Chapter 98: Standing tall like Cadia (Three-in-one, 6,000 words)

The whistling hurricane burst out from the street, and the knife-like violent wind cut in all directions, rolling into a wind vortex.

The Genestealer motorcyclists around watched this scene with astonishment.

The sewage, silt, and gravel on the street were all rolled up, circling in the target like black shadows.

The wailing sound echoed in the ruined city area of the hive city; the tornado was like a ferocious beast, roaring and pouncing on the motorcycles.

They hadn't had time to react before they were rolled into the hurricane, and the motorcycles began to sway uncontrollably.

Just then, they saw a black shadow appear in the depths of the hurricane.

That shadow jumped out from the overturned heavy truck, jumping flexibly into mid-air.

Before the motorcyclists could react, the figure jumped onto the nearest motorcycle in the blink of an eye.

Only then did the motorcyclist see the identity of the person who came.

It was a slender figure draped in a deep black leather suit, wearing a chain hood, stepping on the head of its motorcycle.

The motorcyclist wanted to shoot, but a sharp dagger was inserted directly into its neck, and blood sprayed out.

Dixi shuttled through the motorcycle team like a black ghost, harvesting the lives of the Genestealers while quickly moving away from the range of the hurricane.

The hurricane gushing out of the gourd was expanding rapidly.

Fortunately, Dixi was flexible enough, and in the blink of an eye, she stepped on the motorcycle team and retreated to the edge of the street.

This was the first step of the assassination plan.

Dixi, carrying an artifact technology item called "Pocket Long Juanfeng," silently infiltrated the heavy truck carrying the Genestealer leader.

If the assassination could be completed, the leader's life would be taken directly.

If not, a hurricane would be released in the narrow heavy truck, directly stirring everything into a mess.

After Dixi retreated from the range covered by the storm, she heard a series of cold crawling sounds coming from the shadows.

Even if these crawling sounds were extremely subtle, even if the violent wind was roaring all around,

the training and modification Dixi had received since birth allowed her to judge these sounds...

In the dark corners of the surrounding houses, pure-blood Genestealers with purple skin surrounded Dixi.

This was also within expectations.

Shadows flashed one after another.

The other eleven Daughters of Death assassins wearing gray leather suits also appeared beside Dixi.

A fanatical smile appeared on the corner of Dixi's mouth.

Death, they would bring death to the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang Doraemon.

The micro-injector hidden under the leather suit was activated, and various complex mixed drugs secretly passed down by the Daughters of Death were injected into Dixi's body.

Her nerves, muscles, and heart were instantly strengthened; her eyes were bloodshot, her pupils contracted, and everything in front of her became slow.

"Aliens, your heads must be able to please my God even more."

Dixi's eyes were filled with blood red, and the drugs stimulated her spirit, making her expression become somewhat insane.

Blood began to spray...

In the sewer, sewage was flowing down.

Hive city rats, larger than seven or eight-year-old children, were gathered in a group in the sewage, constantly crawling and gnawing on the "food" in the sewage.

Some of them looked vaguely like humans...

Under the catalysis of various toxic chemicals in the hive city, these small creatures, originally from Terra, which had expanded to countless planets along with human expansion, had become terrifying hunters in the sewers of the hive city.

Even robust hive city workers, if they accidentally entered the sewer, would be gnawed into white bones by these rats gathered in groups.

Some bold rats would even sneak out of the sewer under the cover of night, sneaking into residents' homes to gnaw a family to death.

But these ferocious rats encountered even more ferocious sewer monsters today.

Pure-blood Genestealers were opening paths in the sewage for the leader, and every group of rats that tried to pounce was torn into a mass of blood by their sharp claws.

It is said that some powerful pure-blood Genestealers can even tear through Terminator power armor with their sharp claws.

These pure-blood Genestealers guarding Scipio, although not that terrifying, were enough to make Scipio travel smoothly in the sewer full of filth.

What really worried Scipio was that assassin...

Through the psychic link, Scipio could see that the black leather-clad female assassin was clashing with the pure-blood Genestealers.

The more he watched, the more Scipio felt terrified.

This woman, who was clearly just a mortal, relying on a simple leather suit and daggers, and inexplicable injected drugs, was actually fighting a group of pure-blood Genestealers to a standstill.

While praising the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang and some Doraemon, she cut off the heads of one pure-blood Genestealer after another.

Every time she cut one off, she would roar how many heads it was, saying it was dedicated to the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang and Doraemon,

and then constantly praise death, blood, and sacrifice, continuing to cut off the next pure-blood Genestealer's head.

This made Scipio go a bit crazy.

Is this a fanatic of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang? How does her style of conduct look more like those battle-crazed madmen who worship the "Blood God"?

And she was at least entangled by the pure-blood Genestealers.

But what about her other companions?

The only forces in the entire under-hive that had a reason to assassinate him were the Ark Gang and Leman Russ in the intelligence.

What about that psychic cult leader of the Ark Gang?

What about that mysterious man named Leman Russ?

Scipio chose the sewer to escape, hoping to prevent being tracked by those two.

The sewers of the under-hive are complex and changeable, and finding someone in them is extremely difficult.

And the psychic link established with the entire ethnic group allowed Scipio to effectively avoid various psychic prophecies.

Boom!!!

A roar sounded above Scipio's head.

The pure-blood Genestealer standing beside him immediately grabbed him and dodged to the side.

The ceiling of the sewer suddenly cracked and collapsed, and a psychic hammer smashed down from the sky, heavily hammering toward the ground; for a time, the sewage rolled and surged, turning into a wave and sweeping.

A flash of surprise flashed across Scipio's face, and he quickly reacted to who had launched the attack.

Sure enough, Letna's figure fell from the cracked ceiling.

"Stand where you are!!!"

The powerful voice of bewitchment stabbed directly at the pure-blood Genestealers and Scipio present.

However, this voice filled with powerful psychic power could not cover up the Leviathan song that was becoming clearer and clearer in the ears of the pure-blood Genestealers and Scipio.

That was the song of the Four-Armed God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang from among the stars!!!

But at this moment, Scipio noticed that there were flashes of electric light wrapped around Letna's body.

That was biological electric light produced by strengthening nerve currents through psychic power.

The voice of bewitchment was deliberately distracting them! This biological electric light was Letna's real attack!

Letna suddenly fell into the sewage, and the electric light spread along the sewage, piercing into the flesh and blood of the Genestealers and Scipio like poisonous needles, causing their movements to suddenly stutter.

Scipio gritted his teeth, dragging his numb and stiff body, and turned back suddenly, wanting to escape quickly.

However, the moment Scipio turned around, a figure suddenly appeared in his field of vision.

That was a man with dark golden hair, his face like a lion in the deep forest, majestic and terrifying.

He wore a somewhat ridiculous mechanical hat on his head, held a red walking stick in one hand, and held a laser automatic rifle in the other.

The dark muzzle was aimed at Scipio's head.

Leman Russ!

Scipio's pupils contracted, only to see the man gently put down the red walking stick in his hand, letting it fall toward his direction.

"Found you." Leman Russ said softly.

Then, a bright laser shot toward Scipio's brow.

The surrounding pure-blood Genestealers wanted to pounce to protect Scipio,

but before they could react, Leman Russ had already pulled the trigger.

His marksmanship was indeed so terrifying!

Scipio only felt a heat wave rushing to his face, like a sun pouncing on his face.

Then, his head turned into a burst of ashes and dissipated in the air...

Plop.

Zhou Yun looked flatly at the headless body of Scipio falling to the ground.

Everything was according to plan, and the dowsing rod also confirmed that the person in front of him was the Genestealer leader.

The dowsing rod determined the position, Dixi used the pocket tornado to force it to abandon the main force and retreat,

then used the dowsing rod to track it, Letna used psychic power to smash through the ground and used biological current to interfere with their activities,

and finally it was Zhou Yun, who teleported into the sewer and shot the Genestealer leader in an instant with that marksmanship that was like a divine skill...

The entire plan was completed smoothly and perfectly.

His figure flashed slightly, and he appeared beside Letna in the blink of an eye.

The angry pure-blood Genestealers let out a roar, pouncing on Zhou Yun and Letna.

Letna's pupils contracted slightly, and the air around her turned cold.

Zhou Yun's superpower hat pointed at the Genestealers,

and a psychic hammer mixed with telekinetic cannon heavily pushed these pure-blood Genestealers away.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhou Yun mobilized his telekinesis to pull hard, dragging the Genestealer leader's corpse toward himself, and stuffed it into the four-dimensional pocket at his waist.

Then he took out the Anywhere Ring, stuck it on the wall beside him, and dragged Letna into it.

By the street alley,

Dixi was bathed in blood, a fanatical smile on her face, her eyes full of excitement brought by the battle.

The heads of seven or eight pure-blood Genestealers were thrown behind her, piled into a small trophy mound.

Harvesting heads, bringing death, was always so exciting.

This made Dixi feel that she was being blessed by the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang!

It was a pity that the side effects of the drugs were appearing bit by bit; a sense of fatigue gradually emerged in Dixi's muscles.

This was still the result of Dixi having undergone long physical and drug resistance training.

If it were an ordinary person, they would probably die from the side effects of the drugs a few seconds after injecting them.

Just then, a sharp laser shot over, piercing through a pure-blood Genestealer beside Dixi.

Dixi turned her head and saw Zhou Yun's lion-like face nodding slightly toward her in the distance.

She knew this meant the life of the Genestealer leader had been collected.

A gruesome smile appeared on the corner of Dixi's mouth, and she took advantage of the last time to cut off the head of another pure-blood Genestealer.

Afterward, she and her sisters disappeared into the street alleys like shadows.

Old One-Eye, wearing a fiber vest and an outer bulletproof armor, hid behind the factory pipes.

Beside him were members of the Ark Gang, or rather, they should be called soldiers of the Ark Gang now.

These boys were wearing the standard equipment of the PDF, holding various weapons produced by the Agrippina Forge World, but they were ultimately only trained for about a month, and they were barely able to go to the battlefield, still carrying some unfamiliarity.

But fortunately, they had more fighting will than the PDF.

They believed in the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang and also knew that fighting these blasphemous aliens was protecting their homes and lives.

Plus Letna's extremely effective propaganda and speeches—Old One-Eye guessed that they were mixed with psychic power—these boys fought without fear of death, much stronger than that group of waste PDF who were raised by the Governor to shoot two shots to be worthy of their pay.

Augustus Flax refused to transfer the PDF, only willing to let them protect himself closely.

These PDFs hadn't participated in any serious battles for decades, and letting the under-hive fall into chaos,

these PDFs, even if their equipment and training were good, their fighting will and actual combat ability were definitely getting worse and worse.

Old One-Eye went back to the top-hive twice and couldn't help but shake his head when he saw the current PDF.

On the contrary, this group of boys from the Ark Gang made him more and more satisfied.

"Officer!"

A member of the Ark Gang holding an Agrippina Type 3 automatic rifle shouted loudly:

"The Genestealer bastards have launched a charge! Just as you expected!"

A smile appeared on the corner of Old One-Eye's mouth.

He knew that the Genestealers in this factory had almost exhausted their bullets and supplies.

Launching a charge now was nothing more than a useless attack of a dog jumping over a wall.

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Sure enough,

after Zhou Yun and the others solved the so-called Genestealer leaders,

although this group of blasphemous aliens still fought almost without fear of death, their tactical and strategic capabilities dropped sharply, and they almost couldn't see any cooperation between them.

They almost turned into a group of scattered soldiers, and fighting was no different from the gang thugs in the under-hive.

"Close the net."

Old One-Eye threw away the lho cigarette in his hand and launched an attack with the members of the Ark Gang beside him.

Blood began to overflow in the factory, this time mainly that of the Genestealers.

"The Genestealers in the Fourth District have also been cleared, and their last stronghold has been pulled out."

In the Ark Gang's stronghold, a smile was on Letna's mouth.

"I hope that before Sanguinius Day arrives, we can take back another district."

Since Zhou Yun, Dixi, and she successfully assassinated the Genestealer leader,

the battle situation really began to reverse.

Except for a small number of elite Genestealer troops, most of the Genestealers became scattered soldiers without cooperation.

And the members of the Ark Gang, who had been carefully tempered by Old One-Eye, had increasingly proficient combat skills.

Overall, the advantage of the battle situation was increasingly tilting toward the Ark Gang; in one district after another, Genestealer strongholds were pulled out.

Of course, in the areas on the front line of the battle, the elite troops of the Genestealers still had considerable combat power.

Many pure-blood Genestealers also began to appear on the battlefield.

They still held onto several districts centered on the garbage mountain and continued to harass other districts.

The entire under-hive was wrapped in the flames of war.

Zhou Yun sat beside Letna, fiddling with the red walking stick in his hand.

He was calculating the time, confirming that the current Fudia City was facing away from the scarlet star of the Underworld System and toward the outside of the system.

Recently, almost every day at this time, he had to perform a test of his own...

"Leviathan Hive Fleet." Zhou Yun said to the red walking stick.

The walking stick tilted sharply, pointing diagonally toward the sky.

The degree of this tilt was far smaller than yesterday... the Leviathan Hive Fleet was getting closer and closer.

Top-hive,

in front of the huge parking lot in front of the Governor's Palace,

rows of PDF soldiers stood majestically, wearing exquisite equipment, like rows of statues standing in front of the parking lot.

Even though for decades, they had almost never been involved in real battles, letting the under-hive fall into chaos,

but these PDFs still insisted on daily training under the Governor's near-strict requirements.

This made them extremely good at standing guard, lining up, and exuding majesty.

A seemingly majestic Planetary Defense Force could make Governor Augustus Flax feel at ease.

Augustus Flax controlled the servitor that looked almost exactly like him, stood in the center of the PDF, and looked at the empty parking lot around him with vigilance and suspicion.

The ships around the parking lot had been cleared, specifically to welcome the person who was about to arrive...

That person came in accordance with the order of the High Lords of Terra.

It is said that this time, the High Lords of Terra rarely didn't bicker, but decisively passed a resolution unanimously...

That is, to fully mobilize the military forces near the Underworld System to support the Underworld System.

According to the intelligence Augustus Flax already knew,

about two years ago, the Vitria system lost contact, and only a weak distress astropath message was sent out.

This message was received by the 11th Stormtrooper Regiment "Capoc's Eagles," and their commander, the Head of Stormtroopers, Uther Abraxas, led the starship Punitive Measures to Vitria to investigate, and finally discovered that the entire system had been swallowed by the Tyranid swarm.

After paying the price of an arm, Uther Abraxas sent a warning to Terra:

"The Leviathan Hive Fleet is launching an attack, and their next target is the Underworld System."

Two years later, this news was known to the High Lords of Terra through the hands of the Ordo Xenos.

Fortunately, the High Lords knew the significance of the existence of the Underworld Shield.

The greatest value of this system is to serve as a fortress guarding the Baal system, and Baal is the hometown of the Archangel, the home planet of the Blood Angels.

In any sense, the High Lords could not sit idly by and watch the Underworld System fall and Baal be attacked by the Tyranids.

After dealing with other more important matters, the High Lords rarely passed the resolution unanimously,

wanting to fully drag down the Leviathan Hive Fleet in the Underworld System until more powerful defensive forces gathered on Baal.

Finally, after rushing, the Empire's support finally arrived in the Underworld System before the Leviathan Hive Fleet arrived.

Augustus Flax stood here, waiting to hand over his power to the commander of the Astra Militarum.

According to what Augustus Flax knew,

the Astra Militarum troops that arrived in the Underworld System were about three million, but specifically which unit it was, was not something Augustus Flax could know.

Augustus Flax calmed down.

Power must be handed over, but he didn't intend to hand over the PDF.

After all, he still needed the PDF to protect his underground palace and his own safety.

Tiberius and Zhou Yun, these two might come to kill him at any time.

Thinking of Zhou Yun, Augustus Flax's mouth twitched slightly.

He tried to contact that Inquisitor on Laixi,

but the news he got was that the Governor on Laixi was suspected of defecting to the Genestealers,

and that Inquisitor ignored even this, and went to investigate the Goddess of Salt in the tides,

and even Sister Magda Grace of the Order of Our Martyred Lady was taken away by him.

Augustus Flax's expression was a bit ugly; now it seemed that to deal with Zhou Yun, he could only start with the Astra Militarum commander...

Just when Augustus Flax was considering,

a hurricane rose from the parking lot, and the clouds in the sky were suddenly separated.

A Valkyrie gunship with a dark green paint job slowly appeared from the clouds, full of mottled traces left by war.

In addition, two Vulture Valkyrie gunships carrying Hellstrike missiles formed a formation with it and appeared in the clouds together.

Valkyrie gunship, the Wings of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang.

Augustus Flax thought with a calm mind.

The dark green paint job was weathered.

But it was impossible to tell which Astra Militarum unit this was; almost all Astra Militarum imitating the Cadians would use this paint job...

The Valkyrie gunship landed slowly on the parking apron, the cabin door opened, and a group of Astra Militarum infantry wearing dark green armor poured out,

quickly forming an array in front of the Valkyrie gunship.

At first glance, the equipment of these warriors was not as exquisite as the Governor's PDF, almost all carrying mottled scars left by war,

but Governor Augustus Flax couldn't help but straighten his back, not daring to raise even half a point of contempt for the warriors in front of him.

Their eyes were tinged with a faint purple.

This was a mutation, a feature that should have been despised in the Empire,

but now, this purple eye almost represented that this was the most excellent Astra Militarum soldier.

Purple eyes were a unique genetic mutation of the Cadians.

The Astra Militarum that came to the Underworld System was the famous Cadian Shock Troops.

Augustus Flax was slightly stunned, because he knew that the fortress world of Cadia was also suffering from attacks now.

A commander walked down from the gunship.

He was about fifty years old, counted as an old general, and his white hair was trimmed into a short cut that clung to his scalp.

Under the short hair, one of his eyes had been replaced with a scarlet mechanical eye, and the other was the deep purple unique to Cadians.

This commander walked with the strong steps that only come from strict training, and in the blink of an eye, he walked to Augustus Flax.

In front of this commander, Augustus Flax felt that he had become extremely small.

"Mellon Droste."

This Astra Militarum commander introduced himself:

"In the name of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, by the order of the High Lords of Terra, I lead three million Cadian Shock Troops and the Vostroyan Firstborn to support the Underworld System."

"According to the High Lords' order, I will take over all ground command power of your planet."

"May your planet stand tall like Cadia."

This chapter is 6,000 words, restored to the normal update word count. I will start making up for the missing chapters tomorrow. I originally wanted to start making up for them today, but there was a traffic jam on the road this afternoon (Jinan is like this), and I didn't get home until about four o'clock.