Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor - #685 - Chapter 667 Doomsday Storm: Evolution Day (Part 2)

The stone tablet grew there. To be honest, it can no longer be called a stone tablet.

It turned into a tree. I don’t know if this is accurate, but no word can accurately describe it in all the languages ​​of all human civilizations since ancient times.

If I have to find one, I can only say that it is chaos.

The huge stone tablet was deeply embedded in the power furnace of the reactor. It was not smashed into it, but completely integrated into it, as if the two were one. Above it, thick tree roots grew up, and they intertwined to form a giant tree thicker than a battleship.

Countless vines separated again at the top, turning into a huge tree canopy that covered the entire sky. They were entangled on the walls and everywhere that could be remembered, submerging steel, machinery and everything under the endless tree roots.

Vito looked at the reactor. Its blue super-Planck radiation light was blocked by the dense tree roots. The dazzling light was like a sun being swallowed, bit by bit, completely extinguished and disappeared.

“What the hell, what is this?” Ragnar asked in amazement as he looked at the giant tree in front of him. Mikael walked by with a gun in hand, staring at the huge tree in amazement. “Is this a stone tablet?” “No, it’s not. The data displayed in my detector is completely different from before. Did you receive it?” Bell looked at Tertius, and the pharmacist veteran took a few steps forward. His face helmet slid upwards, exposing his face lit by the light of the reading display. “Yes, brother, I saw it, it’s hatching.”

“Hatching?” Lancelot asked in surprise, inserting a new magazine into the grenade launcher, “Yes, brother, hatching, something is growing inside it, it’s changing, or should I say, evolving.”

“Then don’t worry about it, before it evolves to move, quickly blow this place up, Ragnar, Lancelot, go overload the system, Bell goes.”

“Everyone! Be careful!”

Before Vito turned around and finished speaking, Mikael shouted and pulled the bolt. When he strode back, Vito turned his head and saw the giant tree on the reactor, it stood up.

The behemoth slowly stood up, and the countless huge vines on its abdomen and below were all lifted up. They dropped a huge amount of dust and entangled with each other, allowing the giant tree to be pulled up from the reactor. The stone tablet was deeply embedded in the center of the giant tree, turning around like a face.

“I am life, I am the way of evolution, I am His choice, the way of the future.”

“I don’t want the future to be like this, but…everyone disperse!”

Vito yelled and looked up at the giant tree jumping up. Yes, since it jumped up, it was like a Titan mecha suddenly jumping up on the spot, and it was higher and bigger.

The giant tree jumped from the air, its huge body fell from the sky, and the huge shadow approached Vito and his party at a rapid speed. Vito immediately flew to the side to dodge, and the giant tree’s tail hit him hard, raising a dust storm.

The roots of the giant tree lifted up, revealing Guilliman and Mikael on the other side. Robert raised his head and looked at the giant tree in front of him with surprise on his face.

“It seems that Mortarion still understands science, right? A masterpiece of a materialist warrior!”

Before Vito finished his words of praise, the giant tree raised its thick vines and smashed down. The behemoth fell from the sky. Vito rolled away from its shadow, and after rolling up, he raised his grenade launcher and fired quickly. The bomb broke the vine, but after it fell, a large number of small roots burst out from the broken end in an instant. They grew rapidly and then sewed up quickly at a speed that was almost impossible to track with the naked eye.

In an instant, as the broken roots fell to the ground, new roots grew out, and they were raised high and smashed towards Vito.

The swift bomb whistled and broke one side of the thick tree root. The vine shifted to the side. Vito looked at Bell who was not far away. He was changing the bullet after firing a round, and Lancelot rolled to his side.

“Don’t they say that without a subspace radiation source, they won’t recover themselves?”

“How do I know? Maybe it has evolved to its final form, just like a gecko, except…”

“But what?”

“This is a super gecko!”

Bell roared and picked up his gun and fired fiercely. Almost in the blink of an eye, all the bombs were fired. They rushed to the roots of the giant tree and crushed it all from the head, but in the flying wood chips, the new roots grew faster than the crushing speed.

The vines whistled from behind the fragments, and Bell opened his eyes wide. Lancelot on the side swooped up at the last moment, knocked Bell to the ground, and rolled with him to avoid it.

Bell’s grenade gun was pierced and flew out, nailing it to the wall with the roots.

The foot parts of the giant tree all turned, supporting the giant tree like a windmill and rotating at high speed in the hall. It rushed towards Guilliman like a storm, and the hard, thick bark bounced all of Mikael’s bullets.

“Damn it!” Mikael roared. He put down his gun and looked at the giant tree that was approaching at a speed that almost violated the laws of physics. At this critical moment, Guilliman grabbed Mikael and threw him directly out. The captain flew out from the edge of the giant tree’s impact route, then fell to the ground and rolled away.

Guilliman turned his head and looked at the giant tree that he hit. He rushed forward and ran towards the giant tree. Then he used a rolling and sliding shovel to pass under the body swept by the giant tree, almost touching his face. .

Robert slid under the giant tree. He drew out his sword and slashed it left and right. The fire cut off the roots of the giant tree. It suddenly fell down, smashing it like a collapsed mountain. On the ground.

Guilliman slipped out from behind it. He rolled and stood up to look at the giant tree. Since it was not paralyzed, all the broken roots under the huge tree were retracted inward. The giant tree shook violently, and it The roots of the trees rustled, gradually getting louder and louder, like an approaching storm.

“We can’t destroy it with the weapons we have, Bell! Deload the reactor! Quick!”

Guilliman shouted. Bell had already set off. He jumped towards the reactor panel not far away. The giant tree beside him jumped up in an instant. The giant tree spun around deftly in the air and then whipped out a whip. .

Bell looked at the vine, widened his eyes and rolled away, but this was not necessary. Ragna grabbed the vine before it touched Bell, and the wild wolf clamped the thick treeman under his arm. , will be under tight control.

“Keep running, Bell, leave both sides to us!”

Ragnar roared, Bell nodded sharply and stood up. He continued to rush towards the panel. The giant tree’s vine roared over again. Ragnar shouted and threw his chain ax over, roaring. The chain saw rotated, chopping the tree roots gracefully.

Lancelot blocked Bell’s side with an arrow, and the knight’s sword blocked in front of him, catching the stabbing Vineman. Olaf appeared from the other side, and the priest’s warhammer circled and struck out, interrupting the Vineman from the center. Lightning flashed from the wolf’s hand instantly, roaring out and shattering another one.

Bell continued to move forward. On his left and right sides, the brothers were blocking all attacks for him. He didn’t have to worry about anything, he just had to run.

Mikael rolled to his feet. He picked up the bolt gun and pulled the bolt suddenly. After the shell was ejected, the muzzle of the gun lit up with flames. The bullet shattered the rattan that whizzed past Bell’s head. Its fragments fell and scattered all over Bell. on the shoulders.

Suddenly, the end of the vine that was interrupted by Mikael resurrected at a faster speed. It exploded with spikes, turned ninety degrees in the air and stabbed Bell’s forehead. The Ultramarine Pharmacist stared. With eyes wide open, he watched the spikes roaring towards him, and then shattered in the air.

Vito suddenly appeared there. He grabbed Tengman and pulled Tengman back. “Try this.” He said, his eyes burst into dazzling golden light, and golden arcs roared along Tengman. Go and hit the giant tree directly, causing a big explosion beside it.

The giant tree hit the wall backwards in the burst of lightning. Its tall crown swung backwards, and a large area of ​​tree roots covering the dome broke off and fell down like a torrential rain.

“careful!”

Bell slid over the roots of the giant tree that fell behind him in one stride. He rolled again on the ground to avoid the falling debris. After a roll, he leaned in front of the operating panel.

“Fuck you.” Bell shouted while looking at the panel. Vito raised his bolter behind him to avoid the stabbing Vineman. He fired back and turned around and shouted, “What’s wrong?”

“It sucked all the power out of the reactor!” Bell yelled. He looked at the rapidly retreating power index bar on the interface in front of him. Its number was infinitely approaching zero, and it continued to decline rapidly.

“What do you mean?” Ragnar shouted from a distance.

“This means that the reactor nuclear bomb trick doesn’t work anymore. It drained the nuclear reactor!” Bell roared. The power display bar on the interface in front of him had completely returned to zero. With its end, the reactor on the side also went out. Youlan The colored light gradually weakened behind the vines until it was completely extinguished.

Just like an aging star, it finally dies after a long reaction, and like the star, there are more violent changes and reactions that come back, but this is not on the reactor, but on the giant tree.

The giant tree that was spinning rapidly in the hall and crushing everything around it with its huge body suddenly stopped. It raised its head and looked at the face of the stone monument. Countless vines behind it were pierced on the ground, and they were covered with spikes like the back of a hedgehog. Fixed, the giant tree stopped and came to an abrupt stop.

“What’s it doing?”

“Oh, damn.” Bell moaned in a low voice. Vito turned his head and looked at him sharply, “What? What did you see?”

“That hatching thing is the stone tablet, and it’s about to hatch!” Bell yelled. Almost at the same time as the voice fell to the ground, the surface of the stone tablet exploded instantly, and a certain figure appeared under the shimmering water curtain. Climbing up, it slowly stood up, supported by the countless legs around it.

Its long body was pulled out from the stone tablet. That body was not a biological concept in any biological category at all, but a parasite of tens of millions of tree roots, which extended from its head where the face could not be seen. And down, it unfolds slowly behind you like a skirt, elegant and amazing.

Its size is almost the same as half a giant tree, and the biggest thing is not its body, but its wings!

The thing suddenly pulled out its wings. It was a giant wing woven in a strange shape by endless vines. There were no feathers between them, and there was no membrane covering. It was hard to believe that it wanted to fly with these wings. stand up.

“That’s a big fucking moth!” Vito yelled, looking at the thing that had emerged from the cocoon on the tree. It was unfolding its body, its huge wings slowly spreading out on both sides.

“Moth? What does it need those wings for? This is underground.”

“No, Mikael, it’s going to use those wings to get out of here!”

Before Vito finished speaking, the huge moth pulled away from the tree and stood up. The giant feathers behind it suddenly spread out on both sides. The feathers at the ends of the wings gathered instantly and sharpened into countless giant spines rotating inward.

The moth jumped up. It stepped on the giant hatching tree and jumped up. The spikes on its wings stabbed upward. It was imitating the structure of the “Drill” ground escape machine, and added it with harder and faster parts. Instead, the giant wing hit the ceiling, its roots drilling through the reinforced concrete.

“Everyone! Jump on!”

Guilliman roared, and he rushed forward quickly, rushed up to the giant tree, and then headed towards the rising giant butterfly. He jumped up on the edge of the giant tree’s vines, and reached out to grab the soaring butterfly. The roots of the giant butterfly’s body.

Vito jumped up behind him, Mikael was carrying a gun behind him, and Bell was the last to rush. He jumped on the body of the giant tree and rushed towards the top, trying to catch up with the rapidly rising tree. giant butterfly.

Bell jumped up at the end of the canopy and jumped over. Tertius grabbed his hand and pulled him up forcefully, and then the two of them followed Tengman and rushed upward.

The giant butterfly’s wings were chiseling rapidly above its head. Each tentacle at the end of its wings was a shield machine. Each tip was made of material hundreds of millions of times harder than diamond, and it would continue to regenerate. ,replacement,in progress.

Each vine will be resurrected instantly after being worn out, which keeps its spikes in the sharpest state. It uses them to penetrate the granite layer, and huge rocks fall on both sides of Vito. , he pulled the swaying roots and raised his head to look at the gradually brightening light above.

“Cole! Can you hear me? Cole!”

“I can hear you, no, why did your voice come through? Aren’t you underground?” Cole on the Infinite Frontier asked in surprise. He leaned on the captain’s armrest and looked down at the mountains below. .

“We’re rising! Something’s coming out!”

“What? Why are you rising?”

“We’re fucking flying! Don’t worry about so much, knock it down, and never let it leave at any cost!”

“What on earth are you talking about? What are you talking about? What do you want me to fight? Damn it!” Before Cole finished speaking, he saw a giant butterfly rushing out from one side of the mountain peak, and it jumped out of the fragments of the ridge. It stood up, its huge wings suddenly spread out behind it, and it spread its wings in the air, almost blocking the entire sky.

Its shadow almost obscured the entire Infinite Frontier. You must know that the Mars-class battle cruiser is more than ten kilometers long, but it is completely shrouded in dark clouds.

“What the hell is that?” the Birdmaster asked with wide eyes below, Cole punched the terminal on one side, “Chief Gunner, knock it down for me, what? I don’t care if you have How many weapons can be used, what’s the overload problem, all weapons fire at it!”

The Infinite Frontier’s gun muzzle turned around, and all the weapon arrays on the bow of the ship turned around one after another. The sound of the guns echoed through the cold wind-whistling mountains of Antarctica.

Vito raised his head and looked at the huge explosion that occurred on the wings of the giant butterfly. It raised its head, and all the vines on its body whipped each other at the same time, resonating with a strange, ethereal and spine-chilling howl. Shouting, the giant butterfly looked at the Infinite Frontier with its faceless head.

It flicked its wings violently, and the steel vine roared and pierced the hull of the Infinite Frontier. A huge explosion occurred in its rear part, and the bridge suddenly shook violently. Cole He fell and hit the handrail.

“Captain, the power room has been hit, and the responses of No. 1, 2, and 3 have stopped, and only No. 4 is left! We must retreat, all the shield systems cannot be charged, and we are living targets here!”

“Captain Cole, listen.” Guilliman’s voice inserted into the communication. As the destiny armor of the original body, he has the highest communication authority. “You must prevent it from leaving at all costs. Once he Go to any city with a starport, and it won’t be Macragge alone.”

Cole punched the armrest fiercely. He stood up and yelled at the bridge below, “Everyone, get back to your posts. Give me all the weapons and ammunition. I mean, everything!”

In an instant, the hull of the Infinite Frontier lit up with countless light spots, and all the firepower, macro cannons, light lances, automatic cannons, ship-to-ship missiles, torpedoes, and even the airborne warheads of Stormbirds and Lightning fighters were launched. And out.

They drew a long arc in the air, and then exploded like raindrops on the giant butterfly. Its wings had the largest area and were the areas that suffered the most hits. Rumbling explosions sounded overhead, and fragments of rattan were scattered in the explosions all over the sky. After pouring down, the movement of the giant butterfly was finally restricted.

“This can only delay it for a while. It can recover indefinitely, but the ammunition of the Infinite Frontier is limited.” Bell hung on the rattan a little lower and roared. He raised his voice and almost rivaled Ragnar. the voice yelled.

“Didn’t we leave the facility? All the radiation sources have disappeared, how can it recover indefinitely? A gecko’s tail can’t grow indefinitely, right?”

“I’m glad you still have some scientific knowledge, Ragnar. Yes, a gecko’s docked tail can only grow once, and it relies on its own energy reserves, fat, nutrients, etc., for regeneration.” Bell shouted loudly. Roar.

“Then what happened to it? It doesn’t even have a belly!”

“My guess is that it absorbed enough energy in the reactor, and with the addition of the subspace generator, the energy it stored was enough for it to evolve and withstand all the subsequent firepower. Damn it, the purpose of this thing in the first place was to escape. Here, go attack the city.”

“I just want to know, what should we do?” Lancelot hung aside, looking sideways at the guys up and down and yelled, “The guy we have now is worse than Cole. It seems that he can’t even handle it. We What to do?”

Vito was on the topmost vine, closest to the “head” of the giant butterfly. He looked at the face that was constantly blown to pieces in the explosion and restored countless times.

Suddenly, an opportunity strikes.

“Bell! Is there an upper limit to its energy absorption?”, “What?”, “Is there an upper limit to its energy absorption? Just like a gecko that will starve to death if it eats too much.”

Bell was stunned for a moment, then looked at the giant butterfly’s head and thought for a moment, and then nodded affirmatively, “It must be, no matter how it evolves, it is still a material life form, not the empty energy life form in the subspace. We must conserve mass. Yes, but the upper limit should be very high.”

“I have an idea, everyone! Jump down!”

“What?”

“Jump down, don’t make me say it again, Guilliman! Take them down!” Vito said and climbed up. He grabbed Guilliman and began to climb up. Guilliman looked at his figure behind him, silently After a moment, he suddenly turned his head and looked at the people below, “I believe him, everyone does what he says!”

Vito climbed up, dragging all the vines all over his body to climb up. Huge explosions rang out one after another around him. The Infinite Frontier hovered not far away, and the giant cannon was aimed at this side and fired in bursts. The explosions were like raindrops. It exploded on the giant butterfly.

It retreated, and then flapped its wings in the explosion. Its end spikes whizzed past and hit the hull of the Infinite Frontier in the blink of an eye. Without the protection of the void shield, the hull was directly exposed. Under attack, the spikes pierced the macro cannon that was firing.

A huge explosion was instantly ignited, and the ammunition of the macro gun exploded on the deck, instantly engulfing the sailors on the entire deck. Flames spit out from the gap, lighting up all the surrounding mountains in the sky over the North Pole.

“Vito! No matter what your plan is, hurry up. This ship of mine just fought against Nurgle Demon once and it hasn’t been repaired yet!” Cole yelled into the communication amidst the loud sirens. .

“Go back and give you the warranty, Mars warranty, and I’ll think of a solution.”

“Then hurry up!”

“We’re doing it, we’re doing it.”

Vito said and climbed up. He grabbed the thick vine and climbed up towards the face of the giant butterfly. The roaring shell exploded beside Vito. He was lifted up and flew up with him. There are also giant roots.

It flew up in the airflow, throwing Vito upwards onto the giant butterfly’s head. He grabbed the roots there and slid down, landing in front of the giant butterfly. The empty eyes between the roots looked at Looking at Vito, the latter put one hand in front of its eyes and smiled.

“Hey, do you want some fast food?” Vito smiled and raised his power claw. Golden light erupted from the corners of his eyes. The light illuminated the eye hole of the giant butterfly in the blink of an eye. Vito raised the power of the Emperor’s armor. The claws were drawn back, “I’ll give you a taste of the power of the Golden Throne’s No. 2 battery!”

He roared and stabbed the giant butterfly in the eye. Huge lightning instantly bloomed between Vito and the giant butterfly. The lightning shot straight into the sky and lit up the entire Antarctic sky, even if it was far away. The city can also clearly see the changes in the sky here.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the mountains of Antarctica were all illuminated by the dazzling golden light. The reflected light lit up the entire snowfield, and the entire southern part of the planet was completely engulfed in the light.

Lightning echoed in the air, and they fell one by one and bombarded the giant butterfly. Its body absorbed those powerful zero abilities quickly and horribly.

Huge lightning was released in front of Vito’s eyes, and the giant butterfly made a resonant cry all over its body. It was howling like a child that had eaten too much. Vito smiled and grabbed the roots tightly, and then suddenly Pulling out the power claws, he drew back and grabbed a piece of lightning with his sharp claws, splitting open the entire face of the giant butterfly.

Vito fell downwards, and the giant butterfly behind him straightened its body, and the vines all over its body began to twitch, “Cole! Knock it down!”

Infinite Frontier fired a dazzling beam of light, accurately and accurately breaking the wings of the giant butterfly. It instantly fell downwards without any flying power. It screamed as it fell, and its wings quickly recovered. But each supporting rattan became extremely huge, colliding with each other and devouring each other’s space.

The same mutation occurred in other parts of the butterfly’s body. Its body became larger and grew, but it was not suitable for the exact evolution before. Instead, it mutated.

The energy absorbed in the blink of an eye changed the genetic chain of the giant butterfly in an instant, just like what happens when a living thing is instantly exposed to a severe radiation environment. The DNA is instantly interrupted and the body is uncontrollable. Rapid distortion.

Vito landed on the top of the mountain. After a roll, he stood up and looked at the giant butterfly falling behind him. Its body twisted and fell into the large hole he dug. In the entrance of the hole, countless mutants were climbing up the hole. Climbing, they raised their heads and were knocked down by the oncoming giant butterfly.

“What did you do to it?” Mikael asked, looking at the situation in the cave. Vito stood up, patted his legs and answered him, “Nothing, just turned it into a ignited nuclear warhead. That’s all.”

After speaking, Vito suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of the Infinite Frontier, “Cole! Get us out quickly, there’s going to be an explosion here!”

A moment before he finished speaking, the giant butterfly fell into the deepest part of the cave. It smashed the remaining exhaust fan and fell straight into the abyss, where a light shone in the deepest part of the darkness. It was vast, then expanded rapidly, and expanded rapidly.

Vitor and Guilliman quickly ran to the edge of the mountain, where he jumped up and jumped down. The Infinite Frontier dived from below, and they landed on the back of the giant ship. Ragna also fell. It fell down and hit the Infinite Frontier.

“I’ll do it, sorry Cole, I think I scratched your boat.”

Ragna said with a smile, and everyone else fell down. Cole suddenly turned around and shouted at the helmsman, “Go at full speed, get us out of here!”

All the remaining thrusters of the Infinite Frontier were ignited, and the battleship instantly rushed away from the direction of the mountain. Behind it, a huge explosion rushed out from the top of the mountain. It shattered the entire mountain, and the aftermath of the explosion spread among the surrounding mountains. As he left, the entire mountain range collapsed with a roar.

Vito was lying on the roof of the battleship, leaning against Guilliman and looking at the exploding mountain peak in the distance. The top of the mountain was erupting like a volcano, and countless fragments flew into the air, falling to all sides with the tail of fire. of ice sheets.

“Is it the same as before?” Vito said with a smile, looking at Guilliman, who sighed and lay down, spreading his arms and leaning on the ground in a herringbone position, “You old and immortal heart, How long did it take?” “Welcome back, Robert.”

Vito smiled and looked into the distance. The Infinite Frontier carried the group of people and flew into the distance. Behind them, volcanoes erupted and lit up the sky of Antarctica.