Warhammer 40: Saviors Emerging from the Bottom

Led by Redmond, the group arrived at a deserted corner of the warehouse, where several scrapped machine tools were piled up.

"These were recently removed from the production line and hadn't been dismantled and recycled yet. Then an epidemic broke out in the nest, so they've been piled up here."

"Shouldn't this kind of thing be handled by priests of the Cult of Mechanics? Why is it here?"

Faced with Matthias's question, Redmond paused for a moment, then said somewhat uncertainly, "Maybe we just haven't had time to deal with it yet, so we left it here?"

Although the other party concealed it well, Xiao Yi could still see a hint of tension on Redmond's face. Combined with the large amount of chromium piled up in the warehouse, he instantly understood something.

As the most widely used general-purpose fuel in the human empire, phosphite has always been strictly controlled as a military item.

Of course, given the empire's terrible level of grassroots governance, it is almost impossible to completely eliminate smuggling of chromium. Unless the scale is particularly large, the higher-ups will turn a blind eye.

But it's not normal for an entire warehouse of chromium to be left unattended here. Xiao Yi could only think of one possibility that could explain everything.

Someone stole the chromium from the Nest City warehouse and placed it in this remote warehouse with almost no security measures. Such a pile of valuable and dangerous items certainly couldn't be left unattended, and Redmond was very likely the security guard hired by the warehouse owner.

After all, compared to the other workers in the corner of the warehouse, Redmond and his brothers were much larger, and they were the only ones carrying guns.

"No matter what, all of these things are mine now."

Xiao Yi recalled the structure of Charles' laser gun in his mind, reached out and touched the abandoned machine tool in front of him. Green light slowly bloomed, wrapped around one corner and cut it off.

"How did he do that?" Redmond stared wide-eyed at what was happening before him; he had never seen such an efficient way of dismantling things.

"Psionic, this guy's a psionicist," Matthias replied casually from beside him.

"I see."

In the ordinary human world, psychic energy can explain everything that is incomprehensible to humans. This mysterious energy from the subspace has a supernatural power to distort reality.

But only Aria, who was also a psychic, knew that what Xiao Yi used was not psychic energy, but another kind of magical power that was hard to describe. It could shape and transform the matter in the real world, making it into the shape that the user desired.

A miracle! This must be a miracle!

When Aria recalled the golden light she saw on Xiao Yi when they first met, she became even more certain of her belief that the man before her was the one sent by the God Emperor to save Bakda Nest City.

And my mission is to do everything in my power to help him complete his task, just as foretold in the prophecy.

At this moment, everyone else's attention was focused on Xiao Yi, and no one noticed the strange blue light that flashed deep in Aria's eyes.

Green energy ripples swept across, causing the bonds between iron atoms to collapse instantly. The originally dense iron block shrank like quicksand, turning into a floating cloud of atoms that shimmered with a silvery-gray light.

Xiao Yi clenched his fist, and the atomic cloud rapidly condensed, transforming into something resembling a laser gun.

"It's done." With that, Xiao Yi aimed at the empty ground beside him and fired a shot, instantly creating a small black crater in the originally smooth ground.

Matthias crouched down and touched the crater in the ground with his finger. The burning heat of the energy traveled through his skin, and the power was even slightly stronger than Charles's original laser gun.

"Disassembling all these machines and manufacturing over 150 laser guns is no problem at all. Combined with our existing weapons, we might be able to put up a fight."

The tungsten will eventually run out. When that happens, the firewall will dissipate, and the plague zombies blocking the outside will swarm in and infect all the survivors inside the warehouse. Rather than sitting here waiting to die, it's better to take a gamble and see if we can break out and rejoin the other teams.

Given the current situation in Xiachao, it's impossible for the governor to remain completely indifferent.

Matthias is now increasingly certain that the reason the hive garrison guarding the bottom hive passage closed the passage and severed the connection between the bottom hive and the lower hive is to prevent the spread of the plague.

Redmond and his men tacitly agreed to the proposal, and they looked at Xiao Yi.

"Is it possible?"

"It's actually a bit difficult."

Making this laser gun was much more difficult than Xiao Yi had imagined. Most of the time, he only needed to make simple changes to the shape and appearance of the materials.

But this time was different. The abandoned machine tool didn't have the materials needed to make laser gun batteries, so he had to rely on his own strength to manually change the structure of atoms and molecules, which resulted in a much greater physical exertion than normal.

If Xiao Yi were to actually handcraft 150 laser guns as Matthias suggested, he felt like his body would be hollowed out.

However, there are alternative solutions.

"Do you have any flamethrowers or anything like that? They're better than laser guns at dealing with plague zombies, and they're easier to make too."

Redmond, who was initially somewhat disappointed, immediately replied, "Yes, yes, we have a flamethrower for disposing of corpses, but there's a problem; sometimes it misfires for no reason."

"Bring it here, let me see if I can fix it."

The high-temperature flames released by the flamethrower can kill the germs carried by the plague zombies to a certain extent. Moreover, it is an area-of-effect weapon that can quickly eliminate large numbers of enemies who like to swarm at you.

Most importantly, there is readily available fuel here, and large quantities of unused titanium are quietly stored in the warehouse.

While everyone waited, Redmond suddenly spoke up, "Would you like something to eat?"

It's clear that Xiao Yi's actions earned these newcomers a lot of respect; otherwise, who would care if they were hungry?

"Anything is fine."

Just then, a piercing scream came from the other end of the warehouse.

"It's Lina's voice, and from that location... Oh no!" Redmond immediately led his men to run towards the direction from which the voice came.

"Let's go take a look; maybe we can be of some help."

The others nodded in agreement with Xiao Yi's suggestion, and they followed him to the open area in the southwest corner of the warehouse.

The female plague zombie, whose abdomen had been pierced by a laser gun, was crawling forward with difficulty on the ground. In front of her was Lina, who had examined Arya earlier; it seemed that she was the one who fired the shot.

But it's strange, why would there be plague zombies in the warehouse?

And it doesn't look like it sneaked in.