Warhammer: I am the Hammer of the Empire.

Chapter 229
Cold is not the privilege of the ground, and it is even more extreme in the underground. Skadi is far away from the stars, and the temperature is below zero all year round, but the underground is even better. A large amount of liquid water also accumulates in underground caves, and then turns into walls as solid as rocks.

Interestingly, this large and huge cavity is not naturally generated, but the wonderful result of the human empire's tens of thousands of years of excavation. A large amount of groundwater condenses here, and the density of ice formed by low temperature and pressure is comparable to fine gold.

It is not only the source of most of the water resources of Skadi's hive, but also the last bit of mineral buried in the ice is the only natural source of income for Skadi, a world that is exhausted.

Cold, huge, and completely controlled by a large family, no one knows what's in it, understandably, this is the only area in this world that has not been thoroughly explored by humans, or 2 years ago, people in the Dark Ages already knew it I knew it, but I forgot it because of time.

In other words, in this era, human beings are facing each other because of the remnants of the broken ore that everyone looked down upon in the past two glorious times. Big families assassinate each other, miners fight, and the output may only be one percent of what it was before. .

After being soaked in the blood of tens of thousands of people, this place has become even more mysterious. After the contemporary Sterling family took over, the ice mine has not been opened for a long time. Now, the imperial guards set foot here, thick The mask had to be taken off due to the freezing temperature on the void suit.

The empire's cutting-edge technology that can endure cosmic radiation and zero degrees is also helpless for this damn place, the narrow entrance to the pothole, and the flickering old lumen ball, which is why Alan Bayer chose this place.

"Boss, how long has this place been abandoned?" The second lieutenant trembled, breathed out to warm his fingers, then put on gloves that were thick enough to prevent the firing from pulling the trigger, and asked his officer as usual, big or small.

Alan Baier didn't mind either, and just wiped the blurred sign on the entrance of this ancient pothole with his heavy gloves. "About 300 years, because the priest detected that this place is extremely prone to landslides, but the reality is that 500 years ago, this place was warned to stop work, but before that family collapsed, people were still coming and going here until 300 years ago."

The hive world of this era is like this, human life is not worth mentioning under the benefits, one catty of alloy material needs one life to pay back, and one shining gem can make hundreds of people die.

The entrance to this place has become narrow due to years of disrepair, and many places have collapsed. The rails and mine carts that used to stay here are already rusty. The lack of space makes it impossible to use large machinery here, and it is difficult to bring a large number of soldiers down. That's why they are ignored by cultists.

Just as Alan Baier thought, the large number of recycling tasks in the square made the garrison troops here stretched out, and it was impossible to handle all the mine entrances extending in all directions.

However, the transportation capacity of this cave is really not good. When entering here, the narrow cave and the risk of collapse will make it dangerous to enter the cave.

The Lord of the Sun arranged for several soldiers who had worked in the mine to walk ahead, and looked at the long and deep tunnel that could only pass through about 6 people side by side. Active Mr Kane.

If he was with the Skadi this time, Alan Bair would probably change his combat strategy and instead attack the main mining area head-on and take down the core area.

But nothing happened. When the troops slowly stepped into the area made of ice, the dim lights of the promethium lamps held by the imperial guards reflected each other in the colorful ice, playing like elves.

This place is very beautiful, like a world made up of precious stones. When its scale is so large, the uncanny craftsmanship of the entire world will appear before the eyes of the imperial people, but even so, the Sun Lord still emphasizes. "Don't touch the ice, don't stick to the walls, stay alert!"

Even if this place is solid, when a series of metal pillars and shocking cracks appear on it, this place reminds the Imperial Guard once again that it may collapse anytime and anywhere.

The more beautiful and valuable the place, the more deadly it is. How many grand pictures in this universe can only be viewed once in a lifetime?
"How far is it from the core mining area?" Alan Bayer asked the chief of staff, and he replied. "About half an hour."

"So how about the structural strength here?" Alan Baier asked again, and he returned. "If there is no battle, it is completely enough to use."

"Send a signal to the front troops and request stealth operations." Alan Bayer sighed, this place is still the next choice, there are not enough manpower, they can only attack by surprise, hold their breath, there are cultists and space fighters here, counting Unclear enemies and vicious attack devices.

And the big army has already left, and cleaning up this star area is also the top priority. He will not wait and compromise, and the speed of the army is precious. The Sun Lord relies on putting himself in dangerous places again and again to challenge the gods and Superman.

He is a lunatic. When the body of the soldier passed by the pillar that was about to collapse, the people here are all lunatics.

They are the ghosts of Skadi, unfettered, homeless, floating in the void, but now they have the opportunity to go back, with their fists, blades, and guns.

Step forward in an orderly manner, those cracks can not scare anyone, except those timid cultists, now only the road is moving forward slowly under the Skadi military boots.

At this moment, the time is stretched for a long time, as if this road has no end, but no matter how long it is, there will be an end. When the light suddenly appears, fate has chosen its end, and Skadi's elite crawls like a dragon and tiger hidden in the forest. Quiet and deadly.

And the patrol team of about a few people outside the finish line asked the Skadi soldiers to turn off the equipment, light, a dead silence, only the sound of those cultists breathing.

It's too quiet here, and the more quiet it is, the more difficult it will be for sneaking. The temperature here is extremely low, and they can't stay in place for too long without food and heat. Exercise is also the main source of heat and body temperature.

the soldiers asked. "I found the enemy guarding, unable to move forward."

The Sun Lord spoke with cold eyes. "Warm us with their blood, boys."

They aimed at the throat, trachea, or vocal cords on the opposite side. After only a moment, a surprise attack followed. The light of guns, flickering, and the sound of bayonets sinking into flesh and blood, those battles and desires expanded and changed constantly in this narrow place. The hot blood moistened the thick clothes, and then turned into ice crystals. The Skadi let go of his vengeful palm, and the red that formed on the blade was as bright as if it had just flowed out of a wound.

And the shooting just now, the shooting of the traitor's dying struggle, when the throat was cut but he would not die immediately, adrenaline, death, guilt, fear, chaos, the traitor shot and hit the dying support pillar.

"Damn it, move forward, move forward at the fastest speed!" The Sun Lord scolded, patter, patter, footsteps appeared like raindrops in this quiet deep underground, when the rumbling sound continued, after the end, The entrance to the Imperial Guard was completely buried.

"Damn it, we have no way out!" Master Chief Catachan cursed secretly, and the Sun Lord just patted him on the shoulder. "Then look for a new one. We used to feel that our homeland is gone, there is no way to retreat, and no one to protect, but the reality is that there is no unparalleled road, brothers."

"What is the underground?! We came here through half of the limit star field! What enemies, what red pirates, what hope, what despair, are all fake!" Alan Bayer spat out a mouthful of mist, chattering endlessly talking.

"Now move forward, brothers, in this cold home, we need to know what the enemy is doing, and we need to know how to serve the Emperor."

Yes, no matter how fate plays tricks, no matter how disadvantageous the war is, they have only one thing to pay, but death, the soldiers here are not necessarily afraid of death.

Because they once swore an oath in front of the emperor, willing to use their slender souls to cross the empire's myriad ghosts.

Some people think that sacrifice is stupid, but in the [-] years of human civilization, only sacrifice can make human beings crawl forward in this dark universe, lingering like crawling.

The Empire today, which needs so many souls to burn just to be alive, is so bad it is terminally ill, and the Skadi of today are the countless antibiotics injected into their bodies, keeping the enemies of the Empire at bay until there is One day those monsters are no longer afraid of them, until one day, the universe is completely destroyed.

The imperial guard's auspicious instruments here ticked off complex holographic concepts, in the monitors of scouting troops and commanders, among the struggling imperial guards, indicating the direction of the chaotic road ahead.

This place was huge, cold, and icy like heaven and earth, and although it was empty, it was made up of countless gaps big enough for tanks to pass through. It was too big for a single person, or even for thousands of imperial guards.

The number of cultists is not much at the edge, and the piecemeal evil makes the few cold air here even more turbid and fetid.

Soon Alan Bayer found the corner marked with the chaotic eight-pointed star, which seemed to convey some information. He realized that his troops seemed to have stumbled to the vicinity of the core area. When the concept of chaos, the sound of laser gun shooting appears.

This kind of thing happened 6-7 times in the short exploration of the Skadi people in less than an hour. Basically, the cultists were stationed here, and Alan Bayer's thoughts were disrupted time and time again.

When the elite troops burned the enemy again, they had to come up with one thing, one thing that made people even more dissatisfied. "Sir, the energy battery is running low, we have consumed too much along the way."

It is impossible for Alan Baier to find the Bordeaux, and he told her that he had no choice but to throw a few supplies down now. He could only say that during this period of time, he prayed that he would not encounter the enemy again, and that they could find a way to enter the so-called fortress. .

Soon, the Emperor blessed, the Imperial Guard discovered that in this narrow and cold place, in the gleaming ice caves, there were a lot of minerals wrapped in the sharp ice stalactites, and a large number of laborers were digging.

They are skinny and have very few clothes, which can't satisfy the resistance to the cold at all, and those who are frozen to death will be dragged away, and then someone from the cultist's stronghold will take out a few pieces of starch.

And here is also the largest pothole Alan Bayer has ever seen. A mine vein stands here intact, and the number of workers working through the bird divination instrument is 6.

At the same time, the number of those cultists is also huge, almost three times that of Skadi soldiers. It cannot be said that they cannot be taken down, but there will definitely be a price.

Alan Bair had to ask them. "Whether we fight or not, we can't win here without loss. You have to be clear, our strategic goal is to find that fortress."

"But I will support all the decisions of my compatriots. You need to save your family, friends, brothers and sisters, don't you?" Alan Baier asked this simply because he has no family, at least he has no real family. Where is your family?

The commemoration of the Skadi people is more for fighting today. The brothers who are the same as the Imperial Guard, rather than the same blood in this cruel world, but he will always respect the things his brothers choose, which is why the Sun Lord There are so many people gathered around.

But how is this question not cruel to Skadi soldiers?Family compatriots, imperial righteousness, choosing that, abandoning that is full of pain.

An embarrassing silence spread in this usually bustling team, Alan Bayer asked impatiently. "Second lieutenant, you are usually the most talkative, tell me, do you want to fight?"

The second lieutenant immediately looked at the recruit who had been transferred from a private to a lieutenant, and he immediately realized it. "The Leitlings and I are both residents of Panlan, this matter..."

"My advice is…"

Alan Baier immediately interrupted his words. "I don't care what you think, you don't need to participate in the battle, I just need to know how people born in Skadi will choose, they can't rely on me forever, I am not a god, I am an ordinary person, I will need to eat and drink water , can fucking shit and also has sexual needs."

"One day, the Skadi regiment will leave me. I don't want you to have no judgment!"

Silence, long silence, those veterans lowered their heads, indeed, the Skadi people have come to the present thanks to the Sun Lord, that kind of dependence goes deep into the bone marrow, miracles come and go, but how long can such days last?
Everyone is precarious, and enough comrades left to pile up hills, one day, Skadi will not be worthy of the name, unless...

Now the ensign shouted. "I want Skadi to exist forever. Skadi's infantry will become the glory of the empire, and those experiences, wars, and victories are all our experiences and badges in this universe."

"If it's meaningless not to want our brothers and sisters to die, then listen to me, save the compatriots here, and then ask them, is there anyone who wants to punch those heretics in the face!"

The second lieutenant learned 8% of the power of the Sun Lord, and the remaining [-]% ​​he needs to enter the legendary black library...

But enough is enough, when the war, the fate is like raindrops, and did not kill a person, after three years, the seeds have grown enough to shelter from the wind and rain...

There was no objection, Alan Baier sighed as he looked at the undrinkable coffee in his kettle. "Okay, a bunch of stupid guys, let's go to war!"

(End of this chapter)