The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Chapter 2913: The Blackstone Plan

Although Sochoyan didn't intend to continue the topic, the Biologis Savant was also astute and immediately guessed what Oscar meant, and he agreed with it.

"Blackstone, that's a direction."

As soon as this term came out, many Astartes showed surprised expressions. Metellus was stunned for a moment, and then said softly:

"Blackstone? Sounds familiar, is that the Necron thing?"

Seth frowned.

"Fallen alien creation?"

On the contrary, Andar, who came from the Deathwatch, and Nurus, who was serving in the Deathwatch, did not react too strongly, but made thoughtful expressions.

After a moment, Andar took the lead to speak.

"Blackstone does have strong psychic isolation properties, but its fragments have too small an area of effect, unless it is a complete alien Blackstone spire. That kind of spire does have a large-scale psychic shielding field, but I think the Adeptus Mechanicus still hasn't made any progress on how to use this kind of spire."

Then Nurus also said:

"Moreover, Blackstone is also an extremely rare material for the Adeptus Mechanicus. Mining itself is extremely difficult, let alone processing it. I haven't heard of any Savant who can process Blackstone yet, and a complete Blackstone spire also means the existence of Necron alien enemies. This is no less than the Tyranid threat. We better pray that there are no such enemies in the war zone, otherwise the situation will only get worse."

It can be seen that the two of them were not opposed to the proposal of "using Blackstone" itself. Probably the Deathwatch is more open to alien creations and technologies, so they only expressed that Blackstone is "unusable" rather than "cannot be used."

However, this did provide Sochoyan with some ideas, but he didn't intend to discuss this topic here, after all, too many people are meddlesome.

So he chose to change the subject and said to the Biologis Savant:

"Many previously unrecorded Tyranid variants were discovered in this battle, some of which are very threatening. Has the laboratory registered them all?"

"Yes, they have all been registered in detail. After returning, we will transmit these biological characteristic data to the Ordo Xenos and other Imperial institutions, but there are some creatures that require special attention."

The Biologis Savant led everyone to a huge display stand on the side. On the stand was a Tyranid biological specimen, which was the heavily armored behemoth that Jacob's squad encountered in the operation. However, it can be seen that the body has traces of splicing, and some materials were used for internal filling. However, even a fragmented specimen, its huge tearing claws can still intuitively make people feel its terrifying destructive power.

Looking at this creature, which was even larger than a Ravener, many Space Marines exclaimed and even discussed countermeasures.

"This creature feels like it was created purely to withstand heavy firepower assaults. Look at the markings, the average thickness of the head carapace is 3 meters, and the average thickness of the back carapace is 2.6 meters. According to the carapace hardness of large Tyranid creatures... this front is even more solid than the super-heavy armor of a Ravener!"

"But its head... does it have eyes? It doesn't seem to have sensory organs. Does this mean that they are inherently slow creatures?"

"Such a huge creature only walks on two legs, and its center of gravity is so far forward. If we attack its tail, can we destroy its body balance?"

The Biologis Savant then displayed more detailed data to everyone and introduced:

"This is a brand new Tyranid creature. It is not a variant of some existing Tyranid creature, but a completely independent category. We tentatively named it the Leech, because its appearance seems to be accompanied by Titan units like the Hierophant. Its role is similar to our tanks, used to crush solid fortifications and defense lines, so it can also be called the Tank Bug. In addition to having a hard shell, this creature has a very simple internal structure, which makes it extremely resistant to trauma. And its brain is very small, with most of the neurons distributed throughout the body, forming a decentralized neural network. This means that even if they lose their heads, they can still control their movements and reactions through the neurons in other parts of their bodies and continue to be active in a short period of time."

At this time, Bahram raised his hand.

"Savant, our warriors encountered this kind of bug and killed it by attacking its head with melta weapons."

"This is the second thing I want to say. In order to strengthen its defensive capabilities, almost all parts of this creature are covered with extremely thick chitin. Everyone must have seen some giant Tyranid units. Without exception, they all have chimney-like organs on their bodies. That is not only used to release poison mist, in fact, this is not the main function. The main function of the chimneys on giant Tyranid units is to dissipate heat. These creatures generate huge heat in their bodies when they are active. This heat allows them to launch crazy attacks with incredible speed and power, but... heat to a certain limit is harmful to the organs, especially for these Tyranids with extremely high sulfide content in their bodies. They have to use chimney-like organs to dissipate heat. This makes weaknesses form on the complete chitin carapace. Although the Leech avoids such weaknesses, it makes its internal thermal balance extremely fragile. Therefore, as long as thermal weapons are used to penetrate the carapace and damage its interior, it will break the fragile thermal balance, causing their body fluids to boil or even implode. So the reason why the Leech was killed at that time was not the attack on the head, but the huge heat that was instantly transmitted through the head wound that destroyed the thermal balance of the Leech."

Bahram nodded in sudden realization.

"I see."

Then he sincerely thanked the other party.

"Thank you for your explanation, this is very important to the warriors in front."

Then everyone walked past several unique variants of Lictors and Warriors, and finally came to a highly deformed and twisted Tyranid specimen. It was the mysterious behemoth killed by Kayan and Amnak.

"This creature was pieced together from the wreckage collected on the battlefield. At first, we thought it was the tissue of multiple creatures, but after structural coupling identification, we determined that it was indeed one creature."

What the Biologis Savant said was what Sochoyan told him to say, after all, the origin of this creature was not easy to explain.

"Although it has some characteristics similar to Lictors, it is actually a completely independent new Tyranid bio-weapon. It especially strengthens speed and reaction, and whether it is chitin composition, organ tissue level, muscle quality or brain quality, it is the highest level among the Tyranid samples collected so far. In other words, this is very likely the strongest known individual Tyranid creature, even above the Hive Tyrant."

Malakin then frowned.

"That sounds like some kind of specialized assassin?"