Mattie Rodlin is hiding in the nursery of her family. Her mother is a gardener who cultivates precious alien flowers for rich people, and her father is a teacher who teaches the children nearby to read, write and... pray.
But she hadn't seen them for a while. She had been waiting for them to come home.
Outside, the girl could hear everyone running for their lives and crying, and the city's sirens were mixed with some crying.
She wanted to go out and look for her parents, but she was afraid.
Suddenly, she heard heavy footsteps approaching from far away.
Her heart beat faster with each passing minute.
Then something blocked the dim light from her window and the girl pulled the blanket up slightly, now she needed it to hide.
The footsteps lingered for a moment and then disappeared.
The girl hesitated for a moment, but did not dare to put down the blanket.
Bang!
Suddenly, the door to the basement was knocked open, and several rough men in jackets broke in - there were also many fugitives and gang members here in Blue Ant.
"Brother, it must be safe here."
"Damn it! What kind of monsters are those? I saw it tearing a bull alive with its bare hands. That was a bull! A victorious thug in the gang!"
"They appear to be Astartes....I've seen them on church murals."
The men came in, immediately closed the door behind their backs, and blocked it with cabinets.
Each one of them was panting, with the fear of facing death.
Suddenly, one of the guys with a mohawk finally noticed a petite figure huddled in the corner of the basement.
"Fuck! I have to feel good before I die!"
He walked over and hugged Maddie as she screamed, then threw the struggling girl onto the table and began tearing her clothes off, joined by several others.
"Damn it! I found it first! I was the first one!"
Mattie felt countless pairs of disgusting rough hands touching her skin. She cried and struggled, but to no avail. There were only a few pieces of cloth left on her body, and her legs were grabbed hard.
boom!
First there was a loud bang.
"grass--"
Then there was a short scream, and Maddie suddenly felt a warm liquid splashing on her body.
The first thing she did was to shrink her body, then lowered her head and saw several mutilated corpses and squirming internal organs soaked in blood.
The strong smell of blood and the horrific scene stimulated her intestines, causing her to retching subconsciously.
At this time, a tall human figure walked past her, threw the blanket she had used to block the window, and then came to the flower pots.
"you--"
Mattie raised her head and saw a giant, a blood-stained giant wearing dark blue armor. The other person was facing away from her, staring at a flower.
Then he reached out and picked one from the culture pot marked 2.
It was a faint blue multi-petaled flower, but the edge was as bright red as blood.
Mattie remembered her mother saying that this kind of flower has a special blooming time. The flower is beautiful and hidden. The flower core is always wrapped in the flower film, and no one can see it. It is like a silent flower heart that withers quietly.
It is said that in the origin of this flower, travelers who have troubles and have to travel far will always pick a flower and keep it with them to symbolize their silent thoughts and the lonely road ahead.
Therefore this flower is also called the silent flower.
The giant turned around and looked at the girl with the scarlet eyes on the pale skull mask, then slightly raised the wordless flower in his hand, and then inserted it into his armed belt.
Before he left the basement, he suddenly turned to the girl and said something.
"If you don't want to die, go to Area B now without bringing any weapons."
When Sabourin came out of the basement, his team members all noticed that he had an extra flower on his waist, but no one was curious enough to ask.
"The company commander asked us to be responsible for order, but I really want to join him in killing those star pirate leaders who are huddled together and trembling."
With a sigh, Sablin shook his head.
"Let's go, brothers, there seems to be gunfire around here."
Talos pulled out the lightning claws from the biochemical slave warrior, feeling sick in his body.
The liquid covering the corridor was not human blood, but a foul-smelling green fluid that came from a brass tube stuck in a slave's back.
Many similarly modified creatures fell around him.
Talos initially thought that these creatures were unconscious servitors, but their severe fear and despair revealed some spirituality that the semi-artificial creatures of the Mechanicus did not have. Finally, he discovered that these men and women were once complete human beings who had been illegally carried out. Transformed into a weapon, it is obvious that the crimes committed by Blue Ant are not limited to theft.
"No one is left in this building."
Talos issued a cold verdict. Those who had crossed the line would naturally have to bear the consequences.
His lightning claw flashed in the red light of the passage. Talos was not actually very good at using this weapon, but it was a symbol that he had to let the Dire Sons know about this weapon.
Talos did not go straight to the target point, but chose a less conspicuous route to bypass the defense lines that the enemy might deploy. The main structure of this space station is actually an enlarged version of Blue Ant's space stations in other galaxies. There is a line that almost runs through the entire The central corridor of the hub, but Talos chose the route of the outer corridor, which had already been in a mess by the side salvo of the Starfire strike cruiser.
Using the results of Starfire's pre-battle scans, Talos drew a layout map in his mind, allowing him to move freely in and out of the breakthrough area, making it impossible for the defenders to determine the route of the Dire Sons.
There were twenty other warriors with him, but as Talos fought towards his target, the warriors who accompanied him were little more than onlookers.
These mortal objects, even modified ones, are just straw in front of real Space Marines.
Talos advanced quickly and encountered several dozen more biochemical slaves in the next corridor, equipped only with wrenches, hammers, and long iron chains.
Some of them carried biochemical implants, others carried tanks of artificial acid. They all had pale skin, bloodshot eyeballs, and their bodies were covered in sweat from fear and exhaustion. There was no war cry as they pounced on the Space Marines. There was resignation, even relief, in his eyes.
Talos's lightning claws shot left and right, cutting down several Cyborgs with each strike.
Other warriors also swarmed forward, using their blades to turn metal into scattered fragments, and flesh and blood into splashes of smudges.
When they broke into the emergency escape area of the Blue Ant headquarters building, Blue Ant's top executives and their families were preparing to escape on a shuttle.
The Sons of the Nightmare would not let go of their prey, and Talos beheaded the CEO first.
"It's really sad."
The surroundings were turning into purgatory. Talos picked up the frightened old head and narrowed his eyes for a while.
The screams, cries, and curses were fading, and the sons of the Nightmare faithfully carried out their orders, destroying everything, young and old.
Suddenly, Talos felt the head gradually blur, and the sound of distant bolters echoed in his ears, not distorted by the faint crackle of the helmet filter.
It's not a real sound.
"how do I……"
Talos blinked in an attempt to free himself from his fading imaginary dream, the shadow of something huge clouding his vision.
"……That is……"
"Company commander?"
Soon, some warriors noticed something strange about Talos.
Talos suddenly shuddered, his servo joints roaring with vibration, and his bolter clattered to the steel floor.
"Company commander!"
In the vague shouts in his ears, the prophet saw a huge sea of blood and a world surrounded by a sea of blood, and then a huge steel beast emerged from the sea of blood.
He knew this massive metallic nightmare and the power it represented.
"....The Spirit of Vengeance...."
Talos's head jerked, as if his armor sent an electric pulse down his spine, and he fell forward hard to the ground, his power armor making a loud collision with the ground.
"No, the company commander has fallen!"
These were the last words Talos heard before he lost consciousness.
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