Chapter 143

Captain Karlean held his breath, watching as those pure white wings, laced with subtle hints of blue, unfolded in mid-air.

Sanguinor! The legendary great warrior of the Chapter, a mysterious entity who always descended during the Blood Angels' most desperate hours.

This noble warrior wore a golden mask similar to that of Chapter Master Dante, sculpted with the visage of Sanguinius.

The scar-covered Lictor roared and charged toward Sanguinor.

Sanguinor's silver-white blade shimmered in the shadows, nimbly parrying the Lictor's scarlet talons.

Yet that Lictor was abnormally fast, swiftly raising its flesh-borer beetle cannon to unleash a barrage of bio-bullets at Sanguinor in the sky.

Sanguinor violently flapped his wings, carving a curve through the air to evade the Lictor's assault.

Meanwhile, more behemoths broke through the remaining Death Company lines, roaring as they charged toward Sanguinor in the sky.

Three Lictors, newly joined to the battlefield, lunged at Sanguinor.

The silver-white longsword cut through the air; Sanguinor nimbly left a trail of gruesome bloodstains upon them.

However, the one-eyed Lictor seized this opportunity to swing its blade at Sanguinor once more.

It was far faster, more agile, and more lethal than the other Lictors.

Sanguinor swung his sword to parry, swooping down from the sky.

Yet, unexpectedly, this one-eyed Lictor retreated without hesitation, avoiding a direct confrontation with Sanguinor.

Subsequently, whistling bio-bullets were fired in a dense swarm toward Sanguinor.

Fortunately, Sanguinor's reaction speed was equally swift; he rapidly climbed in altitude, dodging the incoming bio-bullets.

Watching this scene, Captain Karlean's expression turned slightly solemn.

He found this Lictor to be full of oddities—far more savage, insidious, base, swift, and powerful than the other Lictors.

This completely defied common sense; Tyranid organisms were almost all produced according to specific genetic sequences, and most Tyranids of the same species were similar, with very little individual variation.

Yet the level of insidiousness and cunning displayed by this Lictor far exceeded that of a typical Tyranid organism.

A blue raccoon cat was lying on a lounge chair beside the biomass pool, as if vacationing at the seaside.

Zhou Yun, cloaked in the appearance of Doraemon, watched as the five water pumps before him operated rapidly, continuously extracting viscous biomass from the pool and sending it into his fourth-dimensional pocket; he couldn't help but feel relaxed.

After verifying that extracting biomass from the swarm to trade for money was feasible, he had made another trip to Laixi, exchanging for several higher-capacity water pumps from the locals.

This biomass was concentrated organic matter with extremely high nutrient density, which could fetch a quite decent price even in the Future Department Store.

Moreover, extracting biomass was not only fast money but also easy.

With the descent of the C'tan, the Hive Mind had focused almost all its attention on the two Norn Queens.

These most powerful units of the swarm were being held back by the shards of the ancient material universe deity.

Seizing this opportunity, Zhou Yun scurried between various biomass pools before the Hive Mind could react, relying on the Anywhere Door to escape each time before the swarm could strike.

Zhou Yun took a lounge chair out of his fourth-dimensional pocket and lay on it, continuing to extract biomass while enjoying the epic duel between the C'tan shard and the Norn Queens in the distance.

The C'tan shard's volume was much smaller compared to the Norn Queens.

But the power erupting from within Him was far stronger than that of the Norn Queens.

The Deceiver shard stood in mid-air, and scorching ribbons like solar prominences continuously swept across the surroundings; each time they passed, a pile of ashes was left drifting away.

The material world seemed to submit before His raging flames.

Like a constantly flickering star, He crossed a distance of over a hundred meters in an instant, weaving between the Norn Queens.

Every time He swung His arm, layers of psychic shields were burned to ash; even psychic power from the Warp was ignited by Him.

The Deceiver hunched His body and let out a roar at the fundamental structure of the material world.

Subsequently, the dimension itself seemed to begin burning along with His roar; endless flames emerged from the void, turning into solar wheels that showered upon the Norn Queens.

In an instant, a Norn Queen's psychic shield was torn open by the flames.

The Deceiver raised His flaming arm high and swung it violently toward the Norn Queen.

This almost savage fighting style proved effective; the Norn Queen let out a painful wail, stumbling and falling onto the nearby architectural ruins, knocking down a row of high-rises; most of its body was subsequently bathed in scorching flames.

It was so savage that it was almost fighting purely on instinct, but after all, it was a C'tan shard; instinct alone was enough to crush the Norn Queen.

Just then, Zhou Yun's gaze noticed that the swarm was gathering not far away, charging toward Zhou Yun filled with rage.

He skillfully stuffed the five large water pumps into his fourth-dimensional pocket, then took out the Anywhere Door, ready to run.

"Zhou Yun."

Suddenly, the winged figure within the now-flickering white light spoke:

"My power encountered a one-eyed Tyranid Lictor in Tartarus—skull exposed, covered in scars, insidious and cunning."

"Do you have any leads?" Hearing the words of the winged figure in the white light, Zhou Yun was slightly stunned.

A unique Lictor with one eye, exposed skull, covered in scars, and insidious and cunning...

Hiss, could it be...

Almost no Tyranid behemoth was a match for Sanguinor.

That longsword, silver-bright as snow, continuously slaughtered the lunging Tyranid behemoths; every strike left a gruesome bloodstain.

But only that unique one-eyed Lictor...

If it were a head-on confrontation, Karlean believed Sanguinor could slay it.

But this Lictor's intelligence far exceeded Karlean's imagination; it relied on other behemoths to continuously harass Sanguinor, while it stayed in the distance to attack with its flesh-borer cannon, seizing Sanguinor's openings to strike with its blade from time to time.

"It really is Old One Eye the Lictor." Suddenly, a voice filled with surprise rang out.

A whistling subatomic shell shot toward the one-eyed Lictor.

That one-eyed Lictor, almost without hesitation, dragged a nearby Shrieker Killer in front of itself with its talons.

The subatomic shell exploded, and that Shrieker Killer was blown into minced meat, splattering everywhere.

In the ruins not far away, a round, rolling figure was hovering in mid-air.

It was a blue raccoon cat with a red nose, its body composed of spheres, with a strange little propeller on its head.

Zhou Yun stuffed that Leman Russ Vanquisher back into his fourth-dimensional pocket, looking at the one-eyed Lictor before him with quite some surprise.

Old One Eye!

This wasn't the Old One Eye from the underhive that Zhou Yun knew.

Rather, it was the Tyranid Lictor Old One Eye who shared its name with him—one of the few named Tyranid organisms among a pile of nameless "trash fish," and could be considered a hero unit among the Tyranids.

It had once been one of the vanguards when the Tyranids first invaded the galaxy; due to various accidents and the efforts of an unnamed human hero, it had one eye shot through and was frozen in the ice of the cave world Calth.

Nearly a hundred years later, a group of ignorant smugglers accidentally dug up Old One Eye frozen in the ice, and at that time, it hadn't truly died.

Old One Eye, having broken free from its frozen prison, had lost its link with the Hive Mind, but relying on its characteristics as a node organism, it re-gathered a group of Tyranids and Genestealers that had been hiding deep in the caves of Calth for years, and quickly began to ravage the planet.

Furthermore, perhaps stimulated by the combination of past trauma, a century of freezing, and the special situation of being disconnected from the Hive Mind, Old One Eye underwent some kind of evolution, becoming more powerful, cunning, and terrifying than a typical Tyranid Lictor.

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The Ultramarines tried every means to defeat Old One Eye's forces, but ultimately did not find Old One Eye's corpse.

Then, on more worlds and even beyond the Ultramar sector, the figure of Old One Eye began to appear continuously, as if it could resurrect endlessly.

After hearing this story in the past, Zhou Yun guessed that it might be that Old One Eye's consciousness and genetic sequence were uploaded and absorbed by the Hive Mind, becoming a special swarm unit that continuously resurrected in its past form.

This was a unique unit in the swarm, a one-of-a-kind special Lictor; for the swarm to deploy it, they really had spent a fortune.

Zhou Yun, cloaked in the appearance of Doraemon, flashed and arrived beside Sanguinor.

Sanguinor nodded slightly toward Zhou Yun without speaking.

Zhou Yun didn't say anything to him either, directly taking an acceleration spring out of his fourth-dimensional pocket, inserting it behind Sanguinor, and twisting it a few times.

"Don't hack it to death; if it dies, it will return to the swarm," Zhou Yun said to Sanguinor.

Sanguinor nodded, then vibrated his wings, and in an instant, his figure disappeared from where he stood.

Subsequently, he appeared almost as if teleporting beside the suicidal Old One Eye.

Sanguinor, accelerated by the acceleration spring, was fast beyond reason; the human eye could barely keep up.

In the eyes of the crowd, Sanguinor seemed to have hidden his figure.

The crowd only saw Old One Eye's six limbs suddenly severed by streaks of silver light, circling in the air before suddenly landing.

Old One Eye, whittled into a bug-stick, fell to the ground with a thud; without limbs, it was like a giant worm, twitching and wriggling on the ground.

The surrounding Tyranid behemoths hurriedly crowded up, wanting to kill Old One Eye.

Because the Hive Mind knew clearly that if Zhou Yun got Old One Eye, not only the biomass but likely even the consciousness wouldn't be retrieved.

However, there were only streaks of white light flickering in the air.

Sanguinor, who could already rival a Greater Daemon, was even faster to a bizarre degree under the enhancement of Zhou Yun's acceleration spring.

Those Tyranid behemoths that tried to lunge up to kill Old One Eye were torn into several pieces by Sanguinor in an instant.

Zhou Yun seized the opportunity, his figure flashing, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared beside Old One Eye.

Old One Eye let out an angry hiss at Zhou Yun, as if accusing Zhou Yun.

Or rather, it was the Hive Mind using Old One Eye's body to curse Zhou Yun.

Zhou Yun grinned, and without hesitation, grabbed Old One Eye and stuffed him into his fourth-dimensional pocket.

Captain Karlean watched this scene with bewilderment, looking at the Tyranid corpses all over the ground, Sanguinor occasionally revealing his figure in the air, and the blue raccoon cat standing in the center of the battlefield with a satisfied smile.

He always felt that the things he had experienced in the Hades system were more bizarre than anything he had experienced in his previous hundred years of service.

Just then, Captain Karlean felt a wave of heat approaching; he raised his head in bewilderment...

Then he saw a "star" approaching the sky of Tartarus.

(End of chapter)