"Pay attention to our current status and don't ask any more questions." "Yes, Chapter Master." After his curiosity faded like the tide, the Weeper Tech-Sergeant, realizing that he had almost walked onto a dangerous path, returned to a state of quiet observation. The Tech-Sergeant, who had just used the Astartes patterns implanted in the Tau reconnaissance drones to make Surma no longer feel that something was amiss, casually cut off the feedback from Surma's team reporting to the Tau fleet that "there are Astartes activities here", and then operated the floating screen in front of him like a fool. As a series of news that the Tau action team could not confirm to be false was organically inserted into the real information chain of the Tau team, the mouth of the horrible trap slowly opened to these aliens - Not just against this small team. ——————————————Sulma leads the team into the target area—————————————————— From a tactical defense perspective, this cave is indeed a very good place. Whether it is the relatively narrow entrance, the winding roads inside, or the clear sound of water collected from the cave echo, all of these show that this cave is indeed an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack place for a small group of people - but! With humans sending out beings like the Astartes, and with a high probability of heavy firepower in the future, wouldn't it be courting death to stay in such a cave? Was his friend being stupid, or did he have no other choice? Or...? Wait! ! ! Surma was shocked when he thought of some more outrageous possibilities. However, before he could give any order, continuous gunshots were heard from outside the cave - the sound was very close, and the rock next to him had been blown into a hole by a weapon called a grenade launcher! "Despicable human - actually took advantage of my friend's situation and made him fall into such a despicable trap! Everyone, find shelter!!"

All kinds of abnormal information merged into one in his mind, and some extremely cruel possibilities appeared in front of Surma. Things were out of place! Those humans did choose to follow the Greater Good because they were afraid of the Astartes, but those humans who "surrendered" to the Greater Good did not tell their friends about the existence of the Astartes at all! After putting himself into the state of mind of Li Radel and thinking about it, Surma had to admit that after suffering a series of blows, he saw the hope of returning this world to the Greater Good. It was also possible that he would not pay too much attention to some "not too serious" details-and this gave the Empire Astartes an opportunity to take advantage of. The Astartes he saw before were not searching for his friends' teams at all, but were besieging and attacking the reinforcements! Judging from the communication maintained between his friends and himself, it is hard to say that until now, Li Radel still thought that the Empire had not found his base for the time being! Of course, although the current situation was indeed very unfavorable, the Titanium Champion still forced himself into combat mode. Controlling his combat suit, he turned around and fired a few rounds of special ammunition for cover in the direction of the ammunition flying from a distance. Surma immediately ordered his drones to try to find a way to temporarily retreat around to avoid being blocked. However, a bunch of dense red dots that quickly refreshed on the map completely extinguished the champion's best combat expectations. "Everyone! Enter the cave! Wait for support!" While firing another round of ammunition to counterattack a firepower point that was relatively close to him, he glanced at the local map of the cave drawn by the drones that he had sent into the cave to join Li Radel. Knowing that he had no choice for the time being, Surma gritted his teeth, sent a message for help to the flagship, and took the lead in rushing into the cave - however, the Titanium Champion didn't know that the message he sent was still intercepted by the drones that the Technical Sergeant had used to sneak into his team. What he didn't know was that there was a real horror waiting for him in this cave...a horror that could make him completely despair, a horror that he could not imagine at all. In the preparation area of ​​the projection disk in front of a certain Hammer, several pieces of the Titanium Force were quietly placed, and the types and quantities of these pieces were surprisingly... Exactly the same as Surma’s team. 14. The Weeper - Titanium's Unfortunate Day Face pinching function. This is a feature that most games with RPG functions may have, and to some extent, it has a considerable impact on the evaluation of the game itself - a game with a good face-pinching system, even if the gameplay itself is just passing, will attract a group of people to play some interesting operations in it. A game with a face-pinching system but the face-pinching system is not easy to use, even if the game performance is good, will make players feel that something is missing... However, if you encounter this kind of thing that can pinch your face in real life, then it can only bring terror and despair to its prey... —————————————The dividing line of the Tau rapid action force———————————————— "The Greater Good, the Greater Good—" In a dark and lightless path leading downwards in the cave, a Titanium Fire Warrior with a broken left arm was stumbling along under the guidance of a drone floating beside him, desperately trying to get in touch with his captain while relying on the drone's He used the remaining map in the database to try to find a way to escape - although the cave structure behind him had already been explored, he did not dare to look back. Because, he knew that once he was caught by 'that thing', there would be no chance for him to survive!!! However...... Just when he thought he had put a certain safe distance between himself and the hunter, a sound of a combat suit operating that he was so familiar with entered his combat suit's sound capture system from the front of him and was clearly transmitted to his ears. A figure that he was extremely afraid of walked out of the darkness in front of him to a place where he could see clearly, and slowly approached him. "!!!! Damn it! How did it get in front of me!!" After confirming that the existence blocking his way was the terrifying unknown being that was hunting him, the Fire Warrior gave his drone an order without hesitation, asking it to take him back the same way. However, to his surprise, his drone did not follow his order to clear the way for him, but instead directed a beam of light... to his legs! The strange thing in the distance also stopped and raised the pulse rifle in its hand.

"No - I didn't give that order - Gah - Gah!!" The marking light came on, and the Fire Warrior, who had realized what was about to happen, screamed and tried to stop his drone from doing this, but his efforts were in vain. Although the defense of the Fire Warrior's combat uniform was acceptable, it was undoubtedly not enough to be shot at by a pulse weapon. So, after a shrill scream, the Fire Warrior, whose leg was broken, fell heavily to the ground and began to struggle desperately. "Commands - Adjustments - I need to stop the bleeding! - Aether!" However, no matter how the Fire Warrior gave orders to his combat suit, no matter how the Fire Warrior commanded his drones, things still slipped away little by little in the direction he least wanted - his drone flew to the being that had been hunting him, a being that looked no different from a normal Fire Warrior, and then landed behind this strange warrior in a very standard posture. "Who... are you? Why are you chasing me? Judging from the way you are dressed, you at least follow the Greater Good, right? Can we talk?" At the moment when he was enveloped by the despair called death, the Titanium Fire Warrior calmed down instead. He stared at the thing that was walking towards him and was definitely not of his own species, and asked his soul-searching question - in his understanding, the only race that could wear this most standard combat uniform was the Titanium, and the body shape of the being wearing this combat uniform was also Titanium, but its performance was not that of a Titanium! "..." The strange fire warrior did not answer him, but slowly walked to the side of the titanium fire warrior whose life had already begun to count down, half squatted down, stretched out his hand, and skillfully opened the helmet of the fire warrior's combat uniform. Then, after a one-second pause, he opened his own helmet - in an instant, great terror struck again, fiercely grasping the heart of the titanium clan's fire warrior. What did he see? What did he see? He...he saw himself! He saw a picture of himself, standing in front of him!! "I am you." These were the last words the Titanium Fire Warrior heard before his consciousness faded. The voice is your own voice. —————————————The dividing line of the Titanium Champion—————————————————— Things were bad. He was certain that he and his entire team had fallen into a trap with Eli Radel and "there are humans following the Greater Good" as double baits. The humans were most likely closely monitoring his friend's actions and following his friend's ideas to attract the elite warriors of his fleet. Surma knew very well that the fire warriors he was leading were almost half of the elite in the fleet. If he and his warriors were all lost here... "Captain, we have locked the direction of the signal source." The report from his team members made the Fire Clan champion regain the status of a frontline team commander. Although this intelligence, which was closely related to his team's main mission, was no longer of much use, it would not be a bad thing to reunite with his comrades first. After all, those humans who had led his friends and himself into this trap and defected to the Greater Good were all with him. Although he was not a Water Clan member, he had a rough understanding of the act of negotiation. If he handed those humans over... With a thousand thoughts in his mind and without stopping his steps, Surma soon entered a slightly empty cave with the team members who stayed with him. However, in this cave, apart from a dozen of his team members who had already arrived and seemed to be on guard against something, and a communication device that had previously belonged to Li Radel's camp, there was nothing else! "?" Just when Surma wanted to let his drone scan the cave again to confirm whether his judgment was wrong, The drone floating beside him suddenly turned around and directed a marking light at the vulnerable area of ​​his combat suit. In an instant, sparks flew and Surma staggered on the spot due to the impact and almost fell to the ground. "!!!! What are you doing? There are no enemies here!" Surma, who thought that one of his team members had made a random move because he could not bear the pressure, shouted loudly. However, what frightened the Tau champion was yet to come. Before he could confirm the condition of his Drone and the damage to his combat suit, the firing lights of several weapons he was very familiar with lit up in the dark cave. With the help of the sudden and denser guiding lights, a series of sparks exploded on his body again, and the team members around him fell one by one because of the sneak attack. The Drones around them also chose to betray like Surma's Drone, so that these Fire Warriors who had never expected to be attacked by their teammates were killed without any ability to fight back. "you???" Totally unable to comprehend how things could turn out like this, Surma activated the emergency response system of his combat suit to deal with the damage he had sustained, while loudly asking his teammates on the communication channel if they had gone insane. However, in response to him, in addition to more torrential bombardment of ammunition, there was also a fusion cannon attack that completely blew off the right arm of his combat suit. "I am you, the Champion of Surma." Surma's voice, which was so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar, came from the communication channel, and a certain creepy feeling began to flow through this battle-hardened Tau champion. The face of his combat suit was uncovered against his will, and he was forced to look with his own eyes into the 'face' of the combat suit that he was so familiar with. "You are not me, you are just a pretender." Champion Surma gathered his mind and put all his courage into his eyes and throat, and quickly activated his wisdom. Although his combat suit was half paralyzed, it did not prevent him from trying to obtain some information through language. There were many strange races in the galaxy, and it was not surprising that some of them had the ability to mimic. As long as he could determine the attacker's true form, he might have a chance of survival.

"I am you." The facial area of ​​the battle suit standing in front of him was uncovered, and Sumar saw his own face as perfect as if reflected in a mirror. He saw the scanning device of his battle suit acknowledge his identity. The indescribable sense of horror broke the psychological defenses of the Tau champion and made him incoherent. "No.....that's impossible." "For the Emperor." The words that froze Sumar's expression completely reached the champion's ears, and the sound of several pulse weapons firing rang out, pouring a lot of firepower fiercely on his face, making the face of the titanium champion warrior vaporize like an ice cube falling into molten iron - after completing this matter, the chess piece that completely "replaced" Sumar's identity using other information collected from him, under the arrangement of the Hammers, connected the communication with the flagship of the fleet to which he belonged. "This is the Champion of Surma, I have important intelligence to report." ——————————————The dividing line of the weeper———————————————————————— sluggish. Confused. Don't know how to evaluate it. Anyway, I feel this is quite unorthodox but it’s hard to say it out loud. In the end, since it was already a foregone conclusion that I was on a pirate ship, I had no choice but to accept reality. After the Hammers successfully implemented the first step of their infiltration plan, they "replaced" all the Tau teams that landed in the cave with chess pieces, and had them briefly contact the flagship of the Tau fleet. After confirming that the Tau fleet had not discovered any abnormality with their team, the Hammers immediately and impatiently pushed forward the second phase of the plan. Originally, according to the Hammers' plan, the second phase would not involve much for the Weepers Astartes. However, after the Hammers discussed it and found that this was actually a kind of Astartes-specific bullying of the Weepers, they decided to bring the Weepers along for the second phase. The Blood Angels Astartes chess piece, transformed from Zhu Yan into Deathwatch, went to explain things to the Lamenters Chapter Master in order to reduce his confusion. However, although Malakin was willing to talk to his blood brothers, he had decided not to dwell on too many issues. However, after listening to what Zhu Yangai said, the Hammers were not surprised to see Malakin's rare expressions. A bunch of expressions that would never appear on an Astartes face appeared on the face of the Weepers's war captain one after another. After all, from every angle, the battle plan that the Hammers were going to make was too un-Astartes-no, it could even be said to be too un-Imperial! "Is this...really okay?" Although he knew that this outrageous operation was a last resort for the Weepers, Malakin could not help but worry about whether this matter would get out of control because of the Weepers' usual experiences. Would it cause the Weepers, who were already burdened with the identity of the Redeemers, to fall into an even more miserable abyss? The Astartes battle brothers of the Dark Angels actually believed that the aliens would lead the Empire's warriors to destroy them. Fleet? That doesn't make sense at all! "No problem. Due to some historical reasons unknown to you, the Dark Angels' battle brothers have always had some special plans to do some incredible things. Things like this are not beyond their boundaries for them. Of course, it is best to keep these things to yourself, and don't be extra curious about them. When you meet the Dark Angels again in the future, it is necessary to pretend to be unaware of this cooperation. After all, just like us, the Sons of Sanguinius, every start-up group has some..." Zhu Yangai did not say the second half of his words, but Malakin, who understood the terrible fate that the son of Sanguinius had to bear, already understood what his battle-brother meant. "When do we leave?" Malakin took a deep breath and put himself into combat mode and spoke - things had come to this point, all he could do now was fight as a pure Astartes. "at any time." 15. The Weeper - Manta under Control "The target area has been identified and there are no abnormalities on the ground." Sitting in his captain's chair, Captain Qi's Manta looked at the series of communications ending with the color representing safety on the display screen in front of him, exhaled a sigh of relief, adjusted his seat to make himself more comfortable. After receiving the order from his elders, he knew that the matter was urgent and he immediately let Manta leave the suborbital flight state and rushed to the area marked by Surma as quickly as possible. Now it seems that everything is still under control. "Captain, we have made contact with the Surma Champion." Just when the captain of the Manta wanted to drink something, the voice of his deputy reached his ears, forcing the Tau man of the Air caste to give up the idea of ​​taking a rest and to straighten himself up and get back to work.

"Access." "Yes." As the communication link was successfully established, the light screen lit up, and Surma's face appeared in front of Captain Manta. Looking at the champion's face, which had become dusty due to being involved in a high-intensity encounter, Captain Manta couldn't help but feel respect in his heart. "Champion Surma, we are approaching the designated location." "We have marked an area where the Manta can land. In addition, if possible, we need your ground fire support." The voice of the Surma Champion was mixed with the sounds of the firing of some Tau Clan weapons and a very dull sound coming from a distance. It was obvious that they were not the sounds of Tau Empire weapons. Obviously, the champion was leading his people to retreat to the area he marked for himself while fighting back against the pursuers of the Human Empire behind them. "Understood. I will have all the ground weapons teams ready." Just when Surma seemed to want to say something, the density of gunfire as the background in the communication sound suddenly increased, and the communication between Surma and Manta was interrupted after a burst of interference. Captain Manta, who probably guessed that the intensity of the battle his champion was experiencing had risen to another level, immediately reached out his hand, quickly slid his fingers on the operating panel in front of him, and anchored the landing zone that Surma had just provided for him. "Everyone, return to your posts immediately! For the Greater Good!" —————————————————The dividing line of the weeper———————————————————— Chapter Master Malakin, wearing brand new power armor and holding his weapon tightly, was lurking in a dense forest with his battle brothers, watching with vigilance the sparsely vegetated open space in the distance and the aliens that were staggering in the open space and still looked quite threatening. In fact, if the Son of Sanguinius in the Death Watch had not repeatedly warned them not to attack from the ambush point before receiving orders, Malakin would have already led the Weepers to drink the blood of these abominable creatures... "Captain, I swear, this is the weirdest alien extermination operation I have ever experienced." Behind Malakin, a veteran of the Weepers spoke in a subtle tone on the communication channel - Malakin could hear that the veteran was grinding his teeth. The descendants of Sanguinius were eager to chop off the heads of the aliens in a glorious charge, rather than watching the aliens' meaningless monkey shows here. "Our blood brothers have repeatedly warned us that if we can't control our will to fight, our best position for this battle will be logistics - so, let's wait a little longer." Malakin, who knew very well that his fellow warriors were in a state of confusion, spoke with a hint of helplessness - after his brother who served in the Death Watch left, the First Legion also sent people to warn him in some explicit and implicit ways - well, strictly speaking, they were not warnings, but those words were a bit hurtful to the Astartes... "Yes, Chapter Master - wait, that's over there?" The Lamenter veteran had just responded to Malakin's order when some sixth sense gained from years of being on the battlefield made him raise his head slightly and look towards the clouds in a certain direction. A huge aircraft that was flying through the clouds came into his sight, and was slowly descending in this direction. "That is.. ....The Titanium Alien's large armed transport, the Manta! It's coming in our direction!" The veteran, who was already familiar with a large amount of Tau Empire equipment due to recent training sessions, spoke in a low voice on the communication channel. "It appears that was part of the battle plan of the Dark Angels' battle-brothers - this is Malakin... What? Got it." The communication from the Dark Angels was suddenly connected to Malakin's channel, and before Malakin could speak, the next battle plan was poured into the ears of the Lamenters Chapter Master without any explanation. After hearing the next stage of the battle plan clearly, Malakin was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly to show that he understood. "Captain, are we going to take action?" Seeing his Chapter Captain suddenly make some moves other than ambush, a Weeper Astartes who had been suppressing his will to fight hurriedly asked in the channel. "No, we have to ignore a round of ground attacks from the alien mantas first - oh, and ignore the alien's weird behavior." "?" Because the words of the Malakin Chapter Captain were so incoherent, the Weepers present all had question marks over their heads, but the next moment, they knew what the Chapter Captain wanted to express - All the aliens that were squatting there stood up as if they had received an order, and pulled the trigger in an orderly manner in a direction where there was nothing, and they even "fell down" from time to time, as if there was something really fighting with them in the woods in that direction. The alien aircraft soaring in the sky suddenly deployed a large number of firepower points on its body, and fired at the direction where there was nothing without hesitation. For a moment, explosions swept the air, smoke rose, and flames blazed.

"......What are these aliens doing?" Apart from Malakin, who knew how outrageous the First Legion's tactics were and sighed in his heart that they were worthy of being the First Legion and their methods were superb, the other Astartes of the Weepers were stunned - they were firing indiscriminately on the battlefield, and they were firing from the sky and the ground at the same time. Could these aliens who performed such stupid operations really be something that a civilization could develop to this level? "Just wait - our battle-brothers will give us the signal." "But those aliens are walking into their aircraft! Should we let them retreat?" "The order is to wait." Captain Malakin, who already had a much higher degree of confidence in the success of the counter-common sense tactics his blood brothers had told him, gently opened the safety of his gun and secretly increased the engine power of his power armor a little bit - according to the intelligence he knew, this was already the penultimate step of the second phase of the battle plan, and soon, he and his combat brothers in his regiment would have the opportunity to charge into battle. Moreover, there will be an opportunity to board and seize the ship.