Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 769 08.768: "Snow Wind Thunder's Resistance"

The shrill scream broke the silence, causing the tall and fat man wearing round-frame glasses to involuntarily hold the fence tightly.

Sweat dripped down his round double chin and fell on the sandstone buttress with a plop.

"That's our companion. We must speed up our action! Open the docking port and allow the lifeboat to dock into the port." The tall and fat Captain Kudo gave a decisive order after careful consideration.

"Captain, this is too dangerous! We might be attacked because of this, not to mention that the assets of the von Valancius dynasty cannot be lost." The first mate looked worried and shook his head vigorously in objection.

"'The Yukikaze Raikage will protect everyone'. This is the spiritual belief that successive captains have upheld since this ship left the dock." Captain Kudo looked at the first mate earnestly and said, "Open the docking station. We can't just sit there and do nothing when someone calls for help."

"We are the last hope of the fleet. I hope this move will not ruin everything." Although the first mate looked reluctant, he still obeyed the order and issued a command to open the docking station.

One after another, lifeboats rushed out from the destroyed transport ships in a panic, like a school of frightened fish, rushing desperately towards the Yukikaze Leixiang, a giant space-class transport ship.

"Has the distress signal been sent? We urgently need support from the Imperial Navy." The captain turned and asked the communicator.

"It has been sent out, and the coordinates are updated every half hour. But so far, we have not received any response from the naval patrol." The communicator responded quickly.

"Notify the other remaining transport ships to redouble their efforts and sail to the next Mandeville Point!" the captain ordered again.

Just as Captain Kudo was boosting the morale of the crew below, the sound array suddenly erupted with a piercing electrical noise, obviously being invaded.

A cold and gloomy voice came out, and the rigid High Gothic language was full of intimidation and threat: "You now have two futures, one of which is to simply surrender and become our slaves, monkeys!
As for the other, after you put up a feeble resistance, you become our slaves and I will skin you alive!"

"No, don't even think about it!" Captain Kudo wiped the sweat from his forehead and shouted to the crew below, "The ship's backbone defense cannons are on alert all around. If you find an alien warship, open fire immediately!"

Just as he finished speaking, a shadow as sharp as a blade suddenly flashed out from the dark clouds in the distance.

Immediately afterwards, a row of torpedoes, like angry fish, fired towards the Xuefeng Leixiang.

"Torpedo!!!!" The panicked shouts instantly resounded throughout the bridge dome.

"Full left rudder!!! Turn on the starboard high-energy steering booster!" Captain Kudo shouted orders to the helmsman.

The huge void ship, although clumsy in shape, is not slow.

The boosters were turned on, and the entire 12-kilometer-long ship swept across the air like a nimble giant beast.

The once huge charter fleet now has only a dozen merchant ships left, most of which were damaged and lagged behind the Yukikaze Thunder and were not affected by this sudden sweep.

The torpedoes approached rapidly, two of them were successfully avoided, one hit a standard transport ship along the way by accident, and another was intercepted by the sparse close-in defense laser cannons on the transport ship.

Miraculously, the huge Yukifure-Raikyou escaped serious damage.

However, despite all the efforts, a peculiarly shaped bladed torpedo hit the ship's stern engine hard.

Strangely, the thunder did not cause a huge explosion, but instead knocked a large hole around the ship's engine.

A black, bubbling slurry as thick as raw promethium gushed into it.

These thick slurries are extremely corrosive and can dissolve human bodies and metals in an instant.

They poured into the hull and wrapped around the energy supply lines as if they had intelligence.

Gradually, after a section was attached to the energy supply pipeline, the thick slurry that poured into other compartments, as if summoned by something, shrank to the vicinity of the energy pipeline and greedily stuck to it.

"Engine No. 3 shows insufficient power!" The fourth officer in charge of the power system anxiously reported to the captain.

The captain watched as transport ships passed through the glass of his bridge, surpassing the huge transport ships of the Xuefeng Leixiang. As transport ships, these ships were helpless in the face of the plight of their friendly ships - they lacked weapons and had weak defenses. They could only flee for their lives, at most receiving some scattered lifeboats, and then continued to fire meaninglessly with their only macro cannon.

The Xuefengleixianghao was obviously lagging behind, and at this time, lagging behind often meant death.
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"What's going on? Why is the speed slowing down? Let the damage control team check the power supply immediately!" the captain asked anxiously. "Be careful! Enemy shells!"

"Energy supply should be diverted to the void shield system first!"

With two bangs, ripples exploded on the void shield on the surface of the universe-class massive transport ship.

A crescent-shaped energy beam came from nowhere and hit the void shield. The reading on the void shield generator was approaching its tolerance threshold.

The enemy was elusive and after each round of firing, they quickly hid in the dark gas cloud.

The alarm sounded in the cabin and the red warning lights flashed wildly.

"Passengers on board please remain calm. The ship is resisting an attack. Please do not cause a commotion (bang! sizzle)..."

The crowded cabin was filled with immigrants heading to Abyss Port.

Men, women, young and old, all of them are civilian laborers who come from other worlds and seek a livelihood in the land of opportunities in the hazy star field in the north of the empire with a desire for a new life.

For various reasons, they received a subpoena to the hub planet of Abyssport, looking forward to setting foot on the starry sea, but unfortunately they encountered a brutal attack by aliens on the way.

Ships were destroyed and they witnessed horrific massacres and enslavement.

A few lucky ones boarded the escape pods on the transport ship, and amidst the chase and intimidation, rushed out of the ship that was about to be occupied by the alien boarding force.

But who could have thought that just after escaping from the tiger's mouth, he would fall into a pack of wolves.

"Mom, the boat is shaking, I'm scared." A girl in a plain dress wrapped in a blanket, the scarlet light of the warning light reflected in her frightened eyes. She looked around nervously, her little hands tightly clutching her mother's coarse cloth.

They had just come out of the lifeboat and were waiting for accommodation in the temporary cabin set aside for refugees on the ship.

The woman next to her was holding a younger child in one hand and a breastfeeding baby in her right hand.

She still had wounds on her body and didn't know what to do in the face of the chaotic scene. She could only find a corner to sit down in the crowd that had already started to get agitated and obey the crew's management.

Buzz! ! ——A powerful whistle suddenly sounded throughout the ship.

"Captain! Void shields are overloaded!"

The force field surrounding the giant ship burst like a fragile bubble, and Xuefeng could only face the malicious void nakedly.

Captain Kudo clutched the hem of his clothes tightly, looking into the dark void around him, a trace of cold sweat slowly running down his temples.

"Call the mercenaries, and arm all crew members." He stared vigilantly at the ominous darkness surging in the surrounding airspace and gave orders to his crew members.

Compared to being captured alive, dying in battle might be an easier option.

"Call to arms! Call to arms! All crew members to arms! Mercenaries to battle positions!"

The spare weapons depot was pried open with a crowbar, and the crew members carried out box after box of automatic rifles that were covered in dust and cobwebs and whose origin and date were unknown.

Magazines that had been pre-stuffed with caseless bullets for the automatic rifles were distributed to the crew, with each person having only one magazine.

The boatswain took out a handful of shells from his bag and stuffed them into the hands of the crew members who were queuing up to receive their weapons and ammunition. The mate then handed each of them two empty magazines and asked the crew members to load them themselves.

Firearms, magazines, and ammunition are kept separately, on the one hand for safety reasons, and on the other hand, transport ships are not warships, and if magazines are filled with bullets for a long time, the magazine spring will lose its elasticity, increasing the failure rate and loss.

"God bless us." A crew member was stuffing caseless bullets into the magazine of an automatic rifle with trembling hands. His wrist was shaking more and more violently. A bullet was trembling towards the loading port, but it took a long time to go in and finally fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)