Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 260 In the name of ashes, the cleaning and rescue of the occupied area

"Those angels of death who hold the tome of truth handed down by the Emperor will return to this world on the Day of Judgment, led by His youngest son of fire who proclaims ashes and destruction."

——Communication node No. 2885 in the Leyak sector, astropathic Hubbes Tansarion.

hum!
The murmur of psionic teleportation arrays broke the silence on the ground.

With the spread of this power, a group of gray knights in silver-gray power armor crossed a space distance of tens of thousands of meters, descending from the orbit of Wollaston to this long-lost empire territory.

The storm brought up by the teleportation array blew away the heavy dust accumulated on the commercial streets of the hive capital. Pieces of fading brocades representing yesterday's glitz were stirred up by the storm, and soon shattered at the window that had been waiting for a long time.

Gala!boom!

A white-yellow human skull like a sheep's head that had been lying on the road for an unknown period of time was crushed by heavy ceramic steel combat boots.

In the shadows, several dazzling light sources pierced the darkness from a height, and then swept across again;

A dozen nine-foot-tall silver-armored giants stepped out of the darkness in the next instant, passing through this deserted street in an exploratory formation.

"Everything is normal in the No. 3 nest. The water supply point on the upper floor has been checked, and there is no abnormal energy reaction and no life reaction."

Faint psychic energy fluctuations emanated from the leader of the arbitrator, and under the guidance of the psychic link, brought the team's real-time information to the legion's will covered in the sky.

"Everything in Nest 6 is normal. The food storage on the lower level has been checked, and no life reaction has been seen."

"Everything is normal in the No. 7 nest. The water supply point in the middle layer has been checked, and no life reaction has been seen."

"Everything is normal in Nest No. 9. The Ministry of Justice's weapon depot and food storage point have been checked, and no life reaction has been seen."

Obscure fluctuations intersected in the sky, and resounded in the ears of all Gray Knight squad members.

The gray knights who are searching here are speeding up their pace, sweeping away all the resource nodes where human beings can survive for a long time.

"Continue to check as planned."

Calvin replied to the various squads deployed in the psionic channel, and then moved forward with his own guard members.

This is already the third galaxy they have explored in the Leyak sector, but no survivors have been found.

Chaos will never be able to satisfy the plundering needs of the population. After decades of cleaning, the hive city here has no more human voices except for the remnants of the chaos when the invasion began.

"Drip! Captured a periodic low-frequency distress signal!"

"Drip! Captured a periodic low-frequency distress signal!"

The servo on the power armor started beeping spontaneously, which shocked Calvin, and at the same time he instinctively began to speed up his pace.

hum!Snapped!
Seeing this, the accompanying paladins silently followed his figure, and the disintegrating force fields of a pair of Heaven's Punishment weapons were quietly activated.

boom!
The heavy armored gate was kicked into pieces, and Calvin bent his waist and led the team into the emergency shelter in front of the breach several meters high.

The corpses here are not dense, and their owners obviously did not die in battle.

They were distributed in their respective residences in a relatively stable manner, and no food storage was found during the whole process, indicating that they died of hunger due to lack of supplies after a long period of defense.

hum!
Calvin opened his psychic vision and looked at the surrounding environment; the corresponding position on the other side of the subspace was also blank, obviously these souls had passed away for too long, and not even a single fragment remained.

Ok?
A light blue light flickering in a room caught Calvin's attention.

He walked a few steps, opened the door casually, and saw a withered skeleton sitting quietly on the seat facing the entrance.

The wave of psionic energy came from its chest, where a soldier nameplate with a chip hung.

Because of the sufficient corruption of the posthumous organization, the whole brand is unhindered, deeply entangled with its ribs.

Calvin stepped forward slowly, so as not to shatter the dead man's skeleton with his huge and heavy footsteps, he gently stretched out his armor-covered right hand, and gently took out the name tag from the pale bones.

Bull Tang, this is the name of the deceased, and he is also the owner of this privately modified chip-shaped nameplate.

He was a soldier of the Imperial Defense Force during his lifetime. When the invasion war began, he was sent to the surface to communicate with the local government because of a material dispute between the regiment headquarters and the local government.

The chip on the famous brand obviously has two layers of data protection mechanism, and these are the information left on the surface;
The information hidden at the bottom of the chip is perfectly encrypted and can only be fully opened by its own owner.

"Go home... take me home..."

The blue light on the name tag that can only be seen by psychics is flickering slightly.

Apparently, this soldier was persistent enough to persist in maintaining his own existence even after his death, and put his last wish on the name tag.

"understood."

Calvin replied in a low voice, and slightly tightened his hand holding the name tag. The old remnant soul received his response and nourishment, and was immediately taken into the city of his spiritual world.

This small deal is very cost-effective. In the opened second-layer data log, Calvin finally knows what kind of tragedy happened in this relatively prosperous planetary world.

Bull Tang is not a native here, on the contrary, he is also drawn from other galaxies.

Wollaston's No. 20 Heavy Armored Regiment was the last service unit in his military career, but it was not his first service unit.

This veteran has been conscripted from his hometown for more than 80 years. During the Southern and Northern Wars, he participated in dozens of battles, large and small;
The unit he served in was also reorganized several times after several heavy losses. The original name of the unit has long been unknown. Only his last service unit can still be found from the name tag.

But that's all there is to useful geographic information.

He who has not received higher education has long forgotten the location and name of his hometown.

Apart from the recurring blue-ribboned windows and the vague appearance of his family in his soul, he has no other valid information to offer Calvin.

"You're lucky..."

Calvin carefully read the log on the chip, thinking that after returning to the battleship, he would find the soldier's information in Orpheus's military command to fulfill his last wish.

But as the rows of cuneiform runes on the connected data board were brushed, his expression also became serious.

The time of the destruction of the world here is hugely different from his prediction:

This place was not destroyed in the initial Chaos invasion as he thought;

On the contrary, less than a year has passed since the destruction here!
The reason why it is so desolate is because a big demon has held a blasphemy ceremony here that can speed up the passage of time!

"Oh, it's an old rival, and it's Xin Liezhi's cub again!"

After closing the pages of the data pad and retracting it under the carapace at his waist, Calvin looked at another planet in the distance with a gloomy expression, and muttered in a low voice.

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