They chose the passage on the left, which seemed smaller and sloped downwards.
While the surrounding surface remained black, the strange text was now a striking silver, glowing when the lights passed by.
Soshiyang found that his breath began to form mist in front of the eyepiece. This was not a good sign, indicating that there might be something wrong with his oxygen circulation system. The World Engine is an environment where only Necron can survive, with no oxygen and no moisture. .
"Enter the enemy."
Suddenly, Axel in front stopped and everyone in the team quickly got into battle formation.
While Soshyang was alert to the surroundings, he looked over Axel's shoulder and looked ahead. At the same time, a rustling noise rising from the edge of his hearing was approaching.
"Stop firing."
Occam's voice sounded over the communication channel.
"Everyone, don't move."
Soshyan obeyed his instructions, as did the other team members, and they immediately saw what was making the noise.
At that moment, the Sosh admitted that he was indeed stunned.
Countless mechanical insect swarms emerged from the darkness and passed around them. They moved like liquid mercury, and the light of the lights reflected on the exoskeletons of tens of thousands of types of beetle creatures.
They quickly flooded the surrounding passageways, covering walls, roofs and floors as if in a moving tide.
The first person to come into contact with them was Axel, then Soshyan, and then the people behind.
They separated, then gathered together, filling every inch of space around them, and the friction as they passed was like a whisper.
Judging by their appearance, whatever they were, at least they weren't organic. Each one was smaller than a Space Marine's thumb, but made entirely of metal.
As the tide sweeps through the channel, each beetle is a perfect mirror image of the coordinated movements of its kind around it.
In just half a minute, the waves turned into streams, and the peak of the strange tide of insects passed, turning a blind eye to the motionless Space Marines.
As the rustling gradually weakened, the insect tide also disappeared into the darkness behind the team.
Seeing millions of little clicking metal legs walking past him, Axel finally let out the breath he had been holding.
"what are they?"
Axel asked.
When Soshyan remained silent, he turned to Occam, who shook his head.
"A blasphemous intelligence used by these aliens as maintenance workers. They will attack when frightened. Trust me, you don't want to know how they look like crazy."
"Keep going, be careful."
They walked lower, but the tunnels they followed were no longer uniform, and there were many sarcophagi scattered along the walls.
About twenty minutes later, they began to descend, when Soshyan noticed something strange in the communication channel, and an irritating crackle of static filled his ears.
And more importantly, some data of the power armor also began to fail - they seemed to get stuck the moment they reached the surface of the world engine, and other team members also reported the same thing.
Soshyan didn't expect any answers, he knew there wouldn't be any.
Soon, the passage reached the end. In front of them was a hall and two passages leading to the far end. The markings on the wall became larger and in the form of silver reliefs, while the roof arched like an array of black spines. stand up.
"Is this place marked on the auspicious omen? Occam."
"Yes."
The veteran lowered his head and looked at the auger.
"It seems like the left hand side here leads to a larger hall at the back."
"Good, keep it tight."
They quickly moved to a larger space. Although there were traces of battles here, there were no corpses, whether they were Space Marines or aliens.
There was only a giant base in the middle of the empty hall, with clusters of thick wires coiled around its sides like boas, connecting it to some kind of silver-skinned statue sitting on top.
At first glance, Soshyan thought it looked like some kind of giant, metallic spider, or an enlarged version of the tiny creature they'd encountered earlier.
Its shoulders are equipped with artificial crystal clusters, which glow when the illumination beam passes over it.
"Don't go near it."
Occam warned, and the team quickly took up positions around the hall, aiming their weapons at the pedestal and the statues above.
"It's dormant."
The veteran added, like that explained everything.
"We move on."
"An enemy is approaching from behind!"
Suddenly, Nad, who was at the rear of the team, issued a warning, and all the Space Marines turned around at the same time with incredible coordination, raising their bolters to cover the arch they had passed through before.
Then they heard a noise, the sound of footsteps.
It sounded a lot like the sound of a Space Marine walking by, a heavy clang of metal on metal, only the steps were limping and unsteady.
As the beam illuminated the dark passage, a moving flicker appeared, like a pale skin.
"what is that--"
Axel wanted to speak, but the words quickly got stuck in his throat.
At the same time, the figure limping toward the hall emerged from the edge of the archway.
It is a tall humanoid creature with a severe hunched back. It appears to be made of metal, but is slightly different.
Because it wore bloody human skin like a cloak, long strips of flesh coiled around its shoulders and shrugged behind it, the scarlet blood soaked most of the silver exoskeleton, and its red trophies were still dripping with blood. , the same goes for the evil long claws that serve as its hands.
What is even more creepy is that a human face hangs on its skull like a nightmare mask, with two green eyes burning in the empty sockets.
But it did not obtain the spoils without cost. Looking at the broken right foot and the wounds all over the body, you can see how the deceased fought back. Maybe it was originally very flexible, but now it is just a target.
"Shoot! Destroy it!"
The sound of the alien's footsteps was quickly drowned out by the thunder of bolters, and a wave of rage enveloped the creature as it shuffled into the hall.
With the sound of a hammer striking an anvil, the bolt smashed into its metal body, tearing away the moist skin and the living metal underneath.
The terrifying skull-like creature quickly disintegrated under such a violent attack. As the metal flew away, sparks and smoke erupted from the circuits.
It stopped its fitful progress and dropped to one knee, going into convulsions as its system was destroyed.
A bolt round then hit the side of its skull and exploded, exposing a portion of the damaged wiring lugs.
Eventually it collapsed, blood still pooling around the victim's flayed human skin.
"Die, monster."
Soshyan approached and fired one final shot into its head, blasting it into a cloud of sparks.
"what is that?"
Putting down the gun in his hand, Soshyang stared at the wreckage on the ground. He recognized the broken face as belonging to a soldier from the Fourth Company.
"A curse that may be why these Necrons have become so crazy."
Occam walked up and took a look, his tone revealing a hint of exhaustion.
"curse?"
"I have also heard that there is a plague-like curse among these aliens that will make them look like this. Maybe the owner of this tomb became crazy because he was aware of the spread of this curse..."
"No matter what the reason is, they are all aliens and must die."
After saying that, Suoshiyang suddenly noticed something strange happening in the auspicious instrument.
"Is there a new signal?"
