Warhammer 40k: Melee Warriors

The axe came from a tribe in Faya. It had been sitting in a warehouse for a long time and had developed a thick layer of rust. It took half a day to polish the rust off the axe.

Taking advantage of the moment of Hunter's terror, Koji changed his move, his axe grazing the disintegrating force field and aiming straight for Hunter's head, striking him squarely between the eyebrows.

The axe cleaved the facial bone horizontally and pierced the bio-engineered brain, which was soaked in drugs and equipped with many cables. This blow was not enough to subdue the hunter, but an intense fear and sense of submission pierced through the blade and attacked his brain.

The Hunter screamed and collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

Komi was about to deliver another blow with his axe, but at that moment, Faya called out to him, "Komi!"

Upon closer inspection, all that could be seen was that Faust had torn off one of Austa's arms and two laser cannons from his corpse, and had also punched a large hole in his abdomen, with his internal organs and blood flowing out.

Faust's situation wasn't much better. As a dead man, Austa's attacks were too fierce, completely driven by a desire to fight to the death. If it weren't for Faust's more advanced power armor, Austa could have taken him down with him.

Seeing that Austa's combat power was decreasing, Komi charged towards Faust with a murderous aura.

This feeling was particularly strong. Faust felt like a rabbit with a broken leg, being stared at by a hungry tiger. A chill crept up his spine and whispered the death knell in his ear.

He managed to turn his gaze away from Austa's relentless pursuit, only to see not a filthy mutant, but a world-destroying butcher who had emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Faust was so frightened that he lost his composure and tried to beg for mercy, but he found that he could not get the words out of his throat. He could only watch helplessly as Komi's axe got closer and closer to him.

"Ah!" Faust screamed as Komi's axe nearly chopped off half of his head.

He had lost consciousness, and the gorilla power armor detected that its owner was about to die, so it immediately activated its self-protection program.

The entire armor operates rapidly with mechanical logic, instantly determining the escape route.

The gorilla armor was running at a speed that exceeded the limits of human endurance. Its only concern was preserving Faust's life. Whether his injuries would worsen or leave any lasting effects was not a consideration.

After all, in the glorious era in which he was born, even death was easily conquered by humankind.

The gorilla armor disappeared in a few leaps. Komi threw several pieces of scrap metal in the direction where Faust disappeared, but the gorilla armor dodged them all.

The battle ended, and the thirteen-man team was reduced to only eight men. Four of the five hunters were killed. From any perspective, this was a great victory.

Koji gently exhaled a breath of stale air. He felt that his body was not tired, but rather had a sense of being ready to go after completing a warm-up exercise.

He took a few steps toward Faya and asked her if her psychic powers were showing any signs of getting out of control.

Faya shook his head with difficulty, spitting out a mouthful of dark blood. He took deep breaths through his nose to calm himself. "May the merciful God-Emperor bless me so that I can continue to serve him."

Mi Yang checked on the Hunters' condition and found that one of the Hunters was still alive, so he called Gu Jiang to come and take a look.

Gu Jian went over and saw that it was the little hunter whose face he had slashed with his axe. He had been awakened by Mi Yang's provocation and knelt down to beg for mercy as soon as he saw Gu Jian.

"What should we do with this Hunter? Kill him or..." Mi Yang made a decapitation gesture. She had no liking for these Hunters who wanted to pluck out her eyes to collect.

Before Gu Jian could speak, the hunter screamed, "Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I'm still useful, I can help you..."

"Tell me, what use are you?"

Although the Hunter's brain was injured, it did not affect his thinking and speaking at all, and he immediately answered Gu Jian's question.

“I know Faust and his family, and I know how they would handle the assassination of the Hunter!”

"What should we do?" Faya asked after calming her psionic energy, hoping to save her tribe with this man's knowledge.

Hunter continued, "Although it's rare for Hunters to be attacked and killed, it does happen. There are always very dangerous things in the bottom nest, and if you're unlucky, you can die without a burial place."

As he spoke, Hunter glanced at Gu Jian secretly, but Gu Jian glared at Hunter and quickly pulled his head back.

"Therefore, the various families are not too affected by the deaths of the Hunters. After all, there are many outstanding members in the family, and there will always be someone to fill the gap. The Hunter Armor is the most important asset, and the family will send a large number of mercenaries down to search for the Hunter Armor."

Chapter 37: Top Nobles Need Medicine

"So as long as you don't hide the Hunter's Armor and stay far away when the mercenaries arrive, you will never have any trouble."

Mi Yang couldn't help but sneer after hearing this, "I thought you young masters were so irreplaceable, but it turns out you're just like the conscripts you look down on, nothing more than a bunch of trash that can be discarded at will."

Lord Hunter dared not refute, and could only nod in agreement.

Komi then asked, "So, Faust ran away. Based on your understanding of him, will this arrogant and haughty guy come back for revenge?"

"Yes." The Hunter answered without hesitation. "He will definitely come back, and he will hire a lot of people to cause you trouble. We have dealings with many gangs in the Underworld. We only need to give the password to make those gangs work for us."

"Well, well... it's a pity I didn't kill him with one axe." Komi sighed, troubled by the trouble that was about to follow.

They were just looking for a way to improve themselves, but they ended up inexplicably getting involved with a powerful noble family.

After a moment's hesitation, Hunter whispered a reminder to Koji, "Also... these families will definitely cause you trouble."

"Why? I don't want what they have on them."

“Because…” The Hunter glanced at the corpses beside him. Their Hunter armor was completely destroyed, all thanks to Gu Jian’s terrifying chopping axe. The gaps in the axe looked as if they had been ripped apart by some wild beast.

Gu Jian glanced over and immediately understood what the hunter meant.

He glanced at the family crests on these hunters and vowed to avoid them. No matter how impressive his achievements were in the lower nest, on the surface he was just a conscript, a temporary adjutant who had not been officially recognized by the military department.

“One last question,” Faya asked, “What are you looking for the green fungus for? It’s certainly very effective as medicine, but is it really worth all this fuss?”

The Hunter blinked, looking equally confused. "When we participated in this Hunter event, the clan's mission was to meet our kill quota while also searching the lair for anything that could be used to make medicine. I heard there's been a problem with the distribution of top-tier medicines..."

Is there a problem with drug distribution?

Komi felt a sense of familiarity, while Ishi shouted from the side, "Lieutenant, do you remember when we went to Uesugi? One of the most common topics of conversation among the residents there was medicine."

Stone's reminder brought it to Komi's mind.

The residents of Shangchao were worried about rising prices and shortages of supplies, and even talked about outbreaks of disease in some urban areas.

Perhaps even top performers experience this? And perhaps it's even more severe?

Komi thought for a moment and realized that the hive city planning of Red Mining World was very unique, with a central hive city surrounded by several smaller hive cities.

These small nests are all monopolized by families specializing in a particular industry, such as medical families or food families.

The smaller hives responsible for medical care have already fallen to the orcs, and the central hive has been cut off from its medicine supply, barely able to operate on its existing stockpile.

Koji remembers it clearly. At that time, he was a newly enlisted logistics soldier. The officers in charge of distributing medicine only gave him a small round pellet made of starch. The real medicine had long been switched and sent to higher levels.

Gu Jian looked down at Liejue and asked him what his name was. Liejue replied that his name was Lankao.

Koji nodded, wiping his axe with his hand, and said, "Since you're a Hunter, you should have a tracking system on you, right? It's safer and more reliable to kill you."

Lankao immediately burst into tears, crawled over to hug Gu Jian's leg and begged, "Don't kill me! I can turn off the location system, I'm still useful, I'm still useful."

"You turned it off? These armors have been around longer than your family. Even if you turned off the location system you know of, there might still be a backup location system in operation."

Just as Koki was about to bring down his axe, Faya spoke up, "How about I try some magic?"

"Why don't you just make him take off his armor?" Mia suggested.

Komi thought for a moment, then said to Lankao, "Take off your armor, and we'll dress you up like a tribal person."

"Take off? Take off the armor?" Lankao's lips trembled. In his mind, the bottom nest was an extremely dangerous area. Even wearing armor, one might not be able to return unscathed, let alone without armor.

As a hunter, he didn't even put his armor back on, but instead shamefully discarded it aside. He will definitely be expelled from the family!

Am I supposed to spend the rest of my life hanging out with these filthy mutants?

"Either take it off or die. You choose."

Hearing Komi's cold voice, Lankao closed his eyes in despair, entered a password, and his armor automatically disarmed him.

Put the animal skin clothes of the dead tribesmen on Lankao, and Gu Jian waved the axe in his hand at the pitiful guy who had lost his armor, indicating that if you want to run away, my axe can easily smash your head.

Lankao nodded repeatedly, and as he left with Komi and his group, he didn't forget to turn back and take one last look at his Hunter Armor.

......

[The user's life has been detected as being in danger; emergency medical intervention has been initiated.]

A cold, mechanical voice emanated from within the gorilla armor. Faust, whose brain had been partially severed, remained unconscious. His heart, soaked in the drug, beat slower and slower, and even his biochemical lungs, used to filter toxins, were about to stop functioning.

Search for the nearest medical supplies.

Encased in gorilla armor, Faust explored the area, his personal probe scanning the surrounding tens of kilometers.

Lower ethical standards for human intervention and search for the nearest medical supplies.

Having found nothing, the gorilla armor adjusted its mode, and this time it found excellent raw materials on its own body for synthesizing drugs.

The scraps of tribal flesh and fragments of internal organs hanging on Faust's body...

The gorilla armor collected these scraps of flesh and mixed them with the green bacteria in the recycling bin to enhance the healing effect.

Some red powder was produced, then mixed with Faust's filtered urine, and finally injected into Faust's body.

[The user's vital signs are stable; takeover has ended.]

The mechanical sound had barely faded when Faust was jolted awake. Having just escaped death, he gasped for breath, feeling as if his heart was about to explode.

A gentle breeze, seemingly from nowhere, swept by, and Faust felt an unbearable pain in the gaping wound on his head. He scrunched up his face, examining his body, his hatred for the tribesmen beyond measure.

Damn it! Damn it!

Faust roared in his heart, vowing to turn these filthy and unclean people into human pigs and torment them day and night.

Chapter 38: Komi's Choice

The anger dissipated quickly after the tranquilizer was administered, and Faust began to think about something more practical.

For example, how you were pulled back from the brink of death.

By examining the armor's operational history, Faust discovered a series of interesting details.

"I never expected that the medicinal properties of these mutants would be so similar to those of the green bacteria." Faust stared at the information on the screen for a long time before finally letting out a cruel smile.

Although he was badly beaten during the hunt for nobles, finding a new source of medicinal herbs for his family would be enough to make up for his failure.

Faust chuckled coldly, released a drone the size of a bee, recorded the information into it, and then ordered it to head towards the central passage.

He himself was running quickly through the ruins, trying to find a gang that had close ties with his family, based on the map.

He didn't know what those dragon claws and scales meant, but these gangs who had been lurking in the bottom nest for a long time must know something about it, since the existence of the green fungus came from their mouths.

......

Since provoking those hunters, Faya's emotions have been very unstable. His usual ease and tranquility have disappeared, and his eyes are full of worry for the tribe.

The group worked tirelessly to return to the tribe as quickly as possible and to urge the tribe to relocate to a safe place.

Unfortunately, they were a step too late. After Faya led the group through a rusty steel mountain range, the Dragonscale Tribe, built in the basin, had already been ravaged by fire.