Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 67 The Team Seeking Death

"Brother, can we get back alive?" Harper asked Barry who was walking beside him.

Harper and Barry joined the team voluntarily. Both of them were refugees who escaped from the lower nest to the upper nest.

When they were watching their children dying of illness in despair, it was the Rogue Merchant's medic who saved their children. When they were unable to survive due to lack of food, it was the kind-hearted Rogue Merchant who gave them rations to sustain their lives.

If Lord Ludwig was still a traveling trader, he would not care about these people from the lower nest.

In order to repay the kindness of the wandering traders, they chose to join the army.

It has to be said that after enduring so much suffering, even things that Gao Yi thinks are insignificant or even what he should do are a great blessing to these people.

When Gao Yi recruited people who were willing to join the Bottom Nest with a high reward, they joined without hesitation. All of these 100 people volunteered, not only to repay the favor, but also for the promised reward from the wandering merchant.

That would allow their children to enter Zhongsi College, and they didn't want their children to stay in Xiachao anymore.

The team advanced towards the bottom nest in battle formation. The upper nest was a different world from the lower nest, and the lower nest was also very different from the bottom nest.

If the lower nest still looks like human society, then the bottom nest is a complete garbage dump and hell.

Countless garbage and industrial waste are dumped here from top to bottom.

The team continued to advance and recorded detailed scans of the roads and environments they passed through. This information would be transmitted back through the auxiliary system within the combat suit and drawn into a tactical map.

Fortunately, the night vision system on their combat uniforms allows them to move in the dark and gloomy base nest.

From time to time, severely mutated creatures would pass by them, and many plants that they had never seen before were produced in the pipes.

The mutant rats that looked like calves even dared to gather around them.

He put away the chainsaw sword, and saw the corpses of more than a dozen mutant rats lying before him.

Harper looked at the tactical panel on his mask. The interface displaying the radiation value was constantly flashing alarms. Such a high level of radiation was dozens of times higher than that of the lower nest. This was one of the reasons why there were so many mutants in the lower nest.

They are the only ones who can survive in this environment.

The bottom nest is like hell and is not a place where normal people can live.

"I don't know how these bottom nest bastards are able to survive here."

"Stop chatting, pay attention to your surroundings, and always pay attention to the friend-or-foe identification system on your tactical mask!"

"Yes! Captain!"

Harper immediately responded to the team leader's reminder.

Harper knew that the captains of each team were veterans of the dynasty, and these soldiers were willing to sacrifice their lives for the Rogue Traders without any promise. Harper took the reminders of these veterans very seriously. He came in with the determination to die, but that didn't mean he really wanted to die.

When passing a fork in the road, Harper discovered a life signal on the mask that did not belong to their team.

"Captain! I have someone here!"

As the tactical mask magnified the figure in the distance, several ragged garbage men were busy not far away. They were collecting mutated mushrooms growing on the pipes. These fungi were also an important source of food for the lower nest people.

"Are you the master from up there? Please give us some food and water! We can provide you with information and guide you!"

"Captain! It's the garbage man from the lower nest!!" Harper reported to the captain.

However, the captain immediately walked up to Harper and pushed him away, then opened fire on the dozen or so garbage men in front of him.

The spike bullets instantly tore their bodies apart and also detonated the bombs on these people. The combat uniforms withstood the impact of the explosion, but the scene in front of him made Harper stand there in a daze.

"Soldier! Have you forgotten the Rogue Trader's orders? All life in the Lower Nest is an enemy! There are no civilians here!" The captain scolded Harper.

Gao Yi didn't think there were any normal humans in the lower nest. Would the cunning chicken let any ordinary person go? In order to light up the psychic lighthouse, you must have enough cunning believers.

"keep going!"

The team explored forward again, but the countless forks in the road and the abandoned spaces seemed to have no end, and no Downnesters were found in the settlements in some empty spaces.

But the traces of life here indicate that many people lived here not long ago.

If the system hadn't recorded their route, they would definitely have gotten lost here. "We can't go any further! We've already gone deep enough. If we go any deeper, we won't be able to transmit information back. Turn around and explore other forks!"

The signal connection between the combat suit and the lower nest has begun to become intermittent, and the distance between them has reached its limit.

But just as they turned around, a large number of life signals suddenly popped up on the tactical masks, and these life signals were approaching them rapidly.

"Enemy attack! Defensive formation! No one is allowed to retreat! For the dynasty, for the Rogue Traders, the God-Emperor is watching us!"

The captain who saw this scene immediately gave orders. The number of the enemy was terrifying.

The only way to survive is to suppress the enemy with firepower, and if someone runs away out of fear, it will only hasten the death of everyone.

Countless thieves were rushing towards here in the darkness, and they started shooting before they even saw Harper's team of soldiers.

Physical projectiles and lasers fell like raindrops. The soldier at the front relied on the power of his combat uniform to directly erect the explosion-proof shield he carried with him at the front of the team, blocking most of the attacks.

But the opponent even had grenade launchers and plasma weapons in his hands.

The medics didn't even have time to repair the explosion-proof shield because the plasma weapon was too powerful.

"Hold on! Cover each other's fire! Kill these aliens!"

The enemy's figures also appeared under the light of the tactical flashlight, and the purple heads looked particularly strange. The C-14 began to roar, and its powerful penetrating power was fully demonstrated at this time.

Each spike would penetrate several enemies before losing its momentum, but the half-blood thieves on the opposite side seemed endless.

As long as they are not completely dead, they will continue to attack. A machine gunner was hit in the face by a plasma. When the medic wanted to treat him, he found that he was already dead.

Harper didn't know how many mutants he had killed, but the enemy still seemed endless, and as his ammunition ran out, the mutants were getting closer and closer.

"Firebat! Stop them with flames!"

The fire bat stood up, and plasma flames instantly filled the entire passage.

Ordinary flesh would be severely burned even if it just came close to these flames, and the entire passage was filled with the smell of burning and barbecued meat.

Just when everyone thought the sea of ​​fire before them could give them enough time to catch their breath, a strange noise came from the pipe above their heads.

Something is crawling at an extremely fast speed!

The abandoned metal pipe was easily cut and torn apart by a sharp claw, and then a pure-blooded chicken thief rushed out of the pipe.

He waved his chitin claws and easily cut through the protection of the Fire Bat combat suit. These pure-blooded chicken thieves not only had nano-scale single-molecule claws, but also a decomposition force field similar to that of power weapons was distributed on their claws.

Even the Astartes' Terminator armor was no match for the claws of these pureblooded thieves.

It's mixed with pure gold.

Harper watched in despair as the captain, who had attempted to finish off the monster with his chainsword, was easily cut in half.

The pure-blooded chicken thief was just waiting for their ammunition to run out, and his appearance reduced the team's members by more than half in a few seconds. After killing the nearest soldiers, the chicken thief also looked at the surviving Harper.

Harper looked at the chicken thief's bloody mouth, which seemed to be smiling, as if mocking their weakness.

And this expression gave Harper a surge of courage from somewhere.

"Alien! Don't underestimate humans! For the Rogue Traders! For the Monget Dynasty!" He raised his chainsword and launched a final charge.

A second later, Ji Zei was still alive, but he had an extra wound on his body caused by the chainsaw sword. Harper and his comrades fell to the ground. They completed their mission with their lives and let Gao Yi know how dangerous the bottom nest was now.

At this moment, on the position outside, Gao Yi watched the life signals of all the teams disappear, as well as the pictures they sent back before they died. He also understood the degree of danger of the bottom nest at this time.

Many of these passages leading to the depths of the bottom nest were very narrow, making it impossible for his army to deploy. If he could not take advantage of his firepower, then he could only fill it with a large number of lives like the team just now.

"It would be great if we could know where the original Genestealer leader is!
Damn you, Ludwig! How come you didn't notice this during your time in office? These cunning guys have everything, from explosives to melta, plasma, and PDFs. It's really hard to deal with them!

The fighting capacity of this group of cunning thieves is even better than that of the PDFs before they changed their outfits, not to mention that they are not afraid of death, and the environment of the hive city also shortens the fighting distance and expands their advantage.

(End of this chapter)