The smoke from the explosion gradually dissipated, and Soshyan also got up from the ground. He walked over to Thor with his dizzy head shaking and glanced at the claw marks on his shoulder armor.
"what is that?"
"I don't know, but I'm definitely not a gene stealer."
Thor raised the sword in his hand, recalling the brief few seconds of contact.
"A skilled killer, quick in movement, huge in strength, and with a hint of subspace."
"It seems that the underground situation is more complicated than expected."
Soshyan checked the mine tunnel and after confirming that there were no living enemies, he began to consider the next course of action.
"The enemy already knows that we are here. If we continue to follow the originally planned route, the number of ambushes will only increase. We need to open up a new route."
He then took out the map provided to them by the Ministry of Justice, looked at it for two seconds, and said in surprise:
"Ha, it seems that someone has already opened the way for us."
Thor turned his head and took a look, and found that just as Soshyan said, there was a parallel mine tunnel across the wall, and it was easier to penetrate deeper into the mining area.
And that wall had just been blasted with a hole.
"Everyone concentrates."
Under the leadership of Soshyan, the team stepped over the rubble on the ground and entered the gap in the rock wall that was blown out.
The rock wall was not thick, and soon they entered a new, wider mine tunnel.
As soon as he entered, Soshyan smelled a strong smell of death. When he realized what he had crushed, he looked down and found that it was the head of a gene stealer.
This is a battlefield. Corpses are scattered all over the mine tunnels. The walls are covered with traces of gunfire. A large number of mixed gene stealers and purebreds are lying on the ground. Most of them are torn into pieces and dead. But they are not the only ones on the field.
Corpse.
Some corpses wearing miner uniforms were also scattered around. Soshyan checked one of the men and found that he had a tattoo of the Raven Bishop on his back shoulder. He then checked several other human corpses and got the same result.
.
Thor focused his inspection on another aspect. After careful inspection, he confirmed that these people were all pure human beings without any mutation or distortion. The only thing that was special was that their skin was paler than that of the locals - this was probably a long-term problem.
The result of living underground.
So the facts are very clear? When they were fighting the aliens, a group of people were also fighting the aliens here.
"It seems we are not far from the truth."
Soshyan felt that the explosion was not an accident? Because the timing was too coincidental? It was as if someone deliberately let them go here.
"keep going."
Putting aside the strange thoughts in his mind, Soshyan led the team and began to move along the mine tunnel filled with corpses.
Is this mine tunnel sloping downward? One side is a track and one side is a ladder? The soldiers advance slowly in a formation of three, providing mutual fire support to each other.
Soshyan led the team from the front, the light on his helmet illuminating the darkness shrouding the terrifying stench.
Soon they arrived at the end of the mine tunnel, where a huge explosion-proof door opened toward them, exuding the stench of death.
"Proceed with caution? Look in all directions."
After Soshyan finished speaking? Sol added another sentence.
"And above."
His voice was concise, as if he spoke through clenched teeth. The brief encounter just left him with a very bad premonition.
The Astral Knights silently stepped into the darkness, alert to further encounter the enemy.
But there are no enemies here.
This is a hub hall used for loading and unloading ore. Tracks from all directions gather here? Overturned mine cars and collapsed iron towers can be seen everywhere.
In the process of moving? Thor looked up and checked the tall ceiling of the hall, and found that there were a large number of shadows hanging above.
After careful confirmation, we found that they were countless corpses that had been hung upside down.
He then put the matter aside and turned his attention to the cartilage-like remainder of the corpse at his feet.
Is that a mixture of corpses? Miners included? Mine guards? Aliens. They're related in only one way - they've both been cut down and torn apart by something.
Judging from the scars on it, this should be the work of the attacker just now. This part is certain.
Soshyan was standing on the edge of a filtering pool, looking down at the alien corpses covering the water and a single body covered in a lavender robe. That thing had a swollen head and was undoubtedly an alien hybrid.
At the same time, on a crane not far away, a headless corpse was nailed to a steel plate. Its body was also covered with a flag, and a curled insect pattern could be vaguely seen on the flag.
"That thing is here to kill aliens."
Thor took a deep breath of the blood mist that had not yet dissipated in the air.
"No more than an hour."
Click...
Suddenly, a subtle movement caught Thor's attention. He turned around and caught a sneaky figure, like a ghost wearing a cloak.
"Enemy situation."
After Saul finished speaking on the public channel, he rushed forward to catch the peeper.
But that thing was incredibly flexible, just like a piece of cloth swaying in the wind, it floated straight into the gap between the scaffolding above, and then disappeared into the darkness.
Thor was halfway through the rush and suddenly stopped.
Because he heard more footsteps.
"There is hostility."
Soshyan also heard it, and he immediately shouted the order.
"Fall back and gather!"
Just as the astral knights hurriedly retreated through the passages they came from, shadows poured out of the passages on all sides of the hall.
They beat the ground with their limbs and move forward at high speed, with their extra arms raised high, and their giant claws filled with evil aura are like fluorescent lights in the darkness.
A large number of purebred gene stealers poured out like a tide and headed straight for Soshyan and the others, causing the cave to tremble.
"It doesn't look easy to deal with."
Soshyan opened fire as he spoke, and then other soldiers began to pour fierce firepower on the aliens.
The explosive bomb hit the tough skin, bringing out a large amount of flesh, blood and bones, and the roar continued to turn into a scream of pain and anger.
The leading group fell suddenly, and the Astral Knights deliberately fired explosive bombs at their forelimbs, shattering their joints and splitting their forelimbs into two.
The aliens fell to the ground one after another, rolling and roaring, but the ones behind them continued to move forward, using their claws and teeth to tear open the exposed abdomens of those who fell on the ground.
In less than a moment, the second batch of aliens were covered in the blood of their companions.
Hundreds of aliens fell, but the momentum of their avalanche charge was still unstoppable.
The Space Marines continued to fire without hesitation, and more Genestealers fell - because the distance was shortened, the damage increased.
The transfer hall turned into a slaughterhouse, and the stench of blood filled Soshyan's nostrils.
It's the hot, moist, suffocating smell, the smell of fallen enemies.