Chapter 32: Tiamat Hive Fleet
Several special hybrid chickens appeared in the passage. In addition to their hunchbacks and clawed feet, some of them had sharp sickles with arcs flashing on their claws; some had yellow-green poisonous mist around their mouths, and their protruding tongues had hooks.
There were also several chickens lurking in the dark of the passage. The color of their bodies blended into the wall. They could not be seen clearly with the naked eye, but under Taiyue's psychic perception, these chickens were nowhere to hide.
Are they mutant chickens? Taiyue found that they clearly had the characteristics of the Tyranids, and their chitinous carapaces were thicker and had a metallic luster.
There was no record of a Genestealer sect with such characteristics in the Alien Codex. Combined with the gene sequences compared by the Alien Research Branch before, it was once again confirmed that this was a new Genestealer sect that had never been recorded by the Empire.
And the production of these special variants was obviously related to psychic infected people. This new Genestealer sect was very persistent in psychic infected people and would give priority to infecting psychic infected people.
Combined with the existing evidence, Tai Yue now has a bold conjecture:
The psychics infected by the Doomsday Lighthouse Sect can establish a psychic connection with the Hive Fleet through psychic power, and produce the next generation of hybrids with the characteristics of the regular Tyranid Zerg under the influence of the Hive Fleet!
And the stronger the psychic power of the infected, the closer the mutants are to the Tyranid Zerg! The bishop wants to use himself to produce hybrid mutants!
Tai Yue's scalp tingled, his heart trembled, and he felt deeply afraid!
He then told Chris the relevant information, and the latter immediately conveyed this information to the temporary command of the Ministry of Justice.
The temporary command was set up in the hangar of the Fortress Court. The person in charge, Colin, pondered for a while and confirmed these conjectures:
This Hive Fleet should be the Tiamat Hive Fleet currently occupying the Tiamat Galaxy, and the Doomsday Lighthouse is the biological structure built by the Hive Fleet on the planet that spans the continent!
These special mutants are the elite troops of the Doomsday Lighthouse Genestealer Cult. They participated in the siege of the Central Intelligence Room and killed Marshal Jonathan of the Ministry of Justice in the battle!
Now they are gathering towards the Astropathic Communication Room one after another. Everyone, including Tai Yue, is in danger!
Facing the newly emerged enemies, the marshals defending here have begun to fight back, but these mutants act quickly. They easily dodge the overloaded laser weapons and some of the marshals' bolt pistols and quickly rush into the communication room.
"For the Emperor!" Tai Yue roared. Only at this moment did he realize that he would fight to the death.
He used the head armor of the pure-blooded Genestealer as a shield, activated the power sword stance, and fought the mutants with everyone.
Limbs were broken under the sharp blade, and paralyzed and twitched in the poisonous mist
The marshals began to fall one by one, and finally only Tai Yue and Chris were still fighting, with the unconscious Astropath behind them.
The yellow-green poisonous mist released by the mutants has surrounded them, and there are many mutants gathering in front of them!
Maybe I can't wait until the day when I become a space warrior, maybe today is the day I die! Maybe the psychic prophecy will change!
"Despair? Do you want power?" The voice in my head asked, and this time the pronunciation was no longer childish, just like the crisp voice of a girl.
"I'd rather die!" Tai Yue gave the answer, and he stood in front of Chris and faced death.
Suddenly, the roof of the Star Language Communication Room was suddenly blown open, and the scattered rubble began to fall down. Tai Yue raised the head armor to his head and protected Chris behind him.
Then a Valkyrie transport plane came here through the gap. The airflow it generated quickly blew away the poisonous fog, and two figures jumped down from it.
The brain of the mutant at the landing point popped out, and it was killed by the tall man with murderous aura using a power hammer.
"Much weaker than the real Tyranids!"
The man said expressionlessly, and then hammered another mutant.
Another thin man used a bolt pistol to kill the mutant that rushed towards Taiyue, and said dissatisfiedly: "You use the power hammer first, and remember to return it to me later!"
The two people who came quickly dealt with the remaining mutants. When they came to Chris and Taiyue, they both shouted:
"Adoptive father!"
"Colin!"
The people who came were Charles, Taiyue's adoptive father, and Colin from the legal department. The adoptive father looked at Taiyue holding the gene stealer head armor with a relieved expression, and the legal officer covered in alien blood brought the worst news:
"The fortress court has been lost, and the court troops have suffered heavy casualties. It is only a matter of time before they are captured by the gene stealer sect. Now we start to retreat."
He saw the unconscious astropath and said: "Take the astropath with you!"
After Colin finished speaking, Taiyue and Chris lifted the astropath, and the four boarded the transport plane.
There were more mutants gathering around here. They wanted to stop the transport plane, but were torn apart by the firepower of the transport plane.
After the fire, the transport plane took off vertically and quickly evacuated the astropathic communication room.
"Where are we going now?" Chris asked.
"Taiyue and I will go back to the weather tower first. You should retreat to the headquarters of the planetary defense force." The adoptive father replied calmly.
"Aren't you going to Dan Port? The astropathic communication room that contacts the outside world on the ground has been destroyed. There is still an astropath in the Governor's Mansion in Dan Port. We can continue to contact the Empire's support forces."
"The astropath in Dan Port is dead." Colin interrupted Chris expressionlessly.
Two hours ago, there was a riot in Dan Port. The Astropath in the Governor's Mansion was killed, the port was destroyed, and more than 1,000 spaceships docked there were unable to leave!
The only one who can contact the outside world now is this comatose astropath, or the astropaths who will come with the merchant ship later!
"Last time, the aliens wanted to control the weather tower, but I stopped them. This time, the fortress court was captured by the aliens and the port was destroyed. The weather tower is likely to be the next target." The adoptive father added.
When the transport plane passed by the weather tower, Charles and Taiyue were put down. Chris volunteered to supervise the chicken thieves' activities at the weather tower and got off the transport plane together.
"As soon as the situation is determined, gather at the Planetary Defense Force headquarters." Colin told Chris.
The three of them came to their adoptive father's office. The weather tower was still the same as usual, but the security guards were equipped with modified weapons.
The adoptive father looked at the tired two people and said: "I have arranged the security work of the weather tower. Taiyue, you and Miss Chris will go and have a rest first. We will discuss the current situation tomorrow morning."
The adoptive father asked Chris to rest in the office next door, but Chris chose to stay with Tai Yue on the grounds that she was unfamiliar with the place.
After the two arrived at the top of the weather tower, Taiyue immediately went to find Marvin, and it was determined that the Doomsday Lighthouse was a gene stealer sect, and there might be Doomsday Lighthouse believers in the weather tower.
But he searched around and couldn't find Marvin. After asking nearby workers, he learned that he had disappeared at noon and had been missing for more than ten hours now!
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