on the cannon shell and shouted, staring at the outside of the spacecraft through the scope.
"The number of targets is large and the harassing warships with smaller tonnage are approaching!"
"Gal!"
Eli Dazaton connects to the technical sergeant.
"Can we confirm who they are now? If we can communicate-"
"It's hard to say!"
Technical sergeant replied on the bridge.
"They fired a lot of jamming bombs, which looked like a mechanical tactic. Do we need to show our identity?"
"Can the other party open fire immediately? And I guess the other party already knows our identity..."
Eli Dazardon understood that even the Mechanics would certainly open fire on a warship marked as a traitor. Even if they realized there were Space Marines on the ship, they would double down on their efforts to smash the ship to pieces as soon as they saw the sign of the Crimson Sword.
"Well...Company Commander, there is one more thing. I sent a distress signal ten minutes ago."
The Tech Sergeant continued.
"Maybe someone can-"
Eli Dazaton really wants to laugh now, either a bitter smile or a slutty smile, but he can't laugh.
"Brother, who do you think will be here to save us now? Who is willing to receive our signals? You are wasting your time."
"Okay, actually, it's mainly because there's nothing to do, we can't win-"
Suddenly, the technical sergeant screamed in surprise.
"Ah, wait, there is signal feedback!"
"What?"
"Someone responded to the distress signal I sent, wait! The other party is nearby! The birdbuyi has detected a subspace disturbance."
And the fleet also detected the same signal and began to change its formation.
In a moment, at the edge of the nebula cluster, a subspace crack was torn open and a huge fleet slowly sailed out.
The emergence of this fleet also made the imperial fleet nervous, but soon the weapons originally prepared were lifted out of their attack status and continued to target the Luogong Pride. Obviously, they already knew the identity of the visitor.
Eli Dazaton rushed to the bridge as soon as possible and stared at the scene sent from the observation window.
"who are they?"
"The identity recognition system shows... they are the Astral Knights' Chapter! One of the battles participating in the Pai Shangxing Star Battle!"