The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Talos squatted down to check for himself, and as expected, the two trajectories ended at the same time, even though the road continued inexplicably through the jungle.

He stepped back and passed the other five recruits, whose weapons were now more focused on the green dark light.

Talos was still bent over, stroking the depression on the ground with his hand as he walked.

"The trajectory doesn't go further."

He said, looking up at his company.

"But it doesn't seem to slow down."

Sablin spoke, then glanced at his surroundings.

"And there is no sign of the weapon being released."

"There are no traces of explosives either."

Li Lin then added that each of them was eager to impress Talos. Although they had overcome the test and proved that they were eligible to enter the ranks of the astral knights, they still had to pass the scout assessment.

"It's like...disappeared."

Bachram looked at the traces on the ground slightly confused.

"But tens of tons of armored personnel carriers will not disappear without a trace."

Talos turned his attention back to the trajectory, and then stared at the dense jungle outside.

"Don't be so sure. First of all, we have to understand that we are now in a planet full of subspace power. The physical rules have long been distorted here. You have never seen the truly crazy side of subspace... I have seen things that reach the limit of human comprehension, fighting against creatures and entities that appear as the greatest fear of mankind. I have seen huge interstellar spacecraft powered by subspace and burning in a vacuum. I have witnessed The soldier who turned into a crazy beast before my eyes has also seen an infectious disease that takes everyone’s life within a breathing time, a planet-sized mass of flesh and blood, and the invention of the wheel that made the greatest achievement of Mechanicism look like The same alien technology."

Talos got up and walked towards the big and leafy trees.

"Can a Chimera disappear out of thin air? It sounds incredible, but of course it can. What I teach you in a lesson is that when faced with subspace forces, nothing is'impossible'. Before all other choices, maybe it was somewhere in the jungle, now it spreads out and searches within a radius of two hundred meters."

A few hours later, just as the sun platooning the star reached its apex, Sablin's team located the missing Chimera.

It did not disappear, or did not disappear in the initial search area, but their findings revealed more questions than it answered.

"It must have been here for decades, even hundreds of years."

Nias said that he touched the corroded layer that encased the vehicle's shell with one hand.

"Almost some parts of the body are rusty."

"Maybe the chemical composition of rain in this world caused it to rust so quickly?"

Li Lin looked at Chimera and said softly:

"But how could it get so far away from the trail, and what brought it upside down?"

The soldiers surrounded the damaged personnel carrier, and its original serial number was barely visible under the dense layer of oxidized metal.

There is no sign of how it stopped more than half a kilometer away from its track, and there is no trace of it being thrown into the air, and there is no trace of it tumbling over the ground and digging out dirt.

It's as if Chimera was pulled out from one place, and then put down backwards elsewhere.

Talos knelt down and poked his fingers at the jungle floor, his arms stretched through the rancid soil until he was close to his elbow, then he tore the dry mud apart and finally found what he was looking for.

He pulled out his hands and held the dirty black water he had just dug out, with a few squirming mud worms between his fingers.

"The corrosion here is not deep, and there is not much smell of oxidized metal, and the humidity here will not accelerate the oxidation process to this degree."

Later, Talos paced around in the overturned troop carrier, his anxiety was not alleviated by the discovery of it.

The vehicle seems to have been abandoned in the jungle for many years, and there is no evidence of how it became that way.

There seems to be another secret behind the disappearance of this team.

"Sablin, Nias, help me open the hatch."

Talos said, tearing off a bunch of vines entwined behind Chimera.

Despite the combined efforts of the three star warriors, the rusty door was still reluctant to move.

In the end, the hinge supporting it broke, and the corroded metal plate was thrown aside.

Everyone took a step back when the damp, foul-smelling air surged inside.

But Talos did not flinch, but approached the open hatch.

The other members aimed their weapons at the hole, ready to wait for their commander in those damp spaces for anything that might happen.

The light of the green jungle shot into the troop carrier, projecting an ethereal light on the wreckage inside. Guns and ammunition were scattered in it, blocking the chaotic corpses in the carapace lying in their burial place. Channel.

The prophet's eyesight was as effective as during the day. He counted and found eight bodies, all of whom were uniformly dressed in the uniform of the Astral Army.

Although the armor maintained its integrity, what it was designed to protect was not. The skull stared blankly in the helmet without a mask, and all the remaining flesh and blood had long rotted away.

As the tomb reopened to the outer jungle, flies and other insects buzzed into Chimera, attracting them by the smell of the place and the hope of a new breeding ground.

Talos lifted the nearest corpse buried in his companion and dragged it towards him.

Under the protection of the carapace, the internal organs have been liquefied but not completely decomposed.

Talos pulled back the collar of his armor ~www.readwn.com~ to reveal a scrawny neck, showing what he expected.

The two vertebrae were completely severed, almost certainly broken during Chimera's mysterious flight and violent landing.

In the 41st millennium, serving the human emperor will almost certainly end in death. This is an undeniable fact. For interstellar warriors, the ending is usually glorious, a heroic sacrifice in the face of insurmountable difficulties. .

For those throne believers who have not received the original genetic heritage, such deaths will also occur on the battlefield. They hold their weapons tightly, defend a world that does not belong to them, and fight against seemingly endless alien races or demons. .

However, it is more likely that death will be futile and a waste of human life whose potential will never be realized.

For example, in a void battle, the remaining corps and troop carriers were collateral damage and annihilated, and they were destroyed by orbital strikes or artillery fire before they could even foresee, and they were poisoned or infected by invisible enemies who used tricks and sabotage as their usual tactics. They were slaughtered inside the vehicle when they rode horses into battle or carried out supply or reconnaissance missions, and their weapons never even fired for counterattack.