The Bizarre Adventures of Cloud Hammer

"There is indeed a sound, most likely only psychics can hear it."

Among the only two people who can hear the sounds, Luochen needs no introduction. Alan is a psychic with great potential. As he gradually awakens, he can also hear these sounds, but he cannot control his psychic power to block these sounds.

Luochen began to analyze the source of these sounds. These sounds did not come from the bottom nest. The evil cult in the bottom nest could not make such noises.

"Can you tell me what that sound is?" Wei was a little curious.

"An echo of despair... Wait, is that an alarm going off?"

The alarm of the hive city passed through the layers of outer shell and into the bottom nest, and everyone had no idea what was happening outside.

"Gloria, what's happening outside?" Apu asked Gloria.

"Wait, I was writing my observation log and wasn't paying attention outside... How could a stinking ship be parked in orbit?!"

A smelly ship?

Brother Ou: "Is it Nurgle that's causing trouble?"

The characteristic of stench is also related to Nurgle.

Suddenly, something crashed into the bottom nest and landed in an area of the bottom nest under the gaze of everyone.

Eryu: "What the hell is this?"

Looking at the things that fell, everyone had a bad feeling.

Gloria then explained to everyone what had just happened:

"The planet's orbital defense system opened fire, destroying the ships, but some debris fell into the hive!"

Everyone looked at each other, thinking about what had just been thrown in.

"I say, that thing that just fell down couldn't be debris?" Xianyu pointed in the direction where the debris fell, which happened to be the route they had to take.

"Hahaha, how could there be such a coincidence."

Brother Ou smiled as a rat passing by his feet died without any warning. Everyone looked over and saw that the body of the fat rat was rapidly rotting and mutating.

"..."

Apu stepped forward and crushed the rat into a pulp. He didn't want to be bitten by the Nurgle rats.

"Well, it looks like we're going to have to get a Gold-level Maelstrom."

Apu looked at everyone and if they didn't want to, he could just let Gloria teleport them back, but then Alan would have to wait here to die.

Ah Wei: "Uh uh ~ Six dagger Ogryns plus an unequipped prisoner or fanatic against a gold-level maelstrom, right? Isn't this a lesson for the ranged?"

Luochen: "I am a noble psyker after all, so you should just be Ogryn and hold the line."

Xianyu: "Give me the account, let me play the Psyker, Luochen, go and play Ogryn."

Eryu: "Didn't you explode while playing with Xianyu?"

Brother Ou: "To be honest, this isn't necessarily as difficult as a Gold-level Maelstrom."

Everyone talked about the funny moments when playing Dark Tide, and their attitudes were clear.

Apu looked at Allen, who didn't know what was going on, and said:

"This time, we'll be good people and see them off to the end. Don't fall behind, Judge."

Chapter 18 Insects

Nurgle, one of the four Chaos Gods, is the opposite of Slaanesh. Nurgle is the oldest of the four gods. It was born from the will of despair and the concept of destruction. It is the god in charge of despair, stagnation, death, decay, and plague. But at the same time, Nurgle also symbolizes life, and Nurgle's believers do achieve eternal life in a sense.

Nurgle is also a loving god. He loves all life, whether it is a crying baby or a raging plague germ. In his eyes, they are all a form of life. He will accept all believers, regardless of age, good or evil. He is tolerant and inclusive of the world, just like a kind father leading his beloved son.

But the evil god is the evil god, and Nurgle's love is something that mortals can never bear, just like the Nurgle zombies standing in front of Apu and others. This is the power of a father's love.

After the fragments fell into the Underhive, a large number of Underhive scum and residents were transformed into Nurgle zombies in a very short time due to the plague carried by the fragments. As the lowest-level soldiers of Nurgle, the bodies of Nurgle zombies have been strengthened to a certain extent, but at most their bodies can only withstand a few more shots and close combat. Their overall strength is no different from that of small fry, and they are far less threatening than those rational Nurgle believers.

Think about it, even four thieves can easily kill their way through the zombie horde, so it will be even easier if they have six unarmored Astartes, and they are the strongest, most powerful and domineering Astartes!

Xianyu and Eryu picked up the bottom nest scum and used them to clear out the zombies in front of the team. The Astartes' combat knife was not suitable for the current situation, so both of them picked up the bottom nest scum's weapons to use together.

Apu, Ou Ge and Awei dealt with the zombies that slipped through the front, and from time to time zombies would come out from the side.

Luochen, as a psychic think tank, did not take action directly. He used his psychic power to scan the area centered on the team, providing everyone with information about the surroundings and also giving everyone a layer of psychic shield. "There are too many zombies ahead, can we take a detour?"

Xianyu and Eryu had no idea how many knives they had picked up had been broken, but the number of zombies was still endless, and it would take too much time to kill them head-on.

If there were only six of them, they could have fun in the zombie tide for a whole day, but now they have a main quest. In this case, the passages between the various levels of the hive will definitely be blocked, and everyone needs to send Alan there before the passage to the lower hive is completely blocked.

Alan was surrounded by everyone. In order to protect his safety, everyone gave him spare rosary beads. This once again refreshed Alan's understanding of everyone. How come these guys even have this thing?

Rosary beads are precious attitude generators, and are generally only given to the highest-ranking officials of the state religion. However, the behavior of the crowd has nothing to do with the state religion.

Alan wanted to ask how these people got the rosary, but the current situation did not allow him to ask questions.

"Is there any other way to go, Luochen?" Xianyu asked Luochen in the communication channel.

“Yes, but it would take a long time if we took a detour.”

Luochen had already swept the nearby roads, but these roads were not faster than charging head-on, and there was also the risk of being surrounded from the front and back.

Hearing this news, Eryu couldn't help but say:

"Then Luochen, just use your magic to clear the way. If you delay any longer, the mission will fail!"

"You should have let me clear the way earlier. It's exposed, so what? We're not going to the nest anyway."

The main reason why Luochen didn't use psychic power from the beginning was because of Allen, the trainee inquisitor. He didn't want to argue with Allen about whether he was a legal psychic. You know, the duties of an inquisitor also included arresting illegal psychics and hunting wizards.

Another point is that Luochen doesn't know whether his use of psychic power will accelerate Alan's psychic awakening. If Alan can't control it and explodes directly, it will be a big trouble.

But in this situation, Luo Chen can only take a gamble. If Alan really wants to explode, Gloria will teleport them away in an instant.

"Psychic energy mobilizes a hundred thousand horsepowers! Ignite them all!"

Luochen set off a firestorm in the tide of zombies. The way to deal with Nurgle's zombies is to use fire to burn them all into ashes. The firestorm directly cleared the zombies on the road ahead of everyone, and also ignited some explosive items, causing more casualties.

"You're a psyker!?"

Alan was shocked by the psychic power displayed by Luochen. He could use spells of this range so easily and control it so delicately. What level of psychic was this person?

Seeing that Allen's psychic power was not affected, Luochen felt relieved. He did not say any more nonsense:

"Don't worry about whether I'm a psychic or not. Run away quickly, or the zombies will gather again."

Everyone rushed towards the location that Allen mentioned. Not long after, they saw that the PDF (Planetary Defense Force) stationed in this passage was defending against a wave of zombies. The heavy firepower on the position was continuously firing. After the PDF cleared this wave of zombies, everyone appeared in front of the position.

"Who is it!" The PDF soldiers wearing gas masks pointed their guns at the crowd.

"Don't shoot!"

Alan took out the rose knot of the Inquisition, and the soldiers immediately knelt on one knee after seeing the rose knot.

"Please forgive our offense, sir, why are you in a place like this?" asked a PDF sergeant.

"It's a long story. What's the situation now?" Allen asked the PDF sergeant to report the situation after the debris fell.

The PDF troops defending this passage were very lucky. Thanks to Diaz's construction, their per capita quality was also very good. Their positions were far away from where the debris fell, so they were not eroded by the chaotic power on the debris. After discovering the abnormal green fog spreading, they immediately put on gas masks and cleaned up the infected soldiers.

"The Governor has ordered the closure of all passages on the floors, and we are preparing to evacuate."

"Do you know what's going on upstairs?"

"All levels of the hive have been attacked. The Governor-General wants us to assemble our forces in the Upper Hive."

Alan quickly analyzed the known information. Judging from the situation in the bottom nest, the lower nest might not be much better. Lord Diaz reacted very quickly, but these monsters were not ordinary heretic rebels, but servants of Chaos.

You have to find a way to contact the teacher.

After figuring out what to do next, Allen looked back at Apu and the others. He wanted these people to continue to act with him. Having a powerful psychic to escort them along the way would make it much safer. As for whether it was legal or not, it was not a problem at all in the face of Chaos.

But when Allen turned around, he found that the strange guys had disappeared without a trace. He immediately asked the soldiers present:

"Where is the person who came with me just now?"

"We didn't know either. When we came to our senses, they had disappeared."

"Disappeared?"

Alan realized that with a powerful psychic around, it would not be difficult to disappear in public.

"Are we going to look for them, sir?" asked the sergeant.

"There's no time." Allen shook his head. They couldn't find those people on their own. They might as well hurry up and get down to business. "Evacuate to the upper levels immediately and follow Lord Diaz's orders."

"As ordered!"

"Give me the communicator again. I need to contact my mentor."

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The Nurgle zombies on the top of the hive tower were quickly wiped out by PDF. Firstly, there was the strongest defense force here, and secondly, there were not many people living on the top of the tower, and most of the nobles also had means of self-protection, so there were very few people who were transformed into Nurgle zombies.

The top of the tower is temporarily safe now, but the problems on the lower level have not been solved. Let’s not talk about the upper nest and the bottom nest for now. The lower nest, the most populous area, is the big problem.

Credien stood on the fortifications, with two combat nuns standing on his left and right. Under his orders, PDF began to burn the corpses of the zombies on the top of the tower, and the priests from the state religion were also performing purification rituals to prevent these corpses from causing secondary contamination.

Credien walked down the fortifications and went inside, where Diaz was talking with the PDF commander.

"You've come just in time, Lord Credien. My commander told me that the top of the tower has been suppressed. Those heretics are vulnerable. We can even take back the starport soon." Diaz said the news that Credien had already known. He was quite satisfied with the performance of the PDF he created.

But Credien shook his head and said:

"The top of the tower is temporarily safe, but this is just the beginning. Below is the real battlefield. We have to face evil spirits from the warp. These monsters are not so easy to defeat."

"My troops have just cleared the monsters from the top of the tower, Lord Credien. Do you think that Aitis's PDF can't win on its own?"

"If there was only one enemy, I believe Aitis could handle it on her own, but we have to face more than just this one force."

What Credien was worried about was not these weak Nurgle zombies, he was worried about another chaotic force he had felt before.

Diaz wanted to ask what Credien meant when a servant came in and handed Credien a communicator.

"There's a communication for you, Lord Credien."

"who is it?"

Credien was a little curious, as not many people on this planet knew his contact information.

After taking the communicator, Credien heard a familiar voice in it.

"Teacher, can you hear me?"

"Alan?"

Hearing that his student was safe and sound, Credien felt relieved.

"Where are you, Alan?"

"I just entered the lower nest with the bottom pdf."

"Down to the nest..."

Polluted by Chaos, the most populous Lower Hive is now the most terrifying place in the entire hive.

"Alan, go to the passage to the Nest immediately. I will have the Battle Sisters come to pick you up."

There are six combat nuns following Credien. Two of them will serve as his guards, and the remaining four will be on standby at all times.

While the Inquisitor and his apprentice were talking on the phone, Diaz also received a communication from an informant he had planted among the nobles.

After instructing Allen on some things, Credien hung up the call, and at this moment Diaz suddenly smashed the communicator in his hand to the ground.

"What's wrong, Lord Diaz?"

Diaz gritted his teeth and said:

"The nobles on the top of the tower... have rebelled!"

Led by the great nobleman Flaroni, many nobles joined the rebellion. They had blocked half of the area at the top of the tower, and the informant had been discovered. Only with the help of the Ministry of Justice did they send the final message to Diaz.

It's not just the capital hive, chaos is also happening in other hives. Fortunately, Diaz has strict control over PDF. Other hives should be able to be pacified with the assistance of PDF and the Ministry of Justice. Only the situation in the capital hive is the most serious.

"What a bunch of damned bugs! Just because they're living a comfortable life, they're thinking of doing something so outrageous. Flaroni... I knew he had bad intentions!"

Diaz was invited to the banquet just yesterday, and he betrayed me today. Now that I think about it, this might not be a Hongmen Banquet.

Before Diaz's father died, he reminded Diaz to be careful of the Flaroni family, but when Diaz came to power, the Flaroni family did not participate in the rebellion, and they have been very peaceful in the past twenty years, leaving Diaz no opportunity to attack.

"That's not surprising, Lord Diaz. I told you we don't have just one enemy."