PFC Chapter 182: Sudden Incidents and the Swarm's Nest
Chapter 182: Sudden Incidents and the Swarm's Nest
Everyone realized that something might have gone wrong, although it was not very serious, but the information might not have been conveyed accurately, or it might not have been conveyed yet.
"Immediately notify the astropath on the frigate and have the choir receive the message at full power!" John said.
Then within two hours, news continued to pour out, and everyone was filled with grief and anger as they listened to the voices that came that night.
"We have passed through the deck level. A large amount of equipment has been destroyed. We have found a large amount of damaged armor and damaged weapons."
"Pharmacist Morton has tested it and found that the lost biological carapace is a type of Tyranid. If I am not mistaken, the biomass in the battleship has been transformed and absorbed by the other party."
"We guessed wrong! The Tyranids are not completely dead! They have all fallen into a state of suspended animation. The ships have been transformed and their nests are everywhere!"
"Request support! Request support! It's the brain worm! It's blocking the message to the frigate! We need support!"
"Damn it! We lost 8 brothers! We need support!"
"Can you hear me, battleship? The damn brainworm has blocked the hull! We can't get out!"
"Cut that damn beast to pieces! We need support! We need support!"
"Oh!"
Captain John smashed the star map generator beside him, turned around and shouted to his men:
"Contact the escort ship immediately and have it bombard the ship! Send a high-speed warship to board the ship as soon as possible and rescue everyone!"
Everyone rushed to the deck, ready to board the ship.
Lin Heng suddenly felt a headache. It seemed that the speed of time flow in the subspace was not the same.
Maybe for the exploration company, less than three or four hours had passed, but for Lin Heng, almost a day had passed.
When we finally connected to the frigate, the mission time the other party had promised had only been less than an hour.
"The time flow here is different. Pastor, please lead the company to the wrecked ship immediately!" said John.
Caesar nodded and left. Everyone's attention was focused on the abandoned ship that had suddenly encountered an accident.
Lin Heng was no exception. Although no one asked him to participate in the rescue operation, he still couldn't help feeling worried.
But when he looked at the beautiful space again, his mind seemed to be frozen.
The ships in the distance gradually expanded in his field of vision, and the dilapidated and upside-down spacecraft gradually approached him. Although the command room was a very suitable environment, Lin Heng felt that it was full of dangers.
Although there were still mechanical servants and space marines stationed around, Lin Heng felt that as the ship approached, everything around him was disappearing.
Lin Heng turned around and looked around, and found that the familiar cabin had disappeared, replaced by a dark area just like the one when he saw the Tianlong Guards.
The hull of the wrecked ship was still approaching, and just when it was about to touch, Lin Heng subconsciously crossed his arms in an attempt to block it.
But the imagined collision did not occur. Instead, the hull structure disappeared like a mirror.
Among the disappearing layers of hulls, Lin Heng suddenly found that the people seemed to be frozen.
Think tank Zachli was bursting with dazzling lightning all over his body, and arcs of electricity jumped back and forth in the corridor.
Pharmacist Morton, with his mechanical arm, is performing battlefield surgery on a fallen soldier.
The other warriors pulled the triggers and fired dense bombs at the swarming insects.
Lin Heng shifted his gaze, following the stream-like swarm of insects as it went deeper and deeper, exploring gradually, and then he felt a certain cold presence.
When he sensed the thought that seemed to devour all existence, the other party also seemed to be aware of his existence.
“Hiss!!!”
"Pfft!"
A spiritual torrent rushed to Lin Heng's head, and the illusion disappeared in an instant. Lin Heng screamed in pain and fell to his knees, covering his head.
He felt as if his head was about to be torn apart by that cold and dark thought. If he had not withdrawn from that kind of exploration in time, he might have fallen to the ground.
Lin Hengqiang endured the mental pain and quickly stood up and shouted to the pastor:
"Take me there! I saw their location! There is a very scary mind inside. But I can sense that the other party is very weak now! Take me there, maybe I can help!"
Upon hearing this, John immediately stepped forward and asked, "Did you see them?"
"I can use divination psychic powers. I saw them guarding the command room. I guess they wanted to send a message through the remaining equipment.
Take me with you, I have been trained by the Grey Knights, I can protect myself!" Lin Heng nodded.
Then Captain John of the Fifth Company looked at Pastor Caesar, who nodded and immediately turned around and shouted:
"Gather this kid a set of scout armor! The company will set off in five minutes!"
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Inside the assault ship, Lin Heng put on scout armor, used psychic power to adjust his body, and told the priest and others what he had seen and heard at the time.
Lin Heng didn't care about those Zerg units, they were just some weird-looking bugs. What he cared about was that terrifying mind, that cold existence bursting with endless hunger.
“It’s unclear whether it was the will of the hive, but based on previous intelligence, what you saw might be a being called a brain worm.
You can think of it as a psyker among the Tyranids. As a synaptic creature, it commands the swarm and is considered a mid- to high-level unit among the Tyranids. "
Pastor Xize's words made Lin Heng even more nervous. Such a bug was only a mid-to-high-level unit, so how powerful would a real high-level unit be?
"Fortunately, we encountered a swarm of insects in a space wreck. They cannot get any more biomass, so there won't be more swarms.
As long as they can hold out until we arrive, everything is acceptable." Pastor Caesar added.
The Tyranids. Lin Heng had seen their advance troops, which were the gene stealers in the sewers of the hive's base.
These creatures all appeared from outside the Milky Way, and after hundreds of years of invasion, their footprints are all over the galaxy.
Any planet that has been eaten by the Zerg will be marked as a dead planet by the Inquisition. Its core will disappear, and eventually it will not even be able to retain its atmosphere, until it falls apart and turns into rubble.
"Powerful Tyranid swarms can even share thoughts, an ability known as the Hive Mind. They can even eliminate subspace fluctuations wherever they pass.
This is also one of the most dangerous creatures faced by the Empire. We fought against the Zerg many times in the Ultramarine, and the casualties were quite heavy. "
Although Pastor Caesar hated chattering, he started talking more at this moment. Lin Heng could sense his concern for the insect swarm.
While adjusting the plasma gun and chainsword in his hands, he silently chanted battlefield prayers. This danger will probably be something he will never forget!
The flow of time was not accurate. By the time they arrived near the frigate and made contact with it, three hours had passed.
However, the strange flow of time made the crew members on the frigate feel that only a dozen minutes had passed.
When the leading priest told everyone what had happened, everyone was shocked by the strangeness of this subspace time layer.
"Immediately turn the macro cannon to the position of the engine of the wreck."
The pastor hurriedly said that although the wrecked ship had lost its power, the location of the engine was where Lin Heng had discovered the brain worm before.
There is no biomass to replenish in space, so the swarms can only gather in places where energy surges, but their engines have long been shut down, and they can only fall into a dormant state after the fight.
The sound of loading shells rumbled in the cabin. The machine servants struggled to load the shells into the magazine. The gunners waited for orders, and then the metal shells were suddenly fired.
The huge metal shells passed through layers of psychedelic colors and hit the calcified armor.
"We've been ambushed! Support immediately! Support immediately!"
"It's the Hive Tyrant! Kill that damn bug!"
"Damn it! The wreck has been blocked by the brainworms, and the message can't reach the frigate... Protect Pharmacist Morton!"
Beneath the shattered outer layer was a dark hole, and when the sealed wreck cracked open its path to the warp, news that had not arrived for a long time quickly rang out from the frigate.
The crew on the ship had no idea that in the wrecked ship where they thought everything was calm, their brothers were actually being slaughtered by the swarm of insects.
Suddenly, the anger in everyone's hearts reached its peak. At the priest's command, the Space Marines boarded the plane and set off.
“The frigate blasted the rear of the wreck to slow down the Zerg attack.
The rest of the combat teams will board the ship immediately! Go to the command room of the abandoned ship and organize a rescue!"
After the priest finished speaking, he waved his hand and the driver immediately adjusted the engine power. The boarding ship immediately flew out and jumped into the dark giant mouth that looked like some living creature.
A torpedo loaded with high explosives exploded in the monster's mouth. The flash of fire illuminated the situation in the cabin and the bugs that were gradually waking up.
After a series of "clang" collisions and explosions, the moment the assault ship's hatch opened, a teeth-grinding scream resounded through the wrecked ship.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
In the dark cabin filled with dust, the powerful grenade launcher immediately spewed out tongues of fire.
The tail flame of the flying bomb flickered, illuminating the swarm of insects rushing forward.
Lin Heng did not undergo the tenth visual transformation operation, but his astral vision was not inferior to that of a space warrior.
When the eyes under his helmet glowed faintly, swarms of strange insects appeared in the dark corridor.
They vary in shape and color, but all share certain common features: ferocious mouthparts, sharp claws, sturdy chitinous shells, and the determination to devour everyone.
A blue can fights against a swarm of insects
"Destroyer Squad take care of them!"
Before the priest finished speaking, five heavy weapons team members carrying plasma cannons on their shoulders and refined flamethrowers in their hands stepped forward.
The hot kerosene swept through the insect swarm like wildfire, and shrill screams rang out immediately.
Then the plasma shells that had completed focusing shrieked past, and any insect that was touched by it had the corresponding part of its body disappear.
A squad of heavy weapons bombarding