After traveling a distance, the two boarded a refurbished light Armoured Car. They soon drove through several streets and arrived at a plaza.
Several Valkyries and a Thunderhawk Gunship were parked here.
This was one of the last evacuation zones.
Speaking of Valkyries, Zhang Ge remembered that there was a Valkyrie that had been sent to the regimental priest for inspection for some reason, but the priest didn't find any problems in the end.
He could only conclude that the Machine Spirit had caused some unknown influence, but this influence would completely disappear when the Machine Spirit didn't feel like dealing with people.
The final outcome was to send the Valkyrie into storage and plan to transport it away for further investigation, and to give the relevant pilot a temporary vacation.
But to everyone's surprise, the Valkyrie flew away during transport and was stolen, and has been missing ever since. The Adeptus Mechanicus frantically conducted a carpet search for two days, but in the end, they didn't find any clues, as if the plane had flown away on its own.
Due to time constraints, the priests could only give up their plans to continue searching while cursing, and this incident was said to have created urban legends.
It was said that at night, a Valkyrie fighter without a pilot would quietly appear by the window and use its empty cockpit to inspect the people in the room.
However, according to Zhang Ge, this was just something to listen to for fun. He had beaten Chaos Daemons, so what was there to fear from urban legends?
Thinking about these idle tales, under the command of Augsger, Zhang Ge parked the car outside the Thunderhawk Gunship.
After the two got out of the car, the other party stepped off the gunship. The activated magnetic suction module clicked with each step, came to the side of the car, and then squatted down, reaching his hand under the car and exerting force to directly lift the entire light Armoured Car.
The dust clinging to the tires rose slightly.
Since it was impossible to determine whether the Thunderhawk Gunship's Machine Spirit was willing to contact two strangers, although the probability of an accident was very small, Augsger decided to choose the safest option to avoid accidents at this critical juncture.
The vehicle was lifted step by step in his noticeably heavy footsteps and then placed inside the gunship.
After exchanging greetings again, Zhang Ge turned and walked towards the designated Valkyrie.
Stepping into the Valkyrie's cabin, the other four people - plus Tech-Priest Yolanda - and a few veterans had already sat down inside. He himself also found a place at random to sit down.
The sound of machinery brought some comfort in this empty dead city. The tail compartment door slowly closed after each person's safety mechanisms were fastened.
The engine sound gradually increased, and blue flames spat out from the nozzles.
No one suspected this Valkyrie, which had passed the identification of various friendly forces but was operating independently outside the fleet. Other pilots thought it was a private plane that Zhang Ge had called. For that level of character, it was only natural for things to be special.
Zhang Ge himself believed that this was a private plane that the fleet had specially designated for him, and he didn't think there was anything strange about it either.
One fighter after another took off, and this Valkyrie, along with the Thunderhawk Gunship, was surrounded in the middle of the fleet, flying very normally.
However, the cockpit, which had turned on the reflective coating and couldn't see the situation from the outside in, was empty.
The fleet first flew out of the hive, then climbed upwards, and then flew around to the Spaceport on the edge of the tower spire.
The chaotic scene from two days ago was nowhere to be seen. Tens of thousands of soldiers wearing helmets and armor formed neat queues, looking like a sea of military-green metal from above, and were flowing at an extremely fast speed.
They passed a simple body Scan one by one before entering the ship and then disappeared inside the docked transport ships, as orderly as a magnificent machine in operation.
Only this kind of execution could allow them to conduct individual inspections with constraints in a limited amount of time. The previous transportation of civilians was only to cram as many people into the ship as possible, and the inspection of civilians could only be handed over to the Hyberian Sector side after landing.
Of course, the fighters didn't have to go through the procedures below. The fleet flew directly to an unremarkable ship in the fleet and switched to hover mode one by one, stopping on the landing platform on top of it.
Here, dozens of military aircraft were parked like an aircraft carrier, and a large number of shipborne anti-aircraft guns stood still. Obviously, its role was not as simple as its appearance suggested.
The hatch opened, and a few soldiers jogged to the hatch to wait before everyone left the plane. They held an instrument that looked like a detector. Only after scanning each person and the display screen showing green could they leave and receive the next person.
Amilia was the second to last. When it was her turn, the soldier saluted first before starting the Scan.
However, as soon as the green light marking the area hit Amilia, the device exploded in a burst of crisp electric sparks, blasting blood onto the hand of the soldier holding the scanner.
The scene suddenly became awkward.
Although everyone knew that this was just going through the motions, after this kind of accident, on the one hand, it would not be good to detain the group in place on the grounds of reporting to superiors or replacing equipment, but on the other hand, a few soldiers had no right to waive the procedure.
It was Atwood who came over to ease the atmosphere, dismissing the soldiers.
Zhang Ge followed behind Amilia and witnessed the whole process, and was also exempted from the procedure by the way.
Scanning the fragments of Components on the ground, Zhang Ge secretly vowed to walk in front of Amilia next time, muttering as he walked off the tail hatch.
At the moment that step fell.
The brightness of the lighting on the landing platform suddenly increased sharply - this was a sign that the ship's power supply was rapidly increasing, which was generally a secondary phenomenon of entering combat status and fully charging weapon systems or shields.
Those originally calm anti-aircraft guns also began to rotate at high speed.
The crowd that was still above was alarmed by this change, and even some of the fighters that were about to land switched directly to flying back up.
For a time, various places were in chaos, and footsteps were loud. Even Zhang Ge's group found a temporary shelter to hide.
What followed the chaos was silence, so quiet that only the jet sound of the fighters taking off again could be heard. However, the imagined attack never happened.
After a while, the captain's slightly nervous voice came from the broadcast. He explained:
"Notification, the anomaly was only caused by a malfunction and was not an enemy attack, notification..."
As this notification sounded, the originally bright lights gradually returned to normal, as if it was really just an abnormality caused by a malfunction.
Of course, Zhang Ge's group had no way of knowing whether there were any secrets in between at this time, but he himself was a little sad that his two disappointments were satisfied at once in a short time.
The team quickly returned to normal and walked towards their destination inside the ship. There would be a war council on the fleet and the aftermath.
That's right, the ship under Zhang Ge's feet was the command ship of this last batch of the fleet, an Armed Transport that was even permitted to have small-scale military anti-aircraft firepower and shield systems, and it was also the ship used to carry the Titan.
After the last person entered the fleet, this huge fleet slowly started up. Countless Plasma Exhausts that could be used without restraint even directly melted and destroyed the surface of the Spaceport behind them.
The bright flames were like rising shooting stars.
Not long after the fleet sailed away, the line of defense relying on light infantry, although extremely tenacious, was unable to resist for too long and was crushed under the onslaught of further deployed Chaos Space Marines and armored offensives.
The non-innocent Xenos and the innocent civilians who were caught up in it all turned into corpses.
Chaos finally poured into this empty city.
However, after easily crushing some sporadic resistance inside, the Chaos commander quickly realized the anomaly.
The hive was too clean. Not to mention any bombs that would disgust them, even the common mines used to increase the difficulty of the occupation were nowhere to be seen. Many facilities had not even been deliberately damaged.
It was extremely, even overwhelmingly, wrong.
He immediately issued an order for the troops inside the city to evacuate.
But it was too late. Only extremely fast troops such as Space Marines and fighters evacuated the kill zone before that light lit up.
That was an Atomic Warhead.
Of course, it was not a nuclear bomb in the sense of ancient humans.
This Imperial-defined "Atomic Warhead" only needed a small one—about the size of a warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile—to be activated on the surface, and the resulting explosion would be able to directly penetrate the stratum.
If it was activated inside a hive, it would certainly be enough to directly destroy an entire small hive, even if it was a giant metropolis large enough to accommodate hundreds of millions of people living in it.
Nuclear Weapons that could modify the topography of the entire planet were strictly controlled and were usually only seen in the missile units of the Astra Militarum or on naval warships.
Unfortunately, the nobles of Yarkalan had made full preparations for the Xenos in the underground a long time ago, preparing to have enough power to destroy the evidence even if the hive fell.
And through rejuvenation drugs, they had enough channels to get such a small thing.
Even more unfortunately, if this nuclear bomb had been buried outside or launched at Chaos, the Chaos side would have had ten thousand ways to intercept it.
But it wasn't; it was built into the deepest part of the countless buildings composed of Ceramite in the hive, and it had now been activated.
So, at this moment.
While engulfing the steel forest, the Dawnlight that had been tearing apart the clouds that had shrouded this place for countless years spread and broke free.
Heaven collapsed, earth sundered.
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