They chose the left channel, which seemed smaller and inclined downward.
While the surface around is still black, the strange characters now turn into a striking silver, glowing when the lights pass by.
Soshyang found that his breathing began to form mist in front of the eyepieces. This is not a good phenomenon, indicating that there may be a problem with his oxygen circulation system. The world engine is an environment in which only space dead souls can survive. There is no oxygen and no water. .
"Get the enemy."
Suddenly, Aksai stopped in front, and everyone in the team quickly formed a battle formation.
Soshyang watched the surroundings while looking forward over Aksai's shoulder, while a rustling noise rising from the edge of his hearing was approaching.
"Stop firing."
Occam's voice rang in the communication channel.
"Don't move everyone."
Soshyang obeyed his arrangement, as did the other team members, so they immediately saw the noise.
At that moment, the Soshman admitted that he was indeed stunned.
Numerous mechanical insect swarms burrowed out of darkness and passed around them. They moved like liquid mercury, and the light of the lighting lamp reflected on the exoskeleton of tens of thousands of types of beetle creatures.
They quickly flooded the surrounding passages, as if the moving tide covered the walls, roof and floor.
Aksai first came into contact with them, then Soshyang, and then the people behind.
They separated, and then gathered again, taking up every inch of space around them, and the friction as they passed by was like a whisper.
From the outside, no matter what they are, at least they are not organic. Each is smaller than the thumbs of star warriors, but is entirely composed of metal materials.
When the tide sweeps through the passage, each beetle perfectly mirrors the coordinated movements of the same kind around it.
In just half a minute, the waves turned into streams, and the peak of the weird insect surge passed by, and they turned a blind eye to the motionless star warriors.
As the rustling sound gradually weakened, the insect wave disappeared into the darkness behind the team.
Seeing millions of rattling small metal legs pass in front of him, Aksai finally exhaled the breath he had been holding back.
"what are they?"
Aksai asked.
When Soshyang remained silent, he turned to Occam, who shook his head.
"A kind of profane intelligence, used by these aliens as maintenance workers, will attack if they are frightened, trust me, you don't want to know how they go crazy."
"Go on, watch out."
They walked towards a lower place, but at this time the tunnel along which they followed was no longer uniform, and many sarcophagi were scattered around the wall.
About twenty minutes later, they began to descend, when Soshyang noticed the abnormality in the communication channel, and the explosive sound of static electricity filled his ears.
More importantly, some data of the power armor also began to fail-they seemed to be stuck at the moment when they reached the surface of the world engine, and other team members reported the same thing.
Soshyang didn't expect any answer, he knew it wouldn't be.
Soon, the passage reached the end. In front of them was a hall and two passages leading to the far end. The imprint on the wall became larger and in the form of a silver relief, and the roof was arched like a lined black spine. stand up.
"Is this place marked on the bird guide? Occam."
"Yes it is."
The veteran looked down at the bird divination.
"It looks like the left hand leads to a larger hall behind."
"Very good, keep it compact."
They quickly moved to a larger space. Although there were traces of fighting, there were no corpses, whether it was an interstellar warrior or an alien.
In the middle of the empty hall, there is only a giant base, and clusters of thick wires are coiled on its side like a python, connecting it to some kind of silver-skin statue on the top.
At first glance, Soshyang felt it resembled some kind of giant, metallic spider, or an enlarged version of a miniature creature they had encountered earlier.
It has artificial crystal clusters on its shoulders, and it shimmers when the light beam of illumination passes by.
"Don't go near it."
Occam issued a warning, and the team members quickly took up positions around the hall and aimed their weapons at the pedestal and the statue above.
"It's sleeping."
The veteran added a sentence, as if that explained everything.
"We keep going."
"An enemy is approaching from behind!"
Suddenly, Nadder, who was at the back of the team, issued a warning. With an incredible coordination, all the star warriors turned around at the same time, and raised their explosive guns to cover the arches they had passed through.
Then they heard a noise, a sound of footsteps.
It sounds a lot like the sound of an interstellar warrior walking by, the heavy clanging of metal colliding with metal, but the footsteps are limping and disorganized.
As the beam of light illuminates the dark passage, a moving flicker appeared, like a piece of pale skin.
"what is that--"
Aksai wanted to speak, but the words quickly got stuck in his throat.
At the same time, the figure limping towards the hall showed its appearance on the edge of the archway.
It is a tall humanoid creature, but with a very hunched back, it looks like it is made of metal, but it is slightly different.
Because it wears human skin like a cloak, the long fleshy strips are coiled around its shoulders and shrugged behind it. The scarlet blood soaks most of the silver exoskeleton, and its scarlet trophy is still dripping blood. , The same is true on its long, evil claws as both hands.
What is even more creepy is that a human face is hung on its skull like a nightmare mask, and two green eyes are burning in the hollow eye sockets.
But it's not without a price to get the spoils. Just look at the broken right foot and the wounds on the whole body to understand how the deceased counterattacked. Maybe it was originally very flexible, but now it's just a target.
"Shoot! Destroy it!"
The sound of alien footsteps was quickly overwhelmed by the thunder of the blaster gun, and the moment the creature dragged its footsteps into the hall, it was enveloped.
With the sound of a hammer hitting an anvil, the explosive bomb slammed into his metal body, tearing the moist skin and the active metal under it.
The skull-shaped terrifying creature quickly disintegrated under such a fierce attack. As the metal flew away, sparks and smoke came out of the circuit.
It stopped moving forward intermittently, knelt on one knee, and went into convulsions because the system was damaged.
Then, a explosive bomb hit the side of its skull and exploded, exposing a part of the damaged connector.
Eventually it collapsed, and the blood still formed a puddle around the human skin peeled off by the victim.
"Die, monster."
Soshyang approached and shot his head one last time, exploding it into sparks.
"what is that?"
Putting down the gun in his hand, Soshyang stared at the wreckage on the ground. He recognized that broken face belonged to a soldier of the Fourth Company.
"A curse, maybe it is the reason why these space necromen have become so crazy."
Occam came up and took a look, his tone revealing exhaustion.
"Curse?"
"I also heard that there is a plague-like curse in these aliens, which makes them look like this. Maybe the owner of this tomb became crazy when he noticed the spread of this curse..."
"Regardless of the reason, they are all aliens and they must die."
After that, Suo Shiyang suddenly noticed that there was an abnormality in the bird guide.
"A new signal?"