The Bizarre Adventures of Cloud Hammer

But there were no heretic guards or patrols around this supposedly important place. Could it be that the heretics were so confident that this factory wouldn't be destroyed?

Before entering the food factory, Eryu first searched some areas outside. If the Black Templar team came here, they should not be so stupid as to go in directly.

"found it."

Eryu found the marks left by the Black Templars in a hidden corner. It seemed that they also realized that they had lost contact with the headquarters. However, the team should still have a chance to retreat at this time, but how could the Black Templars warriors allow them to retreat? If these Sons of Dorne knew when to retreat, they would not have failed so many times. Although there are significant differences between the Black Templars and other Imperial Fist Groups, they are actually the same in their stubbornness.

"We've found traces of this Black Templar team. If nothing unexpected happens, they're planning to destroy this factory after losing contact."

With their communication with the headquarters cut off, the Black Templar team knew they had been exposed. Continuing to explore would not yield any good results, so they might as well do something meaningful before the enemy arrived, such as destroying the food factory.

In order to maintain the daily needs of the large number of civilians in the lower level of the hive, there is more than one food factory in the hive. Some of the factories were destroyed by the evacuated PDFs when the heretics captured the lower hive, just to prevent the heretics from obtaining enough food.

Because the planetary governor wants to strengthen the management of other cities, there are only a small amount of reserve grain in the granaries of other cities, which can be used for emergency situations when necessary. But it seems that the planetary governor is not strict enough, and PDF has not destroyed enough factories, so the heretics have not starved to death yet.

However, it was not only the heretics who were starving, but also the civilians who did not have time to evacuate the lower nest. So much time had passed, and if these civilians had not been killed by the heretics, they would have become one of them.

Er Yu led the team into the factory and saw the production process of the Empire Gourmet Corpse Starch. Pu Ouchen and the other two had previously learned that corpse starch is mainly a by-product of promethium, and only a small part of it is actually used on corpses. However, the scene in the factory was somewhat different from what the three had said.

Corpses, corpses everywhere, old and young, male and female, fresh and rotten, even skeletons with some flesh left were thrown into the machine to produce corpse starch, which the civilians of the lower nest relied on for survival.

Most of these corpses were from cultists. With so many people and insufficient food supply, what should they do? Why not clear out some of the useless people and make them into food? These people can't provide much combat power anyway, so it's better to let the others eat well so they have the strength to fight. In this world of the trench, people are the last thing they need.

Children, we are not the kings of endurance.

Eryu felt a little uncomfortable after watching this scene. Fortunately, he didn't believe Luochen's evil intention and eat a bite of that corpse starch, otherwise he would feel sick for a long time now.

byd's falling dust.

Eryu began to search inside. On the way, he saw some fresh corpses of cultists. The wounds on the corpses were from Astartes' combat knives, which were done by the Black Templars.

In the control room of the factory, Eryu saw the first body of a Black Templar warrior. Judging from the warrior's actions, he seemed to want to stop the operation of the factory before his death. It was at this time that he was attacked by the enemy.

There were only a few traces of fighting at the scene. The enemy's first blow tore through the chest of the Black Templar warrior. The Black Templar warrior wanted to fight back but it was too late. After resisting for a few times, the enemy destroyed the two hearts of the Black Templar warrior, and the warrior died.

As if fearing that the soldier was not dead yet, the enemy shot the soldier in the head again. If the head had been penetrated at the beginning, there would be no traces of fighting in the room.

Eryu asked an Astartes from the team to come forward, and Gloria input the skills that an Astartes should have into these androids, such as how to collect gene seeds.

Judging from the situation, the enemy should not have had time to dig out the Black Templar's gene seeds. If the Nebula Hammer can bring back the seeds of these warriors, then it will be considered that it has helped the Black Templar again.

After the seeds were taken out, Er Yu continued to explore other places. He found time bombs installed by the Black Templar in some important locations in the factory, but he did not have time to start the countdown.

Based on subtle traces, Eryu found a passage leading to the underground of the factory.

Entering the underground area, Eryu felt a bit of chill. It seemed like a cold warehouse. Eryu opened a room and found a pile of frozen meat hanging inside. He didn't know what kind of meat it was.

After walking forward for a while, Er Yu smelled the smell of blood in the cold air. When he reached a corner, he saw bullet holes and scratches of melee weapons on the wall.

Er Yu walked around the corner and saw the second body of the Black Templar team. This soldier died much more miserably than the first one. He was almost cut in two with his armor, and only a small part was left connecting him. This time the enemy did not launch a sneak attack. The bullet marks over there were obviously caused by the grenade launchers in the hands of the Black Templar soldiers.

Without collecting the gene seeds immediately, Er Yu continued to move forward. Soon he saw the third and fourth corpses. It can be said that they both died in a very miserable way.

"One more to go."

There were five people in a Black Templar team, and one more body was needed to confirm that the entire Black Templar team was wiped out.

Er Yu noticed the bloodstains on the ground, which extended into a cold storage warehouse. He asked the team to be on guard outside and he walked in along the bloodstains.

Deep in the warehouse, Eryu saw the last Black Templar warrior leaning against the wall, still breathing. The warrior had one hand and one foot broken, and a wound on his chest. However, thanks to the Astartes' strong body, the blood on the warrior's wound had completely coagulated, blocking the wound and preventing him from further bleeding.

"Are you still alive?" Er Yu squatted down and asked.

"what……"

The warrior still had some consciousness, but his injuries were too severe to respond to Eryu.

Seeing this, Eryu took out a medical needle used by Astartes from his backpack, took off the warrior's helmet and inserted the needle into his neck. The last time he used this thing was eleven years ago (less than half a year for everyone else), when he used it on Allen when he was still a young man.

Don't get me wrong, this needle is brand new. People wouldn't keep a needle for so long. No matter how much they pick at it, they will replace it with a new one.

After the injection, the soldier finally regained some strength. He raised his head and the first words he said to Eryu were:

"Be careful, back..."

Before the warrior could finish speaking, Eryu reacted. He instantly drew his sword and stretched his arm back to block the attack from behind.

Even the attacker was stunned. He didn't expect Er Yu to block his attack without turning around.

The weapon is a chainsaw sword, strength, speed...

Based on the collision feeling from the sword blade, Er Yu determined the enemy's physical data and the weapon he used. He had thought of all this at the moment he blocked the attack.

Then Er Yu blocked the attack, turned around and slashed to force the enemy back. At the same time, the explosive force of his legs allowed him to rush to the enemy in an instant. The enemy had no time to react. He only saw a flash of sword in front of his eyes, and the next moment, Er Yu chopped off his head with a sword.

"Isn't this guy still dead?"

Eryu still remembered that everyone had said that the Chaos Astartes had extremely tenacious vitality due to some blessing. He was afraid that the enemy was not dead yet, so he took out the incendiary pistol, which had appeared for the first time so far, to finish off the enemy. The blazing red beam penetrated and ignited the enemy's upper body, illuminating the cold warehouse.

Only then did Er Yu turn around and look at the Black Templar warriors who were already stunned.

"What did you say?"

Chapter 59 The conspiracy emerges

The Black Templar warrior found it hard to believe what he had just seen. He even began to wonder if this was an illusion before he was tortured to death. A traitor who had toyed with their team at will was killed instantly by the Astartes of the Nebula Hammer in a sneak attack. Isn't the gap a bit too big?

"Is there only this one enemy?" Er Yu did not receive any alarm from the team outside. This enemy should have been hiding in the cold storage from the beginning.

Because of the shock of the previous scene and his own injuries, the Black Templar warrior found himself speechless and could only nod to confirm.

"Wait until the medicine is fully effective."

Knowing that there were no other enemies, Eryu asked the team guarding outside to come in and provide emergency treatment to the Black Templar warriors, so that they would not die on the way before being carried out. However, with the vitality of the Astartes, it should not be so easy to be killed.

Then Eryu turned on the "screen" sharing, allowing everyone to identify which Chaos Space Marine the one performing the sneak attack was.

"Brother, how can we tell if the upper body is almost burned off?"

The shot that Eryu fired with his incendiary pistol directly burned the upper body of the Chaos Space Marine into ashes, and the power armor was almost burned to pieces. Only a symbol of Khorne could be barely distinguished.

Incendiary weapons are an ancient type of heat ray weapon used by the Human Empire. These weapons possess considerable lethality, surpassing most other similar weapons. Even the thick ceramic plates of an Astartes power armor can be penetrated by an incendiary weapon. The emitted heat rays can have a devastating effect on organic matter, instantly burning flesh to ash. The fate of those directly hit is basically the same as that of this Chaos Astartes.

In the early days of the Great Crusade, incendiary weaponry was commonplace among the newly created Space Marine Legions and Skitarii of the Mechanicus, but the manufacture of any type of incendiary weaponry was extremely difficult, even for the most powerful Forge Worlds.

As the Great Crusade progressed, the huge number of weapons required by the army soon made incendiary weapons in short supply. In the later stages of the Great Crusade, they were gradually replaced by bolt/bolt weapons that were easier to manufacture and adapt to various environments. Only the elite mortal forces of the Solar Auxilia used incendiary weapons as standard equipment. By the time of the Great Heresy, incendiary weapons had basically been completely replaced.

By the time of M41, incendiary weapons had become quite rare, and many Astartes Chapters were basically unable to see this precious weapon. Until the Great Rift opened, Dorakor revived this ancient technology with ten thousand years of accumulation and developed a new incendiary weapon for the Primaris Astartes - the High-Energy Incendiary Pistol.

The incendiary pistol that Eryu is using now originated from the Great Crusade period and is called the Incendiary Snake, at least in appearance it is an Incendiary Snake. They certainly could not use the high-energy incendiary pistol openly before the Primordial Forge was created. Dora Kaur is also a person who likes to leave clones everywhere. If he sees them one day, it will be troublesome if he finds them.

"Don't you say some bad canned goods have strong vitality? I was afraid this guy would come back to life, so I shot him again."

"If you're going to follow up with a shot, you should use explosives. Using explosives won't just destroy the body."

Pu Ouchen and the other two were not surprised by Eryu's behavior. After all, Eryu was not even a cloud hammer, so how could he know these things?

"Isn't there a head over there? Pick it up and take a look, maybe you can see something." Ou Ge said to Er Yu. Sometimes the shape of the helmet can better distinguish the origin of an Astartes.

Eryu picked up the blue-black helmet with a head, bat wings and some lightning patterns. Everyone took a look and determined which rebel legion the Chaos Astartes who was killed instantly by Eryu came from.

"Isn't this the Night Lord? Eryu, you didn't even recognize him. This rebel legion can be selected in the PVP of Space Marine 2." Xianyu and Awei both recognized the Night Lord. The bag-flying man on the Chaos side in PVP of Space Marine 2 is Batman.

"I don't play PVP." Er Yu had never played a single PVP game before crossing over, and after hearing that some people died in PVP games, he didn't want to play it anymore.

The Night Lords, commonly known as the Batboys, have been mentioned many times before. Their Primarch is Konrad Curze, also known as Konrad the Eighth because he is the eighth Primarch. The legion practices fear tactics and likes to torture and abuse the enemy. Their methods are basically bloody. Dismemberment and skinning are very basic operations. A skilled Night Lord can skin a person, pull out his tendons, hollow out his internal organs, and cut him into a human stick while still keeping his life (refer to the Ultramarines who were hung in Death of Hope). This is just to hear the enemy's painful wail before death. They even regard this method as an art.

The Night Lords' actions during the Great Crusade made them unwelcome in the eyes of other legions. Compared with the Raven Guard, who were also good at stealth, they were simply the two sides of the same coin. In the later period of the Great Crusade, due to various reasons within the Night Lords Legion, the Legion became a gathering place for scum. In addition, Konrad Curze was tortured into a mental patient by his own nature and psychic prophecy talent, and the Legion's rebellion became inevitable.

After the Heresy ended, Konrad Curze accepted his fate and was killed by assassins sent by the Assassin's Court. Sevatar, the second-in-command of the Legion (actually the boss), disappeared. Most of the other capable people died during the Heresy. None of the remaining people in the Legion could command the support of the people, and the Night Lords fell apart.

Initially, most of the Night Lords were like their Primarchs, disliking the Imperium and looking down on Chaos. But nearly ten thousand years have passed, and some of the Night Lords have sided with Chaos. However, most of those who have sided with Chaos do not believe in any of the Four Gods, belonging to the category of Undivided Chaos. A small number of them just do whatever they want.

"Batboy has fallen. He actually voted for Old K. Old K is willing to accept this." Apu sighed. However, it is not impossible for Batboy to vote for K given his bloodthirsty personality.

After everyone analyzed the situation, they found out that the Black Templar team was attacked by the Night Lords in the food factory. The environment here was indeed favorable for Batboy. The Night Lords were good at stealth, and their equipment was made silent, even their chainsaw swords were silent.

This Batboy first killed the Black Templar warrior who stayed in the control room, then went down to the underground area to fight with the other four. After killing one person with a sneak attack, he killed two of the remaining three head-on. The last person was able to survive. It was probably because this Batboy was addicted to it and wanted to keep one to try out some of the Legion's traditional skills. Otherwise, there was no reason not to kill all the Black Templar team. He had already killed four, so killing the last one would be a piece of cake.

After asking the Black Templar warriors who had recovered their breath, they found that it was indeed very similar to what everyone thought.

"This bat boy is quite capable. He killed three black orcs head-on."

As Astartes specializing in stealth, most of the Night Lords' frontal abilities are relatively weak. Fighting head-on with a melee-specialized chapter like the Black Templars is like using one's own weaknesses to hit others' strengths. But this Batboy actually won without taking any damage. He is indeed a good K-casting talent. It's a pity that he met Eryu.

Brother Ou: "This should be the one who desecrated the Blade Warband. Even though he's a bat boy, he can still match the Khorne Warband in this respect."

Luochen: "The name Blasphemy Blade sounds the same to me as Xin S. Why would K come up with such a ridiculous name?"

Xianyu: "What if it's a mixed gang?"

Apu: "Not likely. If we can't control these two groups, it would be a blessing if K and S don't end up fighting each other."

The four gods have always disliked each other, and the dislike between Khorne and Slaanesh is particularly serious (as well as Tzeentch and Nurgle). Khorne despises Slaanesh's hedonistic and indulgent nature, and Slaanesh also likes to cause trouble for Khorne. He even created a great demon as a gold medal thug to battle with Khorne's great demon. More importantly, Slaanesh can really reach into Khorne's territory to snatch people.

Among the characters known to everyone, the only one who can control both the K and S factions at the same time, apart from K and S themselves, is our Brother Dun with a pointed head who is protected by the Four Gods of Eternal War.

"Surely, this gang isn't full of Night Lords, right?" Wei guessed.

"It's unlikely. It's rare to have a Batboy who votes K. If a warband is full of Batboys, then I have to suspect that the prison K is using hypnosis." Ap thought that there were at most two or three Batboys in this Profane Blade warband, and the number of Raven Guards who voted K was more than the Batboys.

If you want to know the composition of this "Profane Blade" gang, you have to wait until they fully reveal themselves.

While everyone was talking, the Black Templar warrior's wounds had been almost healed.

"We have taken out the gene seeds of your teammates, and their seeds are not contaminated." Er Yu told the Black Templar warriors about the removal of the gene seeds.

"Thank you for your help, brothers of Nebula Hammer." The Black Templar warrior expressed his gratitude.

The Black Templars are not as averse to outsiders touching their gene seeds as some other chapters. They may have some little genetic secrets, but the two genetic defects of the Imperial Fist series are well known to everyone, and there is no need to hide them. In this case, they should be happy if someone can help collect their gene seeds.

Eryu took the surviving Black Templar warrior and prepared to evacuate. In this situation, there was no way to find another team.

Before leaving, Team Eryu completed the unfinished work of the Black Temple Team, installed a time bomb at a key location in the factory and started the countdown.

After Eryu and his men left, the food factory was destroyed in the explosion.

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When Eryu evacuated, everyone started to pay attention to what Xianyu was doing. He did not personally go to look for the missing Black Temple team in the bottom nest, and he followed the two soldiers for a long time without making any movement.

"I might have to wait a few days."

Xianyu and the two soldiers had already hidden outside the place where the cultists held their ceremonies, but according to Bayar and Lannis, the time of the cultists' ceremonies was not fixed. The two times Bayar saw were seven and eight days apart, respectively, and the time Lanni saw was nine days apart. The two thought that according to this rule, the ceremony should be held ten days apart this time, but that was not the case.

Yesterday, which was the tenth day after the last ceremony, the cultists did not hold a ceremony, and not even one person showed up. Bayar and Lanny thought that the cultists had finished the ceremony.

Luochen: "Seven, eight, nine, what are these cultists trying to do to make up the four sacred numbers?"

The numbers seven, eight and nine represent Nurgle, Khorne and Tzeentch respectively, so where is the number six representing Slaanesh?

Brother Ou: "According to this rule, the ritual of Slaanesh should be held first. Did those two big heads miss it?"

Xianyu: "Don't worry, let me ask."

Xianyu asked the two how often they came here, and they replied that one of them came here almost every day.

Apu: "That must be because Slaanesh's ceremony wasn't held here, but the other three are here. Why is Slaanesh so unsociable?"

If you think about it carefully, isn't it normal that Slaanesh, as the youngest evil god, doesn't get along with the other three old gods?

Alas, the generation gap.

As they spoke, everyone asked Gloria to pull up the ritual distribution map again. It showed that there were more than one location in the lower nest and the bottom nest performing the ritual at the same time, and Xianyu and the others were just one of them.

Ah Wei: "Is it possible that they specifically placed the ritual of Slaanesh somewhere else?"

Ou Ge: "It is indeed possible. Then let's not worry about the ritual of Slaanesh for now. According to this pattern, the next ritual will be in two days."

Two days later will be the thirteenth day of the previous ceremony. Six plus seven is when the next round of ceremony will begin. However, these people are holding the ceremony for thirteen days so they are really not afraid of the yellow-skinned people causing trouble.

Oh, the big crack hasn’t opened yet, so it’s okay.

I would like to mention here that many people believe that thirteen is the Emperor's sacred number. There is indeed a great connection between the two. For example, the thirteen Black Crusades allowed the Emperor to manifest his divine power on a large scale and with high intensity. For example, Guilliman, who saved the Empire from danger, was the thirteenth Primarch. However, the GW official has never said that the Emperor has a sacred number. Instead, the sacred number of the ancient Horned Rat next door is indeed thirteen.

Because of this, the Emperor's Holy Number could be thirteen, but it's unlikely that the Emperor's Holy Number is thirteen, so it's stuck. (The Emperor may not have a Holy Number because he hasn't become a god yet.)

Bored, Xianyu took over the control of an Astartes he sent to search for the Black Templars. The Nebula Hammer team had already arrived at the location where the Black Templars disappeared, but this Black Templars team did not leave any clues and their whereabouts were unclear, so Xianyu was not in a position to expand the search range.

Helpless, Xianyu could only ask the team to withdraw temporarily, and then he asked Bayar and Lanny:

"You may return to the Upper Nest. My team will return with you."

"Lord Seteface, we have explored the way out of the bottom nest before, but there are enemies patrolling non-stop on every route." Lanny replied. In this situation, it seems that the only option to leave the bottom nest is to fight their way out.

"There's something wrong with your route."