Chapter 376: War Hammer: What Do You Mean You Conquered the Bug Race

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

Not long after Lin En left, aboard the James Tong, in Dominic's temporary residence.

Deputy Officer Karen entered holding an envelope, his expression grave.

"Major General Adult, another anonymous secret letter." He placed the envelope on the table; the coat of arms on the wax seal was exactly the same as the previous one.

"The messenger has already disappeared, only saying you must open it personally."

The smile on Dominic's face slowly faded.

His gaze fell on that familiar wax seal, hesitating slightly, not immediately opening it.

Outside the window, the starport's lights remained dazzling, the transport ship's engine roaring faintly, like an unceasing drumbeat.

Dominic picked up the letter; the parchment felt ice-cold to the touch, carrying a trace of ominous weight.

He sighed, thinking in his heart:

It seems things are not over......

Leaving the James Tong, boarding the airship back to the Governor's Mansion, the weariness on Lin En's face vanished instantly.

He leaned back in the seat, a faint, almost imperceptible smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

Luna Fee's carefully laid scheme seemed to have just been broken like that.

Trying to use Dominic's hand to topple him? Still too naive.

He connected to Lena via the mental link, his voice calm:

"Dominic's side is stable; proceed according to the original plan. How is the Underground Third Floor?"

"Gu Yu has already led people to break through the outer layer of the Witchcraft Labyrinth." Lena's voice immediately rang out in his mind.

"But now, it seems they've run into some trouble......."

"Tell me in detail."

The next second, without Lin En saying another word, the shared sensory images spread out through the Hive Network.

Twisted corridors, floating gravel, eerie blue runes flickering in the darkness, and a strange sulfur-like scent in the air—this was the entrance to the Land of No Delay.

At the very moment Lin En boarded the James Tong, Lena Guyu had already led the Purge Plague Assault Team and the Decapitation Squad through that half-open black stone door.

Behind the stone door was nothing like the narrow underground passage everyone had expected.

The view suddenly opened up, yet was eerie to the extreme.

No ceiling, no ground; countless corridors and staircases floated in the dim Void.

Some wound upward into the darkness, some extended downward and vanished into the mist, and some even hung completely upside down overhead.

Blue Chaos energy flowed through the cracks between brick and metal.

The air was filled with fragmented whispers, like countless insects wriggling against the eardrums, tempting one to probe the secrets deep within the heart, to doubt every companion nearby.

"Domain, unfold!"

Gu Yu's voice was clear and cold, like a piece of ice dropped into boiling oil, instantly suppressing those annoying whispers.

Behind her, four arms rose simultaneously, pale purple spirit energy halos emanating from her palms.

Three Bishops and several Apostles followed closely behind; their spirit energies intertwined, forming an invisible great net.

This was not an ordinary Spirit Energy Barrier.

Gene Thieves originated from the Tyranids, sharing a unified Insect Swarm Will, possessing a natural rejection and isolation of Warp Energy.

Three Bishops plus Gu Yu, this Chosen Construct, working together to conjure the "Insect Swarm Shadow."

Enough to locally replicate the Silent Sisters' "Untouchable Domain."

The moment the Domain spread, everyone clearly felt their bodies lighten.

Those brain-drilling whispers seemed to have their source cut off, stopping abruptly.

The floating gravel ceased its aimless drifting, and the upside-down staircases no longer twisted and deformed.

Even the strange scent in the air faded, leaving only the cold breath of metal and dust.

The originally unpredictable Land of No Delay, under the cover of the Insect Swarm Shadow, instantly lost its deadliest threat: arbitrary terrain rewriting and omnipresent mental corruption.

"What, what is this ability?"

The captain of the Decapitation Squad froze for a moment, his hand gripping the Bomb Gun loosening slightly.

He had seen the State Religion Pastor's prayer shield, seen the Mechanical Priest's force field barrier, but had never seen any power that could make Warp Energy directly "behave."

"Stay alert." Gu Yu did not explain further, merely tilting her head to gesture forward.

With terrain interference gone, the miscellaneous demons along the way posed no threat at all.

The occasional Pink Terror Demon drilling out from the shadows was torn apart by a claw from a Pureblood Gene Thief in the dark before it could even shriek.

Fire Demons attempting to coalesce were extinguished by the Attendant Monk's Heat Melt Ray the moment sparks appeared, unable to even explode.

Over twenty Vanguard Army veterans cooperating with the Gene Thief team advanced exceptionally smoothly, hardly encountering any significant obstacles.

The only problem was direction.

The Land of No Delay had no coordinates, no landmarks; all corridors looked exactly the same, and one could easily get lost in endless repetition if not careful.

Luna was hiding in the Deepest Part, clearly intending to wear them down with the labyrinth, exhausting their stamina and patience, then picking them off one by one.

But she had overlooked one thing.

The core of this team was the Tyranids.

"Left front, three hundred meters."

A Pureblood Gene Stealer walking at the far left of the team suddenly stopped, its head twitching slightly, its nostrils flaring rapidly.

Likate's sensory enhancement fragment had been deliberately embedded by Lena into its gene sequence, making it extremely sensitive to the presence of biomass.

Even through thick rock walls and Warp mist, it could catch the appetizing smell emitted by living creatures.

At the same time, the leading Bishop spoke, his voice low: "There are strong Psyker Fluctuations in the depths, mixed with the scent of flesh and blood, and there are quite a few."

One relying on biological instinct, the other on Psyker Perception, the two methods corroborated each other, and the direction became clear in an instant.

The Tyranids could dominate the galaxy, relying on far more than endless bug swarms.

Precisely locating biomass and locking onto prey positions was originally a house skill engraved in their genes.

If they couldn't even figure out the direction of food, how could they be qualified to be the devourers of the galaxy?

"Advance."

At Gu Yu's command, the team immediately adjusted direction and advanced deeper into the corridor to the left front.

Along the way, they occasionally encountered several spatial Green Skin Wrinkles, but under the suppression of the Bug Swarm's Shadow, they couldn't stir up any waves, either being forcibly smoothed over or directly bypassed by the team.

In less than half an hour, they broke through the Outer Zone of the Land of No Delay, getting closer and closer to the Core Mishishi where Luna was located.

Everyone thought that next would just be a straightforward push all the way until they killed Luna face to face.

But no one expected that the fatal blade might not come from outside.

The anomaly occurred on a spiral staircase extending downward.

The staircase spiraled toward deeper darkness, with bottomless Void on both sides.

The team marched in single file, with Mutant Species leading the way to clear the path, and Pure-blood Chicken Thieves scattered on both flanks for vigilance.

Three Bishops walked in the middle of the team to maintain the domain, while twenty-something Vanguard Army veterans brought up the rear, protecting the team's tail.

Everything was no different from the previous journey.

Just as the team reached the middle of the staircase, the most neither-up-nor-down position, the three injured veterans at the rear suddenly stopped.

The soldier walking in front of them was about to turn back to urge them on, but caught a glimpse of a dazzling Red Light out of the corner of his eye.

"Thermal Bomb!"

The Roar only managed to shout out half a sentence.

Boom!!!