At the rear of the squad, another squad's response was drowned out by another burst of bolter fire.
It was obvious that an ambush was coming from both ends of the passage.
Beside Agnes, Sister Giovanna Freeman was cursing loudly - it was almost impossible to see in this chaos and bad lighting.
[From the blasphemy of the fallen...]
The prayer inspired Yanis' determination. She regained her standing position and tried to discern a clear vision among the chaos.
At this time, somewhere in the darkness, a low and chaotic voice came, and began to form a strange and dirty song.
Then the sound broke away again, and laughter began.
The unknown enemies became more and more crazy as they laughed, attacking the nuns regardless of casualties.
As the commander, Velez was also confused. At first she thought this was a group of predators.
But then she realized that things were not that simple. These almost humanoid creatures were actually completely different from humans. They were too deformed and weird, and they were not the outlines she could recognize at all.
She had seen countless enemies of humanity on the data pads in the academy, but never like this.
But no matter what, they are alien species and invaders of the empire.
So they will all die!
Velez fired, and the bullet whizzed past a nun's shoulder, and she heard a cry as the bullet struck a creature covered in spikes.
She then ordered the heavy weapons man to continue firing and told the squad to move forward, step by step under cover.
In the communicator, she heard the Erin team singing a prayer ferociously and vigorously, and then saw the flamethrower spitting out tongues of flame - the corridor was completely washed away by its instantaneous explosion.
Howls of rage and pain began to echo, followed by explosions.
Then she heard one of the sisters hiss in sudden pain, but she couldn't tell which one.
"The aisle is blocked by corpses!"
This time the voice came from Jenny.
"We can't go any further!"
"The elevator is on the left, you hold the enemy behind first!"
Jenny obeyed, turned and ran, her sisters behind her doing the same, their armor gleaming in the dance of firelight.
But they slipped after taking only a few steps, their steps sliding due to the splattered blood. The entire space seemed to be filled with fighting and roars, mostly from the group of creatures with muscles and metal.
Suddenly, a huge clawed hand grabbed Velez's shoulder. Without thinking, she turned around and gave the thing a blast in the head, then walked up the steps to the top.
"Throne!"
When they reached the lift, Velez cursed:
"Where did they come from?"
Outside the firelight, a large group of monsters emerged from the darkness. They were undisciplined and rough, and they were all trying to push their way to the front. The largest one had three arms, and each arm was equipped with an ax with a notch. , when it waded forward among the beasts, it smashed the small ones in front of it to pieces.
Just as it reached the steps, Velez's bolt pistol fired a clean blast into its face.
But the other party didn't take it seriously and walked straight towards her, roaring loudly.
But it didn't notice that there was a round metal object under its feet. When it took out its legs again, the detonated grenade tore off its entire lower body.
"Along the lift
keep going! "
Velez's tone turned cold as he dealt with his opponent.
"Stay alert, sisters, there is more out there!"
The nuns beat all the monsters along the new corridor, their prayers uninterrupted, and they remained feverish and tense because of their concentration and anger.
Suddenly, the offensive of these monsters began to stop. They abandoned their fallen counterparts and seemed to be retreating, but their rough and harsh roars never disappeared.
"More of them will come, now, go!"
The team began to run, turning around corridors and cranes before arriving at a staircase suspended above a bottomless pit.
The cold air blew across their faces from below, a breath of death coming from some vast and empty space,
"Down here is the engine room, but why—"
Velez smelled moisture, which meant there might be water underneath.
With doubts, Velez led the team down.
Sure enough, there was a dark pool of water at the end of the stairs, and Velez frowned.
There will indeed be a lot of cooling water in the engine room, but it will never leak out all at once. Then there is only one possibility - the people inside once wanted to use this water to block something.
So did they succeed?
After thinking for a while, Velez took the lead into the sewage.
The water was not deep, up to her waist at most, so the team began to wade forward.
This empty space was undoubtedly huge. Velez felt like a small, creaky creature straddling the underbelly of a giant beast. No matter where she went, her position was always different. It was clearly marked by the lights of her armor and the waves raised by her movement.
Suddenly, something hit her calf in the thick and dirty water, as if something was about to attack her.
She swallowed the nauseating feeling and glanced down, but the dark water completely absorbed the light, making it impossible to see what was under the water.
So she could only choose to pass them quickly.
【You will punish these heretics...】
Velez keeps telling herself that she knows what to do and she knows how to apply everything she learns so that her players can trust her.
However, this is all just theory.
She cannot shake her confidence, the current situation does not allow her to do so.
Velez walked to the front of the line and used her tiny light to illuminate the route as much as possible, but the situation was still the same. She saw nothing. It felt like she was being swallowed alive by something. She didn't even have a clue. Are you going in the right direction or are you just going in circles?
There are no signs or convenient guidance down here.
【You cannot forgive them...】
But now she had no choice but to force herself to continue wading forward, exploring the boundaries of the water and any possible survivors with growing fear.
However, as she pushed forward, pushed forward, and pushed forward again, there was still nothing in front of her.
The desolation of the place began to spread around her, vast and cold.
It made her dizzy, as if a sharp breath streaked across her throat.
It seems that this is not the interior of the space station at all, but a lightless void filled with scraping sounds, metallic groans, and harsh friction sounds.
These sounds echoed with fear, the creaking murmur was like an endless cry of pain, like an invisible threat crawling on the ground, stretching around it as if without any boundaries, like
Her pocket watch chimed for the hour—a faint, familiar chime echoing across the water.
The ticking sound brought Velez back to her thoughts. She stopped and listened with bated breath.
But there is only cold around,
only darkness,
There was just something touching her calf—
