Chapter 34: Teleporting Worms and Hive Tyrants
The awakened Tyranids began to pursue the Ninth Brotherhood. Multiple executioners and intestinal worms appeared on the battlefield. They were specifically designed to destroy the defense of the Terminator armor and devour the body protected by metal cells.
The Executioner is a terrifying Tyranid behemoth that serves as the Tyranid equivalent of an organic main battle tank.
Equipped with state-of-the-art biological weapons, they are primarily used as commando units, including conducting battleship boarding operations and frontal assaults on positions, as well as sieges of fortresses or enemy armored formations.
Executioners have continuously evolved through the Norn Queen, and there are different executioner subtypes, but all executioners have common characteristics: huge size, thick carapace, and equipped with powerful biological weapons.
It could be said that the Executioners were living engines of destruction, against which the small arms of the Imperial forces had no effect.
Intestinal worms are another ferocious Tyranid behemoth created by the hive consciousness. They are usually put on the battlefield in the later stages of the hive fleet's invasion of planets, absorbing biomass at a sickening rate.
They are driven by insatiable hunger, and their voracious appetites can devour a platoon of Imperial warriors in a short time. Facing enemies that cannot be swallowed directly, their huge and sharp claws will tear the enemy apart, and then slowly devour and digest them. .
The acidic blood of intestinal worms is highly corrosive and can instantly dissolve flesh and corrode the ceramite armor commonly used by Imperial troops.
The troops led by Captain Nelson soon ran into these Tyranid behemoths, and a fierce battle was inevitable.
Executioners with their carapace covered with spikes rushed over. They fired venom cannons or projected bioplasma from a distance. When they got close to everyone, they used the sharp blades of their arms for melee combat.
Intestinal worms move relatively slowly. The chimney-shaped spines on their backs expel a large amount of metabolic heat, and their flexible grasping tongues are ready to grab prey and pull it into their stomachs filled with digestive juices.
Facing the powerful Tyranids and numerous Hive Warriors, soon some brothers in the team were seriously injured and unable to fight.
"I am Warhammer!"
"The Emperor's blessing!"
More brothers exerted the powerful defensive capabilities of metal cells, and their metal bodies combined with Terminator armor hunted down the Tyranid beasts.
They faced the approaching executioner without falling down, swinging their power weapons to shatter the chitinous shell of the Tyranid beast.
Even if they are swallowed by intestinal worms, they will be killed out with digestive juices all over their bodies, leaving a big hole in the abdomen of the intestinal worms.
After a bloody and arduous battle, Nelson and others finally defeated the enemy and continued to the mission location.
The seriously injured brothers could only be forcibly teleported back to Blackstone Fortress. Some brothers failed to teleport due to interference and were buried in the flesh and blood of biological structures.
"Emperor's blessing, come this way!"
Tai Yue used the power of psychic perception to try his best to avoid the large Tyran army that came to intercept. After defeating many small Tyran troops on the way, he finally reached his destination.
This place is located in the middle of the psychic lighthouse. The thick supporting skeleton made of chitin maintains the stability of the biological structure. Melt and heavy explosive bombs cannot easily destroy these supporting skeletons.
"Brother Adrian, lead the fearless brothers to plant the lava bomb and set it to detonate in one hour!"
Taiyue issued the order and set aside time for retreat.
After Adrian received the order, he immediately led the other Dauntless brothers to disperse. After they removed the lava bombs tied to the Dreadnought mecha and set the time, they went to several important support skeletons.
"Be careful!
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Jerome suddenly roared, and everyone immediately became alert.
Unprotected by their chitinous carapace, teleporter worms suddenly appear in the sky, swarming with Tyranids emerging from their white tentacles.
The Tyranid do not have the mechanical teleportation devices commonly used by the Empire, instead transporting important Tyranid creatures via teleportation worms.
Teleportation worms are a special type of Tyranid creature. Most of their bodies, internal flesh channels and important organs are located in subspace. In real space, only the ends of many hollow tentacles are distributed on the hive spaceship or hive building. throughout.
When teleportation is needed, the hollow tentacles will quickly grow and wrap around the Tyranid creature, so that the Tyranid creature can enter the teleportation worm for teleportation.
All Tyranid creatures can travel through the warp through the body of the teleportation worm and reappear in another location in the hive ship or hive building. This characteristic of the teleportation worm allows them to form the Tyranids' teleportation system.
Teleporter worms also prey on intruders, and if creatures that enter the hollow tentacles do not release Tyranid-specific pheromones, they will be teleported into the digestive sac.
Each teleportation worm has multiple digestive sacs. Because the digestive sacs are located in subspace, it is difficult for intruders to escape after entering. They can only be digested by the teleportation worm. When encountering something that cannot be consumed, the teleportation worm will actively separate the consumption sacs. , trapping the enemy in the subspace.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Taiyue and the Terminator team each aimed at the hollow tentacles appearing in different directions, and instantly fired explosive bombs to prevent the teleportation worm from continuing to transport troops.
After the teleportation worm's hollow tentacles were injured, it retracted directly into the subspace, and soon emerged from further away, continuing to transport Tyranids.
The first wave of teleported enemies rushed towards Tai Yue and others. In addition to executioners, intestinal worms and other Tyranid behemoths and a large number of insect nest warriors, there was also an insect nest tyrant over 6 meters tall!
Hive Tyrants are the main battlefield commanders of the Tyranids. They are node creatures that are superior to other Tyranid behemoths. They are very closely connected to the Hive Consciousness. They not only show powerful psychic power, but can even directly Use Warp Shadow to silence psykers.
Unlike most Tyranids who only have instincts, the Hive Tyrants are extremely cunning and cruel. They have a strong sense of tactics and often lead the swarm to victory against the best commanders in the Empire.
If a Hive Tyrant is killed on the battlefield, its combat and command knowledge will be given to another body by the Hive Mind. In this regard, the Hive Tyrant is actually immortal, so their combat command experience is only It will become richer and richer.
The Hive Tyrant in front of everyone is the commander sent by the Hive Mind to eliminate the invaders. Through the psychic network, it can command all Tyranid creatures here, including teleporting worms.
"Brother Jerome, leave the Hive Tyrant to me. You go deal with the teleportation worms. Don't let them swallow up the lava bombs!"
Tai Yue thought for a moment and decided that the lava bomb was the key to this operation. If it was taken to the subspace by the teleportation worm, the mission would fail.
Jerome did not hesitate and immediately turned around to follow the Dauntless Team, alert and thinking about how to eliminate the teleportation worm.
While Tai Yue and the Terminator team were slaughtering the incoming Tyranids, they were staring at the Hive Tyrant who had not yet taken action.