They were in a huge valley at the moment. The tops of the mountains on both sides were covered with snow that never melted all year round. The dark rock walls went vertically down from the tops of the mountains and were bottomless.
In front, there is a small landing pad embedded in two-thirds of the rock wall, and a rather crude guidance device is ready to guide any aircraft to land.
Walking down the tarmac, you can see a row of low parapets, covering a metal door. Rozim guessed that there is probably no place in the entire Paiji Planet that is more inhospitable than this place.
"I can't believe it."
Hank Evans also exclaimed.
After following a cultist patrol for three days, they came across this place. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a hidden stronghold.
"What the hell is this place?"
Rozim touched his chin and asked confused questions. Kelen on the side groaned and couldn't explain it, while Sinlata still kept his arms folded because he couldn't be seen even though he was wearing sunglasses. expression.
"Observation Station——"
"Don't bullshit me here. It's obviously not the case. Why do thousands of people need to live here? What on earth needs to be guarded here? We are in the center of a damn mountain now."
"Uh...Arsenal?"
"If you have water in your head, put the arsenal here and prepare to transport it out with birds."
"Then boss, tell me, what should we do?"
Rozim stared at the metal door, then glanced around.
"If you really want to know what's inside, you have to go in and take a look, but the entrance is just like this -"
"uncertain."
Suddenly, Xinlata spoke.
He raised his hand and pointed to the area about a kilometer ahead.
"There's a cave there that I guess might be connected to it."
Rozim looked over but saw nothing.
"Really? Why didn't I see anything?"
"I saw."
"you sure?"
"Sure."
Rozim frowned and thought for a while, and finally decided to trust this person for once. Although this guy always gave people a mysterious feeling, he was basically right every time he spoke.
"Okay, let's go take a look."
After trekking for nearly half an hour, they finally arrived at the area pointed by Sinlata. Rozim was surprised to find that there was indeed a half-meter-high cave behind a rock.
Standing at the entrance of the cave, you can feel a slight breeze and a slightly warm atmosphere. It is obvious that the inside is open.
"Here, my god, are you equipped with mechanical eyes?"
Xinlata did not reply, but directly bent down and got in alone.
After that, the other three got in one after another.
After entering, they found that the space inside was much larger than the outside, and there were still some artificial traces. It was obviously not a completely natural cave.
Going all the way inside the cave, they soon discovered a passage similar to a mine tunnel, but the artificial traces inside were almost erased by the years, obviously after many years.
After that, they passed through tunnels that gradually narrowed and became more and more inclined, as if they were about to be swallowed up in the bedrock deep underground.
At first, in order to prevent being discovered, they only used lighting sticks, but as the terrain became more and more rugged, this lighting was no longer enough, and Rozim fell twice.
"Fuck...turn on the lights."
So Keren and Evans both activated the illuminators on their heads and chests, and the entire team sped up without having to worry about tripping.
As the texture of the rock wall and the feeling on the soles of their feet changed, a cave entrance appeared in front of them.
This was a huge cave that could accommodate a dozen people, and it was here that they encountered the enemy again.
They were rebels wearing uniforms. They were not the local residents of Paidu, but the renegade Astra Militarum brought by the Black Legion from outside the void.
There are a total of twenty people, and this seems to be their camp. Some people are sleeping in tents, some are eating, and some are chatting. There is a passage not far away, which shines light outside.
"How to say?"
Hank Evans looked at Rozim, and the Chapter Chef counted the people on the field with his fingers.
"There are six active in total, and the only lighting is a bonfire on the ground, but it's very dark and there are shadows everywhere."
Hank Evans blinked, realizing what Rozim meant.
"Boss, you won't-"
"Of course we have to do it, why don't we do it? These cultists protect them so tightly, there must be something terrible in there."
After speaking, he looked at Karen and Sinlata.
"One for each person, one more for me, and one more for you, Xinlata, is that okay?"
Both men nodded in response.
Soon, they quietly slipped out of the hiding place, moved quickly in the shadows, and approached their respective targets.
The first signal is the slight crunch of broken bones.
Karen simply broke a guy's neck from behind and dragged him into the shadows.
"Um?"
One of the men seemed to have decided something, but before he could fall, his other companion died.
Rozim's huge body jumped out from the shadows, and while covering the opponent's mouth and nose, he stabbed the opponent's chest with the dagger continuously.
Evans put a cloth bag over a person's head, and then pressed the heavy bag on the other person's head until there was no movement from the other person.
Xinlata's movements were even more astonishingly fast. He appeared like a ghost and directly pierced the chest of a soldier wearing crimson armor with a dagger.
When he was dismembered from hip to collarbone and blood splattered on the rocks, he could not make a sound because his throat was cut.
Then five seconds later, the second unlucky guy was beheaded directly. He had just lit a cigarette and still had it in his mouth.
"What to do with the rest, boss?"
"What do you think we should do? Do you still want to kill first and then kill?"
"Well--"
Rozim had quietly opened the tent's curtain, and then threw a plasma grenade he got from somewhere inside.
Evans just had time to close his eyes, but the intense light passed directly through his eyelids, the pungent smell of ozone replaced the smell of blood, and the unique sound of ionized air echoed in the space.
When he opened his eyes again, Rozim was nodding with satisfaction.
"poor guy."
Through the curtain, he saw that there were only twisted and charred corpses in the tent. Those guys were killed in an instant. In a sense, it was quite easy.
After taking care of the enemy, they scoured the battlefield, took away useful things, and even used the remaining campfire to make some food, even though there were bloody corpses more than ten meters away from them.
After that, the expedition team continued to set off, going deep into the glowing passage.
It was not until after entering that Rozim realized that this passage with an unusually smooth cutting surface was extremely narrow, barely allowing one person to pass through. Lighting balls embedded in the wall
In desperation, they could only move forward in a row quietly like pipe rats. Rozim was used to it, but Evans had no similar experience. In this small space, every footstep and cough could be heard. , the curses and the clicking sounds caused by the collision between equipment will be amplified without limit.
But for Rozim, the different echo patterns in the cave can point in the right direction, as can the illuminator on a soldier's gun.
Because of this, he was the first person in the entire team to see a vague shadow in the darkness ahead. That thing was not much clearer than a black spot in the night.
So he raised his hand.
"etc."
Rozim whispered the order.
"There may be enemies."
