Warhammer: I am the Hammer of the Empire

Chapter 89 Titanium's Plan

Those who lurk underground will eventually rise together.

——————— Four-armed God Emperor Sect
Tau buildings have the style of different empires, especially there are no beds, chairs and other buildings in the bedrooms. Many imperial people regard this custom as they have no materials to make those things. After all, their thousands of years of history are only Hundreds of worlds are in their hands.

The tea bowl on the small wooden table was slowly turning, and the senior officials of the Shui clan handed out tea to their juniors. "Please use."

Titanium's female diplomat took a sip of tea, half the bowl was not full.

"My lord, why don't you set up a bureau to wipe out those humans?"

The high official replied. "I know how powerful he is, and I also understand that honesty and alliances can bring more benefits than fighting. Compared with this, isn't there still many existences in this world that are not planned for the best way?"

"They want titanium to provide them with respect, food, and rest. We need human strength, fighting, and changing the situation."

"Our Krugers are not suitable for pipeline combat. The Fire Clan will be weak without fire support. They are the strongest infantry fighters I have ever seen, which is why I tolerate them so much."

The female titanium diplomat put down the tea bowl incomprehension. "But my lord, how could they work for the higher good, they are the servants of the human emperor."

The senior official looked at the tea leaves floating in the water, which were constantly spinning in front of him. "Fate is a swirling vortex, and it is naturally attractive. They have been in the storm since they came to this world."

The senior officials of the Water Clan looked at the weather in this world that was gradually getting worse. The world transformed by titanium is actually not perfect. Their technology is still unable to stabilize the atmosphere made of titanium. Regular storms are brewing like natural disasters. Such a terrible thing Even more incomprehensible.

Thunderstorms rolled in thick clouds, the sky seemed to be thrown into a blender, the drastic weather changes changed the character of this world, beautiful like a garden?There are too few places like that.

And in the low-earth orbit of the Tau world, above the clouds, countless drones and worker bees are splashing some unknown liquid to gather and intensify the clouds, making the impact of negative ions inside more violent, and even the empire's Boldro Cruisers are unable to detect intelligence on the ground.

Booming, the heavy rain that wants to penetrate people completely falls down, and then condenses in the cold high altitude. The raindrops are dense like a sudden net, like the sudden increase of gravity, or like in the deep sea, the kind of "rain" Even the heavy armor of the Chimera could resist, and the buildings of the Tau and the fortresses of the Empire barely fell.

But marching under such conditions was absolutely impossible for infantry.

"My God, what is this?" Lieutenant Colonel Alan Bair cursed, and ordered the soldiers to hide inside the Chimera. The roaring engine was spinning at full speed, and a message from the 113th Informal Regiment of Fraxia came through the communicator. female voice.

"Lieutenant Colonel, this is the weather change in this world. There are underground pipelines nearby. Let's go in and wait for the rain to stop."

Alan Baier asked. "Isn't this rain? Will we drown if we enter the pipeline?"

replied the captain. "No, that's the drainage area of ​​the pipes. There needs to be enough space for drainage. There is only a small amount of fluid."

"We often find such a place to stay when we are patrolling and fighting guerrilla warfare, but you may need to get used to the smell there."

Alan Baier cursed. "I have lived in the hive capital, all the staff approached that coordinate, and the captain navigated."

A total of 5000 people hurried to the underground pipeline left by the empire. It was originally a pipeline used by the Mechanicum to discharge polluted liquid, but it has been completely abandoned now. The length can be calculated in kilometers. The residual smell of promethium is strong. , will not disperse for hundreds of years.

The gate of the drain was slowly activated by the soldiers of the Engineering Department twisting it with a wrench. It was driven by the source force of a tube of promethium. Two Chimeras in parallel, almost 9 meters, are only used to drain waste water, no wonder they can hollow out the entire world.

When the soldiers entered, a strange feeling emerged, the lumen balls glowed, illuminating the metal pipe walls, and the walls were covered with strange heretical drawings, such as the symbol of the Supreme Good with a skeleton and four arms.

Alan Bair commented. "Will you improvise like this?" He stuck to the wall and studied the scrolls with the light of the lumen ball. He knew such a liquid, like titanium blood?
replied the captain. "Sir, this is not what we did, but the Tau cultists who live here for a long time. They claim to be independent from the Supreme Good. They are called Shiji Disqualification. They live in the abandoned pipeline of the empire because of the persecution of the Tau tribe."

Heresy of the Tau, Alan Byer thought.They don't have the ability to contact the subspace, even if they don't agree with the higher good, it should be similar to vision... What is it?
"What do they believe in?"

The captain wasn't so sure. "Well... I don't have much business with them, it's just that they will bring us promethium to drive the equipment in the Mechanicus castle, but most of our weapons are from the Tau family... So our relationship is actually very indifferent."

"They live deep in the pipeline. Generally speaking, the Fire Clan will not encounter them in such weather, so you probably won't see them today."

Alan Bayer stroked the mural, the paint on it was still wet, I don't know if it was due to the weather or it was just painted on. "Let me teach you a lesson, don't say dead words, everything is possible."

"Secondly, the lifespan of titanium is about 40 years, and it is even less after being mated by gene stealers. Let's assume that it takes [-] years to fully mature one generation. The first two generations are latent, and the next one is open and bright. Now it happens to be the fifth period."

"And the original gene stealers are likely to be left over from the empire, which is also understandable. After all, the pipeline of the empire really needs to be rectified."

The captain asked incomprehensibly. "Gene Stealer? What are you talking about, my lord?"

Alan Bairby made a hissing gesture, and there was the damned carapace knocking sound of arthropods in the pipe, and it was not raindrops.

"Staff, give our recruits some science."

The staff officer sighed. "Genestealers are a Tyranid variety used as a raiding force, with the goal of pushing the Hive Fleet forward and locating planets that can be devoured by the Tyranids."

"They are the deadliest creatures in the galaxy, extremely cunning, lightning-fast, and with huge, razor-sharp claws, they can tear through the toughest armor in seconds."

"They'd be lurking in civilization, with the gene-stealers forming the first strike of the Zerg invasion, or slowly infiltrating the appropriate world hundreds of years before the invasion began, or something quicker."

"Either way, they would weaken the planet's defenses to pave the way for invasion."

"Once landing on a new world, the Genestealers will begin to seek out any form of life in an attempt to occupy those highly organized races."

"The Stealer will first gather infected Overlord victims who will produce Stealer/Host hybrids, starting a new generational cycle of hybrids that gradually give birth to more hybrids just like the Host race .”

"As the decades pass, the hybrids will spread into the host's society and begin to form covert stealer sects."

"The hearts of all sect members are connected to and controlled by the original stealer."

"The Stolen Sect will focus on controlling the political power of this society. They will pretend to be a legal religion, infect suitable hosts, multiply and grow, and conceal their true nature from the mainstream society."

The second lieutenant was terrified after sorting out the information. "Impossible, they are usually extremely stable, and..."

Alan Bair interrupted her. "Otherwise, what is it called camouflage, you will let others see it?"

Then there's the damn sizzle of a pulse rifle through the pipes. "Everyone is ready, pull out the insurance, we have been tricked, shoot!"

Whoosh beams, heat rays, the sound of damn chitin armor being melted by the wrath of the Imperial Guard, and the death of tons of horrific purebred [-]th Genestealers, those damn things stink disgustingly , In the distance, there are neatly equipped Fire Clan fighters with glowing battle uniform heads.

In the tau cities, the high officials of the Water clan listened to the report. "Very well, three hundred Fire Clan soldiers turned the Imperial Guard into insecticide, and those damn lurkers are fighting them."

the pretty female Tau diplomat asked uncertainly. "My lord, how are you sure that all those gene stealers have been killed?"

The senior official of the Shui clan suddenly turned around. "What do you mean? How could those brainless cults have other settlements? As long as the largest area is destroyed, our soldiers will focus on attacking..."

His words stopped suddenly, and the woman in front of him slowly bared her fangs, something that does not belong to the biological organization of the Tau race. not worried.

"For ascension is near, my lord."

"Damn..." The senior official of the Water clan pulled out the pulse pistol under his kimono, but it was too slow compared to a real Zerg warrior.

Almost instantly, unlike the Fire Clan fighter who has gone through countless trainings and can't see the enemy's attack at all, the bloody thing pounced on him and attacked him frantically.

Mere moments before he was dead, slashed in the neck by a deadly predator, but a violent burst of weapon fire changed his fate as the shirtless Catachan hunk rescued the poor man with his favorite shotgun shells. One life, and he was originally an important part of Alan Bair's control of the world.

Facts have proved that some people are in the upper layer and some people are in the atmosphere, but Catachan didn't expect that he would save the heretic's life one day, but he knew very well that the Tau in front of him was less of a threat than the Genestealer Church.

The high official, whose cheeks were wet with blood, wiped the tau-genestealer hybrid blood from his face and sighed.

"Have you counted?" he asked in Gothic.

Catachan replied. "I don't know, I can't count, and the lieutenant colonel doesn't know, but the plan can't keep up with the changes, and the changes can't keep up with the bombs."

The senior official laughed at himself ridiculously, and then asked. "There are so many Fire Clan fighters and xv25 reconnaissance battle suits here, how about you?"

Catachan merely wiped the longblade at his waist, for the treasure was stained with heretic blood. "Compared to the one-eyed ghost orc, your kid is weak, now pick up your weapon and call your soldiers."

the high official asked. "Why?"

Catachan looked at the city with thick smoke in the distance. This artificial rain guided not only Alan Baier's troops, but also countless lurking fourth-generation gene stealers.

They hadn't struck out solely because of the near-ground strikes of the dreaded orbiters and warships, but the Tau were self-defeating at this point, destroying what was most important.

Thick rain clouds mixed with thunderstorms and magnetic fields destroyed the electromagnetic detection and auspicious signals of titanium and imperial battleships, and the elite fire fighters of titanium also walked out of the camp to suppress the enemy at the first time. The only problem is also very simple, that is, the genetic The Stealer has already entered the Fire Clan.

It can even be said that because of the division of titanium clans, the gene stealers can even clearly know where their children will go. The monster in the tin armor opened fire, but suddenly heard a sentence.

"The ascension has come, and the devourer will always be there." Then the consciousness was taken away by his companion's electromagnetic rifle, and even they were talking and drinking yesterday, this is the horror of the gene stealer.

The most ironic thing is that the [-]th regiment of Skadi, which was evacuated in advance and all of them are humans, is stationed near the palace of the ether. Whether it is the starport dedicated to the ether or the temporary command room, it is protected by the human imperial guards. safety.

As for what pretends to be the gene-stealer offspring of refugees?What does it have to do with the Imperial Guard, you are all aliens, and only bombs and beams are used to treat them.

And the Gene Stealer Church also realized that the human beings here are a tough bone, but they couldn't take it down. When their hive master frantically contacted the will of the swarm and sent out a psionic signal from the subspace, that stupid guy realized Yes, the opposite answer is yes.

[Children, it's delicious. 】

Ascension?Fly into the stomach?

The soldiers transformed by the gene stealers and the pure blood of the gene stealers began to attack the star ports of this world frantically, hoping to plunder the warships of the Tau Empire and leave here.

The entire Tau home world is in chaos, black smoke, heavy rain, roaring gunboats and screams, betrayal, friends may suddenly grow fangs, Starport is surrounded by a large number of former civilians, Tau can only shoot with all their strength, Starport Most of them came from outsiders, so the rebellion here was quickly suppressed.

But the rest of the gene-stealer hybrids and purebreds who knew the will of the Great Devourer, those monsters with three or four arms or violently mutated bodies, were constantly bombarding them with the captured weapons.

It was the first time that Ti tasted what it was like to be bombed by his own people. Usually they are proud of their own firepower...

If it weren't for the starport as a strategic area full of energy shields, they might have fallen early.

But in today's underground pipeline, the soldiers of Skadi's first battle group have already won. Lieutenant Colonel Alan Bair stepped on the terrifying big head of the gene stealer who was still biting the air. It was as big as two people His body had been roasted crispy and tender by the beams.

The lieutenant colonel chopped off the head with his long blade, and then asked the staff. "What about our people in the city?"

The staff officer replied. "It's very cool to kill. The Ether Palace has firepower reserves, bunkers and cleared no-building areas, which are very suitable for defense."

Alan Baier continued to ask. "How about titanium now?"

The staff officer replied. "Those aliens are going to Xinggang, they can't hold it anymore."

Alan Baier asked. "How many empire worlds and alien worlds are there near this world?"

The staff returned. "12 in the Imperial world, 4 in the Titanium world, and 5 in the neutral world."

Alan Baier replied. "The fourth regiment of Skadi, the 113th regiment of Fraxia, all listen to the order and go to support the alien star port. We can't let the alien bastards here enter the empire world, not even one!"

At this moment, the entire Imperial Guard replied. "Yes, sir!"

(End of this chapter)