Magnus and Leon led the Honor Guard through the entrance and arrived at a spacious hall with square and flat architectural styles that had aesthetics that humans could easily understand.
The light of the artificial stars shines into it through multiple reflections, and combined with the cyan-blue shimmer that overflows from the regular gaps, it makes the place even brighter.
But at this moment, except for the top of the hall, which remains the same, the bottom floor and surrounding areas are almost completely contaminated by the Flood.
The corners between the metal walls and the floor are covered with sticky fungus-like "living" plants, which are constantly twisting and squirming, and spraying turbid gas through small holes.
However, the most numerous things in the hall should be the densely packed infected spores and the countless fighting forms of the Flood.
The arc-shaped psychic barrier created by Magnus made them look like a lone boat swimming against the current in a carrion-colored ocean.
"Dang! Dang!"
"Crack!!"
"Ri~咻!"
The Honor Guard used bolts, psionic energy, and mounted plasma cannons to clear a path toward the upper levels of the pyramid.
Many paladins raised their right hands and took off the power giant swords on their backs. After holding it firmly, they used the Terminator's reactor to provide energy, producing a green energy field to wrap the sword blade.
Even their original body, Leon, took off the "Lion King's Heavy Sword" which was nearly three and a half meters long and had a cold blade.
As Sui Bian's gunman, Leon's power armor also has a Cassius gun attached to the back for emergencies.
Looking at the seemingly inexhaustible flood demons.
Also seen are barriers with frequent cracks.
Under the helmets, Magnus and Leon looked solemn, especially Magnus, who needed to constantly release psychic energy to maintain the barrier.
After a practical confrontation, the two Primarchs discovered that the Flood was extremely resistant to psionic energy and could suppress the use of psionic energy by psykers.
Based on these characteristics, the Flood is indeed like a weapon, specifically targeting psykers, or a weapon targeting alien spaces.
Although substantial psychic attacks, such as the psychic lightning released by Sekhmet, can still scorch combatants, their power is far less than before.
Moreover, in order to completely prove that the Flood was a weapon targeting psychic energy, Magnus immediately released a psychic pulse in an attempt to make the infected spores and combat bodies "self-destruct."
But after the pulse, the Flood wave was safe and sound, indicating that the two primarchs' guesses were correct.
Immediately afterwards.
While maintaining the barrier, Magnus raised his clenched right hand and waved it forward, and said solemnly: "Since we can't let you guys explode, then let's devour you with a sea of fire."
Said.
The five fingers of Magnus's right hand suddenly stretched out, causing a circle of blazing fire to ignite "out of thin air" around the barrier.
"Hoo~-------!"
Then, just as he said, the overwhelming fire swept all around, and wherever it touched, living fungi, infected spores and various forms of Flood were turned into ashes.
In just two breaths, the "Sea of Fire" successfully cleared the vast hall and even the Flood demons gathered in the bottom area of the pyramid.
Even though the Flood will make substantial psychic attacks far less effective than before, this is the "sea of fire" released by a primarch, not the "lightning" released by a Sekhmet.
"call…"
Seeing that the Flood wave was temporarily cleared, Magnus took a breath and relieved some of his fatigue.
Without any obstacles, everyone speeded up and left the hall, silently passing through the "Z" shaped passage, gradually approaching the middle area of the pyramid, and finally reaching the air corridor that was large enough to span the area.
Once here.
The two original bodies were in a trance, returning to their childhood when they studied and lived in the mother nest.
Because looking down the corridor, there are neatly arranged cylindrical breeding tanks, which are very similar to the breeding tanks used by the brood to produce tyrants or predators.
But the most obvious difference is that the breeding tank of the mother nest has transparent walls, while those below are opaque.
From this point of view, the Jiralhanae regard the Flood sealed in the breeding tank as a weapon that can help them completely destroy the elite fleet, and even the entire elite race.
As the starting point of leaks about the Flood, the area under the air corridor has become the most suitable area for the Flood to inhabit.
Damp, warm and putrid.
However, in addition to the infection spores scattered among the breeding tanks and the Flood Demons in various forms, the thing that most aroused everyone's vigilance...
It's an indescribable mass of "sarcoma".
The body is huge and huge, as if the bodies of elites and Jiralhanae races have been spliced and glued together to form a messy "sarcoma".
Its height is the same as the sky corridor.
suddenly!
"Gulu...Gulu..."
With the sound of the viscous object unfolding, the top of the "sarcoid" opened densely, with different sizes and colors, and thousands of "eyes" staring at the people in the corridor in the sky.
“…”
Witnessing this scene that is difficult for ordinary people to look at directly, and may even lead to collapse, the two primarchs and the Honor Guard were not surprised or frightened at all.
But Magnus discovered that if he wanted to continue to maintain the barrier, the consumption of spiritual energy would actually be several times higher than before.
"It turns out to be...human..."
At this time, he, and everyone else, heard the extremely thick nasal voice, slightly stuttering, but quite "sincere" words:
"Destroy...the different space...to make our goals...unified. If we are willing to cooperate and cease the war, we can...achieve the goal as soon as possible.
Before that, I can also...help...humanity...solve the Covenant Empire and any races that are...hostile, a win-win situation..."
At the same time as this "sarcoma" was being spoken, it was actually still emitting some kind of waveband that could interfere with the normal thinking of intelligent life.
Such distorted appearance characteristics, as well as the deceptive wave band it releases, are enough to prove that this "sarcoma" is a corpse brain beast that represents the Flood's departure from the wild state and is preparing to lead the Flood's continued evolution.
As for the reason for stuttering, it's because Corpse Brain Beast is still in its early stages, which means it hasn't been completely formed yet.
“…”
However, the Glory Guards who had remained silent did not pay attention to the "cooperation" and "win-win" offered by the Corpse Brain Beast.
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"Dang! Dang!"
"Puff! Puff!"
The moment the gun spit out the fiery snake, thousands of eyes were "exploded" one after another.
Since psionic energy continues to be suppressed, the Sekhmets no longer release psionic lightning, and instead use parallel bolter firepower output.
The four paladins with plasma cannons on their left arms fired four blue-light cannons at the Corpse Brain Beast.
In the end, the corpse brain beast directly "exploded".
"Wow~!"
Dark green blood exuding a rotten smell fell in all directions like rain.
But the Corpse Brain Beast never let out a single cry from beginning to end, as if it was no big deal if its body was destroyed.
Because Leon and Magnus knew that destroying the corpse brain beast's body could only buy some time. It wouldn't be long before the Flood could "accumulate" another body for the corpse brain beast to use.
Watching the alerted infection spores and combatants rushing toward the air corridor where they were.
In order to end it once and for all, and without the Corpse Brain Beast, the effect of suppressing spiritual energy was weakened, Magnus once again released the "Sea of Fire".
After the fire dissipated and the high-temperature "purification" was completed, everyone left the corridor and continued moving forward without staying too long.
soon.
They came to a gate in the top area of the pyramid.
The gates, walls and floors all have traces left by plasma cannons, as well as dried purple and red blood stains, indicating that fierce battles broke out here.
Take a look.
Leon then discovered a terminal-style device on the right side of the gate.
See this.
Holding the sword in his right hand, Leon took the initiative to walk out of the psychic barrier, came to the terminal and stretched out his left hand.
Sensing that "human beings" were approaching, the terminal was successfully activated and generated a blue ball of light the size of a football.
The moment Leon's left hand came into contact with the ball of light, the gate that had been sealed for a long time was finally opened again, allowing everyone to continue to the top and core area of the pyramid.
Wait for everyone to come in.
Leon then controlled the terminal installed here to close the gate to ensure that the investigation would be protected from harassment by the Flood.
Wait until he turns around and looks around.
Leon discovered that in this empty room with weak lighting and a clean floor, there was only a translucent crystal ball floating in the center that was only twice the size of a golf ball.
The Honor Guards dispersed and remained alert, while Magnus lifted the energy shield barrier and walked with Leon not far from the sphere.
at this time.
Without waiting for any of the original bodies to reach out to touch, the two of them seemed to have walked into the sphere's sensing range, and immediately, the sphere spontaneously emitted light cyan light.
Subsequently, more and more "light points" poured out from the corners of the room, bypassing the Glory Guards blocking the way and floating toward the sphere.
I saw the "light spots" centered on the sphere, gradually condensing into a "human" body with excellent proportions, with limbs, torso and head.
After another burst of dazzling light.
A "human" with a height of about two and a half meters appeared in the sight of a group of Glory Guards and stood in front of the two original bodies.
Take a closer look at the other person's appearance.
"She" has obvious human female characteristics, has medium-length black slightly curly hair, and wears a flawless white dress.
Even his face and appearance have exquisite facial features that are in line with human aesthetics. The only difference is that his height is far higher than that of ordinary humans, and is equivalent to the transcendent Astartes.
"Very advanced holographic technology." Leon commented.
"But the point shouldn't be this, brother." Magnus said to Leon beside him: "If the hologram shows the Forerunner, don't you think its appearance is too close to us humans?
?”
"Well, a little bit." Leon nodded lightly.
The other party glanced at the entire room expressionlessly, then raised his head slightly, looked at the two original bodies in front of "her", and spoke in human language with a somewhat awkward accent and a cold voice:
"Scan completed, identity verified as recycler, please give instructions."
Recycler?
The two originals looked at each other, and then Magnus spoke: "Do we have control authority over the entire facility?"
"yes."
"Can I understand you as an artificial intelligence?"
"no."
This time, the other party gave a negative answer and continued to explain:
"I am the memory storage of the manager of Shield World 0314. It does not have the function of independent thinking. At the same time, according to the 145th Amendment to the latest code, all artificial intelligence must be forcibly destroyed and shall not be put into use again."
After listening to what looks like artificial intelligence, but is actually a memory storage, it shows that this is indeed a shield world, and it also expresses the "manager's" attitude towards artificial intelligence.
There is a bit too much information.
However, now is not the best time to delve into the other party's past, so Leon, who was thinking about how to complete the task, said to him:
"Since we are recyclers, we need to recycle all the data stored in this shield world."
Hear the words.
The memory storage body first dissipated, revealing the floating sphere, and replied: "Everything known to the managers of Shield World 0314 is stored here."
After saying that, "she" regrouped into her previous appearance, waiting silently for the next order.
After receiving a satisfactory answer, Leon asked his last question: "Is it possible to overload an artificial star to completely destroy the entire shield world, and do you have the authority to control the overload."
"Okay, have it."
Leon, who had received all the answers, said no more. He stepped forward and stretched his left hand towards the abdomen of the memory storage body, forcing the other party to dissipate into an image, thereby successfully holding the sphere that stored everything.
“…”
Magnus just shrugged at his brother's rude behavior, apparently he was used to it.
Leon held the sphere, turned back to Magnus, and said, "Let's go."
"Okay." Magnus naturally had no objection.
Next.
Everyone left the empty room, and Magnus also re-deployed the psychic barrier and retreated out of the pyramid back the way they came.
On the way, Leon notified the flying formations hovering in the sky on standby to prepare for rapid evacuation, and also notified the Teutonic Knights to take the highest standards of disinfection measures.
After dealing with the wave after wave of flood demons, everyone finally broke out of the pyramid.
The flight formation also calculated the time well. When they were about to rush out of the pyramid, the four Viking fighter planes immediately carried out the "ground clearing" action. Together with the third sea of psychic fire released by Magnus, they successfully cleared the ground.
A "green" landing zone.
The large transport boat opened its tail hatch and took this opportunity to lower its height and maintain a certain distance from the ground, allowing Leon, Magnus and others to enter the cabin.
After confirming that everyone has completed boarding, the crew immediately closed the hatch and controlled the transport boat away from the ground.
At this time, the landing area has been engulfed by the Flood, but they can only look up at the sky with distorted and distorted faces, following the flying formation that is gradually disappearing.
Return the same way.
The flight formation passed through the gloomy and dark passage, smoothly sailed out of the inner earth world, and sailed out of the atmosphere without slowing down at all, heading towards the Teutonic Knights that was waiting for them.
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…
Shortly after.
Inside the hangar where disinfection is completed by technicians.
Leon unfolded his helmet, spread his left hand flat, and said in an indifferent tone to the memory storage body that was still emitting light cyan light independently:
"Execution of artificial star overload procedure."
"Yes, please stay away from Shield World 0314 as soon as possible and keep a sufficient safe distance."