Just as Stryker finished speaking, a nearby tree suddenly fell down - metal shrapnel exploded the bark of the tree behind the colonel.
"It looks like there aren't many people on the other side, suppress them with firepower!"
The Catachan soldiers raised their guns and started shooting. They either squatted or lay down and fired a barrage of bow-shaped barrages into the dense woods. The dim woods were suddenly illuminated by bursts of lasers and tracer bullets.
Stryker opened fire while observing his position, then waved his hand, and the team immediately formed a commando formation.
"The enemy is in front of us, but we can't see them from this position. This may be an ambush, but I don't know what it is."
Realizing that the other party was talking to him, Patat blinked and said:
"Call support?"
"We are the only ones around here!"
"It would be nice to see what's shooting at us."
"Stop talking nonsense and ask your people to bring flamethrowers to the side!"
Patat then waved his hand behind him, signaling for the soldiers to come with flamethrowers.
"Everyone in your place!"
Stryker yelled, gesturing for the soldiers to disperse from the target.
“Have a barbecue feast!”
The soldier pressed the trigger, and a volcano-like liquid fire shot into the dense forest like a horizontal flame fountain.
Catachan soldiers then used large-caliber live ammunition weapons and began to fire left and right.
The trees and huge ferns in front of them burned. Some plants were instantly ignited, as if they were filled with gasoline, and some withered like dust.
About 20 seconds later, a large area of woods ahead was burned, allowing Stryker's team to clearly see the area 60 meters away.
Suddenly, there was silence all around, and even the bullets fired at them disappeared.
"telescope!"
Stryker took the telescope from Patat.
"It seems we..."
The autofocus dial on the telescope whirred, and soon Stryker saw what he wanted to see.
"What the hell? What is this? A temple? But it seems to be a facility belonging to the empire."
What Stryker saw was an armored triangular building with the Mechanicus logo on it, but there were some weird pillars erected around it, and there were many blood-stained skulls on the building, making it more like some kind of
The site of pagan blood sacrifices…
In addition, all armor panels have been spray-painted with Chaos emblems, there is a defensive net on the outside, and automatic slaves are installed on the explosive emplacements.
Stryker realized that they must have triggered the sensor that activated the servitors as they approached, but now it was estimated that the servitors were dead due to the high temperature - although they were hardly alive.
"What is this place?"
Patat also saw this and couldn't help but murmur to himself.
"It's hard to say, but I feel it has something to do with those heretics and my missing team members."
After hearing Stryker's answer, Patat was silent for a while, and then asked:
"Then what's the use of this building in this jungle?"
"good question."
But this is just a problem. Now every soldier is in bad condition, especially the militiamen, who are almost reaching their limit.
"Then what should we do next? Sir."
"You will know after you dismantle it. Be careful. The Emperor will not bless us at any time. He is very busy."
Stryker was obviously too lazy to think. He held a bolt pistol and cautiously approached the door of the building.
Suddenly, a deep voice roared, and a nearby burnt automatic servitor suddenly came to life and raised its automatic weapon.
Stryker fired three shots and exploded the servitor.
Then he rushed forward, rushed through the crack of the open door into the cold blue light in the room, raised his gun and looked for the target.
But there was nothing but darkness and deathly silence, filled with discarded furniture and scattered papers.
Suddenly, he found a dim phosphorescent light flashing in front of him, and there was a dark room there.
The room was dark, and when he just raised his feet, thousands of eyes suddenly appeared in the darkness and stared at Stryker.
They all belong to the same... thing.
A huge thing spun and appeared in the darkness. It stretched out its blue and white flabby body. Poisonous saliva flowed from its mouth full of sharp teeth. The gel-like object on the black skin was trembling crazily and greasy.
The greasy ashes danced around it like a cloak.
After just looking at each other for a few seconds, Stryker was already covered in cold sweat, even soaking through his jacket.
He backed away in horror and left the door, and the monster broke out after him.
As soon as they saw this thing, the soldiers threw away their guns feebly and began to feel sick to their stomachs.
Patat was also gripped by this terror and could not move.
He was crying and fumbled for his gun, when transparent and greasy tentacles rushed out from the darkness, surrounded him as if hugging him, and then crushed the unfortunate officer hard, causing him to explode like a tomato.
.
The Catachan soldiers who were on alert turned around and saw the terrifying creation rising from the secret chamber, as well as the red puddle that was once Patat.
"Warp Demon! Demon!"
Stryker started yelling into the communicator.
"Everyone retreat!!!"
Only then did Colonel Catachan realize that destruction did not come suddenly.
It has been following them, slowly approaching, and they are unaware, or at least unable to notice, that a ruthless predator is just out of sight, ready to move and hide.
"Quick, quick! Don't stop, retreat to the convoy!"
As Stryker was running, he felt the muscles all over his body were spasming and tingling, there was an inexplicable chill on his back, the base of his tongue was itching, and the hand holding the gun kept shaking.
He has a characteristic that his left eyelid will always twitch wildly when a psyker is nearby, so when he is on the ship, his eyelid will twitch wildly every time he is near the navigator.
At this moment, Stryker's left eyelid twitched again.
He froze, gripping the gun tightly, realizing something was wrong.
Regardless of whether it is the time when the sun sets or not, it has completely disappeared. The sky is filled with gray clouds like solidified grease. The ashes are flying in the wind, and various strange shapes have begun to appear, and some bloody cracks are faintly visible.
Appearing in the clouds.
Soon, the gray clouds began to turn red, which was a terrible sign that some kind of change that they didn't know was happening in this world.
Suddenly, everything fell silent.
It's scary, until everything goes quiet, and no one realizes that the jungle is full of noise: the buzzing of insects, the rushing of water, the squawking of amphibians, the calls of birds
.
Only when everything comes to an abrupt end will humans realize how painful it is to be away from those sounds.
They slowed down and pricked up their ears, hoping the sounds would come back.
"All on alert!!"
Stryker raised a hand, turned slowly, and leveled his gun.