Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

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Blood is flowing out of every corpse, from organs such as the eyes and mouth, and even from the pores of the skin. This kind of bleeding phenomenon is obviously abnormal for a moving corpse whose heart has stopped beating.

These streams of blood pool on the ground and then evaporate.

This is video data sent from Grote. Yaoen, who is wearing a guard power armor, is squatting in a factory in enemy-occupied territory to carefully review this data and then analyze it.

But because this phenomenon was so weird, Yaoen couldn't analyze anything after watching it for a long time. He only knew that it was supernatural and abnormal.

This phenomenon also appeared in the war with the heretical sect Lord of Wisdom a few years ago. Almost all the guards had witnessed similar phenomena, but only Yao En knew what this phenomenon represented.

"Ritual." Yaoen muttered to himself as he checked the image.

This should undoubtedly be a sacrilegious ritual. Its function may be to strengthen the isolated heretical armies in the forged world, or it may allow demons to break through the veil between subspace and reality and come to the material universe...

Groat was not the only one to discover the strange phenomenon about blood. Many people in the Tyron army who were fighting in the Forge World also witnessed it.

Yao En then looked at the images.

Some images show that on the battlefield, the blood of both the enemy and the enemy is gathered together, rising into the sky and turning into a blood ball about eight meters in diameter.

Some images show blood gathering together to form a bloody man, and then the bloody man yells at the soldier who took the video, saying various incantations that people cannot understand but can perceive the ferocious and terrifying concept. .

There are various other images as well.

These images were uploaded to the guards by the soldiers who captured them. Yao En believed that Gray should have seen these images, but Gray should just find it strange and tell the soldiers to be more careful, because he did not know about the evil gods about subspace. knowledge.

Nothing useful can be found from the analysis of a single image, but the combination of many images allows Yaoen to realize that these strange phenomena about blood are actually not irregular.

The bioprocessor installed in Yaoen's brain is different from those installed by other guards. This special bioprocessor can process information about Chaos Corruption more properly.

When the bioprocessor sensed a flash of an idea about a pattern in Yaoen's mind, it immediately pursued the idea and assisted Yaoen in his analysis through technical means.

First, a map was displayed in front of Yao En, and then the position of the soldier who sent the video data was marked on the map. At the same time, the content of the video data was also highlighted with the most important paragraphs.

Yaoen stared at the map and analyzed it. He found that the strange blood phenomenon photographed by people at the southernmost and northernmost point of the Forge World was the slightest, and at most it was a bit supernatural.

The most serious phenomenon was photographed by people near the center of the forging world. The image of a bloody man made of condensed blood and roaring at the photographer took place here.

When Yao En thought of this, the bioprocessor marked a large circle on the map, which was the location near the equator of the forging world, and all information about this location was also displayed.

[Areas included in this location: Engine Foundry (giant), Wild Ass Foundry (large). 】

[The ruling sage of the forge world of Agrippina once deployed defenses in the engine foundry (source of information: No. 1 Guard Gray)]

[There were still a small number of troops in this area who could contact the priests of the forging world two days ago, but no new contact signals have been sent out for fifty hours (information source: No. 1 Guard Gray)]

Some of this information was known to Yao En when he first came to the Forge World, some of it was investigated by him in the past few days, and some was shared by Gray in the database after learning more detailed information from the priests.

The bioprocessor also performed an evaluation based on conjecture and information.

[Possibility of the source of chaos corruption: 83%. 】

"Eighty-three percent..." Yaoen looked at the evaluation results with some embarrassment.

The bioprocessor has been conducting many analyzes and evaluations these days. It has marked many areas in the Forge World that are considered to be the source of chaos corruption, but the evaluation results are not high.

The processor is not an oracle. It can only assist in analysis and evaluation based on existing information, so the area that is now marked is also very likely to be a misjudgment.

However, considering that the possibility of 83% is already the highest in the recent evaluation results, Yaoen feels that it is better to spend some time to investigate. If it is fake, it is a waste of time, but if it is true...

"Yaoen, what's going on over there?"

When Yaoen frowned and thought, Gray's voice sounded in his mind.

There was strong interference in the area occupied by the enemy. The communication array on the Skitarii side was unable to send communications into the enemy-occupied area at all, but the communication between the guards was not interfered with.

Yaoen will regularly report to Gray what he has detected these days. Today, he was a little late in analyzing the image data, so Gray took the initiative to contact Yaoen, fearing that something bad might happen to him.

"The enemy's top brass are well hidden." Yao En said helplessly, "Next, I plan to use other means to find them and kill them."

"What means?" Gray asked.

"Special reconnaissance methods." Yaoen said very vaguely, but he already had a detailed plan in mind.

Although I don't know what kind of ritual the enemy is performing, one thing is certain, that is, this kind of ritual also consumes life to perform.

Perhaps you can disguise yourself as a civilian, be kidnapped by the enemy and then taken away. Although this may not necessarily be sent to the enemy's high-level officials, it will definitely be sent to the enemy who is performing the ceremony.

In Yao En's opinion, it is more important to prevent the enemy's ritual from continuing than to carry out beheading tactics.

"Don't take too many risks. Although we are guards, we will die if the reactor in our bodies is destroyed. Don't waste your lives in a war that is bound to win." Gray instructed.

In Gray's opinion, this war is bound to be won, because the Celestial Engine controls the entire galaxy, and the Skitarii's ground forces are already strong, coupled with the Tyron Army, victory is inevitable.

But Yaoen didn't think so. He believed that the enemy's ongoing ritual would definitely turn the tide of the war if it succeeded. This also strengthened his determination to prevent the ritual from proceeding.

"I will go here and sneak in disguised as a civilian or a prisoner of war." Yao En transmitted the coordinates of the foundry marked on the map to Gray. This is the foundry that the ruling sage of the forging world once defended. "If The war is going well, I hope to focus our attack here."

Gray checked the mark. He didn't know what Yao En was going to do, but he knew that Yao En must have a reason, so he immediately agreed: "I will negotiate with the priests and give priority to attacking the foundries you marked, even if they are from the Mechanicus." If they don’t go there, the Tyrone Army will go too.”

Seeing Gray agreeing to come down, Yao En was completely relieved.

Letting large forces attack the foundry is actually a backup method.

In the unlikely event that the ceremony was successful and had dire consequences, at least there would be troops to begin attacking the foundry, without having to waste time gathering and deploying armies.

"Communication ended."

After saying what needed to be said, Yaoen turned off the communication function of the Guard Power Armor, then closed his eyes and thought about removing the armor three times in a row. The Guard Power Armor on his body immediately opened and fell off from his body.

The biological processor still maintains the link between Yaoen's brain and the Guard Power Armor. He can remotely control the Guard Power Armor, call and drive away the Guard Power Armor, and of course has unique functions prepared for covert operations.

After Yaoen seriously thought about driving away three times in a row, a dimensional crack appeared under the feet of the guard's power armor, and the entire power armor fell into it.

Power armor will always exist in the dimensional rift, not affected by time and space. As long as Yaoen needs power armor, the power armor will appear immediately.

After removing his armor, Yaoen looks no different from ordinary people except that he is stronger. Although he has undergone many mechanical transformations, there are no lines left by the transformations on his body.

Yaoen ran towards Foundry Area 4 further north, where the biological processor detected a large number of organisms.