Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

But suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted, and Harding raised his head suddenly with a look as if he had seen a ghost.

The L-gate behind me...lit up again.

"There's still fucking stuff?!"

Grey Wind did not hear a word of the curses hurled by the Ultramarines Chapter Captain, because the hunt for the Ether Worms had already begun the next moment after the fleet leapt into the Parmenio System.

If someone stood on the surface of Parmenio and looked up at the sky at this moment, they would see countless bright spots of light covering the sky. Those were the burning thrusters at the tails of the warships. Each warship was a bright spot of light, with roaring engines and shining stars, as if the entire universe was twinkling.

The Star-Shooters' fleet has taken the night from this planet, and tonight the universe twinkles for Parmenio.

But unlike the real starry sky, the ships of the fleet controlled by Gray Wind were distributed in a regular pattern. The frigates with the largest number, lowest cost, smallest size, and shortest weapon range rushed madly towards the giant ether worm that had just recovered from the shock of being jumped in the face, regardless of losses. The pale blue flame tail drew a web of streams, like countless ferocious piranhas hunting a humpback whale in the ocean.

The giant worm, which was as big as a celestial body, was struggling to wander and circle in the space. Every move of its huge body covered with dragon scale armor was extremely difficult. Countless human warships fearlessly blocked all the movement space of the ether giant worm with their steel bodies. The crazy ship-sea tactics even made the Great Devourer on the giant worm a little overwhelmed.

He had never seen such a scene before. It was too strange. Why would the Zerg be suppressed by humans with numbers?

What made the Ether Giant Worm - Behemoth even more at a loss was that the attacks of these ant-like small boats could actually penetrate its dragon scales and directly cause damage to the flesh and blood under the scales!

Although the giant worm's internal circulatory system can decompose and recycle necrotic flesh and blood and repair itself as long as the biomass does not leak out of the body, the number of this fleet is so terrifying that even the ether giant worm's powerful self-healing ability seems to be unable to keep up!

"The frigate is too small. Not to mention the focused arc, even the Sky Cloud Lightning cannot be equipped. It seems that the only thing it can use is the phase disruption cannon." Looking at the fierce close combat beside the orbit of the planet Parmenio, Huifeng's cheeks bulged slightly.

The sea of ​​steel boiled in the starry sky, and high-energy particles accelerated to the limit merged into a blazing ocean. Every second, at least one attack that penetrated the dragon scales hit Behemoth hard, burning the flesh and blood inside the giant insect's body until it was tender and not burnt.

Every breath of the Ether Giant Worm can cause hundreds of frigates to be captured by the swarm, and every powerful swing of its tail can cause a large number of unarmored ships to be shattered in space.

But between every breath, every time the tail was gasping for breath, hundreds of transition lights that distorted the curvature of space flickered in the boiling space, indicating that hundreds of new warships had entered the battlefield. The ever-expanding width of the battlefield once spread to the entire star system, and it was still spreading and stretching, with no end in sight for the raging war.

The tentacles of Gestalt consciousness perfectly manipulated each ship to make the most rational choice. The overloaded engines flickered continuously in space. Tens of thousands of plasma thrusters pushed the starships that flooded the void to maneuver back and forth around the giant insect, dragging out long streams of light that were as bright as fireworks and as dense as raindrops.

The sea of ​​blazing energy surged and surged, and the wave after wave of naval gunfire was brighter than the brightest star in the night sky.

While Grey Wind was using the casualties of tens of thousands of frigates to entangle the Ether Giant Worm to death on the spot, the real battleships had already maneuvered to the safe edge of the galaxy, charging their main guns and taking up their positions.

The girl, with her long silver hair spread out, spoke softly, her voice soft yet sharp: "Sniper——"

As soon as she finished speaking, the entire galaxy lit up.

Hundreds of strong energy beams shot from all directions and converged at the same point at the same moment. 802 main guns penetrated Behemoth's body at 801 different angles, and one shot missed.

The flickering focused energy arc makes sense, and the violent infernal rays are convincing.

The ship's guns fired, and everyone fell down on all sides.

Chapter 270 Multi-organisms

100 battleships, Titan ships, hundreds of focused arcs and nearly a hundred prison chain rays sniped at one point, blasting the body tissue of the ether giant worm to a crisp on the outside and tender on the inside.

Incidentally, a large number of their own frigates were also burned.

But this thing was cheap. It was basically just a phase disruptor cannon welded onto the engine. Its cost was much lower than that of a stealth frigate with all the accessories, so Grey Wind didn't take it seriously.

What attracted Gray Wind's attention was a strange thing.

"Strange, the giant ether worm clearly has no signs of life, so why is the battle still going on on the surface of Parmenio? Why haven't the ground forces of the swarm fallen into chaos without a leader?"

Grey Wind deployed a row of sensors to look down at the ground through the scarlet cloud filled with poisonous spores. In the picture, an endless swarm of insects were still fearlessly attacking the municipal roundel of the planet's capital. The coordination of the dispatch and the unity of the offensive were completely inconsistent with Grey Wind's understanding of the Gestalt creatures, which would fall into a frenzy like beasts once they lost the control of the node organisms and the collective will.

She has a say in this. Grey Wind knows that if her consciousness disappears, the countless nanorobots that make up her will go out of control and transform into a grey goo storm that sweeps across the galaxy, indiscriminately attacking everything they see.

But now the swarm on Parmenio still retains a very high degree of organization, which is too unscientific.

Gray Wind looked at the charred corpse of the Ether Giant Worm floating in space with a dim gaze.

Nearly 10,000 frigates that survived the previous sniper attack quickly assembled and reorganized under the silent command of Gray Wind, and parked in a neat fleet formation above the giant insect corpse, but their scale was much smaller than at the beginning.

Grey Wind looked at Parmenio in the distance, whose air was dyed red by poisonous spores, then looked at the mighty fleet at his feet and fell into deep thought.

She could now directly order the fleet to drag the charred giant insect corpse to the center of the galaxy and throw it into a star to burn it completely, but after careful consideration, Grey Wind finally did not do so.

She had a hunch that if this war was not ended with swords, there would be endless trouble.

So, is it really necessary to resort to boarding?"

Somehow she felt as if she had vaguely grasped some supreme rule that was above the laws of physics, as if a war would not be a complete war without the presence of tough guys chopping people with knives, even if this was a pure space naval battle and the tough guys could not even see each other from the time they entered the battlefield to their glorious death.

Gray Wind suspected that even if the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy collided one day, the fate of these two celestial systems, spanning hundreds of thousands of light years, would ultimately be decided by fists, feet, swords and guns.

What's going on? This is called...

So Grey Wind cut off one of his arms and turned it into a sharp blade, then jumped onto the carrier-based plane that landed on the giant insect's corpse.

Large ships gathered from the edge of the galaxy, and the snipers who had been hiding in the dark finally came to the fore. The hangars located in the belly of the main battleship were opened in rows, revealing the giant battle formations neatly displayed inside. The fully armed steel giants with heavy firepower descended from the sky, but they did not land on the surface of the planet Parmenio, which was in urgent need of ground force assistance, but followed Gray Wind to clean up the giant insect corpse that had been ruptured by the high-energy attack and had been dead beyond death.

Grey Wind had no intention of caring about the Zerg swarms raging on Parmenio and the civilians being slaughtered by them. She didn't care how many humans on this planet could survive. This was Ultramar, not the Far East.

Besides...

"As long as the giant ether worms are completely eliminated, the insect tide on the planet's surface will naturally collapse."

Huifeng leaned on the knife with one hand, and the dragon scales under his feet vibrated violently. The giant battle body behind him used a plasma destroyer to blast open the flesh and blood connections that were blocking the insect corpse's blood vessels for her, opening a path to the giant insect's body.

The body of the ether giant worm is larger than that of an ordinary planet. The arteries behind the worm's head are more than hundreds of meters wide, and are almost as thick as the gun barrels of some large ships of the human empire. Even if a Cyberlux war body with specifications equivalent to that of a Warlord-class Titan were allowed to walk inside, it would not feel narrow at all.

Gray Wind turned over and jumped onto the shoulder of a war body equipped with flamethrowers and hydraulic shears. The combat formation composed of 109 war bodies continued to move deeper into the corpse along the blood vessels with heavy steps, like a steel barrier slowly advancing.

The body structure of the Ether Giant Worm is very strange, or rather, the structure of all giant Tyranid creatures is very strange.

As the combat formation advanced deeper, Gray Wind suddenly remembered that every organ in the body of the ether giant worm is a complete organism that is independent of each other yet interdependent: the fluid flowing in its blood vessels is countless tiny wriggling parasites; the layered structure in its mouth, which is similar to whalebone, is densely packed with worms like a honeycomb; the various organs in the chest cavity are hive motherships that have not yet been completely alienated, and even the lymph embedded in the blood vessel walls can jump down and bite people... A giant worm is a complete ecosystem, condensing the entire hive fleet in its body.

If humans and the Eldar are multicellular organisms, then the Zerg should perhaps be called 'multicellular organisms'.

As he walked along, Gray Wind suddenly felt fortunate that he did not hold back. He directly mobilized hundreds of ship-based units larger than the main battleships to fire their main guns at the same time, instantly sniping and completely roasting the ether giant worm, leaving no room for the hive will to turn around.

Otherwise, after Grey Wind broke through the dragon scale armor, he would see a swarm of insects pouring out of the body of the Ether Giant Worm like a flood, which would be as shocking as poking a hornet's nest.

"The last time I went deep inside a giant Zerg creature like this was with the Marshal."

In the dark cavity filled with a pungent sour smell, the dull sound of metal and bone colliding echoed. Gray Wind sat on the shoulder of the giant war body, and his thoughts drifted back to the time when he had just arrived in this universe.

That time, she detonated a star and burned an entire Zerg fleet to death. Afterwards, she and Russell found the surviving Life-Shaping Queen - Coroniai - inside the Zerg mothership.

"I should have burned it to death at that time..." Huifeng felt a little regretful.

Then again, after Hive Fleet Behemoth transformed into the Ether Giant, did it still retain the unit of the Life-Shaping Queen? If it did...

Huifeng was inexplicably excited, and even the heavy footsteps of the giant fighting body quickened. She couldn't wait any longer.

At this time, the surface of Parmenio was still in a fierce battle. Because the Ether Giant Worm was sniped and the ground Zerg lost its backup, the pressure on the Extreme Warriors defending the Administrative Rotunda was relieved, but the situation was still not optimistic.

"Will reinforcements really come? Can our interstellar message for help really be sent through the shadow of the subspace?" Some people have begun to waver.

“I definitely will...but even without reinforcements, I will protect this planet in the name of the Ultramarines and fight until the last moment of my life.” Some people remained firm.

The new recruits of the chapter who have not yet been formally awarded armor are still resisting tenaciously in the surging sea of ​​insects. They vow not to bring shame to their genetic ancestors.

Chapter 271 The End of the Beginning

By the time the hastily assembled Ultramarines fleet, led by Macragge's Glory, arrived at Parmenio, the shadow of the Warp lingering around the system had already dissipated.

At the same time, the second vanguard of the Human Federation's insect extermination fleet had just sent about 30% of its forces out of the Macragge star gate, and several Titans were busy towing the completely dead ether giant worm-Behemoth back to Faya.

The old leader of the Ultramarines was very sensitive to the ways of the world, and after realizing the current situation, he immediately ordered the release of a dozen Brothers of Truth who had come to Ultramar with the 13th Expeditionary Fleet and were then imprisoned by him for protection. Among them was the man who had poisoned the Machine Soul with Soul-Eating Toxin and angered the clay artist, the Biological Supervisor Joshua, who was also brought to Parmenio by the Glory of Macragge.

But this good intention was only met with a sigh from Gray Wind: "Oh, Joshua, you came at the right time. Coroniai now needs someone who understands biology to help with the project."

"Um, please wait a moment..." Looking at the silver-haired girl who decisively turned around and prepared to leave, Harding hurriedly spoke to keep her.

"Anything else?" Gray Wind blinked.

Hatin exhaled lightly and pointed to the neat fleet formation parked above Parmenio's orbit in the distance: "...Aren't they leaving with you?"

Grey Wind nodded. "You mean those ships? They can't leave for now. The Pest Control Fleet jumped here directly from Macragge. The jump engine needs about 200 standard Terran days to cool down after a jump. It can only be used again after the cooling is complete."

Hatin looked strange, glancing at the Titan ships in the distance dragging the corpses of giant worms slowly passing in front of the Glory of Macragge: "... Then how will these ships transport the corpses of the ether giant worms back to Faya?"

"Warp," said Grey Wind.

Harding felt slighted.

Gray Wind looked at Harding's gloomy face and laughed happily.

"Why does the lady laugh?" asked Harding.

"In fact, even if the cooldown of the jump engine is up, I will not let the extermination fleet leave Ultramar." Grey Wind said with a faint smile.

Harding opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly, he realized something. He thought of a very terrifying possibility. If that was the reason why Grey Wind left the extermination fleet here...

"It seems that you have already thought of it. You are indeed a smart descendant of Robert Guilliman." Grey Wind smiled and gave Harding a 'thumbs-up! ' gesture, and then said: "It is too early to withdraw the fleet now. You have to know...

——The death of the ether worm is not the end, nor even the beginning of the end, it is just the end of the beginning. "

Grey Wind left these words and left Macragge's Glory with the released Joshua. Three Titans carried the carbonized and disintegrated corpse of the Aether Worm and disappeared without a trace, leaving only Macragge's Glory quietly hovering over the devastated Parmenio, silent for a long time.

"Is this just... the end of the beginning?" Hattin Hermes stood on the bridge of Macragge's Glory, with Parmenio under his feet still surging with scarlet cyclones.

Those are the spores of the swarm that permeate the atmosphere and have not yet been cleared away.

"Great! This super cool line is finally used!"

Gray Wind is super happy.

When Russell had told her the story of the Tyranid War before, he had used this sentence to summarize the invasion of the Great Devourer. At that time, she thought that the Marshal looked particularly handsome when he said this line with a calm expression.

"I wonder if the old captain thinks I'm handsome too?" Huifeng thought again.

"Um, Lord Grey Wind, what did you just say to Captain Harding? " Joshua's words pulled her back from her self-satisfaction.

"That." Gray Wind thought for a moment and said, "It's okay to tell you... That's the story the Marshal told me before, about the invasion of the Tyranids..."

In the 41th year of the 745st Millennium, Hive Fleet Behemoth invaded Macragge, and the Ultramarines paid a huge price to break it up with great difficulty.

In the 41th year of the 990st millennium, the Hive Fleet Kraken invaded the Icha Galaxy. The Eldar Craft World of Iyanden was eaten almost to extinction, and both the Tau Empire and the Human Empire suffered heavy losses.

These two Hive Fleet invasions are known as the First Tyrannic War and the Second Tyrannic War, with the two Hive Fleets arriving approximately 200 years apart from each other.

"The original course of history should have been like this, but because the Great Devourer accidentally obtained the genes of the Aether Dragon, the Behemoth Hive Fleet, which was shaped like an 'Aether Giant Worm', relied on the new biological jump engine to arrive in the Ultramar star field 1700 years earlier, and the first invasion point was changed from Macragge to Parmenio."

Gray Wind counted on his fingers and said, "Hive Fleet Kraken was supposed to arrive about 200 years after Behemoth invaded the Milky Way. However, due to the special nature of the Hive Mind, the Kraken may have mutated into an ether giant worm and obtained a jump engine... The Hive Mind will not give humans another 200 years to relax. The ether giant worm Kraken may arrive at any time. Total war is just around the corner."

Although the human empire has been fighting a total war for the past ten thousand years.

Joshua nodded slightly, thoughtfully.