Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor - #680 - Chapter 662 Doomsday Storm: Antarctic Crisis

The land at the south pole of the planet is a snow-white hell. Needless to say, it is covered with snow all year round, and strong winds are commonplace. However, Macragge’s south pole is significantly different from the snowfields in other worlds. The snow here is not It is flat and straight, but composed of countless large and small peaks.

They stand on the entire land, like spearheads piercing the ground, tearing numerous holes in the entire snow-white world, just like the openings cut with a knife on the scroll, the abrupt and conspicuous gray mountains Rising from the ground, it adds its own color to the snow-white world.

Among the mountains, the Mars-class battlecruiser, Infinite Frontier, which is significantly different from the surrounding environment, is suspended between the mountains. Its magnetic levitation power device rumbles under the hull and releases a circle in the air. Magnetic belt.

Captain Cole stood on the bridge with his hands behind his back. He looked at the white world outside and said, “Situation.”.

“The magnetic lock is operating normally, the ship’s self-sustaining force is suspended, the power unit is at 80%, and it can continue sailing.” Someone on the bridge reported that in the operating area overlooking the bridge below, the screens were flashing continuously, and the

“What’s the situation of the shipboard system?”, “The overload situation has been resolved, but the reactor temperature is still high, exceeding the standard by 60%. The mechanical sage recommends that it be docked immediately for repairs.”

“We will dock when we are free. Now let them find a way to ensure that this ship will not crash here.” After Cole said this, he turned his head and looked at the Space Marines in the bridge. Mikay Captain Er held his chin anxiously and nodded to Cole when he saw him approaching.

The captain also nodded to Mikael, and then looked at the other people beside the image. Ragnar, Lancelot, and Olaf were all here. They were gathered around the table, but only Olaf was there. Rafe showed the same anxious expression as Mikael.

But they were not anxious about the situation in Antarctica, but about other places. When the bridge entrance door ticked open, Captain Mikael immediately looked over. Vito in power armor was walking in from somewhere. He Already fully armed.

“Lord Vito, we have received rumors that Lord Guilliman had an accident?” Mikael asked immediately, his face was full of nervousness and anxiety, but when he thought about whether the rumor was true, he I felt like the world was collapsing.

“Yes, Lord Vito, the Infinite Frontier’s far-wave communication system is damaged, and we cannot receive other messages.” Olaf held Mikael’s shoulder on one side, but the old wolf’s expression was the same as the latter’s. , “Is that true? Terrible news in the rumors.”

“First of all, call me Vito. This is not a military parade, nor is it the palace of Terra. Secondly, let him speak for himself.” Vito said and walked in and stepped aside. Behind him, from the bridge’s There were heavy footsteps outside the door, and the rumored person appeared on the bridge.

Cole’s eyes widened, but he didn’t need to blink, nor would he suspect that he was hallucinating. If his hallucination could simulate the light behind the Emperor’s Children, then his brain could compete with the most outstanding artist in the galaxy. The brain compares.

“Lord Guilliman? Are you okay?”

“Does this disappoint you? Mikael.” Guilliman smiled. After hearing this, Mikael immediately knelt down on one knee and buried his head to him. “How dare you, sir? Your safety is the best.” News, I had absolutely no idea where it would go.”

“Okay, Mikael, I’m just kidding. I know you won’t. Get up, my child. Everyone here is friends and brothers.” Guilliman stepped forward to help Mikael up. The company commander said to His primarch nodded in salute, then stood aside holding his helmet.

Guilliman nodded to Olaf, who immediately saluted Guilliman with the courtesy of the wolves, and then the Primarch came to the table.

Vitor also came over, and he stood beside Cole with his arms folded. The latter glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and then looked directly at Guilliman, “You caused a lot of trouble on Macragge.” Trouble.” “But the problem is solved, so don’t lecture your old friend. Besides, the trouble you brought is not small.”

Vito glanced at Cole with a smile, then shrugged and looked at the mountains outside the bridge window. Gray-white lifting platforms and protruding buildings were scattered on the mountains. Huge rail train tracks spanned the mountains. High The tall, high-power communication antenna was swaying in the strong wind, and the countless pipes on its body were swaying in the strong wind on the top of the mountain.

“Tell me about the situation here. You have caused a lot of trouble.” Vito said with a smile. Cole shook his head and clicked on the desktop in front of him. “It’s not us, it’s them.”

Two communication channels quickly appeared on the three-dimensional image. Cole activated one of them. The communication information contained inside it was immediately transmitted from the grid under the table. Its voice attracted Guilliman’s attention. With all his strength, he walked to the table and stood there listening to the contents.

“Help, help! This is Olympia Facility No. 1. There is an emergency. Please help! Any force that can hear our signal will send reinforcements immediately. They are in Facility No. 1. We are blocking this place, but I don’t know, Emperor Your Majesty, they have entered Facility No. 2!”

The communication ended with a scream and a roar that seemed to come from dozens of mouths at the same time. Guilliman frowned and turned to look at Cole.

“Who else received the distress signal?”

“We were the only one. The base’s communication system was cut off. The high-power radio signal had not yet been activated, so the signal was very weak. Only we happened to receive it in orbit. After that, we sent an alert to the surrounding imperial forces. Mikael Company As soon as the commander received the news, he brought a group of troops over. “

“Yes, sir, I happened to be in Sola City on the edge of Antarctica, preparing for the expedition to Parmenia. After receiving the news from Captain Cole, I immediately came with my troops.”

Mikael said from behind Guilliman. He held the helmet and looked at the communication image in front of him with the original body. Guilliman looked there for a moment in silence and frowned, “Is the cause of the facility accident clear? “

“It’s not clear yet, sir. The base facilities haven’t had time to report the specific reasons, and all external communications there have been interrupted.”

“We tried to contact Bell, or the other two battle brothers, but there was no response. The battleship’s radar system detected strong radiation interference.” Mikael added, Guilliman nodded and frowned, Cole cleared his throat and pointed his finger at a video interface from the edge of the image.

“You have to see this, my lord.”

“What’s this?”

“The video situation inside the facility. Before you came, we sent a commando team inside, consisting of the Ultramarines under Captain Mikael and the Stormtroopers on my ship. This is the video data they sent back. ”

Cole said and played the video, Guilliman propped up on the edge of the table, and Vito on the other side also looked at the picture in the video. A gun barrel lay across the screen, and it seemed to be shot from the perspective of a Space Marine’s helmet.

The Ultramarine was walking in the dark corridor. All the surrounding lights had been extinguished. His muzzle flashlight shone on the corridor ahead. In the picture, there were several fully armed Stormtroopers walking in the dark corridor carrying laser rifles. The front.

“Is this where we are approaching the target?” The leading stormtrooper stopped. He held his gun and looked at the Ultramarines. A simple facility structure diagram appeared in the latter’s field of vision. After observing for a few times, the Ultramarines He nodded to the storm trooper, “That’s right here. If the system at the facility terminal is correct, the radiation source is behind here.”

“Everyone wear protective clothing and prepare to enter.”

The stormtroopers took a few steps back with their guns in hand. The technical sergeant with the mechanical arm on the shoulder in the ultramarines’ field of vision walked up. He leaned down and clicked a few times on the operation screen, but the thing was still dark.

“The power here has been disconnected.” The technical sergeant turned back and said, and the ultramarine pointed his bolt gun at the door. “Can you open it? If not, you can just blow it open.”

“Of course I can open it, wait a minute, I’ll connect the backup circuit, damn, what happened here? Why are all the wiring systems reporting errors?”

“What’s the meaning?”

“It means they are not damaged, but something is causing them to continue to malfunction. That’s weird. Wait a minute.” The technical sergeant said and started operating on a flat surface. He pulled a cable from the side of the robotic arm and connected it to the screen. On the screen, there were a few lines of garbled characters on the thing, but it still lit up.

“Switching the line, three two one, okay.” The technical military said, and with a hoarse voice, the door opened with a bang, but then suddenly stopped, and its door body creaked. , a dozen muzzles and flashlights shined over, illuminating a small area behind the door, where something was hanging on the door.

“Wait, something has caught it.” The storm trooper walked over. He pulled out his laser dagger and stretched it through the crack of the door. He cut off the shadows two or three times. As they fell, the door opened with a bang. .

“Oh, the Emperor and Ultramar are above.” The Ultramarine exclaimed, and the light in his field of vision shone into the corridor behind the door. There was a wide space, which may have been a testing area, but Now, it has completely changed.

The Ultramarine walked in with a gun in his hand. His gun muzzle swept around. The light in his field of vision shone on the tall plants. They grew out of the planting pots, and they looked bigger than they should have. It was hundreds of times bigger, and the huge vines spread out in all directions, submerging the entire space.

The light swept across the ground, and the Storm Trooper squatted on the ground. He hung a gun and squatted in front of a corpse. At least it should have been a human being. He was lying on the ground, and his body limbs were completely submerged by some kind of weird fungus. The fungal colony that stretched down from him and then crawled to the ground merged into one.

The Ultramarine raised the barrel of his gun, and the flashlight light in his field of vision swept over his head. There were several corpses hanging above him. They were probably those of the researchers here. They were all wearing white coats, but their surfaces were all covered with filth. Something, the Ultramarine zoomed in on the vision inside the helmet, and those faces came into view.

“Damn it. What are you studying here?” The faces in the video interface of the Ultramarines were covered with tiny fungi. They crawled up from the eyes, ears, nostrils and mouths of the deceased. They rolled their eyes, but their lips It squirmed under the control of the fungus and spoke incomprehensible sentences.

“What are they talking about?”

The technical sergeant on the side asked. The ultramarine glanced at him, then shook his head and pointed his bolt gun at it. “You can’t hear clearly, but I guess it’s useless if you hear clearly. Do you know what the fungus would say?” ?”

The technical military shook his head. He held the heavy flamethrower in his hand, “At least you brought it in correctly. Damn it, the data shows that the radiation value here exceeds the standard. There are subspace sound waves everywhere. We should go back.”

“Agreed, captain, prepare to close the team.”

“Hey, what’s that?”

The stormtrooper held his gun and pointed at something in front of him. The ultramarine raised his head and the thing appeared on the screen under the light. Under the light, a space warrior wearing white armor stood not far away. He stood In the middle of a pile of fungi, he held a chainsword in his hand.

“Our people have the letter U of Macragge on their shoulders.” The sergeant major raised his gun and said. The Ultramarines and the sergeant major looked at each other and walked over. He held the gun carefully and approached the soldier from behind, ” Hey bro, how are you?”

“Brother, you are finally here. Do you like the gift I gave you?” The ultramarine said vaguely. The ultramarine approaching him was extremely confused. He continued to approach him and stretched out a hand in the screen.

“No matter what happened here, brother, it’s okay. Come with us. The others are outside and they will help you.”

“You have to come in, my good brother, take a look at my gift, and you must come.” The ultramarine continued, he chuckled, his voice was very weird, and the ultramarine of the video shooter pressed Holding his shoulder, “What are you talking about? Are you okay?”

“I am fine.”

The ultramarine suddenly turned his head, and the video turned into garbled code in an instant. In the last frame, a swinging chain sword appeared, as well as a ferocious and terrifying face.

“Oh, damn.”

After reading it, Ragnar whispered to the side, “What the hell did these mad scientists get up to here?”

“Stone tablet.” Guilliman stood up and said. He looked at Vitor as if seeking his opinion, and the latter nodded in affirmation.

“The stone tablet? Is that what we brought back? Oh, damn Fenris’s beard.” Ragnar touched his beard and sighed. Lancelot beside him looked at the face of the Ultramarine in the last frame. He couldn’t help but tremble all over.

“Damn, I hate that stuff.”

“That team lost contact with us later. Later, we sent several other teams to look for them, but they didn’t come back.” Cole pointed to the video and said, his face distorted when looking at the screen, although it was not It was the first time I watched it, but it still gives me chills every time I watch it.

“This is the only information we have about what was going on inside, other than that we know very little.”

“Is Bell still alive?” Vito asked. The person in the video was not Bell. Cole shook his head, “I don’t know. He may be alive, or he may have died and turned into one of those ghosts. We can’t contact him. ”

“Did it leak?” Guilliman looked at Cole and asked.

“No, thank you to the Emperor. His glory has trapped the blasphemy here within the realm of faith.” The person next to Cole said piously, and he performed the Aquila Ceremony on his chest to feel better. A pious look.

Guilliman looked at him. The man was wearing a dirty red robe with a string of pendants hanging on his chest. “Who is this?”

“Allow me to introduce you to Father Mathieu, an outstanding member of the state church. He has helped us a lot with the power of his faith.” Cole pressed the priest’s shoulder and said, and the latter showed humility. smile.

“I am just the carrier of the power of the great God-Emperor. Captain, be grateful to the Emperor, not me, just like Lord Guilliman.” The priest looked at Guilliman, who frowned slightly. ,”I?”

“Yes, sir, aren’t you the carrier that he is most proud of? The divine son of the God Emperor, the most tangible incarnation of his power in the human world.”

“I am not a god, he is not a god, and I am not his vessel.” Guilliman frowned and said, while the priest still smiled and put his hand on his chest, “You and I are both agents of the Emperor’s will, the original body My lord, he guides us all.”

Guilliman frowned fiercely. Cole knew that he had never liked people from the state religion, so he cleared his throat and broke the gradually solidified atmosphere at the scene. “What should we do now? My lord, the things in this facility must be destroyed.” Dispose of it.”

“If you ask me, this place should be blown up to the sky.”

“It’s a pity that if Ragnar could have done so, I would have done so, but unfortunately I couldn’t. The facilities here are equipped with seven layers of granite and reinforced alloys. Orbital bombing cannot penetrate here.”

“Can’t we completely destroy this place?” Olaf raised his hand and asked, Cole shrugged, “If we carry out a planet-level bombing and call in a few warships, we should be able to destroy this place, but the consequence will be that the entire Antarctica will sink. , causing Macragge’s sea levels to rise, flooding half of the planet.”

“Not to mention other unpredictable disasters, we are destroying the natural environment of the planet.” Vito added in a timely manner the moment Cole finished speaking.

“This sentence cannot be accepted. I will not watch my planet. The home world of the Ultramarines Chapter is destroyed because of this.” Guilliman said conclusively, his voice was firm and did not tolerate any opposition or opposition. question.

“I agree, sir, but what should we do? Although this place is blocked, according to our understanding of Nurgle, it will definitely find a way to break through here in the future.” Mikael said on the side.

“This place cannot be destroyed, at least until the precious research results in the experimental facilities are rescued. Those things are the treasures of the entire human civilization. After ten thousand years of decline, they must not be allowed to be lost again!”

If someone from the Mechanicus is present, they will definitely praise them. They are also like this. Except for technical treasures and knowledge, everything else is not important. Blow up a planet for an STC? That’s such a bargain, I press the button without even thinking about it.

But what Guilliman said does make sense. Human civilization has fallen for too long, and any progressive knowledge is crucial to all mankind.

“Inside the facility, there should be a switch for a self-operating nuclear reactor. That thing is installed for the facility to ensure that they can survive there for hundreds of years even if the entire planet encounters a doomsday-level disaster. But now, it is a bomb , we sent people in there to overload the powertrain, and if what the video says is true, it should be easier than usual to overload it.”

“Once it is overloaded, it can create a nuclear explosion underground. With the granite above as an obstacle, the underground explosion will not affect the surface of the planet, and the radiation will rapidly heat up to stellar temperatures in the confined space, burning everything in it. , more effective than orbital bombing, there will be nowhere for things to hide.”

Guilliman said, Cole and Vito looked at each other, and the latter nodded with his chin in his hands, “It’s a feasible plan, but I dare ask, where should we send someone?”

“Of course it’s me,” Guilliman said, standing up and holding his head high.

Vito looked at him and smiled jokingly, “No surprise.”