Chapter 138 Rain! Rain! Rain!
"Have you found it?"
The four Grey Knights shown on the map have been staying somewhere underground for more than three minutes. Calvin guessed that they should have gained something.
"Not sure, boss, you'd better come and see for yourself."
The voice of Fell, who was in charge of reconnaissance, was distorted by the geomagnetic interference in the communicator.
"Understood, wait for me, I'll be there soon."
Calvin waved his hand, and the Grey Knights around him began to speed up. Since the next road had been confirmed by the scouts to be no problem, they no longer concealed the sound of their actions.
Ten minutes later, Calvin saw Fell and his four men who were exploring at the edge of the wreckage of a wreck. He looked at the platform in front of him and marveled at the ingenuity of nature.
Yes, this is the part where the wreck is inserted into the surface of the planet.
At this position, they are already at a depth of more than 3,000 meters above sea level. According to Calvin's prediction, this place should be shrouded in darkness.
But the fact is contrary to his speculation. When he walked out of the passage of the wreck, he could actually see the light of distant stars.
This is a trench, or it was once the deepest part of an ocean. The seawater had long disappeared with the movement of the crustal plates. In the dry environment, only the huge canyon and the aquatic fossils in the rocks on both sides can prove the existence of the ocean.
The deepest depth of at least tens of thousands of meters is not the most special. The incomparable length and width are the scale rarely seen in normal trenches.
Calvin has seen the world, but he has never seen a few canyons with a width of tens of kilometers at the bottom, not to mention the length that cannot be seen from the sky.
That's right, even at a depth of minus 3,000 meters above sea level, Calvin's position is still looking down from the sky for this canyon, and everything at the bottom of the valley is in his eyes.
His eyes passed through the gray gravel and drought-resistant fungal organisms on the dry surface, and the strong subspace fluctuations waved to him from the end of the canyon.
What a blasphemous scene it was. Even at a distance of nearly 100 kilometers, he could see the army of Chaos Demons there gathering in front of the huge man-made object.
The aura of the warp was polluted by these filthy existences and became colorful and bizarre. Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of demons were clamoring at the end of the sight. The energy field of more than one great demon was observed by Calvin's psychic vision.
"Can you see the specific situation?"
Calvin asked Jin behind him. As far as the detection equipment on him and other Grey Knights was concerned, that distance had exceeded the performance limit of the equipment.
He could only turn to Jin for help to see if the equipment of these throne guards, who were known as the foundation of adamantium, had more powerful performance.
As expected, Jin also shook his head.
"Hundreds of kilometers, this distance. It definitely exceeds the original design of any individual observation equipment."
"Okay." Calvin did not comment and turned to the cruiser above the orbit for help.
While connecting to the communication signal in the direction of the orbit, he tried to use the spectrum detector to confirm the specific distance.
"Dead Soul Redeemer, this is Calvin. Requesting orbital observation data support. Yes, yes, yes, target coordinates... well, with me as a reference, the north direction is offset to the right by 12 degrees, and the distance... wait, I will calculate the curvature... 152 kilometers, plus or minus 3 kilometers. Please give me the latest picture."
After the communication ended, he also turned off the equipment on his arm armor. Looking at Jin beside him, he smiled maliciously and asked:
"Did you bring a jump bag?"…………
The answer is naturally no, which serious imperial envoy would bring this thing when going out!
Jin was complaining wildly in his heart, but he couldn't speak at this time, because he was being clamped under Calvin's armpit at this time, while rapidly descending from the sky, he felt the strange and violent low-pressure airflow inside the canyon.
In the sky around him, other Grey Knights were also descending with the support of power backpacks equipped with rocket jets, but without exception, after meeting Jin's gaze, they all looked in other directions tacitly.
The detection report of the Soul Redeemer was very timely. Calvin, who had not yet landed in the air, had already received the latest feedback.
Observations in orbit showed that these demons were composed of a very rare multi-camp coalition. They were attacking the man-made ruins under the leadership of at least three suspected four great demons.
The enlarged ruins image was compared with the database and was confirmed to be an entrance to the Eldar's webway, but the dim runes and dilapidated buildings showed that this place should have been abandoned for a long time.
The purpose of the demons is easy to guess. They should want to destroy the psychic suppression equipment here in order to obtain the energy equipment inside the barrier.
Because in this desolate world, they can get nothing except sand.
Here we have to mention the foresight of the Inquisition. In the records a long time ago, after sealing the subspace rift here, the Inquisition, under the notice of the Imperial Guards, relocated all the population on this planet, and even implemented a relatively thorough extinction of wild creatures. And in the next few thousand years, a strict no-fly order was implemented on this galaxy.
If it weren't for the unexpected appearance of the Warp Ship, the seal here would probably have maintained its function.
When the seal is truly broken, these demons pouring out like a tide will find it difficult to expand the entrance to the subspace through sacrifice, and can only find ways to cross the distant uninhabited space.
Their goal should be to obtain the energy source here, thereby transforming the abandoned ships here, and finally achieve the goal of leaving here.
This was confirmed at a construction site 30 kilometers behind the Webway ruins, where a highly complete spaceship has been built, but how to escape the gravity here is obviously a problem that these demons are troubled by.
"Do we have cyclone torpedoes on our ship?" Galvin asked Tiberus above the orbit.
Since there are no imperial citizens living on this planet, he would never mind giving these demons some clean punishment.
"Unfortunately, there is no equipment on the Soul Redeemer. As your flagship, it has not been on a mission for 30 years. The Inquisition has a clear restriction on the Extermination Order. In a single sector fleet, there can be no more than two similar weapons at the same time. Our combat sequence is not enough to apply for such a weapon."
Tibers explained the specific reason to Calvin: the Soul Redeemer has been away from the battlefield for a long time, causing its priority to drop rapidly. After evaluation, the Inquisition decided to allocate it to the brother unit that needs it more.
Well, then we can only land and fight. Calvin frowned and issued the latest instructions above the orbit.
"Immediately carry out orbital strikes! That barrier can't hold on for much longer! After the strike, let the Astra Militarum carry out airborne operations directly! We will arrive within 2 hours!"
"Received. Execute immediately. According to convention, when more than 100,000 people are mobilized, the Inquisition will record the code name and code of the operation. What is the code name of this operation?"
"Code name?" Calvin raised his head and looked at the distant sky, thought for a while, and then replied:
"Code name, Rain of Punishment!"
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