Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 730 Ning Lu, Never heard of him
Antima Subsector, Worlds 33-59.

After successfully submitting to the Nest City world, the black transport ship descended from the sky and unloaded its cargo.

The legion's servants, following the king's orders, drove termite excavators into the desert between the hive cities.

The Skots also responded to Nimrod's request and deployed Centaurus all-terrain vehicles.

After receiving their mission, the two Centaur all-terrain vehicles drove out of the heavy steel gates of Hive City No. 3.

The Centaur formation used by the Skot Alliance during exploration is the same as the two-vehicle coordinated tactic used in combat.

The two vehicles drove down the mountain of steel slag and headed towards the target rune location area.

The young space dwarf pilot, arriving in the hive world for the first time, looked out with curiosity.

The massive arc inside the ring-shaped lighting system refracted dazzling light under the starlight, like sparkling diamonds, illuminating the hive city shrouded in brown smoke and yellowish exhaust fumes.

Bathed in sunlight, two Centaur-like vehicles traveling side by side swept down the slope piled with steel slag and entered the main road leading to the shantytown surrounding the capital.

The industrial sludge had turned into a swamp after countless vehicles had driven over it, and the sewage dumped from the city of Chaos filled the ground, surrounded by dilapidated and filthy buildings.

The space dwarf examines the images captured by sensors on the video screen.

On the west side of the shantytown, the rooftops of the "nest city" buildings undulate, and the lights of countless streetlights adorn the garbage mountain.

To the east of the shantytown is the agricultural product processing plant, with chimneys and factory buildings piled on top of each other, and the filthy bacteria grown in the silt piled up like mountains after being collected.

On the south side of the shantytown, on the lush farm "plains," several giant harvesters, assembled from various structures of different origins, resemble a mottled beetle.

The drain pipes are arranged like a tail behind the harvester, and when they spray, they make a banging sound instead of a flowing water sound.

The atomized clumps of mixture are sprayed into the atmosphere, where they condense into sticky raindrops and fall.

The sticky rain pattered and pounded across the entire shantytown.

Both drivers simultaneously let out a disgusted roar as they lost their vision and sensor feeds.

boom! boom!
The wheels screeched as they braked suddenly.

As green runes flashed, the sewage system started up.

Dozens of seconds later, the view returned, and inside the Centaur all-terrain vehicle on the left, the driver was about to start the vehicle when he saw a naked woman standing in front of it.

She has a wide-open mouth growing from her navel, which rotates as she twists and turns.

On the right-hand Centaur car, a man with a swollen body and bloodshot eyes.

He stuck out his long, black tongue, which coiled between his mouthful of sticky, rotten teeth.

On the video screen, people covered in pale yellow barbs walked around the brazier.

From the dimly lit ventilation shaft emerged people with unusually large features and muscular bodies covered in wrinkles.

Each of them had glaring yellow runes rising from their bodies.

Those are warning symbols for radiation signals.

Each person is a source of radiation.

"Prepare for an attack!"

After alerting the soldiers in the vehicle, they issued a warning in the local language transmitted by the Shadow of Order on a pre-set communication channel.

"We are on the orders of Lord Nimrod to go to the Wasteland."

"Get out of the way immediately!"

"Ninlu?" Among the mutants, a mutant with horns on his head and a huge skull let out a strange hiss from an artificial voice implant.

"Never heard of it." As he hissed eerily, the sensors emitted a dense array of flashing yellow runes.

With countless types of radiation mixed together, he was more like a monster than a human.

He held a foul-smelling gun assembled from junk in one hand and a rusty broadsword on his shoulder in the other. His extra, curled arm was wrapped with a nail-studded club.

His body was covered with swollen fish scales and bony plates, like an upright crocodile.

The heavy nail bar looked unusually heavy, with dozens of nails driven into it and sharp spikes embedded between them.

His fourteen eyes, hanging all over his face, blinked in unison, their green pupils greedily staring at the two cars he had never seen before.

The mutant spun the spiked stick, and the fleshy nose twitched.

"It and it, leave behind, you, the past."

As he spoke, hundreds of mutants with severely cracked skin surrounded Centaurus in layers.

The two drivers simultaneously pressed the twin-barreled explosive cannons on the front of the vehicle, unleashing a dense barrage of bullets that struck the strange bodies.

The bizarre horse face exploded, the twisted and deformed bones and the soft tissue stuck together flew out.

Roar!
The crocodile-shaped giant, covered in scales, spat out a series of bullets from its left arm, which struck the steel shell and bounced off.

boom!
The heavy spiked club slammed into the right side of the Centaur, creating a crack in the outer shell that was strong enough to withstand a devastating plasma explosion.

Near-solid mucus seeped into the cockpit, and the stench emanating from liquefied cellulose filled the cockpit.

Decomposed plant fibers mixed with metal fragments drifted down and dripped onto the Void Suit, making a crackling sound.

The space dwarf's chest was burned and scalded by the corrosive slime, leaving several finger-sized holes. He gritted his teeth and slammed on the gas pedal.

Boom!
The rotten fence panels shattered, and the ugly shack collapsed with a crash.

The mutants roared, drool dripping from their mouths, as they frantically chased after Centaurus. The scaly, crocodile-like giant charged forward, brutally smashing through a dozen mutants. His coiled arms swung rapidly from behind, unleashing massive spiked clubs.

boom!
The heavy spiked club slammed down on the top of the left-hand Centaur.

Bang!

With a dull thud, the high-energy beam of light slammed into the ground.

The scaled crocodile mutant let out a triumphant roar, dropped his trash gun, and sprinted to pick up the high-energy beam cannon.

"Prepare for the explosion!" the driver shouted, raising his hand to press the dark red button on the remote weapon station.

A blinding red rune rose up.

The two Sagittarius constellations were enveloped in a blinding light.

Rumble!
Amidst the deafening explosions, like landslides, countless mutants were torn to pieces.

The shantytowns rose up like a giant python turning over.

Foul-smelling sludge, dilapidated houses, and rotting machinery shot into the sky and slammed onto the armored shell.

Two Centaur-shaped vehicles sped out, tilting to one side, and the video screen showed the crocodile giant, its body melted into a pinkish flesh color.

After leaving the shantytown behind, the two Centaurs spewed out five Hearthborn warriors, each dressed in Void suits.

As the Furnace Warriors stepped onto the sand crystal ground, a series of information streams immediately flashed on their helmets.

Corrosive industrial sand crystals.

Corrosion threat rating: Medium.

Toxicity rating: Moderate.

[…]
The Hearthblood warriors glanced at the warning message but paid it no heed.

Their void suits are designed to cope with a variety of extreme environments, including the toxic sand seas of the wasteland.

What they need to be wary of are those strange humans; their radiation-mutated forms pose a significant threat.

Inside the defensive perimeter, the two pilots quickly repaired the damaged Centaurus before setting off again.

Centaur sped across the boundless sea of ​​sand, the target rune rapidly descending.

As the number rapidly shrank to 0.9 kilometers, a strange hissing sound suddenly rang out.

The sound echoed, accompanied by a nauseating, sticky feeling, as if swollen, tumor-like tentacles were drilling into their brains.

"enemy!"

The driver glanced quickly at the video screen and saw a red glow; it was as if they had stumbled into a crimson swamp.

boom!boom!
The two Sagittarians were swept away by the immense force and collided with each other in mid-air with a deafening roar.

Amid the tremors, the previously damaged vehicle's control panel went completely black.

Inside the cockpit of the other Centaur, red and yellow runes flashed intermittently amidst the exploding sparks.

The driver slammed his fist into the emergency rescue rune on the control panel, and a bright red beam of light suddenly shot up, piercing through the dim yellow clouds.

boom! boom!
The two Centaurs spun and crashed into the sea of ​​sand, leaving the Hearth Warriors dizzy and screams echoing in their heads.

They crawled out of the vehicle, pale-faced, and raised their bedrock-type explosive guns, intending to attack the attackers.

The Hunter module in the Void server is not responding at all.

There are no enemies.

Eight Furnace Warriors immediately surrounded the Centaur chariot, while two others began to rescue the driver.

Without a sound, a shadow appeared beneath the feet of a Hearth Warrior.

call!
A shadow suddenly rose, and swirling, invisible blades tore through the void suit layer by layer, peeling away the space dwarf's tough flesh to reveal his bare bones.

"what……"

The Hearthblood warriors, brutally tortured by the Shadow Blade, let out a piercing scream, and the seven Hearthblood warriors quickly looked around.

The Hunter module remains unresponsive.

A shadow rose beneath a man's feet and seized his shadow.

Whoosh!
The Hearth Warrior was violently pulled down, his legs sinking into the sea of ​​sand.

He turned the bedrock-type explosive gun around and unleashed a dense barrage of bullets into the ground between his feet.

Boom boom boom...

The other six Furnace Warriors aimed at his surroundings and fired into the sea of ​​sand.

Amidst the roar, crystal sand flew everywhere as the Furnace Warriors sank rapidly downwards.

Two Hearth Warriors rushed over, grabbed his body, and pulled him away forcefully.

boom!
The sand dunes suddenly collapsed, as if a giant mouth had swallowed the three of them.

Four Hearthborn warriors looked around in silence as dust and sand swirled.

boom!
A sudden, loud bang rang out out of nowhere, and they all turned their guns around.

(End of this chapter)