Immortal, My Desperate Journey at 40k

Chapter 884 The Invisible Killer

A breeze carrying radiation blew past the door of the headquarters. An old mortal auxiliary soldier wearing fully enclosed power armor stood at the door of the headquarters. He stared at the thing in front of him that was blown up by the breeze and gently grasped it with his hand. It was a fragment of chitinous shell. This thing was very thin. There were many such things on this battlefield. After the Tyranids were killed by various weapons, they would also leave some fragments. These fragments were like catkins drifting in the wind, and they were everywhere on this planet. It was confirmed that these things could not be recycled into biomass, so there was no need for humans to deal with them.

“I don’t know how long this war will last.”

The veteran of the Mortal Auxiliary Army looked at the piece of shell fragment in his hand. He opened his hands slightly and let the shell fragment float into the sky with the wind. Then he turned to a new recruit of the Mortal Auxiliary Army beside him and said. Although he was speaking to the new recruit of the Mortal Auxiliary Army, the voice of the veteran of the Mortal Auxiliary Army was not loud, as if he was talking to himself.

"It shouldn't take long. The angels and the frontline troops are steadily advancing the front line. According to His Royal Highness the Protector of the Country, this war will be over in just a few days."

The new recruit of the Mortal Auxiliary Army looked at the old soldier in front of him, and he listened to the old soldier's slightly vicissitudes of life voice answering him. This new recruit of the Mortal Auxiliary Army was actually a native of this world. Before the outbreak of this war, he was a soldier of the planetary defense force of this world. Due to the outbreak of this war, he was first recruited by the Astra Militarum led by the Space Wolves, and then after several twists and turns, he became the Mortal Auxiliary Army of the 21st Legion. In fact, he had just joined the Mortal Auxiliary Army of the 21st Legion for one day.

The old soldier of the Mortal Auxiliary Army looked at the recruit. He was listening to the recruit's words. He was about to say something, but at that moment, his expression suddenly changed. He adjusted the plasma rifle in his hand to maximum power, and then raised the plasma rifle in his hand and prepared to pull the trigger at the recruit. At this moment, the recruit also reacted and found something wrong. He looked at the actions of the old soldier in front of him, and then turned around and prepared to aim his plasma rifle behind him. He would not doubt that the old soldier shot at him, although he said he was a new recruit of the Mortal Auxiliary Army of the 21st Legion, but in fact his combat skills and experience were very sufficient. Before the arrival of the 21st Legion, he had been fighting those bugs in this world for a long time.

His combat experience was not much different from those veterans, but just as he was about to turn around and aim the plasma rifle at his back and pull the trigger, he suddenly felt dizzy, and then he saw his body falling to the ground, and then he completely lost consciousness.

The veteran looked at the recruit who was beheaded by an invisible enemy in front of him. Without any hesitation, he opened his personal terminal and spread the news of the enemy attack throughout the command center. Then he pulled the trigger directly in the direction of the recruit's body. The veteran had seen this kind of thing before. He believed that he was facing a Tyranid Likart. This kind of killer that could destroy an entire line silently, this veteran had faced it before. He was a veteran who had participated in the Battle of Kolodo. That war could be said to be a meat grinder.

And he survived that war and is still alive today. It can be said that he can be regarded as one of the most senior veterans in the 21st Legion's Mortal Auxiliary Army. His combat skills and his combat experience are very strong. Moreover, as a veteran of the Mortal Auxiliary Army, he has enjoyed body strengthening surgery. His physical fitness is far inferior to that of the Astartes monk, but it is still better than normal ordinary humans.

Just now he had reacted to the fact that something appeared beside them, but he was still a step too slow and failed to save the life of the recruit. Now, he pulled the trigger in the direction of the recruit's body, hoping to shoot the Licat who had sneaked into the headquarters, but all his shots just passed through the air and hit a pillar in that direction.

Looking at the dark blue plasma bomb that was about to smash the pillar into pieces, the veteran of the Mortal Auxiliary Army raised his plasma rifle with one hand and pulled the trigger towards all around him, even hitting his head. In an instant, the ammunition of the plasma rifle began to fly throughout the space. Countless dark blue ammunition flew around. The high temperature of the plasma bomb when it was about to break through the void distorted the surrounding space. At this moment, the veteran of the Mortal Auxiliary Army also drew out his power sword.

A decomposition force field like lightning appeared on the blade of the power sword. The old soldier held the power sword in one hand and the plasma rifle in the other. He looked at the seemingly empty space around him and was very alert to the Licart who suddenly rushed out. He understood the danger of this creature very well, and also understood its cunningness.

Just as the old soldier was looking at the space around him vigilantly, he suddenly felt a sharp pain on his back. Before he could turn his head to look, a sharp claw pierced through his chest and lifted him up. At the moment when the claw lifted him up, the owner of the claw did not give the old mortal auxiliary army soldier a chance to detonate the glory bullet on his body, and tore the old mortal auxiliary army soldier into pieces in an instant.

Just as that thing was tearing the veteran of the Mortal Auxiliary Army into pieces, a series of plasma ammunition and explosive bombs instantly covered the veteran's body. The veteran's body was broken into pieces by the plasma ammunition and explosive bombs, but the existence that killed the veteran was not harmed by these things. At least no Tyranid flesh and blood flew out of the space covered by various ammunition, as if the veteran was killed by an invisible force. "Stop shooting, turn on the life detection equipment to the maximum power, and turn on the spectral scanner in the tactical eyepiece to pull out the Licat."

The captain of the time travelers stationed in the headquarters and responsible for protecting the headquarters looked at the body of the old soldier that was smashed into pieces. He quickly issued a ceasefire order, and then asked the mortal auxiliary troops and time travelers to turn on the life detection equipment on their power armor and the spectral scanners on their tactical eyepieces. This was some experience summed up by the 21st Legion after fighting with the Terran Empire for so long. For the experience of invisible killers like Licart, with high-power life detection equipment and scanners that can capture spectral changes, it is theoretically possible to catch something like Licart.

Just when the traverser gave the order to start searching for Licart, suddenly, the traverser's captain's head seemed to be grabbed by something, and then the thing that grabbed the traverser's captain's head instantly crushed it into pieces. The whole process was very fast, even less than a second. In the eyes of the mortal auxiliary army, the traverser's captain's head seemed to have exploded suddenly, and in the eyes of the traversers, they witnessed with their own eyes the whole process of how the traverser's captain was killed by that thing.

That thing was definitely not a Licart, at least it was impossible for a Licart to do such a thing. With the reaction speed and physical strength of the New Astartes, it was impossible for that Licart to approach a Time Traveler Captain silently. At the same time, it was impossible for it to destroy the head of a Resurrection Terminator power armor so easily. That thing was definitely not a Licart, but a Tyranid creature they had never seen before.

And just when the time travelers realized that the thing was not Licart, the thing had already started killing among the crowd of time travelers. The thing was still invisible when killing, and no one could see it. Even the spectral scanner on the tactical eyepiece could not see it, as if the thing was an invisible thing. The thing could touch them, but they could not touch it at all. This was a one-sided massacre. The combat capabilities of the time travelers were completely useless in this battle, because they could not see or touch the thing at all, and the time travelers did not even have the reaction time to avoid the attack of this thing.

Even the Astartes could not fight against this thing, let alone the mortal auxiliary troops who followed these time travelers. Fortunately, the time travelers reacted quickly. They immediately ordered the mortal auxiliary troops to retreat and then tried to fight against this thing, but it was useless. The only thing they could do was to delay time for the mortal auxiliary troops and delay the arrival of Wang Ming.

When they just realized that the thing was not Licart, they had already reported what happened here to Wang Ming through their personal terminals. Through the cameras on their helmets, everything they experienced here could be reported to Wang Ming in real time. Wang Ming also immediately learned about what happened outside the headquarters, and after learning about this, Wang Ming immediately set off to outside the command center.

You know, this kind of command center is established in the hive city. It is impossible for ordinary Tyranid units to sneak into the hive city through the various monitoring equipment in the hive city. This thing is definitely a new thing made by the Great Devourer. If the number of such things is too large, it will definitely sneak into the hive city and pose a huge threat to the imperial civilians and those imperial troops.

Leman Russ and the Necromancer also went there with Wang Ming. In fact, the two guys already knew what had just happened. After all, Wang Ming was projected onto the holographic projection screen when he was using his personal terminal. Leman Russ felt that his brother needed some help with this new enemy, and the Necromancer simply wanted to study this new Tyranid creature. Now, the Necromancer's pride had been completely crushed by the Great Devourer. His so-called tactics and methods of fighting were completely useless in this world. So this guy changed his strategy and began to study the Tyranids. He is now studying the body structure of the Tyranids and the types of the Tyranids.

It hopes to study this creature that can destroy the galaxy thoroughly, and then come up with a set of tactics to deal with these things. However, Wang Ming and Leman Russ expressed their opinions on other such ideas. As long as it is happy, it is fine. After all, they really can't bear to tell a Necromancer who has had all his pride completely destroyed by the Tyranids. In fact, its tactical research is of no use. The Tyranids will not be completely defeated by a single tactic. These things will constantly change their tactics under the command of the hive will. All targeted tactics are actually useless and are just temporary delaying tactic.

Just like the tactics currently being carried out in this world, the tactics used in this world, whether it was the initial use of nuclear bombs to wash the entire world, making the entire world full of various radiations to stop the Zerg offensive, or now using various neutron bombs as a slow-moving barrage to allow the traversers to clean up the remaining Zerg forces, these so-called tactics are actually only temporary. For the Tyranids, there is no tactic that can be used against them all the time.

And just when Wang Ming and his team arrived at that location, an entire company of traversers had been killed by the Tyranid creature, and only twelve were left. The Tyranid creature's combat ability was very strong. The traversers' power armor was like a thin layer of paper in front of it. Its sharp claws could easily tear the traversers' power armor into pieces, and the traversers could not avoid its attacks or even fight back. Under this circumstance, the traversers had done their best to hold on for so long.

After all, facing an enemy that cannot be seen, hit, or avoided, the traversers can only try their best to keep distance in this space to delay the time for it to kill them. Every time a traverser is killed by that thing, the other traversers will immediately move away from the place where the traverser is standing in order to keep distance and slow down the speed at which the Tyranid creature kills them.