"We received an order from Blue Ant to deliver supplies to the mining station here and transport the precious minerals from the warehouse. It was supposed to take four months, but Blue Ant's senior management seemed to have heard something and was anxious to carry out the process. Hands on these precious minerals.”
Listening to Rosen pouring out the beans, Talos nodded slightly.
"So, do you know where the blue ants' nest is?"
"Well--"
Seeing Rosen hesitate again, Talos waved his hand.
"Sablin, cut off his left ear and drink it for me."
"yes."
Hearing the sound of knives and footsteps coming from behind, Rosen quickly covered his ears with his hands and said loudly:
"I know I know!"
"Can you take us there?"
"Yes, yes! I've long been unhappy with those thieves, vampires, and bastards! They are a disgrace to the empire! Just looking at them has stained my pure soul of faith in the God-Emperor—"
With a thud, the dagger was inserted an inch in front of Rosen's knee, frightening him to retreat quickly.
"Shut up."
Talos stood up from the throne and looked at Sabourin and others.
"Now that you've done it, do it to the end. There's no need to keep this blue ant."
The Blue Ant's headquarters is located in the Engels Galaxy, a small galaxy with only four or five planets. Its stars are dimmer than most stars, so they appear very inconspicuous even on star maps.
But the star thieves chose this place not just for concealment. The Engels system is located in the center of the Storm Star field. It has convenient transportation, which is very conducive to their transportation of minerals. It is also close to the star system where space warriors are stationed, and it is relatively good in all aspects. Safety.
Therefore, after choosing a place, the star thieves spent decades building a huge space station in the galaxy.
It includes microgravity factories, trading areas, soilless planting areas, storage areas, trading areas, residential areas, etc., and is home to hundreds of thousands of people. It is almost a space city.
Every once in a while, the merchant fleet belonging to the Blue Ants will leave here loaded with refined precious metals and go to the black markets in various star regions for trading.
Blue Ant's fleet not only has merchant ships, but also several small frigates, which are more than enough to deal with ordinary pirates. However, in order to prevent provoking the Ministry of Justice or other law enforcement agencies in the empire, Blue Ant's armed fleet rarely leaves their posts and will only accompany merchant ships. The team goes out.
But no one could have imagined that these frigates would be controlled one by one before the alarm sounded.
In other words, no one can tell what happened in the first hour.
So when the defense array failed, all the detectors failed, and the entire space station instantly became deaf, blind, and defenseless, everyone just thought it was a malfunction.
"The external scanners appear to be functioning normally, but we have detected some kind of unidentified signal, somewhat akin to an electromagnetic storm, my lord."
"please repeat."
A voice answered on the communicator.
Vedev, the chief mechanical priest of the Blue Ant Group, took a deep breath, lowered the breathing mask surrounding his face, and repeated his words word by word.
"That's great news, gentlemen."
On the other end of the communicator, the CEO of Blue Ant Group made a slightly dissatisfied voice.
"So we are gentlemen now?"
Beside Vedev, his apprentice Ike whispered.
"So I'm assuming all systems are temporarily unrecoverable, right?"
Although frost had condensed on the inside of his helmet, Vedev smiled.
"Yes, my lord."
He didn't say much about the fact that most such systemic failures actually take months to repair.
"Gentlemen, you are the most outstanding mechanics in the group. I hope you can understand that the headquarters cannot afford to have the system offline for even one day. This will result in a loss of approximately 12.3% of monthly turnover. This is the responsibility of all of us. .”
"I know, I will contact-"
Suddenly, the sound stopped.
"Gentlemen?"
The CEO's voice rang out, but the communicator had fallen onto the outer shell of the space station.
"Where are the people?"
Ike hit the ground first, and his face was slapped hard on the metal. He said nothing and did nothing, except for the silent flow of blood.
The fighting knife that passed through his head killed him instantly.
Vedev was still alive when he fell. He stretched out his blood-stained hand towards the emergency rune button of his announcer, but did not have the strength to press it down - the blood-stained fingers caused chaotic patterns to be painted on the surface of the button. .
"Gentlemen?"
the executive asked again.
"police--"
When Vedev took his last breath, he roared with all his strength, and then fell silent again.
In a gorgeous office of the space station, the white-haired CEO in a decent uniform looked at the director of the Security Department. This former colonel of the Astra Militarum and a nobleman of a certain hive city was fiddling with something. The hem of his robe.
"There seems to be some interference. This is wired communication."
The director of security took a breath and replied nonchalantly:
"What else could it be?"
"I heard someone screaming, seriously."
The Guardsman Zhang tried to force himself to smile, but was not completely successful. Out of respect for the elderly, even though the old man, one of the founders of Blue Ant, was not as hearing as before, everyone knew that he had to repeat his words to the CEO. What was said.
"I believe it was a distraction."
The young nobleman said it again.
"Maybe so."
The executive stretched out his hand and scratched his white hair and took another breath.
"If communication between the two gentlemen has not been restored in ten minutes, it would make me more comfortable to send out a search party. You heard the noise and the screaming. It's too bad..."
"People from the Adeptus Mechanicus are not that prone to trouble, my lord."
"Dead or alive, we should get them back."
Suddenly, the voice channel flickered again, and it seemed to be adjusted.
"It does seem to be interference."
said the old man, but paused as his fingers reached for the dial.
A voice sounded from one end of the communicator, but the speaker's voice didn't sound like a human being. It was too low, too vague, and too cold.
"Hide in your dens, mortals, lock your doors, hold your families close, and wait to hear our roar. Tonight, we are here for you."
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There was chaos on the street. When Yan Coy, the middle manager of Blue Ant, took his pistol, he didn't expect it to have any effect. He just thought that there was no one on the street, so he planned to go home to find his wife. Son.
But he was wrong.
As soon as he came out, he caught a glimpse of the creature, which was nearly one meter taller than an ordinary person and was dressed in armor that seemed to appear in mythology.
At the feet of the thing were three human bodies that were still bleeding. Each body was in pieces and shapeless, with ashes staining the exposed muscles black.
In the bravest moment of his life, Ion raised his pistol.
Then the warrior suddenly turned around, holding a blood-stained chain saw and a gorgeous bolt pistol in his hands.
Then there was a loud crack of lightning and thunder.
Arn felt something hit his abdomen like a truck. He couldn't even scream, and then all the air in his lungs was squeezed out.
He didn't even have time to fall down before his abdomen exploded, and was blown into pieces in just a split second.
He saw the stars twinkling and the buildings shaking. When his chest hit the ground, he fell into darkness. The light of life in his eyes disappeared when his head fell to the ground and shattered, and his internal organs were scattered on the ground.
Until his death, he did not realize when the killer appeared.
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