Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 363 Magical Flying Machine

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A Lancer was galloping through the passage.

The Randan aliens knew that no matter how many troops they deployed in the underground industrial area and mining facility passages of the fortress, they could not stop the attackers who were heading straight for the mining facilities. Therefore, they chose to do the last thing they could do, which was to use the gates that were located at regular intervals in the passage to delay a little time.

The Lancer holds his lance in front of him, using the lance's tip, which can store destructive energy, to break through obstacles.

At the moment when the gun tip touched the gate during the charge, the accumulated energy was released and blew the gate to pieces.

The helpless move of the Randan alien was something that even the disgusting attackers could not do. One gate after another was broken through, and the speed of the Lancer was getting faster and faster.

Until finally the knight driver in the cockpit saw the results of the terrain scan ahead, and drove the knight's body to turn to the right, with his front legs sticking out in front of him. The entire war machine slid more than ten meters on the ground and finally slowly stopped.

The knight's toes touched a piece of ore, and the last bit of inertia pushed the ore to roll slowly on the ground and fall into the abyss.

Qin Xia, who had accelerated towards the mining facility after ending the communication with Ryan, jumped up from the heavy armor on top of the knight, landed steadily, and looked around.

This is the mouth-like pipe of the mining facility.

The inside of the pipe also looks like the mouthparts of some creature, with circles of fang-like structures extending downwards.

Apart from the fang-like structure, there are no other traces of man-made objects inside the pipe, which adds a certain sense of nature.

The internal space is so large that Qin Xia cannot visually estimate values ​​such as the side length. It is so large that it seems as if it was created by the magic of nature at the birth of the planet, rather than a pipeline structure created by an intelligent creature that is merely used to extract the resources of the planet.

When Qin Xia saw the knight rushing out of the passage just now, the word "terrain" came to his mind.

Qin Xia approached the edge and looked down. His eyes, which had been strengthened by the superhuman transformation surgery, could not see the end. Only his psychic vision could allow him to see clearly the extinguished core of the planet at the deepest part.

"This planet is dead." Qin Xia frowned and murmured. At this time, he was more convinced that this planet was forcibly anchored in the real world by psychic magic.

After waiting for a while.

From the back of the passage came the roar of tanks, the dull thump of knight mecha footsteps on the metal ground, and the stomping of groups of space marines as they advanced.

Qin Xia looked back, and the knight mecha that carried him here also turned around.

A small number of light infantry and fast-moving armored vehicles from the First Regiment approached.

"Others are guarding the various traffic routes leading to the mining facilities." Kiel immediately reported to Qin Xia as he jumped off the top of the armored vehicle.

The enemies between the industrial area and the mining facilities have not been cleared out, so someone needs to defend it.

Because the "Whirlwind Torpedo" had been carried into the atmosphere of Randan III by a transport plane, in order to quickly execute Ryan's star-destroying plan, the First Regiment had to speed up, so Kiel adopted a more radical and risky tactic, which was to let a small number of fast-moving soldiers follow Qin Xia to the mining facilities, and leave some people in place to defend at each fork in the road.

"Tell the people who stayed behind that they can rest and restock their ammunition." Qin Xia said, "I used my psychic vision to see that the Randan aliens under the fortress did not prepare for an attack, but were all transferred to the interior of the fortress to compete with friendly forces for control of the fortress."

Kiel was puzzled: "Doesn't the Randan alien realize that mining facilities are the key to the war?"

"It seems that they are not aware of it. There may be other reasons." Qin Xia raised his hand and tapped the helmet. "The brain structure of the aliens is different from ours. Don't try to figure out their thoughts. Anyway, the current situation is favorable to us. It is better for them not to compete for the mining facilities."

Kiel conveyed the order and then began to command the knight mechas, armored vehicles and space marines to deploy here.

After the "Whirlwind Torpedo" arrives, they will stay here until the Whirlwind Torpedo is deployed, even if no aliens appear in the meantime, such as the weird alien assassins that can travel through dimensions... they still have to deploy defenses.

"Head count."

"From now on, anyone other than us who approaches here, even if they are friendly forces or your battle brothers, must not be allowed to approach here."

After some deployment, Kil told the soldiers present the most important thing.

Kiel took into account the possibility that the Randan aliens could disguise themselves as anyone, such as spy aliens or something like that. Although the First Legion's information about the Randan aliens did not include such things, fighting against a powerful alien alliance like the Randan meant that one had to consider things that they did not otherwise have to consider.

"The whirlwind torpedoes have arrived outside the fortress, and the First Legion's Dreadwing warriors have already met the transport plane." A Space Marine carrying a communicator suddenly turned around and reported to Qin Xia, "The transport plane will fly in directly, and we don't need to go to meet it."

Qin Xia nodded silently, turned around and sat on a larger piece of ore and waited.

"Transport plane?" Kiel said in the encrypted communication channel, "The people of the First Legion seem to be crazy! Let a transport plane carrying whirlwind torpedoes approach the surface under anti-aircraft fire, and then fly into the underground cavity where the fortress is located?"

"He flew in against the anti-aircraft fire network and the Randan troops who were attacking the underground cavity, and was successfully picked up by the Terrorwing gang?"

"It's a miracle of the Emperor that this transport plane can fly down."

Kiel became more and more dissatisfied as he spoke.

"I just don't understand why the Lion King's strategy is so shitty. It's like he knows what his brother's adoptive father is capable of but doesn't know exactly! Why can't the whirlwind torpedoes use psionic teleportation?"

Kiel is the calmest of the World Eaters, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a temper.

The World Eaters are always irritable.

Kiel could have endured it, but the fact that the torpedoes were transported by transport planes, and the fact that there was no fighting at the moment, made Kiel no longer tense, and he vented his previously accumulated dissatisfaction in a few words.

After saying this, Kiel regained his composure.

"..." Qin Xia said nothing. He thought, you have information gap.

Although Qin Xia also felt that the Lion King was really crazy for not allowing the whirlwind torpedo to be transmitted, the whirlwind torpedo was not a torpedo at all, but an ancient psychic bomb. This kind of thing that was easily activated by psychic energy was placed in a psychic shielding force field. Even if the emperor came, he would have to arrange for a transport plane to transport the bomb.

Besides, the First Legion has a lot of good things, and the ancient relics are even more diverse. The transport plane must not be something used by modern people. It can directly enter the atmosphere from outer space, pass through anti-aircraft firepower and pass over the enemies attacking the Terrorwing... Maybe it is a transport plane equipped with a void shield.

Ryan’s strategy seemed puzzling before, but now it seems to make sense.

Thinking of this, Qin Xia suddenly recalled the impression of the First Legion as "crazy people" in the eyes of others ten thousand years later, that is: always doing things that others find unclear, and sometimes abandoning their friendly forces or even attacking them as if they were bewitched by chaos.

Perhaps it is the same as the current situation. They have their own logic based on their existing cognition, and what they do is naturally incomprehensible to others.

During Qin Xia's silence, the air flow around him changed.

Then, before they knew it, a flying vehicle gradually appeared in front of Qin Xia and Kiel.

The aircraft was stably suspended one centimeter above the ground. It had no wings and looked like a black container, slightly smaller than the passage that could accommodate the Knight Mecha.

Then a crack appeared at the tail of the "container". The crack gradually expanded, and a team of Dark Angels wearing Terminator power armor jumped out from the dark space inside the crack.

Looking at this thing that suddenly appeared in front of him, Kil felt it was powerful and wanted to take a picture of what he saw, but he found that the electronic system inside the power armor was temporarily paralyzed.

"Inside here is the Whirlwind torpedo."

The leading Terminator jumped down and walked towards Qin Xia. When he passed by Kiel, he gave Kiel a meaningful look, but he didn't say anything. His eyes immediately fell on Qin Xia again. "My lord." The Terminator stood in front of Qin Xia and posed the Sky Eagle Salute within the range of movement allowed by the tactical dreadnought armor. "We have completed our mission, and the next thing is up to you. The Primarch said you know what to do."

Qin Xia sat on the ore, staring at the dark and deep space inside the aircraft, and nodded.

Then a container about ten meters high and twelve meters long was "spit out" by the aircraft.

The container carried by the aircraft is larger than the aircraft itself.

Qin Xia looked at the container intently.

The inside of the container is dark and empty. In short, nothing can be seen. This is the effect of the psychic shielding field.

The container can be seen clearly, which shows that the container itself is just an ordinary container.

It's a bit like gold in a plastic bag.

"This is a new type of detector." The Terminator took a look at the "Whirlwind Torpedo" container, then took out something that looked like a data pad, "It can detect people controlled by the Sloth Alien. It is the product of the research on the Sloth Alien you captured alive earlier... The Lion King believes that if you have this thing, you can ensure that nothing goes wrong next time."

Qin Xia looked at Kiel.

Kiel stepped forward and took the detector. Each green dot on it represented a person present.

The Terminator saluted again.

"How are Luther and the others doing?" Qin Xia suddenly remembered Luther who blocked Ran Dan's alien reinforcements in the only passage in the underground cavity. Now the person he had just seen Luther was in front of him, so he didn't have to open his psychic vision to see again.

"The situation... the situation over there is not very good." The Terminator said, "The intensity of the battle over there is many times that of the battle over here in the fortress. Someone originally suggested that the Lion King dispatch the Sons of Leman Russ to provide support, but the Lion King refused."

"Why can't they just enter the fortress to defend?" Qin Xia asked again.

"Latest information." The Terminator replied, "The fortress began to collapse for unknown reasons, causing the Lion King's original plan to let Dreadwing delay until the control of the fortress was taken away and then enter the fortress to continue delaying time to be abandoned."

After that, the Terminator paused, then remembered something and reminded Qin Xia: "After you complete the whirlwind torpedo deployment mission, you may have to use teleportation to leave Randan No. 3. When we came here, all the passages leading to the underground were blocked by ruins."

The Terminator looked back at the strange transport plane and thought that if it weren't for this thing, there would be no way to deliver the bomb that could not be transported.

"You guys go and help me convey a message to the Lion King. I will ensure that the mission is completed and that Terrorwing does not suffer too much loss." Qin Xia said.

Hearing this, the Terminator was stunned for half a second, then saluted Qin Xia with Caliban's knight etiquette.

All the Terminators turned back and boarded the transport plane.

The transport plane disappeared again in front of the World Eaters and left the underground fortress by an unknown means.

As they left, the electronic systems inside the armor of the Space Marines except Qin Xia began to work again, communications were restored, and the HUD in the tactical eyepiece reappeared.

Apparently they have a way of temporarily shutting down electronic systems for confidentiality purposes.

"That thing is not piloted by anyone." Qin Xia thought to himself. He found that the only life forms in the transport plane were the Terminators, which meant that the transport plane was not piloted by a pilot.

There is only one answer - the transport plane uses abominable intelligence, or AI.

However, the First Legion’s transport plane is not the point, and there is no point in coveting it. Qin Xia lowered his head and thought about Luther.

Considering Luther's importance, the good impression he had left on me, and the fact that they were all friendly forces...

"Captain Kiel." Qin Xia looked up and said, "You deploy the whirlwind torpedoes to the ground of Randan No. 3. I will go to support the friendly forces. When I receive the order to complete the deployment, I will send you and the people in the fortress away from Randan No. 3... As for the detonation, I will do it myself."

Kiel saluted and accepted the order.

Qin Xia disappeared in front of everyone.

The knights began to carry the containers.

A Fire Knight walked to the edge of the pipe, with his back to the endless abyss below, and the engineering module installed on his back began to build a cableway.

At this time, the captain of the first company, Kahn, arrived with his captain's guards. As they left the armored vehicle carrying them, they said to Kiel, "A group of aliens have infiltrated from behind us."

Kiel glanced at the detector.

The detector only displays all humans, including Kahn, which are green marks representing humans.

Mind control marks, alien marks, none of them appeared.

"By the way, what happened to the communication?" Kahn asked loudly. "I brought people here immediately after the communication was cut off. Now the communication has been restored."

Kiel did not answer Kahn's question, thinking that the alien team might not have arrived here yet, so he ordered Kahn: "You defend here."

Kahn nodded, walked to the container that was being dragged by the knight mecha, walked over and knocked twice.

Guard members join the defense team.

"You're a warrior, not an engineer," Kiel said to Kahn, who was staring at the container.

Kahn shrugged: "Just to take a look. After all, I have never seen a whirlwind torpedo in my life."

Kiel pointed toward the guards in silence.

Kahn immediately walked over obediently.

The knight mechas dragged the container to the edge of the abyss and worked together to open the container.

Kiel looked over.

Inside the container was a warhead and nothing else.

Kiel had seen things like cyclone torpedoes in the possession of friendly forces, so he could recognize at a glance that this was the thing at the front end of a cyclone torpedo. The entire huge cyclone torpedo on a battleship was actually mostly a propeller.

However, this whirlwind torpedo does not have the emblem of the Dark Angels Legion, but the emblem of the White Scars Legion.

Kiel didn't expect that this thing was actually coordinated by the First Legion with the Fifth Legion.

"I thought the First Legion had some tricks up their sleeve."

Kiel felt disappointed.

"It turns out it's really just a whirlwind torpedo."

(End of this chapter)