From the residential area to the temple, there is a rock forest in between - large and small gray-white stone pillars are crowded together, and there are only a few paths to pass through.
Despite Soshyan's extreme caution, the accident happened while walking through the rocky forest.
The man leading the way suddenly disappeared without warning when he led the team around a three-meter-high stone pillar.
Soshyan noticed nothing.
There were no shouts, no footsteps, and no trace of psychic energy.
But the man disappeared so silently less than three meters away from them.
"Is this a trap?"
Armin protected the boy behind him and looked around cautiously. The boy woke up ten minutes ago, but he never said a word.
"Be aware of your surroundings and move forward."
Although he lost his guide, Sosh Yang glanced at the temple not far away and found that they were no more than five hundred meters away from that place.
It was obvious that staying here was more dangerous than moving.
The team then began to advance towards the temple.
But after walking for five minutes, Soshyan realized that they had not gotten closer to the temple. The layout of this rocky forest was a bit weird.
"Thor, what do you think?"
At a critical moment, he once again turned to the veteran's rich experience.
Thor glanced around, then took out a few grenades from his waist and said with a smile:
"I once heard the World Eaters say that any maze cannot be walked out, because it is a mental trap, so you must abandon unnecessary thoughts and ideas."
As he spoke, he threw a grenade forward.
boom----!
The powerful armor-breaking grenade exploded, followed by rubble falling from the sky like rain.
"Walk."
The team walked into the smoke and saw that a huge gap had been blown out of the dense stone forest, and they were finally closer to their target.
Another grenade followed, but this time the explosion was larger than the previous one, and the overwhelming smoke and dust directly involved the team.
Soshyang took a step back. He couldn't see the team members and could only feel each other's presence.
Suddenly, he found that there seemed to be one more person in the team——
Or a shadow.
Right behind him, following closely...
"who!"
Sosh Yang reacted immediately, dodged to the left, and sensed an attack before the sound of tearing the air arrived.
A silent, deadly, praiseworthy attack.
Sosh Yang rolled around on the ground in a panic, then waved his sword to block the next attack.
Immediately, the metal made a loud noise from the violent impact.
But for some reason, Suoshiyang suddenly couldn't feel other people.
He seemed to be isolated, or to have come to an independent space, with only the lingering smoke, himself, and an unknown enemy.
At this time, the sound of breaking through the air struck again.
Soshiyang twisted his body, trying to turn the ball around, but this move also exposed the left side of his body.
With just a moment of opportunity, the barbed metal claws quickly penetrated into the gap between Sosh Yang's left shoulder armor and neck guard like a poisonous snake.
Pain came from his neck, and Soshiyang felt an unprecedented crisis. He suppressed the roar that was about to blurt out, and suddenly stretched out his left hand to grab the opponent's wrist.
But his idea was in vain. Before he stretched out his hand, the opponent had already broken away from him, and when he pulled out his claws, a string of blood beads came out.
"Who are you?"
Soshiyang felt that the other party was one meter away, but he couldn't see anything.
Then, he felt the strong wind coming from the ground, as fast as lightning.
Sosh Yang could only retreat backwards, but he could feel the sharp claws stabbing his face and aiming at his eyes, intending to blind rather than kill.
He staggered and dodged the attack, then swung his sword forward to slash, but missed.
At this time, a cold touch appeared on the back of his neck.
As long as he does everything gently, maybe his head will fall to the ground.
"stop!"
Suddenly, Thor shouted loudly, followed by the roar of explosive bombs, and the bullets whizzed past Sosh Yang.
Along with a gust of wind, the cold touch left behind Sosh Yang, and then he heard the sound of bullets being cut and exploding, and the existence disappeared into the darkness.
"Where did he go?"
Soshiyang held a gun in one hand and a sword in the other, slowly turning around, using his ears to detect even the smallest sound, and his eyes and other senses looking for any movement that could launch an attack.
But everything disappeared, the smoke gradually dissipated, and then Thor walked towards him with a bolt pistol, and others appeared nearby.
"Chapter Commander, what happened? Why did you suddenly leave the team?"
Hearing Armin's words, Soshyang looked at Thor.
"You suddenly broke away from the team just now, and then we looked for you, but we couldn't find you until I heard the sound of fighting."
"is that so?"
Sosh Yang fell into deep thought, and then he looked at the dissipating smoke.
"These cigarettes are weird..."
"This isn't smoke."
Suddenly, a childish voice attracted the attention of the Space Marines. They looked down and found that it was the timid Nick.
"What is this, Nick?"
"Well...I heard from grandma that there is a kind of ghost insect underground. They are very small. When they gather together, they are like a large smoke. They can make people invisible and unable to hear. Even if they stand next to each other, they can't feel anything. When they reach the other side, the miners will be trapped and die in the mines if they are entangled by ghost bugs, and then the ghost bugs will eat their corpses..."
"I see……"
Thor nodded.
"This microscopic organism may produce some type of pheromone that disorients the senses."
"The important thing is, will we encounter each other again in the future?"
Soshyan gets to the heart of the matter.
Thor turned his head and thought for a few seconds, then looked in the direction where the second grenade had just landed.
"This creature feeds on corpses, so that means..."
After he led the team forward for dozens of meters, he found a large number of skinned corpses on the stone pillars, most of which were pure-blood gene stealers.
"Leave those bodies alone."
After Thor saw that the corpses were covered with a layer of white "fluff", he quickly summoned other soldiers.
Obviously, the explosion just now alerted these microscopic insects, which gave the other party an opportunity to take advantage of them.
With experience, the team moved more carefully, carefully checking for bodies before using grenades to clear a path.
After wandering like this for half an hour, they finally arrived at the temple.
Although it is a temple, from the outside, it looks more like a crude building made of simple stacks of square rocks. It does not have the complicated decorations of most religions, nor does it have any inscriptions or monuments, or even facilities for worship. , there is only one staircase leading straight to the open door in the center of the building.
Everyone was alert to the darkness around them and climbed the stairs step by step.
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