paranoianovel Chapter 201 Among gene stealers, this is also considered a heretic.
Chapter 201 Among gene stealers, this is also considered a heretic.
The book continues from the previous chapter.
Genestealers are known to devour the flesh of their targets, analyze the genes within, and then evolve organs adapted to the local environment.
What about eating the flesh and blood of the Astartes?
A group of genestealers drove a "space hulk" into a strike cruiser of the Iron Hands. Flesh and machinery clashed and ended up victorious.
The most powerful surviving pure-blood gene stealer ate the few flesh and blood of the Iron Hands' descendants. At this time, the desire for mechanization was not obvious. Everyone also knew that Ferrus Manus was not He hopes that his descendants will become "Iron Hands" like him.
This was simply a tradition imitated by some who fanatically worshiped the Primarch.
It wanders around the ship, and the ship enters the real world.
And the planet they arrive next is the fundamental reason why they are so powerful.
The world of Tex 23 is an energy world. There is a lot of flammable gas here, and the planet has a lot of minerals.
This world has naturally become a cooperative world of the Mechanicus, where energy and minerals are mined, the thermal energy here is used for preliminary forging, and the products are processed and sold to the Mechanicus.
When this group of chicken thieves arrived, they completed their final transformation.
Commonly known as the Iron Hands Salamander Raven Guard transformation.
They used the rich gas resources and mineral resources here to build a large number of jet packs and flamethrowers.
The external environment here is very difficult, and only some small creatures that are harmless to humans and animals can survive.
After eating those strange native creatures, the flesh and blood mutations of the Iron Hand's descendants were also stimulated in their bodies.
They began to mechanize themselves so that they could better survive outside.
This is not serious, and even reduces their overall combat effectiveness, because mechanization will weaken their speed advantage, and the biggest advantage of Genestealers is close combat.
The ends of their sharp claws have organs similar to decomposing stances, so their sharp claws can easily cut through thick armor.
Pure-blood chicken thieves will not modify their claws. They will retain and decompose the blood vessels and nerves connected to the glands on their feet, and only mechanize the flesh and skin.
Other than making yourself heavier and carrying more explosive bombs at the cost of lowering your speed, it has little use.
This offspring of a pureblood gene stealer is different.
The other half-blood acolytes and half-blood novices didn't have claws to begin with, so they all had to be modified. They chopped off their arms and replaced them entirely with robotic arms.
But those guys have a weakness, that is, their eyesight is not very good. Even if they are equipped with auxiliary vision, it is rare to be able to hit an enemy a thousand meters away.
So they installed jetpacks on their backs, and their arms were replaced with flamethrowers and sledgehammers.
Because they don't wear power armor, the efficiency of jetpacks is quite sufficient. This group of hybrid acolytes and hybrid believers jump into the enemy camp like the Raven Guard, activate flamethrowers like salamanders, and swing sledgehammers to hit people.
The only thing that can be fortunate is that the hammers of these enemies are simple metal hammers, not power hammers, because on the strike cruisers of the Iron Hands, the gene stealers failed to obtain the manufacturing method of power hammers.
The second mutation is only for pure-blood gene stealers.
They have gas ejection organs growing on their backs, which are lighter and more useful than mechanized ejection equipment.
Thus, a group of chicken thieves were born who jumped into the enemy's position and hacked away with their claws.
These guys are very smart. After mechanizing their vitals, they hid them in various locations.
The original vital points were mechanized and moved to strange positions, either on the shoulders or the buttocks. In short, the method of dealing with them now became decapitation.
They cannot modify their heads, which are needed for psychic communication among the entire group.
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Lian Lei Luo happily looked at the map and found that after attacking a few worlds further, he would encounter a forging world. He didn't know if this world was still loyal.
Lian Leiluo did not think that the Mechanicus, which was surrounded by a rebel world, was loyal to the empire. He was ready to prepare and assembled a large number of troops to completely conquer the forge world.
The forces of Atreus and the Astra Militarum from the world of Scaria were called upon in a massive military operation.
Then they met the Genestealers on the world of Tex 23.
At first, Lian Lei Luo didn't recognize these guys as chicken thieves.
The "people" who first came out were mostly mechanized, with a huge mechanical backpack (jet pack and flamethrower fuel tank) on their backs, and a large number of iron plates on their still-physical heads.
This unorthodox Mechanicus?
Lian Leiluo talked to them with the mentality of giving it a try first, but these guys took out their mechanical equipment and were about to start fighting.
The world of Tykes 23 is regarded as an "affiliated world" of the Mechanicus. Most of the people there believe in Omnissiah, so the Ten Thousand-Armed Omnissiah appeared.
Lian Leiluo looked at the mechanical Thousand-Armed Guanyin in front of him, feeling confused.
More importantly, unlike the pure faith of the emperor's statue, this holy statue composed of a large number of mechanical arms and gear metal is movable and a serious robot.
Lian Leiluo's first reaction was: Are these guys studying green skins? This kind of robot creation with mechanical arms inserted all over its body seems to be something only greenskins can do.
Goge Icon...Omnisiah Icon Mecha?
The two sides looked at each other, and the enemy saw Astartes' power armor clearly, and Lian Lei Luo...
I can tell at a glance that you are not human! He's so talented, but he dares to do the same thing! Dawei Tianlong!
Personally built by technical sergeants who returned from "further training" at Anos, the No. 3 supply transport vehicle, the Dawei Tianlong, makes its debut!
The style completely follows the structure of the No. 2 car, with fierce firepower, fast flight speed, and the main focus is a bad guy.
With the mighty dragons in the sky covering them, the Astartes were more confident, and the Iron Hands gene-seed warriors entered the airdrop pods in groups.
Playing with machinery in front of us? Give these "mechanical heathens" some color.
The enemy's ground base was instantly bombarded with artillery fire, and our excellent tradition of fire coverage doubled in power on this planet full of flammable gases.
The pure-blood gene stealer hiding deep in the planet's mines finally couldn't help but show his face.
It was at this time that Lian Leiluo discovered that the enemy was not the Dark Mechanicus, but the mutated chicken thieves.
The Astartes were in a bitter fight.
The problem is not how powerful these Genestealers are, but how many more blasts they can withstand after being mechanized.
When the chain sword slashes upward, it does hit the enemy's mechanical part, but you don't know whether it will be fatal or not.
The enemy can fall down with engine oil all over its body. When you think it is dead and turn around to deal with other targets, the enemy lying on the ground pretending to be dead can sneak attack you.
Their claws can still easily tear through Terminator armor.
The think tanks quickly analyzed the battle situation and pointed out that the enemy's head was a weak point, but the mechanized enemy was taller and the soldiers needed to jump up to attack the enemy's head, which gave the enemy a lot of room to operate.
This group of enemies is slower than before, but more difficult to deal with.
Fortunately, most of the first batch to rush forward were the sons of Ferrus Manus, and these prosthetic warriors retreated in time after being injured.
The biggest innovation of supply transport car No. 3 is that it has two compartments, which are specially designed to hold replacement prostheses.
After Yifeng fought with the Dark Eldar, based on Rogier's suggestion, he installed these devices on the supply transport truck so that the injured prosthetic warriors could return to the battlefield as quickly as possible.
The regrouped warriors maintained the front line with the help of the mighty Tianlong's firepower.
In the command room, several bosses are collecting and integrating information.
"The enemy jumps with the help of jet packs. Their physical fitness seems to be very strong. They can carry flamethrowers on their backs without wearing armor, and they can withstand huge acceleration and smash into our battle formation."
"Soldiers reported that the enemy's flamethrower has minimal damage to power armor, but it can temporarily blind our vision. During the time when vision is lost, the surprise claw attack of the pure-blood gene stealer is the main reason for our injuries."
"In a narrow area, we have the advantage of individual firepower, but the enemy has communication advantages, and our individual soldiers are easily surrounded."
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Lian Leiluo stared closely at the holographic information map, and the next strategic decision would affect the fate of the entire army.
He glanced at the think tank next to him, then at the technical sergeant, and asked, "How is our portable module turret? Can it block the enemy's attack?"
"From the perspective of killing enemies jumping in the air, there is no problem at all. Our turrets are controlled by battle brothers. But facing pure-blooded gene stealers, they can now withstand several rounds of explosive bombs in the air attack. We may not be sure to kill them before they jump to our fort."
"Your Majesty Omnissiah, think about their weaknesses, brother think tank, what suggestions do you have?"
"Based on the characteristics of the enemy, there are several options. We might as well simulate the pure-blood gene stealers as self-exploding bombs thrown into our formation, and the enemy's mixed-blood acolytes and mixed-blood novices who jump into our formation are smoke bombs. Of course, that is true for our battle brothers.”
"So, what do you think?"
"Positional warfare, brothers, positional warfare on the plains. As for smoke bombs and self-exploding bombs, their 'range' is too short and their quantity is too small. We need to carry out mechanized operations on the plain terrain and use long-range artillery fire to bombard those exposed on the plains. enemy."
"This is just a hypothesis, brother think tank, to launch mechanized combat, our Astartes warriors are not enough. We need mortals to join. For them, those 'smoke bombs' are fatal."
"Then extend the distance further. Our advantage is the space battleship and the new reconnaissance force that is stronger than them."
Lian Leiluo thought for a moment and made a final decision.
"Then just follow what our think tank brothers said and prepare for high-orbit bombardment to blast out a plain."
In the space orbit, there were floating the wreckage of a strike cruiser and a pilgrim ship driven by chicken thieves. It was unknown whether there were enemies on it, and even Lei Luo ignored them.
After avoiding these two battleships, the main fleet launched a bombardment.
The Astartes on the battlefield were taking turns to cover their retreat. Just as the enemy was about to pursue them, the super bombardment dropped from the sky forced them back.
In this small mineral world, the void shield was overloaded in just a few hits.
The chicken thieves retreated into the lowest mining area. Deep underground, a large number of chicken thieves were gathering in the largest conference area. The first generation of pure-blood chicken thieves had awakened. It angrily told its descendants that the enemy in front of them was going to stop them. To ascend to greatness, you must repel the enemy.
The spacious hall has been shaking violently, and there is a hole in the ceiling above, with gravel and soil falling down.
This is just a place for low-class people to stay. The rich and powerful nobles will not care about the quality of the buildings here.
The lights of the machines flashed everywhere, and many enemies deployed traps and dug fortifications in the mine tunnels. They believed that the enemies were about to invade the mine.
Outside, even the wealth that Lei Luo had saved these days was beginning to be revealed. A large number of Chimera armored vehicles and basilisk tanks were deployed on the battlefield. These things were cheap and solid, produced in many places, and were relatively easy to buy.
Leman Russ tanks are deployed staggered, followed by portable modular turrets. These fixed turrets are deployed not far from the enemy's tunnel exit. Once the enemy appears, they can suppress the enemy with firepower.
The two sides are in a stalemate, and the enemy cannot wait long. This is not a grain-producing area, and their food cannot last long.
In just one month, the two sides fought many bloody battles, and the enemy launched many surprise attacks. Our step-by-step advancement achieved good results.
The patriarchs of the Gene Sect are not just ordinary people. They found the specific location of our fort with heavy casualties. They continued to dig tunnels and successfully dug directly under our fort with the help of the noise of a large number of geological activities.
With the help of underground "springs" and gas wells, these bombs made by compressing combustible gas are powerful and not very destructive, but they cause great damage to the geology.
After the explosion, our damaged forts often fell into the craters created by the blast. When our personnel went to repair and dig, they would blast a path from the originally prepared passage and rush out to kill them. Our maintenance staff.
The entire planet has evolved into a battlefield like a meat grinder.
For the Astartes, it was already a failure.
Sticking to the planet will hurt the chicken thieves. They also know that the Astartes have supplies, but they don't. They can only look for opportunities to effectively kill us in large numbers.
After discussing with the chief priest, the clan leader decided to dig a large hole in the ground connecting hundreds of passages, blast it open with huge bombs, and then let a large number of troops rush out.
After several more fatal reconnaissances, they chose a place right below one of our mortal troops. There was no turret watching the exit at all times, and they could inflict maximum damage to the enemy at the beginning of the battle.
If nothing else, you can get a lot of human blood food.
Tunnel battle!
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Yifeng patted the shoulder of the soldier sent by Anthony.
Okay, very good, now I have more than 200 veterans, and the 500 newly transformed recruits also have a stock of armor.
The precious treasures Sivana brought included some finely crafted chain swords (for mortals) snatched from Rogue Traders, and some small sacred objects, such as a small necklace that could activate a temporary shield. Although Asta It's not particularly useful, but it can enhance the defense of psykers like Cancelo.
There are also some precious materials, such as the famous fine gold and fist-sized anti-psionic substances (which are the wall materials in the black ship)
Yifeng is in a very good mood, and the entire battle group is developing in a good direction, especially the Wailers, who have not caused trouble recently.
Although Matthew Leo has been visiting Yifeng for a long time, he always looks sad because the number of people in his death company is increasing.
The soldiers of the Death Company wear battle armor.
The number of their death companies is increasing, and there are almost not enough armors for living people to wear.
......
Yifeng took the opportunity to go out to see if he could get some armor and said goodbye to the mourners.
He went to Langjuxu to meet with Christina.
This woman has made a huge technological breakthrough after thirty years of research. And, very angry.
After the failure in the last land grab, Haituo Sage learned the hard way that he really failed to come up with a sample that pleased Yifeng.
So, he applied for a shipyard to build cruiser-class ultra-real acceleration engines.
Yifeng gave him his full support with a wave of his hand, and handed him the Tau physics engine. The sage was delighted. This amount of knowledge would allow him to truly become a sage.
Now, he is working hard to transform and upgrade the empire's "shabby and backward" real-space engine. After integrating our acceleration with the Tau's long-distance navigation, I don't know what Haituo can do.
The battle group negotiated and discussed the issue of the shipyard for several times. The final result was that the nest that Christina had worked so hard to build, which was a brand new forging world built in the 300 world of the Tau, was taken over by the Haituo Sage to build a ship. .
Since the news reached Lang Juxu, the lady has been in a state of mania, and Haituo Sage had to build defensive walls and self-defense weapons in the small test area.
There will always be a "very regrettable failure" in Christina's experiments, triggering a violent explosion, blowing a large number of destructive steel plates, iron beads, steel bars, grenades, melta bombs, ion turrets... and blowing them into the sea at supersonic speeds. In the experimental area of the Pioneer.
No mortal dares to stay here anymore.
.......
Yifeng came to Langjuxu with a large amount of supplies. He had just collected supplies from the 300 worlds of the Tau. The tax rate was much lower than the empire's tithe tax. After all, he was in a period of comprehensive development, but he still received a lot of resources.
This time Yifeng is very confident. He came here with a "gift", so he can't beat me.
Then.......
Christina's body became even larger, and special facilities were specially installed for Yifeng.
As usual, she locked Yifeng into her body with a welcome, and then the same drum of the ancient 2K era washing machine that had just been installed started to operate, giving Yifeng a complete set of astronaut training.
To the Primaris warriors, these small movements were nothing more than drizzle, but the clever Comrade Yifeng was so dizzy that he almost vomited in Christina's body.
.......
Nonsense. If you don't show off, you are disgusted by this woman. Next time, the untouchable archbishop might come up with something to trick Yifeng.
Holding Yifeng's most secret project in her hand and staying in the most important experimental area of the entire battle group, Christina was sure that Yifeng had nothing to do with her.
Maybe this is called being pampered and coquettish.
Yifeng waved the list of supplies this time in his hand, "staggering" and "stumbling" on the ground, and finally made the lady put out the fire.
"Come on, stop pretending. If you can't stand this, then don't go on a space voyage."
"Just tell me whether you enjoy it or not."
"Oh, man, are you trying to please me?"
.........
"My family, don't be angry, my family, don't be angry, my family, don't be angry..."
"Please don't read what's in your heart, thank you for your cooperation." Christina used a variety of synthesized sounds and sounded in six directions at the same time.
"Okay, let's get down to business. Tell me some breakthroughs and what they are."
"Well, I found the Tau's anti-psionic substance."
"What is it? Can it be used? Can we make a battle armor!?" Yifeng became excited. This was an important discovery related to their final plan.
Christina leisurely stretched out a mechanical arm, grabbed a stove, poured "coffee" from it, and then shook it in the air to disperse the steam.
"...That's enough for you, you don't even have a body anymore, drink some Hammer coffee!"
"It's etiquette, I drank engine oil."
Christina poured engine oil into a filler port on her chest, and then pointed to the Tau area of the World Zoo next to her.
"Well, their meninges have the function of inhibiting the barriers between subspace and the real world."
"Meninges?" Yifeng was a little disappointed. He thought it was a skull or skin.
"A good news and a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"
"Bad news, please say something more devastating to suppress my excitement."
"The strength of these things is far from reaching the level of the so-called untouchables. It can only suppress the Tau, a race that has no deep connection with the subspace. Even if it is concentrated, there is an upper limit. The strongest can reach the level of the untouchables. With 40% strength, it can be synthesized by killing about a billion Tau."
"...Does the Tau have a population of one billion?"
"Let me ask you, is your encouragement of fertility effective?"
"They feel that the living area is too crowded and not suitable for survival. If they don't want to have children...it doesn't count as resistance, it counts as a waste."
"Then give them more colonies."
"I see, so what's the good news?" Yifeng sighed. Killing the entire Tau tribe and getting something with only 40% of Ina's anti-psionic strength is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It's better to find more people in the ordinary world. What about the untouchables?
"The good news is that the data just mentioned are increasing exponentially. If you kill about 100,000 Tau, you can reach 30% of the strength of the untouchables. If you kill about 5 million Tau, you can reach one-third of the strength. "
Yifeng pinched his face hard.
My hand hurts, but I didn’t dream.