Chapter 76

Understood, he understood everything!

After seeing the alien-like twisted non-human remains, the mystery that had been plaguing Alvin finally had an answer.

Fifty years ago, the Ironstone Town mine was infected by the Tyranids, which bred Genestealers. Although it was unclear which generation they were, it was certain that the Governor of the Galken planet, upon discovering this, immediately ordered the Planetary Defense Force to eliminate the Genestealers in the Ironstone Town mine in time.

And, to avoid the appearance of infected individuals again, the Ironstone Town mine was abandoned from then on!

"No wonder the Governor of Galken would massacre all the residents of the mine."

Alvin's expression was somewhat complex; he had previously suspected the Governor of Galken, but now it seemed he had completely wronged him.

If it were him, he would probably have made the same decision.

Genestealers are the vanguard sent by the Tyranids to conquer a planet.

They usually send seeds containing Tyranid genes into the host's body, silently twisting and tampering with the host's consciousness and cognition.

Therefore, many Genestealers often shout for the 'God-Emperor' while holding large-scale infection rituals.

But those Genestealers do not know that their cognition has long been twisted and tampered with by the Tyranid genes in their bodies.

In the eyes of Genestealers, the glorious 'God-Emperor' is actually a blasphemous statue with four arms!

But the infected and infiltrated Genestealers will not notice anything unusual; they won't think there is any problem at all, and their daily behavior is like that of model citizens, even becoming more 'pious'.

The speed of Tyranid infiltration and infection is extremely alarming; if not controlled, it will soon spread like a virus throughout the hive city.

Until it completely replaces the hive city, or at the right time, the Tyranid Hive Mind, after receiving the signal, descends upon the planet and completely devours all biomass, including the Genestealers!

In this way, the Ironstone Town mine was once the lair of Genestealers; no wonder it was later occupied by a cult.

"Good, good, good. I'm even more curious now: what other huge secrets are hidden inside this mine!"

Alvin suddenly felt more and more expectant about the truth hidden in the Ironstone Town mine.

Then, he turned and headed deeper into the pipe, but when he passed the blasphemous four-armed statue, he stared at it for a few seconds and felt genuine disgust.

He immediately raised his armored arm, and a beam of crimson laser shot out, directly cutting the statue to pieces.

What kind of blasphemous thing is this? Die!

"That feels much better."

Looking at the fragments all over the floor, Alvin nodded with satisfaction and silently performed the Aquila salute: "May the Emperor protect me; I am your most loyal subject!"

After the salute, he walked toward the depths of the pipe.

But the closer he got to the pipe exit, the higher the air temperature became, and rolling heat waves hit him!

Moreover, the armor's filtration system detected that the air contained a large amount of toxic substances, which seemed to be waste gas produced during smelting!

"What exactly is inside?"

With deep doubts, Alvin quickened his pace.

When he emerged from the abandoned pipe, he was immediately shocked by the scene before his eyes.

The interior of the Ironstone Town mine was a mountain body that had been completely hollowed out, and his current position was in the very center of the mountain.

Looking around, above the hollowed-out mountain were the originally abandoned factory facilities.

The entire interior of the mountain had been completely transformed by the cultists into the style of a forge factory, with all kinds of exaggeratedly sized pipes leading to unknown places.

Dense pipes, beams, and mechanical constructs were like predators lurking on a spider web.

"What does the cult intend to manufacture here?"

Alvin frowned, and his gaze swept over strange constructs that looked like cages, suspended in mid-air by thick chains.

"Are the people who were escorted here all locked up in these?"

A closer look revealed that they were indeed people specifically escorted here.

They were imprisoned in welded iron cages, tied with thick chains above, and suspended in the center of the hollowed-out mountain.

Moreover, it wasn't just the area Tot was responsible for; people sent from other areas were also there.

He roughly counted them; there were twelve cages in total, and a rough estimate suggested that at least a thousand people were imprisoned inside!

Each cage was packed with people, and the degree of crowding was no less than the Tokyo subway at 8:00 AM.

"Tsk, this is purely increasing the difficulty!"

This scene made the hiding Alvin feel a headache.

Trying to find that Inquisitor among so many heads was simply too difficult.

Temporarily suppressing the thought of finding the Inquisitor, Alvin looked toward the source of the heat; directly below the cages where people were suspended was a huge, boiling 'boiler'!

The 'boiler' had both mechanical and flesh characteristics, covered with blasphemous brass carvings and inscribed with complex, twisted runes.

At first glance, Alvin felt endless malice coming from his mind!

That huge 'boiler' cast from flesh and steel seemed to have already acquired... some biological characteristics!

The inside of the 'boiler' was filled with molten steel melted by high temperatures, and mechanical constructs moving on beam tracks kept throwing some kind of metal into the boiling 'boiler'.

Then, the molten golden liquid flowed along a specific track toward the deeper core area of this forge factory!

"The cult went to such lengths to capture people; isn't it for sacrifice?"

This scene left Alvin somewhat confused.

The people sent by the Hammer Gang were not sacrificed but were locked in iron cages; what exactly did the cult intend to do?

But, in the next second!

The cult told Alvin the answer with their actions.

The thick iron chains made a huge sound, and in his horrified gaze, one of the cages suspended in mid-air suddenly plummeted toward the boiling 'boiler'!

"Help!"

"No, don't! Someone save me!"

"Ahhhhh!"

The people in the iron cage let out chaotic screams.

But soon, the entire iron cage fell into the 'boiler', and thousands of degrees of boiling molten steel splashed, making a chilling melting sound!

Flesh and bones melted in the high temperature, and shrill screams rang out one after another, but in just a few seconds, they were completely drowned out by the boiling molten steel!

At this time, the boiling molten steel overflowing in the 'boiler', having integrated the lives of a hundred people, actually let out an even more shrill wail!

That was a wail originating from the soul!

Rolling thick smoke rose from the 'boiler', in which countless twisted faces seemed to be struggling and screaming as they surged toward the heights.

Perhaps because he was a psyker, Alvin could feel it clearly.

That pitch-black smoke contained various negative emotions such as hatred, pain, and resentment of mortals, which immediately made him feel cold all over, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar!

"Could it be..."

Alvin's pupils shrank suddenly, as if he had thought of some terrible result.

He didn't even care about the question of whether that Inquisitor was in the cage that had been thrown in; he followed the track of the molten steel poured out by the 'boiler' and flew straight toward it.

The armor's built-in stealth mode was indeed powerful, completely avoiding the detection of the mechanical constructs along the way.

Soon, Alvin reached the end of this track. Looking at the massive assembly line factory, he suddenly felt as if his throat had been strangled, filled with a feeling of suffocation!

The blasphemous factory, covered in a combination of flesh and machinery, was engraved everywhere with twisted symbols, spreading endless malice from the Empyrean!

Tens of thousands of creatures that had almost completely lost their human form, possessed blasphemous and twisted appearances, and combined flesh with machinery, were like diligent and tireless worker ants in a nest, cycling back and forth, endlessly repeating the production work on the assembly line.

But at this moment, Alvin had no heart to pay attention to those constructs eroded by Chaos.

Because, at the end of the production line, he saw a giant construct!

Its shape was similar to an ancient scorpion, its appearance mixed with both flesh and mechanical attributes, and pipe-like lines like blood vessels were wrapped around that blood-like metal shell!

Two giant scorpion claws were covered with sharp serrations, making one have no doubt about their destructive power, capable of easily tearing through dozens of inches of steel defense!

At its tail, the upward-curving scorpion tail was an exaggeratedly sized giant cannon!

Just by looking at that blasphemous and twisted construct, Alvin could deeply understand what it meant to fall into an abyss!

"Daemon... Engine—Huang Tong Scorpion?!"

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