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 Continued to advance inward, but no one saw any useful information along the way. Everything here seems to be abandoned, only the sound of the oriole detecting from time to time echoes.

“There are traces of fighting and blood everywhere here, but there is no body.”

Mary stared around and spoke in a low voice.

 “I have a very bad feeling, Mr. Duanmu.”

 “That’s right, I’ve discovered it a long time ago.”

 “What, what do you mean?”

Eclair followed Duanmu Huai, his eyes just staring at the dim corridor in front of him, like an Erha who wanted to run out immediately to have fun, looking completely absent-minded.

 “It means that the possibility of this being a trap is more than 90%.”

Lumière sighed silently. Although she had thought that this might be a miracle before, now it seems that there are indeed no miracles in this world.

"Mary, you stay with me, Qiangwei is responsible for the rear, and the others should pay attention to the surroundings."

Duanmuhuai issued the order again. Although this was a trap, it did not mean that they did not need to step into it. At least they could figure out what was going on here. If the planet was not attacked by the Chaos Space Marine Legions, then who turned it into a place of death?

 The place where the signal was sent was not above, but below. According to Lumière, there was a hidden underground headquarters under GOTT, but she was not sure whether this headquarters could survive such a level of battle. And everything they found along the way confirmed that this war has been going on for a while, at least half a year. It should be impossible for there to be any survivors here. There is no food, no reserves, and even no ammunition...

One more thing, where have all the corpses gone?

 “Crash.”

 The heavy concrete fragments were kicked away by Duanmu Huai, and the huge fragments rolled and fell down the stairs, making a distinct echo. Mary swallowed a mouthful of saliva. She didn't like this environment. It was silent and full of danger, just like scenes that often appear in movies. Due to work reasons, Mary often went to those ruins or ruins. Every time she entered a similar building, She will feel this way. It's as if these cold buildings are alive, or were alive. And now they are dead or still sleeping.

Every sound it makes sounds like the wail of the building itself...

"boom!"

Duanmuhuai's armor fell heavily to the ground. He turned around and walked forward at the lead. The light beside his head illuminated the dark tunnel in front of him, and at the same time, several beams of indicator lights appeared. Emerging from the other side of the darkness, it shined on Duanmu Huai's armor. Duanmuhuai looked up and saw several soldiers holding weapons sticking their heads out from behind the bunker on the opposite side. They were wearing somewhat tattered-looking armor, with goggles and triangular scarves on their faces. They looked more like bank robbers.

 “He is a soldier of the Interstellar Alliance!”

Seeing the armor they were wearing, Eclair was excited and wanted to rush over, but Duanmu Huai grabbed the collar and pulled back the Erha who was trying to break free from the collar.

 “Who are you?”

 “This is our problem.”

 The heavily armed soldiers on the opposite side clenched their weapons and stared at Duanmu Huai and others.

 “Who are you? Why are you here?”

At this moment, Lumière came over and coughed slightly.

“I’m sorry, we are GOTT’s ES members Lumiel and Eclair—can you let us in?”

  “…ES member?”

 Hearing Lumière’s words, the leading soldier was silent for a moment.

 “Okay, you can come in, but those guys can’t!”

"this………"

Hearing the other party's answer, Lumière hesitated a little, but at this moment Duanmuhuai had already given the answer.

 “What nonsense are you talking to these bastards! Get rid of them!”

As he spoke, Duanmu Huai suddenly swung his war hammer and swung it forward. I saw the spinning thunder hammer flying forward and hitting the soldiers directly, knocking them to the ground.

 “Do it!”

Seeing Duanmu Huai take action, the soldiers over there also raised their weapons and opened fire, launching an attack on Duanmu Huai. There was a burst of gunfire, and the two sides immediately broke into a fight.

 “Wait, wait a minute, it’s our people over there!”

Eclair tried to stop the fight that had started out of nowhere, but Lumiel grabbed her and shook her head.

 “This is not right, Eclair.”

 “Wait, what are you talking about? Lumière?”

Just when Eclair looked confused, the battle was coming to an end - the soldiers' bullets were completely unable to penetrate Duanmu Huai's power armor and Star Alliance armor. In almost a moment, the soldiers originally guarding behind the bunker were killed. Duanmu Huai and others swept away everything, leaving only corpses on the ground.

 “Why are you doing this!”

Just after Duanmuhuai killed the last soldier, Eclair hurried over and asked, but Duanmuhuai just glanced at her and then threw a body over.

 “Be smart, idiot, these guys are not human at all!”

"Why?"

Hearing Duanmuhuai's words, Eclair was stunned for a moment. She lowered her head and looked at the corpse in front of her. Only then did she realize that the soldier who fell in front of her had a bare head without a trace of hair. Apart from that, he had his head opened wide. Sharp teeth and long, lizard-like tongues can be seen in their mouths - obviously, although they look like humans, they are not humans after all. “Sure enough, I noticed something was wrong just now.”

At this time, Lumière also came over, looked at the scene in front of him with a solemn expression, and spoke in a low voice.

 “Hey? Lumière? Have you noticed it earlier?”

“Of course, Eclair, have you forgotten why we wear this kind of cosmic armor?”

As he spoke, Lumière pointed to the spacesuit he was wearing.

"It's not because of ground radiation and poisonous gas...ah...!"

"Yes, according to instrument testing, the radiation concentration here far exceeds the limit that humans can resist. Only people like us wearing fully enclosed armor can enter. But these people actually only wore ordinary military uniforms and a triangle scarf. ——If it was a real human being, it would have died of excessive radiation long ago.”

"But, what is this? I have never heard of such a thing before."

Eclair stared at the corpse in front of her, unable to hide her doubts in her eyes, but Duanmu Huai soon gave the answer.

 “It’s a gene stealer.”

As Duanmuhuai spoke, he clenched his war hammer again and looked forward.

"I have to say that your world is really miserable. You are really a wolf in front and a tiger in the back. You are being targeted by the Chaos God and the Tyranids at the same time... This galaxy is completely hopeless."

 “Tyranid!?”

Hearing this, the expressions of Eclair and Lumi Ellie suddenly changed. After entering the Tribunal, they also learned the lessons of the Tribunal, and naturally knew how terrible the Tyranids were.

 “How? Why are the Tyranids here?”

"The Tyranids are boundless, and no one knows how many there are. Although a large number of Tyranids have been wiped out before, they are only the parts that have invaded the interior of the galaxy. There are still many Tyranids outside the galaxy - in short, I As I said, this is a long-term war, and it seems that there is some fighting between us now."

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Before Eclair could ask any more questions, suddenly, a shrill scream came from deep in the passage. Then, everyone saw hundreds of dark shadows rising from the ground, ceiling, and walls under the dazzling searchlights. It crawled out like a gecko using its hands and feet, and with speed and flexibility comparable to that of a cockroach, it rushed towards Duanmu Huai and the others.

 “Come on! Kill these bastards!”

At the same time, on the battleship, Aikote was also observing the intelligence reported by each reconnaissance team.

"This galaxy... ugh, to be honest, I think it's very dangerous. Most of the planets have been almost destroyed due to various disasters and wars, and... why did the Tyranids appear? And with the Chaos Legion? Fight?"

Looking at the information in front of him, Aikote couldn't understand it, but if Duanmu Huai was here, it would be very understandable.

The Tyranids will increase their strength by devouring biomass. On the other hand, the Chaos Legion needs almost all souls.

Logically speaking, as long as the Chaos Legion eats Tyranids, wouldn't they be able to obtain souls?

However, it is not.

 For the Chaos Legion and Tyranid, both sides - cannot eat.

 That's right, for the Chaos Legion, the Tyranids have no soul, only a unified will, and eating them will cause stomach upset.

Similarly, for the Tyranids, things like the Chaos Legion that are contaminated by the subspace are not worth devouring, and eating them will cause stomach upset.

 In other words, they will not gain anything from eating each other, but will only suffer losses.

 So under normal circumstances, the Tyranids and the Chaos Legion are too lazy to care about each other.

However, there is only one exception, and that is when their targets are humans.

 For the Tyranids, if all humans are contaminated by Chaos, they will have nothing to eat.

 For the Chaos Legion, if humans are eaten by the Tyranids, they will have no souls.

Because of this, the battles between the Tyranids and the Chaos Legion that Ecote sees now are almost all for the remaining humans. Neither of the two sides is willing to give the other the meat in their mouths. If they fight, it will be a life-or-death fight.

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Just when Aikote was puzzled, a sudden alarm sounded.

“Alert, powerful psychic signal detected!”

"Why?"

Acott was startled and hurriedly raised his head and looked at the screen. In the originally colorful starry sky, a strange, cloud-like thing suddenly appeared and gradually spread - and then, along with the shining electric light, a huge creature emerged from it!

"what is that?!"

“I remember seeing it in the Inquisition’s information. This seems to be the Tyranid mothership!”

 “What? What now?”

"Notify Mr. Knight immediately! This is not a problem we can solve!"