Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The friars' ammunition is burning.

The machine is breaking.

The cannon barrel is red-hot.

The repair crew ran back and forth between the pipes and the body.

While the Iron Hand and the Mechanicus turned their attention to the Greenskins, the Poor Prince emerged from the shadows once more.

They no longer launch large-scale open assaults.

They went underground.

Guerrilla warfare. Sabotage. Infiltration. Assassination.

They bombed ventilation shafts, cut water pipes, buried molten bombs next to shield cooling pumps, infiltrated the servant ranks with contaminated repairmen, and had undetected hybrid technicians submit erroneous maintenance reports.

The Hongbei section is too large.

Too many pipelines.

The Mechanical Repair Society's permissions are too complicated.

This gave the poor prince room to grow.

One of their core targets is the Great Ohm Messiah Elevator.

This orbital elevator stands in the northern part of the Hongbei District, its base resembling a giant temple, its tower piercing the clouds and extending upwards to the near-Earth orbital platform.

It is one of the most important water supply facilities of the Huangquan 8 Mechanical Repair Society on the warning planet.

The surface of the warning star is dry, and water has more political value than many precious metals.

The Great Ohm Messiah Elevating Tower collects water resources from the upper atmosphere of the warning star, comet clouds, and orbital ice crystal capture array through an orbital platform and high-altitude acquisition system, and then delivers them to the water purification core of the Hongbei District through a giant water pipeline.

This elevator tower is not just an industrial facility.

It is also the lifeblood of the Mechanicus.

In the past, the Agamemnos family had tried to take over the tower, but the Mechanicus had never agreed.

The state church had requested to share a portion of the water resources, but Father Huangquan 8 rejected the request with a prayer presented in thirty-seven pages of data.

The local nobles called it the "gear water pipe".

The Mechanical Order refers to it as the vertical holy lineage bestowed by the Om Messiah.

Now, it is under the unified command of the wartime command.

After Lawson took control of all water sources on Vigilant Star, the old Guardian Army of the Great Ohm Messiah Tower was reorganized and its internal garrison was replaced with a combat unit.

On the surface, the tower still maintains the rituals of the Mechanicus.

Prayer broadcasts continued as usual.

The servants continued their patrols as usual.

The red-robed priest continued reciting binary hymns in front of the control panel as usual.

The poor prince was unaware of these details.

Or rather, they know some of it, but cannot understand that Lawson's system has turned "water defense" from gatekeeping into fishing.

They observed for two days.

A direct, forceful attack is not feasible.

The outer layer of the elevator tower base has been covered by the Mechanic Guild turret, the Steel Hand support fire, the Cornerstone automatic cannon, and the combat sequence crossfire.

A head-on collision would turn into a pile of corpses.

Therefore, they chose water pipelines.

The body structure of a gene stealer is suited for this.

They can compress bones, twist limbs, and move through gaps that ordinary people cannot pass through. Hybrids can also squeeze into narrow structures while enduring pain and deformation.

By simply breaking through the water pipeline, climbing along the reverse of the high-pressure water flow through the maintenance chamber, and passing through the pressure regulation section, one can bypass the outer defense line and directly enter the core of the upper water treatment layer of the lifting tower.

Then complete the sacred task!

Chapter 200 A Gathering of Wise Men: Warning Star!

The cunning people's plan was very underhanded.

First, small, pure-blooded gene stealers drill into the pressure monitoring well and disrupt the alarm line.

Then, the third-generation hybrids carried corrosive explosives and broke open the water supply branch pipe.

A group of Abrent freaks were tasked with creating a disturbance on the outside to attract the attention of the defenders.

The real main force then travels along the pipeline to the upper floors.

Once inside the core of the water treatment process, they release genetically modified catalysts.

These types of catalysts do not kill people immediately.

It makes humans who come into contact with water more susceptible to cult-like psychic suggestions, more likely to dream of the "Four-Armed Emperor," and more likely to mistake the underground claws for liberation in fear and hunger.

For the poor prince, this was more valuable than blowing up the water source.

Lower layer of Hongbei section, old cooling well No. 79.

Several mixed-race individuals used a stolen mechanical repair key from the Mechanical Repair Society to open the outer gate.

The key is genuine.

It comes from a family of peripheral technicians who were contaminated decades ago.

The moment the door opened, the leading mixed-race person paused for a moment.

It tapped the pipe wall lightly with its claws, sending a signal to the rear.

Safety!!!

Several pureblood gene stealers slid out of the darkness.

They lay flat on the ground, their limbs twisted, and silently crawled into the maintenance well.

Behind them, Starblood cultists followed carrying corrosive explosives.

Someone whispered the name of the Four-Armed God Emperor.

“Our father is watching us.”

"Water brings ascension."

They hadn't walked more than twenty meters.

Suddenly, a row of cold lights shone from the darkness on both sides of the maintenance well.

The pure-blooded gene stealer reacted the fastest.

It sprang up suddenly, its sharp claws stabbing straight at the throat armor of the nearest combatant.

The tower shield swooped in from the side, blocking the claws.

In the next instant, three short-handled power axes fell simultaneously.

The pure-blooded gene stealer was cut into four pieces.

Inside the maintenance well, an automatic turret flips out from a hidden compartment in the wall.

The heavy explosive gun fires.

In the confined space, the Starblood cultists had no room to hide.

The corrosive explosive was precisely penetrated by the safety mechanism and failed to detonate.

The hybrid attempted to crawl into the side tube.

High-temperature steam is pre-filled into the side pipe.

The screams were swallowed by the steam.

The first wave of infiltration ended within thirty-seven seconds.

The internal control room of the Great Ohm Messiah elevator tower.

The cornerstone sequence crosses out the first entry point on the tactical map.

"Cooling well No. 79, contact confirmed. Enemy advance team to eliminate."

"Second entrance, prepare to engage the enemy."

The poor prince did not bet on just one point.

They simultaneously launched operations against seventeen water pipelines, pressure wells, condensate maintenance chambers, and underground return pipes.

This is a standard multi-point probing.

If you succeed in just one place, you can get inside the tower.

Klossen has long designated all water systems as top-level fishing areas.

Every entrance is under surveillance.

The combat formation consists of small squads lying in ambush in narrow pipelines, machine rooms, outside pressure pumps, and in the elevator shafts of the rail platform.

The moment the poor prince crawled in, he entered a pre-arranged slaughterhouse.

The second location is the old return pipe.

After the mixed-race animal's tube wall was cut open, it was immediately marked by the gene detection node as soon as it poked its head out.

"Non-standard human genes, strong response."

The gate is closed, sealing off both the front and back.

High-pressure water flow impacts in the opposite direction.

More than a dozen hybrids were rushed into the pre-set cage, and then the thermal mine exploded, burning the entire inside of the pipe red.

The third location is a pressure regulating well.

Two pure-blooded gene stealers forcefully broke through the first line of fire, killed a cornerstone engineering node, and crawled into the upper maintenance platform.