Warhammer 40 A New Hope

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[Around 6pm today, a meteor streaked through the atmosphere, leaving a beautiful scene in the sky before falling into the western ocean]

[XX scientists said: This is nothing unusual at this time, it is just a common cosmic phenomenon and will not have any impact on the planet]

[At 10 pm today, Country A lodged a serious protest against Country C's decision to intervene in Country E's internal war yesterday. The President of Country A pointed out that it is incorrect to interfere in other countries' internal affairs at will. If Country C insists on its own way, Country A will also send troops to help Country E safeguard its sovereignty.]

[B called on the two countries to think twice before acting at the Joint Consultation Conference and to resolve all issues through negotiation. War is always the last option.]

[The following is a detailed report...]

643. Lower Level

A planet in the Empire

Sizzle - sizzle -

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Bang bang bang－－!

There were sporadic sounds of automatic gunfire, but as a flash of green lightning passed by, the sound of automatic gunfire disappeared completely.

A squad of Necron Destroyers carrying Gauss weapons came out from the corner, crushing the enemy's corpses with their cold and strong bodies without mercy and continued forward.

"So, sir, what's the point of us following here?" A local PDF soldier following behind the Necron Destroyer Squadron asked his superior. "We are not needed here at all."

"Stop complaining. Do you think I'm coming down?" the officer replied as he lit a cigarette. "If you don't like it, you can just quit and stop complaining."

"I'm just asking..."

At this moment, a Destroyer who was conducting a mopping-up operation in the front was knocked down by a cultist who suddenly appeared and was holding a power hammer. When he tried to strike the fallen Necromancer again, another Destroyer behind him shot a blue electric light at him, knocking him out directly.

After that, the Destroyer who was knocked to the ground by him stood up in a daze, and the [Resurrection Protocol] began to run. A lot of green light flashed on his body, and the previously damaged parts began to repair themselves.

As mentioned before, the act of a fully armed and prepared Necron force going down to the lower levels of the human hive to wipe out the cultists and the like lurking there is simply a dimensionality reduction attack, or it can be said that the vast majority of beings in the human empire have never actually seen Necron, let alone fought against them.

Above this human hive planet, a sizable Necron fleet was parked in high altitude orbit above the planet, and an Imperial naval fleet was also nearby.

With the written certification of the current Emperor of the Human Empire, the planetary governor of this planet agreed to the Necrons' request without much hesitation, and even "thoughtfully" sent an "elite PDF" team to lead the way for them.

In all hive worlds, the bottom layer has always been the most chaotic area. No one knows what exists underneath, or no one knows what else can exist underneath.

The Chaos Cultists that developed silently, the Tyranid Gene Stealers hiding in the dark and the severely deformed hybrids that resulted from them, and mutant creatures that were created for various reasons.

The upper city areas of those magnificent, tall, and bright hive cities often have an inexplicable lower city area. Even if a whole team of Space Marines goes down to such a place, they may disappear there.

But this time it's not just a team of Necron soldiers going down. If necessary, the Pope of this dynasty is willing to use his own troops to plow through the entire underground city area where chaotic existences breed, just for the chance to get a soul.

The Necron forces were efficient and ruthless. Most enemies didn't even have a chance to resist before being annihilated by the sudden attacks of the Necron forces. Those who did react were basically unable to mount an effective resistance. The two sides were far behind in terms of weapons and military quality.

A heavy metal door blocked their way. The PDF officer in the lead stepped forward and opened the door for these cold metal beings.

And the moment the door was opened, dense energy shot out from it, and a large number of metal projectiles and laser beams hit those conspicuous destroyers.

The PDF officer who opened the door for them immediately ran away, crawling on his knees to get away from these metal skeletons and the dense firepower.

Under the gaze of the PDF soldiers following the team, a Destroyer was knocked to the ground by the sudden intensive firepower. Even so, the remaining Necron soldiers walked towards it calmly and opened fire with their Tesla weapons.

"F*ck! These damn low-level scum!" The PDF officer finally ran behind the bunker and cursed. "Next time you open the door!"

"Ah? But I, the boss..."

"you shut up!"

Laser beams and automatic gun bullets flew out from the metal door from time to time, but these gradually weakened due to the appearance of green electric light.

Zila——!

As a green light appeared from the darkness, the entire area fell silent.

"Sir, what should we do now..."

"Let's go over and have a look."

The PDF team walked out from behind the bunker and carefully entered the opened metal door.

In the dark room, the light from the flashlight illuminated the darkness, and several PDFs looked around vigilantly.

At this moment, the flashlight on a soldier's laser gun began to flicker and quickly dimmed.

This would undoubtedly be fatal in such a dark environment. He nervously shook and slapped the flashlight which was gradually dimming, but he could not make it light up again.

Snapped!

Another PDF soldier who passed by him skillfully hit the malfunctioning flashlight with the butt of his gun, and the flashlight lit up again the next second.

"Remember to send it in for inspection and repair afterwards."

"oh..."

After this episode, the PDF team had walked deep into the room. They saw a shelter made of various debris, as well as melted gaps in the shelter and mutilated bodies behind the gaps.

This was a well-planned ambush, but even so, in this fearless

Even facing the Destroyer Squad whose technological level far surpassed theirs, they still didn't have much advantage.

After passing dozens of corpses, a severely damaged body of the Destroyer appeared. It continued to move forward and found another Destroyer among the corpses of several Ogryn barbarians with obvious mutations.

"These scum are really good at fighting."

"Luckily, it was these metal skeletons that dealt with them, otherwise several of them wouldn't have had enough lives to die."

The fourth Destroyer's body was found beneath a fallen block of iron, and the enemy successfully shut it down by causing a small collapse with a bomb.

As they reached the deepest part, the enemy corpses became fewer and fewer. The enemy had been exhausted by the attack of the Destroyer, but when they found the last Destroyer, an unexpected situation occurred.

"Why is he not moving?"

Under the illumination of the flashlight, the last Necron Destroyer was found. It was intact and there was no obvious damage on its body, but even in this situation, it just stopped there and didn't move.

Dangdang

A brave PDF soldier knocked the inactive Destroyer with the gun in his hand, and the sound of metal hitting metal was heard, but even so, the opponent still did not react.

"I thought it was only the things we had that were prone to problems." The PDF said as he looked at the Necron Destroyer that had stopped working for some reason. "It's the same with these 'alien masters'."

At this moment, a faint rustling sound was heard in the darkness, which immediately alerted the nearby soldiers. They raised their guns and walked carefully towards the direction of the sound.

Under the illumination of several military flashlight beams, they found the source of the sound. It was a cultist with a charred body. The chaos eight-pointed star on his head could still be clearly distinguished.

Although this Chaos believer has not died yet, judging from his injuries, it is only a matter of time before he dies unless something unexpected happens.

"What's that in his hand?" said the PDF closest to it, looking at the other person's left hand holding something.

"These idiots must have made some device themselves. Maybe it has some evil power."

"I don't think so."

The PDF from before pulled out his dagger and cut off the cultist's left hand, then snatched from his hand the thing that he was holding tightly even though he was half dead.

It was an unknown square mechanical device about the size of half a brick. You could see an obvious data port, a broken antenna and several buttons on it. Surprisingly, there wasn't much damage on it and it looked intact overall.

"What is this?"

"Whatever it is, it must be important." The PDF soldier picked up the mechanical device and said, "Maybe it can help me get promoted."

"I hope it doesn't kill you."

"Just to be safe, I'll take this thing." The leader of the PDF team took the unknown mechanical device without saying anything, and then looked at another soldier beside him. "You, just you, go cut off his head and take it away."

"what?"

"What? Go ahead, I'm giving you a chance."

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The well-dressed planetary governor was entertaining the Necron Overlord who came to "help" them clean up all kinds of shameful existences in the Undercity area, and the commander of the Imperial Navy Fleet who served as the supervisor and coordinator. Although the former did not need to eat and could not taste the delicious food normally, he still accepted the invitation of the planetary governor and attended the banquet in a special body.

Although the Necrons have lost their souls and replaced them with mechanical bodies, they still have many ways to simulate the senses of living creatures, so that they can feel the smell of food, taste the flavor of food and even get the feeling of "digesting" food. Of course, these feelings are fake and simulated.

As mentioned before, the Necrons have their own dignity and etiquette. Even though they have transformed into mechanical bodies, many of them still maintain their previous habits.

Everyone present was either enjoying everything at the banquet, chatting loudly with others, or standing quietly aside, glancing at everyone present with all kinds of looks.

The Necron Overlord who was ordered to come to this planet tasted the food provided by the planetary governor, and then sat alone to one side. Soon after, the commander of the Imperial Navy fleet also came over and sat opposite him.

The two of them just sat there, their powerful and somewhat weird aura made others afraid to approach. The governor of the planet who organized the banquet couldn't do anything about it, after all, no one could afford to offend the two of them.

At this time, a messenger rushed into the banquet hall in a panic and quickly came to the governor of the planet.

"Urgent intelligence! There are some problems with the cleanup operation. A team of PDF soldiers said they have obtained important intelligence and are being besieged by the enemy."

"They need support!"

644. Chaos at the bottom

Planetary Defense Force/Planet Defense Force, referred to as PDF, is usually the main defense force on a planet.

The combat capabilities of the planetary defense forces vary. There are well-known forces such as the Cadia Homeland Defense Force (the guardian of the Cadian world, the source of the Cadian Legion), the Armageddon Defense Force (PDF of the place where the Battle of Armageddon took place), and the Cadia Homeland Defense Force (the guardian of the Cadian world, the source of the Cadian Legion).

There are also some members of the Star Defense Force who will be defeated at the first touch of a powerful enemy.

Because the planetary defense force is an armed force directly controlled by the local government rather than the empire, their recruitment, training, arming, leadership, etc. are all decided by the local rulers themselves. Therefore, the combat effectiveness and organization of the planetary defense force are often closely related to the local rulers and situations.

The Empire's territory is so vast that each Imperial planet needs to maintain a decent army to maintain order and prevent invasions and riots.

When faced with a problem they cannot or cannot handle alone, the duty of the Planetary Defense Force is to hold off the enemy's advance and delay it until Imperial reinforcements can be gathered from nearby sectors (the sector of the galaxy in which they are located).

Although most planetary defense forces seem a bit weak, for ordinary people, it is already a very good position.

You know, among the tens of thousands of Astra Militarum soldiers who died on the battlefields of different races, they were actually picked from thousands. Their anxious performance was entirely because their opponents were too BT.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the Planetary Defense Force is actually not weak. At least when it comes to quelling planetary rebellions and dealing with attacks by small-scale Chaos believers and alien species, their performance is still remarkable. On planets like Cadia and Armageddon, the local PDF is actually not much different from that of ordinary Astra Militarum - just look at where their planets are and what they are fighting against.

Besides, even the Astra Militarum, which is the main force of the Human Empire, is not necessarily very strong in combat - here we especially want to mention the 13th Consquet Guards, which are sure to run faster than anyone else when faced with an opponent they cannot defeat (and they are more ferocious than anyone else when faced with an opponent they can defeat / in short, they are suitable for completing low-intensity tasks such as quelling riots).

Now, a local PDF team that accidentally obtained important samples and intelligence is being hunted by a series of hostile forces including local gangs.

No matter how poor their brains were, they now realized that what they had in their hands was more important than they imagined.

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Cultists with eight-pointed stars or other chaos symbols tattooed on their foreheads or arms are chasing them, as are some hairless mutants (chicken thieves).

"Forget about those damn things chasing us! Why are you, a bunch of low-level thugs, chasing us? Are you looking for death?!"

For those lower-level gangsters, they may not know what these soldiers have in their hands, or why so many people are chasing them, but they know that this thing must be very important, and they can get a good price whether they sell it to the group of people chasing them or to the upper-level officials.

As for a few soldiers? This is the bottom of the nest. More people have disappeared here than rats. It's not uncommon for PDFs to disappear here. Those officials won't care about the death of a few soldiers.

At this time, a tall deformed creature with four limbs and arms appeared in everyone's sight holding a logging spear, and the next moment the logging spear in its hand spewed out flames.

The other pursuers along the way were beaten into pieces by the powerful force of the logging guns, and groups of [ethnic brothers (second generation or even lower generation descendants)] rushed towards the group of PDF soldiers with various weapons.

For these mutants bred by the Genestealer infected bodies, they don't know what the planetary defense force has in their hands and what its function is, but they know that this existence that they are fighting for is definitely very important and may be beneficial to their next actions. Moreover, this is the order given by the patriarch.

"I didn't know there were so many strange things down there!"

"This is just the beginning! There are so many people who disappear in the entire lower level every day. God knows where they go!"

The laser rifles in their hands kept firing, but the Astra Militarum weapons specially equipped to them for this mission did not give them much sense of security.

Bang--!

With the sound of firing from a large-caliber sniper rifle, the deformed man holding the lumberjack fell to the ground, followed by several more bullets, knocking down several ethnic brothers who were armed with guns.

[Old man, it looks like you got something very important]

"Couldn't you guys come earlier?!"

"We are all paid a fixed salary, why should I risk my life to save you?" said the lazy voice on the communicator. "My team and I will provide some long-range fire support from high altitude, but the rest is up to you guys."

[You still have to buy me a drink]

"Drink, drink, drink! Drink until you die!"

With the support of this reconnaissance team, the pressure on the pursued PDF team was relieved, and they immediately continued to retreat and rushed towards the designated assembly point.

"Hurry, hurry! Those mutants are still chasing us!"

"Sir, wait for me, I need to catch my breath..."

"I told you to try not to slack off during training, but now you're killing me, right?!"

"Sir! The auspicious instrument shows that there is someone nearby!"

"what?!"