Dedicate loyalty to the good empire

Chapter 339: Death World Catachan

Taylor flipped through the Imperial Infantry Manual and the Weekly, hoping to find clues in the bytes.

Beneath the ancient vellum and the damned print, the vague Gothic language was revealing clues to Taylor.

"One of the most dangerous and arduous ordeals known to man."
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Catachan

As we all know, among the areas currently explored by the Empire, Catachan is the most notorious, deadliest and most lethal death planet in the entire galaxy.

[It is inhabited by subhumans called Catachans, whose intelligence is lower than that of normal people in the Empire. They have strong beliefs but lack organizational skills.]

[They have strong muscles but stupid brains. They inhaled too many spores when interacting with local life, which made them very interested in places like forests and trees.]

We believe this is because the spores activated their emotional centers, making them feel that places similar to their home planet are good places.

They only mate and reproduce in the forest, and their minds are always filled with violence and death.

Regarding our collaboration with the Catachans, we can only provide the following examples.

[1. When a Commissar or human officer controls a Catachan, they can be treated as less intelligent subhumans like the Ogryns, and can be persuaded with gentle persuasion and kind words.]

2. If they lack a commander, please maintain a safe distance of more than meters from them. If you must approach, please bring enough food with you to attract their attention and hold your dog tag in your mouth in advance so that we can confirm your identity.

【3.…】

Seeing this, Taylor's face was already tense.

He closed the vellum in his hand and discovered that there was a symbol of Tzeentch on the front of the book.

This must have been a prank by the invading demons before they died, and collectively, they had snuffed out Taylor's last hope.

He sighed and handed the intelligence he had collected so far to his soldiers, asking them to read it and load their weapons and ammunition as the best preparation.

Even though they are likely to be chased and intercepted by Chaos Cultists and Chaos Space Marines, they also have to deal with the harsh environment of Catachan.

Taylor sighed and readied his flamethrower.

The girl asked anxiously. "Boss, are we really going to descend into a murderous green hell?"

Taylor said. "Who knows, maybe."

"Maybe we can leave smoothly and intact."

"Let's go to the hangar."

His words made the Lightlin girl's face fall completely, and the cultist girl who was usually clingy also asked to stay on the warship for the first time.

Obviously, Catachan's name is well known to everyone.

Even Chaos doesn't want to offend it.

Of course, the sound of the Valkyrie transport plane's engine sounded, and Taylor watched worriedly as Ferenstein got on the vehicle. When the transport plane left the hangar, Taylor also saw the dark green world.

Her appearance is hard to describe. The ocean is not as big as the land, and the dark green forest covers almost the entire surface. But Taylor also wonders if that green is really land?

And they say those are not soil, but fern-like plants that cover the sky and block out the sun?

Taylor's chaotic thoughts pulled him down, and from the thick atmosphere of Catachan, the endless green ocean was almost indescribably magnificent.

The trees and trees, the lichens and vines, the rich oxygen even makes people feel dizzy, as if they are intoxicated by oxygen.

When the Valkyrie transport plane quickly stopped at an open space in the dense forest, the pilot quickly abandoned the Skadi people as if he had seen a ghost and left the area.

Taylor understood his fear, but it was certainly a bit demoralizing.

When he entered Catachan, the dense forest looked lush and green. It couldn't be called picturesque, but it was at least far from the so-called hell.

The hot and humid climate makes people uncomfortable. The smell of rotting leaves emits a faint stench. The hot wind blows here, making the fern-like trees make slight sounds.

But there is a sense of disharmony that permeates the air all the time.

Taylor said, "Something's wrong," as he looked around from inside Ferenstein.

Roland asked. "What aspects?"

Taylor answered. "Quiet, so quiet. No birds chirping, no insects buzzing, just the rustling of the wind through the forest."

"This world sounds like a dead planet, but we all know how full of life Catachan is."

"This is really a ghost. Let's get out of here quickly and use the shovel to open a path out."

Taylor said a little anxiously.

When Ferenstein's engine started, the nearby trees suddenly stretched out vines and rushed towards Taylor and the others like living things.

Taylor picked up the chainsaw sword and cut off the thick green things, but even if it was only half, it would continue to wriggle on the ground, trying to grab the prey's respirator.

If it weren't for Ferenstein's sturdy shell that was truly their nemesis, they might have died here today...

Roland cursed. "What is that?"

Taylor said. "The Munitions Department calls that the strangler vine. It looks like a vine, but it's actually something separate from the tree."

"They are carnivorous plants that secrete acid powerful enough to melt metal, can move like snakes, and can climb smooth surfaces."

"Fortunately, they don't have intelligence, otherwise they would have entangled Ferenstein's tracks first, and even we would have had difficulty leaving here."

Roland said, "It really is a ghost!"

At this point, Ferenstein suddenly braked, nearly sending Taylor careening off. He held onto the car and said, "What's going on again?"

At this moment, he looked up and saw a huge arthropod passing in front of them at an abnormal speed.

It was like a huge train, about 10 meters long and 4 meters wide, crushing everything and then disappearing at the end of the horizon, leaving only the aisle with the grass and trees destroyed.

Taylor said. "A Catachan demon, and a graduation gift for the Catachans."

Roland said. "Is this something that humans can kill?"

Taylor shook his head. "Who knows? Keep going."

"We have to find the locals, no, the local Imperials!"

Frenstein started again, and although the soldiers were quite uneasy, the Skadi convoy did not slow down.

The Catachan creatures had never seen an Imperial armored array of this scale, and they were also trying to find out what was going on.

Taylor must find safety before they discover that the objects are actually tin cans.

But when they pushed aside the last few blades of grass and saw an open area, this place once again gave them a wake-up call.

The ground here is littered with human skeletons, and there are many strange-shaped creatures swallowing and digesting those things.

Taylor picked up the telescope to see what was happening, but found that the corpses were covered with red chaos eight-pointed stars.

"It seems Chaos has already taken the lead."

"The results are also clear. The dogs of the Black Legion have become fertilizer."

"We'll go around this area, but follow those bodies. They're definitely going to the Catachan base!"

Taylor now thanked Warmaster Abaddon again for everything he had done for him.

Not only does it attract the attention of local creatures, it also marks the way for itself...

All I can say is that the commander’s loyalty is beyond words.

(End of this chapter)