287: Chapter 288 Dark Mechanicus

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a loud crash, the three of them rushed into the warehouse fiercely.

The interior of the warehouse was very spacious.

Over a dozen tracked cranes were unloading a batch of heavy metal crates.

On the left side of the hall stood over a dozen burly men covered in blood and filth.

Piled near their feet was a heap of blood-stained clothing that had not yet been dealt with.

Deep inside the warehouse.

A noble man wearing luxurious formal attire and sporting a mustache was standing on a high platform directing the unloading.

Around him were over a dozen sturdy private guards equipped with fine laser guns.

Legend of Lu Shi glanced across the entire scene and immediately locked onto the target:

"Capture the ringleader first! Control that flashy boss first!"

The unloading workers in the warehouse were stunned by the sudden loud crash and didn't react to what had happened for a moment.

But the noble man and the blood-stained burly men who had just finished killing reacted immediately, drawing their weapons and preparing to fire.

However, how could these ordinary gang thugs be a match for the players who wore Shelter Power Armor and had enhanced physical attributes?

Mudslide let out a roar and charged directly into the crowd against the sporadic laser beams.

The miniature phase shield was like a moving city wall, and with a single shield bash, it shattered the sternums of two guards and sent them flying backward.

With a casual swipe of the power claw on his right hand, he instantly tore apart the head and half the shoulder of a blood-stained burly man on the spot!

Legend of Lu Shi and Heisi stood in the rear, firing precise shots with their Plasma Guns.

Every single blue plasma beam could burn a resisting guard into a charred corpse.

In less than thirty seconds.

Over a dozen guards were killed or injured.

The noble man who originally wanted to draw his gun and counterattack saw this terrifying scene resembling a one-sided massacre, and his psychological defense line instantly collapsed.

He dropped to his knees on the high platform with a thud, hugged his head with both hands, and screamed hysterically:

"I surrender! I surrender! Don't kill me! I am the biological brother of the current governor! You cannot kill me! I have a lot of money!"

As the leader knelt down to beg for mercy.

The remaining surviving guards and underlings also despairingly dropped their weapons, squatting on the ground and shivering.

Legend of Lu Shi put away his Plasma Gun and strode to the front of the high platform.

He grabbed the noble man by the collar, half-lifting him up:

"What did you just say? You are the governor's brother?"

The man's face turned pale, and he just wanted to nod and speak.

Suddenly.

A sudden change occurred!

Among the crowd below.

An underling who had originally dropped his weapon and squatted next to the pile of blood-stained clothes suddenly, without any warning, pulled out a miniature plasma pistol from under the bloody clothes.

Without even looking at the players, he aimed the muzzle directly at the noble man on the high platform.

"Bang!"

A high-energy plasma charge instantly pierced through the noble man's head.

Red and white matter splashed radially onto the Power Armor visor of Legend of Lu Shi.

The headless corpse of the noble man fell down limply.

This sudden scene not only dumbfounded the three players, but even the surrounding surrendered guards widened their eyes in shock.

"Fuck!"

Legend of Lu Shi reacted extremely quickly, dropped the corpse, leaped down from the high platform in two or three steps, and reached out to capture the assassin who fired the shot alive.

However.

Just as he took a step and his fingers hadn't even touched the assassin's shoulder yet.

"Boom!"

Inside the assassin's head, it was as if a miniature bomb had been detonated.

The entire skull instantly burst into a mist of blood, and the corpse fell heavily to the ground.

Legend of Lu Shi stood frozen in place, looking at the headless corpse on the ground, his brow under the visor knitted into a dead knot.

Suicide? Or some kind of remote-controlled detonation device implanted in the brain?

"Killing with a borrowed knife?"

He turned around, grabbed a middle-aged man who looked like the warehouse manager from the ground, and demanded sternly:

"Speak! Why did you go to the outer shantytown to kill those civilians?"

The manager trembled all over, and a stench of urine emanated from his crotch:

"It, it's just to retaliate against them... The gang in that shantytown stole a batch of goods from our master a few days ago. The master told us to make an example of them..."

Legend of Lu Shi looked at the mountainous piles of metal crates around: "What is inside?"

"It, it's military supplies, weapons privately embezzled by the master from the front line..."

Hearing this.

Legend of Lu Shi threw the manager onto the ground like garbage.

He stood up, his expression dark and terrifying.

"Brother Lu, what's going on?" Mudslide walked over and asked.

"We've been played."

Legend of Lu Shi sneered, his voice piercingly cold:

"From the very beginning, this was a trap. That bitch of a governor knew that her brother was embezzling military supplies and plotting treason, but due to her reputation and influence, it wasn't convenient for her to directly strike against her own biological brother."

"So, she hired us few unknown Rogue Traders to cause trouble in the lower district. That assassin who shot and self-detonated just now was definitely a loyal agent she had planted by her brother's side long ago."

"She used our hands to create chaos and took the opportunity to eliminate her political rival. In the end, this blame for assassinating a noble and disrupting the stability of Black Port can also be perfectly pinned on us!"

Hearing this analysis, Mudslide gasped: "Then what do we do now? Run away?"

"No rush."

Legend of Lu Shi raised his gun, his gaze icy:

"If nothing unexpected happens, the guard unit she sent is already on the way. We'll just wait right here, and I'd like to see how she plans to clean up this mess."

Just as the two of them were analyzing the situation.

Heisi's voice came suddenly from a dim corner in the deepest part of the warehouse, carrying a trace of unmaskable solemnity:

"Come over and take a look quickly, on the wall... that symbol is there again."

The two walked over immediately.

Behind the load-bearing wall at the end of the warehouse, several abandoned metal drums were stacked.

After pushing away the metal drums, on the wall, painted with some dark red pigment, was once again drawn that crooked sun pattern with a notched gear in the center.

Only this time.

Legend of Lu Shi discovered that at the seam of the wall, there seemed to be a hidden metal seam of a door.

He reached out and pressed hard on the wall bricks.

"Click."

A dull sound of mechanical gears meshing sounded.

The heavy wall slowly concaved inward, revealing a bottomless narrow secret passage.

A smell mixed with engine oil, blood, and some pungent chemical reagent rushed out from the secret passage.

"There's actually a secret room in this place?" Mudslide said in surprise.

Legend of Lu Shi did not enter rashly.

He took off a fist-sized miniature reconnaissance tracked robot from his tactical belt and threw it into the secret passage.

On the tactical eyepiece of his helmet, the real-time low-light footage captured by the robot was instantly transmitted back.

The robot crawled down the secret passage all the way.

Soon, the field of vision suddenly opened up.

That was a huge underground space.

But the scene transmitted back by the footage made the three players feel a burst of scalp numbness.

Right in the center of this underground space stood a huge altar pieced together from a mixture of flesh and blood, bones, and rusted gears.

Around the altar hung countless civilians who had been vivisected.

Their brains were crudely plugged full of data cables, emitting painful wails.

And beneath the altar.

Over a dozen humanoid monsters wearing dark red tattered robes, with most of their bodies modified into twisted machinery, were frantically pounding keyboards around a massive Cogitator array.

The prosthetic eyes of those monsters flickered with crimson evil light.

The servo-skulls on their backs even mutated into flesh-and-blood structures resembling tentacles.

"What the hell is this?" Mudslide swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Legend of Lu Shi stared dead at the data stream on the Cogitator array in the footage.

Suddenly, his pupils shrank violently.

In the code scrolling constantly on the screen, several words spelled in High gothic were prominently displayed: [Coastal City], [Yuanwang Star System], [Coordinate Traceback]!

"Fuck! They are using some kind of black magic to reverse-track our alliance's coordinates!" Legend of Lu Shi was shocked.

Just at this moment.

In the footage, a mechanical tentacle covered in rust and tumors suddenly descended from the sky and smashed fiercely towards the reconnaissance robot!

"Hiss——"

The footage in the helmet instantly turned into static.

They had been discovered!

"Rumble!"

From deep within the secret passage came a teeth-gritting sound of heavy mechanical treads crushing and shrill alarm sounds.

Shortly after.

That metal secret door, which was originally only opened by a crack, was forcefully torn apart from the inside by a violent force!

The pungent smell of sulfur poured out like substance.

A group of monsters wearing tattered red robes rushed out from the secret room like a tide.

"It's the fallen Adeptus Mechanicus!" Legend of Lu Shi roared, raised his Plasma Gun, and pulled the trigger directly, "Fire!"

Two high-temperature plasma beams roared out, precisely hitting the two heretics rushing at the very front.

However.

The scene of burning the enemy to ashes as expected did not appear.

Although the armor on those two heretics was burned through, a layer of dark red evil shield lit up on the exposed metal skeleton, forcefully withstanding the high temperature of the plasma!

"Intruders——Die!"

A massive fallen Tech-Priest, whose lower body was completely modified into a tracked combat vehicle, issued a harsh electronically synthesized sound.

He raised his right arm, where an ancient weapon emanating an aura of destruction was prominently embedded—a volkite ray gun!

"For the great Vashtorr! For the true Omnissiah!"

The priest roared and pulled the trigger.

A dazzling dark red death ray instantly pierced through the entire warehouse!

"Get out of the way!"

Legend of Lu Shi gave Heisi a hard shove.

"Boom!"

The red light brushed past Mudslide's shoulder.

Even though he had raised his phase shield at the very first moment, that terrifying high-temperature ray still instantly penetrated the overload critical point of the shield!

Accompanied by a harsh alarm sound, the phase generator on Mudslide's left hand exploded on the spot.

The left shoulder armor of the Power Armor was burned glowing red and melted, and the severe pain made him let out a muffled groan.

"The firepower is too fierce! These guys are tough to fight!"

Mudslide gritted his teeth, waving his right-hand power claw to tear a pouncing cyborg servitor into pieces.

The entire warehouse instantly transformed into a purgatory-like battlefield.

Plasma beams, laser beams, and volkite rays crazily intertwined within the narrow space.

Those dozen or so fallen Adeptus Mechanicus members, like killing machines without pain sensation, pushed forward step by step against the players' firepower.

Even more fatally.

The corpse of the assassin who had just been headshot outside, at this moment under the pollution of evil energy, actually began to twitch and expand bizarrely.

Thick flesh-and-blood tentacles grew frantically from the severed neck, turning into a stinking Chaos Spawn, roaring as it lunged at Heisi from the flank!