The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Talos' words made Soshyan a little puzzled, so he asked:

"What's wrong?"

"When we returned from Kerkeria, in order to avoid the red pirate patrol fleet, we deliberately took a long detour and came back from Sangrad, where I encountered some things, or received some news. ..”

Talos then told the story—

"It looks like a riot broke out on a nearby planet."

On the bridge, the bored Cassati sat on a chair with his legs resting on the railing, looking at a visual transmitter, a panting voice made a short report from a trumpet-shaped speaker, and the crowd chatted from time to time. Cheers.

"...the strike force of the Ministry of Justice entered the den of thieves, where...the resistance was crushed with great force, and...then just received word from the Second Militia that a rebel stronghold had been captured by the Emperor's warriors, the total number of casualties was... "

"It's not normal when there is no riot in the empire."

Talos stood aside, holding freshly brewed hot coffee in his hand. This was no ordinary Reka coffee, but Red Mountain coffee from a remote wild world. It can be purchased in areas with busy trade, and only those who stand at the pinnacle of imperial power are eligible to enjoy it.

In the picture, the host is wearing a tuxedo and standing in a safe place, away from the tracer flares and explosion smoke behind him. He is neatly dressed and well-groomed, and his humble appearance shows no signs of mechanical transformation.

Broadcasts of this kind are common throughout Imperial Nests, and are basically joyous reports of Emperor's victories, lectures on the teachings of the State Church, rousing sermons, criticisms of arrested criminals and heretics—in each case, the official Elected representatives embody pure, non-threatening individuals.

The presenter looked natural, but Talos could tell that, in addition to being trained to keep his appearance under the gaze of a servo-skull, the diminutive man was wearing a mass of control joint mounts, autofocus diaphragms, and skin luminescents.

"...the Empire crushes the rebels once again, to her glory, no casualties reported!"

The man solemnly waved his arms at the scene behind him, an unnamed town on the lower level of the hive capital being blown to ashes by a circle of improvised tanks.

"Um?"

Suddenly, Talos frowned. Through the flickering flames of the Mold Lake, he struggled to focus and could make out the small silhouettes of shaky figures dying, what appeared to be children and women, being burned alive.

"...a wave of rebellion, but a hymn to the Throne of Terra, long live the Emperor! Heroes broke through and drove out the filthy heretics..."

"Huh?"

Cassati also noticed something was wrong, he frowned and paused the picture.

"Why does this nest feel so dark to me? No lights at all?"

"More than that, you see."

Talos stretched out his hand and pointed to the edge of the screen, where some people in guard uniforms were rummaging through the pile of corpses.

"Those corpses are as thin as firewood. What are they rebelling with? Teeth?"

"Would you like to see it?"

"Well, let's go and see, I feel that something is happening that we don't know, maybe Soshyan doesn't know either."

Soon, the two Thunderhawks broke away from the cruiser and flew all the way towards the planet without encountering any obstacles on the way, because they carried the logo of the Star Knights. As for the dozen or so inquiries and greetings from the planetary governor, they were all rejected. Talos ignored it.

Lei Ying ran directly to the hive capital.

After entering the atmosphere, he realized that things were much more terrifying than he had imagined. The entire nest was completely plunged into darkness except for the middle and upper parts, as if a huge cave appeared on the dry land.

Talos then sent the Thunderhawk down directly to an unnamed area in the lower hive.

In his opinion, even if the hive city is dirty, backward, and chaotic, it should at least be lively.

But when Talos walked out of Thunderhawk, there was only silence to greet him.

The wind sighs over the wreckage of steel, whistling through the rusted pipes, the metal crunching together, the notes undulating with the scraping, like a boring song, countless rolling ruins and metal shacks in the dark It's like rolling mountains.

"What happened, why the electricity in the hive capital seems to be cut off..."

Sablin looked at the silent darkness around him, and a suspicious voice came from under the helmet.

After a moment of silence, Talos said:

"Promethium...they can't get enough promethium because Angstrom is under siege."

At this moment, Talos had vaguely guessed something, but did not say it.

The procession followed him all the way without turning on any lights. Because their helmets and superhuman vision are enough.

Later, they come to an abandoned station, steps rise from piles of debris, concrete crumbles quietly under their feet as they walk, the silent song has a deeper tone here, as if the elevated railroad tracks are a giant Its tuning fork, its vibrations are continuous, like the little tune hummed by a sleepwalker at night.

"look-"

Cassati circled in the darkness with his hands, and everyone saw a train overturned under the rails, surrounded by countless dry corpses.

One can imagine the scene at that time. Driven by some kind of disaster or other, countless people tried to board the last train to nowhere, but the train finally detached from the track, capsized on the ground and crushed layers upon layers. broken limbs.

Then they continued to move in the dark and found more suspicious things.

First of all, it is still quiet. Not only is there no movement of people, there are no animals. You must know that the Hive City is never short of various creatures, especially rodents, but here, even the rodents seem to have disappeared.

As if he had been bombed by a virus bomb~www.readwn.com~ Walking to a well, Talos squatted down, picked up some light green sludge hanging on the grill with his fingers, and then stretched out his hand from Alvarez. Sina brought a detector.

Soon, the instrument came to a conclusion.

"Someone used poisonous gas, but it wasn't the life-eating virus like the virus bomb, but the... nerve gas that the Ministry of Justice often uses for suppression."

"And they deliberately injected poison gas from underground pipes, obviously to kill people who might be hiding inside."

"Company commander, something has been found."

Suddenly, Li Lin's team, who was investigating ahead, sent a message, and everyone moved in his direction.

Soon they came to a main traffic road, which was a three-story fast passageway with upper, middle and lower floors. Many vehicles were parked on the side of the road, and in front of the huge confluence area in front of the passageway, there were countless corpses lying densely, most of them were caused by nests. They were all dried in a special environment and turned into skinny mummies, but they can still be seen struggling before dying. From the outline, it can be seen that there are men, women and children.