readsfreenovel Chapter 182: The Endless Insect Tide His Arrival
Chapter 182: The Endless Insect Tide His Arrival
After occupying the surface, the Zerg quickly built their processing plants and incubation pools. Huge capillary towers sprang up on the surface of the planet like mushrooms after rain, towering into the clouds, and spore sacs also grew out, mass-producing alien spores and polluting the native atmosphere.
Below the capillary towers are incubation pools. All the organic matter on the planet, including microorganisms, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and other minerals, will be plundered by the Zerg and become nutrients for their expansion.
After just one week, the entire planet was covered with flesh, blood and chitinous structures. Seen from space, the entire planet turned into a monster covered with tentacles, like a giant devil's egg.
Tens of thousands of giant octopus-shaped insects float in the planet's near-Earth orbit. They are living biological warships of the Tyranids, ranging from a few kilometers to tens of kilometers, with twisted and swaying limbs. Each warship is a super monster that can travel in the starry sky, and can travel at superluminal speeds by using the gravity of stars to "compress" space (a bit like curvature travel).
As the fierce battle on Makaria reached a low point, the Zerg fleet began to split up and advance towards other planets in the Hades galaxy. The first targets were the three human-inhabited planets with a population of nearly one trillion.
The residents of the Hades galaxy had already observed the arrival of the Hive Fleet and had fallen into an uncontrollable panic. The powerful had already begun to flee on their spacecraft, and those who could not escape either began to fall into chaos or gathered their forces to prepare for a desperate resistance.
A space fleet consisting of various miscellaneous ships was quickly organized, a small part of which were real warships, and most of which were modified civilian ships. The main force of the Hades galaxy's space army had already been annihilated in the first wave of attacks by the Makaria Hive Fleet.
The hive fleet spread out like a predatory octopus spreading its tentacles, pulling the entire galaxy into its mouth.
Underground in Makaria, Julius, the Second Captain of the Ash Claws Chapter, was putting up a tough resistance with only thirty or so remaining Space Marines and more than ten million surviving mortal soldiers. Their space for movement had been severely compressed by the increasing number of Zerg, and with the continuous high-intensity fighting, they were almost out of ammunition and food.
They even had to use the equipment left behind by the orcs to manufacture crude weapons and ammunition to make up for the shortfalls.
The situation was critical, and the reinforcements that everyone was expecting had not arrived yet.
Somewhere in the sky above Makaria where the Zerg was lurking, a white light suddenly flashed in the dark space, and an inconspicuous figure appeared in the space.
【Ding! Transmission completed.】
[Current world: Parallel Earth WH, codenamed "Warhammer"]
[Current task...]
The moment he suddenly appeared, a violent golden light suddenly burst out from the figure, and a flash of light like a supernova explosion instantly penetrated the entire Hades galaxy.
The Zerg motherships that were swimming in space suddenly froze, their skulls exploded, and their brain tissues exploded by some invisible force, with tissue fluid floating in space like a lake.
At the same time, all creatures within the Hades star field developed some kind of telepathy and sensed the existence of something in the distant space.
In the Makaria tunnels, Julius, who was fighting a group of Tyranid warriors, suddenly had an illusion in his mind. He saw a golden figure falling from space.
The Tyranid warriors in front of him screamed, stopped attacking, and their bodies trembled violently.
The Zerg troops, which had been well-organized, began to scream and run around in panic, turning into a group of out-of-control headless flies.
A surge of power suddenly surged in Julius' heart, and his blood boiled. He couldn't help but roar and pounced on the Tyranid warrior in front of him. His lightning claws crossed, bursting out with incredible power, and violently tore the enemy to pieces.
Affected by some invisible force, the morale of the Space Marines and mortal soldiers around Julius was suddenly boosted. They broke out in an unprecedented fighting frenzy, launched a counterattack against the pursuing Zerg, and while the Zerg was in chaos, they killed the pursuers in a few moves.
A flash of golden light flashed in space, and then turned into a small golden meteor that fell towards Makaria, landing in the Zerg nest. The Tyranids and the Zerg nest structures that touched the golden light were instantly evaporated and dissipated into atomic form.
"Julius, I saw a vision!"
The enemy has been eliminated, think tank Sagan said to Julius in an incredulous tone.
Julius was surprised. "What? You saw it, too? Was it a figure emitting golden light?"
"I saw it too!"
"Me too!"
There were many surprised responses, and soon Julius was shocked to find that both Space Marines and mortal soldiers had seen the illusion of the glowing figure.
And everyone soon realized that some inexplicable changes had occurred in themselves. It was as if... their bodies suddenly became lighter, their wounds suddenly didn't hurt as much, and they were not as afraid of the terrifying Zerg enemies.
Suddenly I regained my fighting spirit.
Everyone, especially Space Marines like Julius, could still vaguely feel that there was a presence outside calling them.
"The Emperor..."
Librarian Sagan suddenly murmured, "I have seen the same thing with the Emperor. All those who follow the Emperor will be blessed by the Emperor."
Julius was stunned.
[Emperor? How is that possible? We are the ones who betrayed the Emperor...]
"Your Majesty the Emperor!"
"The Emperor's blessing!"
"Praise the God Emperor!"
The mortal soldiers heard Sagan's whisper and instantly burst into cheers.
Julius was a little angry: "This can't be an emperor!"
"——No matter what that thing is, how could the Emperor, who is tens of thousands of light years away on Terra, remember us, the remnants who have been abandoned in the Dark Star Region for ten thousand years? The Emperor will not remember us!"
Sagan patted the Second Captain on the shoulder to help him calm down.
Glancing at the stunned, confused, and bewildered crowd, Sagan sighed and said, "Julius is right. Whatever it is, it can't be the Emperor. We will find out what is going on."
As a psychic, Sagan's perception of "that existence" is clearer and stronger than anyone else. He can clearly feel the majestic and warm power like the sun, as well as the infinite energy of sacredness, vastness and justice emanating from "that existence".
The shadows of the subspace brought by the Tyranids were forcibly dispelled under the golden light emitted by "that existence" - this may explain why the Zerg troops suddenly fell into abnormality. Even the originally cold subspace energy became warm in this light.
The golden light penetrated time and space and shone upon Sagan's soul, making him feel awe and respect, and he couldn't help but want to worship and follow him.
Sagan could also clearly sense the location of [that existence], which was somewhere on the planet Makaria.
He had a strong intuition that that would be their chance to overcome the crisis.