Chapter 390 The Road to Expedition: The Promised Land

Dark green mist lingers in every corner of the world, turbid and thick, just like the ocean world of the empire. The entire planet is an endless vast sea, but here it is a sea of ​​mist composed of mist.

The shadows of the towering lonely mountains stand behind the turbid fog in the sky, like silent giants standing on the earth. They are scattered sporadically on the planet, raising their heads and looking up at what is blocked by the thick atmosphere.

Starry night sky.

Endless forests and barren wilderness exist at the foot of the mountains. The dense tree canopy is intertwined with the barren dark green desert. In this sunless world, the mountains and the land turn into a morbid picture.

, the whole world seems to be terminally ill. It is full of diseases and is already on the verge of dying.

In the eyes of the empire, such a world is a proper death world, a place where only lunatics would venture to eat people without spitting out their bones. There are many such death worlds in the galaxy, with poisonous fog, active volcanoes,

Or a place of death forever shrouded in deadly radiation and celestial movements.

This kind of world is not uncommon in the Empire. Most of them are desolate no-man's land, or there are only one or two lonely observation posts, guarded by as few as a dozen or as many as hundreds of Astra Militarum troops, who are far away from civilization.

On the edge of the darkness, watching alone at the edge of the dark stars.

But this kind of world is common in the Empire, but it is not normal in the Webway, because there are no naturally formed celestial bodies in the Webway. All the planets here are man-made, and were formed from those that have disappeared in the ancient years.

The creation of powerful ancient sanctuaries is often filled with a large number of life beings.

Later generations of Eldar and anthropologists believed that those planets were reservations created by the ancient saints to capture the seeds of life that were hated and destroyed by the Necrons and their masters, the Star Gods, in the tragic war in heaven.

Preserved in the Webway that the Star Gods and the Undead cannot reach, when the flames of war are extinguished and the universe returns to peace, the Ancient Sages will spread the life seeds preserved here back to the galaxy.

Therefore, most of the planets in these webways are garden worlds full of vitality. The ancient saints carefully cultivated them and created their own unique shelters for each civilization. But obviously, this planet is completely opposite to this.

This is a pure place of death that has nothing to do with the word life. Even if there is, then the vitality here has died, leaving only a terminally ill body and a morbid corpse.

During the Great Fall, in the rift in the Webway torn by Slaanesh, the power of the four gods poured into these worlds. They transformed and corrupted these former sanctuaries of life according to their own wishes, turning them into the evil god himself.

The projection of will, no matter how beautiful these worlds were in the past, are just a distant story. Now, all that remains here is lamentation and sorrow, just like their former masters, inherited the mantle of the ancient saint and moved towards

Just like the dead Eldar.

It is hard to believe that nowadays, anyone will return to this dead planet and come under this dying star without a sun, but there are always exceptions to the fact, and the same is true here.

A beating light flashed in the turbid atmosphere. The light came out from the depths of the fog, just like a fish swimming to the surface from the deep sea. The light quickly filled the edge of the thick fog in the sky.

, the light instantly intensified and he suddenly emerged from it.

It was a black shuttle, a slender spaceship that was as smooth as obsidian. The biggest difference between it and common shuttles was that its propulsion method did not use flames, but relied on the machines on both sides of the fuselage.

On the inner side of the wing, there is a shining sphere suspended in the circular ring.

The sphere rotated rapidly on the inside of the wing, releasing a dazzling white light. The light shone in the sky like a fragment projected by the extinguished sun outside the dying planet.

The shuttle quickly flew downwards from the clouds and mist. It quickly circled in front of a towering bare mountain. It slid to one side and slid downwards at the same time. The entire fuselage was stable and flat.

It lifted up the mist on both sides and flew towards the forest at the foot of the mountain.

In this strange world composed of strange plants, the plant that is bent like a tentacle is attached to the tree with a cuticle-like structure. It bends and moves its slender body, as if it is trying to catch something in the mist.

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Suddenly, the calm tentacles began to twitch. It tilted to one side with a strong wind, and the smoke around it also began to stir rapidly. They spread quickly to all directions, making room for the slender black spacecraft falling from the sky.

Leave an open space.

The flat shuttle, which was as smooth as a black diamond, roared from the air and landed on the ground. The anti-gravity generating spheres suspended on both sides of it in the center of the ring created a powerful recoil force to slow it down.

Landing slowly, it landed on the ground in the diffuse smoke as if it were a drop of water blending smoothly into the sea.

The landing gear of the shuttle was placed on the ground full of strange plants. As the landing gear made a crisp echo, the single-sided spherical cockpit glass without reflection slowly lifted up, revealing the dim cockpit underneath.

, a figure stood up from it, and then jumped out of the cockpit.

The spaceship behind him emitted a hazy light, shining on him. In the rings on both sides of the high-speed rotating anti-gravity sphere beside him, the flickering white lights illuminated Victor's face. He stood there

Under the light, he looked around at the quiet woodland.

He reached out and pressed lightly on the side of the shuttle's hull. With his fingers, the entire shuttle quickly came to a halt. The rotating anti-gravity sphere began to fall silent, and the flickering light gradually dimmed.

In the mist that spread up, it was gradually swallowed up below.

Victor didn't pay attention to the strange smoke. He stood up and walked forward. There was neither hesitation nor ignorance in his eyes. He knew where he was going, and he came here for a purpose.

The silent woodland on both sides passed by Victor's side, and thick smoke filled it, covering everything a few steps away. Everything there was completely covered under the veil-like smoke, and only other parts could be seen.

There are swaying shadows all around, which look like human beings, but are not human swaying shadows.

They are swaying around, as if there are indeed some people hiding around. They are hiding behind the clouds and mist, following you and staring at your back with pairs of empty eyes, making people involuntarily feel the feeling behind you.

I felt a chill down my back.

Ethereal and strange sounds come from a distant place. Sometimes they are far away in the horizon, and sometimes they seem to be within your ears. You will feel that something is following you behind you, and there are disturbing footsteps coming from the forest.

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It was the sound of branches breaking, the sound of objects passing through the bushes. Victor used his peripheral vision to look at the source of the sound. His feet indeed crushed dead leaves and branches, and the sound echoed in the smoke.

It seemed that it was transmitted back, but Victor knew that the sound was not caused by himself.

He saw a shadow in the smoke, a shadow moving on the ground, and there were more than one, surrounding the surrounding trees, and behind the shadow there was an unsettling commotion.

It was the sound of claws and teeth, a low roar disguised as a distant ethereal echo. Those creatures were moving forward with him, observing him, and looking for opportunities to attack.

Victor walked calmly, as if they were completely insignificant and meaningless, through the woodland, stepping between the thick vines between the trees, through the visible ditches between the woodlands, and over the patches of cloth.

He walked for a long time on the strange rocky beach full of holes, as if time was meaningless here, and in this dim world, everything seemed to be eternal.

This may be a good thing. It made it easy for Victor to find this place. He walked out of the edge of the smoky forest, walked through the smoke and walked onto this strange rocky forest glade. He looked around

Looking at the tall boulders all around, they leaned together, as if forming a strange association position.

Victor listened to the commotion of Sasha behind him. Those things were still following behind him. They were walking on the edge of the boulder, circling around and getting closer. The scratching sound of their claws on the rocky ground of Stonehenge, getting closer and closer.

Victor's back was getting closer and closer, and he could almost feel the cold breath.

Amidst the scratching sound of the claws, Victor slowly raised his hand and pressed the holster on his waist little by little. His back was facing the approaching shadow, and his palms were ready.

The tearing gun was slowly pulled out of the holster, and the scratching sound approaching from behind gradually got closer and closer, almost mixing together. Victor frowned slightly, and put his finger on the trigger, ready to let the

The light background sound turned into manic singing.

But just when the music was about to start, a burst of thunder shattered the thin curtain of the movement, followed by a golden lightning blast into the stage. Victor's face was illuminated by the golden light, and he raised his head.

Come and look at the countless lightnings that suddenly light up above your head. The golden flash penetrates the thick fog and shoots to the earth from under the sky.

One of the lightning strikes behind Victor, and the burst of lightning instantly illuminated the surrounding forest, and also illuminated the faces of the ferocious beasts hiding behind the thick fog. They raised their heavy heads,

With brows, pupils and eyeballs, he looks up at the lightning that lights up the night sky.

The thunder sounded again, and the sound was like a warning, the warning sound of hunters beating steel in the forest. Those ferocious beasts turned and fled, and quickly jumped into the deepest part of the forest amid the continuous lighting of lightning behind them, and fled.

The scope of that light's illumination.

Victor turned his head and glanced at the fearful beast behind him with his peripheral vision. It arched its body and slowly retreated, its teeth grinning with fear in its mouth. After the lightning flashed once, it completely collapsed and turned around to flutter.

Escaped into the end of the forest.

The lightning instantly illuminated Victor's side. He slowly turned his head to look at the huge stone tablet standing in the center of the stone formation. He looked up and stood on it. Lightning kept falling behind him, and the outline of his body was illuminated amidst the thunder.

And the person with the face.

"Should we meet somewhere else next time, like a nightclub in Comoros?"
Chapter completed!