The team began to escape along the path of the pumping station. Along the way, Soshyan kept finding some things scattered on the ground.
Abandoned automatic weapons, torches, destroyed communications equipment, detonators, and wires all lay in the garbage.
Although the places I passed before were old, they were mostly neat, but this place was as messy as the lair of some kind of beast——
Suddenly, Soshyan realized that there was a disgusting stench mixed in the air, like the smell of flesh and blood mixed with the sweet smell of rotten fruit in a slaughterhouse.
Sol also noticed this smell.
He tried to issue a warning, but it was too late.
The metal prefabricated panel of a cabin was suddenly broken open, and a powerful thing tore it open and jumped out. Everyone saw only scales, thick smoke, and a mouth full of sharp teeth.
The creature sprayed some liquid onto the face of the warrior closest to it in one gulp.
"Damn it!"
The Space Marine's helmet suddenly hissed and smoke billowed out, as if it had been soaked in strong acid.
Then the strange creature jumped on the injured warrior, wrapping its slender appendages around the opponent like a whip, and then its sharp claws tore open the front armor of the power armor like ripping tinfoil.
The front end of the creature's limbs tightly wrapped the body of the Space Marine within it, making a terrible wet sound. Dozens of flesh sprouts stretched out from the hollow shell, piercing the power armor and piercing deeply into the flesh.
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"Filth shall be punished!"
Thor's sword was like a stream of light, heading straight for the monster's head.
Feeling threatened, the monster jumped up, threw the Space Marine beneath him out, and then quickly disappeared into the darkness at an astonishing speed.
The explosive bombs chased the monster's trajectory and blew up several lockers along the way, but unfortunately, they failed to hit them.
Soshiyang watched the monster disappear from sight. It moved in a very strange way, with its ankles and knees bent at a special angle.
But there is nothing here that can be understood with common sense.
Swallowing his angry shouts, Soshyan rushed towards his companion who fell to the ground.
The soldier's helmet had been changed beyond recognition and turned into a smoking waste product, smelling of burnt metal and skin. The strong smell even penetrated the automatic filtration system on Soshyan's helmet.
He struggled painfully, and Soshyan tried hard to pull off his helmet, but the helmet was severely corroded and connected to his flesh and blood.
"Brother, hold on!"
Soshyan had no choice but to tear it off the warrior's head.
After a muffled groan, the helmet finally separated from the connection with the power armor.
At this time, there were not many intact parts of the soldier's face, and the blood emerging from the remains of his helmet was flowing freely like melted rubber.
"I come."
At this time, the technical sergeant temporarily acted as a pharmacist. A syringe stretched out from one of his mechanical appendages and pierced the soldier's neck. The medical medicine was quickly injected into the injured soldier's body.
Armin, who was nearby, took two steps back and looked at the devastated faces of the team members in shock and anger.
Soshyan turned his attention to him.
"He will be fine. We will not give up on any of our brothers."
Technical Sergeant Rogris helped the soldiers on the ground up and couldn't help but sigh.
"Your Majesty, I have never seen anything like this..."
Thor shook his head and picked up the bolter that the soldier dropped.
"You should all be new blood. In this galaxy, everything changes very quickly. You have to adapt quickly."
Then he looked at Rogris and raised the bolter in his hand.
"Mind if I use it."
The technical sergeant turned to look at Soshyan, and after the other party nodded slightly, he immediately released the gene lock on it.
"This is my fault."
Armin said ashamedly.
"I should have-"
"Continue to attack the landing platform."
Soshyan interrupted the team leader's self-blame and calmly issued the order.
Then, as they advanced, the strange creatures launched two more attacks, each time jumping out of the shadows with speed and ferocity far beyond normal.
The soldiers did not let it succeed, and the price they paid was to give up part of their armor, because the strong acid spit by these monsters had melted part of the armor plates of their power armor.
The Astartes moved forward in the maze-like complex of buildings. They advanced methodically in alternating formations, one advancing and the other covering.
As they get closer to their target, they are attacked more and more frequently.
When he finally left the pump station and arrived at the entrance to the flight deck, Soshyan saw a large group of creatures gathering together, their scaly bodies swinging constantly, blocking the passage to the landing platform.
Seeing those obviously unnatural existences, a feeling of disgust arose in Soshyan's body.
Their internal body structure is far from what humans can imagine. Their limbs have many joints and are not fixed. They seem to be divided into several parts that are moving and rotating.
What's more, some of them are translucent, and some are looming, making their bodies sometimes look unreal.
"What exactly are they?"
Armin couldn't help but ask.
"Unholy aliens, I have heard the Word Bearers call them by another name."
Thor answered his question.
"demon."
Soshyan led the soldiers and rushed towards the gate, holding the unsheathed sword in his hand and his eyes flashing with violent fighting intent.
Shortly after the Astartes appeared, the demons made a strange hissing sound, but whether it was fear or anticipation, no one could tell.
Thick smoke billowed, scales billowed, and the demons surged up with their claws waving, but the Astral Knights were not afraid at all and faced them.
The explosive bomb penetrated the colorful scales, embedded in the virtual body, and then exploded.
Some of the injured ones fell to the ground and dissolved into a puddle of glass-like transparent viscous liquid, but the other part continued to charge indifferently.
A fierce confrontation broke out between sword blades and sharp claws in an instant.
Soshyan faced a screaming creature with an elongated head and rippled eyes. Various colors were constantly changing, making the vertical pupils look strangely strange.
Its "arms" waved at an unusually fast speed, and the first attack almost detached Soshyan's head.
Avoiding the first attack, Soshyan retreated while firing at the monster's abdomen. The bombs continued to explode, adding more scars to the big guy.
The pain stimulated the demon, and it attacked more violently with its claws while spitting out a mouthful of acidic mucus.
Soshyan deflected the corrosive slime, then put down his bolter and thrust out the Holy Flame Sword.
The unyielding demon rushed forward again. This time Soshiyang just slashed the sharp claws with a long sword sweep, then took a step forward and slashed into it from bottom to top.
chest.
The sharp sword blade split the demon's body in half like parting clouds.