Chapter 199: You come from Terra, return a body of blood to me

Yu Ji's heart was beating fast. He hid behind the defense line, panting, his fingers shaking as he held his laser rifle.

They had just repelled the first wave of the Hive Fleet's attack. According to those black-armored, skull-masked angel priests, this was only the first wave of attacks.

This was actually just the first wave!!!! It was just a tentative attack!!!

That endless Hive Fleet, those beast tides roaring with flesh-and-blood firearms, those bio-bullets like raindrops... Yu Ji felt that he was about to be submerged in fear in the next moment.

But he dared not retreat. The angel priests walked in the battle line.

Whoever dared to retreat a step, the angel's scepter would shatter that person's chest, making him die in pain.

Those people from the Saint Doraemon sect were also responsible for similar work, whipping everyone to stand on the battlefield, only the method was relatively gentle.

Yu Ji trembled, wanting to change the battery for the laser rifle in his hand... Damn it, he had learned this in the training of the past few days!

But Yu Ji's brain was blank due to fear, his body was trembling due to fear, and he couldn't install the battery no matter what.

"Damn it, is your hand cramping from jerking off?" A harsh scolding came.

That guy named Lage snatched the battery and laser rifle from Yu Ji's hand, installed it in three or two strokes, and stuffed it back to Yu Ji.

"In the hive, everything can be perfunctory, but not the gun," Lage sat on the defense line, with an lho cigarette in his mouth: "The thing that saves your life... damn it."

Yu Ji stared at Lage. He found that these guys from the Underworld star system seemed not to fear death. During the battle, almost no one retreated, shooting under the fiercest artillery fire...

"Are you not afraid?" Yu Ji asked with a trembling voice.

"Afraid... I've been afraid for several months."

Lage stretched out his withered-tree-like hand and said, his hand was trembling slightly uncontrollably:

"Every night I dream of the Hive Fleet running around in the streets of Ashford. Workers, thugs, children... they eat everything. I dream of Old One-Eye dying in his tavern, dream of Sister Xiang Xiang Leina falling on the front line, dream of myself lying on the gravel holding my stomach and dying, dream of brother Zhou Yun standing alone in front of four shadows of different colors..."

"... Then I would wake up in the middle of the night, curled up into a ball and trembling all night, feeling cold no matter how thick the quilt was."

"Do you know? In our settlement, those little insects that would be called Baal locals were all killed, because we survivors, as long as we hear the insect chirps, we will instinctively be afraid and pick up weapons."

"Then you..." Yu Ji looked at the Underworld survivors around him: "... Is it hatred?"

"Maybe... most of them are." Lage leaned against the defense line and said: "Life in the hive actually isn't that great... tired and bitter, don't know when you will die in some alley, but the Hive Fleet came and didn't even leave us with that."

"The people of the Underworld have nothing left, only the opportunity for revenge. They are supporting themselves with this breath and haven't fallen."

"But I... I am actually for other reasons." Lage grinned and said: "My acquaintances, Sister Xiang Xiang Leina, brother Zhou Yun, brother Old One-Eye, they are all top-notch heroes, the kind who will return to the Golden Wang Zuo even if they die."

"But I am not... I have lived for decades and am just a little thug... Haha, I feel like I shouldn't live long either. This last opportunity, I want to do something that can catch up with them... That way, maybe I can return to the Golden Wang Zuo after I die and drink with them or something."

Saying this, Lage couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Yu Ji just wanted to say something, but the ground suddenly came with a tremor...

In the distance, a sky full of fire rain composed of spore drop pods fell, igniting the entire sky of Baal.

"It's here." Lage jumped up from the ground, raised the laser rifle in his hand, and stared fixedly at the purple tide surging on the horizon in the distance.

Those Tyranid creatures that crawled out of the wet spore pods let out earth-shattering roars and howls.

Tyranid Hive Tyrants, Warriors, Mother Insects, Tyrant Beasts... all kinds of Tyranid creatures crawled out of them.

The firepower of the Angel's Fortress began to vent, and mortals raised the laser rifles in their hands and stood behind the defense line.

The war began again.

In the Heart of Baal, Zhou Yun and Mephiston jumped out of the Warp rift and returned to the material universe.

A beast-like roar erupted from the Warp rift that looked like a ferocious wound. Several Bloodletters chasing Mephiston jumped out of the Warp rift.

These secondary demons from the realm of the Blood God had not yet had time to taste the sweetness of reality and offer more fresh blood and skulls to the Blood God, when they saw Mephiston flick his hand fiercely.

An azure psychic lightning roared and pierced through the bodies of the Bloodletters, instantly destroying their bodies in the material universe.

These Bloodletters let out sharp, piercing roars, turned into powder and dissipated in reality, and were easily banished back to the material universe by Mephiston.

Seeing Mephiston and Zhou Yun leave the Warp, the Librarians forming a circle let out a sigh of relief. They immediately cut off the blasphemous ritual.

That Warp rift that looked like a ferocious wound cut on the material universe closed accordingly. At the same time, the Librarians began to chant another blasphemous spell, guiding the exit of the rift in the Warp to the Warp engine in Zhou Yun's Four-Dimensional Pocket.

【Item: Bloodletter】

【Origin: Warp—Huang Tong Citadel】

【Evaluation: A Khorne demon holding a hellblade, it is the most numerous demon in the Khorne demon army, fanatically and savagely chasing skulls, whether they are teammates or enemies. Hot in nature, pungent in taste, enters the heart and spleen meridians, has the effect of warming the middle and dispelling cold, appetizing and digesting, and cooking seasoning. Can be used to treat cold-stagnation abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, chilblains.】

【Production Time:???】

【Status: Alive and kicking】

【Value: 8888 Yuan】

【Item: Steel Bull】

【Origin: Warp—Huang Tong Citadel】

【Evaluation: A Warp demon mount mixed with brass and beasts, it seems to be a flesh-and-blood creature and a machine, often ridden by mortals or demons favored by Khorne. Hot in nature, bitter in taste, can induce fright, restlessness, delirium, spots, yellowing, vomiting blood, nosebleed, blood in stool, carbuncle and swelling poison.】

【Production Time:???】

【Status: Alive and kicking】

【Value: 8888 Yuan】

Bloodletters, Steel Bulls, and all kinds of lower-level Khorne demons roared, waving the hellblades in their hands, raising the brass horns on their heads, and swinging the steel whips in their hands, pouring out from the Warp engine. However, what greeted them was not skulls worth severing or intense war.

Before them was only a deep, cold, and dark void, with nothing existing.

"Sell! Sell! Sell!"

The terrifying whisper sounded in their ears. These Khorne demons looked blankly at their companions disappearing into the darkness one by one, and finally even they themselves seemed to be dissolved by this dark void, disappearing into the Four-Dimensional Pocket.

But Zhou Yun waited for a while, and Cabanda still did not appear... This was not beyond Zhou Yun's expectation.

Although many people think that Khorne and his demons are all berserkers who only know how to hack and hack, this is actually a misunderstanding.

Most of Khorne's demons and followers are not brainless, they just don't use their brains much.

The essence of the Blood God's realm is neither rage nor death or slaughter, but war. Tactics and strategy are also his realm. He and his demons not only know rage and slaughter, but also have a side that is good at tactics and strategy.

Cabanda is clearly not the type that only has the desire for slaughter and rage. In the original timeline, Cabanda would be thrown to Baal I under Mephiston's influence and would hack insects on it, using the skulls of insects to create a huge Khorne symbol covering the surface of Baal I.

This kind of satellite-level artistic creation is clearly not something an idiot whose brain is overwhelmed by rage can do.

Zhou Yun did not expect it to be fooled either. Even the Great Unclean One didn't fall for it at the beginning, let alone Cabanda, who is well-versed in tactics and strategy.

He reached into the Four-Dimensional Pocket and slowly pulled out the Anywhere Door.

"What exactly are you two expecting?"

"Hoping that I would be overwhelmed by rage and step into your trap?"

Cabanda stood before that Warp rift that should have led to reality, a glimmer of light flashing in its dim yellow eyes, and a playful smile cracking on its ape-like mouth:

"Do you think the servants of the Blood God are all fools?"

Cabanda is a Khorne Greater Daemon, not a Daemon Primarch or a World Eater. His thinking is normal and clear, and there are no Butcher's Nails in his brain.

Through the inexplicable retreat of Mephiston and that mouth-stinking man, it was easy for him to see that there was clearly a trap in the Warp rift before him.

The Blood God praises courage and praises rage. Cabanda has always followed the will of the Blood God, never retreating, always angry.

But Cabanda's rage is autonomous, coming from the Blood God and his own will, not something created by some machines inserted into the skull.

So Cabanda's courage is not stupidity, and rage is not idiocy. Knowing there is a trap and still jumping into it, and even after jumping in, being unable to offer more skulls to the Blood God—this is not courage, nor is it rage; this is purely having something wrong with the brain, caused by too many Butcher's Nails.

However, Cabanda does not mind stupid mortals viewing him as a barbarian overwhelmed by rage. He is even happy to use this misunderstanding as his disguise.

Cunning does not only belong to those blue-haired birds. Deception in tactics and strategy is also part of war and is the realm of the Blood God.

He laughs at Mephiston for lacking wisdom, and the mouth-stinking man for lacking strategy!

Cabanda will use the mistakes of Mephiston and that mouth-stinking man to open a new Warp rift and enter reality.

Crack!!!

The crisp sound of opening a door suddenly sounded behind Cabanda. Cabanda turned his head fiercely, but saw a red-and-pink wooden door open from a position very close behind him. The mouth-stinking man was standing behind the door, humming a little tune and looking at Cabanda.

"You come from Terra, return a body of blood to me~"

"Want to eat palace food~"

Zhou Yun hummed a little tune while stretching his hand toward Cabanda, who was standing before the Warp rift, and his other hand pressed a button on the Mechanization Device... Scorching star light burst from Zhou Yun's body. That was the radiance of the star Adalia in the Shrine of the Holy Day.

"Cabanda, are you ready to return the Emperor's grace?" Zhou Yun asked softly.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 200 =====