Chapter 111: Chapter 111: Carnifexes and Screamer-Killers - Death Charge!
Although the bugs had suddenly retreated and the surroundings had quieted down.
This quiet soon gave way to an even more abnormal silence—so quiet it seemed as if even the wind had stopped flowing.
So quiet it created the illusion that the planet's rotation had also stopped.
Ejie could feel something approaching—something very ominous was approaching.
This feeling should be the perception produced in his Untouchable state.
In this state, he was more sensitive to people with psychic powers or other such things.
Actually, if he had no reservations, he could display the Untouchable constitution to an even more exaggerated degree than ordinary Untouchables.
Because Untouchables made other people uncomfortable, causing dizziness and such. Especially for psykers, Untouchables were like psychic black holes that would devour them.
If he amplified this without restraint, it would probably produce effects like the release of Conqueror's Haki in One Piece.
Once unleashed like this, he could better sense movements. But the prerequisite was that everyone around him except himself were enemies, otherwise this would only cause friendly fire.
So currently he was somewhat suppressing it, not letting it affect others.
Although suppressed, he was still sensitively detecting abnormal psychic fluctuations approaching.
There were also psychic entities among the bugs. Sensing this compared to other cannon fodder bugs, the level difference was too great—what was coming might be dangerous individuals like the Tyranid battlefield command nexus.
Hmm?
Feeling the ground trembling slightly, faint earth rumblings were approaching from far to near.
This seemed like thousands of heavily armored troops charging toward here.
He saw the targets—indeed heavily armored bugs, their bodies covered in thick heavy armor, barbarically charging forward while smashing everything.
These things were called Carnifexes. Their task was to charge straight through, using their massive bulk to crush all enemies and obstacles in their path.
Even the Dreadnought mech following with the Salamanders wouldn't dare take a direct hit from these things.
However, the danger Ejie sensed wasn't from these creatures, but from what was following behind them.
After these few heavy armored Carnifex monstrous creatures charged in and created chaos, the things following would take advantage of the confusion to harvest lives.
So to prevent these from rushing into the formation, the heavy firepower that had been conserving its limited ammunition finally roared to life.
Suddenly, in the dust kicked up by these charges and the shadows covered by nighttime darkness, multiple clusters of cold light suddenly flashed.
Without hesitation, Ejie immediately dodged from his original position.
The plasma beam that almost grazed him affected several PDF (Planetary Defense Force) soldiers beside him.
This beam was like an eraser—most limbs of the affected soldiers were simply erased, vaporized.
Then the beam hit further back and exploded with brilliance like a newborn star releasing light and heat.
This wasn't just one beam, but several.
After a few seconds' delay, they heard a shriek that almost pierced their eardrums—this seemed like supersonic attacks, cracking the protective goggles on his head.
"Screamer-Killers! Everyone watch out!!!"
An Astartes immediately growled out a warning.
Screamer-Killers belonged to the Carnifex species—special variant individuals.
They would emit terrifying shrieks during battle, produced by scrapers in the Carnifex's esophagus.
These scrapers would stimulate bio-plasma in the Carnifex's intestines and fire it out.
Additionally, they would use electrostatic fields around their claws to form incandescent bio-plasma balls, then launch them like artillery into enemy formations.
So Ejie also saw several brilliant plasma orbs already flying over the heads of the charging Carnifexes ahead, arcing into the isolated force here.
At the same time, two laser beams that briefly illuminated the surroundings like daylight penetrated into two of the Carnifexes.
The Carnifex limbs that even heavy explosive rounds struggled to penetrate were simply shot through.
Then the beams seemed to detonate some biochemical plasma inside their bodies, causing one to expand like a balloon before bursting, with flames erupting out and igniting the surroundings.
As for the others, although not ignited, the fatal penetrating strikes also made their bodies contract, then their entire bodies toppled forward. The momentum from their charge caused their heavy bodies to plow deep furrows in the ground.
The death beams that killed these few came from the Dreadnought mech. Looking at the cannon barrels that seemed almost melted, this was clearly high-energy shooting pushed to extreme overload.
The heavy firepower from PDF tank guns also hammered the Carnifexes, successfully killing two more.
However, this obstacle was quickly smashed through by more Carnifexes still accelerating from behind, revealing the variants.
They were already very close.
At this moment, Ejie's sense of ominous crisis felt within reach...
The crisis seemed to come from these variants. Although they were indeed very dangerous, but—
"Underground!!!"
His face changing dramatically, he seemed ready to shout his vocal cords apart giving this warning.
The PDF soldiers did react to this, somewhat frantically watching the ground.
As for the Salamanders, they seemed not to hear.
No—the Dreadnought seemed to hesitate and pause due to his shout.
The next instant, a heavy cannon on the Dreadnought seemed to load some special warhead, its muzzle almost inserted into the ground.
"Boom!"
Large sections of ground jumped, then the ground began rapidly swelling, bulging up. Until obvious irregular cracks appeared and flames shot skyward.
Before the flames broke through the cracks, the Dreadnought and surrounding Astartes—including Ejie—had already moved far away.
But there were still several PDF soldiers who couldn't run out of the blast radius in time.
Following this, the ground collapsed, revealing orange-red light inside—flowing light that seemed like hitting the magma layer. This was actually the underground being burned and melted.
Then from the magma, massive figures struggled and climbed out with snake characteristics.
Before struggling much, the Dreadnought's shells blasted apart their limbs.
"A Trygon?"
Trygons were serpentine Tyranid species—massive individuals, monstrous creatures.
They possessed the ability to rapidly move underground, quickly excavating passages. So when one was discovered, the enemies faced often weren't just this one creature, but also troops following close behind in the excavated tunnel.
Therefore, quite a few bugs were also visible in this small magma lake, including types that had pursued Ejie in the hive city—Lictors that liked ambush assassinations.
"Using the commotion created by the Carnifexes to infiltrate beneath us."
"Really dangerous. If we'd hesitated any longer, they would have succeeded!"
"Rauls, go look after that kid."
So Ejie, whose warning had been effective, gained the care of one can.
But this care wouldn't use his life to protect him—he naturally had that self-awareness.
Next was breaking through the current still-dangerous situation.
Currently, less than fifty kilometers remained to Ejie's destination—very close.
If he could reach it, he'd be safe and could escape.
As long as he approached within a certain range, he could be directly teleported into the ship.
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