Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

Morning Star Surface.

At this time, the fierce battle that broke out in the urban area, coupled with the battle for control of low-Earth orbit, seemed to ignite the entire night sky. Even if there was no light to provide illumination, it was still possible to see things hundreds of meters away on the road.

Many giant buildings were affected by artillery fire and the crash of battleships, but in the 15th district of the city, it was due to the sudden appearance of an undead tomb, which caused it to tilt and collapse.

The outer wall of this pyramid is completely black, and the details and gaps are shining with dark green light. Countless undead warriors are guarding the surroundings.

At important locations such as intersections and overpass corridors, there are also "three-legged scorpions" equipped with large-caliber and high-power gauss cannons. It should be said that they are units with three legs, or suspended air cushions, or even scorpion tails as a means of movement. Usually They are all destroyer units from the undead side.

The one with the super-phased blade is the Scorpion Destroyer, the one that can stay suspended like a small tank is the Locust Destroyer, and so on.

At the same time, there are countless undead warriors and various types of expellers escorting human prisoners from all directions to the undead tombs exposed on the surface.

More than 90% of the prisoners were civilians, with a small number being peace officers, Imperial Army and Marines, and even a very small number of Kriegs, auxiliaries and reserves.

However, not all of these people were captured to save their lives.

Like Kriegs, Auxiliaries, and Reserves.

Krieg is a soldier created by genetic engineering. From their birth, in addition to having normal human emotions, they also have an unswerving belief, which is to fight for the Emperor.

The auxiliary army needs to have a super strong will and belong to the elite among the "mortal" elites to be eligible to participate in the auxiliary army transformation plan.

Not to mention the reserve force, because the human emperor is their father, and they will never do such things as surrender, and they cannot afford to lose face.

Therefore, these prisoners were temporarily comatose due to explosions and impacts, or were directly disabled by high-level undead units. There was no time to overload the reactors of their respective power armors.

In the end, these super soldiers were forced to remove their power armor when they could no longer resist, and were then locked into carrier vehicles with stasis stances.

Among the civilians, police officers, and imperial soldiers recruited from the local or nearby star fields and star regions, the majority are "strong in martial arts" and "fearless of death", but there will always be a small number who are afraid of death and then give up. Resist willing to be captured.

These floating carrier vehicles, which use anti-gravity technology and are driven by undead warriors, all exude a stagnant stance of dark green light. They hold human prisoners who remain in a sluggish state and send them continuously to the tombs of the undead.

Following the convoy escorting the prisoners, passing through the outer wall of the pyramid with a standard 51° angle, and coming to the interior of the Tomb of the Dead, the first thing that catches the eye is the dazzling luminous prism.

The dark green light and the screams of "Ah...-ah...-" from time to time made the inside of the tomb extremely depressing.

Although the prisoners whose freedom of movement was restricted could not move, their eyes and ears could sense the changes outside the car, and naturally they could hear the painful wails from their compatriots.

A few people's eyes showed fear and confusion, but most of them showed anger and unwillingness.

The convoy separated, driven by undead warriors.

Those carrying a large number of civilians parked directly in the nearest empty field, and then overwhelming metal beetles attacked, and many metal spiders came nearby. Waiting for the moment when the stasis position was lifted, they immediately mutilated the prisoners. control.

Several vehicles carrying Krieger, auxiliary troops, and reserve troops also moved forward separately.

One of the transport vehicles, which held ten reservists with different injuries, was parked in a circle with a flashing light on the edge.

Wait a moment.

A cylindrical light wall rises from the edge, and there are also words and symbols of unknown meaning on the light wall.

A flash of light.

When the light dissipated, the originally chaotic hall was instantly transformed into a large secret room.

The light here is also dark green, but there are a large number of neatly arranged, coffin-like platforms, like operating tables specially used for surgery.

And on the floor, which was like black ink stone tiles, there were a lot of blood stains and flesh foam remaining, which further confirmed that those coffins were operating tables.

"Tap, step."

Seeing the transport vehicle appearing in this secret room, the royal guards standing around immediately stepped forward. Half of them were holding special melee weapons, which were not super-phase blades, and the other half were holding firearms that were not Gauss rays.

It seems that the Royal Guard hopes to use non-lethal force to transfer the ten reserves who are about to release their stasis.

A rough count showed that about two hundred royal guards were already in place. In the distance, there were also high-ranking guards with more "robust" and "wide" metal bodies, holding Gauss firearms, on alert.

everything's ready.

There was silence in the large secret room.

Buzz…

As the sound of weakening energy resounded, the light representing the stagnant stance flickered like an old-fashioned human light bulb, and finally dissipated completely.

"Ah!! Die! Die to me!!!!"

"Mad! I'll give you metal bug faces!!!"

As soon as the stasis disappeared, all the reserves roared angrily and turned into afterimages. They started fighting with the nearest royal guard with bare hands.

Bang!

Hiss!

In the blink of an eye, many royal guards were torn apart by reserve hands.

Having more agile reactions and a stronger body is nothing. In the eyes of the reservists whose average age is less than 20, it is just recklessness and hard work, no matter what bullshit you are.

Moreover, the reservists without power armor were much faster than when wearing power armor. They really had the upper hand with their brute force.

However, after all, they are a high-level unit responsible for defending the undead overlord. The Royal Guards were initially frustrated but soon reversed the situation.

Buzz-! Buzz--! !

The royal guards waved their weapons in an orderly manner, trying to restrain the unprotected reservists.

call out! call out!

The royal guards armed with non-lethal energy guns used quick calculations to determine the trajectory of the reservists and fired into the "air" in advance.

boom! ! boom! !

The pale green light ball directly hit the six reserve personnel, and at the same time a violent explosion occurred. The smoke immediately swallowed up the six inexperienced young Astartes.

Thump…thump…

Immediately afterwards, the six reservists, who were covered in black, suffered severe burns, and part of their skin was charred, fell to the ground, motionless.

The so-called "non-lethal" weapons are weapons that the Necrons analyze and judge the Astartes' physiques and cannot directly kill with one blow.

If those cannonballs of light green light were shot at ordinary people, they would have vaporized and evaporated long ago.

As for the reserve, no matter how fast his reaction speed is and his skin is like steel, without the protection of power armor, it is like a hero without armor and sword, unable to complete the feat of slaying a dragon.

What's more, the reason why the reserve force is a reserve force is that its combat experience, especially the experience in close combat, is far from enough. Most branches are still in the stage of moving from theory to practice.

! !

"Brother! Ah!! You guys are aliens!!"

The reservist, who had a pair of protruding tiger teeth and was full of beards at a young age, was furious and rushed straight towards the royal guards armed with "non-lethal" firearms.

call out! call out!

boom! boom!

Several rounds of energy bombs hit the reserve soldier, causing violent explosions and choking smoke.

"Get out of here!!"

However, the reserve actually resisted the attack, rushed out of the smoke regardless of his injuries, and burst into the enemy group at a speed that far exceeded the limit.

Bang!

Click!

Bah! !

The reserve soldiers who rushed into the group of guards were like wild wolves charging into the herd of sheep, either tearing them apart with their hands or hitting them with headbutts. Anyway, they were doing their best to tear apart the metal with their bare hands.

"Pooh!"

Of course, when the reservists were pressed, he didn't forget to spit on one of the royal guards.

Phew…!

The highly corrosive saliva directly penetrates and disintegrates the metal head.

Ri~ Phew! !

boom! ! !

However, the guards holding high-power Gauss firearms in the distance chose to open fire directly after seeing that the reserves suddenly broke out and the royal guards responsible for close combat were unable to contain them.

"Forehead…"

After being bombarded by Gauss and realizing that he was gradually disintegrating and about to turn into a pile of debris, the reserve still showed anger and disdain. He even raised his hands to show his middle finger to the royal guards in the distance and laughed and cursed:

"A bunch of rubbish without sex, hahahaha! I still have an afterlife, what about you guys? Hahaha..."

Smiling, the reserve was completely disintegrated by the Gaussian rays, but the pair of middle fingers placed in the air finally turned into debris and fell down.

Moreover, during the outbreak of the reserve force with tiger fangs, the other three brothers also successfully suppressed the royal guards, so in the end they stopped "moving" completely after being exposed to Gauss rays.

The Royal Guards have a certain degree of independent thinking logic, but they cannot understand it. Data analysis shows that their numbers and weapons and equipment are obviously capable of absolute suppression, but what just happened was beyond their processing capabilities.

But they will not be too confused. Instead, after the battle, they will immediately pick up the metal "corpses" that are being repaired independently.

At the same time, they also transferred the six reserve personnel who were seriously injured and unconscious to the operating table.

After completing the designated orders, these royal guards left the secret room with the previous transport vehicle through the teleportation device.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of metal beetles were released from above the secret room, and then divided into six waves and rushed towards the six unconscious reserves.

Following the beetle, there were countless small light spots that were densely packed and emitting green light. Then these light spots, like fireflies, actually penetrated into the reserve's body through the mouth and nose.

Soon, the pores and burn cracks of the six reservists began to emit faint green light. It was unknown what kind of experiment those "fireflies" were conducting.

The beetles attach themselves to the reserves and cut and dissect them.

Logically speaking, such extreme experiments and surgeries would be accompanied by severe pain, but these six reservists were as motionless as if they were dead.

Tread, step.

At this moment, there was the sound of something sharp poking the floor in the secret room.

I saw what looked like an oversized version of the "Three-legged Scorpion" walking towards the coffin platform where six reserve soldiers were lying.

This "three-legged scorpion" has a more refined appearance and is equipped with multiple prosthetic limbs. Together with the special scepter it holds, it shows that it is at least a noble.

In fact, the guy who experimented with the reserves was exactly what Trazin called Xerath, the ruler of the Necron Dynasty on the Morning Star.

Coincidentally, Xerath also calls himself the Enlightener.

As for why it likes experiments and why Trazin has hatred towards it is simple, because when it was still the Necrontyr, the Star God "shared" the knowledge of uploading biological consciousness to living metal. It is true that this can be It was Xerath who led the transformation of this technology from theory to practice.

In other words, apart from the Star God, Xerath can be regarded as the notorious culprit.

Not only that, according to Trazin, this Xerath is extremely passionate and obsessed with unlocking the mysteries of life, and has never seen anything wrong with becoming a mechanical body.

Because Xerath believes that it will eventually become a "god", and the mechanical body is just a transition, and it is very satisfied with this body. There is no need to worry about eating, drinking, sleeping, and only needs to focus on "scientific research."

Xerath did not know some of its little secrets, which had long been revealed by Trazin. At this moment, it was focused on analyzing the structure of the main universe Astartes.

However, when it just approached one of the coffin platforms and was about to take action personally...

"Death...alien...!!"

"Let's go together…!"

"Hahaha!!"

Three of the six reserves suddenly broke away from the metal beetle and rushed towards Xerath with all their strength.

Apparently, he was preparing to die together with Xerath.

However, no matter how much it looks like a technician from the Human Empire, like a powerless "idiot", it is still an undead overlord.

In an instant, Xerath's Scepter released his stasis stance and once again imprisoned the three reserves.

Then it moved its metal fingers, causing the three reservists to "float" back to the coffin platform. Still tilting its head, its one-eyed monitor flashed with light and said:

"Meanless resistance is like meaningless life. Don't try to resist. You will be the cornerstone of the road to becoming a god."

After confirming that all reserves would no longer break free and that analysis and experiments could run normally, Xerath also controlled the previous fireflies and separated some of them to condense in front of it into a screen similar to holographic imaging.

What was displayed on the screen was a picture of Artemis and more than a hundred servants of the gods, efficiently solving the undead army around the tomb and rescuing human captives as much as possible.

Seeing this, Xerath quickly tapped on the screen with his metal fingers and issued an order:

"Wake up the death mark unit and enter the command. One, try to capture the target. Two, if it cannot be captured, eliminate it."

With that said, Xerath returned his attention to studying the Astartes.

However…

call! ! !

Xerath didn't notice that behind him, there was a bloody claw mark heading towards it at high speed.