In the darkness, McCarty held a heavy needle pistol and made a sound that only his kind could hear. The four black figures following him nodded in agreement.
"No fire is allowed without orders. Our mission is to find the enemy commanders and determine their possible size. This is a reconnaissance mission."
Then he covered his inhuman face with a towel. Compared with normal humans, the flesh on his face was pale and dull, there was a protruding forehead plate in the middle of his head, his eyes were matte black, and he was well-dressed.
His combat uniform, arms, legs and torso are additionally protected by flexible bulletproof materials, and he wears a black cloak behind him.
They are the most mysterious killer species in the cult. They are an improved breed of the third generation, produced by the best genes among believers. They have super sensory abilities and can keenly perceive changes in the world around them.
The rapidly firing neurons in the Killer Species' predatory brains allow them to enter transcendent bullet time - a situation in which the enemy appears to be moving at an extremely slow speed, allowing the Killer Species to calmly change bullets in the blink of an eye.
Aim the barrel at the target, and then harvest lives one by one. In addition, the enhanced pheromone detection and heat-sensing vision allow the killer species to accurately hit the target even in a dark environment, and the exquisite ear-vestibular system provides a superhuman physique.
balance and coordination.
All this makes them excellent assassins and highly skilled scouts.
However, this mission is still a challenge for them, because what they want to detect is not those sluggish mechanical soldiers or stupid mechanical slave owners, but those soulless metal skeletons hidden deep underground-the religious order will
Call it a metal devil.
Some superstitious theories believe that these things are the souls of people who were brutally persecuted and took revenge on the living with grievances. However, the senior leaders of the sect or rational people scorned this, including McCarty.
Because he had investigated the underground laboratory of the mechanical slave owner, he knew that these were machines, just special machines, and they should be very ancient.
It’s not that the cult has never had the idea of taking these things. After all, their technology seems to be very advanced, but the results are disastrous. It seems that their behavior angered the other party, and what followed was terrible revenge and massacre, and even the cult
They were all driven out of their former homes.
But now, there is no way to stay on the ground. There are not many choices available to the church. The bishops chose to withdraw most of the personnel and equipment underground, leaving only a few guerrilla fighters on the ground to contain the empire's troops.
Knowing the specific situation underground, if there are not many of these mechanical monsters, you may be able to concentrate all your efforts to drive them away in a desperate fight - the cult has accumulated a considerable number of weapons through the riots, and is not as weak as before.
Therefore, their task is very heavy, and after going down, their spiritual connection with the bishop will be cut off, and they can only deal with emergencies on their own.
This is also the reason why the killer species is chosen. Not only are they physically agile, but their brains are also flexible enough.
After confirming each other's status, the five-person team climbed all the way down the shaft. There was originally a transportation channel that led directly to the underground laboratory of the mechanical slave owners. The bishops judged that the metal devil first appeared from there.
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As he got closer to his target, McCarty saw faint lights. These dim lights also enlarged his silhouette, casting weird shadows that were no different from weird arachnids.
But suddenly, McCarty stopped, and in each other's minds, he reminded his companions in a slow and dull tone.
"They come from below and move very fast."
With the extra arm, they could use weapons while climbing. After receiving the news, the killers immediately spread out and scanned the dark shaft.
In the end, McCarty's needle pistol fired three extremely weak shots, and something below immediately emitted a sharp, mechanical, angry blast. Every member of the team had already been well-trained and was able to do it with ease, without any instructions.
Fire in an orderly manner as a whole.
The scurrying figures rushed towards them along the shaft. Several limbs allowed them to climb up the walls and walls of the tunnel effortlessly. The heat blast from the bullets tore the approaching figures into pieces and tore apart their broken remains.
Throwed back into the abyss, these attackers are surprisingly resilient. The impact absorbed by the artificial body covered with armor is enough to turn an ordinary soldier with only flesh and blood into a ball of wet rags.
Soon, a mechanized skeleton-like Skitarii rushed directly towards McCarty, his stained red robes flying up and down. The killer caught a glimpse of the pipelines and lenses under the hood, and the stained skull gear pattern on his armor was striking.
In the head.
He was very familiar with these slave soldiers of the Adeptus Mechanicus, but they were different at this time from the past...
It seems even more crazy.
The Skitarii rushed toward McCarty, and an incomprehensible scream composed of static electricity and machine language came from its sound array grille. The killer fired two shots, gouging out the opponent's breastplate.
made a crater.
But the thing remained unmoved and tried to hit him like a wild beast.
McCarty turned to the side with a flexible posture, then firmly clasped the wall with one hand, and pulled out a curved short blade from his waist that had killed more than a dozen slave soldiers.
With a series of explosions, he neatly chopped off the two limbs that the Skitarii was waving about, and then slashed its head in half with a backhand slash.
Despite the fatal blow, the highly mechanically modified Skitarii continued to twitch until it was kicked down.
"These slave soldiers are very strange. They seem to have lost the ability to use weapons."
Just as McCarty was trying to figure out the weird details, another Skitarii rushed forward screaming under the firepower of the killers, and the air was once again filled with the noise of battle until it was cut into pieces.
Then there was deathly silence, and the killers remained silent because they had communicated their feelings to each other in their hearts.
Like McCarty, others also find it strange. Because they need to travel inside the enemy all the time, they have developed the habit of doubting everything. The behavior of these slave soldiers is very abnormal, and they should not be here...
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Unless, they were here from the beginning, in the laboratory below...
McCarty was deeply impressed by that place, especially the chaotic scene at the end of its destruction. He couldn't figure out what happened. But after that, the place was designated as a restricted area by the cult, and he didn't look at the mechanical slaves inside.
The master and slave soldiers came out again.
But now they seem to have appeared. Did you discover them, or did you just bump into them?