With a sigh, Soshyan picked up the ring around his neck and looked at the symbol on it.
"My family, my legion, my mission, the past of the empire, and the past of mankind will all be intertwined in one place, and in the end it will be me who opens the dusty door——"
"Destiny is not an unpredictable number, it's just that we are too small to even glimpse a wave."
Just after they chatted without saying a word for half an hour, Maximilian returned.
"The scouts have returned from their reconnaissance. They didn't find anything else, but they found traces of green skins and followed the traces to find something."
Mark reported briefly.
"What did you find?"
"The scouts brought back news about a deep pit that was excavated ten kilometers away. They found a large number of greenskin corpses around the pit. It was obvious that the greenskins were also interested in this pit for some reason -
"
"Then what?"
"The scouts continued to advance and found a disturbing object in the deep pit. It was some kind of altar, or some kind of machine. It was covered with undecipherable runes, so they rushed back as soon as possible."
As he said that, Mark paused.
"In addition to the green skins, the scouts also discovered traces of the second type of target that were well hidden fifteen kilometers away."
Soshyan pondered for a moment. The second type of target referred to here meant that it was not the greenskins who left those traces, but other unidentified creatures.
Suddenly, he thought of something.
"It should be the Eldar."
Talos frowned.
"Why are the Eldar here? However, it is indeed difficult to guess what they do, but what is certain is that their appearance indicates something terrible - the Eldar will not get involved in other people's things without reason, although their reasons
It’s often difficult for us to understand.”
Soshyan was immediately upset by the sudden appearance of this ancient alien species.
"Is there anything else I need to report?"
"Regarding the machine, the scouts found a greenskin lying flat on the machine, as if it was being sacrificed."
"A greenskin was sacrificed? Have these guys learned the tricks of Chaos?"
Talos interjected.
"The greenskin was shot in the head. Judging from the caliber, it should be the greenskin's own weapon."
Soshyan's mind immediately followed these clues and began to construct possibilities.
"In other words, it was sacrificed by one of our own, Chapter Master."
Hearing this, Soshyan and Talos looked at each other and saw the disbelief in each other's eyes.
Then they hurried to the location of the mysterious instrument.
As soon as he reached the edge of the pit, Soshyan saw from a distance a black sarcophagus-like thing lying in the middle. A green-skinned creature was lying on it, with its head cut off and rolled to the side.
Afterwards, Talos, who was most familiar with the corpse, would inspect it.
"It was killed by one of our own people."
After a few minutes, Talos looked up.
"He was already dead when his head was chopped off. For one reason, he was shot through the brain by a bullet from a huge-caliber gun."
"So, why are the greenskins doing this? I don't remember them doing anything like this."
Soshyan asked, walking to the instrument and examining the body himself.
Although the evidence was conclusive, he still refused to believe that this was the work of the greenskins, because although the greenskins were murderous, they would never kill for religious purposes, and sacrifices were often religious acts.
"It's hard to say because we don't know the condition of the machine."
Talos said thoughtfully:
"Sacrifice is just wishful thinking on our part."
As he spoke, he squatted down next to the instrument and stared at where the green skin's head was.
Then he looked as if he were pinned still, as if he were seeing something vague and difficult to understand.
"This guy is not the only one sacrificed on this stage today."
As he spoke, Talos raised his head and looked at Soshyan.
"You should see this."
Soshyan walked to the position pointed by Talos, lowered his head and looked at a smooth blood stain.
Many tiny red thorns pierced through the blood, and for a moment, Soshyan thought they were just spikes designed to prevent the sacrifice from being unable to bear the pain and trying to escape.
But suddenly, he saw them moving, shaking weakly, like trees swaying in the wind.
Looking at the green skin's body again, he noticed that these whiskers were piercing the green skin's body, as if they were trying to drag it into the altar.
With a sudden realization, Soshyan suddenly understood why this greenskin looked so strange - it wasn't all here.
When he squatted down and looked from the side, Soshyan immediately discovered that half of the green skin lying on the stage had been sucked under the table - its chest, thighs and feet had been absorbed.
Feeling sick, Soshyan stretched his sword under the green skin and lifted the heavy corpse from the altar.
In an instant, the beard-like objects broke off from the bloody corpse that slid off the stage. The green skin seemed to be roughly cut in half. The front half was chopped off lengthwise, leaving only a bloody body.
headless back.
Without the body, the whiskers disconnected from the fallen body one after another, blindly searching for the next target, and then retracted into the surface of the stage.
Soshiyang immediately waved the Holy Flame Sword and activated his stance. Along with the heat wave, the pool of blood made a faint sound and evaporated.
Then he took the sword away and stared at the hissing surface.
Under the smooth metal surface, Soshyan seemed to see a set of squirming internal organs, which were composed of countless metal tubes, pistons and air pumps. Countless needle-like things tried to reach the surface and scratched the inner surface of the machine.
It's like swimming in an unusually dense medium.
"I guess it's a blood collection device."
Talos also stood up and stared at the instrument.
"Blood collection? Whose blood is collected?"
"Of course it's green."
This sounded even more confusing, and Soshyan was now confused.
"What are they, no, this thing doing to collect blood?"
Talos thought for a while and suddenly clapped his hands.
"By the way, I remembered. I have seen similar mechanisms in the Eye of Terror, mainly used for demon engines. Since demon engines are very uncontrollable, when not fighting, they often choose to freeze or throw them into
They are stagnant, and the best way to activate them is to pour a lot of blood into them as energy."
"You mean, what do the greenskins plan to awaken?"
Thinking of this, Suoshiyang suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and some bold idea emerged.
"Talos, do you think these greenskins have the same purpose as us, and are they also looking for the legacy of their past empire?"
"Well...it's possible. If this instrument was made by greenskins in the past, then it would make sense. These greenskins plan to use their blood to find or awaken something that once belonged to them.
.”
Soshyan then clenched his fist fiercely.
"We cannot let them succeed. No matter what the Green Skin Empire left behind, we must not let them take it away!"
"Thinking about it this way, do the Spirit Clan have the same idea?"
"You mean the Eldar are here to stop the greenskins?"
"My guess may not be correct, but they should be following the green skins. We will know it by following the traces they left.
"Okay! Mark, convey my instructions, everyone, set off immediately!"